Bitan Nandi Biswas
Manash Chaudhuri
Secretary
Saikat Paul
Treasurer
Mr. Somnath Sen
Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Abhijit Datta
Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Dj Das
Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Jayashree Ray
Member of the Board of Directors
Ms. Urmi Chakraborty
Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Anjan Das
Member of the Board of Directors
| Current | Ms. Bitan Nandi Biswas |
| 2019- 2021 | Mr. Sudipto Mukhopadhyay |
| 2017-2019 | Mr. Subrata Saha |
| 2012-2016 | Dr. Subrata Dey |
| 2011-2012 | Ms. Dipa Mondal (Acting) |
| 2010-2011 | Mr. Ashis Sengupta |
| 2007-2009 | Mr. Pradip Banerjee |
| 2005-2006 | Dr. Alok Chatterjee |
| 2001-2005 | Mr. Surajit Sengupta |
| 1996-2001 | Mr. Shyamal Choudhury |
| 1995-1996 | Mr. Sakti Basu |
| 1994-1995 | Mr. Ramen Chatterjee |
| 1993-1994 | Mr. Satya Ray |
| 1993 | Ms. Shelly Roy |
| 1992 | Mr. Monojit Dasgupta |
| 1991 | Ms. Subha Dutta |
| 1991 | Mr. Ardhendu Raha |
| 1990 | Ms.Milly Roy |
| 1989-1990 | Mr. Amal Sinha |
| 1989 | Mr. Subhendu Banerjee |
| 1988 | Mr. Ranjit Chakravorty |
| 1987 | Ms. Milly Roy |
| 1986 | Mr. Ardhendu Raha |
| 1983-1987 | Mr. Apurba Mukherjee |
| 1982 | Mr. Chunilal Saha |
| 1981 | Mr. Somnath Sen |
| 1980 | Ms. Aparna Sarkar |
| 1979 | Mr. Arun Saha |
| 1978 | Mr. Mrityunjoy Ghosh |
| 1977 | Mr. Satya Ray |
| 1976 | Ms. Aruna Sarkar |
| 1975 | Mr. Jnanen Tarafder |
| 1974 | Mr. Ramen Chakraborty |
In addition to its Board of Directors, Bay Area Prabasi is fortunate to have a group of advisors to help guide our decision-making. Comprised of members of the larger community, successful in their respective fields, the Advisory Council members bring a wealth of knowledge from the academic, corporate, and entrepreneurial sectors.
The primary goal of the Advisory Council is to bring together senior leaders from the Bay Area community, experts in their own fields, to help the Prabasi organization achieve its longer-term goals along three fronts – Community Building, Philanthropy, and Cultural enrichment. The Advisory Council would act as advisors in critical areas like fundraising, vision, and goal setting and leverage their position in the community to enable Bay Area Prabasi to create the positive impact in the community it desires.
Advisory Council
Bay Area Prabasi’s Advisory Council is a critical component of Prabasi leadership, fostering an engaging learning and mentoring relationship. As we continue to strengthen our philanthropic activities and strive for operational excellence, we feel very fortunate to have advisors like them with extensive knowledge and expertise in our key focus areas.
Dr. Ranjit Chakravorti
Ranjit is one of the founder-member of Prabasi and a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and visionary leader. He was Chairman of the Board and first Treasurer of Prabasi.
Dr. Anuradha Luther Maitra
Anu received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1980, after which she taught at UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz and in the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara U.
Sudeshna Raha
She is a business strategy and operations executive with 20+ years of experience in management consulting, technology product management & marketing, passionate about community development, philanthropy and children’s education.
Dr. Sudip Chattopadhyay
Professor of Economics, past Chairperson of the Economics Department at San Francisco State university. He is a Fellow at Oak Ridge Associated Universities. He has served as Senior Advisor at the federal Department of Health & Human Services.
Tirthankar Lahiri
He is Senior Vice President of Data and In-Memory Technologies at Oracle Tirthankar has 26 years of experience in the database industry and has worked on 46 issued and several pending patents as well as a number of academic conference and journal publications.
Debanjan Saha
Debanjan is the President and COO at DataRobot, an AI/ML pioneer, where he leads Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Strategy functions. Prior to joining DataRobot, Debanjan held various executive roles in Google, AWS, IBM. He is a fellow of the IEEE.
Sudipto Mukhopadhyay
Sudipto is a Software Architect at Vmware Inc. with overall 20+ years of experience architecting, designing and developing software for large-scale, distributed systems. Sudipto has many innovations and patents in hyper-converged infrastructure, life-cycle management, database and security.
Cultural Advisors
Anindya Chatterjee
(Cultural Advisor)
A household name with Chandrabindoo Anindya’s strong presence in the Bengali creative field of music, films & authorship is iconic. His humble ways underplays his true intellectual prowess as a lyricist, and music director of many films. As a published author he has captured the essence of the quintessential culture of Kolkata, Bengal.
Mamata Shankar
(Cultural Advisor)
For the past few decades she heralds the spot as the true influencer in the field of classical creative dance form. Her Dance Company continues to present stellar creative performances in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Japan, Europe & USA. One step into her “Udayan Kalakendra”, and one can be transported to a world of eager active learners, where she graces the dance tutorials to add her fine touches, regularly.
Sanjib Bhattacharya
(Cultural Advisor)
Through multitude of accolades, Sanjib Bhattacharya is well known in the dance community for his talent not only in the rare Indian classical dance form – Manipuri, but also expertise of other classical forms as well. Since 2012 he has visited the Bay Area and supported, choreographed, conceptualized and performed in a plethora of productions in the USA, including NABC.
Samita Sen
(Prabasi liaison for Cultural Advisors)
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