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.

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.

Bitan Nandi Biswas

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bitan is a transformative leader in Human Resources and a community architect focused on inclusive leadership and organizational efficiency. In her current role as a Senior Human Resource Partner at Google, she acts as a strategic architect of people solutions, specializing in scalable frameworks for fast-moving global markets. Beyond her professional work in technology, she is deeply committed to philanthropic leadership and advocacy for diversity and inclusion. As a former President and current advisor for Bay Area Prabasi, she actively supports women’s empowerment, education, and cultural preservation, effectively merging her expertise in global people operations with dedicated community service.

Jishnu Bhattacharjee

Jishnu is the Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a leading US – India venture capital firm, investing in innovative technology companies for the global markets. Jishnu and his firm have invested in over 100 companies in AI, technology infrastructure, SaaS, commerce, fintech, and a wide variety of start-ups. Jishnu holds MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, MS from Georgia Tech and BTech from IIT Kharagpur in electronics engineering. He is also an inventor on more than twenty US patents.

Manash Chaudhuri

Manash Chaudhuri has been a Serial Entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience working on emerging technologies related to Cloud Computing and Customer Management platforms. His recent venture ConvergeHub is rated as one of the top CRMs in the world. He is quite involved in helping startups and entrepreneurs through their product development and go-to-market strategy.

Sangram Ganguly

Sangram is the CTO at Rhombus Power Inc. – a Defense and National Security company. He is a renowned scientist and technologist with over 22 years of experience in advanced satellite remote sensing, AI, and cloud technologies. He co-founded NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) during his tenure at NASA Ames Research Center (distinguished scientist), driving innovations in climate research and big data. With over 13,000 citations and an h-index of 60, Dr. Ganguly’s pioneering work has earned him numerous NASA Achievement and DoD awards. Sangram holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and B.Sc. and M.Sc. from IIT Kharagpur. His expertise in AI-driven Space sciences has propelled multiple startups in satellite analytics.

Saikat Paul

Saikat has been a Bay Area resident for the last 19 years and has over 25+ years of experience in finance, having trained as a CPA in California and CA from India. He’s currently the Chief Accounting Officer at Fastly, an edge cloud computing company in San Francisco . He has previously worked at other leading tech companies as well as long stints with PwC in San Jose and Chennai. He has also previously worked with the Fremont Unified School Board in an advisory capacity as well as supported the set up of Dishari Bangla School. With the little time left after work and Prabasi, Saikat enjoys time with his family, reading, watching movies, playing tennis and pickleball and always has time for a good adda.

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.