Saikat Paul
Chairperson
Dr. Prasanta De
Treasurer
Ms. Urmi Chakraborty
Secretary
Mr. Abhijit Datta
Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Jayashree Ray
Member of the Board of Directors
Sudipto Mukhopadhyay
Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Srijoy Aditya
Member of the Board of Directors
Saoli
Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Supratik Bose
Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Sudip Chattopadhyay
Member of the Board of Directors
Sudeshna Raha
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.
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
Bitan Biswas is a leader in the Human Resources field, focused on scaling sustainable people solutions for a growing market. As a Sr. People Manager in Google’s People Operations, Bitan directs her efforts towards building out processes and people solutions at scale while anchoring on fundamental values and a strong bias for action.
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.
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)
Samita has been an active cultural volunteer in BayArea Prabasi since 1986.
She has been actively involved in different capacities to the staged production in BAPI for more than 35 years. Later in a leadership role as a cultural director, she facilitated inclusiveness and promoted diverse cultural richness of the Bay Area Prabasi productions, while staying connected to our Bengali roots. An avid lover of arts and literature, and an English teacher in her professional career, she continues her efforts to enhance the quality and cultural enrichment for our community.