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. He is a Rotarian for the past 30 years with Danville/Sycamore Valley Rotary Club (DSVR). He was President of the DSVR Club and DSV Community Foundation. He was the Chair of the Matching Grants (Global Grants) Committee, managing hundreds of millions of dollars of International Humanitarian Projects for District 5160. Currently, he is the prime contact for DSVR and responsible for a $127,000 (about a crore in INR) WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) project in and around Calcutta. He is Chairman and President of the Board of Directors for Global Jadavpur University Alumni Foundation Inc, a 501(c)(3) non-profitable organization for helping JU students, staff, and faculty in making JU as a world-class university. As an entrepreneur, he founded TRS Consultants, Inc (TRS), an engineering, construction management, and software development firm in 1987 and completed more than 200 projects. He sold TRS in 2009.