IMAGINDIA - Key Persons
Dheerendra holds an MA in Public Administration and an MBA in Marketing, and focuses on project management.
Job Titles:
- Director
- President the Team
Dolly has a background in the media, entertainment and retail industries, with a sharp focus on U.S.-India business in these sectors. She designs and executes marketing and brand building campaigns for the Indian film and TV industry in the US market, and also advises Hollywood based companies on doing business with Indian film industry. Dolly has also arranged several delegations, conferences, and media relations for some of the top names in the industry, including getting credits for arranging high-difficulty productions. In her non-profit activities, Dolly has conceptualized and led nationwide grassroots campaigns in the US, and also earlier in Botswana, where she served as the elected President of the Indian Association of Botswana, and also served as a founding member of the media and entertainment sector of the US India Business Alliance, a bilateral forum for promoting U.S. India trade.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Editorial Board of Daily Siyasat Jadid
- President the Team
Aijaz is the chairman of editorial board of Daily Siyasat Jadid, one of the oldest Urdu news daily of India, founded in 1953. He is a well known political analyst, and also writes a regular column for The Indian Express. He is also a senior political analyst for News X, a prominent English news channel. Aijaz has represented India at various international meets, including to the European Union parliament, UK, Germany, US, Russia, Iran, and Vietnam, on range of issues. Since 1994 he is often also a member of the media delegation accompanying the Indian Prime Minister on foreign trips. Aijaz holds a MBBS degree in internal medicine from Bangalore University, and has set up two K-12 schools with one of India's prominent educational groups.
Job Titles:
- Director
- President the Team
Dr Linda Spedding holds an LL.B. (Hons), LL.M., Ph.D. She is a Solicitor (England & Wales), and Advocate (India) and an Attorney (USA). Having worked with international law firms, she set up her own practice and remains a consultant to law firms and institutions. Dr. Spedding has authored many articles for professional journals on risk management and doing business overseas, as well as several books for a professional and business audience, including Due Diligence and Corporate Governance. Most recently her book Business Risk Management: A Sustainable Approach is due to be published by Elsevier this summer. She has been and is - an international advisor to many commercial and professional bodies both in the private and public sector, including SERM and EFR. She serves on several committees, including the SCI Business Strategy Committee and India Task Force. Dr Spedding is International Sustainability Advisor to the CII and to TERI in India and is as an International Consultant Advisor with the Metropolitan Police Service at New Scotland Yard in the area of economic crime in source countries in the SAARC region, including India. She is well known for her contribution to the global environmental and energy debates
Harsh holds a BCA in Computer Applications, and focuses on web and IT applications
An accomplished communications and PR professional, in 2010 Kamini has relocated to Shanghai from Sydney. She has worked on many significant construction and development projects in her career with a number of New South Wales State Government and private sector organizations, including as Communications Manager for the Port Botany Expansion Project, and as Communications Manager for the Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre, among her other assignments. Kamini is an accredited facilitator and has formal training in community consultation and communications. She has extensive experience in conducting stakeholder and community consultation for masterplanning for the development of Greenfield and renewal sites and for the delivery of Environmental Assessments and Community consultation on major infrastructure projects. Recently Kamini has been involved in the delivery of communications for major infrastructure projects such as the $1b Port Botany Expansion and the $200 m Enfield Intermodal Terminal. Kamini holds a MBA from University of Delhi, and a B. Com (Hons), also from University of Delhi.
Job Titles:
- Associate With Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- President the Team
Manish is an associate with Barnes & Thornburg LLP in the firm's South Bend, Indiana office, and focuses his practice on real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate tax. Manish has significant international experience. He has advised U.S. senators and congressmen on a variety of foreign policy issues and regularly visits India to meet with senior Indian government officials and business leaders. Manish has provided commentary to numerous media outlets including CNN and CNBC foreign affiliates, TV Asia, Voice of America, and other foreign news channels. He has also been cited by newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 2008, Mr. Antani was selected as a delegate to the Wall Street Journal's India Investors Summit in London, where he joined a select group of C-level executives, government officials and policy experts from Europe, the U.S. and India to discuss investment strategy and business opportunities in India. Manish is a senior advisor to the Imagindia Institute, a leading think tank based in New Delhi, and also serves on the executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. India Political Action Committee (USINPAC). Manish earned his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was a member of the International Moot Court team and a participant in the Concannon Program in International Law.
Job Titles:
- Director
- President the Team
Mr. Verghese is the Founder and President/CEO of Global Market Resources, Inc.
Mr. Verghese was also Managing Director of Biotechnology International, LLC, which hosted a high-level public-private sector joint conference for State of North Carolina and the State of Andhra Pradesh, pursuant to which bilateral agreements were inked between Biotechnology International, State of Andhra Pradesh, and the Shapoorji Pallonji Biotech Park in Hyderabad.
Mr Verghese also served as a board member for the North Carolina World Trade Center, and serves as North Carolina's Ambassador to USINPAC. He has also served as a board member in the NC Governor's advisory Board on "North Carolina in the World" and also the Chair of Charter Member of TiE Carolinas.
Mr. Verghese is a promoter and mentor to a social conscious program on Hygiene and Sanitation in India: www.comecleanindiawith.me. He is also a Board Member to the International Affairs Council ( IAC) of North Carolina from December 2012.
Job Titles:
- President
- President of the Imagindia Institute
Robinder Sachdev is founder president of The Imagindia Institute. Mr. Sachdev is a world acknowledged authority across geopolitics, public and economic diplomacy, image and campaign management, cross cultural communications, and affairs of the Indian Diasporas.
Mr. Sachdev has lived and worked in the U.S., Russia, Kazakhstan, and Dubai, and is now based at New Delhi. Mr. Sachdev is also Trustee of the Children's Book Trust, India's oldest national children's organization founded by the legendary political cartoonist, Shankar.
In pursuit of public and economic diplomacy, Mr. Sachdev often arranges and hosts discussions with, and among, U.S., European, and Indian governmental, political, and corporate leaders and delegations. He is an invited speaker or moderator at conferences in India and abroad, and was the program director of Europe's largest India investment summit in London last year, hosted by Wall Street Journal.
Early in his career, Mr. Sachdev pioneered technology-based professional political consulting in India, and has provided advisory services for two national parliamentary elections in India. In 1989 he conceptualized and was software architect of an 80-people 24x7 IT project that reported directly to then Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi ji - during part of the year long project, Mr. Sachdev's office was based at the PM House. Presently he is also strategic advisor to the oldest farmers' lobby organization in India, the Bharat Krishak Samaj.
Over the last decade, Mr. Sachdev has been actively involved in grassroots and elite public affairs in the U.S. and India. He has done extensive work on range of issues of interest to the Indian American community and U.S.-India relations. In 2007, Mr. Sachdev was profiled as one of the twelve most influential Indian Americans in the U.S., along with Bobby Jindal, Jagdish Bhagwati, Fareed Zakaria, etc., for his work in promoting the U.S.-India civil nuclear deal.
Mr. Sachdev has taught as Adjunct Faculty at American University, Washington, DC and contributed to training programs in cross-cultural communications for U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of State, and conducted workshops for CEO's of European IT companies. He was the founding advisor to the Intercultural Management Quarterly, now published by American University.
Mr. Sachdev worked in the telecom sector in the U.S. before relocating to India, and also co founded a broadband wireless ISP in the Washington, DC area. He is a published author in satellite communications (Pub. Elsevier), and has written over 30 op-ed columns on U.S.-India relations in leading U.S. and Indian media.
Mr. Sachdev's views and analysis on Indian foreign policy and U.S.-India relations, are regularly sought by leading media such as National Public Radio, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BusinessWeek, India Today, Outlook Business, Economic Times, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Financial Express, DNA, Deccan Herald, The Tribune, BBC WorldService, NDTV, CNBC, CNN-IBN, News X, Headlines Today, Aaj Tak, Sahara Samay, Asahi Shinbum, Yomiuri Shinbum, Nikkei, etc..
Mr. Sachdev holds a MBA in Strategy, a MA in International Relations, both from American University, Washington, DC; a B Tech in Electrical Engineering, from G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar; and was schooled at St. Joseph's Academy, Dehra Dun.
Ven Parameswaran, born in Quilandy, Kerala has been in the USA for 54 years. He has a Masters degree in Business from Columbia Business School and has completed all courses for a Ph.D. in International Relations (New York University). Parameswaran associated with the Permanent Mission of India to the U.N. from 1954-64 in the capacity of Private Secretary to V.K.Krishna Menon and later as Economic Adviser. He represented India at the U.N.General Assembly. Later he worked for the UNIDO as Industrial Development Officer. Parameswaran had a successful career with Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley as an Investment Executive. He was CEO of First Asian Securities Corporation when his trading strategies during 1987 crash were highlighted by The Wall Street Journal. Parameswaran has been Adjunct Professor of International Business at Concordia College, Bronxville, NY. Parameswaran was the first Indian citizen to receive the "Outstanding Young Man of America" Award from the National Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1965. He came to the US in 1952 on Mrs.Vijayalkakshmi Pandit Scholarship to specialize in Advertising-Public Relations.