THE CLASS CONSULTING GROUP - Key Persons


Aisha Coons

Job Titles:
  • an Impact Story: Mentoring Future Generations of Professionals

Alina Cherednichenko

Job Titles:
  • Leadership Based on the Management of Values: How to Build Relationships

Amy Hom

Job Titles:
  • Board Member & Chair Nonprofit Relations

Deepali Sachdeva - Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Founder
  • Management Adviser
Deepali is a management adviser, an influential leader and an effective manager with numerous business success stories spanning more than two decades. In 2002, she founded CLASS as an answer to the need expressed by professionals for a more wholesome and satisfying community service experience. She has been on numerous boards of nonprofits. She is a visionary who believes that it's important that knowledge resources from the community be used to serve the community, if we want our future generations to appreciate & inherit the values & tradition to serve the community in which they live in. She has a Master's in Business Administration from University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business and Post graduation in Sustainable Business from University of Cambridge.

Karla Nema

Job Titles:
  • Leader
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer of the Board
Karla Nema is an effective leader, experienced in building high performance teams committed to delivering excellence in customer service, advancing processes, and attaining key business objectives.

Manu Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Reasons Why Working Professionals Should Volunteer More Often

Paul Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Board Member & Chair IT
Paul Gonzalez is known for digital transformation and operational excellence with expertise in various industries, including consulting, media and entertainment, higher education, and hospitality. As a seasoned professional with 17 years of experience, Paul enables organizations to transition from legacy to modernized technology by bridging the gap to cloud services, mobile readiness, and system integration. Paul earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. Amy brings 20+ years of experience as a Client Success Manager in the tech industry, where she built lasting relationships with customers by helping them to solve their business problems and achieve their goals. She retired from the corporate world in 2019 and now works to serve the community, bringing her passion for equity and social justice to the nonprofit world. She has a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from USC, and a Bachelor's in Engineering from UCLA. She and her husband live in the Bay Area and are the proud parents of two daughters. In her spare time, Amy enjoys cooking, reading, hiking, scuba diving, and exploring nature.

Prashant Bhatnagar

Job Titles:
  • IT Security Strategy for Non - Profit Organizations

Sudeep Kanjilal - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board
Sudeep is a co-founder of CLASS. Sudeep has more than two decade of experience in Digital Banking, Digital Payments, Digital Commerce and Innovation, successfully building new businesses and managing P&L.

Vartika Srivastava

Job Titles:
  • Board Member & Chair HR
  • HR Professional With Master
Vartika Srivastava is an HR professional with Master's in Human Resource Management. She has expertise in successfully partnering with line Executives and Management to proactively address business issues pertaining to organizational planning and talent management. Being a good listener makes her adept at interacting with passionate teams to help them steer in a planned direction. While she has volunteered in the past at the Central library for City of Houston, CLASS is the first nonprofit where she could give back to the society using her core proficiency where currently, she is leading and managing the HR team to formulate & implement various talent management infrastructure, framework, and strategies to support the organization. Book bug got her when she was too young; looking for well-written fan fiction she likes to read mythical and mystical stories. Paul Gonzalez is known for digital transformation and operational excellence with expertise in various industries, including consulting, media and entertainment, higher education, and hospitality. As a seasoned professional with 17 years of experience, Paul enables organizations to transition from legacy to modernized technology by bridging the gap to cloud services, mobile readiness, and system integration. Paul earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.