Board

Executive Leadership

 BP Agrawal, Executive Director, Sustainable Innovations

BP Agrawal is the recipient of $100,000 Lemelson – Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sustainability award; Energy Globe World award for social innovation; and World Bank Development Marketplace awards (twice) for rainwater harvesting and for delivery of health care.  He was named Purpose Prize Fellow. Most recently won a grant from the Government of India to demonstrate holistic sustainability of social enterprises. He founded Sustainable Innovations (www.si-usa.org) to harvest innovations for people. His signature programs are: Aakash Ganga or River from Sky to provide safe drinking water and Arogya or Kiosk-based Clinic for Masses to deliver health care to rural villages and urban slums.   Dr. Agrawal serves as an advisor to the Smithsonian Institution for innovations and is a frequent speaker on rapid commercialization of technologies, Gandhian Approach to Sustainability, and People Culture and Innovations.

Prior to his non-profit initiatives, he worked for big names like Hughes, ITT, GTE, General Dynamics, and Vecna Technologies bringing patented technologies to market. He founded Information Gateways for computer telephony integration. During his corporate stint, he patented several inventions in telecommunications and very-large-scale integration chips.

Atul Jain, Chairman & CEO, TEOCO Corporation

Atul Jain founded TEOCO Corporation in 1994 with a dream of building a successful business model, not just a successful business. The model accords opportunities to the employee-owners and entrepreneurs to give life to their dreams “without selling their soul to the devil”. Today, employee-owner’s quotidian ingenuity defines TEOCO’s corporate culture. Mr. Jain has tilled the soil for the employee-owners to seed their ideas, to participate in the decision-making process, and to reap fruits their success. Prior to starting TEOCO Corporation, Mr. Jain worked at TIBCO, a Silicon Valley firm, for seven years. Mr. Jain holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelors and Masters in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. Mr. Jain is passionate about giving back to the communities.

Arjun Malhotra, Chairman, Headstrong

Mr. Malhotra served as Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors before its acquisition by Genpact in May 2011. Prior to Headstrong he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.

A pioneer of the Indian IT industry, Mr. Malhotra founded TechSpan in 1998 with funding from Goldman Sachs and Walden International. The merger of TechSpan with Headstrong had built an end-to-end services organization. Mr. Malhotra led the seamless integration across businesses and cultures, resulting in Headstrong’s recognition as one of the fastest-growing IT-based Financial Services companies.

Mr. Malhotra has a long string of entrepreneurial successes. He co-founded the HCL group in 1975, taking it from a six-person “garage operation” to one of India’s largest Information Technology corporations. The first leading Indian entrepreneur to relocate to USA, Mr. Malhotra took over HCL’s US operation in 1989 and grew it to nearly $100 million annual revenues. In 1992 he ran the HCL-HP joint venture in India, and in 1996 he set up and ran the joint venture with Deluxe Corporation. He consolidated and grew HCL operations in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Malhotra studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He graduated from IIT with B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering and received the Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medal. In 1985, he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics & Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political economy, Columbia University 

Arvind Panagariya is a Professor of Economics & Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.  In the past, he has been the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and a Professor of Economics and Co-director, Center for International Economics, University of Maryland at College Park.  He has also worked for the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and UNCTAD in various capacities.  He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Princeton University.

Panagariya has written or edited ten books.  His latest book, India: The Emerging Giant—was published in March 2008 by the Oxford University Press, New York and has been described as the ‘definitive book on the Indian economy’ by Fareed Zakaria and ‘a tour de horizon and a tour de force’ by Jagdish Bhagwati.  His previous books include The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements, 1996, AEI Press (with Jagdish Bhagwati) and Lectures on International Trade, 1998, MIT Press (with J. Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan).

Panagariya is currently an editor of the India Policy Forum, a journal modeled on the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and jointly published by the Brookings Institution, Washington DC and the National Council on Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.  His technical papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, and International Economic Review while his policy papers have appeared in the Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Economy, Journal of International Affairs and Finance and Development.

Panagariya writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India’s top financial daily.  He has also written guest columns in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Hindu, India Today and Outlook.  He has appeared on numerous national and foreign television channels.

Harold (Hal) A. Glasser, Counsel at Merck & Co. , Inc

Hal is the Chief Compliance Officer at Sanofi Pasteur MSD, a vaccine company based in Lyon, France.  Prior to joining SPMSD in 2012, Hal worked for the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. Inc. for 24 years as an attorney in the Merck Office of General Counsel.  While at Merck, he led the development of Merck’s legal pro-bono program outside of the US and served as its first ex-US coordinator.  Hal served in various positions while at Merck, providing legal support to Merck’s operations in Japan, Latin America and Asia Pacific as well as providing support of Merck’s joint ventures, licensing and merger and acquisition transactions.  Prior to joining Merck, Hal was a Research Fellow in Law at Tokyo University Graduate School of Law.  Hal received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1986 and is admitted to the New York State Bar.  He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and is admitted to the New York State Bar.  Hal also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee at Open Letter, a non-profit publisher of contemporary literature in English translation based at the University of Rochester. 

Nayna Agrawal, Director of Corporate Relations, Plan International USA

Nayna Agrawal currently serves as the Director of Corporate Relations with Plan International USA, one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world.  Plan works in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of girls and boys out of poverty through their community-driven and child-centered approach.

Prior to Plan, Nayna served as the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations with The Asia Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization that works across Asia through its 17 offices to address issues besetting the most vulnerable and disenfranchised communities. From January 2005 through August 2007, she served as the Vice President of the Asian Pacific Fund, a Bay Area community foundation. In this role, she helped triple the organization’s endowment as well as increase private donor support by 15%.

Prior to the Fund, Nayna worked at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. as a Strategic Marketing Manager, specializing in relations with the federation’s Fortune 500 members in the health care, pharmaceuticals, retail/consumer products, food/agriculture and financial services/insurance industries. In addition, Nayna wrote for and briefed the Chamber’s lobbying contingent, the Chamber’s internal law firm (the National Chamber Litigation Center), and the Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform. During her tenure with the Chamber, she helped raise $20.8M from corporations.

Nayna completed her undergraduate education in economics and English at the University of Virginia and her graduate education in linguistics and dance at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York.