USA North East Chapter
US India Investors Forum - United States Chapter
Jatinder Singh
United States North East Chapter Initiative
Jatinder Singh heads the United States North East Chapter Initiative for US India Investors forum. She has served in many leadership roles with reputed organizations. She has served in the capacity of board member, Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President and now the President for New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants for Southwest Jersey.
She has also served as Vice President of Business Networking International for her area chapter. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Global Management Accountant (CGMA). She is a graduate of Drexel University Philadelphia, PA. She helps US businesses make meaningful connections with the Indian market. She does this in the capacity of President for US India Investors Forum for United States.
She is an entrepreneur with her own CPA practice Account Vision LLC. She caters to wholesale, Retail, Manufacturing, Defense, Information Technology, Real Estate and Legal Services industry. Jatinder has a flair for writing Urdu poetry. She is a marathon runner and likes to grow her own vegetables in her backyard.
Her goal in life is to meet as many people as possible in life and grown from their experiences while sharing her own. She is a philanthropist at heart and believes in helping the community. She can be reached via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or her cell phone (856)383-1446.
Sam Thevenayagam
President , Parts Life Inc.
www.partslifeinc.com
Sam is devoted to empowering, mentoring, and developing people at work and within his sphere of influence, and is deeply involved in his church and community.
Passionate about supporting war fighters by developing proven low cost alternatives to sustain, modernize and extend life of expensive and mission-critical assets. Sam built and grew PARTS LIFE INC. to eliminate constraints in the area of parts for aging systems creating value for the US tax payer & the DOD.
Sam has been to India several times for business and is originally from Sri Lanka. He lived in Moorestown with his wife and kids.
Charan Bajwa, Realtor Broker
Owner, One Real Estate
www.remax.com/realestateagentoffice/monmouthjunction-nj-08852-charanbajwa-id20987735.html
Broker/Owner at RE/MAX ONE located at 4260 US 1 North (Between Ridge Rd & Raymond Rd) in Monmouth Junction (South Brunswick Twp).
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Board Of Directors of the Asian Women’s Safety Net – a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Empowering Women For A Better Tomorrow.
Charan is very well connected to the Indian market via business and personal connections. She will add value to the board due her community involvement and leadership skills.
Nancy Gilboy, President
Citizens Diplomacy International ( formerly International Visitors council)
cdiphila.org
Nancy I would say is my mentor. She has been making meaningful connections not only nationally but internationally for years. She works closely with City and State of PA on International Business.
Here's Nancy in her own words:
Nancy J. GILBOY, CDI President & CEO
"I've got the best job in the city - it's diverse, a challenge and never dull! My role is to make you aware that you play an important role in international relations when you do business abroad and every time you travel, interact with a tourist or an exchange student. I've been at CDI since 1990 and have created new programs and opportunities for CDI's members to become citizen diplomats and meet our distinguished State Department guests and provide positive American experiences for them. This includes member programs such as First Thursdays, Conversations With, Discover Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Experience, and Doing Business Abroad. I work with CDI's staff to market the region's professional resources so we're competitive with the other 95 councils across the country. I'm responsible for keeping CDI financially strong and work with our dedicated Board of Trustees to raise funds as well as to identify new, diverse and interesting resources to support our international visitors' program themes. I also speak to civic and business groups about how we combine CDI's mission of international understanding with internationalizing the Philadelphia region's businesses and institutions. I am working on making Philadelphia the "easiest city in the U.S. for non-English speakers to visit, live and work" and invite you to join me in the effort. I'm pleased to work with a skilled and dedicated staff who make every day and every visitor program they arrange better than the last. And, last but not least, I get to meet some of the most interesting people in the world - established and emerging leaders who are destined to make their countries better - and our members, who show the generous and unique volunteer nature of our country and their pride in being Philadelphians and Americans."
Neil Levine, Partner
Friedman LLP
www.friedmanllp.com
Neil Levine is a partner at Friedman LLP and has over 25 years of public accounting experience. He directs audit engagements for SEC registrants, as well as privately held companies, not-for-profits, nursing homes and healthcare companies, and has served both developmental and emerging companies and old-line businesses. Prior to joining Friedman LLP, Neil managed his firm's Public Companies/SEC Practice, organizing its quality control procedures and ensuring that the firm complied with PCAOB regulations. He will continue to provide compliance oversight on audit and accounting standards as well as technical assistance on related matters. He is an expert in managing reporting requirements for small-, mid- and large-cap companies.I work as a business development consultant for Friedman with Neil. Our focus is on the Indian market.
Kanika Choudhary
Special Envoy to India from State of PA
Formerly Honorary Ambassador to India from Philadelphia
Kanika Choudhary has been instrumental in bringing quality connections to the City of Philadelphia as well as State of PA. She has made a tremendous contribution to International commerce through various educational and business initiatives. Kanika is very well connected in the business Industry in India. She works with many influential political figures. She will probably bring the most value to this board through her work.
Hugh James "Jim" Saxton
American Republican Party politician.
He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2009.He was a high-ranking member of the Armed Services Committee and the Resources Committee and Ranking Republican Member and Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee made up of members of the Senate and House of Representatives. In the United States House elections, 2006, Saxton was challenged by Democrat Rich Sexton, a lawyer and U.S. Navyveteran from Mount Laurel. Saxton won reelection by a 58%-41% margin.
Saxton was widely praised across South Jersey for his efforts to remove Fort Dix from the Pentagon's base realignment and closure lists in 1989 and 1991, McGuire Air Force Base from the list in 1993, and Lakehurst Naval Air Station from the list in 1995. From 1993 to 2005, he worked to foster joint military facilities at the three installations. Saxon's efforts were rewarded when Congress passed and President Bush signed into law the Base Realignment and Closure, 2005. In addition to saving the bases' 17,000 jobs, the legislation merged the three bases, creating a "megabase" (the first of its kind in the United States). Furthermore, 1,500 jobs and additional aircraft were directed to the new joint base. Saxton also saved the New Jersey National Guard's 108th Air Refueling Wing from oblivion by working to provide it with a squadron of newer planes.
His other accomplishments include a beach erosion repair project on popular tourist destination Long Beach Island(which saw a 2006 groundbreaking) and a hospital Medicare funding initiative that brought $80 million to New Jersey hospitals in 2005 and 2006.
On May 26, 2006, Saxton reported hearing a loud gunfire-type noise in the Rayburn House Office Building that led to the building being shut down for several hours. It was later determined that the noise was a construction worker discharging a pneumatic hammer in an elevator shaft near the garage. Capitol police officers who subsequently asked the workers to recreate the noise agreed it sounded like gunfire.
Jim also has his own business and is very well connected politically. He resigned from his position due to health reasons. He will be a great addition to the board as he has worked on international commerce as well.
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