8 additional names added to the previous list of 5 Indian Americans.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: The 2015 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year regional awards culminated last week, and eight Indian Americans were added to the list of honorees in addition to the winners who were previously announced.
The previously announced winners include Dheeraj Pandey, president and CEO of Nutanix Inc., and Jayshree Ullal, president and CEO of Arista Networks, both from Northern California, as well as Shiva Rajagopalan, CEO of Seven Lakes Technologies; Payal Kadakia, founder and CEO of ClassPass; and Atul Gupta, president of Advanced Technologies Group LLC, in the Greater Los Angeles, New York and Upper Midwest regions, respectively.
Winners were selected by an independent judging panel comprising previous award winners, leading CEOs, private capital investors and other business leaders, according to the award website.
The new honorees are:
Setul G. Patel (healthcare & life sciences, Gulf Coast region), MD, M.B.A., CEO of Neighbors Emergency Center, who helped found Neighbors Health System in 2008, a regional emergency medicine healthcare delivery model operating Neighbors Emergency Centers freestanding emergency facilities. He started his career as an emergency room physician, graduating from the School of Medicine at The University of Virginia and completing specialty training at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Delaware, where he was also Chief Resident. After obtaining his M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee and graduating Phi Kappa Phi, Dr. Patel helped found Neighbors Emergency Center.
Raj Sardana (workplace services, Southeast region), chairman and CEO of American CyberSystems Inc., holds an MS in technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an advanced management degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Sardana has led ACS to support local U.S.-based nonprofit organizations such as the YWCA’s “Teen Girls in Technology” program and the Atlanta Food Bank. ACS supports the Earth Savior Foundation, an NGO based in Delhi.
Abhi Shah (services, Greater Washington region), founder and CEO of Clutch Group, a D.C.-based legal solutions provider, worked at Mphasis and Accenture. He is also the chairman of Yuva Unstoppable, a youth organization with roughly 120,000 volunteers in 32 Indian cities to help underprivileged children. Shah has a B.A. in marketing from Texas A&M University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Parag Batavia (robotics, West Virginia region), president of Neya Systems LLC, was previously the director of projects and operations at Applied Perception Inc. He holds a doctorate in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.B.A. from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business and a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Southern California.
Kinesh Doshi (technology, Western Pennsylvania region) is graduate of DCE, IIT-Delhi and Kellogg School of Business, he has co-founded two other technology services firms.
Navneet Puri (healthcare & life sciences, New jersey region), founder of InnoPharma Inc., has worked in the pharmaceutical industry at Baxter Healthcare Corp. and Amgen Inc. He was credited with establishing a new technology platform for blending drugs while working at Baxter.
Rina Parikh (unknown per E&Y docket, New Jersey region), president of AASKI Technology holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, and an M.B.A. in contracts management from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Bharat Parikh (unknown per E&Y docket, New Jersey region), was an Army civilian in PEO EIS, PM DCATS for nine years from 1989 to 1998, and was involved in advanced IP networking technology in the commercial industry from 1998 to 2002. He has been a U.S. representative to NATO for six years in an Ad-Hoc Experts Group for satellite communications waveforms. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rutgers University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University.