India’s Deputy Consul General in NY Dr. Manoj Kumar Mohapatra attended ceremony.
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![The new SIAEA Executive Committee. From l. to r: Yogesh Mistry, Mitul Patel, Nimesh Shah, Kaushal Thakore, Sanjeev Agarwal, Shailesh Naik, Vikrant Sampat, Meenakshi Varandani, Prakash Shah, Vinod Devgan, Yatish Sharma, Devjit Singh (not in photo: Ketan Shah, Kirti Desai)](http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Vikram-Sampat.jpg)
NEW YORK: Vikram Sampat is the new President of the Society of Indo-American Engineers and Architects (SIAEA).
Sampat and the new team of SIAEA were sworn-in at an oath ceremony, last month, at Mirage Banquet in Edison, New Jersey.
Sampat, a licensed professional engineer, is a principal at Superstructures Engineers + Architects, in Manhattan.
In the recent elections, Shailesh Naik, a SIAEA Board Member and President of Charles A. Manganaro Consulting Engineers, was voted as President-elect.
The oath ceremony luncheon event was attended by, among others, India’s Deputy Consul General in New York Dr. Manoj Kumar Mohapatra, New Jersey Senator Linda Greenstein, Mayor Peter Cantu of Plainsboro, NJ, and majority of SIAEA’s past presidents.
Mihir Patel, past president, in a speech informed that SIAEA opened a new chapter in Philadelphia and set the ground work for chapters in Washington, DC, and Chicago. This serves as a blue print for future chapters, and collaborative networks across the nation.
SIAEA’s membership comprises of professionals of Indian origin, who are currently based in the United States, including second and third generation Indian American engineers.