As a partner at Satwic, Sanjeev is responsible for strategy, governance, corporate development, innovation, customer relations, account management, talent acquisition, and communications.

 Sanjeev also plays the role of Sales &Account Manager with both Public Sector and Commercial clients in Los Angeles. A persuasive and passionate communicator with 25 years of consultative sales, training, and mentoring experience, including data management, analytics, RPA, ERP, and custom solutions.  He has worked at key Government accounts and projects including the County of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports, Los Angeles Unified School District, Port of Los Angeles, Metropolitan Water District, Southern California Association of Governments, Department of Justice, Fi$Cal, IRS & OSHA. Currently engaged with many Fortune 500 clients in Southern California.

 Sanjeev holds a Bachelors’s and Masters’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science. Sanjeev is a Co-Chair for DataCon LA (dataconla.org) for over 6 years. Sanjeev is also an active board member of a nonprofit, Data4Good, which works to harness the power of data to make more informed decisions for our society in Los Angeles (d4g.community).

Seema Arora is a licensed psychologist practicing in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Arora has been working as a healthcare professional since 1983. She has been counseling survivors of domestic violence (South Asian Women) since 2005 and is very passionate about empowering women and families. Based on years of her counseling experience

Dr. Arora is convinced that the outdated, culturally rigid belief systems coupled with various mental health issues lead to dysfunctional families and relationships. She believes that proactive approaches at the grassroots level such as interactive community workshops and education are imperative to bring positive and progressive changes to nurture healthy relationships within families. Her passion for education inspired her to be a founding member of the nonprofit organization ‘Caring Hand for Children’ supporting education for underprivileged children in India.

Navneet S. Chugh is Managing Partner of Chugh, LLP founded in 1985. He is an Attorney and a CPA. He holds an MBA from USC and is a graduate of Executive Leadership Program from Harvard University. Chugh, LLP provides full service legal and tax services to emerging and mature companies. Chugh, LLP has a staff of 650 employees with 184 attorneys and CPAs in 22 offices all over the world. 

He is the founder of South Asian Bar Association of California (SABA); TiE Southern California; SABA North America (SABANA – with 27 chapters in North America); International Indian Bar Association; and Indian Lawyers Association (ILA – representing 1.3 million lawyers in 400 Chapters in India). He is a co-founder of Ashoka University, India’s number one university. He is on the board of HAB Bank, Dhandho Holdings, Kelp HR, Sambhi Foundation, Antara International Foundation, Foster India Foundation, Lotus Petal Foundation, Goonj USA, Saahas, and newspaper India West Journal. He has served on the boards of TiE Global, American India Foundation (AIF), Pratham USA, Ignify Consulting (sold to Hitachi), 1947 Partition Archives, Sikh Center of OC, India Community Center (Silicon Valley), and Asia Society SoCal. He is married to Ritu Chugh, who is a professor. Their two kids are Veeraj and Sabrina.

Geetha Ram is a certified Yoga instructor and teaches yoga regularly through Los Angeles based S Vyasa. She holds a master’s degree in Yoga Therapy and has received two Bachelor of Science degrees, one in Medical Microbiology and the other in-Home Science with an emphasis on Nutrition and Dietetics.

She has worked with her entrepreneur husband in various capacities, while raising 3 grounded children, and has given numerous hours volunteering at nonprofits, particularly Food Finders, a Southern California based food rescue organization that targets reducing hunger in her community.

Geetha strongly believes in women’s empowerment and helping them build and develop confidence and self-reliance. In her spare time, Geetha enjoys Yoga Therapy, gardening, Carnatic music, cooking and spending time with her family.

Payal Sinha has earned her Master of Law (LL.M) degree at the University of Southern California. She is committed to promoting diversity in the legal profession and an advocate committed to improving access to services and justice systems for vulnerable communities through the chambers of legislators, being one of the current American Bar Association Family Law Section Diversity Fellows, and a Women in Policy distinguished alumna, where she worked with legislators and state agencies to draft two California bills AB 865: Mandatory CSEC training for Resource families (Approved by Governor in October 2019) and SB 493: Gender Equity in Education: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence, a bill that will protect California students’ civil rights (Approved by Governor in Oct 2020).

She currently serves as an Executive Board Member at the California Lawyer’s Association and as an advisor for the California Young Lawyer’s Association. Through her legal practice, she has been committed to representing survivors of interpersonal violence in legal matters includes assistance with Immigration cases, Restraining Orders, and Family Law Cases at the State and Federal Court.

Born and raised in New Delhi, India, she is fluent in both Hindi and English. Her efforts have always been focused on making resources available to those, who are traditionally limited in their access to courts and those with limited financial resources. She and has worked towards fostering cross-sector collaborations and designing policy and protocols responsive to the unique needs of diverse communities. She volunteers her time in developing resources to build a network for survivors of Sexual assault and Domestic Violence.

Vincent currently leads the finance department at CARECEN-LA as the Controller. He has more than 25 years of experience working in the not-for-profit and government sectors. Prior to joining CARECEN-LA, Vincent was the CFO at Peace Over Violence, Manager at the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority (LAHSA), Controller at Proyecto Pastoral, and an auditor at Grant Thornton LLP.

Concurrently, Vincent has been an adjunct accounting faculty for the last 5 years at East Los Angeles College where he enthusiastically teaches students and encourages them to stay in college and get a degree. Vincent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in accountancy from Long Beach State University, and he is CPA licensed in the state of California.

Dr. Nitin Shah is a Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical care at Loma Linda University. He is also Interim Deputy Chief of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Tibor Rubin VA Medical center, Long Beach, CA. He
has done pioneering research in the field of monitoring namely Pulse Oximetry, Cerebral Oximetry, and Processed Electroencephalogram (EEG).

He has published over 30 articles and has lectured around the world on various topics related to anesthesia and critical care. He is a Founding President of Anekant Community Center, a Non-Profit based in Southern California which does humanitarian missions around the world. He has been a board member of the South Asian Network; he is on the advisory board of SAHARA, and he works with several nonprofit organizations. Over the last 30 years, he has organized 538 missions to help people in 18 countries. He has traveled to 15 of those for medical missions.

Pallavi Dhawan is the Director of Domestic Violence Policy for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. Pallavi received her B.A. and J.D. from UCLA. She spent 13 years in the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office where she specialized in domestic violence and child abuse cases, including murders, rapes, and attempted murders.

She has drafted and helped enact legislation to expand the scope of pretrial criminal protective orders for child victims of domestic violence and to add coercive control to the Family Code definition of domestic abuse. She received the 2019 LACBA Prosecutor of the Year award for her work on medically complex child abuse prosecutions.

She is a Fulbright Specialist in domestic violence and child abuse and has trained prosecutors, law enforcement, and victim advocates on domestic violence prosecutions. In her current role, she works on developing best practices at the intersection of domestic violence law and policy.