Our Global
Leadership Team

We are Bridge Builders!

Board of Directors (Setu USA)

William Ruh

Chair of Setu American Board
Global Thought Leader, Tech & Innovation

CEO, Digital, Lendlease Group
Former CEO, GE Digital

Dr. Nandini Tandon

Chief Executive Officer, USA Co-Founder

Med Tech, Bio Tech Venture Capitalist,
Silicon Valley
Pravasi Bharatiya Presidential
Award for Healthcare

Dr. Ralph Corey

Chair, Health Innovation

Founding Director, Hubert-Yeargan
Center for Global Health
Gary Hock Distinguished Professor
in Global Health, Duke School of
Medicine, Emeritus

Dr. Chaim Lotan

Chair, MedTech Innovation & Start-ups

Chief Innovation Officer,
Hadassah – Hebrew University
Medical Center at Hadassah

Jeffrey N. Peterson

Chair, Tech Innovation &
Entrepreneurship, Treasurer

Chair, Pressure BioSciences
CEO, Target Discovery
Chair Emeritus, BayBio Institute
Former, CEO Abbott S. Africa

Dr. E. Shelley Hwang

Chair, Breast Cancer Disease Group

MD, MPH Leader, Breast Cancer Disease Group ,Duke University and Duke Cancer Institute, Mary and Deryl Hart Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Vice Chair of Research Department of Surgery

Dr. Robert Winn

Chair, Lung Cancer & Diversity in Clinical trials

Director of VCU Massey
Comprehensive Cancer Center,
an NCI- designated cancer
center.

Dr. Yuko Terasawa

Japanese Med Tech Start-ups,
Business Development

Co-founder and Director,
Nozomi MedAlliance

Surbhi Kaul

Chair, Women’s Empowerment

VP, Customer Experience, Juniper
Board, IIT Foundation
Board, ASEI

Michael A. Álvarez

Chair, Sustainability Harnessing Tech

QB3 Program Director, UCSC
Board, Hosp. de La Familia Found.
Board, Silicon Valley Hispanic
Found.

Dr. Robert Lund

Chair, Planetary Health

Chair, Statistics Dept., UCSC
Former, NSF Program Manager
Former, Fellow & Journal Chief
Editor, Amer. Stat. Assoc.

Mukesh Advani

Secretary & Counsel

Founder, Advani Law Firm
Founder & Past President,
South Asian Bar Association

Board of Directors (Setu India)

Dr. RS Sharma

Chair of Setu India board
Global Thought Leader, Digital Healthcare access

Former Chief Executive Officer,
National Health Authority

Priya Tandon

Chief Executive Officer, India Co-Founder

Serial Entrepreneur, India & US
Bharat Nirman Award
for Women’s Empowerment

DR. RAKESH BHATNAGAR

Chair, Bio Tech, Med Tech

National Science Chair, India
Former, Vice Chancellor, BHU

Ashishkumar Chauhan

Chair, Economic Equity

Managing director & CEO
National Stock Exchange, India
Chancellor, Allahabad University

Dr. Pinky Anand

Chair, Legal

Additional Solicitor General of India
Founding member, BRICS Legal Forum

Dr. Sunny Anand

Chair, Human & Planetary Health Innovation

Prof. Pediatrics, Anesthesiology,
Perioperative & Pain Medicine,
Stanford Univ. School of Med.
Chair, Stanford’s Ideal Village Conf.

Rajkumari Mahima Singh

Chair, Women’s Empowerment

Leading Amethi royal family’s
initiatives for women’s empowerment,
especially in rural settings

Dr. Ayesha Yasin

Chair, Med Tech Bio Tech, Middle East
Setu MENA Region

Chief Academic Officer, UAE Higher
Colleges of Technology
Former, CEO Dubai Healthcare City

Rajkumar Bhriguraj Singh

Chair, Rural Transformation

Leading Jhabua royal family’s
championship for disruptive
technology enabling rural
transformation

Setu Advisory Board

Carolyn McNiven

US Start-Ups, Business Development

Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Ishan Shivanand

Yoga & Mindfulness

Indian Yoga Master in Meditation & Mindfulness, Performance Coach

Avi Ekveer Sharma

Head of Operations, India

Alternative Medicine Innovation
Ayurvedic Innovator of the Year

Zafar Y. Sareshwala

Middle East Business Development

Entrepreneur, Industrialist, Educationist

Setu Next-Generation Leadership

Sohrab Godrej

Chair, Innovation & Sustainability

Director of Business Development,
SkyCool Systems Inc.

Rahul Siddhartha Kiss

Chair, Economics of Start-ups, Clean Energy

Intern, Bay Area Council, San Francisco, CA