Kunal Nayyar

Kunal Nayyar's role in THE BIG BANG THEORY is his first as a regular on a television series. He had a guest starring role on NCIS.
Nayyar is currently writing his first feature film, and his critically acclaimed play, "Cotton Candy," continues to run in New Delhi.
His theater acting credits include "Huck and Holden" at the Dahlia Theater in Los Angeles, for which Kunal was awarded best male lead in a play on the West Coast by the Garland Awards, and "Loves Labors Lost" at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon, England.

Ragini Bhalla

As PR Manager, Ragini Bhalla oversees Zee TV’s corporate public relations plan and strategic direction in order to raise awareness and visibility of the network’s lifestyle programming, talented hosts and senior-level executives across all media (print, online, TV, radio). During her professional career, Ragini has been instrumental in securing publicity in a variety of industries, including entertainment and media, publishing, technology and business. The entertainment industry veteran infuses creative communication skills, aggressive media relations tactics and a keen sense of business acumen into all projects.

Ragini graduated from University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Communications and Special Focus on Spanish Literature. After traveling the globe to more than 50 countries monitoring the labor conditions and human rights compliance of clothing/garment factories worldwide, she completed her Master’s of Science in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University’s College of Communications.

Ambassador Terry Miller

Ambassador Terry Miller is the Director of the Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE) at The Heritage Foundation. In this position, Miller directs the center's ongoing research into the role of free markets and international trade in fostering economic growth around the world. The center's signature publication in this area is the annual Index of Economic Freedom, a country-by-country guide co-published with The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to joining Heritage in October 2007, Miller had a distinguished career as a diplomat and public servant. In 2006, he was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Before that, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Global Issues.

Tim Hossain

Tim Hossain is the Associate Director of MBA Admissions for the University of Washington Foster School of Business located in Seattle, Washington. Tim attended Western Washington University in Bellingham Washington where he studied Public Relations and Psychology. After graduation, he moved to Denver Colorado where he ran an after school tutoring program for elementary and middle school students.
In 2004, he joined Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions overseeing the operations and marketing for the Pacific Northwest area. At Kaplan, Tim advised aspiring medical, law and business students on admissions for graduate school and standardized exams. In September 2006, joined the University of Washington Foster School of Business. In his role, Tim serves on the admission committee, conducts admission interviews and counsels prospective students. Tim is a second-year MBA student at Foster School of Business Part-time Evening MBA program.
Prior to joining Heritage in October 2007, Miller had a distinguished career as a diplomat and public servant. In 2006, he was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Before that, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Global Issues.

Anurag Mairal, Dr.

Dr. Mairal is the Founder and CEO of Gurome (previously TestPundit). Concurrently, he is an Associate Director at the Stanford India Biodesign at Stanford University. He is also the Co-Founder of South Asian MBA Association (SAMBAA), a global network of MBAs with interest in South Asia. Dr. Mairal serves on the boards of several for-profit and non-profit organizations. Prior to this, Dr. Mairal was a Product Director at Cordis and a Business Development Director at Johnson and Johnson. Dr. Mairal has received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Ravishankar University, Raipur; a Master of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he pursued graduate research in membrane separations. Dr. Mairal was also a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Mairal has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Mairal scored 770 on his GMAT exam and has over 6 years of experience teaching for GMAT. He has a passion to teach and help his students excel. When not teaching, he can sometimes be seen mentoring and advising groups of students at a neighborhood coffee shop.

Monica Ghosh

Monica Ghosh is a legislative assistant for Seattle City Councilmember Jean Godden. She staffs the Councilmember on issues of finance and budget and clerks the Budget Committee, which is responsible for adopting and passing the city’s nearly $4 billion dollar budget.. Prior to her position at the City, Monica worked for then-King County Councilmember (and current King County Executive) Dow Constantine.

Monica received her B.A. in international studies and political science from the University of Washington and her M.P.A. from the Evans School of Public Affairs. While studying at the Evans School she interned at the U.S. Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C. and Social Venture Partners, a Seattle philanthropic organization.

Monica is past co-chair of the Seattle chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and currently serves on the Board of the Asian Community Leadership Foundation.

Asad Mecci
Hypnotist
International Performer

Asad Mecci is no stranger to mass media. You might have seen Mecci on MTV Canada, Maxim Online, Much Music, YTV, Talk Television or listened as he hypnotized people live on radio stations like CFRB 1010. Away from the television cameras and radio waves, Mecci has captivated crowds at Canada's Wonderland, Skydome, Sheraton World Resort, Super Club Breezes and onboard Carnival and Celebrity Cruise Lines. Even within the confines of major companies like Remax, IBM and Dell, Mecci has been invited to entertain and motivate employees and management. When he is not on stage, Mecci uses hypnosis to accelerate people's careers, reduce stress, enhance communication skills and lose weight. You can catch Asad performing his Comedy Hypnosis Show on Saturday night!

Nancy Amidei

From 1992-2008, Nancy Amidei was on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Social Work. Today she continues to direct the Civic Engagement Project, which works with non-profit organizations throughout the country. CEP offers advocacy training, speeches, workshops, and resource materials, for work at federal, state, or local levels. A writer, teacher, and advocate, Ms. Amidei has been involved in social policy from both inside and outside government. She is a former Director of the Food Research and Action Center (a national anti-hunger group). She also served in the Carter Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the federal department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now DHHS).

Naveen

Naveen is a trained stage actor, public speaker, auctioneer, producer, director and News Anchor. He has written, acted, directed, produced on-stage live productions and short films. Further, he has coordinated live auctions including the holding the fastest talking role in public: the auctioneer! He has worked with Clint Eastwood, Robin Leach, Kal Penn, George Clooney, and Hilary Swank to name a few and has just finished producing and directing a site-specific adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the gardens of a Victorian Home in Los Angeles.
He worked as the Sports Anchor and Editor for India Post TV, providing sports news from India to the US market, and spotlighting South Asian athletes playing professionally in North America.
In addition to this he is an accomplished public speaker and member of Toastmasters International. He holds a Masters Degree in Business from University of Southern California concentrating on Entertainment and Communication and a Masters in Acting from the Guildford School of Acting at the University of Surrey in the UK.
Currently, is an Adjunct Professor of Theatre a Acting Santa Monica College in California and trains professionals to be be more effective communicators--both privately and in conjunction with their company training programs.

Prashant Modha

Prashant Modha, CFA is the Chief Financial Officer of Mondetta Clothing Company which he co-founded in 1986. Prashant sits on the board of Mondetta as well as being part of the advisory board of the Mondetta Charity foundation. A foundation dedicated to helping the children of East Africa. Prashant had sat on several non profit boards in the past, notably the Young Associates, a group of young professionals committed to helping the Asper School of Business through fund raising and mentoring. Prashant is now a member of the Associates of the Asper School of business which is committed to excellence in Business Education. Prashant has a strong interest in macro economic issues particularly as it deals with the baby boom generation and the opportunities and challenges it creates.

Christine Andreasen

To see Christine Andreasen speaking before a large group of people is to see this dynamic professional at her best. With her lively, expressive and animated style, she walks rapidly across the stage, engaging the audience with kernels of essential wisdom illustrated by vivid anecdotes. The audience hangs onto every word, nodding assent here and bursting into appreciative laughter there. Christine might be speaking on any number of topics—from personal integrity to professional excellence, from love and romance to increasing business revenues—but the message is always the same—how to succeed.

For many years now, this talented businesswoman has been communicating success to large groups of people through motivational seminars. It's one of her favorite things to do, and one of the ways she most enjoys volunteering. For years she traveled the country, conducting seminars where she won acclaim for her enthusiastic, captivating approach.

Ritu Singh

Ritu Singh focuses on patent prosecution and due diligence in a variety of arts, including mechanical, electrical and biomedical. Ritu also counsels clients in commercial, copyright and patent litigation. Before joining Baker & Daniels LLP in Fort Wayne, IN, Ritu practiced law at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Pittsburgh, PA. During law school at The Ohio State University, she served as a patent law intern with the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH, and as a summer intern at BITS in Washington, D.C. Ritu also spent two semesters in the Oxford Semester Abroad Program in the United Kingdom. Prior to entering law school, Ritu was an application engineer at Informance International in Northbrook, IL. Ritu has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering/Economics from Northwestern University

Resham Sapru

Resham was born and raised in Dubai, U.A.E. prior to her time at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for undergraduate education. She graduated in May 2009 and headed off to Chicago for a full-time job with Deloitte Consulting. She has worked with Deloitte for a year in various strategy and operations projects within the Technology and Telecom space. Her project experiences include a game-changing post-merger integration for a Fortune 100 technology company with a consulting firm that would enable her client to provide end-to-end technology services.

Serving a dual role as both a project manager and an analyst within the Go-To-Market workstreams, she has received exposure to building and enabling a deal-pursuit firewall process. Her other strategy projects include conducting a change impact assessment and developing appropriate change management strategies for a major telecom company's Billings and Operations group. Her work primarily involves Software as a Service technology package implementations such as Workday and Salesforce.com. At Deloitte, she has also had the opportunity to lead and organize a strategy case competition for her alma mater in 2010. Prior to Deloitte, she has held various internships with Citigroup Investment Banking and Citigroup Private Wealth Management.