Past Honorees
2005 Award Winners
2006 Award Winners
2007 Award Winners
Keynote Speakers
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2007 Award Winners
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Murali Krishnamurthy, Co Founder Sankara Eye Foundation
Murali Krishnamurthy, an IT Professional based in the Silicon Valley, co-founded Sankara Eye Foundation, USA (SEF) in 1998.
At that time, SEF was performing around 8,000 FREE Eye Surgeries per year and they were running one Sankara Eye Hospital (SEH) in Coimbatore with 100 beds. Thanks to Murali's leadership and enthusiastic support of Indians all over the USA, SES has progressed phenomenally - from 8,000 FREE Eye Surgeries to close to 58,000 FREE Eye Surgeries in 2006 at our three SEHs in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. SEF is now constructing three more SEHs in Bangalore (will also serve as our National Training Center), Shimoga (Karnataka) and Anand (Gujarat). The Bangalore Hospital is being inaugurated on January 20, 2008, and the Shimoga and Anand Hospitals will be ready by mid-2008. With these six SEHs, SEF is looking at performing over 100,000 FREE Eye Surgeries in 2009 and our Goal is to scale it up to one million FREE Eye Surgeries per year by 2020 - Vision 20/20 by 2020. SEF is one of the fastest growing Indian Charities in the USA with over 300 volunteers, 25,000 + donors with a projected revenue of over $3M this year and with a big vision - Vision 20/20 by 2020.
Murali is also one of the founders of the bay area multi-lingual Light Music Group Pallavi and we have performed in over 30 fundraisers so far and at least two of them were for Sankara Eye Foundation
Murali is committed to eradicating curable blindness in India by the year 2020 – Vision 20/20 by 2020
OUSTANDING PROFESSIONAL
ACHIVEMENT
Sanjay Mehrotra, President and Chief Operating Officer, SanDisk
Mehrotra is a co-founder of SanDisk and is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer of the company. In the past, he has also served as director of memory design and product engineering, vice president of product development, senior vice president of engineering and as executive vice president. SanDisk is nineteen year old company today, and Mehrotra is proud of the success that the SanDisk team has achieved. The company's cutting edge technology and its innovative products have enabled the growth of its business in multiple consumer electronics mega markets such as digital imaging, usb flash drives, MP3 players and mobile phones. With the company's large scale manufacturing footprint and global sales channels, SanDisk today is the world leader in flash storage products with its total revenues exceeding $3.3Billion in 2006.
Mehrotra has over 28 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to SanDisk, his earlier experience in the semiconductor industry included work at Intel Corporation, Seeq Technology, Integrated Device Technology and Atmel Corporation in the area of design engineering and engineering management, mostly in EPROM and EEPROM product development. He holds more than 50 issued U.S. patents with more pending, and has published articles in the area of non-volatile memory design and flash memory systems. In 2006 Mehrotra was awarded the prestigious IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Storage Device Technology award which he shared with SanDisk founder Eli Harari and another co-founder of the company, Jack Yuan. This award was given for leadership in the development and commercialization of Flash Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory based data storage products.
Mehrotra holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley which he completed in 1978 and 1980 respectively. Mehrotra was born in Kanpur, India in 1958 and completed his high school in Delhi. He married Sangeeta in 1984 and they have two daughters Mahncy and Malika, ages 19 and 14.
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Deepak Ram bansuri (flute)
Senior disciple of world-renowned bansuri maestro Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Best Instrumental Album, South African Music Awards, 2000
Nominated Best Male Artist & Best Instrumental Album, South African Music Awards, 1999
Deepak Ram is a versatile artist who is well known for his evocative performances in traditional North Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music, his collaborations with musicians of other genres, his innovative compositions and for his excellence as a teacher.
Born in South Africa in 1960, Deepak Ram began his formal training in bansuri and tabla there before traveling to India to study flute; in 1981 he became the disciple of the world-renowned bansuri master, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. In addition to his accomplishments in traditional Indian music, Deepak Ram is well-known for his collaborations with musicians of other genres, including jazz pianist Darius Brubeck and the popular South African group Tananas, and for his vast experience as acomposer of pieces ranging from jazz to choral works, ballets, and orchestral pieces. He has performed all over the world and has recorded numerous albums including Searching for Satyam, which won Best Instrumental Album in the 2000 South African Music Awards, and his most recent album, One Breath (Golden Horn Records).
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