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Mission & Vision

The Deshpande Foundation is the family Foundation of Gururaj (“Desh”) and Jaishree Deshpande, of Andover, MA. Founded in 1996, the Deshpande Foundation is one of the leading philanthropic Foundations in Massachusetts and India in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship and international development. Through its grantmaking, the Deshpande Foundation has helped launch innovative companies, helped NGOs develop an international presence and launched partnerships with some of the most remarkable change agents in the world today.

Innovation: The Deshpande Foundation develops partnerships with innovative leaders with a new idea, product or service that can potentially benefit millions of people and change entire industries. Whether it is ground-breaking research on the next generation of technologies or a more cost-effective idea for international development, the Deshpande Foundation believes that innovation lies at the heart of our ability to grow, succeed and make lasting impact on the world.

Entrepreneurship: Based on 30 years of experience as technology entrepreneurs in the United States, Canada and India, the Trustees of the Deshpande Foundation have come to believe in the powerful role that the entrepreneur can play to change and improve society. In the long term, a region will continue to thrive as long as it has a vibrant base of budding entrepreneurs, and the Foundation strives to create such an environment in the places it operates

	Growth: The Deshpande Foundation focuses time, energy and resources on helping the best ideas, researchers, entrepreneurs and organizations to scale up their activities to rapidly increase their reach. It is critical that successful ideas and leaders gain the infrastructure and support they need to achieve their long term vision of change.

people--

The Deshpande Foundation believes the strength and dedication of its people are the keys to its success. As a rapidly growing organization, the Foundation’s ability to create impact depends on its team of experienced and highly committed individuals. The Board of Directors and Advisory Board provide decades of entrepreneurial, philanthropic, and management experience and provide hands-on guidance and leadership for the Foundation’s work. Our staff are highly energetic, dedicated, and engaged individuals who translate the higher level principles of the Foundation’s work to ground-level change. Together, the Boards and staff work to promote social entrepreneurship and innovation as fulcrums of development.

Board of Directors--Hemang Dave

Hemang Dave is a Managing Director of Celerity Ventures, and i2C Catalyst Partners, both private investment vehicles focused on investments in Energy, Precious Metals, India and China. Since 2000, he has been an active volunteer and Charter Member of TiE Boston, a non-profit focused on fostering entrepreneurship, and has held a number of leadership roles in Mentoring, Special Interest Groups, and various experimental initiatives. Prior to this, he served as the CEO and Chairman of THINQ Learning Solutions, Inc., an e-Learning company he co-founded in 1999. He has enjoyed a career in the technology industry that spans 30 years, with a track record of success creating and managing high performance teams, defining and incubating new technology businesses, and creating high integrity and productive cultures. Previously, he played an instrumental role in building five Internet companies at CMGi, from the idea stage to product launch. These companies include Engage Technologies, AdSmart and NaviSite. As vice president of strategic alliances at Lotus Development Corporation, he helped to catalyze the global growth of Lotus business partners from 2,000 to 8,000. He later played a key role in the company’s merger with IBM, as vice president of Lotus/IBM integration. He also worked as vice president of new ventures at Polaroid and has held a number of executive positions at ComputerVision/Prime Computer, Inc., including director of strategic alliances, workstation development and corporate education. He began his career at IBM Corporation as a product development engineer and sales representative. He earned his BS EE/CS at the University of Connecticut in 1978.

Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande

Desh Deshpande is co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks, Inc. Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp. Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations have made possible MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.

Dr. Deshpande holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada.

Since 2000, Dr. Deshpande has been funding approximately one initiative a year and is actively involved in building these organizations. These initiatives include Tejas Networks, Airvana, A123 Systems and Sandstone Capital. He and his wife, Jaishree, are involved in several non-profit initiatives that include support for MIT, IIT, TiE, Akshaya Patra Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India and the Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in India.

Jaishree Deshpande

Jaishree Deshpande is a trustee of the Deshpande Foundation, a foundation that fosters social entrepreneurship by supporting a variety of non-profit organizations in India working in the areas of health, education, microcredit and agriculture. Jaishree and her husband founded The Deshpande Center at the MIT School of Engineering in 2002 to increase the impact of MIT technologies in the marketplace. Along with her husband Desh, Jaishree is involved in many other educational and non-profits including IIT, TiE Foundation, Akshaya Patra Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India. She currently serves as a trustee for the Museum of Science and is involved with HESTIA Fund - a fund established to support quality after school programming for low-income children.

Jaishree Deshpande worked for the Indian Space Research Organization in Bangalore, India until 1980 before moving to Canada. She worked for several Massachusetts companies and taught courses in computer science. She received her Masters in Physics in 1975 from the Indian Institute of Technologies (IIT), Madras, India. She received her second Masters in Computer Science in 1989 from Boston University.

Paul S. Grogan

Paul S. Grogan became the President and CEO of the Boston Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest and largest community foundations, on July 1, 2001. With assets of almost $900 million, the Foundation and its donors made more than $92 million in grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the Greater Boston community in 2007. Since coming to the Foundation, Mr. Grogan has boosted fundraising and streamlined operations while also launching high-impact initiatives in housing, the arts, education reform, workforce development and civic engagement. Under Mr. Grogan’s leadership, the Foundation has become a central convener on issues and challenges facing the City and the region.

Mr. Grogan joined the Foundation from Harvard University, where he served as Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs from 1999 to 2001. As one of five vice presidents of the University, he oversaw all government relations for Harvard, relations with Harvard’s host communities of Cambridge and Boston, and the Harvard news office. He was also a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School. Mr. Grogan spearheaded unprecedented University commitments to the community, including $21 million for affordable housing and $5 million for the Harvard After-School Initiative. He successfully transformed the University’s previously poor relationship with the City of Boston, which paved the way for Harvard to double its property holdings in the Allston neighborhood with the public blessing of the Mayor, local neighborhood groups and the editorial page of the Boston Globe.

While at Harvard, Grogan created a new national organization, “CEOs for Cities”, whose members are big city mayors, business leaders, university presidents and foundation executives. “CEOs” holds semi annual conferences and publishes cutting edge research on the nature of successful urban economies.

From 1986 through 1998, he was President and CEO of the nonprofit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation’s largest community development intermediary. During his term as president, LISC raised and invested more than $3 billion of private capital in inner-city revitalization efforts across America, all channeled through local nonprofit community development corporations. While under Mr. Grogan’s leadership, LISC also made vital contributions to a string of national policy successes, including the creation of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the establishment of the HOME program, the strengthening of the Community Reinvestment Act and the creation of the New Markets Tax Credit. Noted author and dean of the Columbia School of Journalism Nicholas Lemann has written that “Paul Grogan is one of the heroes of the community development movement.”

Mr. Grogan’s passion for cities began in Boston where he served Mayors Kevin H. White and Raymond L. Flynn in a variety of staff and line positions. He headed Boston’s neighborhood revitalization efforts in the early 80s, where he pioneered a series of public/private ventures that have been widely emulated by other cities. These included the Boston Housing Partnership and the Boston Compact, a partnership between the city’s corporate community and public school system.

Mr. Grogan graduated with a degree with honors in American History from Williams College in 1972 and earned a Masters degree in Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1979. In 1997, Williams College awarded Mr. Grogan a Bicentennial Medal for his leadership in inner-city revitalization efforts. He is a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a director of the for-profit company, the Community Development Trust, which he helped found, and a director of New Profit, Inc.; and a former trustee of Williams College.

Mr. Grogan is the co-author, with Tony Proscio, of the book Comeback Cities, published in 2000, which syndicated columnist Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times has written is “arguably the most important and insightful book on the American city in a generation.”

He and his wife, Karen Sunnarborg, a city planner, are raising three sons in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

Kate Guedj

Kate Guedj joined the Foundation as Director of Philanthropic Services in 2000. In 2005 she was made Vice President for Philanthropic and Donor Services. In this capacity, she works with the Foundation’s donors to help them achieve their charitable and philanthropic goals. She manages philanthropic support activities for donors and fund advisors, and for the Foundation’s special funds and initiatives relating to donor grantmaking. Before coming to the Foundation, Kate was a senior executive with the Massachusetts Bar Association, overseeing their programs and services. She has also served as Director of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, and its grantmaking program providing legal services to the poor. She began her career at the Council on Foundations in Washington D.C. as a researcher, and eventually became Membership Director. Kate is on the governing boards of Associated Grant Makers, EdVestors the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation and the Deshpande Foundation. She holds a BA with honors in the division of the humanities

Dr. Sushil Vachani

Dr. Sushil Vachani is a member of the Advisory Board of the Deshpande Foundation and heads the Deshpande Foundation’s Platinum Program, which aims to assist selected, high-potential, NGOs to overcome obstacles and achieve higher levels of performance, contribution and sustainability. This involves assessment of organizational capacity, mindset and performance, evaluation of the role of the board, clarification and development of strategy, organizational capacity building, installation of control systems, broadening funding sources, cementing relationships with key stakeholders, and the use of technology and for-profit methods where applicable. Cross-sectoral partnerships with the private sector and government are encouraged and facilitated as needed.

Dr. Vachani is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Boston University’s School of Management. He has a doctorate in international business from Harvard Business School, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an undergraduate in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Dr. Vachani has extensive managerial and consulting experience, having worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, where he was involved with designing business strategies for American, Japanese, and European multinationals. He also worked in India as a research engineer with the Dutch electronics multinational, Philips, as a member of the Tata Administrative Service, the core executive cadre of the Tata Group, and as a finance manager with Tata Motors.

Dr. Vachani’s research focuses on multinational-government relations, impact of NGOs on international business, management of diversified multinationals, management in developing countries and internationalization of small firms. His research has been published in the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Long Range Planning, Journal of Enterprising Cultures, Small Enterprise Development, and other publications. He is the editor of Transformations in Global Governance: Implications for Multinationals and other stakeholders (2006), co-editor of The Role of MNCs in Global Poverty Reduction (2006) and author of Multinationals in India: Strategic Product Choices (1991).

At Boston University, Dr. Vachani serves as a member of the President’s Council on the Global University, which is a standing advisory group to the University Provost and the President. The Council reviews existing international programs and plans for new ones, and advises the University leadership on the quality, impact, viability, and appropriateness of international endeavors. In the 1990s, he served as the Director of Boston University’s International Management Program in Kobe, Japan, for five years. He has also served as Chair of the Strategy & Policy Department and as Faculty Director of the Doctoral Program. Dr. Vachani has been a core faculty member for the Boston University Executive MBA program for several years, and has been awarded the John Russell award for teaching excellence by the Executive MBA students twice.

Dr. Ashok Shettar

Dr. Ashok Shettar is principal of B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology in Hubli. Dr. Shettar has an ME and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a BE from Karnataka University.

He is a member of the Executive Council for Visvesvaraya Technological University in Belgaum, a life member of the KLE Society—Belgaum, and a member of the Northern Karnataka Task Force for Industrial Development. He serves on the District Task Force on Higher Education and the Indian Society for Technical Education. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers India and a founding member and current Vice President of the BIC Society, which promotes ITeS industries in Northern-Karnataka. In 2005, Dr. Shettar received the Rotary Centennial Award for Professional Excellence.

His expertise lies in strategic planning and institutional development, total quality management in education, and industry-institute-society interaction in regional development.

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