Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar - Indian Cricket Legend Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar (born 10 July 1949 in Mumbai, India), is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatestopening batsmen in test match history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most runs and most centuries scored by any batsman. He held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades. He was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most vicious in Test history.

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Dr. Sudhanshu Prasad has been living in this very town for over 18 years. Till recently, Dr. Prasad was the chairman, department of medicine at the JFK hospital. A well-known internist, Dr. Prasad is currently affiliated with two major hospitals in Edison and Rahway.

She is the Chief Operating Officer of EBC Radio, the first all Indian radio station in the New York tri-state area. Alka Agarwal is a team leader in business development, marketing and public relations. She has excelled in building a listenership of 400,000 people for the radio station. Alka Agrawal has been elected on to the Board of Directors of the Asian Indian Chambers of Commerce and serves on the Advisory board of Sovereign Bank. As an active member of the South Asian- American community, she continues to expand her horizons and commitments to new endeavors.

On January 6, Frank Pallone, Jr. was officially sworn in for his 11th full term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Pallone represents New Jersey’s Sixth Congressional District, which covers most of Middlesex County, as well as the Bayshore and oceanfront areas of Monmouth County, the township of Plainfield in Union County and Franklin in Somerset County.

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Sunil K. Hali needs little introduction. He is the Chairman, CEO & Publisher of CineMaya Media Group, the force behind Indian Express and Divya Bhaskar newspapers. At an young age of 47, he has emerged as a pioneer in the ethnic media landscape for Diaspora markets. He is a double Gold medalist in engineering from IIT Roorkee. He has worked in corporate world in construction and engineering industry and has held top management positions for 20 years in the United States and India . In 2000, with a single goal to serve the Indian American community, Sunil launched CineMaya Media Group, which is now in every spectrum of the Indian media, marketing and entertainment landscape.

Upendra Chivukula is the first Asian-Indian American elected to the NJ State Assembly and the fourth Indian- American in the US to be elected to state office. He is currently serving his fourth term in the NJ State Assembly, representing the 17th district, which encompasses Highland Park, New Brunswick, North Brunswick, Piscataway, Milltown, and Franklin Township. Upendra is the Chair of the Telecommunications & Utilities Committee and a member of the Commerce and Economic Development Committee in the Assembly. He is a member ofthe Science and Technology Commission for the State of New Jersey. In addition, he serves on the Asian American Study Foundation and on the National Conference of State Legislatures Executive Committee. He has also served on the International Education Taskforce, World Languages Instruction Committee and the Board of State Canvassers. Assemblyman Chivukula co-founded the NJ Legislative Science & Technology Caucus, as well as the World Languages & International Studies Caucus in the Legislature. He was past Chair of the Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce Committee for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). He also served on the Energy & Electric Utilities Committee, as well as the Task Force on Homeland Security for the NCSL. Upendra’s extensive public service and political accomplishments have also included participation in the Delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1996, 2000, 2004 and in 2008. Also, the Governor of New Jersey appointed him to be a Public Member of the New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners. And from 1994 to 1997 he served on the board of the New Jersey State Cross-Acceptance Committee. Upendra was an Elector for the Electoral College in 2004 and served as the NJ Coordinator for Asian American Outreach for the Kerry-Edwards Campaign. He has served as Co-Chair for the 2005 Corzine for Governor Campaign, led the Asian American Outreach for Senator Robert Menendez and recently led the Asian American Outreach program for Senator Frank Lautenberg. He is a Leadership New Jersey Fellow (1998), Flemming Institute Fellow (2003), and the Past President of Franklin Township Lions Club and Zone 2 Chairman in District 16-D. He is a National Committee Member of the Association of Indians in America, Past Secretary of NJ Chapter of Indian American Forum for Political Education and Past President of Asian American Political Coalition. He graduated from the Senior Managers in State and Local Government program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a graduate, University of Virginia, Emerging Leaders Program Upendra has a B.E.E. from Guindy’s Engineering College, India and Masters in Electrical Engineering from City College of the City University of New York. He is Chairman of WTC, Inc and has drawn extensive technical and business experience working at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Upendra has been married for over 30 years to his wife Dayci and has two children, Suraj and Damianty.

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Edison Township Mayor Jun H. Choi is focused on rebuilding public trust, fiscal responsibility, education, economic development, and bringing together the diverse and dynamic communities of Edison.

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She started her career in the world of media from Radio broadcast on EBC Radio in 1999. In a short span of time, she attracted a number of listeners through her presentation style, entertaining skills, warmth and lovely on air personality, that made her fan following grew by leaps and bound and there was no looking back for Mamta…Jisko Kuch Nahin Jamta!! The magic of Mamta then started spreading on television. She hosted and produced television shows in the tri state, for local and national tv channels between 2000 and 2003. Recently, she was invited by Zee TV India to host a live game show for the audience back home; the show was broadcast from Germany. Her confidence, pleasing personality and lovely interaction with the audience is very well appreciated on stage and that makes Mamta, one of the most popular Master Of Ceremonies for the south asian events in this part of the world. As an active member of the south asian media, Mamta is also involved with fundraising and event management through her company “EkDanta, llc”. Her most successful fundraising projects has been 11th annual dushahra festival hosted by Indo American Festivals, Inc, where more than 75 Sponsors/Vendors and Advertisers participated. A well known personality from our community, Mamta originally hails from New Delhi, India and is a Finance IT Manager by profession

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Born & educated in Bombay, Ketan Gandhi came to the United States as a student. Ever since Ketan completed his MBA from Indiana University in 1986, he has been associated with media throughout his career. Looking back more than 20 years back, Ketan started climbing the media corporate ladder as Accounts Manager with Tarentum, PA-based Valley News Dispatch.

Seema M. Singh, Esq. is the President of the Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce (AICC), a non-profit organization committed to providing a forum for the Asian Indian Business Community in the tri-state area. Under her leadership the organization has grown to its current strength of over550 members. The AICC now hosts Networking Nites every month; honors members of the Indian business community for their accomplishments each year at its Annual Dinner Gala;

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