• Arihant Patni - Chief Executive Officer
• Edward Burke - President
• Suchorita Mookerjee - Director of Operations
• Percis Anklesaria – Head Quality and Training

Arihant Patni - Chief Executive Officer

Arihant Patni is an entrepreneur, corporate executive and financial advisor who has extensive experience in computer software, business development/marketing and IT infrastructure. He has worked in India, the United States and throughout Europe.

Arihant received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Chemical Engineering. He continued his education at Babson College, where he received his Masters of Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude), with a dual concentration in entrepreneurship and finance. He then received a separate Masters Degree in Statistics from Columbia University, with a concentration in quantitative finance.

Arihant began his career at Patni Computer Systems, where he had a broad exposure to the business of the company, including consulting positions in the computer software and human resources departments, as well as being a business development and marketing executive. In the latter capacity, Arihant was part of a team dedicated to the European market and worked to increase global brand awareness for the Patni companies and products. Subsequently, Arihant worked as a Business Strategy Consultant for Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he led a finance systems strategy project for one of Fidelity's companies, involving business process analyses, systems re-design and solutions recommendations. He then worked as a Management Consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he brought his computer expertise to bear on projects relating to the enhancement the firm's electronic security tools and protocols. Arihant was Vice-President for Business Development for Raay Software, Inc., where he started the U.S. office for a European software product company operating in the healthcare space, developed the marketing campaign for the United States and conducted strategic market analysis to build brand awareness.

In addition to his responsibilities at Bodhi, Arihant is also on the Board of Directors of Patni Wealth Advisors Ltd, based in Mumbai, a wealth management company that advises high net worth families on a wide range of investment options such as debt, equity, real estate, art and third-party funds. The company also provides administrative assistance in areas of taxation, estate planning and cash management. Arihant has been instrumental in launching the company's venture capital arm and is presently a member of the Board of Directors of Patni Projects, an infrastructure company setting up green field power generation projects.

Arihant is a member of the Board of Directors of Bodhi Global and is resident in Mumbai.

Edward Burke - President

Ed Burke has over fifteen years of experience handling complex commercial litigation for large firms in New York and California. At Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, he recently served as Joint Liaison Defense Counsel on data/electronic document issues in a six-year RICO conspiracy action brought by a class of all doctors against ten major healthcare insurance companies. Ed co-led a team of attorneys and consultants to build and deploy one of the largest joint litigation databases ever constructed (over two billion lines of data from 22 different platforms) and supervised the production and review of over three million documents. He also supervised the reports and testimony of data-related experts. Weil's client, UnitedHealth Group, prevailed on summary judgment. Ed recently had a key role on a Weil team that estimated the fees and costs of the fraud litigation arising out of the Adelphia bankruptcy. He also played a significant part in numerous other cases at Weil, most notably: the first trade secret/First Amendment action challenging the unlawful distribution of DVD encryption codes on the Internet, leading to a groundbreaking First Amendment opinion by the California Supreme Court; a four-year arbitration for Reuters against Cantor Fitzgerald involving a contractual dispute over the posting of debt security information on the Internet (won on summary judgment); a Lanham Act trade dress action against H&R Block by Intuit (defeated preliminary injunction leading to successful conclusion); a trademark action brought against Wal-Mart by Fubu (successful conclusion); and ongoing aircraft leasing litigation for GE Capital. In 2006, Ed was recognized by the Legal Aid Society for Outstanding Pro Bono Service. At Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Ed had substantial experience in the firm's products liability and insurance groups, including major appeals for Shell Oil Company (complete reversal of jury verdict after year-long insurance coverage trial) and Owens-Corning (complete reversal of jury verdict in consolidated asbestos personal injury actions). At Farella, Braun & Martel, Ed focused on insurance and appellate matters.

Ed has also had a successful career as a film and theater producer. He produced the Castle Rock/Columbia Pictures film Some Mother's Son, starring Academy Award® nominee Helen Mirren (The Queen), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Young European Film of the Year award. Ed also produced the documentary Teatro, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS prime-time series "P.O.V," as well as the Obie-nominated play A Night in November by Belfast writer Marie Jones at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater in New York.

Ed is the former President of the Board of TheatreWorks, the largest repertory theater company in the Silicon Valley, and a former board member of Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco. Presently, he is a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of Skylight Social Media in New York.

Ed received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was the Chairman of the Moot Court Board, and his B.A. in Russian and East European Studies from SUNY Binghamton. Ed is admitted to practice in the States of New York and California and is resident in New York.

Suchorita Mookerjee - Director of Operations

Suchorita has over a decade of rich and varied experience in various legal outfits functioning as a legal consultant as well as spearheading operations. She joins us from IBM where she was heading operations for their LPO vertical. She was responsible for business development and end to end operations. Prior to IBM, she was with WNS where she developed expertise in the Legal BPO market for the UK especially in the areas of conveyancing, re-mortgage, legal transcription and personal injury. She was responsible for the entire life cycle of operations that included, hiring, training, managing and developing the resources along with managing the client.

Prior to WNS, She worked with another legal off shoring unit, Mindcrest India as a Consultant. Some of her contributions have been legal research, law surveys and comparisons of the laws of various jurisdictions with respect to U.S. and India federal and state case law, statutory law and regulations and volume legal processing. She has also worked as an advocate in a law firm, Chambers of Burzin Somandy.

Suchorita graduated in Commerce from Narsee Monji College, University of Mumbai. She completed her Bachelors in Law from the Government Law College in Mumbai and later finished a Masters in Business Law from National Law School of India; Bangalore which is affiliated to the London School of Economics and University of Hamburg. She has also credited to herself a degree in Management Finance from the Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi

Percis Anklesaria – Head Quality and Training

Percis joins Bodhi with over a decade of valuable experience. She received her master’s in law from Columbia University (New York) in the year 2003. She is a law graduate from Symbiosis Law College, Pune, India and a registered solicitor with the Law Society of England and Wales.

Percis has worked with a few of India’s leading law firms where she was advising and assisting clients on all aspects of international and domestic commercial transactions and on various Indian commercial laws, including foreign exchange regulations, structured “entry” routes, and negotiated joint ventures. She has headed due diligence work on potential target companies as well as companies engaged in a public issue. She has drafted/reviewed various types of transactional documentation, conveyance/lease agreements and other related documentation and has been involved in alternative dispute resolution, including international commercial arbitration, and the pre- and post-arbitral processes.

Percis has also assisted with the setting up of the Indian operations of an international law firm, including recruitment, office administration and all other corporate formalities associated with the business of the firm. She written for and been published in a few legal magazines in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Percis joins Bodhi as Head Quality and Training.