• Arihant Patni - Chief Executive Officer
• Svati Shashank - Vice President Client Relations
• Suchorita Mookerjee - Director of Operations
• Percis Anklesaria – Head Quality and Training
• Naseem Qadeer - Head Litigation Support

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.

Svati Shashank - Vice President Client Relations

Svati is an experienced corporate lawyer. She worked at Shearman & Sterling, LLC in New York for over seven years. Her work included representation of various corporations and financial institutions from all over the world in domestic U.S. and cross-border private and public financings, project development and financing transactions and debt restructuring. She also represented various corporations and individuals in connection with matters relating to executive compensation and employee benefits, including working on employment and severance agreements, equity compensation, employee benefit plans, pension plans and filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Svati is also committed to charity work. She has worked as a consulting attorney with an international not-for-profit corporation in New York for over two years.

Svati received her Masters degree in Law from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her M.A. (Law) from Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Prior to studying law, Svati obtained her Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi.

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 has been published in a few legal magazines in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Percis joins Bodhi as Head Quality and Training.

Naseem Qadeer - Head Litigation Support

Naseem Qadeer is a seasoned attorney and legal assistant with twenty-two years of experience in India and the United States on large, complex cases involving massive document productions. She has worked closely with high profile litigators in Miami and in New York. At Bodhi, Naseem will supervise litigation support projects both in India and the United States.

Naseem received her law degree from the Government Law College in Mumbai, India, and then went on to complete her Masters of Law in Commercial Law from Mumbai University. She subsequently joined The Reserve Bank of India and worked in the Foreign Exchange Department, handling licensing of Foreign Investments, Foreign Accounts and Foreign Employment under the Foreign Exchange Act of 1973. Thereafter, Naseem moved to the U.S., where she attended the University of Miami and completed a J.D. and a Masters of Law in Comparative Studies.

After being admitted to practicing law in the United States, Naseem joined the Law Offices of Stanley Rosenblatt, lead counsel on the Union Carbide Litigation. She traveled to Bhopal to document the injuries of approximately twenty thousand clients represented by the firm and worked on the litigation thereafter. In 1986, she joined Hornsby and Wheisenand, where she managed millions of documents related to a complex litigation representing the Government of Venezuela.

Naseem then began working for Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where she developed an expertise in complex commercial litigations and trials. During her seventeen years at Weil, Naseem managed numerous large-scale and complex litigations, working closely with senior partners on all aspect of those cases, from discovery through trial. Naseem worked on many high profile trials, including the Long Island Lighting Company's Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant Litigation, several cases for Matshushita Electric Industrial Co. and litigation for Computer Associates and American Airlines. She also worked on high profile international litigation, such as a case for ESPN in which an Indian plaintiff sued ESPN for $200 million in damages over the launch of the ESPN India channel. ESPN prevailed at trial.

At Weil Gotshal, Naseem was in the forefront of introducing technology to the litigation process and developed protocols used firm-wide to increase efficiency in the litigation process. Naseem has conducted training seminars on discovery procedures and trial preparation skills and has a thorough knowledge of the litigation support software available in the market.

Naseem is admitted in India and in the States of New York and Florida, and is resident in New York.