• Mr. Ashok K Patni
• Daniel A. Crane - Professor of Law
• Mr. Gajendra K Patni
• Naseem Sayed Qadeer - Attorney at Law
• Poorvi Chothani - Lawquest
• Saradian Associates, Inc - Marketing Consultancy

Mr. Ashok K. Patni

Mr. Ashok K. Patni is co-founder of Patni Computer Systems and PCS Technology (see 'Our Founders'). Mr. Patni has over 22 years of experience in computer hardware and systems software. He has contributed significantly in the past to the growth of the computer hardware industry in India. He is Managing Director of PCS Technology Limited, one of India's leading hardware companies that has 26 offices across the globe and employs over 3000 people.

Mr. Patni is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT, Mumbai. He plays a directional board role in the family companies and serves as advisor to several other firms.

Daniel A. Crane - Professor of Law

Dan Crane is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he teaches Antitrust and Contracts. Dan Crane has provided comprehensive and interactive training to the Bodhi attorneys on a variety of subjects, including an overview of the U.S. legal systems and laws, litigation (responsiveness, confidentiality, relevance, work product, attorney-client and other privileges), Government investigations and second requests, and cultural issues relating to the practice of law in the United States. Dan's training is a critical part of Bodhi's ongoing educational programs for all attorneys. Dan will continue to be an important partner and will make regular trips to India to expand and oversee our training programs.

Dan received a B.A in Political Science from Wheaton College (Magna Cum Laude) and a J.D. from the University of Chicago (with Honors). He was a Member of the University of Chicago Law Review. Upon graduation, Dan clerked for the Honorable Kenneth L. Ryskamp of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Dan then joined the litigation department of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Miami, followed by a four-year stint in the litigation department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York. Dan was recruited by Cardozo Law School in 2003, and remains as Counsel to Paul Weiss.

Dan's recent scholarship has focused primarily on antitrust and economic regulation, particularly predatory pricing, bundling and the antitrust implications of patent dispute settlements. His articles and essays have appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the Georgia Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review and the Florida Law Review. He is co-editing (with Eleanor Fox of New York University Law School) the ANTITRUST STORIES volume of Foundations Press' LAW STORIES series. Dan's articles have been cited in a number of federal and state court opinions.

Mr. Gajendra K. Patni

Mr. Gajendra K. Patni is co-founder of Patni Computer Systems and PCS Technology (see 'Our Founders'). He has contributed significantly to the growth of the computer business in India and has over 35 years of experience in finance, banking, legal and personnel functions. Previously he was the Managing Director of Industrial Oxygen Company Limited, a successful chemicals company now jointly owned by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Mr. Patni is a Chemical Engineer from IIT, Delhi. He plays a directional board role in the family companies and serves as advisor to several other firms.

Naseem Sayed Qadeer - Attorney at Law

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.

Poorvi Chothani - Lawquest

LawQuest a law firm founded in December 2003, headquartered in Mumbai, India offers business and legal solutions to clients worldwide. LawQuest will provide legal support to Bodhi Global in global immigration matters with emphasis on Indian, US and UK immigration through its founder Poorvi Chothani, who in turn will be assisted by a team of qualified and experienced lawyers, paralegals and other support staff. LawQuest is the sole correspondent to the law firm of Cyrus D. Mehta & Associates, PLLC, New York U.S.A., which has a practice focused on US Immigration and Nationality Law and a member of The European Association of Attorneys (AEA).

Poorvi Chothani, Esq., is an advocate, who graduated from the prestigious Government College, Mumbai and is licensed to practice law in India since July 1984. An LL.M. (University of Pennsylvania, USA) she is also admitted to practice law in the State of New York State. Poorvi has recently qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales. She began her legal career as a research assistant and later as a junior counsel with Rohit A. Kapadia, a senior counsel at the Bombay High Court and has gained law firm experience with Thakker and Thakker.

Poorvi is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is one of the founding members of the Rome Chapter of AILA formerly known as Group of American Immigration Lawyers Overseas Further, Poorvi is the only Indian invited to join The Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL) as a charter member. ABIL members seek to create a cohesive network of lawyers worldwide to provide integrated global immigration solutions.

She has contributed to the legal field in new areas such as immigration digital rights management, copyright in emerging technologies, data protection and privacy and financial services compliance by authoring numerous articles which have been published in several leading newspapers and reputed magazines and addressing august audiences both in India and abroad, receiving wide adulation and recognition.

Saradian Associates, Inc - Marketing Consultancy

Saradian Associates is working with Bodhi Global in marketing legal support services in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, and with a ten-year track record of servicing major corporate clients on both coasts, the firm specializes in management and marketing consultancies in the financial, health care, legal, real estate, media and insurance industries. Since 2002, Saradian has focused on facilitating the outsourcing of an array of legal and technical back-office processing services to India. Saradian Associates is comprised of Bijon Mishra and Deborah Bernick:

• Bijon Mishra, President & CEO: Bijon brings over twenty-five years' experience in the international financial services industry as a senior corporate officer at American Express, Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase. Bijon has started and brought to profitability a number of stand-alone subsidiary businesses for these corporations. His offshoring experience began when he created a major business processing facility (BPO) for Bank of America in Chennai, India. He has consulted with Wells Fargo Bank and led project management teams at Larsen & Toubro, Ltd., an engineering firm in Mumbai. Bijon is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
  
  
• Deborah Bernick, Executive Vice President: Deborah has consulted on marketing and business development strategies for legal, IT, real estate, and entertainment/media firms, and has served as an advisor to local and international health care, educational and arts institutions. With an extensive background in sales, human resources, financial development and new media (Internet) marketing, she has helped develop business outreach plans and networking entities for clients in the United States and India. She worked as a consultant and educational advisor in Mumbai and New Delhi for three years in the 1990's. A native New Yorker, Deborah is a graduate of Yale University and holds an MPH in health management from the Harvard School of Public Health.