Leadership
Leadership
Board of Trustees / Managing Committee
The Managing Committee / Board of Trustees of the Hope Foundation and Research Centre (Hope Foundation) have the ultimate responsibility for directing the activities of the Trust / Society as well as its educational and research institutions, ensuring they are well run and delivering the outcomes for which they have been set up.
Academic & Research Advisory Board
The main objective of the Academic & Research Advisory Board of the Hope Foundation and Research Centre (Hope Foundation) is to provide strategic and external inputs on issues of key importance to its educational and research institutions. This would enable them to grow towards achieving their envisioned short term and long term goals and help contribute effectively to the strategic development of the institutions and propose means to strengthen the academic and research associations among the community.
Some of the broad roles of the Academic & Research Advisory Board of Hope Foundation include:
- Recommend strategies that may be employed to achieve the goals of the educational and research institutions and offer guidance on existing and proposed academic programmes and research
- Advise on priorities, directions and new avenues for education, research and outreach and propose ways to maintain strong relations with the community and to establish effective institutional associations
- Assist the institutional activities obtain financial support for its initiatives and to identify research funding opportunities
- Provide a connection to potential internships / training opportunities for students, employment opportunities for graduates and to potential research and service opportunities for the Faculty and recommend ways to improve and develop the training and skill oriented programmes offered by the institutions in order to meet the human capital needs of the country
- Help in sustaining and enhancing the reputation of the educational and research institutions of Hope Foundation

Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar


Mr. Nanik Rupani

Dr. Nitin Karmalkar

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan

Mr. S. G. Raheja

Dr. Aditya Abhyankar

Dr. Srikanth Thiagarajan

Dr. Sujata Naik

Mr. Sameer Dua

Mr. Rajiv Vaishnav

Mr. Narendra Goidani

Mr. Bharat R. Agarwal

Mr. Abhay Nevagi

Mr. Dinanath Kholkar
Dinanath Kholkar is a distinguished Professor of Practice, board member,
Leadership
Founder President

Remembering Late Shri Pralhad P. Chhabria
12.03.1930 – 05.05.2016
FOUNDER PRESIDENT – HOPE FOUNDATION
Biography
There’s is No Such Thing as a Self-Made Man – Pralhad P. Chhabria
ACADEMIC & RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL
National Research Professor & President, Global Research Alliance, NCL
Chairperson

Director & Professor, CoEP, Pune
Member

Chairman Emeritus, Priyadarshni Academy
Member

Dean – Faculty of Technology Professor & Head, Dept. of Technology, Savitribai Phule Pune University
Member

Chairman, S Raheja Realty Pvt Ltd
Member

Chairman, Executive Chairman and Founder – 5F World and Chairman – Global Talent Track
Member

Founder, Institute for Generative Leadership
Member

Chairperson, Tolani Shipping Company Limited
Member

Senior Algorithms Engineer, Philips Connected Sensing
Member

Head – Ecosystem & Partnerships Development, GenNext Hub, a Reliance Enterprise
Member

Founder, Life School
Member

Leadership
Managing Committee
President & Founder Member

Member & Trustee

Member & Trustee

Vice President & Trustee

Member & Trustee

Member & Trustee

Member & Trustee
