Raj Mehta, Founder & CEO
Raj Mehta brings a wealth of diverse experiences and a deep commitment to making a difference through cutting-edge technology, data science, and social impact initiatives.
Raj has work experience with leading neo-generation technology companies/startups, delivering turnkey Data Science/AI/ML projects for Fortune 500 companies.
Raj has deep quantitative skills and an analytical bent-of-mind, having won several prestigious math competitions (Qualified to Mathcounts Nationals, representing the State of Georgia, Qualified 4-times to the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), Nationally Top Ranked in AMC, etc.). Raj is an advanced professional chess player, having previously won the Georgia State Chess Championship.
Raj possesses advanced skills in AI and Data Science, having completed Google/Kaggle courses and FinTech course series by Wharton (Foundations & Applications of Financial Technology).
Raj is also the Founder & CEO of Fluid Ice Foundation (www.fluidice.org), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting financial inclusion and global social equity, reaching 10,000+ individuals in 50+ countries. Raj was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning journalist Ms. Jasmina Alston for Atlanta News First (CBS) for his community engagement/social impact (http://tinyurl.com/RajTVPressANF).
Additionally, covered in Forsyth County Newspaper (http://tinyurl.com/RajNewspaper).
Raj is also an accomplished Author (“SKope: The Social Kaleidoscope – Economics of Global Social Equity” – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL3C65GH).
Raj has coauthored/presented published research papers, and was invited to be the first and only high-school student speaker at an annual leading economics conference (American Council on Consumer Interests).
Raj also received the honor to be the only high-school student to be invited to join the Outreach and Membership Committee of the Association for Social Economics (ASE), a research organization and learned society, alongside renowned professors globally. ASE is part of the member network of the prestigious American Economic Association (AEA), the publisher of the world-renowned American Economic Review journal.
In his spare time, Raj enjoys pursuing his passion for Jazz music and the saxophone (having qualified twice to the prestigious & highly-selective Georgia Allstate Band). Raj is also an avid golfer and book reader.
Raj Mehta – Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI)
Subjects/Topics Taught (1-on-1 Session):
Virtual sessions conducted on Webex
Vijay Mani, Advisor
Vijay is the Banking and Capital Markets Leader for Deloitte South Asia. He has over 25 years of consulting experience spanning strategy, business planning, organizational transformation and M&A in India, as well as in Canada, the UK and South East Asia. Among other topics in banking and capital markets, he has significant experience in fintech solutions and related partnership models.
Vijay is also a founding team member of I_Imagine_India, an India-based philanthropic fund looking to empower non-government organizations and social entrepreneurs/pioneers in the field of education in India. I_Imagine_India’s goal is to enable small changes today in the field of primary/ pre-primary education, with the potential to deliver disproportionate learning outcome improvements over the longer term.
Vijay obtained an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (PGPX) and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter from the USA.
Vijay is an Advisor to the Fluid Ice Foundation in his personal capacity and not on behalf of Deloitte or I_Imagine_India.
Saiprasad Muzumdar, Advisor
Saiprasad ‘Zoom’ Muzumdar, is an experienced Senior Technology Leader in International Banking and Finance Sector. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and a Master’s degree in Management. He has worked across the globe for International Fortune 500 companies such as Unisys, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest Group. He has conducted sessions on Financial Wellbeing for more than a decade with a mission to enhance financial inclusion and financial wellbeing through Financial literacy.
Amit Pandit, Advisor
Amit is a qualified chartered accountant with over 25 years of experience in banking, financial services, capital markets, risk advisory services & financial education. He has experience in building a primary market distribution network, investment banking and handling HNI relationships. He has been involved in personal finance restructuring of many individual businessmen. He has helped many business and individuals for their financial requirements be it for loan arrangements or debt management or asset management. He served as a director of the largest coop bank in India for over 13 years and as a director of a listed company for over 5 years.
He is also associated as a visiting faculty with various business schools for over a decade and takes up subjects of Personal Finance Planning, Wealth Management, Mergers & Acquisitions & Corporate Valuation. He also takes corporate training programs for finance. He speaks at various platforms on various finance, audit and risk related topics including ICAI, BCAS etc. Amit looks after the business building, financial & investor education function at Trugrow.
Amit enjoys his reading, is passionate about his teaching, likes travelling and exploring new destinations and is an avid foodie.
