A window seat

Bhaveeni Parmar is an electrical engineer, intellectual property lawyer, entrepreneur, experienced general counsel & tech-savvy business advisor with a keen eye for spotting hawks and bald eagles! Just like the 2020 Democratic VP candidate, Kamala Harris, Bhaveeni’s maternal grandfather also migrated from India to Rhodesia (now Zambia)!   During an extended conversation, with host Raj Menon in July 2020, Bhaveeni recalled the many interesting transitions in her life over the years... from Zambia to Florida, and through California, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire, to Texas and Ohio.  Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did! Please be sure to "like," "subscribe," to the podcast so you'll be notified of future episodes. Please feel free to forward a link to your friends, and do send in your comments, suggestions and feedback.   You can even send in a voice message with your comments by visiting: http://anchor.fm/awindowseat/message

July 2020 - Host Raj Menon speaks with Sundy Srinivasan, a senior oil and gas industry executive who currently serves as COO of Zentech. He is an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and has an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is also the president of the Pan-IIT alumni association in the US. We spoke about his journey from Delhi to Houston via Paris, Boston and many other places.

July 2020 - Host Raj Menon speaks with Debjani Biswas, founder and CEO of Coachieve, LLC, and “Exclusion Exterminator “and “Inclusion Catalyst.” She is a Chemical Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and is also an alum of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. An internationally best selling author and speaker, she is also a 2X TEDx speaker.

A former Mobil Oil executive and former CEO of Reliance E&P in the US, Srinivas (Benne') Bette is now CEO of Quasitum and an investor and mentor to many companies and individuals. In this candid conversation with host Raj Menon, Benne discusses the serendipitous decision to apply to IIT, his meeting with Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, and being inspired by his mother.

Podcast host Raj Menon speaks with a very successful IIT and IIM alumnus, former Singapore based CEO of HSBC Private Bank in SE Asia, and current Fellow of the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University, Amit Gupta, about family, travel, his impressions of the US, and Singapore, the "secret" of his success, and about how his definition of success has changed over time.