NEXSA ACHIEVERS

Alok Sudarshan Desai

Batch: 1981
Academic background & current occupation
B.Com. (Honours) in Marketing; MBA (Marketing) from S P Jain, Mumbai. Founder and CEO of Aadharshila Communications Pvt Ltd (Brand Advisory Consultancy and Graphic Design Studio) and Ela Productions Pvt Ltd (Film Production House).
www.aadharshila.com | www.ela.co.in
  
Significant professional milestones and benchmark
Over 30 years expertise and professional experience in Brand Management, Marketing Communications, Advertising, Graphic Design and Film Making for the Corporate Sector as well as NGOs and Institutions for domestic as well as overseas clients.
Visiting Faculty at MICA, M S University MBA Program, GMCS Course at ICAI. Life Member and Past President, Baroda Management Association. Active Rotarian, taking key posts at club and district levels. Life Member and Past President, Navrachana Ex Students Association.
  

Dipna Patel

Batch: 2006
Academic background & current occupation
Fashion and Apparel graduate from NIFT, Gandhinagar Diploma from New York Film Academy, NY(scholarship) Certified Image Consultant From ICBI Currently Working as an actor for a tv show Called Shubhaarambh for Colors channel with one of the best tv production houses.
She has also been performing in theatre productions across India and abroad since 2013.
Significant professional milestones and benchmark
She has been the Winner of Femina Style Diva Pageant 2012. She was crowned the 2nd Runner Up at the I AM SHE – Miss Universe India 2012 and was trained under Miss Sushmita Sen. She got a scholarship to study at the prestigious New York Film Academy in New York. She played the lead character in her in her first movie ‘Gujjubhai The Great’

HIRAL M AMIN

Batch: 2001
Academic background & current occupation
BE CIVIL (M S UNIVERSITY) Senior Engineer in MNC (Post tension Services Gujarat PTSG). We design Parking Garages and Multi family residents of USA which includes wood as well as light gage . (known as smart steel in India.) Also involved in Post tension design which is now very famous in India. Shop drgs of light gage structures of USA.
Significant professional milestones and benchmark
From 2007 to till now almost 13 years I have been a part of this company. Also visited USA in 2017 and stayed there for 3 months for future expansion and further training.

Lipsa Acharya

Batch: 2011
Academic background & current occupation
HSC.Choreographer in the indian films and television industry
Significant professional milestones and benchmark
She has been working as a Choreographer for the past 8 years for various reality shows like Super dancer, Dance India dance, Dance plus etc. She has been an assistant Choreographer for various music videos, ads and film songs and now has started choreographing independently for movies. Her first movie being 2019 film Saand ki Aankh.

Mayur Thakkar

Batch: 1992
Academic background & current occupation
BE civil from MS University. Baroda. Currently heading my own real estate development and PMC firm – catering to Hospitality, Institutional and Residential segment. Turnkey solutions in Civil Engineering.
Significant professional milestones and benchmark
With almost 23 years of experience and eye for detail and passion for the subject, he has been instrumental in developing some bench mark projects in Hospitality and Residential segment.

Prineet Grewal

Batch: 2005
Academic background & current occupation
An ideal way to describe Prineet is ‘Beauty with Brains’- always academically inclined Prineet did her MBA from Symbiosis Pune, one of the top institutes in the country. She easily transcends from the fashion industry to the corporate world, where she currently works as an HR Manager in john Deere Pune.
Significant professional milestones and benchmark
Prineet Grewal was crowned the winner of the prestigious beauty pageant Mrs India Earth 2016-17 at Delhi amidst members of Bollywood and of the fashion industry. She was also conferred with the prestigious “Pride of Gujarat” award in 2017 and ‘Indian Personality of the year’ by Christ College Chennai to mention few. She’s also a Fashion coach and mentor for Design institutes like NIFD and Times and Trends Academy

Sangeeta Mudnal

Batch: 1990
Academic background & current occupation
B.E. Electrical Engg, MS University, Vadodara. Diploma in Computer Science, Aptech Master’s in Electrical Engg from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Current Occupation: Since May 2020, she is Vice President at Crown Castle, one of the largest telecommunications infrastructures and fiber solutions company in USA. In her previous experience, she spent 21 yrs at Microsoft in various Product and Engineering leadership roles.
Significant professional milestones and benchmark
Sangeeta Mudnal is a creative product leader known for devising innovative solutions and strategies, with expertise in software application development, AI technologies and customer experience excellence. As the Vice President at Crown Castle, she is driving customer experience excellence strategy for the entire company. In her 21 years at Microsoft, she was awarded 5 Gold Star performance awards

She has mentored people to help them grow to senior levels in companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook. She was given the South Asian Women Empowerment Hero

Lt Col Harin Mankad

Batch: 1992
Academic background & current occupation
BE (Mechanical) from MSU of Baroda.

Serving in the Indian Army as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Significant professional milestones and benchmark
Joined the illustrious Indian Military Academy in 2006 and got commissioned into the Corps of Engineers.

Currently posted at Delhi, in the Ministry of Defense.

Served in various field formations in deserts, Kashmir, North East, and with the National Security Guard (NSG).