Jain Spirit 2004 06 No 19

Author(s): Jain Spirit UK
Publisher: UK Young Jains

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Manish Shah
Father to Bhavin and Sachin, two active boys keen to promote their culture, Manish has been a director of Jain Spirit since its inception. As director of Sigma Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest pharmaceutical wholesalers in Britain, Manish has brought his financial skills and business contacts to build this new charity. He attended the JAINA Convention in Cincinnati in July '03 as part of the Jain Spirit team. He travels widely for his business and charitable work and is keen to ensure that Jain Spirit goes to every Jain household. The only way to reach him is on his mobile as he is so busy!! But of course, he always has time for Jain Spirit.
Other Board Directors not featured here (but of equal value): Atul Dhanani, Deepak Haria,
Anant Shah, Manish Shah.
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Nilesh Shah
Spirituality is central to Nilesh's life. He believes that we should infuse our actions with spirit and provided our motives are sincere, success is bound to come. We may have to be patient, but nature will not take this away from us. As our new Finance Director, Nilesh is busy monitoring our systems and controls and a regular flow of cash and revenue to this unique global charity. By profession, he is a Chartered Accountant and runs a practice in Harrow, Ashmar & Co. Far from being a bean counter, Nilesh attaches value to intangibles like happiness, satisfaction, charity and empowerment. He loves reading Jain Spirit and regularly attends Jain classes. Privately, he is keen to share his personal experiences of the importance of ethical lifestyle with his friends and clients.
Falguni Patel
Our youngest and only female Director, Falguni Patel is getting used to answering the question - Are you Jain? The answer of course is that there are many Patels who are Jain and the surname does not necessarily define your religion! A graduate of University College, London and School of African and Oriental Studies, Falguni chairs our Editorial Committee and was a Guest Editor of Jain Spirit in 2003. She brings a different perspective as she has experience for working in professional charities. Currently, she does communications work for Save the Children, a large international development charity based in the UK. Falguni accomplished the Three Peaks Challenge last year, and would like to spread Jain Spirit to every corner of the world and help take it from strength to strength.
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You could be in this picture too. You could be part of this exciting Board and take Jain Spirit to new heights. We have 6-8 Board meetings a year and, ideally, you would need to be within close proximity to London to attend these Board Meetings; in addition, some time would need to be devoted to the affairs of this charity, outside the meetings. The role of the Non Executive Directors is that of strategic planning and supervision. Experience of charity work or community service would help, and so too would commercial experience.
If interested, please call our Chairman Anant Shah on 0207-3171418
or email: amp@meghraj.com