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Pravin Shah's major publications are Jain Religion Book for Children (1984), Essence of World Religions (1994), Jain Fundamentals (1997), and The Book of Compassion (1999) co-authored with Mrs. Pramoda Chitrabhanu.
Mr. Shah is a committed vegan and has worked as an electrical engineer at IBM for 31 years.
PREM JAIN holds a B.E. with honors from BITS Pilani, India and a masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. He serves as vice president and general manager within the Enterprise line of business at Cisco Systems, where he is responsible for EVBU (Enterprise Voice Business Unit), EWTBU (Enterprise Wireless telephony Business Unit), WEdge BU (WAN Edge Business Unit), VSecBU (VPN & Security Services Business Unit) and METBU (Metro Services Business Unit). He has been instrumental in continuously growing the enterprise market segments, and maintaining Cisco's leadership position as it relates to WAN edge backbone routers, ATM switching products, Enterprise voice solutions and firewall equipment. Prem joined Cisco in 1993 as Director of Engineering when Cisco acquired Crescendo Communications. At Crescendo, Jain was vice president of systems architecture.
Prem Jain is committed to promote Jain values in the western world. He was President of Jain Milan, founder President of the Jain Center of Northern California, a VP of JAINA, the convener of the 1991 JAINA convention at Stanford, and is currently involved in the Bay Area Jain Bhavan project.
Jain's hobbies include skiing, hiking and playing Bridge. He is actively involved in volunteer work for non-profit organizations, fundraising for homeless and helping San Francisco Bay Area schools.
RAHUL SHAH: "Jai Jinendra! My name is Rahul Shah, and I'll be a second-year law student at American University in Washington DC. I'm originally from the Detroit area and grew up as a member of the Jain Society of Greater Detroit. I recently graduated with a B.A. from the University of Michigan, where I studied Political Science and Asian Studies. As an undergrad, I was active with Asian Pacific American and Indian American student organizations. After law school, I plan to pursue a career in immigration, civil rights and administrative/regulatory law." .
DR. ROBERTJ. DEL BONTÀ eared his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the History of Art. He is a remarkably well-rounded scholar and has to his credit over 60 research papers and various scholarly speaking engagements. He has served as curator for a variety of South Asian art exhibitions and has extensive teaching experience as well. He also conducts historical analyses of the opera and has written numerous published papers in that field.
Among the university courses Dr. Del Bontà has taught are “Buddhist Art in India and China”, sponsored by The Society for Asian Art, San Francisco (1982), and "Survey of Jaina art and architecture: painting, architecture, and sculpture" (1995). Art exhibits he has curated include Jainism: Religion of the Spiritual Victors at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (1994-95); Picturing
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