2011 SABA-DC Board of Directors

A.J. Dhaliwal 
President

A.J. Dhaliwal is a Regulatory Attorney in the Washington D.C. office of BuckleySandler LLP.

Kavitha Babu 
Executive Vice-President and Counsel

Kavitha Babu is a trial attorney with the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Department of Justice, Civil Division. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from the University of Illinois.

Jaya Saxena 
Vice-President of Programming

Jaya Saxena is a Senior Field Associate at Families USA, a national nonprofit organization focused on ensuring high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

Milan Dalal
Vice-President of Communications

Milan Dalal currently serves as Legislative Director for a senior Democratic congressman, where his portfolio includes Financial Services and Armed Services issues..

Shuchi Batra
Vice-President of Finance

Shuchi Batra is an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation, where her practice focuses primarily on ERISA, and labor and employment litigation.

Aarti Shah 
Secretary

Aarti Shah is currently employed at a leading
biotechnology company. She focuses on healthcare policy and regulatory issues facing the biotechnology industry.

Hardeep Grover
Newsletter Editor-in-Chief

Hardeep Grover has most recently been working with start-up wineries and breweries in the San Francisco Bay area.  As outside counsel for the Entourage Wine Group and Evolve Wines, he advised and acted on issues ranging from trademark protection, to market recognition, and TTB licensing.

Puneet Arora
General Director 

Puneet Arora is an employee benefits attorney with the National Office of Employee Plans, Rulings & Agreements, a part of the IRS’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division (TE/GE) in Washington D.C.

Ajay Gohil
General Director

Vamsi Kakarla
General Director

Vamsi Kakarla is counsel in the Intellectual Property Department in the Washington, D.C. office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Rashi Mittal 
General Director

Rashi Mittal is an Antitrust Litigation and Federal Regulation attorney, working in the Washington D.C. office of a national law firm, Mintz Levin.

Neal Shah
General Director

Neal Shah is an analyst for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he has worked on implementing key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Moh Sharma
General Director

Moh Sharma is an APAICS (Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies) Fellow working for a Democratic Congresswoman.

Habib Ilahi 
Immediate Past-President

Habib Ilahi is Counsel at the law firm of Schertler & Onorato, L.L.P, where his practice focuses on white collar defense, government investigations, and securities litigation.