He serves on a variety of boards, commissions and advisory groups, including the Connecticut Institute for the 21 st Century, Connecticut Planning Commission for Higher Education, Connecticut Campus Compact, Connecticut Convention and Sports Bureau, Connecticut Employment & Training Commission, the Sea Research Foundation’s President’s Council, and the Stamford Partnership. Bruhl has been a frequent consultant, writer, and speaker on the subjects of the relationship between education and economic competitiveness, leadership network development, economic issues and trends, and workforce development. The organization has gained a national reputation for its work in transportation, education, workforce development, support for entrepreneurship and health care policy. The Business Council leads private sector involvement in developing public policy that promotes economic growth in Fairfield County and is the vehicle for a network of business leaders to work cooperatively to strengthen their enterprises and their communities. He also worked as a systems analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, during the early years of the company.Ĭhris Bruhl is the president and chief executive officer of The Business Council of Fairfield County, a private, non-profit corporation.
He worked as Research Assistant (Computational Fluid Dynamics) at Imperial College, London. Later he obtained MS and PhD, both in Computer Science, from University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. He holds a B Tech (Mechanical Engg) and M Tech (Computer Science) from IIT/Kanpur. He has published extensively in the areas listed above. At IBM he has received Research Division Awards, Research Commercialization Award, an IBM Consulting Group Engagement Excellence Award, a Technical Group Award and an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. The technique was used in a number of engagements with a range of businesses. Over his last decade at IBM, he worked extensively on conceiving, developing, practicing and evolving the “business artifact” approach to building Business Operation Models. His research at IBM spanned a broad range of areas, including Parallel Processing Architectures and Database Machines, Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Reasoning, and Operational Business Modeling and Business Design. Watson Research Center for over three decades as Research Staff Member. Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Entrepreneurship and a member of the Business advisory Council of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, India.Īshok Vasudevan graduated in Agricultural Sciences from Bangalore, and post graduate degrees at Bajaj Institute of Management in Bombay and the Harvard Business School.ĭr.Member of the Chairman’s Circle of the US-India Business Council,.Director on the Board of The Fairfield County Business Council.He is involved in several non-profit organizations in India and the US including: He received Pepsi’s prestigious MVP award in 1991.īefore joining Pepsi, Ashok spent 10 years with Unilever in various functions that included Management Development, Sales & Marketing and International Business Prior to Tasty Bite, Ashok headed the India desk of Pepsi World Trade in Somers, New York. ×Īshok Vasudevan is Co-founder & CEO of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite and a range of other natural, ethnic and specialty foods sold in major supermarkets globally. Meera has a Bachelors in English with post-graduate qualifications in Marketing from the University of Madras and INSEAD, France. She has served on some non-profit boards in the US, and is currently on the board of the United Way of Western Connecticut. She worked on a number of entry strategies for global brands looking to enter the Indian market and on national social research projects for UNICEF. After nearly a decade there, Meera co-founded India’s first specialist and largest qualitative research firm, Quantum Market Research.
Meera began her career in market research at MARG (Marketing & Research Group), India. Meera also co-founded ASG-Omni a US and India based consulting firm involved in the design and execution of entry strategies for large US corporations looking to do business in India. Meera Vasudevan is Co-founder of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite, a range of natural, ethnic food sold in major supermarkets around the world.
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