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| Ravi Sakhuja Receives 2012 Alumni Leadership Award |
Press Release
07/11/2012
B.Tech MechE, 1966
Ravi has been an exemplary leader of the Indian community in Massachusetts and the United States. He led the Indian American Forum for Political Education, especially through the troubled post 9/11 time period, was elected its National Chair in 2006, and initiated the first nationwide Political Internship program for Indian-American college students. He was elected as a member of Lexington (MA) School Committee in 2006, and has served on the Board of Trustees of UMass, Lowell. Ravi is currently a business consultant with Apex Enterprises focusing on energy efficiency and alternate energy solutions, and is a mentor for MIT and Boston University's Venture Mentoring Service. Ravi was the founder and CEO of Tecogen for a period of 13 years. The company pioneered the design and manufactured commercial co-generation and ultra-low emission gas fired air conditioning systems. Tecogen was spun off from Thermo Electron where Ravi worked for 14 years. He is currently engaged in getting IITK alumni involved with social projects to help improve the lot of Indians at the bottom of pyramid. Ravi earned a doctorate and a master’s degree from MIT, and a BTech (ME) from IIT Kanpur.
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