Staff
Vijay Desai
Executive Director
Vijay is a professionally certified executive project manager and the owner of Vermont-based Desai Management Consulting. Vijay’s training and experience, over 23 years, is a huge asset to the Technology for Tomorrow Board of Directors. His broad track record of success, on a global scale, in the areas of subject matter expertise, process and application development, change leadership and project management will prove extremely valuable for T4T and its growth into the 21st century.
Becky Holt
Program Manager
Becky brings her experiences in journalism, marketing, and nonprofit fundraising and communications to her teaching. She has facilitated storytelling workshops for several years, specializing in creating interactive learning opportunities for youth and adults. Becky is also an adjunct at Champlain College, teaching in the professional writing and business programs. She has a Bachelor’s of Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She lives in Burlington with her husband and daughter.
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Maliki LaForce
Program Manager
Maliki is a certified Scrum Master, receiving a lot of his certifications from dedicated work at Champlain College. He has a Bachelor’s in Game Production Management with a focus on digital marketing, in addition to certificates on Computer Animation and Web Design. His skillsets help to hone our digital outreach alongside refining our class selection to create a solidified brand for Technology for Tomorrow.
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Damien Royer
Program Manager
Damien is a certified Scrum Master, and project manager. He is a Bachelor of Science with a degree in Game Production Management from Champlain College, and has experience in team and stakeholder management. His skills gathered from working with project development teams, students, and consumers will help to fortify our relationship with the community, and strengthen the structure of Technology for Tomorrow.
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Board of Directors
Neel Desai
PRESIDENT & FOUNDER
Neel is the founder of Technology for Tomorrow. He started the organization with the hopes that he could help the older members of his community use technology to improve their lives. In addition to founding the organization, Neel has served in the office of Senator Patrick Leahy, and he is currently working for Profitwell in Boston as a Product Manager.
Mike Maslack
DIRECTOR
Mike is a 35-year veteran in management and IT consulting, including Business Transformation, Strategy and Change, and Enterprise Architecture. His experience extends to global projects and clients, in numerous high-technology industry areas, including electronics, automotive and biomedical. He is a patent holder in the area of Manufacturing Execution Systems, and brings both broad and deep knowledge and experience to the T4T team.
Scot Barker
DIRECTOR
Scot brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in operations and customer service to the T4T team. As a passionate leader, coach and mentor, he is inspired by curiosity and learning and is driven to bring that knowledge to everything he does. Scot has spent his career in industries as diverse as publishing, health care and e-commerce and has seen his work take him all over the world. Scot lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife and daughter.
Dipti Desai
DIRECTOR
Dipti is a 15 plus years veteran in the health care industry, with experience in a wide range of business process areas, IT implementations, and associated user training. She is a supporter of and participant in Technology for Tomorrow in a variety of roles since its inception. Her activities as a board member include participation in program and fund-raising sub-committees. She brings strong organizational, communication, and multi-cultural skills and experience to the board. Dipti has worked extensively to help integrate the role of volunteers into the organization. She is a proud wife and mother of two children, and is currently transitioning her career at the UVM Medical Center to a part-time role, which will allow greater T4T involvement.
Dipen Shah
DIRECTOR
Dipen is a software development leader with more than 19 years of industry experience focused on building large scale solutions to recognize customer value and building highly productive agile delivery teams in the financial services domain. He is currently working as Head of Data Engineering at Green Dot, a FinTech and registered bank holding company focused on making modern banking and money movement accessible for all. Dipen is a Computer Science graduate from India and has traveled to Singapore and Malaysia for work prior to arriving in the USA. Dipen is currently based out of Austin, Texas and lives with his wife and two daughters. With the passion for technology, he has joined the T4T board with the goal of replicating and extending the T4T mission to Texas and ultimately making it a scalable and sustainable organization across the rest of the USA.
Peter Sanschagrin
DIRECTOR
Peter is an IT professional leader with comprehensive experience, over 30 years, in eComm, financial institutions, pharmaceutical / healthcare, customer service and telephony industries. Skilled in managing global projects using cross functional teams based in the US and overseas. He has excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, planning and communication skills. Passionate with mentoring less experienced professionals and driven with making sure projects meet client requirements and are completed on-time and within budgets. Peter has a customer-centric management style which serves his clients well. He lives in Sun City West, Arizona with his wife.
Parag Bhuva
DIRECTOR
Parag is a veteran World History, Meditation and Human Geography teacher with over a decade’s experience of classroom teaching and mentoring. He’s passionate about creating equitable educational opportunities for all and believes content delivery is as important as the content itself. In order for it to be effective, education must be relevant, empowering, and adaptable to the student’s needs. He lives in Washington DC with his wife.