In addition to his legal experience, Hozefa has some five years of experience in Silicon Valley's software industry. Upon moving to Silicon Valley, Hozefa led a software development team at Hyperion Solutions Corp., a medium-sized public company that builds enterprise software. After leaving Hyperion, Hozefa filled many different roles as part of the founding team of Interlace Systems, Inc., an enterprise software startup that was acquired by Oracle Corp. in October 2007.

Hozefa earned his J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law (in Chicago). While at Northwestern, Hozefa took several MBA-level business classes from the Kellogg School of Management, and concentrated his studies on corporate law and constitutional law. Also while at Northwestern, Hozefa worked at the Small Business Opportunity Center, a legal clinic organized to help nascent businesses retain transactional legal services at affordable rates. Finally, Hozefa worked on a pro bono criminal appeal before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (everything from research to drafting)--the success of this matter was partially responsible for the creation of the Federal Appellate Clinic at Northwestern. Hozefa earned his B.S. from the University of Florida, majoring in Computer Science and Chemistry.

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Sujal Shah -- Co-President
Sujal Shah is Counsel in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen LLP. His practice focuses on antitrust litigation and counseling, complex commercial litigation, and appellate matters. He has defended clients against allegations of Sherman Act and Clayton Act violations and represented clients seeking merger approval before the Department of Justice. He has also counseled clients as to the antitrust implications of joint venture agreements and vertical sales and distribution agreements. He represents clients in a broad range of industries, including microprocessors, flash memory, credit card processing, wireless communication services, telecommunications hardware and networking equipment, and medical residency programs.

In addition to his antitrust experience, Sujal has litigated breach of contract, fraud and trade secrets cases and has worked on appellate cases concerning products liability and regulated industries. He has also worked extensively on a number of pro bono matters, including representing an inmate on death row and challenging the scope of consular immunity with regard to wage and hour claims. Previously, Sujal was a teaching fellow at Columbia Law School.

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Sheena Wadhawan -- Vice President
Sheena Wadhawan graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2006 with a Public Interest Concentration. Sheena is committed to serving low-income communities and using her law practice to affect social change. Sheena spent over two years serving in the Oakland City Attorney's Neighborhood Law Corps where she combined community organizing with litigation to improve the quality of life in Oakland's most troubled neighborhoods. Sheena recently started her own practice focused on assisting low-income tenants and employees with housing and employment-related matters including defending against wrongful eviction, and wage and hour claims. In addition to the South Asian Bar Association, Sheena is an active member of the San Francisco and Alameda County Bar Associations, the East Bay Tenants Bar Association, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and the Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association. 
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Firasat Ali -- Secretary
Firasat is the Secretary and Co-Chair of SABA NC. He also has over a decade of experience in litigating, prosecuting, and counseling clients on intellectual property (IP) matters. His litigation experiences include serving as trial counsel in several high profile patent cases taken successfully to verdict both in Federal District Courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). His prosecution and portfolio management experiences includes preparing and prosecuting patents in a wide range of technologies, managing portfolios, supervising attorneys on prosecution matters, and managing IP issues for two Motorola divisions.

Firasat also has a deep technical background and has worked on legal matters involving civil litigation, licensing, monetization of patents, IP due diligence for mergers & acquisitions and strategic investments, IP asset assessment and valuation, and taxation of IP. He has also acted as primary counsel for companies and helped them with day-to-day corporate and IP issues.

Firasat frequently publishes and speaks on various IP topics. Some of his engagements include University of California Berkley's Boalt Hall School of Law, India-based Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, India, and Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India, and Motorola, Inc., where Firasat has taught several courses on topics relating to enforcement and thorough protection of intellectual property. Most recently Firasat started Creso Legal, a multi-practice firm with offices across United States that includes seasoned attorneys from reputable schools and law firms. Firasat's full bio can be viewed at www.CresoLegal.com. 
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Jishnu Menon -- Treasurer
Jishnu Menon is Legal Counsel for Adobe Systems Inc. in San Jose, California. His practice focuses around all aspects of product support, including compliance with laws, intellectual property counseling and licensing, for many of Adobe's Creative Suite products, which include award winning boxed software and cutting edge software as a service offerings. Prior to joining Adobe, Jishnu was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he provided legal guidance to a wide range of technology companies. He is an alumni of the U.C. Davis, King Hall School of Law.

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Nisha Agarwal 

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Megha Aggarwal
Megha Aggarwal graduated from Boston University School of Law in 2009. During law school, Megha was a member of the Gibbons National Moot Court Team and regularly judged in-house moot court competitions. She was also the Northeast Regional Representative for NASALSA.  After law school, Megha was a research assistant to a securities professor where she wrote a memorandum on Ponzi schemes and the legal issues and implications relating to the "claw-back" of investor's funds. She also explored the outcomes of congressional investigations into corporate fraud as a reason for the current recession.  Megha is currently working as a trial lawyer in the South Bay. 

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Sylvia Bains
Sylvia Bains practices in the Litigation and Corporate groups at the Santa Clara office of The Chugh Firm, APC. Sylvia received her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Davis. While at Santa Clara University, Sylvia served as the President of the South Asian Law Student Association.  Sylvia also served on the board of the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California as the Student Liaison.In addition to the South Asian Bar Association, Sylvia is also a member of the board of the South Asian Bar Association Foundation as the events co-chair.
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Nimish Desai is an associate in the San Francisco office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP.  His practice focuses on environmental and mass torts, consumer class actions, and federal and state false claims act statutes.  Nimish earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 2006.  Prior to law school, he earned a B.S. with high honors in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. with high honors in Plan II Liberal Arts from the University of Texas, Austin.  Nimish previously worked for the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program, Public Citizen, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources.  He has also published several articles, including "American Chemistry Council v. Johnson: Community Right to Know, But About What?" Ecology Law Quarterly, Winter 2006, and "Analysis of Motor Vehicle Emissions in a Houston Tunnel during Texas Air Quality Study 2000," Atmospheric Environment, 38, 3363-3372 (2004), and has contributed to a treatise on California class action practice.

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Veena Dubal
Veena Dubal is a Staff Attorney at the Asian Law Caucus. Veena joined the Caucus as a Berkeley Law Foundation Fellow in 2008 when she began a taxi project to address and remediate the labor conditions in San Francisco's largely immigrant taxi driver community. Currently, she also focuses on issues of civil rights in the context of national security, including racial profiling at the border, local law enforcement profiling, and FBI surveillance. Veena received the Northern California South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Attorney of the Year Award in 2009.

Prior to coming to the Caucus, Veena was on a Fulbright Scholarship in India where she completed Ph.D. research on access to justice and the legal aftermath of the anti-minority violence that swept the state of Gujarat in 2002. While in law school at the University of California at Berkeley, Veena served as a community activist working on issues of racism, imperialism and war through her capacity as volunteer coordinator at the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action. During the tenure of her joint J.D./Ph.D. program at Berkeley, she was awarded the Jurisprudence Award in Law and Middle Eastern Societies, the Critical Language Study Award for Hindi study, the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, the South Asian Law Student Association Scholarship for Community Organizing, the Adams Scholarship, and was Associate Editor of the Asian Law Journal. She has written widely on civil rights issues, and her community publications include, "The FBI Witch-hunt in Lodi," (co-written) and "Hum Kar Sakte Hain?" Veena received her B.A. with honors from Stanford University in International Relations with a minor in Feminist Studies.
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Suneeta Fernandes
Suneeta Fernandes is an associate in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen where she advises clients on various securities, intellectual property, and complex commercial litigation matters. She has also represented pro bono clients in cases ranging from asylum to habeas petitions. Suneeta received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and her B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.  While attending law school, she represented asylum seekers through the Bluhm Legal Clinic. She was also an active participant in the Northwestern University Center for International Human Rights, where she contributed to amicus briefs to international criminal tribunals. Prior to law school, Suneeta worked as a scientific associate, modeling emissions and their effects on global warming, and has published articles in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals.

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Suchitra Narayen
Suchitra Narayen is an Associate General Counsel with Oracle, supporting hardware engineering, the hardware supply chain and procurement. Previously, she was a Senior Legal Director with the Global Sales and Services legal group of Sun Microsystems, overseeing outbound sales, services and licensing transactions and general governance matters for the Emerging Markets region, which includes Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, India, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She joined Sun in 1999, initially supporting a number of product groups with respect to inbound licensing and product release issues. In addition to her legal role, Suchitra is a Certified Sigma Black Belt and Master Black Belt. She has also pioneered the use of offshore legal resources to enhance productivity and improve cost effectiveness. Suchitra is a Gold Medalist who received her LL.B from the University of Calgary and is admitted to practice in Alberta, Canada and California. Prior to joining Sun, Suchitra was a litigation attorney at Pettit & Martin and Coudert Brothers and the Managing Litigation Attorney at Acer America, where she handled complex M&A/restructuring matters in addition to IP, employment and commercial litigation.
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Sandeep Solanki
Sandeep Solanki counsel in the San Francisco office of O'Melveny & Myers LLP and a member of the Business Trial and Litigation Practice. Sandeep has represented clients in securities litigation, intellectual property matters, consumer and products liability actions, SEC proceedings, and general commercial litigation. He also has represented clients pro bono in immigration and civil rights cases. Sandeep received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

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Ginny Walia
Harjot "Ginny" Walia is the Founder/Managing attorney of The Walia Law Firm.  Ginny Walia started her career as a criminal defense attorney at the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender. She has been in private practice handling mostly criminal cases for more than 5 years. She has an extensive jury trial record, a competitive attitude and a willingness to fight for her clients. She has handled hundreds of criminal cases as a San Francisco Public Defender and in private practice. 

Federal criminal defense attorney, Ginny Walia has commented as an expert legal analyst and a forensics expert in well publicized, high profile criminal cases on national television channels.  She has commented as an expert legal analyst on Fox News, MSNBC, Court TV and KRON 4 on various shows including O'Reilly Factor, Scarborough Country, Fox News Live and Closing Arguments with Nancy Grace.  She has commented on the Scott Peterson Case, the Michael Jackson case, the Nancy Holloway case and the Duke University Gang Rape case.   
 
She holds a B.S. in Psychology from UC Davis and a J.D. with Honors Lawyering Program from Golden Gate University, School of Law. As an undergraduate, Ms. Walia tutored Calculus and Genetics to fellow undergraduates for several years at the UC Davis Learning Skills Center.