Board of Directors
Vaidehi Raut-Bhagat – President
Vaidehi is a patron of the arts and a successful businessperson, who balances the arts and business with great ease. She has a background in Business Management and a long work history in the hospitality industry in India, Hong Kong and Toronto. She has worked at the corporate level with many leading and flagship hotels across the globe.
Lincoln D’Souza – Vice President
Senior Manager, Chemicals Technology Division, is an award-winning manager who brings his corporate experience and tremendous passion and commitment to SAWITRI Theatre to assist with marketing and development.
Elizabeth Banfalvi
Community Outreach & Volunteer Coordination
Having worked in administration and in tax recovery Elizabeth has very strong administration skills. She worked for Deloitte & Touche LLP from 2002 to 2015 when she retired.
Stivan Sequeira – Treasurer
Stivan Sequeira is an accomplished finance and operations professional with extensive global experience in diverse industries like loyalty, outsourcing and shared services, manufacturing, advertising and marketing.
Medha Date – Secretary
An instrumentation and design engineer by profession, Medha is an Associate at Hatch, a leading engineering company in Mississauga. An outstanding and award-winning student of mathematics and physics, a trained vocalist and an accomplished theatre artist.
Anand Karia – Director -at-large
Anand Karia is a successful and visionary businessman originally from Gujarat, India. He is the President and CEO of Omnisoft Technologies Inc. in India and the President and Co-Founder of UCMAS Canada and USA, companies that have innovative after school child development programs for children ages 4 to 13 years, using mental math and the abacus.