Maj B.V. Ramkumar
Maj BV Ram Kumar, Deputy Director (administration) at National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (Divyangjan), Secunderabad, an autonomous govt. organization having multicultural working environment and he is responsible for multi location administration/ management. He expertise in HR/Administration/Finance/Facilities Management, a fellow of APLP- USA and EWKLP -USA, and awardee of Senator Francis A Wong Leadership Award. He has retired as Major from Army and have vast experience of 18 years in personnel management under testing conditions.

Dr. Smita Awasthi - First Indian BCBA-D, Founder & Director, Behavior Momentum India
Dr. Smita Awasthi, Ph.D., BCBA-D, holds a Doctorate in Behavior Analysis and has 38 years of clinical experience, consulting and training more than 6000 people affected by autism and their families across India, Bangladesh, U.K., Oman, U.A.E and Nepal. She is the Founder and Clinical Director of Behavior Momentum India (www.behaviormomentum.com) established in 2010 to provide behavioral interventions. She has worked on capacity building, skilling therapists and mentoring students in latest technologies in autism intervention. She authored several paper and poster presentations in international scientific conferences in the last 14 years and has been an invited speaker at various conferences including ones by Queen's University Belfast and the Panteion University of Athens, Greece. She is the first Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) from India and has completed large research studies on inducing first instances of speech in children with autism as part of her Ph.D. dissertation. She is focused on parent empowerment and provides tele-health services to families in remote parts of India. She is the Program Director of the only BACB approved course in behavior analysis in India and has been recognized for her advocacy on evidence based services. Among other awards she also received the Governor's award for dissemination of autism in the State of U.P. in India in 2005 and the SABA award from the Association of Behavior Analysis International, U.S.A.

Manoj Sharma, Trustee, BMI Foundation
Manoj Sharma is a technocrat and a graduate in Metallurgy Engineering. He has 40 years of experience in the field of Engineering, Marketing and International Trade. Having worked with National & International clients, he started his own small scale manufacturing enterprise in 1991. Manoj has wide knowledge of International trade and marketing and works in close partnerships with firms in Switzerland and Canada. He has travelled widely across the globe and worked closely in European, US and Japanese Markets. He has been associated in the field of Autism from last 6 years, doing social services.

Sridhar Aravamudhan, Trustee, BMI Foundation
Sridhar Aravamudhan, B.E., PGDM, M.A, BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) is a mechanical engineering graduate and holds a postgraduate degree in management from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. After working in business development and operations management roles with leading transnational corporations like Pepsico, British Petroleum and Tech Mahindra for 22 years , to help his daughter on the autism spectrum, 8 years ago, he started learning Behavior Analysis. Mentored by Dr. Smita Awasthi, he started as a therapist working with other children with autism, went on to complete a Masters program in Applied Behavior Analysis with Autism Emphasis from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana,United states and became a BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Certificant number 1-12-12008 ) in 2012 . He works with Behavior Momentum India ( www.behaviormomentum.com) as a Consultant and Research Associate. He trains therapists and parents and believes that research drives practice excellence. He helps children on the autism spectrum acquire new skills, shapes socially appropriate behaviors and finds effective methods to address challenging behviors. He teaches Applied Behavior Analysis as a faculty in the Board approved course sequence in India to national and international students. His research interests include teaching conditional discriminations, Precision Teaching and articulation training and he has presented several research papers and posters in international and national conferences. He is also a past president of the Association for Behavior Analysis India.

Dr. R. Shilpa Manogna
Dr. R. Shilpa Manogna, has done her Ph.D in Special Education. She is working as Assistant Professor in Special Education Dept at National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (Divyangjan), Secunderabad, an autonomous govt. organization having multicultural working environment under administrative control of ministry of social justice and empowerment, Govt. of India. Her expertise areas are working on training for readiness of special educators for inclusive education.

Razia is a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) with over 18 years’ experience in the field of autism. She is the Center-in-Charge at Behavior Momentum India’s (BMI) Mumbai branch. She trains staff in basic behavioral principles, DTT, natural environment training, VBMAPP, skills assessments, data taking, data graphing, functional behavioural assessments and behavior plan implementation. She has experience in working with children between ages 2 years to 19 years. Razia has been involved with research at BMI and has presented posters at the 2017 ABA International conference at Denver and also presented original papers and posters at ABA India conferences between 2011 – 2016.