The Indus Entrepreneurs Houston Chapter has announced that Dr. Arun Pasrija, will be its new TiE Houston President succeeding John S. Reale, Jr.,. who will remain on the Board of Directors.
“I am proud to take on this role to continue the progress made under JR and Aruna Viswanathan’s leadership”, stated Pasrija. “I hope to build on TiE’s strong foundation to strengthen Houston’s entrepreneurship ecosystem by bringing value of the TiE global network to Houston. I look forward to working with our dedicated membership base across our local and global organization, working collaboratively with other like-minded organizations and welcome new members to help us fulfill our mission.”
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Pasrija is the CEO and co-founder of CHR Solutions, a billing software, IT services, and telecom engineering company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Prior to this he had over 15 years of broad experience at AT&T / Lucent and L-3 Communications in various executive-level roles in both domestic and international markets.
Pasrija has been a TiE Houston Charter Member since 2001, on its board for the last 5 years and was actively involved with TiE global community attending to several TiE Global retreats in the past few years.
“’Leader’ is the first word that comes to mind when thinking about Arun,” said Reale, the co-founder and CEO of Station Houston. “His commitment to the organization, its members and the community has been consistent and exemplary throughout the years. I am excited for TiE’s future and our ability to continue our support the growth of our local startup and entrepreneurship community.”
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TiE Houston has also announce that Ana Rojas Bastidas will be the new Executive Director of the chapter. She has 12 years of corporate experience in the human resources, recruitment, and training, that is a recent transplant to Houston from South Florida and had been volunteering for TiE Houston for last six months.
“The energy of the Houston entrepreneurial community is boundless and I feel so fortunate to be able to use my talents and experience to help drive that force here in TiE Houston with support from TiE global. I am looking forward to planning and participating in all the initiatives we have planned for 2017 and beyond.” says Rojas.
By Premji
