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Kannada Koota Liaisons

Liaisons
Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Mr. Yogesh Devaraj	California - North	Kannada Koota of N. California
Mr. Srinivas Bharadwaj	Minnesota	Sangeetha Kannada Koota
Mrs. Vasanthi Gowda	Chicago, Illinois	Vidyaranya Kannada Koota
Mr. Gopal Krishna	Virginia	Richmond Kannada Sangha
Mr. H.V. Krishnamurthy	Charelston, West Virginia	Mallige Kannada Balaga of Charelston
Mrs. Viji Pandit	Michigan	Pampa Kannada Koota
Mr. Shiva Prasad	New England	New England Kannada Koota
Shekhar Shastry MD.	Nashville	Nashville Kannada Koota
Mrs. Ramya Rajasekhar	Cleveland, Ohio	Kasturi Kannada Association of North East
Ramakrishna MD.	Arizona	Kannada Sangha of Arizona
Hiremath	Maryland	Kaveri Kannada Association
Mr. Raghava Reddy	Seattle, Washington	Rajkumar Kannada Koota
Dr. Ramamurthy	New Jersey	Triveni Kannada Sangha
Dr. Ram Bangalore	New York	New York Kannada Sangha
Dr. Bhanumathi	U.K.	Kannada Balaga
Prabhudev Basappa	Singapore and Malaysia
Mr. Ravi Kumar	Austin, Texas

Title	Name	Place
Convention Legal Advisor	Mrs. Bhavani Nirmal	FL

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FINANCE

Convention Chair:
    Budgeting:   Murali Acharya MD.
    Fundraising: G.M.Ramappa MD.

Finance Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Comptroller	K.V.Sundaresh MD.
Members	Jayadeva Chowdappa MD.
	Ramappa MD.
	Ravi Jagirdar MD.
	Dayan Naik MD.	New York
	Mr. Srinivas Murthy	Ohio
	Mr. Suresh	Maryland
	Ramakrishna MD.	Arizona
	Vasanthi Rao MD.	Houston
	Dr. Kudur Murali	Detroit
	Sampath Shivangi MD.	Missouri
	Mr. Jayaram	Illinois
	Muni Padman MD.
	Shankariah MD.
	Mr. Krishnamurthy	CA
	Mr. Basavarajar	Boston, MA
	Mr. Sampath Malur	New York

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PUBLIC RELATIONS

Convention Chair: Renuka Ramappa MD.

Publicity Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Mrs. Indira Sastry
Co-Chair	Keshava Babu MD.
Publicity Co-ordinator	Mrs. Sandhya Srinivasan
Members	Mrs. Ragini Dharmappa
	Mr. Prakash Joshi
	Mr. BSB Murthy
	Mr. Venkataramu
	Mr. Preetham Jain
AKKA Director & Liaison	Mr. M.Krishnamurthy	California

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Website Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Mr. Padmanabha Bedarahally
Co-Chair	Mr. Ramesh Gowda	Detroit
Members	Mrs. Veda Bhat
	Mrs. Veena Gowda
	Mr. Guruprasad
	Mr. Sudhindra Lambu
	Mr. Venkataramu

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Publications-Souvenir Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chairperson	Dr. U.B. Vasudev
Advisor	Nanjundaswamy, M.D
Members	Mr. Gopal Hegde
	Harish Hebbar MD.
	Lokesh Haravu MD.
	Dr. Mruthyunjaya, B.
	Narayana Murthy Rattehalli MD.
	Natarajan, G. MD.
	Ramanath Rao MD.
	Sreenath Belur MD.
	Umesh Janivara MD.
	Janardhana Swamy
Advisor	Mr. Harihareshwara

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Recognition and Awards Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Members	Murali Acharya MD.
	Keshava Babu MD.
	G.M. Ramappa MD.
	Renuka Ramappa MD.
	Mrs. Indira Sastry
	Mr. BSB Murthy

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CULTURAL COMMITTEE

Convention Chair: Mrs. Indira Sastry

Dance Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Kala Sheshadri MD.
Co-Chair	Mrs. Supriya Desai
Co-Chair (Local)	Mrs. Shailaja Satheesh
Members	Ms. Yamuna Rani	Houston
	Mrs. Nalini Mrutyunjaya
	Mrs. Suma Sunderesh
	Mrs. Lakshmi Umesh
	Mrs. Tara Bikasani

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Drama Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Mrs. Asha Badami Deshpande
Co-Chair	Mr. Sanjay Rao	Washington DC
Co-Chair (Local)	Mrs. Jhoola Sastri
Members	Mr. Shreedhar Deshpande
	Mrs. Sushila Gururaj	New York
	Swarna Lokesh MD.
	Prasanna Rayan MD
	Mrs Shruti Rayan
	Dr. Mruthyunjaya

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Music Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Veda Vyas, M.D.
Co-Chair (Local)
Members	Ms. Vijaya Bhat	Illinois
Members	Lavanya Dinesh
	Mr. Sateesh
	Vasundhara Iyengar MD.
	Radhika Ranganathan MD
	Jayachandra MD.
	Saraswathi Chandra
	Anuradha Vyas

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Literary Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Najundaswamy MD.
Co-Chair AKKA Ex-President	Mr. H.S. Jayaswamy	Chicago
Members	Mrs. Indira Sastry
	Mr. Prakash Joshi
	Mr. Sampath Mallur	New York
	Mr. Krishna Sastry
	Mr. Guruprasad Kaginele

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PROGRAMS AND EVENTS COMMITTEE

Convention Chair: Keshav Babu MD.

Stage and Audio Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair, Stage	Ashok Komarla, MD.
Co-Chair	Mr.BSB.Murthy
Chair, Audio	Mr.Raghu Deshpande
Members	Mr. Vijay Dasika
	Mr. Prakash G
	Mr. Vinod Jayaram Gowda
	Mr. Preetham Jain
	Mr. Ravi Kollegal
	Mr. Murali Minnah
	Mr. Sharanabasava Rajur	New England
	Mr. Yogish Rudramuniyappa
	Mr. Vallisha Shastry	Los Angeles, CA
	Mr. Venkataramu

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PARALLEL EVENTS COMMITTEE

Continuing Medical Education Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Sripad Rao MD.	New York
Co-Chair	Ashok Raj MD.
Local Chair	Narendra Sastry MD.
Members	Ravi Jagirdar MD.
	Jayanthi Margasahayam MD.
	Dayan Naik MD.	New York
	Sreenath Belur MD.
	Vasundhara Iyengar MD.
	Ganesh Chari MD.
	Dwarakanath MD.
	Vedantam MD.	Colorado
	G.M. Ramappa MD.
	Satish Babu	New York

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Alumni Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Mr. Mahesh Shivamallappa
Co-Chair, AKKA Director & Liaison	Mr. Krishnamurthy	CA
Members	Girish Shroff
	Bharati Pandit MD.
	Ram Prakash MD.
	Sridhar Sastry

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Women's Forum Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Padma Reddy MD.
Co-Chair	Mrs. Sandhya Srinivasan
Members	Geetha Hegde
	Mrs. Veena Ram
	Komala Nagbhushan MD.
	Mrs. Ponnamma Vasudev
	Mrs. Ratna Hebbar
	Mrs. Lata Acharya
	Mrs. Bhavani Nirmal

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Religious and Spiritual Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Sridhar Sastry
Members	Mrs. Revathi Iyengar
	Mr. Krishnamurthy Jois
	Mrs. Jyothi Srinath
	Mrs. Radha Chari

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Exhibits and Booths Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Jayadeva Chowdappa MD.
Co-Chair	Mr.Girish Budibetha
Members	Ben Nagaraj
Members	Dr. G.M.Ramappa
	Mr. Venkatappa Nanjundram	Richmond
	Mr.Ramesh Gowda
	Mr. Doddamane Prakash
	Mr. Venkataramu

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Business Workshop Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Murali Acharya
Co-Chair	Mr.Sathish Krishnamurthy
Members	Narayan Swamy
	Arathi Ramappa
	Sudhindra Lambu
	Shivaprakash	Boston
	Mr. Gopal Krishna	Richmond
	GuruPrasad
	Jayadeva Chowdappa MD.
	Mr. Ajay Singh
	Mr. Nagabhushan Begur
	Mr. Satish Naik

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Get To Meet Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Nalini Mruthyunjaya
Co-Chair	Mrs. Uma Jayaswamy	Chicago
Members	Ashvini Pandit
	Mr. Channiah
	Kausalya Komarla

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FOOD COMMITTEE

Convention Chair: Mr. Gopal Iyengar

Food Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Ganesh
Co-Chair	Shekhar Shastry MD.	Nashville, TN
AKKA Director & Liaison	Dr.Vishwamitra	Houston
	Mr. Ravi Margasahayam
	Rohini
	Mr. K.V.S. Sastry
	Mr. Shivakumar
	Mr. Yeshwant Kumar
	Mr. Mallikarjuna D.J.
	Mr. GuruPrasad
	Mr. Badrish Davanagere
	Ms. Amrutha
	Mr. Girish Budibetta

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Banquet
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	M.L. Narayan
Co-Chair	Naryan Ratehalli MD.
Members	Vijaya Basavaraj
	Mrs. Geetha Pallegar
	Mrs. Indira Sastry

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Transportation and Hospitality Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Mr. GuruPrasad
Co-Chair	Mr. Badrish Davanagere
Members	Mr. Siddarame Gowda
	Mr. Ravi Somanahalli
	Mr. Girish Dudibetha
	Mr. Ganesh Ramachandran
	Mr. Yeshwanth Kumar
	Mr. Suresh Bangalore
	Mr. Yeshwant Kumar

 

Decor Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Poornima Hebbar
	Swarna Chowdappa
	Uma Rattehalli
	Dr. G.M. Ramappa
	Prema Rao
	Amrutha
	Santhosh
	Annapoorna

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REGISTRATION COMMITTEE

Convention Chair: Mr. BSB Murthy

Registration Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Somashekhar Pallegar MD.
Co-Chair	Prema Rao
Members	Doddamane Prakash
	Mrs. Geetha Hegde
	Nagaratna Kempaiah
	Shantala Narasimha MD.
	Geetha Kumar
	Mrs. Anita Muthaiah
	Prasanna Rayan
	Mrs. Shoba Thondagere

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Convention Chair: Mr. Nagabhushan

Volunteer Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Mrs.Ragini Dharmappa
Co-Chair (Local)	Nagu Kempaiaha
	Veda Vyas MD.
	Geetha Kumar
	Padmaja Govindraj
	Shankariaha MD.
	Prakash Joshi
	Mahesh Shivmallappa
	Mr. Jayachandra
	Mrs. Veena Gowda
	Mrs. Anuradha Vyas
	Satish
	Vani Keshav

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Youth Forum Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Mr. Govindraj
Co-Chair
Members	Padmaja Govindaraj
	Ashwini Komrala
	Anup Mruthyunjaya
	Satyan Belur
	Mekhala Sastry
	Vaishnavi Ratehalli
	Rohini Komrala
	Sneha Lokesh
Fashion Show	Uma Ratehalli
Fashion Show	Lakshmi Shastry
Fashion Show	Rashmi Sridhar

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Reception Committee
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Chair	Renuka Ramappa MD.
Co-Chair	Ragini Dharmappa
Members	Rajini Vailaya
	Uma Ratehalli
	Nalini Mruthyunjaya
	Mrs. Sandhya Srinivasan
	Mrs. Indira Sastry

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AKKA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Title	Name	Place	Kannada Koota
Members	G.M. Ramappa MD.
AKKA Director	Mr. Amarnath Gowda	Detroit
	Murali Acharya MD.
AKKA Director	M. Krishanamurthy
	Sampath Shivangi MD
	Mrs. Sharada Rajanna
	M. Nagaraj MD.
	Dr. Kudur Murali
	Mr. Ramprakash
	Mr. Jayaram Mokshagundam