Leadership
Strong and knowledgeable members are fundamental to the effectiveness and success of any non-profit organization. The GT Foundation is comprised of skilled individuals who are effectively leading the organization now and into the future.
Vidya Ravichandran
President and Founder of GlowTouch, LLC
Vidya is deeply committed to ethical, enduring philanthropic causes and serves on several non-profit boards in education and the arts. She is a fierce advocate for STEM education, especially for women, and cares deeply about inequity in access to opportunities for women and minorities. Vidya was appointed by the Governor of Kentucky to serve on the Council for Post-Secondary Education, where she strives to improve access to educational and career opportunities for all Kentuckians, irrespective of their backgrounds.
Vidya and her family founded the GT Foundation in 2004. Its mission is to provide economically challenged families access to quality health services, educational assistance, and employment opportunities, and to promote arts and culture to improve the social, cultural, and economic foundations of society. The Foundation supports various impactful community programs in India and the U.S.
Hari Ravichandran
CEO and Founder of Aura
An engineer by training and an entrepreneur by nature, Hari has founded successful businesses focused on technology-enabled services and web security.
He was previously the Founder and CEO of Endurance International Group, a publicly traded global hosting company and email marketing company with more than 3,500 employees worldwide.
He was named one of Forbes magazine’s most powerful CEOs 40 and Under for 2014 and 2015.
Hari holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State and studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford.
Vik Chadha
CEO and Founder of Scalable Ventures
Vik Chadha is the co-founder of multiple high-tech startup companies, including Backupify, GlowTouch Technologies, Scalable Ventures, and Passion4art.
Backupify, Inc. is the leading cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solution for SaaS applications, including Google Apps, Office 365, and Salesforce. Nearly two million business customers rely on Backupify every day. It was acquired by Datto in 2014.
From 2001-2010, he served as Managing Director of the EnterpriseCorp in Louisville, where he managed a portfolio of over 100 client companies and helped them raise $120 million. He is involved in several community programs in education, skill development, and entrepreneurship.
Vik holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (major in Computer Engineering) from Virginia Tech.