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Peter Burgess

Ajit Jhangiani 1st Ajit Jhangiani Serving those who serve others. Advisory services relating to CSR, Social Enterprise, and Philanthropy. Greater Boston AreaManagement Consulting Current Ajit Jhangiani Previous LAH Estate, Jackalope Pottery and Rugs Rugs, Hearing Health Institute Education Harvard Business School 350 connectionsSend a messageMore options www.linkedin.com/pub/ajit-jhangiani/10/a80/82a/ Contact Info Background Summary Experienced understanding of complex situations. Passionate about enterprises, profit and non profit, that include social objectives. Multicultural and diverse enterprise, including personal, advisory experience. Specialties: Getting from objective to execution efficiently, bringing enterprise management to non profits, assisting efforts that are on cutting edge of innovation, analyses of investments, compassionate approaches. Experience Propietor Ajit Jhangiani January 2006 – Present (7 years 11 months)Greater Boston Area Observe, learn from, and sometimes even have the opportunity to assist :), socially oriented for profit and non profits in the US and NGOs in India, with strategy. Areas include education, skill development, health, conservation, social justice, and investment analyses. Friendly advice, coaching, and strategy formulation, for those individuals and organizations that are looking to make a positive social contribution to the less fortunate, and to good young folks just starting off in this field. Executor LAH Estate October 2002 – June 2006 (3 years 9 months) • Successfully managed investments, business operations, and partnerships. • Profitably optimized values within fiduciary guidelines. • Positive interaction with attorneys, beneficiaries, and IRS. • Selected and hired many professionals as needed Propietor Jackalope Pottery and Rugs Rugs January 1986 – June 2006 (20 years 6 months) • Propietor Specialty Retail and distribution. Purchased Jackalope, a specialty retail operation in decline. Started Rugs Rugs and Decor, another specialty store. profitably grew both amid growing competition. . • Developed and organized sourcing from small town artisans in Mexico and India. Executive Director Hearing Health Institute March 1988 – December 1988 (10 months) • Reorganized and managed this non-profit startup group, provided free hearing checkups to seniors and to children • Defined and developed concepts for other healthcare-related businesses. Broker and analyst Josphthal & Co. September 1987 – June 1988 (10 months) • Assessed individual client situations and developed trading strategies. • .Searched for, interviewed, and analyzed companies to invest in. • Studied movements in capital markets and developed contacts in the field Controller Net Properties Management 1979 – 1980 (1 year) • Part of team that managed $200M nationwide portfolio of income producing real estate for a trust. • Organized sale of some assets. Involved with recapitalization. Sales Territory Manager Midwestern Nurseries 1976 – 1978 (2 years) • Developed Eastern Seaboard market for this startup and grew sales. • Hired and trained two trainees to take over. Pier 1 ImportsAssistant to President Pier 1 Imports September 1972 – April 1976 (3 years 8 months) •Developed new departments and new performance measures. •Worked with acquisitions and divestitures, organization changes, and buying. •Served as Personnel and Training Director after acquisition of Wolfe Nurseries. •Involved with International Operations Skills & Expertise Most endorsed for... 25Start-ups 21Strategy 15Management 10Training 9Nonprofits 6Coaching 6Mergers & Acquisitions 5Entrepreneurship 5Business Strategy 4Mergers Ajit also knows about... 4Sales 4Investments 3Human Resources 3Business Planning 2Leadership 2Leadership Development 2Real Estate 2Financial Analysis 1Management Consulting 1Enterprise Software 1Non-profits 1Strategic Planning Education Harvard Business School Harvard Business School MBA, General Management 1968 – 1970 University of Nevada-Reno BS, Mechanical Engineering 1964 – 1967 Additional Info Interests Coaching young Social Entrepreneurs. Assisting CSR efforts by Corporations and any other efforts thathave a social objective.. Recommendations Given (3) Peter, would you like to recommend Ajit? Recommend Ajit Joe Daley Joe Daley Chapter Chairman Joe understands the complexities of the situation expediently and provides sound and simple solutions July 30, 2013, Ajit worked directly with Joe at SCORE Cindy Pope Cindy Pope Office Assistant Cindy always has a warm and welcoming attitude toward everyone, responsibly gets all the work done with no detail spared, is quite comfortable with computers, and ready to take on any task that needs to get done. August 4, 2011, Ajit worked directly with Cindy at SCORE Counselors to Americas Small Business Sasha Grinshpun Sasha Grinshpun Career Coach and Alumni Club officer 'Sasha has an amazing ability to respond appropriately to multiple, varied, and demanding diversity of people and questions from a professional crowd. Energetic, knowledgeable, she can be simultaneously humorous and candid in a way that makes for a very powerful workshop. She's a masterful networker, in the most authentic way imaginable, and help others achieve that goal....more March 30, 2010, Ajit was with another company when working with Sasha at Harvard Business School See More ConnectionsShared (3) Bhakti MirchandaniBhakti Mirchandani1st Senior Vice President at One William Street Capital Pankaj UpadhyayPankaj Upadhyay1st Special Projects Executive at European Care Group Linda Thomson ClemLinda Thomson Clem1st Executive Director at MicroLoan Foundation USA PreviousNext Groups Community Action Partners of Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Boston Community Action Partners of Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Boston Join Global Engineering Education Excellence Global Engineering Education Excellence Join Harvard Business School Alumni (Official) Harvard Business School Alumni (Official) Join Harvard India Conference Harvard India Conference Join Impact Investing Forum Impact Investing Forum Member Impact Investment & Social Enterprise Development -- Mojalink Impact Investment & Social Enterprise Development -- Mojalink Join Merrimack Valley Sandbox Merrimack Valley Sandbox Join On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs Join Following Management Consulting 635,597 followers Following Al Mada for Managing Financial Crises Management Consulting Follow Schools Harvard Business School Greater Boston Area