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Mint
4 days ago
- Business
- Mint
Who is Anjali Sud? Indian-origin CEO of Tubi replaces Mark Carney on Harvard Board
Anjali Sud, Indian American CEO of Tubi, who recently took over as Harvard University's Board of Overseers, replacing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, is in the spotlight. The 41-year-old former chief executive officer of Vimeo has been appointed to the prestigious leadership role at Harvard's second-highest governing body and will serve a two-year term beginning from May 30, 2025. The development comes days after former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney stepped down from the Harvard Board after being elected leader of the Liberal Party. Sud is joining the board at a time when disagreements between the University and the Donald Trump administration have escalated. Notably, the Board of Overseers plays a crucial role in assessing the institution's academic programmes, advising university leadership and overseeing external reviews of various departments and schools. Anjali Sud was born in 1983 to Punjabi immigrant parents in Michigan's Detroit. Raised in Flint, she is an alumna of Harvard University. The Harvard election website describes Anjali Sud as an 'influential technology and media executive who has served since 2023 as CEO of Tubi, a free TV and movie streaming service with nearly 100 million monthly active users.' At the age of 34, she was listed as one of Fortune's 40 Under 40 rising business leaders in 2018. Designated as Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Hollywood Reporter's 'Most Powerful Women in Hollywood, Anjali Sud lives in New York and is a mother of two boys - Saavan and Deva.
Mint
4 days ago
- Business
- Mint
Who is Anjali Sud? Indian-origin CEO of Tubi who replaces Mark Carney on Harvard Board
Indian American CEO of Tubi - Anjali Sud, who recently took over as Harvard University's Board of Overseers, replacing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, is in the spotlight. The 41-year-old former Chief Executive Officer of Vimeo has been appointed to the prestigious leadership role at Harvard's second-highest governing body and will serve a two-year term beginning from May 30, 2025. This development comes days after former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney stepped down from the Harvard Board after being elected leader of the Liberal Party. This latest appointment comes at a time when disagreements between the University and the Donald Trump administration have escalated. Notably, the Board of Overseers plays a crucial role in assessing the institution's academic programmes, advising university leadership and overseeing external reviews of various departments and schools. Anjali Sud was born in 1983 to Punjabi immigrant parents in Michigan's Detroit. Raised in Flint, she is an alumna of Harvard University. The Harvard election website describes Anjali Sud as an 'influential technology and media executive who has served since 2023 as CEO of Tubi, a free TV and movie streaming service with nearly 100 million monthly active users.' At the age of 34, she was listed as one of Fortune's 40 Under 40 rising business leaders in 2018. Designated as Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Hollywood Reporter's 'Most Powerful Women in Hollywood, Anjali Sud lives in New York and is a mother of two boys - Saavan and Deva. Before Board of Overseers elections, Anjali Sud said, 'My parents came to this country to give me a shot at the American Dream. I achieved that dream through the power of a transformative education, and I want to pay it forward for the next generation. Harvard has both the opportunity and imperative to define the future of higher education at a time of existential change. I would be honored to help Harvard navigate that change and enable creative transformation.'
The Hindu
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Indian-American Faizan Zaki overcomes shocking, self-inflicted flub to win Scripps National Spelling Bee
Indian-American Faizan Zaki's enthusiasm for spelling nearly got the better of him. Ultimately, his joyful approach made him the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The favourite entering the bee after his runner-up finish last year, during which he never misspelled a word in a conventional spelling round, only to lose a lightning-round tiebreaker that he didn't practice for, the shaggy-haired Faizan wore the burden of expectations lightly, sauntering to the microphone in a black hoodie and spelling his words with casual glee. Including Faizan, whose parents emigrated from southern India, 30 of the past 36 champions have been Indian American, a run that began with Nupur Lala's victory in 1999, which was later featured in the documentary 'Spellbound.' Lala was among the dozens of past champions who attended this year and signed autographs for spellers, families and bee fans to honour the anniversary. Throughout Thursday (May 29, 2025) night's finals, the 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, looked like a champion in waiting. Then he nearly threw it away. But even a shocking moment of overconfidence couldn't prevent him from seizing the title of best speller in the English language. With the bee down to three spellers, Sarvadnya Kadam and Sarv Dharavane missed their words back-to-back, putting Faizan two words away from victory. The first was 'commelina,' but instead of asking the requisite questions — definition, language of origin — to make sure he knew it, Faizan let his showman's instincts take over. 'K-A-M,' he said, then stopped himself. 'OK, let me do this. Oh, shoot!' 'Just ring the bell,' he told head judge Mary Brooks, who obliged. 'So now you know what happens,' Brooks said, and the other two spellers returned to the stage. Later, standing next to the trophy with confetti at his feet, Faizan said, 'I'm definitely going to be having nightmares about that tonight.' Even pronouncer Jacques Bailly tried to slow Faizan down before his winning word, 'eclaircissement,' but Faizan didn't ask a single question before spelling it correctly, and he pumped his fists and collapsed to the stage after saying the final letter. The bee celebrated its 100th anniversary this year, and Faizan may be the first champion who's remembered more for a word he got wrong than one he got right. 'I think he cared too much about his aura,' said Bruhat Soma, Faizan's buddy who beat him in the 'spell-off' tiebreaker last year. Faizan had a more nuanced explanation: After not preparing for the spell-off last year, he over-corrected, emphasising speed during his study sessions. Although Bruhat was fast last year when he needed to be, he followed the familiar playbook for champion spellers: asking thorough questions, spelling slowly and metronomically, showing little emotion. Those are among the hallmarks of well-coached spellers, and Faizan had three coaches: Scott Remer, Sam Evans and Sohum Sukhantankar. None of them could turn Faizan into a robot on stage. 'He's crazy. He's having a good time, and he's doing what he loves, which is spelling,' Evans said. Said Zaki Anwar, Faizan's father: 'He's the GOAT. I actually believe that. He's really good, man. He's been doing it for so long, and he knows the dictionary in and out.' A thrilling centennial After last year's bee had little drama before an abrupt move to the spell-off, Scripps tweaked the competition rules, giving judges more leeway to let the competition play out before going to the tiebreaker. The nine finalists delivered. During one stretch, six spellers got 28 consecutive words right, and there were three perfect rounds during the finals. The last time there was a single perfect round was the infamous 2019 bee, which ended in an eight-way tie. Sarv, an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Dunwoody, Georgia, who ultimately finished third, would have been the youngest champion since Nihar Janga in 2016. He has three years of eligibility remaining. The most poised and mature of the final three, Sarvadnya - who's from Visalia, California - ends his career as the runner-up. He's 14 and in the eighth grade, which means he has aged out of the competition. It's not a bad way to go out, considering that Faizan became just the fifth runner-up in a century to come back and win, and the first since Sean Conley in 2001. With the winner's haul of $52,500 added to his second-place prize of $25,000, Faizan increased his bee earnings to $77,500. His big splurge with his winnings last year was a $1,500 Rubik's cube with 21 squares on each side. This time, he said he'd donate a large portion of his winnings to charity. The bee began in 1925 when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send their champions to Washington. For the past 14 years, Scripps has hosted the competition at a convention centre just outside the nation's capital, but the bee returns downtown next year to Constitution Hall, a nearly century-old concert venue near the White House. A passionate champion Faizan has been spelling for more than half his life. He competed in the 2019 bee as a 7-year-old, getting in through a wild-card programme that has since been discontinued. He qualified again in 2023 and made the semifinals before last year's second-place finish. 'One thing that differentiates him is that he really has a passion for this. In his free time, when he's not studying for the bee, he's literally looking up archaic, obsolete words that have no chance of being asked,' Bruhat said. 'I don't think he cares as much about the title as his passion for language and words'. Faizan had no regrets about showing that enthusiasm, even though it nearly cost him. 'No offense to Bruhat, but I think he really took the bee a little too seriously,' Faizan said. 'I decided to have fun with this bee, and I did well, and here I am.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Second Lady Usha Vance to Address USISPF Leadership Summit 2025
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to Deliver Keynote Address at the USISPF's Leadership Summit 2025 in Washington, D.C. Second Lady Usha Vance to Participate in a Fireside Chat at the Summit USISPF To Honor Arvind Krishna of IBM, Kumar Mangalam Birla of Aditya Birla Group and Toshiaki Higashihara of Hitachi with the Global Leadership Award Washington, D.C. , May 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) will host the eighth edition of its Leadership Summit on Monday, June 2, 2025, in Washington, at the USISPF Leadership Summit 2025 include Howard Lutnick, Usha Vance, Arvind Krishna, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Toshiaki Higashihara, Ambassador Vinay Kwatra, Senator Steve Daines, Representative Rich McCormick, and John are honored to announce US Secretary of Commerce Mr. Howard Lutnick as the Keynote Speaker at the summit. Secretary Lutnick will share his insights on strengthening the U.S.-India strategic and economic partnership to achieve the goal set by President Trump and Prime Minister Modi for $500 billion in bilateral trade. The Summit will also feature the Second Lady of the United States, Ms. Usha Vance in a fireside chat. As the first Indian American in the role of Second Lady, Ms. Vance's presence symbolizes the deepening partnership between the world's oldest and largest democracies, and highlights the robust strength of the people-to-people ties. USISPF will also present the 2025 Global Leadership Awards to three distinguished business leaders – Mr. Arvind Krishna, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group and Mr. Toshiaki Higashihara, Executive Chairman, Hitachi, Ltd. for their outstanding contributions in strengthening the US-India-Japan economic partnership. Under Mr. Birla's leadership, the Aditya Birla Group is the largest Indian greenfield investor in the United States, with investments exceeding $15 billion. IBM, led by Mr. Arvind Krishna,has accelerated global digital transformation through advancing cutting-edge research in AI, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain, with India playing a pivotal role in its global R&D and talent ecosystem. Hitachi, under the leadership of Toshiaki Higashihara, continues to expand its investments in infrastructure, mobility, and digital innovation, closely aligning with key U.S.-India -Japan-India collaboration in energy, transportation, and technology. This will be the first time that QUAD business leaders will be honored at the USISPF summit. The summit will also feature conversations with Ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador of India to the United States, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) and Representative Rich McCormick (R-GA-07), Co-Chair, Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, and USISPF Board members. 'USISPF was founded with the single goal of uniting the two most powerful and robustdemocracies.' said John Chambers, Chairman, USISPF; Founder & CEO, JC2 Ventures. He addedUSISPF's strength and reach reflect with the growth, dynamism and optimism inherent in the U.S.-India strategic partnership'. 'As the most prestigious summit in the U.S.-India corridor, the Leadership Summit brings together key policy and decision makers and private sector leaders to discuss their vision and way forward for bilateral partnership'. 'We are proud to welcome Secretary Lutnick, Second Lady Usha Vance and recognize exemplary business leaders who have strengthened the U.S.-India-Japan corridor.' said Dr. Mukesh Aghi, President & CEO, USISPF. 'These three leading democracies—together representing well over $35 trillion—are united by a shared commitment to strengthening supply chains and upholding a rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. With Japan's strength in advanced engineering manufacturing, India's robust economic growth, demographic dividend and engineering talent and the U.S. innovation economy and capital, this trilateral partnership is uniquely positioned to drive progress across critical sectors. This summit celebrates that shared vision and momentum.' The USISPF Leadership Summit is the most prestigious gathering in Washington, DC focused on accentuating US-India ties and convening senior government leaders and officials, diplomats, Members of the U.S. Congress and Senate, USISPF Board members, leading business executives, media, think tanks, and global thought leaders, all working to advance cooperation and celebrate this important USISPF The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) is committed to creating the most powerful partnership between the United States and India. As the only independent not-for-profit institution dedicated to strengthening the U.S.-India partnership in Washington, D.C., and in New Delhi, USISPF is the trusted partner for businesses, non-profit organizations, the diaspora, and the governments of India and the United States. Press inquiries USISPF Ankit Jain ajain@ 2244607900 2550 M St NWWashington, DC 20037, USA Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Time of India
5 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Indian-American Congressman Krishnamoorthi slams Trump over freeze on student visa interviews, calls it 'strategic blunder'
Indian American Congressman has criticised the Trump administration's decision to freeze student visa interviews and consider strict social media screening for international students. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He called it a 'reckless decision' that could damage the country's economy and national security. Krishnamoorthi also said that shutting international students out is a "strategic blunder" that weakens US global competitiveness. "I strongly oppose the Trump Administration's reckless decision to freeze new student visa interviews and consider sweeping, undefined social media vetting for international students. International students help drive cutting-edge research, fuel our universities, and build the industries of tomorrow,' said Krishnamoorthi. 'These young people are not only scholars and innovators- they are vital to America's economic strength and national security. By developing the next generation of technologies and the good-paying jobs that come with them, they help ensure the United States remains a global leader." His remarks came after US secretary of state Marco Rubio ordered embassies and consulates to stop scheduling new visa interviews for student applicants. The Trump administration is also considering requiring students to undergo expanded vetting of their social media activity. In a separate move, Trump suggested that Harvard University should cap the number of foreign students it admits at 15 percent. He claimed that the current figure, around 31 percent, includes students from 'very radicalised' regions. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now 'We have people that want to go to Harvard and other schools but they can't get in because we have foreign students there," said Trump. "I want to make sure that foreign students are people that can love our country. We don't want to see shopping centres explode. We don't want to see the kind of riots that you had, and I'll tell you what, many of those students didn't go anywhere, many of those students were troublemakers caused by the radical left," he added.
