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Kala Devarajan is a Chartered Accountant by profession, and has corporate work experience in the Manufacturing and Financial Sectors.
1996 was a landmark year when she joined the Bangalore Hospice Trust, Karunashraya, as a volunteer. Her professional expertise helped her assist with their finance planning, fund raising and administration. She was invited to join the Board of Trustees in the year 2000 and has been contributing as the Treasurer for the past 20 plus years.
Dr. Latha Jagannathan is the Medical
Director and Managing Trustee of the not-for-profit organization, Bangalore
Medical Services Trust, (BMST). She founded BMST in 1984 and has been
responsible for its operations and growth into the only standalone facility in
India with a Blood Centre, HLA Laboratory and Tissue Bank, providing a wide
spectrum of services in the field of blood, organ & cellular therapies.
She is a founder member of the Indian
Cancer Society, Karnataka and Karunashraya. She is on the board of MYRADA, a
developmental organization, and Samraksha, an NGO working in the field of HIV
& AIDS.
She is an invited member of several Government, National & International bodies on Health, Blood Banking, and Transplant Immunology and the Task Force on Health and Family Welfare, Karnataka.
Kishore Rao started Indian Cancer Society, Karnataka, in 1986 as a voluntary organisation, and today ICS has offices in Kalaburagi and Mangaluru besides Bengaluru. In 1994 he started Karunashraya in partnership with Rotary Bangalore Indiranagar- a shining example of a cancer hospice across the country. Kishore has been in the not-for-profit sector for the last 35 years.