Natalie R. Gandhi
(née Natalie H. Vania)

SUMMARY

Natalie R. Gandhi, Ph.D., is a Fund Manager and Mentor. She is an Entrepreneur, Philosopher, and VC Limited Partner.

Does your company need growth? Do you have a cutting-edge startup needing funding? Do you want to invest with like-minded, energetic, intelligent people for extreme opportunity?

If so then, talk to Natalie. She provides strategic value for company growth and investment opportunity in era of change.

Natalie is a founding member, Chair, and Director Emeritus of WZCC, The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce. She is in the Founding Circle of SPIRE, Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, "the most active alumni group in Stanford's history". Natalie is the Founder at Arshiya Ventures and AvestaQuest LP.

Natalie is a member in the Blackcard Program of Fund Launch, a company guiding founders to start investment funds.

From the life of the mind to the world of action, Dr. Natalie R. Gandhi supports creative endeavor. Natalie believes the world offers infinite avenues for wonder, exploration, and growth. Also, as Mario Andretti says, "if things are not a bit out of control ... you're not going fast enough yet".

Natalie's academic degrees span physics (BA, University of Chicago, conc. Philosophy), philosophy (MA, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, PhD, University of Maryland at College Park), and financial markets (MS, Illinois Institute of Technology). She has certificates from MIT's Entrepreneur Online Bootcamp and Berkeley's Venture Capital Online Program.

A true American original, Natalie is the first Zarathushti to be born in Springfield, Illinois, the Land of Lincoln. She taught in nearly ten universities and was awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe fellowship along with awards from the Zoroastrian community.

Natalie and her husband live in New Jersey and thoroughly enjoy a beautiful young daughter.

Specialties: Powerful thinker, high independence, initiative, integrity, cheerful, empathetic.

Her Linkedin url is https://linkedin.com/in/nataliergandhi/.

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From the life of the mind to the world of action, Dr. Natalie R. Gandhi (née Natalie H. Vania) supports creative endeavor as a Philosopher and Entrepreneur. Her adventures include presenting advanced technologies on Sand Hill Road, organizing an international business plan competition with Stanford’s Business Association of Engineering Students, trading futures contracts, advising and investing in disruptive startups, teaching to a White House agency, organizing panels in Silicon Valley, noting India's cell-phone penetration while traveling to the ancient Iranshah fire, and developing first-order, intellectual thought.

Natalie is in the Founder's Circle of SPIRE, Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, and advises a startup company in the Bay Area. She writes, edits, and enjoys public speaking. As the founder of Arshiya Ventures, Dr. Gandhi designed leading events and assisted scientist-entrepreneurs in accessing investors in Silicon Valley. In MIT's Inaugural 2018 Entrepreneurship Online Bootcamp, Natalie expanded her entrepreneurial acumen, developing a business concept for South East Asia's manufacturers. Following this, she gained a certificate in Berkeley Law School's VC University.

Natalie is currently the New York Chapter Co-Chair and a World Director Emeritus serving on the Board for WZCC, The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce, and a past Board Member at large for ZAGNY, The Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York. Associated travel has taken her to Hong Kong, Macau, Dubai, Karachi, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Udvada, Bangalore, Houston, Chicago, Kansas, Los Angeles, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Bangalore, and more.

Natalie's background includes a BA in Physics with concentration in Philosophy (University of Chicago), an MA in Philosophy (University of Illinois at Chicago), a PhD in Philosophy (University of Maryland at College Park), and an MS in Financial Markets (Illinois Institute of Technology). Natalie is a recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe scholar award, an NEH seminar award, a travel grant award, an award from WZCC-Chicago for spearheading a conference on creating new business, and an award from the American Philosophical Society, America's oldest learned society.

Natalie is the first Zarathushti born in the Land of Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois. She is a true American original. Natalie grew up as part of a first-generation entrepreneurial family. Their enterprises included real estate investment, and Vania Engineering, Inc., electrical, mechanical, and environmental professional engineering. Natalie and her husband, a real estate broker, investor and developer, live in Montville, New Jersey, with their beloved young daughter.

Dr. Gandhi applies ingenuity in novel and creative ways to build wealth: The world offers infinite avenues for wonder, exploration, growth, and creativity.

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In 1998, Dr. Gandhi was in Silicon Valley facilitating startup development. Earlier teaching at Stanford put her in midst of aggressive venture activity. She assisted investors and startup founders through her initiative, Arshiya Ventures, in the Valley over the next five years.

Dr. Gandhi is intrepid in the search for knowledge. She specialized in moral philosophy and the philosophy of rationality. She has competence in the philosophy of science and social, political and legal philosophy. She received her PhD in philosophy from The University of Maryland at College Park in 1992. Dr. Gandhi completed dissertation work as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow under the direction of the eminent Virtue Theorist Professor Michael Slote. She worked with four leading Philosophers of Science, taught in ten universities, and has four advanced degrees.

In 1995, Dr. Gandhi audited a course in options at the Stanford Business School. Riveted by the revolutionary impact of the Black-Scholes equation, she obtained a Master of Science in Financial Markets from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her interest in financial derivatives overlaps with her doctoral dissertation work. Her dissertation in moral philosophy deals with the nature of rationality. She believes there is an analogous structure underlying the natures of markets and morality. In both rational and moral life, it makes sense to structure action in accord with regulative ideals and committed courses of action.

In 2002, Dr. Gandhi spent five years in her home town of Springfield, Illinois, the Lincoln heartland. Dr. Gandhi investigated new scientific advances in diamond material sciences and served as adjunct instructor at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She spearheaded award-winning entrepreneurial conferences in Chicago for the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce, WZCC.

Dr. Gandhi is among the first Parsees to be born in America and is the first Zoroastrian born in the Land of Lincoln. The modern woman was a precocious child: Like the young Abe Lincoln, Natalie read voraciously across all subjects, independently exploring political theory and economy, macroeconomics, statistics, and antitrust legislation at sixteen. Natalie is also a life-long lover of literary and fabric arts. She writes and edits for cultural journals.

In 2007, Natalie and her husband were thrilled to create history with the first marriage of Zoroastrians in Abe Lincoln's home. Natalie and her husband live in Montville, New Jersey. In 2007, they traveled through six cities of the vigorous "New India". Rusi and Natalie attended the 2009 AGM of WZCC, The 9th World Zoroastrian Congress in Dubai, The Coming Together Roundtable, and traveled through Pakistan and India in early 2010. They plan to attend the WZCC AGM in Singapore in early 2013.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1999-Present, ARSHIYA VENTURES, Montville, NJ, Springfield, IL, Mountain View, CA FOUNDER
- Connects entrepreneurs and investors in funding scenarios.
- Commercializes R & D science.
- Presents business and high-tech concepts at leading VC firms.
- Provides leadership in NFP organizations, organizes conferences and programs.
- Adjunct faculty, The University of Illinois at Springfield.

2005-Present. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD, Springfield, IL
Adjunct Lecturer, Assistant or Associate Professor, The Department of Philosophy
- Instructor, Ethics.
- Instructor, Rationality and Moral Choice, with The Warsaw School of Economics.
- New, pacesetting program, first in offering degrees in Philosophy online.

1997-1998. NAVIANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC., Chicago, IL
Systems Engineer
- Developed research methodology, published 80 page report on information technology in banking, and presented research seminar to senior research level at major national bank.
- Delivered data-mining presentation.
- Developed sales proposals. Received Naviant's Target Proposal Award.

1996-1997. ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, Chicago, IL
Online Editor
- Provided editorial assessment of web sites for BIG, Britannica Internet Guide.

1996. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD, Springfield, IL
Lecturer, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Taught a Liberal Studies Honors Colloquium, Opting for Morality; Human Nature As It Impacts Social Debate.

1992-1994. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA
Lecturer
- Taught in The Program in Culture, Ideas, and Values for The Department of Philosophy.
- Taught a Research Seminar, Deontological Rationality, based on dissertation.

1992. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston, IL
NEH Summer Seminar Fellow
- Religion and Politics in Hobbes and Spinoza, Professor Ed Curley

1992-1993. ST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY, St. Cloud, MN
Assistant Professor
- Taught nine courses, including Introduction to Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophy in Literature
- Grant Director, American Council of Learned Societies for Professor Shelly Kagan's visit to campus for four days, coordinated all aspects of funding for project among four institutions.

1986-1991. THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK, College Park, MD
Lecturer
- Taught Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Introduction to Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, and Philosophy of Art for The Department of Philosophy.

1987. TO THE WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY, Washington, DC
Lecturer
- Taught Ethics for Continuing Education at The University of Maryland at College Park

1987-1988. THE INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY, College Park, MD
Research Assistant

1985-1986. ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY, Chicago, IL
Lecturer
- Taught Ethics, Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

1982-1985. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
Teaching Assistant, Lecturer
- Taught Introduction to Morality, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy Business Ethics, Philosophy of Death, Logic, Critical Reasoning, Philosophy of Love and Sex

1981. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
Research Assistant
- Laser investigation of electrical and optical properties of esoteric semiconductors.

1978. THE ENRICO FERMI RESEARCH INSTITUTES, Chicago, IL
Research Assistant
- Built components for a 1 Million electron volt scanning electron microscope.

1997. DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS, MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, Springfield, IL
Physics Assistant
- Conducted statistical analysis pertaining to radioactive medical procedures.

1974. VANIA ENGINEERING, INC., Springfield, IL
Draftsman

SELECTED EDUCATION and INTELLECTUAL PATH
Rationality in derivatives markets.
Master of Science in Financial Markets, Illinois Institute of Technology 2004.
- Research on Hedge Funds, fiscal policy, XML in Finance, Angel Finance, 4.0 GPA over 2003-2004.

Dissertation on Rationality and Moral Theory.
Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Maryland at College Park, June 1992.
- Specialization, Moral Philosophy and Concentration, Philosophy of Science.
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow, National Award for Culture and Values Leadership, Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
- Graduate School Travel Award.

Master of Arts, Philosophy, The University of Illinois at Chicago, May 1983.

Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Concentration in Philosophy, The College of The University of Chicago, 1980.
- The Physics Undergraduate Journal Club.
- Bachelor’s Paper, The Department of Philosophy, relating to the nature of Rationality.

DISSERTATION
Ignoring The Good and Deontological Rationality
A project which offers a clearer and stronger account of moral deontology and a deontological view of rationality. This is accomplished by overturning an unquestioned assumption, that the good always provides some reason to wish for or to promote its obtaining. This assumption, the pro tanto assumption, is relied upon explicitly by the moral consequentialist and rational optimizer. It is implicitly relied upon by the moral deontologist and rational satisficer.

I argue instead for the non pro tanto thesis, that something’s being good may provide no reason to wish for or to promote its obtaining. In conjunction with the non pro tanto assumption, I offer support for agent centered restrictions in morality and rationality. Prudence itself, not only morality, can be deontological and provide the agent with categorical imperatives. It’s suggested how the constructive view which is offered can be integrated into Kant’s practical Reason and his teleology.

AWARDS
2003 and 2004 ZAC, Conference Spearhead Award
1997 Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc., Target Proposal Award
1990 The Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
1989 The Graduate School of The University of Maryland, Travel Award

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE
Advisor, Michael Slote, Chair, Philosophy
Keith Campbell, Former Chair, Philosophy
Jerrold Levinson, Professor, Philosophy
William Galston, Director, The Institute For Philosophy and Public Policy, and, Former Senior Policy Advisor to The White House
Ernie Schlaretzki, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy

PUBLICATIONS
"The Gathas' Predominant Virtues of Truth and Good Mind", The FEZANA Journal, Spring, 2021, p. 66-69.

"Adarbad Relies on Spirit, Science, Religion and Zarathushti Religion", The FEZANA Journal, Volume 31, Number 3, 2017, p. 27-29.

"WZCC DAY 2012 in conjunction with the XVI North American Zarathushti Congress: Why We Build" FEZANA Journal, forthcoming.

"Evening Symposium: 'New Sciences and Commerce'", Program Book, WZCC-NY, August, 1, 2012, Participants including President Jamshed Bharucha, The Cooper Union; Mr. Poruz Khambatta, UC Berkeley, President of the Cognitive Science Student Association (2011-2012); and Dr. Cyrus Hirjibehedin, PhD Physics, Principal Investigator & Research Group Leader, London Centre for Nanotechnology, Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Chemistry, University College London.

"Dimensions of Inquiry on Religion or Society's Transformations" FEZANA Journal, Spring 2012.

"Relevance in Time of Ferment: Industry and Vohuman at WZCC-NY" FEZANA Journal, Winter 2012.

"Mentoring YLEP", ArshiyaBlog and The FEZANA Journal, Winter 2011.

"WZCC-NY, Thriving in The Big Apple & Tri-State Region", ArshiyaBlog, December 12, 2010, and conveyed in Parsiana, December 21, 2010.

"The Extremes of Commerce Rich and Poor", ArshiyaBlog, August 12, 2010.

"The Invisible Sale and Achieving the American Dream, Kurus Elavia, CEO, Gateway Group One", ArshiyaBlog and The FEZANA Journal, Vol 24, No 1, Fall, March 2010.

"WZCC-NY Financial Planning for Health Care: Protecting Your Health in Economic Ups and Downs", ArshiyaBlog, February 26, 2010.

"Real Estate Opportunities in Challenging Times", ArshiyaBlog and The FEZANA Journal, Vol 24, No 1, Spring, March 2010, p. 155-6.

"Stunners in a TiE Evening with Rakesh K. Kaul", ArshiyaBlog, September 22, 20009.

"Notes on A Summer Evening at TIE in a Glorious July", ArshiyaBlog, July 9, 2009.

"WZCC-NY Hosts Nationally Distinguished Economist Prof. Amar Bhide", ArshiyBlog, June 1, 2009.

“September Panel Report: The Growth of Knowledge, the Advance of Science, and Enterpreneurship” Winter, 2009, The FEZANA Journal.

"Risk, Commonsense, and Outsourcing's Growth", "Wealth Management and the Outsource Future", and "Data in a Liquid World", November, 2007, Financial Services Outsourcing Knowledge Xchange.

“Antiquity in our Hands: Digitization of Ancient Zarathushti Manuscripts and Texts” Fall, 2007, The FEZANA Journal, Dr. Homi Dhalla, Guest Editor.

"Optimizing the Workings of Globalization, A Review of Martin Wolf's 'Why Globalization Works'", Fall, 2006, SynergyZ, The Journal of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce.

Wedding Essay, self-published, March 17, 2007.

“Capital Access: Lunch with Dick Kramlich”, NEA, New Enterprise Associates, Fall 2004, The VC Task Force and March 11, 2005, SynergyZ, Journal of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce, Inaugural Issue.

“Contemporary Moral Philosophy and The Gathas: A Gathic Moral Vision,” in “Atas-E Dorun, The Fire Within, Jamshid Soroush Soroushian Memorial Volume II”, Mehrborzin Souroushian, San Diego, California, 2003, ISBN 1-4140-1971-8 and Winter 2001, Vohuman.org.

“Enthusiasm for Encourage New Business!: An Inaugural Conference” Fall 2003, The FEZANA Journal. Conference Book and Conference web site, Summer 2003.

“Zoroaster’s Vision in a Lifetime’s Learning”, “The Global Context: Questions for Rumsfeld”, “Accelerating Leadership and The North American Zoroastrian Youth” Guest Editor, Winter 2003, The FEZANA Journal.

“Fecundity, The Future, Grief, and Affirmation” February 15, 2003, Hamazor.

“Defining A Value Proposition For The Next Century's Zoroastrianism” Guest Editor, Fall 2001, The FEZANA Journal.

“Ambassadorship and Leadership - Object Lessons for the New Zoroastrian Youth” Spring 2001, The FEZANA Journal.

“Alexander Burns Persepolis: Impact Historical, Religious, and Upon Identity for Zarathushtis”, Winter, 2001, The FEZANA Journal.

“What is Data Mining Virtue?” July, 1997, Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc.

“A Zoroastrian Ethos for Professional Ethics” Spring, 1997, The FEZANA Journal.

“Ethical Egoism: A Moral Theory” 1980, The University of Chicago, Bachelor's Paper

PAPERS, SPEECHES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS, Etc.

Interactive Discussion Moderator with Paul Daruwala and Guest Speaker Prof. Amar Bhide, the Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business, Columbia University, on "The Venturesome Economy, How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World". WZCC-NY, May 18, 2009, Arbab Rustom Guiv Darbe Mehr, Zoroastrian Center, Suffren, New York.

"The Growth of Knowledge, the Advance of Science, and Entrepreneurship"
Panel Organizer, Moderator and Web Resource Developer, WZCC-NY Fall Event
September 28, 2008, Arbab Rustom Guiv Darbe Mehr, Zoroastrian Center, Suffren, New York. Panelists Deena Patel, PhD, Physics, Energy and Transportation Systems Consultant; Paul Daruwala, Global New Products Leader in Merck's Vaccine Infectious Disease Division; and Zubin Canteenwalla, Columbia 2009 MBA.

Third Annual Asset Management Conference
Dec. 3, 2007, Financial Services Outsourcing LLC
Princeton Club, NYC
A. Moderator, Panel Discussion: Opportunities, Risks and Challenges in Achieving Success in Global Sourcing. Panelists; Chandresh P. Iyer, Managing Director, Citigroup; Greg Shaw, Senior Vice President, State Street Corp. Globalization PMO; Nitin Rakesh, CEO, BPO Unit, Syntel; Ray Strecker, Director, Financial Services Consulting, Tata Consultancy Services, N. America.
B. Moderator, Panel Discussion: Best Practices in Reference Data, Risk Management and Financial Management (Research, Analytics) Outsourcing in the Asset Management Industry. Panelists; David Hirschfeld, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, Modelware; Ashish Kapur, Principal, Eagle Investment Systems; Jib Wilkinson, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Guest Discussion at Monthly Board and Trustee Meeting
January 2007, The Delhi Parsi Anjuman

“Many Thanks on a New Day”
March 14, 2007, Reception Celebrating Marriage
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois

“Angel Finance Research: What Is It and Why Do We Care?”
April 20, 2005, World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce-Chicago Chapter
Panel Organizer and Moderator

“Revving Your Business: Starting, Managing, and Growing Businesses”
December 28, 2005, Annual General Meeting, WZCC, San Jose
Panel Organizer and Moderator with Dina Damkevala

“Business Vision and Concept”
July 12, 2003, The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce-Chicago Chapter
Conference Spearhead and Workshop Moderator

“How to Be an Entrepreneur in Any Business Climate”
July 3, 2002, The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce,
Annual General Meeting, Chicago

“Business Innovation and Human Creative Endeavor in the Era of New Commerce”
February, 2, 2000, The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Sunnyvale
Panel Organizer and Moderator

“Electronic Commerce and Art Start-ups: The New Business of Creativity”
November 4, 1999, The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Sunnyvale
Panel Organizer and Moderator

“Internet and E-Commerce Business Models: Concept and Vision”
August 12, 1999, The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs,
Redwood City

“Data Mining: An Intellectual Fascination”
July, 1997, Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc. With a Powerpoint presentation.

“Finance As A Human Science”
May 2, 1997, The Center for the Study of Ethics in The Professions

“Barings: Trader Character and Agency in Brave New Finance”
May 20, 1996, to the Over The Counter Debt Formation Course,
The Stuart School of Business

“Politics as a System of Categorical Imperatives: Foot, Hobbes’ Fool and Deontological Rationality”
August 6, 1992, to NEH Summer Seminar, Northwestern University
December 7, 1992, to The Ethics and Political Theory Workshop,
Stanford University

“The Categorical Imperative of Prudence”
March 31, 1991 to The Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University
November 19, 1991 to The Minnesota Philosophical Society

“Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Deontology Precluded?”
October 10, 1991 to The Department of Philosophy, St. Cloud State University

“Ignoring The Personal Good”
November 10, 1990 to The Department of Philosophy, The University of Maryland

“Ignoring The Good”
September 11, 1988 to The Conference on Contemporary Moral Theory The University of St. Andrews, Scotland

ADDITIONAL PAPERS OR SPEECHES ON ZOROASTER
“Being Zoroastrian”
July 3, 1998, The Eleventh North American Zoroastrian Congress, New York estimate of audience size: 700 people

“The Yashts: A Light Ecology Ethics”
November 1996, The Third World Gathic Conference, Rochester,
New York

“The Opening Speech: The Zoroastrian Name in the New North
American Epoch 2050”
July 3,1995, The Seventh North American Youth Congress,
Stanford University estimate of audience size: 320 people

“Kant: The Enlightenment Zoroastrian”
December 7, 1994, Guest Lecturer to Professor Eckart Forster,
Stanford University
October 29, 1994, The Second World Gathic Conference, Costa Mesa

“Zoroastrian Thought and Liberal Education: A Mutual Relationship”
July 3, 1994, The Ninth North American Zoroastrian Congress,
Valley Forge estimate of audience size: 500+

“Excursion in The Past: A Project in Reviving Memory”
March 23, 1993 to The Zoroastrian Anjuman of Northern California

MEMBERSHIPS
SPIRE, Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, Founding Circle, 2009-Present
The Museum of American Finance, Member, 2007-2010.
The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce, Founding Member, 2002-Present.
The Club for Growth, 2003-2006.
The Forum For Women Entrepreneurs, Palo Alto, 1997-2007.
The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Program Committee, 1999-2000.
The American Philosophical Association, 1984-Present.
The North American Kant Society, 1990-1995.
The Illinois Institute of Technology Alumni Association.
The Stanford Alumni Association, Life Member.
The University of Chicago Alumni Association.
The University of Chicago Alumni Tech-Venture Club, 1998-Present.
The International Institute of Angel Investors, 2000-2001.

SERVICE
2007-Present – WZCC-NY, Organizing Committee Member
2005 - Overseas Editor, WZCC Journal
2004 - Volunteer, political campaign, and WZCC
2003 - Citizen Participant ,VOICES, Vision of Interested Citizens for Education in Springfield
2003 - Conference Spearhead, Encourage New Business!: An Inaugural Conference, WZCC-Chicago
2001-2003 - Advisory Board, The VC Task Force
2000 - Director of Content - Venture Capital, The Global E-Challenge Competition, Stanford.
1999-2002 - Board Member, SVASE, The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs
1991-1992 - General Education Committee, St. Cloud State University
1995 - FEZANA Youth Conference Organizer, held at Stanford, 320 international attendees.

ADDITIONAL
Crafts and Arts education and record.

LANGUAGES
French, reading knowledge

PAPERS - COMPLETED DRAFTS
2004 - Angel Finance Research
2003 - Advancing Finance: A Spirit of Enthralled Excitement
2003 - The Wild West of Finance: New Frontier in Technological and Geo-Political Upheaval
2003 - XML in Electronic Market Operations: Today and Tomorrow, for Prof. David Norman, Head of Market Technologies Program at IIT - "Really Excellent"
2002 - New Finance's Dynamism: Venture Capital and Hedge Fund Worlds
2002 - The XML Advent and Gathic Preservation
1997 - What is Data Mining Virtue?, for Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc. Newsletter
1992 - Ignoring The Good
1992 - Categorical Prudence and Deontological Rationality
1993 - Initial Thoughts For The Categorical Imperative of Prudence
1993 - Normative Justification: Newtonian Good or Quantally Ineffable?
1993 - Taking Scheffler into the Arena of Rationality: Restriction Against Odd Bodily Usage
1993 - Politics As A System of Categorical Imperatives: Foot's Fool, Gauthier's MAD, and Deontological Rationality
1989 - Moral Theory By Construction
1985 - The Introduction to the Third Critique and Regulative Ideals of Reason, for Prof. Michael Friedman
1984 - Deontological Obligation Towards Future Generations
1983 - Einstein's Final Thoughts on the Incompleteness of Quantum Mechanics, for Prof. Arthur Fine - "Excellent"

OTHER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS
- 2005 - Arshiya technology development in materials sciences. - 1997-2003 - technologies encountered in Arshiya work, fluidic self-assembly of nano-photovoltaic solar cells, aero-space stressed-skin loading bearing structures, monopoly busting beyond web services computing, micro-finance (to fix global poverty now), behavioral trader-risk profiling, graphical programming-from binary straight to the web, real-time nano-scale ligand amino acid and proteomics applications, epitope peptide vaccination, low temperature polymer superconductors, normalizing the web in high dimensions, product development lifecycle management, broadband wireless, on-line auctioning, xml.
- 2003 - Review of $13 M digital printing business proposal
- 2002 - Nanotechnology seminar attendee, Engineering, Stanford
- 1988 - Presentation, Philosophy of Science graduate course, for Prof. Fred Suppes
- 1984 - Assisted Prof. Paul Teller in teaching Critical Reasoning

IN ATTENDENCE (PARTIAL LIST)
September 2008, TIE-NJ Anniversary, Princeton University.
Labor Day, 2008, 25th Anniversary Celebrations of ZAC, Chicago, and WZCC AGM.
July 2007, The 14th North American Zoroastrian Congress, Toronto.
July 2007, WZCC AGM, Toronto.
January 2007, WZCC AGM, Mumbai (Mr. Rusi D. Gandhi inaugurated as a WCZZ World Director).
December 2006, WZCC-NY Chapter, (Mr. Rusi D. Gandhi awarded as Founder and 5 Yr. Chapter Chair).
May 2006, International Advanced Diamond and NanoCarbon Conference, NCSU.
May 2005, International Advanced Diamond and NanoCarbon Conference, Argonne National Labs.

ONLINE PRESENCE AND WEB RESOURCES
Web site, www.ARSHIYA.com
Blog, http://www.arshiya.com/arshiyablog/index.php
Twitter, http://twitter.com/nvania
LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/in/nvania
Quora, http://www.quora.com/Natalie-Vania
The Growth of Knowledge, the Advance of Science, and Entrepreneurship Panel, http://sites.google.com/site/nvania/panel-description
Rationality and Moral Choice class picture, http://arshiya.com/uis/rmc_picture.html
Encourage New Business! Conference Resources, http://arshiya.com/items/resources.html
WZCC-NY web site, http://wzcc-ny.encouragenewbiz.com/index.html
WZCC-NY Eventbrite Events, http://www.eventbrite.com/org/421569473?s=7619385
WZCC-NY MailChimp Resource, http://wzcc.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2accd770bd2e4c82d08ab1819&id=6e031a04f0

SELECTED SKILLS
Mathematics: Statistics, Linear Regression, Exponents and Logs, Calculus, N-order Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Vector Analysis, Group theory, Logic.
Programming: HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, Business Process Modeling.
Software: MS Office, Word, Excel, Project, Access, Powerpoint, Adobe InDesign CS2, Photoshop, Acrobat, Gimp.
Social Media: Google Sites, Google Docs, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, EventBrite, MailChimp.
Analytic: Critical Reasoning, Logic, Rhetoric, English Composition and Essay, Public Speaking, Speech Writing, Curriculum and Workshop Development.
Physics: Electronics, Experimental Set-up, Data Gathering, Data Analysis and Presentation.
Data-Mining: Decision tree analysis, i.e, CHAID with KnowledgeSeeker, sensitivity analysis, classification and regression trees, expected utilities, knowledge discovery.
Financial Engineering: Exposure to Spreadsheet Modeling, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Asset Allocation, Black-Scholes derivation, statistical arbitrage, Swap, Credit, OTC derivatives pricing, Risk management, Alternative trading strategies, distressed investing, i.e., event driven trading, convertible bond, fixed income and merger arbitrage, relative value, equity hedged, managed futures, and market neutral strategies.

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