The UniThrive Team

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Board of Directors

Joshua Kushner

Joshua has been actively involved in a myriad of entrepreneurial startups and ventures. He co-founded Vostu.com, a venture backed online social networking venture targeting South and Central Americans as well as UniThrive.org. Joshua founded the Friendship Circle of Boston, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating friendships between students and children with mental disabilities. He previously worked for Goldman Sachs’ real estate private investment area. Joshua is currently a principal at the Kushner Companies, a diversified real estate organization and the founding principal of Thrive Capital Partners, an early stage venture capital firm. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Government and is currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration degree at Harvard Business School.

Nimay Mehta

Nimay, as an undergarduate, started the Harvard College Entreprensurship Forum (HCEF), a forum dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship on Harvard's undergarduate campus. He previous worked as a term-time intern for General Catalyst Partners where he was involved in their courcing program, ensuring high-quality deal flow and investment prospects to the firm.  Nimay has since joined Insight Venture Partners, a growth-stage venture capital/private equity firm focused on software and internet enterprises. He is a co-founder of UniThrive and graduated from Harvard University with a BA in economics.

Tanuj Parikh

Tanuj was a Fellow for Kiva Microfunds, a peer-to-peer lending website that is revolutionizing microfinance. His work on the ground in Kenya gave him an extensive familiarity with Kiva’s peer-to-peer lending model and microfinance best practices. He currently works for the Center for Economic Transformation at the New York City Economic Development Corporation on a variety of initiatives designed to grow the city's innovation economy. Tanuj is a co-founder of UniThrive and graduated from Harvard University with a BA in economics.

James C. Elbaor

James currently leads Special Projects at Do Something.org where he reports directly to Do Something's CEO Nancy Lublin. At Do Something.org, James manages and leads numerous special projects advancing Do Something.org's efforts to empower youth action.  Projects he has spearheaded include The Weekend Without Oil and The 1 in 3 Campaign. In 2010 he was honored by the Center Against Domestic Violence for his work on the 1 in 3 Campaign. James was also a 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship Semi-Finalist.  He holds a BA from New York University's College of Arts and Science, where he majored in Philosophy and minored in Chemistry.

Partners

Evan Dorn

Evan Dorn, Ph. D. is the lead software developer for Unithrive.   He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1997 with degrees in Engineering and Biology, and completed a Ph. D. in Computationa and Neural System at the California Institute of Technology in 2005.  During graduate school and since then, Evan has run the software and web development venture Logical Reality Design in Altadena, CA.  He is also co-founder of startup ventules Provectis Music, Inc. and Provectis Enterprises, and is working through them to help bring a revolution in teaching and education.