Meeting Speaker for April 29, 2013

Sanjay Varshney is the Dean of the College of Business Administration at California State University, Sacramento. He has also worked at the University of San Francisco, and previously served as the Dean of the Business School at State University of New York in Utica for five years.  At age 31 he became one of the youngest deans in the country to lead a business school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Financial Management from Bombay University, a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Cincinnati, and a PhD in Finance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Sanjay currently serves on the boards of Wells Fargo Bank, Entrepreneurship Academy, Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA), The Securities Analysts of Sacramento, and Comstock’s Business Magazine. Dean Varshney has been featured widely in the media and on television including the Sacramento Bee, Prosper magazine, Comstock Magazine, Sacramento Magazine, the Business Journal, and NBC, ABC, and Fox News.

Most notable of his accomplishments was the successful launch of the only true Executive MBA program in the Sacramento region. The vision of the EMBA is to provide the region’s next generation of senior executives.

Sanjay lives in El Dorado Hills, CA with his beautiful wife Nisha and two sons Sohil and Shawn.