PDG RAJ BHATIA NAMED AS REGIONAL PROMOTIONAL COORDINATOR FOR 2017 RI CONVENTION

RI President K.R. Ravindran and PDG Raj Bhatia

Past District Governor Suraj P. Bhatia was named this month as one of six Regional Promotional Coordinators of Zone 32 for next year’s Rotary International convention in Atlanta.

Zone 32 is made up of 1,041 Rotary clubs with 33,800 members in Bermuda, Canada and six states in the northeastern United States. As a Regional Promotional Coordinator, Raj will be responsible for encouraging Rotarians to participate in the conference. He is expected to work with clubs in all five Rotary districts in New Jersey.

He will be responsible for working with members of RI’s Board of Directors, Zone, and Regional officers and with officers of the more than 1,000 clubs in the Zone in promoting attendance at the convention.

Raj, a member of the Northern Valley Rotary Club, served as the 53rd Governor of District 7490 in 2009 – 2010. He is now serving as the Chairman of Rotary District 7490’s Rotary Foundation Committee and is an Associate Representative of Rotary International to the United Nations.

In the private sector, Raj has served as the President of Technology Services Consultants International, Inc., for more than 25 years, having begun in 1994. TSCI provides consulting and software development services in both the public and private sectors.

Before that, he served for 25 years as the Manager for External Relations in IBM’s Latin America division.

Read more stories in our March Newsletter.