Sundance Institute has announced three new members of its Board of Trustees: Mr. Sean Bailey, Mr. Anand Mahindra and Ms. Jacki Zehner.
Mr. Anand Mahindra is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Mahindra Group, one of India’s largest, diversified corporations. Named one of the top 25 most powerful business people in Asia by Fortune magazine, he serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors at the Harvard Business School, the India Council for Sustainable Development, the Asia Business Council, and the Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also served as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and on the Board of the National Stock Exchange of India.
As an Undergraduate at Harvard, he majored in Filmmaking, and his continued commitment to the Arts was in evidence last year when he made the largest-ever gift to the Humanities at Harvard University. The Mahindra Group’s media company, Mumbai Mantra, collaborated with Sundance Institute to organize the first-ever Screenwriters Lab in India.