Tobby Simon

Biographical Details
"Tobby Simon is the Founder, President, and CEO of Synergia; a strategic international consulting organization which provides advisory and implementation services across a wide range of sectors, helping companies transform their businesses...

"In addition to being on the Board of Advisors for the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Tobby is a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, a member and invitee to The Trilateral Commission, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and a member of the core committee on Public Policy of the World Information Technology Services Alliance (WITSA)...

"In addition to his business endeavors Tobby is committed to a variety of humanitarian causes. He has worked closely with Nobel Prize winner, Medicines Sans Frontier in order to validate manufacturing facilities of Cipla, Ranbaxy and Aurobindo. This has enabled the WHO (World Health Organization) to procure less expensive anti-retroviral drugs from India. This project is helping millions of people affected by illness in Asia, Africa and South America. He has collaborated with the World Bank Group in critical relief projects to help the victims of the Gujarat earthquake and the South Asian Tsunami. Tobby has also been deeply involved in the education and development of children in a number of institutions and societies like Sneha Nilaya, ECHO, Action Aid, World Vision, Akshya Patra, Little Sisters For The Poor, Missionaries of Charity (Mysore and Bangalore), Sumanahalli (for people suffering from leprosy) and Good Shepherds Convent."