Mr. Puran Dang
B. Tech Honors Degree from IIT Kharagpur (1959)
B.Sc. Honors Degree in Physics from Delhi University (1955)
MBA, Western New England University (1976)
Puran Dang has been the founder of many organizations in entrepreneurship, alumni networks, community groups, as well as service to the poor and the needy. By virtue of his professional eminence and success in business as well as his dedication and service for innumerable humanitarian causes, he has become an institution.
Entrepreneurship
- Founder and President/CEO of Minuteman Group for three decades where he grew the company to tremendous heights and was a pioneer in the industry. His goal has been to help hundreds of immigrants in finding their jobs and advance in their careers.
- Founding Charter Member of TIE-Boston, the second largest TIE group in the world. TIE has chapters all over the world and is the largest organization of its kind. Served also as a member of the board of directors.
- Co-Founder, Startup Leadership Program (SLP), a highly selective, 80-hour, 6-month world-class training program and lifetime network for outstanding founders and innovators that is educating 2700 entrepreneurs in 29 cities from 13 countries.
- Founder of the first ever IIT Alumni Association in the world. Dang founded IIT SINE in 1991 and this organization laid the foundation for the now global organization known as Pan-IIT which has chapters all over the world. Dang was honored as Chairman Emeritus of IIT SINE.
- Served as the President/Chairman of MITHAS which is a function of MIT's School of Arts & Music whose mission is to promote and nurture performing arts of South Asia. Dang has been honored with the life-time title of Chairman Emeritus for his service to MITHAS.
- Served as Chairman of the New England Chapter of Ekal Vidyalaya, an organization that provides education to poor children in tribal and remote areas of India. It is currently educating 1.6 million poor children. Dang was honored with the Most Distinguished Service Award by Ekal Vidyalaya.
- First Ambassador, Akshaya Patra USA--the mission of which is to provide food and education for poor children in India and abroad. Children are provided a hot, healthy lunch on a daily basis. This revolutionary program has been given several awards and has been praised by The Clinton Foundation as a model to emulate.
- Serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Vision-Aid, an organization that helps vision deficient people in India.
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- Founder and first Chairman of Indian Americans of Lexington (IAL), an organization that promotes cultural, social, and educational programs.
- Appointed member of the Human Rights Commission of the town of Lexington, MA.
- Served as Former Chairman of Internship Program of Indian American Forum for Political Education (IAFPE).
- One of the Founders and Former President of the United Indian Association.
- First Distinguished Service Gold Medal Award by his alma-mater, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2011. He was chosen out of 45,000 graduates.
- Distinguished Serice Award by Ekal Vidyalaya
- Distinguished Service Award by IIT-SINE
- Chairman Emeritus: IIT-SINE
- Chairman Emeritus: MITHAS (MIT Heritage of the Arts of South Asia)
- Charter Member Emeritus: TIE-Boston
- "Star of Boston" by the New England India News
- Citation by the Governor of Massachusetts for Community Service and Business Ethics