North America Telugu Society (NATS) announced its leadership team for the years 2016 and 2017

2016 and 2017 NATS Executive Committee:

Mohan Krishna Mannava -- President
Srinivas Koneru- Executive Vice President
Rama Krishna Koganti -- Vice President
Basavendra Surpapaneni -- Vice President
Sai Yellapragada -- Vice President
Ramesh Nuthalapati -- Secretary
Srinivas babu Manchikalapudi -- Treasurer
Sridhar Kesani -- Joint Secretary
Vijay Sekhar Anne -- Joint Treasurer
Murali Medicherla -- Executive Joint Secretary (Media relations)
Bapu Nuthi -- Executive Joint Secretary (Web)

2016-17 Board positions:

Srinivas Maddali -- Chairman, Board of Directors
Srinivas Guthikonda -- Vice Chairman, Board of Directors
Sreedhar Appasani -- Secretary, Board of Directors
Mohan Krishna Mannava is elected as NATS President. Mohan Krishna Mannava, currently working as NATS Vice President hails from Guntur City and currently resides in Edison, New Jersey. He worked in Senior Executive roles in several renowned Wall Street companies in the past and currently he is into Restaurants, Real Estate and Software consulting business.

Srinivas Maddali is elected as NATS Board Chairman. Srinivas Maddali's current role is NATS Board of Director. Originally from Vijayawada, Srinivas Maddali currently lives in New Jersey. Srinivas Maddali is one of the renowned name in Pharmacy industry and has been a successful entrepreneur in Pharmacy and other businesses from last 25 years.

Srinivas Guthikonda, current NATS Director and a very successful I.T. entrepreneur from Clearwater, Florida is elected as NATS Board Vice Chairman.

Sreedhar Appasani, current NATS Director & Founding member of NATS from Exton, Pennsylvania is reelected as NATS Board Secretary. Sreedhar Appasani is a senior project manager in Lucent Technologies and is also into Telecom and restaurants business.

Srinivas Koneru, current NATS Director from Irving, Texas is elected as NATS Executive Vice President. Srinivas Koneru is working as I.T.Manager in Verizon and is also into restaurants business.

Rama Krishna Koganti from Dallas, Texas is reelected as NATS Vice President. Currently, Ramakrishna Koganti is into consulting business in I.T, Health care and Automotive Industries.

Basavendra Surapaneni, current NATS Secretary is elected as NATS Vice President. Currently, he is working as Senior Systems Analyst in Ford Motors and currently resides in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Sai Yerrapragada, current NATS Joint Secretary is elected as NATS Vice President. Currently, he is working as Performance Architect at IBM and currently resides in  Orlando, Florida.

Ramesh Nuthalapati, Senior I.T. Manager at Viacom is elected as NATS Secretary. Ramesh Nuthalapati currently resides in New Jersey and is also into I.T. consulting business.

Srinivas Manchikalpaudi, current NATS Joint Treasurer is elected as NATS Treasurer. Srinivas Manchikalapudi is currently working as Senior Software Analyst at Express Scripts and resides in St.Louis, Missouri.

Sridhar Kesani, I.T. Entrepreneur from Columbus, Ohio is elected as NATS Joint Secretary.

Sekhar Anne, Systems Integration Advisor at CompuCom Inc is elected as NATS Joint Treasurer. He resides in Frisco, Texas and is also into restaurants business.

Murali Medicherla, current NATS Media Coordinator is elected as NATS Executive Secretary (Media relations). He is working as Senior Analyst at Nomura Financials and resides in Edison, New Jersey.

Bapu Nuthi, current NATS Web Master is elected as NATS Executive Secretary (Web). He is working as Project Lead at Mary Kay Inc and currently lives in Dallas, Texas.

NATS Board Chairman Srinivas Maddali and NATS President Mohan Krishna Mannava and other newly elected members of NATS Executive Committee expressed their happiness and thanked NATS Election Committee and NATS Board for electing them. NATS is working with the government and universities officials to address the recent deportation issues of Indian students from 2 universities in USA. NATS is also setting up a students cell to address these issues going forward. They mentioned that NATS would be also undertaking a special project 'Adopt a school'. As part of this initiative, NATS will work with the local community to Adopt schools in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states. They mentioned that they have several other projects in the pipeline and more details will be provided soon. All of them pledged that they would abide by NATS principles and policies and would carry forward NATS Ideologies and would work hard to preserve and promote Telugu language and Culture.

NATS, the premier national Telugu Organization is the first Indian organization to start a 24 hours help line (1-888-4-TELUGU) and anyone who wants to be part of NATS Organization and NATS Service initiatives can join NATS at https://www.natsworld.org/become-a-member/. For more details, please visit www.natsworld.org. Happy holidays and advance happy new year.