Mahesh Gehani was recently honoured as rising star in the Dallas business community. Each year the Dallas Business Journal selects 40 honorees under the age of 40. This year Mahesh was selected, when the program included Dallas business' brightest person from each major industry in the city, including, an international social networking guru, a frozen yogurt entrepreneur, a commercial real estate developer carrying on his family tradition, and a researcher working to cure breast cancer. In addition to that they must have performed community service.
Mahesh graduated from University of Maryland and got his masters degree from University of Texas at Austin. He now works as Director of Credit at Nexbank. His idols are Marc Faber and Bill Gross who see things in the financial world as they are and not as they would like them to be. His greatest challenge has been to incorporate networking and long term perspective of business into his career trajectory. His motto is to be persistent and never give up. His keys to success are high work ethic and to treat others well. He would like to be known as a genuine person perceived as being thorough and open-minded about what he does.
As a part of community service he recently completed 100 km bike ride to raise funds for American Diabetes Association. He is also involved with Youth America Foundation, working with at-risk middle school kids, to get them thinking about college. He plans to develope its strtegic plan going forward. He has contributed in different other roles, e.g. as board member of CFA society of Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Bhagnari community is proud of Mahesh and wish him success in his future endeavours.
