Board of Directors

HEAL Director

Meera was asked to join HEAL in 2004, when she began managing a team with responsibility for 17 different communities. Since that time, she has been instrumental in HEAL’s work. She currently serves as the organization’s Director and her responsibilities include monitoring, coordination, training, lobbying, and advocacy for all of HEAL’s day to day operations. Meera is very well qualified to lead our team in India. She co-founded a volunteer organization known as SAPID in 1986 and began working with HEAL in 2004. For almost 30 years, Meera has worked tirelessly to abolish impoverishment in India’s down trodden rural and tribal areas. Her focus has been on empowering the rural and tribal people to develop community cohesion and confidence in tackling the challenges they face. She earned her pre-doctorate & doctorate in sociology and her post graduate degree in law. She is a recipient of the Best Women social worker award (2009, 2010 & 2011) and the Mother Theresa Award (2010 & 2011).

Eric is a Principal at ghSMART, where he advises Fortune 500 companies, private equity investors, and hedge fund managers on their most important leadership and organizational challenges.  Eric’s focus areas include executive talent assessment and selection, organizational and talent strategy, leadership team effectiveness, and executive coaching.  He has a passion for helping leadership teams and motivated executives reach their full potential.

Prior to serving on the board, Eric served as HEAL’s President where for nearly four years he helped shape and execute the strategy.

Co-Founder

After living in India for two years, Peter co-founded the HEAL Foundation in 2002 and launched HEAL’s first project in India shortly thereafter. Since then, he has remained involved in causes focused on poverty alleviation. Peter co-wrote the initial business plan for Driptech, a venture capital backed startup which manufactures ultra low cost drip irrigation systems for poor farmers in India and China. He has written numerous successful grant applications and has secured funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, Aspen Network, Root Capital, TechnoServe, and others while with Hope Consulting, a boutique social sector consulting firm. Peter is currently a Principal at Sorenson Capital and began his career with the Boston Consulting Group. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds degrees in Economics and Political Science from Brigham Young University.

Cecil has been actively involved with HEAL since 2005. His work with donors has been pivotal in helping HEAL achieve the funding it needs to continue its work among India’s poor. Cecil recently finished a second term as a state representative in the Arizona House of Representatives and is now serving as a Justice of the Peace in Mesa Arizona. Over the course of his career, Cecil has been a private attorney, a public defender, a real estate agent, and a private business owner. He managed ViewPoint RV & Golf Resort for almost ten years and also served as a lobbyist to the UN for United Families International from 2004 to 2007. He obtained a Juris Doctor from Arizona State University law school in 1976 and a B.S. in Psychology from Brigham Young University in 1973.

Ty has been involved with the HEAL Foundation since 2003. Over the course of six trips to India he has helped manage health workers, program structure, fundraising and US volunteers. Ty received a BA in economics and Russian from Brigham Young University, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago. Ty is now an assistant professor of public management at the Romney Institute of Public Management in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. Ty is an experimental economist who researches the impact of aid programs in developing countries. He is also a consultant to the World Bank. Ty has worked to help HEAL focus on improving the efficiency and impact of our work in the slums of Hyderabad, and has been grateful to be a part of this work over the last several years.

President/Co-Founder

Jordan Ash, MD, MPH Jordan co-founded the HEAL Foundation in 2002. Since that time, he has taken an active role in researching effective strategies in sustainable development. His consistent trips to India have provided training to full-time staff and have helped shape HEAL’s approach to community empowerment. Jordan attained his Doctorate in Medicine and his Master of Public Health degrees with distinction from Johns Hopkins University. While at Hopkins, he had the privilege of studying public health under the late Carl Taylor, one of the world’s leading experts and practitioners in sustainable development. Dr. Taylor’s insight, experience and advice played a crucial role in molding Jordan’s vision and HEAL’s current programs. Jordan hopes to have a life-long role in improving the efficacy and sustainability of public health programs through the HEAL Foundation.