Board of Directors

Zaheer is a trial and appellate lawyer practicing civil litigation at Frisoli Associates, P.C. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has tried cases and argued appeals before the state and federal courts in Massachusetts. He grew up in Southern California and attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles. He moved to Boston for law school and earned his law degree at Boston University. He joined SABA Greater Boston’s Board of Directors in 2019. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and scuba diving. 

Payal Salsburg focuses her practice in the areas of business litigation, corporate advice and counsel, and white collar criminal defense. She represents corporations, small businesses and individuals in connection with an array of matters including contract and business disputes, False Claims Act litigation, and government and internal investigations. Payal also routinely advises closely-held businesses on corporate and employment matters. Payal speaks fluent Hindi.

Payal is a graduate of the College of Saint Elizabeth in New Jersey, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in Mathematics and Computer Science. She earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, College of Engineering and Applied Science, and a JD magna cum laude from the Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Verna Krishnamurthy is Corporate Counsel at Sanofi, where she advises on compliance and commercial contracting matters as part of the company's Market Access legal team. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and served as a board member for the South Asian Law Students Association. Verna received her undergraduate degrees in Political Philosophy and Spanish from the University of Pittsburgh.

Darshana Indira is  a Boston employment and litigation attorney who represents executives and other professionals in matter such as severance negotiations, non-compete agreements and negotiating  contract matters. Attorney Indira is licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New York. She is admitted to practice in the Federal District Court for Massachusetts. She practices before these courts and before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the EEOC.  She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Suffolk University Law School.

Anant Saraswat represents companies in federal court, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in intellectual property cases. Anant has experience with numerous aspects of intellectual property litigation. In addition, Anant maintains an active pro bono practice.

Prior to law school, Anant was a software engineer at Oracle Corporation from 2003 to 2006, and was also a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic.

Anant clerked for Judge Juan Torruella of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 2011 to 2012.

Heena Wozny is an Associate Attorney at MassHousing and focuses primarily on real estate debt financing deals such as acquisition, construction and development financings for multi-family and mixed-use real estate projects. Heena regularly advises the business teams on issues in connection with debt structuring, participations as well as statutory tax credits.

Heena earned her LL.M. in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law. Prior to an LL.M., Heena practiced law in India as an Attorney at Juris Corp and gained significant experience representing international lenders, borrowers and investors in a variety of commercial lending transactions, including restructurings and recapitalizations. She obtained her foreign J.D. and undergraduate degree in B.S. Management from the University of Mumbai, India.

Ritika focuses her practice on civil litigation, in the areas of products liability and employment law. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Legal Studies. She earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Aditya is a dual-qualified corporate attorney at the Boston office of Mintz. He was a physics undergrad at St. Stephen’s College before getting a law degree from Delhi University’s Faculty of Law. After a few years working for Dua Associates and AZB & Partners in India, the call of a second stint in law school proved too strong and he went back for a JD at the University of Minnesota, picking up an LLM in international tax from Uppsala University in Sweden along the way. His favorite sweater-vest makes him look a bit like Raj from The Big Bang Theory.

Kieran Johal is an ERISA & Executive Compensation associate at Goodwin Procter LLP. She received her law degree from Duke University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Smith College. Kieran joined SABA Greater Boston’s Board of Directors in 2019

Ashwin is Director of Intellectual Property at Rapid7, a cybersecurity software company, where he has overall responsibility for the strategic direction and coordination of all aspects of Rapid7's intellectual property operations including patent prosecution, IP litigation, technology transactions, open source, and public policy.

Prior to joining Rapid7, Ashwin was Senior Associate at Campbell Stephenson, LLP in Austin, TX where he represented technology companies including Dell, Veritas, Cisco, and Symantec in patent prosecution matters.

Ashwin received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, and an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley.