Board of Directors

Pavan Nagavelli is an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County. He previously practiced law as a civil litigator for a number of years. He is a graduate of Suffolk University Law school.

Deepa Desai is an associate at Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP. She represents employers in a variety of labor and employment matters. Deepa is a graduate of Boston University (cum laude), where she studied Political Science and History, and Northeastern University School of Law, where she concentrated in Labor, Work, and Income and Business and Commercial Law.

Verna focuses her practice on corporate transactional matters, including corporate formation, growth financing, and stock and asset acquisitions. In particular, she advises numerous clients in the energy sector, including energy project developers and investors, and technology companies in the renewable energy generation, energy storage, and water technology industries.  Verna regularly advises renewable energy and energy storage developers and sponsors  in connection with the development, acquisition, sale, and financing of utility- and distributed-scale projects and project portfolios.

Verna is also actively involved in the ESG and impact investing community and frequently advises companies with respect to their impact and sustainability goals.

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.

Mathew Eapen is a corporate associate in the Boston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia and master’s degrees in public policy and bioethics from Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. He received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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.

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

Mona Zafar is a Trial Attorney at Capplis Connors & Carroll, P.C., where she focuses on Medical Malpractice. Mona obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology and minor in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts Boston and her law degree from New England law, Boston.

Hena Vora is a litigation associate at Proskauer Rose LLP, where she focuses on securities, private funds, and asset management litigation matters. Hena earned her J.D. from Emory University School of Law, where she received the Pro Bono Publico honor and a Transactional Law Certificate. In addition, she was a national competitor on the Moot Court Society and served as president of Emory’s South Asian Law Students Association. While at Emory, she served as judicial intern for Judge Denny Chin at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, legal extern for General Electric and securities research assistant to Professor George Georgiev.

Prior to law school, Hena worked as a paralegal at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, focusing on residential mortgage-backed securities litigation. She also interned for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

Natasha is currently Associate Counsel for Travelers Companies Staff Counsel representing a wide range of policyholders as a civil litigation defense attorney. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Louisville and her law degree from Suffolk University Law School.