Business leaders meet Kentucky Governor

CHICAGO, IL — Kentucky Governor Mathew Griswold Bevin and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer met with Chicago’s Indian American Business Council (IABC) leading directors and Indo American Friends Group business delegation from India at the Hilary Conference Center on the Bellarmine University campus in Louisville, Kentucky.

Bevin and Fischer warmly greeted the delegations and sat down for an extensive round table discussion in advancing and building bridges of business partnerships between India and the commonwealth of Kentucky.

The significant dialogue seeks to open and enhance business opportunities between Kentucky and India.

Bevin attentively listened to every presentation made by Chicago’s leaders and the Indian delegates and urged them to submit a summarized briefs to identify ways that can advance business opportunities.

The visiting members engaged in fruitful exchange of views and pledged to actively explore opportunities to build bridges of business partnerships between India and Kentucky.

Only eight Indian American business companies are currently doing business in Kentucky and Bevin urged the IABC to submit ideas, models and plans that seek to rapidly expand and add more Indian Americans businesses in Kentucky and urged the council to be emissaries to help build bridges of business ties between India and Kentucky.

Poonam Gupta-Krishnan, founder-director of IABC and founder of Govt Technology Foundation [GTF], highlighted the ripe opportunities to foster trade exchange between India and Kentucky through small and medium scale enterprises, joint ventures, technology transfer, investment opportunities and export/import prospects.

Keerthi Kumar Ravoori, principal director, IABC, said the council could play an effective role in helping the administration in identifying innovative technological solutions that would address ways to reduce redundancies in the administrative machinery and thus help contribute in reducing the looming budget imbalances.

Deepak Tiwari, Kentucky’s largest Indian American businesses owner, and Dr. Sanhita Agnihotri, IABC strategic advisor, also spoke.