Ram Gada

Ram has been in Minnesota since 1965 and has been connected with IAM since 1983 in various capacities, like bylaw revisions and TAC formation, the community liaison committee, the nomination committee, scholarship award judging, and annual IAM award judging. Ram, with his wife, Neena Gada, is involved in several organizations like SILC, Gujarati Samaj, Jain Center of Minnesota, Hindu Society of Minnesota, MAIDA, KOJAIN, and JAINA. Ram has played a very important role in developing IAM oral history projects since 1992 and bringing the Beyond Bollywood exhibition to the History Center in 2016. Ram is an honorary Council Member at the Minnesota Historical Society after serving on the Council from 2003–12 as vice president and serving on the finance and Grant Award Committees. Ram is a recipient of several awards, including the 2014 Lifetime Achievement award from the Asia Pacific Council in 2014 and the 2019 JAINA Ratna Award from the Jain Federation in North America. Ram and Neena Gada are part of the book "$8MAN" published in 2017. Ram was a founder and president of Gada & Associates, Inc., Consulting Engineers (1980-2010), and served as president of Minnesota ASHRAE in 1982 and as a historian in 1984-85.