Shimmy Mehta, founder/ceo

Shimmy first became passionate about children living with HIV/AIDS while he was a business student at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. Learning that Newark had the 5th highest AIDS population in the country, he was determined to help and get others to do so as well. He founded and organized the TKE Challenge for Pediatric AIDS, an award winning 300-mile, 3-day cycling event through New Jersey which provided a unique and fun way for his fraternity brothers to get involved in the community.

Early in his career with a Big Four accounting firm, Shimmy saw the need for a simple and rewarding way for busy people like himself to get involved in the community and he created Angelwish.org.

Shimmy quickly tapped into his network of contacts and mentors to incorporate, develop, and promote this unprecedented concept of digital philanthropy, spending the greater part of 9 years at the Firm matching the resources of his peers with the needs of the many children who are living with HIV/AIDS.

In 2006, Shimmy decided to leave his job and focus on Angelwish full time, go to London to start up Angelwish Limited, and co-found another nonprofit called "Karma Geek" to encourage technologists to help nonprofits leverage technology.

It must be nice to relax outside of the corporate rat race...