Ganesh has been a Fremont resident since 2002 and his twin boys were born at Washington Hospital. He grew up in Mumbai (India) where he earned his Undergraduate degree in Engineering, and then moved to the US for Graduate studies (Arizona State Univ, go Devils!!). He started his career as an Engineer, and later pursued an Executive MBA at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) and switched to a career in Technology Marketing. Ganesh has a keen interest in  Social, Economic and Ecological issues and keeps up his voracious reading on these subjects. He is also currently pursuing Graduate courses in the Economics of Sustainability at Torrens University (Australia) and Modern Money Lab.

For over 20 years, Ganesh has volunteered with and also served on the Board of Vibha, a non-profit serving the needs of underprivileged children in India and the US. This invaluable experience showed him the power of Public Education – to transform the lives of children, and society at large.

Ganesh is a local cricket parent, and has volunteered with youth cricket, traveling as team manager with the U-10, U-12 and U-14 teams to tournaments and training camps in the US as well as UK and India. Ganesh hopes one day to formally introduce cricket to FUSD.

“My most cherished vacation memories are from chaperoning, mentoring and traveling with our youth cricket teams”.

Ganesh is currently an active volunteer on the FUSD Superintendent’s Budget Advisory Task Force which meets monthly and reviews budget items and provides input to district staff that will be presented later to the School Board.

“Our School Board has a fiduciary responsibility to use the budget to provide quality public education to every student in Fremont. The budget is a reflection of our district’s priorities.”
– Ganesh Balamitran