Talat Hasan is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of India Community Center. The Center opened its 20K sq.ft. facility in 2003 and already serves over 6000 people a month. In June 2007, ICC will open it’s new 40,000 sq.ft. state-of-art facility.  

Talat has been a technologist and an entrepreneur for over two decades. She was CEO of Sensys Instruments, a company she founded in 1996 to market products for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The company has been acquired by ThermaWave, a public company, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ThermaWave.  She holds an M.A. in Physics from Oxford University and a B.Sc. in Physics from Aligarh Muslim University (India).  

Prior to founding Sensys, she was vice president of corporate business development at Tencor Instruments (now KLA/Tencor), which in 1983 acquired Prometrix Corporation, a company co-founded by her.  At Prometrix, she was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and a Board member.  Previously, she worked as a scientist, conducting research in semiconductor characterization and process control and working for almost five years at Signetics Corporation/Philips Research Labs in Sunnyvale, California.  

She currently serves on the board of directors of Microbar and the board of trustees of Castilleja School (a private school for girls) and of IBPW (Indian Business and Professional Women), and is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). She is also active, with her husband, in investing in start-up companies through Hitek Venture Partners.

With her husband, Talat has established the “Hasan Family Foundation” in US and the “Nurul Hasan Educational Foundation” in India (named after her late father, Professor Nurul Hasan, an eminent educator who was Minister of Education in the cabinet of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and was a governor of the State of West Bengal, India). She and her husband, Kamil, have endowed a chair in Indian classical music at the University of California in Santa Cruz through “Hasan Family Foundation”.  The foundation is also actively involved in providing funding to local schools, and scholarships and financial assistance to first year students from India at US universities.  Through the “Nurul Hasan Educational Foundation” in India, Talat and Kamil are providing scholarships for students from under-privileged sections of India at several major Indian Universities, including AMU, Jamia Milia, Jamia Hamdard and JNU.  In addition, the Foundation setup a Computer and Vocational Training Center in Delhi.