Arti Kale
Arti grew up in a western state of India, near Bombay, in a family of five children. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a homemaker.
She studied in India prior to moving to the U.S. with her husband, Abhay in 1985. She was a homemaker, too, while raising their children. In 1994, she completed her Master’s degree in Information Systems at CU-Denver. She then went on to work for IBM for 16 years, followed by other positions at TravelPort, Centura Health and others. She retired in 2020.
She and Abhay have two children – a son in San Francisco, who is a lawyer, and a daughter in Pittsburgh, who is a nuclear engineer. They have one granddaughter in Pittsburgh.
Abhay Kale
Abhay grew up in central India, also in a family with five children. His father was an IRS agent for India, and as a result, they were moved often. Abhay ended up attending school in five different areas. He then attended college, earning both a Mechanical Engineering degree and an MBA. In India, he worked for one of the pioneers in IT in India and enjoyed traveling around the world for them and then started his own consulting firm.
He moved to the U.S. in 1985, first by himself, to Dallas, with the family joining him in 1986. By 1988, he moved to Denver to work for Bell Labs. He went on to work for New Era Networks, SAP American and others. Abhay retired in 2017.
In asking them why they chose to join as Lions, they both cited their desire to give back to those in need. Arti is one of the founders of an Association of Indians from her area of India – started in 2000 – and has already asked about how we go about attracting new members! Abhay has been volunteering to do taxes for people through AARP for a number of years. Both of them have already joined us in some of our Lions Activities, too!
Please welcome our newest Lions members, Arti and Abhay Kale.
