Mohit Daswani CC’95 is the chief financial officer of SimplePractice, a Vista Equity–backed company and the largest software platform serving the independent mental healthcare industry. Daswani helps advance SimplePractice’s mission to empower practitioners and to make mental health accessible to all Americans.

Prior to joining SimplePractice, Daswani served as chief financial officer of ThoughtSpot, an AI-powered analytics company, where he helped scale the business threefold. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at several influential financial and technology institutions. He served as head of strategy and finance at Square (now Block) during a period of rapid revenue growth and its early years as a public company, and as chief financial officer of Payments, Platform, and Risk at PayPal as it navigated its separation from eBay. Daswani also served as a principal at JMI Equity and FTV Capital, and previously spent many years as a private equity professional at J.P. Morgan.

Daswani is deeply committed to service and mentorship. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Oportun, the largest specialty financial services company serving the U.S. Latino population, and is an Advisory Board member at both Bain Capital Ventures and Centana Growth Equity. He is also a mentor with SaaS Boomi, the largest software incubator for software companies in India and helps lead public relations efforts on the West Coast for theSwaminarayan Hindu Sanstha, one of the largest Hindu organizations in the United States.

Daswani also has been an active leader in the Columbia College alumni community, serving as co-chair of the Fund Development Council and as a member of the Columbia College Alumni Association Executive Board. While a student, he founded Sangam Magazine, Columbia’s South Asian journal, and the Hindu Students Organization with his now-wife, Sejal CC’95, SIPA’96. He was chair of the Earl Hall Student Governing Board, a baccalaureate speaker and a senior class marshal. Daswani received the Class of 1908 and the Gold Crown Awards for his campus leadership, as well as The New York Times’ Young Citizens Award.

Raamla Mohamed Hunter CC’03 is the creator and showrunner/executive producer for Onyx Collective’s first scripted drama series, Reasonable Doubt, in conjunction with ABC Signature. Season Four of the hit drama is in pre-production.

Hunter signed her first overall deal with ABC Signature in 2018, and has been in the Disney family since 2009, where she started as a production assistant on Grey’s Anatomy followed by becoming a fellow in the Disney/ABC Writing program. She was a writer/co-executive producer on the Emmy-nominated series Little Fires Everywhere for Hulu.

Prior to that, Hunter was a writer and producer on the ABC television series Scandal, for which she penned 11 episodes including the Season Seven crossover with How to Get Away with Murder.

Hunter earned a bachelor’s in English and comparative literature, and a master’s from the University of Southern California. She was born and raised in Los Angeles.