Ms. Tandon, a Trustee of New York University, serves on the Board of Overseers at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she is also Executive-in-Residence; the Dean's Council at NYU Wagner School of Public Service and the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University. Through these involvements, she has actively worked on domestic and global strategy, formulated new initiatives and conducted guest lectures on leadership, restructuring and transformation. In 2009, Ms. Tandon received the Walter Nichols medal for representing the highest ideals of business, service and integrity from NYU Stern - whose prior recipients include Rockefeller, Greenspan and Welch. In 2010, Ms. Tandon was inducted into The Sir Harold Acton Society of New York University in recognition of her efforts on behalf of higher education.

Ms. Tandon is a trustee and board member of the American India Foundation, an advisory board member of Pratham USA and the Indo- American Arts Council, and a founding board member of the Hindu Community Outreach Foundation. She chairs the Krishnamurthy Tandon Foundation which supports nonprofit organizations that focus on sustainable livelihoods, women's economic power, education, the arts and spirituality.

Ms. Tandon is also a trained Indian classical singer. She has released two albums, the latest being Soul Call, a 2011 Grammy nominated album, which is also a not for profit initiative where 100 pct of the proceeds will benefit organizations in the fields of community building, arts and spirituality.

Ms. Tandon lives in New York City with her husband Ranjan, founder and President of an investment firm, and their daughter Lita, a recent graduate of Yale University.