Rasesh Desai Chair, Global Transactions Track     Ras Desai, President of Arkay Enterprises LLC, is a Management Consultant in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions and Exit Planning Strategies. Ras offers his clients forty plus years of diversified experience in Research and Development, Marketing and Sales, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, and Management Consulting. He has served in a variety of leadership roles with corporations in the following industries: Automotive, Business Brokerage, Chemicals, Plastics and Tourism. In addition, Ras has served on the Board of Directors of various professional and civic organizations. Ras is a founder of three businesses and currently serves as Chairman of the State Board of Michigan Business Brokers Association. Ras has extensively traveled through and developed businesses in the Far East, Middle East, Europe, and South America. He is multilingual and has formed strategic alliances with Mergers and Acquisitions professionals on an international level. Ras has been a resident of Michigan for over thirty years. Before coming to Michigan, Ras spent ten years in New England and New York.