About
Ritesh Tandon

After two decades in the Silicon Valley, Indian-American engineer and businessman, Ritesh Tandon, is running for Congress in the South Bay.  He has built a successful career in technology while simultaneously being leader by helping others through his work with nonprofits.

Recently, Tandon has been conducting research at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business as a Garwood Innovation Fellow. His research topic is “How to Revive California’s Economy Using Open Innovation”. He also continues as the CEO of Kricel Corporation, which he founded after working in engineering and marketing at Cisco and GN.

Tandon says, “Over two decades ago, I immigrated to this country as a student searching for the American Dream. I found it here, in the heart of our Bay Area. I believe this community is the greatest in our nation, and it angers me to see the Washington, D.C. elite ignore our values of strong family devotion and hard work. It will be my top priority to represent you, not entrenched party bosses.”

“As a former President of a non-profit, I see how many Bay Area families are struggling to make ends meet. As a father, I know the $23-trillion national debt is stealing our children’s future. As an independent, small businessman, I understand the crushing burden of job-killing regulations.”

Professionally, Ritesh Tandon worked on unified communications products for Cisco, starting with engineering and continuing with technical marketing. Then, he managed strategic alliances for Jabra, which makes audio devices. Currently, Ritesh is the CEO of the Kricel Corporation.

At the same time, Ritesh served as an executive committee member of Sankara Eye Foundation, which has established nine hospitals to eradicate curable blindness.  He raised millions of dollars for the hospitals and helped select the site for one of them.  He also served as a volunteer, and later on, the president of UPMA, an organization which supports education and childcare of poor kids, for five years.

Ritesh Tandon is running for Congressman in CA District 17, which has not changed much as a result of redistricting. It includes Fremont, Milpitas, Alviso, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Cupertino. He is challenging incumbent, Ro Khanna, who is serving as a national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ campaign.

As a father of two wonderful children, Ritesh is always seeking to make his community better for his family and others. Seeing a lack of representation of our values in Washington, D.C., Ritesh is seeking to serve the Bay Area in Congress. Ritesh will fight for all of our communities and ensure the residents of the 17th Congressional District have a voice in Washington, D.C.

Ritesh Tandon (里特.丹頓）在28歲的時候，懷抱著自由和獨立的美國夢，進入矽谷的聖塔克拉拉大學攻讀電腦工程碩士學位。在那裡他認識了他未來的妻子，同樣是電腦工程師的Zurica Dhar，他們在2001年結婚，在灣區定居。
丹頓早年在Cisco 從事通訊產品的研發工作，後來轉任技術行銷，負責帶領Jabra 音頻產品策略團隊。同時，丹頓開始接觸社區服務，擔任非營利組織 Sankara Eye Foundation 的執行委員會委員， 這個基金會在印度建立了9家醫院，幫助數十萬人重建光明，他也為這個基金會籌集了數百萬美元。他還曾擔任UPMA 的志願者，擔任了五年的總裁，這個組織支持貧困兒童的教育。

丹頓說：「二十多年前，我作為一個移民學生來到這個國家，在這裡實現了我的美國夢。矽谷是我心裡的夢田，我相信社區的力量。看到華盛頓精英們忽略了我們對家庭的奉獻和辛勞工作的價值關，我感到相當憤怒。我會誠摯的為選民工作，而不是像傳統政客一樣，跟隨黨的旨意。」
「作為非營利組織的前總裁，我看到很多灣區家庭正在辛苦的維持生計。作為一個父親，我知道23 萬億美元的國債正在竊取我們孩子的未來。作為一個獨立的小商人，我知道不合理的法規會扼殺生計，對經商者帶來沈重的負擔。」

丹頓的選區是加州的17 選區，包括紐瓦克 Newark，弗利蒙 Fremont，苗必達 Milpitas，北聖荷西 （North San Jose)，桑尼維爾 (Sunnyvale)，庫布提諾 (Cupertino)。他的爭對手是現任的羅康納 （Ro Khanna)，羅康納也是桑德斯Bernie Sanders 的全國競選活動聯席主席。

作為兩個孩子的父親，丹頓一直在努力的為他自己的家人和他人改善社區。鑑於我們的價值觀在華盛頓沒有代表性，丹頓尋求在國會為灣區民眾服務的機會。丹頓將為我們所有的社區而戰，並且確保17 國會議員選區的居民在華盛頓的發言權。