Draft:Navin K. Desai

Navin Desai (died 2004) was an Indian American entrepreneur and philanthropist based in New Jersey. A residential school runs in his name in Maharashtra, India, and provides free education to children of sex workers and migrant quarry workers.

Career
Desai was a co-founder of Chem-Spray, an aerosol company based in New Jersey, in the 1960s. He was the director of research for the company. His other roles at the company were as secretary and treasurer.

Desai was the founder of Tylorean Glass Company in Austria in 1970s. He represented manufacturers in Europe and South America. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the New Jersey Packaging Executives Club in 2012 posthumously.

Desai was a producer for American movies in the 1980s, including Tiger Warsaw starring Patrick Swayze, and An Unremarkable Life starring Patricia Neal and Shelley Winters.

Philanthropy
Navin Desai Residential School was established in 2007, about 3 years after his death, in Panchgaon, near Nagpur in Maharashtra, India. It provides free education to children of sex workers and children of migrant quarry workers. The school is run by social worker Ram Ingole. Some of the students today have gone on to become engineers and lawyers.

Personal life and education
Desai was born in Navsari in Gujarat, India. He moved to the United States in 1955, and to Cedar Grove, New Jersey in 1964. He passed away in 2004 at the age of 68 years.

Desai was a member of Montclair Golf Club, and a winner of the Cecil Smith Memorial Trophy.

Desai had a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Michigan. He majored in chemical engineering.