Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ashish Goyal, is a recipient of India’s National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities 2010. He was awarded on December 3, 2010 by President of India Pratibha Patil in New Delhi.Goyal was the first blind student at Wharton Business School, Philadelphia. He enrolled in 2006 and achieved an MBA with honours, also winning the Joseph P Wharton award, given annually to a student who symbolizes "Wharton's way of life".Goyal, who now lives in London, was also the first blind trader at J P Morgan, and possibly at in any bank anywhere in the world. He is now portfolio manager at J P Morgan’s Chief Investment Office. “Goyal uses screen-reading software to check his e-mail, read research reports and look at presentations. When he needs to read graphs, which the software cannot do, he goes through the data and tries to imagine the graph in his head.”Ashish represented the Metro London Sports Club in 2009 and his team won the UK domestic blind cricket tournament, “which is played with a slightly bigger ball that has sound.”Goyal was born and has lived most of his life in Mumbai, India. Born with perfect vision, he has retinitis pigmentosa, which caused his vision to deteriorate from age 9; by 22 he was entirely blind. He coped with this adversity by focusing his energies in excelling at academics. Goyal stood second in his class at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai and also won the 2003 Dun and Bradstreet Best Student Award. He worked at ING Vysya Bank as a fixed income trader in Bangalore for three years before joining Wharton.. }
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- Ashish_Goyal abstract "Ashish Goyal, is a recipient of India’s National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities 2010. He was awarded on December 3, 2010 by President of India Pratibha Patil in New Delhi.Goyal was the first blind student at Wharton Business School, Philadelphia. He enrolled in 2006 and achieved an MBA with honours, also winning the Joseph P Wharton award, given annually to a student who symbolizes "Wharton's way of life".Goyal, who now lives in London, was also the first blind trader at J P Morgan, and possibly at in any bank anywhere in the world. He is now portfolio manager at J P Morgan’s Chief Investment Office. “Goyal uses screen-reading software to check his e-mail, read research reports and look at presentations. When he needs to read graphs, which the software cannot do, he goes through the data and tries to imagine the graph in his head.”Ashish represented the Metro London Sports Club in 2009 and his team won the UK domestic blind cricket tournament, “which is played with a slightly bigger ball that has sound.”Goyal was born and has lived most of his life in Mumbai, India. Born with perfect vision, he has retinitis pigmentosa, which caused his vision to deteriorate from age 9; by 22 he was entirely blind. He coped with this adversity by focusing his energies in excelling at academics. Goyal stood second in his class at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai and also won the 2003 Dun and Bradstreet Best Student Award. He worked at ING Vysya Bank as a fixed income trader in Bangalore for three years before joining Wharton.".