Leadership

Meet the board guiding speed, discipline, and dignity across every initiative.

Founders, operators, storytellers, and strategists—our leadership team pairs lived experience with relentless accountability to move generosity into measurable action.

Board leadership

Strategic minds with sleeves rolled up.

Our board pairs entrepreneurial execution with deep compassion. These are the people guiding every deployment, every partnership, and every safeguard around the communities we serve.

Gurbaksh Chahal

Chairman & Founder — CEO / Founder of AuraOne, philanthropist, and author.

At four years old, Gurbaksh immigrated from India to the United States and endured racism and bullying that shaped his commitment to dignity and opportunity for all.

He left high school at 16 to build his first dot-com company. Since then, he has launched technology ventures, authored international bestsellers, and invested in social impact initiatives worldwide.

Today he is CEO / Founder of AuraOne, an enterprise AI platform for evaluation, expert review, governance, and release evidence. AuraOne helps AI labs and enterprises test model work, route specialist review, preserve proof, and keep teams in control of the record behind every high-stakes AI workflow.

In 2012, he founded The Chahal Foundation to turn generosity into disciplined action across education, child protection, food security, safety & justice, and emergency response.

As chairman, he leads strategy, selects campaigns, and ensures every program is designed with the communities we serve.

"It doesn't matter where we live or what we look like. It doesn't matter whether we are rich or poor. We have the right to live without fear, to access education, to live a better life. These are bonds that link us all."

Rubina Bajwa

Board Member — actor, mother, advocate, and early-childhood education specialist amplifying child protection initiatives.

Born in Vancouver to parents who emigrated from India, Rubina built a celebrated career in the Punjabi film industry, winning Best Debut at the 2018 PTC Awards.

Before acting, she studied early-childhood education and special needs, grounding her passion for creating safe environments for children worldwide—and guiding how she parents with compassion and shared responsibility.

At The Chahal Foundation, Rubina drives campaigns that restore childhood: trafficking rescues, safe housing, mentorship, and trauma-informed recovery.

She splits time between her creative career and on-the-ground advocacy—activating global support to protect vulnerable families.

Troy Baloca

Director of Operations — operator and partnership-builder focused on getting help to families fast, with discipline and dignity.

Troy Baloca serves as Director of Operations at The Chahal Foundation, helping run day-to-day execution across initiatives—coordinating partners, logistics, and follow-through so support reaches the people who need it most.

He brings deep, on-the-ground experience from large-scale food-security operations. Troy has served as Director of Operations at Reaching Out, Inc. (Reaching Out Center) in San Jose, where he's focused on feeding over 150,000 struggling families, children, and seniors each year. Since joining in 2018, he helped increase annual operating revenues by 75% and expanded senior programs by 75%.

Troy's background also includes corporate partnership and growth roles, including Regional Corporate Sales Director responsibilities with UFC FIT/UFC GYM, and strategic account leadership earlier in his career at various tech startups.