Our Leadership

Dr. Salil Bhende, Founder, WorkingVet LLC

Dr. Salil Bhende DMD, FICOI, President and Founder

In 2019, Dr. Bhende founded WorkingVet LLC to apply his clinical expertise to information technology solutions in healthcare. He brings knowledge of CAD/CAM, CT scanners, insurance processing, and back-office functions, among other clinical domains, workflows, and processes.

Dr. Bhende has been practicing dentistry for over 25 years. He holds a DMD (Doctor of Dental Medicine) from Boston University's Goldman School of Dental Medicine. He is a Fellow Member of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (FICOI), which includes work at New York University.

Dr. Bhende served in the US Army. He deployed for Operation Noble Eagle in 2005. He retired from the Army Reserves as a Captain after serving the country for 8 years. Dr. Bhende has given free consultation and treatment to underserved populations, remote villages, and disaster-stricken regions in the US, Haiti, Romania, Brazil, and India.

Ashwin Gramopadhye, COO

Ashwin Gramopadhye joined Dr. Bhende in 2020 to bring IT expertise and technical leadership skills. He assists Dr. Bhende in developing technical proposals, recruitment, project execution, and strategy.

Ashwin brings 32 years of experience in technical applications and development. He began programming in the 1990s to create mathematical models for chemical engineering processes and equipment. His work in climatonomy and watershed modeling revived a failed simulation project and was used extensively in farmland irrigation. Ashwin subsequently worked on several fast-paced custom development projects, as well as COTS integrations, for customers such as Thomson Financial, Fannie Mae, Wachovia Bank, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Ashwin Gramopadhye holds an MS in Chemical Engineering. Ashwin holds various certifications in IT architecture, object-oriented languages, OOAD (Object-Oriented Analysis and Design), and cloud computing.