Ashok Pai
New York State Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
Current transaction for Sale
Off Market Townhouse $100,000,000*
Located In Community District 6
*Not able to disclose property address due to NDA
Past transactions include
29 Prince Street #5 Rental
https://streeteasy.com/rental/1184500
Press
(see bottom of the page for more press—New York Times, Radar….)
This article on sober bars featured Ashok Pai in the New York Post https://nypost.com/2019/04/23/nycs-sober-bar-scene-is-a-hip-oasis-for-booze-free-fun/
ETHICAL AND EFFICACIOUS LLC
The thing that brought Ashok Pai “Shoky” to Columbia University was the quandary posed by the answer Gandhi gave to the question of what made him saddest in life. He said “the hardness of heart of the well educated.” Take a country like his partial ancestral homeland, India, and there are 830 million people living on less than 50 cents a day. Ironically the solution is what Ayn Rand talked about: capitalism, but socially concerned, corporate responsible, capitalism as practiced In Scandinavia and continental Europe.
Shoky has created a form of such capitalism, a media and investment company that will bring politically progressive, content and advertising to network TV vis a vis barter syndication agreements. These agreements will bring new, very sizable, up until now unreachable, lead-in audiences to TV networks in exchange for heavily discounted airtime that will then be sold to highly vetted ethical advertisers. Examples of content and advertisers are Amnesty International, Bernie Sanders, Trillium Investments, Domini Investments, Whole Foods, the Sierra Club, the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its membership, the ACLU, dissident leaders from abroad, the National Organization of Women, Michael Moore, Aubrey Organics and unions.
Key members of a number of these organizations have expressed interest in this company. E & E expects to launch four very entertaining, erudite, eclectic, tv shows by August 2019. Infomercials for the good gals and guys. He will be a part of the content/talent.
One of these TV shows, the Ethical Company Shopping Club, will, through education, take pension plan beneficiaries, the largest block of investors in the country, over 7 trillion dollars worth, far larger than the 60 wealthiest families that have around 1 trillion, and transpose them into active intelligent investors. E & E will enable these now active pension investors to influence, select and fire their, what up to now have been appointed financial intermediaries, mainly portfolio managers, to invest in creative investments, one a quarter, mainly socially concerned 13ds, that will be part of corporate concerned lbos. 13ds must be filed when an individual or group take over 5% of a publicly held company. The 13d statement sets down the purpose of the acquisition and any plans for major changes in the target company. These creative investments will replace the management, mission, policies, products, services, political contributions and foreign activities of the target companies.
The net result being a socially concerned transnational corporation that endeavors, vis a vis its core strategic processes: management, mission, policies, products, services, political contributions and foreign activities that instead of increasing the 830 million in one country living on 50 cents a day, contributes to decreasing that number and dealing effectively with a whole host of externalities. The revised corporate charter documents of the targeted TNCs and by-laws being based on the premise that doing good and doing well are synonymous. E & E expect the first 13d to be filed in the fourth quarter of 2019. Ethical and Efficacious LLC, a social concerned media and investment partnership.
That, E&E, is his major, his minor is he is a flaneur and a connector. He is a licensed salesperson doing off-market, ultra high end residential investment sales and vegan restaurant leases in New York City. He is also creating events with a holistic healing emphasis.
About
He was social director of one of the key contemporary art galleries in New York City, Rox Gallery. He was the “event connector” for a challenger for mayor Bill Deblasio, Jack Hidary, also a Columbia alumnus, who is a tech executive helping Mr. Hidary gain entree to ultra high net-worth connections, mainly in the Hamptons, the summer before the 2013 election. Then he helped the former CEO of MTV, Ed Bennett (bennettmediastudio.com), who was also the founder of music television network VH1, go to China for a year, to help him with his social life and cross-border business and artistic ventures.
Press
Shoky Pai is also a fashion enthusiast. His coat was featured in the style section of New York Magazine. https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/boys-night-out-mustache-wax-and-lots-of-flannel/slideshow/2015/01/14/boys_night_out
Shoky Pai was mentioned in the Huffington Post when speaking to Beyonce about socially responsible capitalism and fashion at an Obama event:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/beyonce-obama-fundraiser-red-dress_n_1897267.html
Mentioned as a “creative media entrepreneur at the Alexander Wang fashion show after party:
Shoky Pai was mentioned as the “elfin Indian dude” by the late Gawker: http://gawker.com/316922/paper-magazines-nightlife-awards
Shoky Pai was mentioned in the article about his investment in North Williamsburg real estate: http://observer.com/2010/06/bohemia-or-bust-billyburgs-58-metropolitan-selfmythologizes/