Dr. Manish Mehta is an Ann Arbor-based engineering consultant and President of M-Tech International LLC – a company specializing in open-innovation and organizing advanced technology ventures to bridge the “valley of death” in scaling lightweighting materials, alternative energy, nanotechnology and sustainable manufacturing processes for applications in the U.S. automotive, aerospace and defense industry. He schooled in East Africa, India and Singapore before obtaining his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Bangalore University (India), followed by MS and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from University of Cincinnati (USA). He also completed the Executive Program at the University of Michigan’s Ross Business School in Ann Arbor. With authorship of over 80 technical publications, he is a Fellow of ASM International, Engineering Society of Detroit and Alpha Sigma Mu Materials Honors Society and a Lifetime Member of Society of Manufacturing Engineers.  He received the United States Council for Automotive Research's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 for organizing public-private research collaborations in advanced materials and  sustainable manufacturing, totaling $150M in value for Chrysler/Stellantis, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors over an engagement spanning nearly three decades.
Manish is a second-generation Rotarian since 1995 and a Past President of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North. He led a six-member, month-long Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange Team to Bangalore, India and participated in India’s National Polio Immunization campaigns, and also documented child labor in the silk industry.
As Director of International Service, he has organized over twenty Rotary International Foundation Global Grant projects totaling over $1.0 million, and led several Rotarian teams for monitoring progress via site tours in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Uruguay, US Virgin Islands and in mainland USA, by leveraging diverse on-site partners and NGOs for implementation. Example projects include supply of medical equipment to rural hospitals in W. India, investigating the humanitarian reuse of pacemakers sourced in the US, Rotary pollinator garden in partnership with the City of Ann Arbor, providing school-boats for empowering school girls in water-logged and isolated villages (Bangladesh), installing over 1,300 in-home sanitation systems for rural women (Sundarbans Forest, India), micro-finance for ~200 entrepreneurs (Lagos, Nigeria), computer literacy and vocations for disabled youth (Ahmedabad, India), environmental remediation of a community pond and school sanitation (Bungamati, Nepal), installing a solar roof for refrigeration system in a farmers’ market (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands), Happy Schools and sanitation for schools in a reforested quarry land (Piplantri, India), and Pandemic Relief Project for Detroit (USA).
He was awarded Rotarian of the Year in 1998, 2012 and 2017, the Four Avenues of Service Citation in 2000, and Rotary D6380 Foundation’s PDG Terry Youlton Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2015 and 2017, as well as the Ann Arbor Rotary Club’s Robert S. Northrup Humanitarian Award in 2022. 
Manish is a member of the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG) since 2021, and a co-founder of the Plant-Rich Diet Task Force – a global fellowship which promotes powerful personal actions one can take to improve health and tackle the climate crisis by reducing the carbon footprint of our food choices. He also volunteers with the Federation of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA) – the largest faith-based organization of Jains outside India, and serves in JAINA's academic, diaspora and long-range planning committee leadership positions. He strives to follow the Jain motto “Live and Help Live.”