The South Asian Business Association was founded in 2022 by Zayna Deonath '24, Rohan Sharma'24, and Vishwajit Sharma '23. They saw a need at Cornell for a business organization with an innovative curriculum that ventured beyond finance and management consulting to explore all facets of the world of business, including entrepreneurship, alternative asset investing, and real estate. This mission, coupled with a desire to bring South Asian Cornellians together into a tight-knit community, led to the founding of SABA.

​The three brought together many of the most accomplished South Asian Cornell students and alumni as mentors to bolster a carefully designed education process and proudly inaugurated its first New Member Class in the Fall of 2022.