Spiritual Life Staff
Rabbi Jeff Foust
Jewish Adviser
Rabbi Foust has considerable Hillel campus experience, at Oberlin College, University of South Florida, and MIT. Currently, he is the rabbi at Waltham's Temple Beth Israel. He lives in Newton with his wife and two children. He has a passion for good conversation, Jewish history, Jewish mysticism, and how to create free quality time in the midst of a society preoccupied with "busyness."
Professor Pierce Butler
Coordinator for the Buddhist Community
Pierce Butler is a writer-in-residence in the English Department. He teaches a regular workshop in short story writing and a variety of literature courses, including basic and honors courses in Irish literature. He serves as faculty adviser to the Literary Society and helps students in the production of PIECEWORK, the college's literary magazine. For 25 years, he has studied the ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff, which combine the Sufi tradition with esoteric Christianity. He has been a student of Zen Buddhism since 1996 and attends practice retreats at the Cambridge Zen Center, which is a affiliated with the Kwan Um School. He has experience with many different kinds of meditation, and is open to learning from other students. He likes writing, reading, music (blues), exercise (tennis, yoga), and bird-watching. He lives in Waltham with his wife Susan.
Father Claude Grenache, A. A.
Catholic Adviser
Fr. Claude is the director of the Spiritual Life Center and the adviser to the Catholic community at Bentley College. He lives in Brighton at the Assumptionist 
Center with 10 other members of his Congregation. Fr. Claude has served in Quebec, New York City, Mexico City, and at Assumption College. He listens to classical music and jazz, likes foreign and "off-beat" films, and can sometimes be spotted wearing weird hats. For more information on Fr. Claude, just ask him. He has a very large treasury of stories -- and most of them are true!
Reverend Katrina Agard
Protestant Adviser
Reverend Katrina Agard holds a Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School and a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communication from Syracuse University. In her spare time, she likes to read, travel listen to music, cook, surf the Internet, and attend theatrical events. Reverend Agard lives in Watertown, Mass., and serves as an associate minister at Peoples Baptist Church in Boston.
Professor Jahangir Sultan
Muslim Adviser
Professor Sultan teaches international financial management at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Bentley. His research interests include topics such as foreign exchange exposure management, hedging, international portfolio diversification, closed‑end country funds, country risk analysis, effects of political risk on financial markets, financial liberalization in emerging economies, modeling volatility using GARCH, insider trading, and program trading. 
He has published articles in many prestigious academic and practitioner journals and received grants and awards from the Atlanta Fed, Columbia University, the Chicago Board of Trade, The Asian Development Bank, The Thai SET, USIA, and Bentley College. He received the 1999 Bentley College Scholar of the Year award. In addition to regular consulting, he also conducts executive education seminars on topics such as treasury risk management, foreign exchange risk management, currency trading, international investment, financial liberalization, privatization, country risk analysis, and modeling volatility. Professor Sultan conceived and established the Bentley College Trading Room‑ a multi- million dollar state‑of‑the‑art facility for teaching financial analysis and risk management.
Professor Satya Prakash Saraswat
Hindu Adviser
Satya Prakash Saraswat is a professor of computer information systems at Bentley College, and holds advanced degrees in computers and business administration from Georgia State University. Coming from a Brahmin family in north India, he is deeply interested in Hindu ceremony, mythology and mysticism. He has studied the Vedic and classical Sanskrit and has published papers connecting mythical thought with modern science. His hobbies are astronomy, history and world mythology.
