Education : Shri Ashok Benegal, Director General, Surydatta Education Foundation Born in 1951, completed schooling from St. Joseph Academy , DehraDun and topped the merit list of the school in Indian School Certificate exam, and was awarded National Merit Scholarship for five years. He completed his B.Tech (EE ) from IIT Kanpur, in 1972 and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1975.

Teaching/academics :
Associated with the following institutions in their faculty as full-time or visiting :

• N L Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai
• Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai
• SVKM-NMIMS University 's Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering, Mumbai
• Anjuman Islam's Allana Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
• Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) Bella Vista, Hyderabad (CARD: Consulting and Applied Research Division)

Work experience : Before he entered academics, his last corporate stint was as General Manager, Zenith Computers Ltd., Mumbai. He has also been an entrepreneur at New Delhi where his Software Implementors operated out of a Connaught Place business centre for six years 1991-1997. During this time he was a Director in SoftPlus International and part of the team which bagged the CSI-Infosys Best Shrink Wrapped Software Product of 1997 award for EDESK97.

His work career has spanned several companies : Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, Zenith Computers Ltd, Mumbai (and Delhi), Digital Innovations, Baroda, Eastern Electronics (Delhi) Pvt Ltd, Faridabad, Maegabyte Consultancy (Mafatlal group company), Mumbai, Raba Contel (Apple Computers rep in India), PCS Data General India Ltd.
Sara e-Services group Integra Microsystems, Bangalore (Vinod) Bhargava group Hyderabad based companies Scientific Engineering House and Harvin FotoKarve Pvt. Ltd.

With warm regards and good wishes,


Mr. Ashok Benegal
Director General