He has earned his FPM (equivalent to PhD) in Management in the area of Finance & Control from the Indian Institute of Management (IIMB) Bengaluru. He has been teaching for the last 7 years, prior to which he had worked in various capacities in the Indian banking sector for 23 years. He is a gold medalist in Civil Engineering from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India. After graduation, he worked for 2 years in the Civil engineering domain.