He has a Ph.D. (MIS/Strategic Management) from the University of Memphis and MBA (Finance/MIS) from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His areas of interest include business innovation, disruptive technologies, web and flexible business models, social entrepreneurship, born-global companies and issues pertaining to emerging market economies. He has also worked on projects involving information technologies in global organizations, business process reengineering and several global market assessments. He has published his research in several leading journals and presented his work in national and international conferences. He has consulted across various industries and his passion is working on challenging projects that leverage emerging technologies to access global markets.