Dr. Shailendra Raj Mehta is the Group Chairman for S-Ancial Group of Companies. His vision and thought process paves the way for our approach and strategy.

He is currently the President and Director at MICA and Chairman of the Board of Management at Auro University where he is also Acting Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Strategy. Prior to that he was Visiting Professor of Business Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

He returned to India in 2006 to head the collaboration between Duke CE and IIM-A as Regional Managing Director for India, West Asia and the Middle East. Subsequently he was Academic Director of Duke CE.

He has done extensive research in Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Experimental Economics. His work on creating world class universities has been discussed globally and profiled in over ten languages.

He co-founded SEAS LLC in 1999, which became Simulex Inc. in 2001 — a high-tech company in the Purdue Technology Park.

Prior to that he was at Purdue University for 16 years, teaching Economics and Strategic Management. He has consulted with Bharat Petroleum, Eli Lilly, Genpact, IBM, P&G, and the Tata Group.

He is a member of several high-powered committees by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

His BA and MA are from Delhi University, M.Phil. from Balliol College, Oxford, and Ph.D. from Harvard.