Ajit Prabhu is an Indian entrepreneur who is the Chairman and CEO of

Quest Global Quest Global (Formerly Quality Engineering & Software Technologies) provides end to end global product engineering services in the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy, Hi-Tech, Medical Devices, Rail and Semiconductor industries. The company ...

which he co-founded with Aravind Melligeri in 1997 at Schenectady,

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. He hails from Dharwad city in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Early education

He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology in Dharwad and a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion University. Did his second master's degree in Bio-Mechanical Engineering from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

. During his earlier days, he worked at General Electric’s Corporate Research and Development Center located in Schenectady,

while working on power generation, aircraft engines, appliances and locomotive related engineering problems.

Positions held

* Member of Engineering School Advisory Council at Rensselaer. * Lifetime member of Livingston W. Houston 13 Society of Patroons of

. * Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, UK.

Awards and honours

* Inducted into the Old Dominion Strome Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame in Nov 2019

References

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