Manu Parpia - Investor & Outsourcing Industry Pioneer

Manu has over 24 years of experience in the Engineering industry, including 17 years in CAD/CAM. An academician, consultant and entrepreneur, he is responsible for many a company's evolution .

Manu is Founder, Vice Chairman & Executive Director, Geometric Software Solutions – a company that provides Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) solutions to highly technology-oriented industry verticals. He also set up First Financial Compuserve Pvt. Ltd. with the objective of using computers in the area of finance, post which he consulted for 7 years with Godrej & Boyce – before becoming CEO of its Electronic Business Equipment (EBE) division.

He is also the man behind India's largest IT distribution company, Godrej Pacific Technology Ltd. (GPTL), another spin off from EBE which later became Tech Pacific and was GPTL's founding CEO.

Manu has a Degree in Chemical Engineering from Canada's McGill University and an MBA from Harvard’s Graduate School of Business. He has also worked for Harvard Business School as Associate Fellow.