EDUCATION, HONORS AND AWARDS

Andy had the rare distinction of having his entire graduate education - three Masters Degrees across three countries funded through some highly coveted scholarships from prestigious institutions/ organizations as below:

Degree, Specialty, Alma Mater (University), Location and Duration

Honors and Awards

Strategic Marketing for Health-Sciences Executive Management Program

KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. (October 2007)

Sponsored by the SAP Top Talent (Top 2% at SAP) Award Program

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) - Business Strategy and Marketing

RICHARD IVEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS**, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA. (1997 - 1999)

Dean's Honor List - First in Section.

Scholarships awarded by Citibank and Nortel, Canada.

I-MBA (International MBA) - Technology Marketing & Entrepreneurship

TEL AVIV INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (TISOM), Tel Aviv, ISRAEL. (1996 - 1997)

Dean's Honor List - Second in Graduating Class comprising 45 students from 16 countries.

Scholarships awarded by TISOM, Israel and Siemens Germany.

MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.S.) - Materials Science and Engineering

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Gainesville, Florida, USA. (1988 - 1990)

Top Quartile.

Scholarships awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the State of Florida, USA.

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (B. ENG.) - Mechanical Engineering

UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY (now Mumbai), Bombay, INDIA. (1983 - 1987)

Top Quartile - First Class with Honors.

Scholarship awarded by Dynacut Superabrasives, India.

**The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, often called "the Harvard of Canada", is the pre-eminent MBA program in Canada and second in the top ten non-US business programs recognized by Business Week in its annual listing of the top MBA programs.

Ivey was ranked # 9th globally, by the Wall Street Journal in its sixth annual ranking of Business Schools across the World.

Ivey is the second largest publisher of Business Cases after Harvard Business School (HBS) and is also the only North-American Business school with an overseas campus in Asia (in Hong Kong).