Principal Consultant

Raju Rao

Founder and Principal Consultant

Raju has been involved in diverse activities which include managing projects, as an entrepreneur and in education and training for project management.
He has a good understanding of project management as it is practiced world wide through its standards and developments taking place in the profession .He keenly promotes project management in India by speaking at various forums and conferences and by active participation in professional organizations .

Raju has been involved in process development, engineering, commissioning and project management over a period of about 25 years in India and the Middle east. His exposure is in process, chemical, mechanical, plastics industry and IT industry . He was worked with manufacturing, and engineering / consulting organizations and has been an entrepreneur and independent consultant as part of his professional career.
He has spoken at various seminars and conferences around at the world on topics which include Organizational maturity , India Vision 2020 and also writes on topics related to project management.

Raju conducts courses and workshops leading to PMP® certification, fundamentals of project management and for Program management, Project Portfolio management and Organizational project management . His exposure in training and education is for organizations, individuals as well as the academic community.

He is a Visiting Faculty at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

Raju holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras and certificates in Advanced Project Management from Stanford University . He is a certified PMP and SCPM (Stanford Certified Project Manager) He is a member of PMI® , AACE International and has been involved in development of many standards of PMI . Currently he is on the core team of the OPM3® 2008 Update project and a certified PMI OPM3 Assessor . He is also the Chair for South India Section of AACE . He is a Global Correspondent from India for PM Forum and is the Founder of the Indian Project Management Forum , an initiative to focus on India based issues and topics in Project Management.