Dr. Anton Ravindran

Dr. Anton Ravindran CEO and Founder of Rapid Start, President of Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF). Also he is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Information Systems at Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia, was a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Research in Applicable Computing, University of Bedfordshire and was an Adjunct Professor at the Birla Institute of Science & Technology (Dubai Campus). He is currently an Advisor and mentor to FundedHerere, TiKEE Pty Ltd, Auto Lotto as well as DBS Business Class. He co edited and authored (chapter) four books on ICT. Dr. Ravindran spent early part of his career working for IBM, CA, Sun Microsystem and Oracle and later founded and spearhead 4 ICT companies. In addition, he has won several entrepreneurship awards including Singapore ASME, Top Entrepreneur for two years (2005 & 2006) and Singapore Indian Entrepreneur for large enterprises (2006). Dr. Ravindran has been part of various professional bodies & committees including National Internet Advisory Committee (Singapore – Ministry of Info Comm & Arts), Chair, National Working Group for Cloud Computing Professional Development (IDA - SCS), President, Cloud Computing Chapter (SCS), Vice Chair Electric, Electronic and Allied Industry amongst others. He holds a BSc (Texas) and a MBA (Texas) and obtained a doctorate in IT Technology Management from the Univ of South Australia. He is a fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer (UK).