Dr Anton Ravindran, who worked for global MNCs including IBM, Computer Associates (CA), Sun Microsystems and Oracle,  has been an entrepreneur for the past 2 decades and has founded 5 companies in the region. He won several awards including the Entrepreneur of the Year (Singapore) for 2 consecutive years. He has authored and edited 4 books on ICT and has been part of various industry and government committees as well as professional bodies. He holds a  bachelors and masters degrees in IT and earned his doctoral degree in IT management on an international academic merit scholarship from the Univ of South Australia (UniSA). He is a Chartered Engineer (UK) and was conferred a Fellow by both the British Computer Society (FBCS) and the Singapore Computer Society (FSCS) for his contributions to the ICT industry.