After founding an export management and trading company that he managed for 15 years he went back to school to study computer science so that he could use technology in his business and current affairs. He has lived and worked in Osaka, Cairo and Singapore and traveled to more than 40 countries.

He is interested in travel and business writing. See one of his articles published at http://www.appliancemagazine.com/article.cfm?articleIndexID=1091&blockID=3342

He is a frequent lecturer; event coordinator and panel speaker at various international business and travel related events and is involved in several projects such as researching historical cross-border trade between Sikkim and Tibet.

He started and currently maintains the web site of his Darjeeling boarding school alma mater. View this at www.npalumni.org

Ashok was born in Kolkata, India. He has a bachelor's degree in Commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and a diploma in international marketing from the Singapore Institute of Management and is pursuing an AA degree in computer science.

He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two college-age children.

Home page at Santa Monica College, California. http://homepage.smc.edu/Sadhwani_Ashok/

Published article in APPLIANCE magazine. http://www.appliancemagazine.com/article.cfm?articleIndexID=1091&blockID=3342