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Surinder Kumar is currently President and CEO of Arora Innovation, LLC. Surinder has more than forty years of experience in senior management positions in Fortune 100 companies. He has been a global R&D and innovation leader at some of the finest consumer product and pharmaceutical companies in the world including Unilever, Quaker Oats, Mead Johnson, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Warner Lambert and Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.

He is an honored and distinguished member of Who's Who worldwide. He has been awarded 17 patents, published many scientific papers, and has served on several advisory boards. These include; Board of Trustees member, International Life Sciences Institute; Scientific Advisory Board Member at Penn State University, DePaul University, Rutgers University and The Ohio State University. He has also worked as an adviser to the CEO's of many non-profit associations including IEEE and ISACA.

Surinder received the distinguished alumni award from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; where he received his Ph.D. He has an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Chicago. He has taught innovation and leadership courses at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, Chicago; University of Chicago, DePaul University and the University of North Texas. He has authored several papers on innovation and leadership and a book on leadership, Riding the Blue Train, A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth, which has been published in the USA, India, Turkey, and South Korea.