Mr. Raj Nair is the Chairman of four companies – Avalon Consulting, AGR Knowledge Services, Ugam Solutions and Germinait Solutions. Today, these companies have been awarded and recognised by various institutions, associations and rating firms like Gartner, Forrester, Nasscom, vault, iSpirit, etc. Mr. Nair has won merit scholarship awards at IIM Ahmedabad.nnAfter graduating from IIT Bombay in Metallurgical Engineering in the year 1971, Mr. Nair completed his postgraduate diploma in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad and LLB (Gen) from the University of Bombay. He has plenty of memories to share from his student days at I IT Bombay, starting with a monitor lizard (some say it was an iguana) in his hostel wing in the first week to receiving the degree with a broken wrist from Minister C. Subramaniam in the convocation hall. The protective ‘space suit’ that was made available to him to conduct experiments with radio-active materials for his Home Paper and the brilliance of many of the faculty members are his fond memories.nnMotivation towards contribution to IITB:nnThe realization that IITB made me what I am. One of the many things IITB gave me is the ability to think and question, indeed a rare gift. It is payback time from the moment one leaves the campus.