Mr. Manu Parpia

Managing Director and CEO

Manu Parpia is the Managing Director & CEO of Geometric Ltd., and Chairman of 3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd. He has over 30 years of experience in the industry, with over 21 years in the PLM and Engineering arena. He is one of the pioneers in this arena in India.

He served as the Chief Executive of the Electronic Business Equipment Division of Godrej & Boyce from the mid eighties to 1999. During this period, he also founded Godrej Pacific, a joint venture between Tech Pacific and Godrej & Boyce, and served as its Managing Director from 1995 to 1999. In his activities with Godrej, he oversaw the design, development, manufacture and distribution of a variety of high-tech products. He served as the Managing Director of Geometric from 1994 to 2006, and took over this mantle again in April 2011.

Mr. Parpia started his career as an engineer with Humphreys & Glasgow Consultants Pvt. Ltd. (H&G). Inspired and mentored by Naval Godrej and Vasant Seth, he later founded K. Wadia Exports Pvt. Ltd., a company manufacturing cast gold jewellery for export, and First Financial Compuserve Pvt. Ltd. which promoted the use of computers in the area of finance. He was the President of Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) in 1997-98.

Mr. Parpia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, Canada; an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, USA; and a Diploma in Finance & Accounting from England. His areas of specialization include international marketing and business development, business strategy and commercialization of technology.

He is also a Director in the following companies:-

• 3d PLM Software Solutions Ltd.
• Geometric Americas, Inc.
• Geometric Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
• Geometric Japan K.K.
• Inventurus Knowledge Solutions Ltd.
• Virgo Engineers Limited
• Godrej Infotech Ltd
• Equirus Capital Pvt. Ltd.
• Delmia Solutions Private Limited
• Rand Worldwide, Inc.

He is an Advisory Board member of Alchemy Capital Management and a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), an association with a mission to spread and support the culture of entrepreneurship. He Chairs the Mentoring effort at TiE, Mumbai.