Manu K. Vora

Dr. Manu Vora is Chairman and President of Business Excellence, Inc., a global quality management consulting firm. He has over 45 years of leadership experience and has guided Fortune 500 companies with Baldrige Performance Excellence Award assessment. He is a Past Vice President from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) National Board of Directors. He also served as a Chairperson for ASQ Chicago Section. He is an ASQ Fellow. Manu served as a Chief Judge at the Illinois Team Excellence Award Program from 1993-1999. He served as a Senior Examiner for the Asia Pacific Global Performance Excellence Award Program from 2004-2017.

Manu holds an MBA with Marketing Management from the Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago, M.S. & Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, and B.S. in Chemical Engineering with Honors from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi in India. For over 32 years as a Consultant and over 27 years as an Adjunct Professor, he has taught Operations Management courses at various business schools globally. He is affiliated with over 80 educational institutions around the world. In 2016, he taught "Project Management for Organizational Excellence" a GIAN Course approved by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India at his alma Mater IIT (BHU). He was appointed as a Fulbright Specialist by the U. S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. He is listed in "Who’sWho in the World", "Who’sWho in America", "Who’sWho in the Midwest", "Who’sWho in Science and Engineering", and "Who’sWho in Finance and Business".