Office of The President
Ashok Rao
E. Philip Saunders College of Business
Phone: 585-475-6025
E-mail: arao@saunders.rit.edu
E. Philip Saunders College of Business Web site
Rao joined RIT in 2006 after over 25 years as a faculty member at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., where he was professor of technology operations and information management and served as chair of the school's management division. Rao has also served on the faculty at Northeastern University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In industry, Rao was director of business systems with Northern Telecom and has prior experience at Canada Packers and Leeds & Northrup. His consulting and research includes new product development, total quality management, computer integrated enterprises and management training. He was president of RAM Systems Inc., a software-consulting firm and is actively involved in the Center for Quality of Management and APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society).
Rao earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharaghpur, India. He later earned an M.S. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in industrial and management engineering from the University of Iowa.