Meena Raj, a Bombay University gold medalist and doctorate in BioPhysics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, has spent the past 25 years teaching and mentoring young people and training them to achieve.

For close to a decade, Meena taught postgraduate students and supervised PhD students at Delhi University South Campus and the Dept of BioSciences at Jamia Millia Islamia.

In the early nineties, as the youth’s interest in technology and the bright prospects it promised to deliver grew, Meena operated a recruitment firm for technology professionals in Noida, a town that was buzzing with foreign and Indian investment in the field. The firm Meena ran, Fortuna Consultants, had a partner organisation by the same name in Hyderabad, which was run by Meena’s old friend. The two cities did very well in the field of technology and Fortuna Consultants was a name trusted by many of the premier technology companies.

Fortuna Consultants Noida operated for over ten years and Meena Raj, experienced in dealing with college students, still enjoys tremendous goodwill among the many people whose careers she closely mentored and helped to shape and among employers whose requirements she understood and fulfilled.
At the age of 50, in 2003, Meena decided to get to know the corporate world from closer quarters and luckily she was offered a position as HR manager in MediaTek India, the Indian subsidiary of a 1.8 billion $ fabless chip design company headquartered in Taiwan. MediaTek India is based in Noida and has 120 software professionals. As HR Manager and head of HR, Meena was responsible for Policy, Recruitment, Performance Appraisals, Compensation and Benchmarking, Employee Training & Development, Employee Engagement and Welfare and other routine HR functions such as coordinating with headquarters.
After working at MediaTek for four years, Meena and Alok, her husband decided to join forces and add to Alok’s technology Consulting firm, a Man Power Employment arm that is operated, along with other management functions, by Dr Meena Raj.

Her vision is to take on technology projects and routine tech jobs for foreign companies and operates offshoring units in Greater Noida, the new technology hub of Delhi NCR.

Alok Raj the architect of APTEC has 35 years of post-qualification experience. 33 of which have been as an industrial consultants in pre-investment planning and technical project implementation services. Expertise covers a range of activities from concept to commissioning. In his work, he makes intensive use of computer software including MS Project Manager, VBA programming and plant layout designing using Autocad.

Over the past 25 years of his industrial consultancy, he has largely concentrated on agricultural produce processing and processed foods. His services as a consultant and project team leader include the identification of investment opportunities, preparation of detailed techno-economic feasibility reports and filing of loan applications, technology identification, evaluation and tie-ups, financial projections and control, coordination using PERT and CPM methods, and site supervision..

His work experience includes the installation of some categories of instrumentation in industrial plants and hands-on experience in all types of computerized controls for plant environments including training in PLC. His best achievement in this field was a first-of-its-kind stress analysis jig – designed, built and installed as an experimental facility for Jay Engineering Works Ltd, Hyderabad in 1986. In those years Jay Engineering was the largest manufacturer of ceiling fans in the world.

He has designed and written a customised software package in VBA for project financial planning and financial control during implementation, copies of which were sold to several industrial houses for their internal project planning divisions

His hobbies are Electronics, Carpentry, Wine-making and Reading.