Nationality Indian | ||
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Occupation Entrepreneur and Educator | ||
Shashidhar Chiron is an Indian Entrepreneur. He is the founder of New Shores Education Institutions, the group has focus on higher education in urban and rural India. He is the youngest person to set up a fully accredited and self-sustaining college and business school in India.
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Early life
Shashidhar Chiron was born in Chitradurga district, Karnataka. He was brought up by a single mother who worked as a staff nurse in Government Hospital of Chitradurga town. He completed 10th and 12th grade schooling in Government boys high school and Government Science PU College respectively. He moved to Mysore to complete undergraduate degree at JSS Vidyapeeta. Later, he completed his MBA in Bangalore.
Entrepreneurship
In 2008, a training and development consulting firm was set up by him on a shoestring budget. The firm focused on imparting employability skills for people hailing from tier two and tier three cities and placing them in retail and aviation industries. After a year of successful training programs, in March 2009, National Institute of Management Excellence, a business school that focused of executive and post-graduation management education was founded by him. Later in 2012, the institution was repositioned to cater international and wider learning aspirations of its students, and National Institute of Management Excellence was renamed New Shores Educational Institutions.