Mr. Ashish Saraf was born in Central India in Nagpur in the year 1965. He spent his early years schooling in St. Joseph, Darjeeling and after a year in the Doon School, after which he lived for about 10 years in the East Coast of India in Visakhapatnam. After completing his schooling in Visakhapatnam, he went on to obtain a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Mangalore University in the Manipal Institute of Technology in the year 1987. Soon after his graduation, he was inducted in the family business and lived for 10 years from 1987 to 1998 in Shreeramnagar wherein he learnt the ropes of business under the able leadership of his father Shri R.K. Saraf. Whilst working he undertook a programme in Harvard Business School and got a fellowship of the Owner/ President Management Programme in 1996.
Today he is the Joint Managing Director of the 60 year old Ferro Alloys Corporation Ltd. (FACOR), which was founded by his late Grand Father Shri Durga Prasadji Saraf. He currently lives in New Delhi and has the distinction of being the first Indian to hold 2 Diplomatic position and was the first ever Honorary Consul of the Republic of Maldives from 2002-2005 and then was appointed as the first ever Honorary Consul of The Commonwealth of Bahamas in 2006 and continues to hold the same position till date.
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