Gen. S. S. Apte PVSM (Retd.) is a world renowned authority on Reliability & Maintainability Engineering & Total Quality Management. He was the Director General heading the army's equipment management organisation. He specialises in bringing about Organisational Transformation through Creativity, Innovation & Problem Solving. General Apte worked for the United Nations as an ILO expert in Nigeria. He has been a consultant to Bharat Heavy Electricals, Coal India, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation, Damodar Valley Corporation & several other well known organisations such as Centak Chemicals Ltd, J K Cement, Samtel group of companies, Maharashtra State Road Transport, & Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board.  

For the past forty years, he has addressed management training programs at almost all the prestigious management training / development institutes, such as –

Tata Management Training Center,  
Administrative Staff College of India,  
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of

Public Administration, Indian Institute of Public Administration ,National Police Academy, National Defence College, College of Defence Management, Military College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and staff colleges for industry,

Banks, public utilities, service organizations; institutes of public administration for the State Governments,

Indian Institutes of Technology at Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi.  
He has been or is regular visiting faculty to Delhi University, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon;  
APJ School of Marketing and Management, New Delhi  
Institute of Technology and Science, Ghaziabad for Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) or similar programs.