Cecil Antony, Chairman, NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata graduated from Jabalpur Government Engineering College with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
He began his professional journey with SAIL and he was posted to Durgapur Steel Plant.
In 1991, he kick-started his very first venture, The Synergy Group which has been operational in sectors such as education, hospitality, biotech, solar energy, real estate and more.
The first NIIT centre that Antony launched in Durgapur successfully enrolled 80 students. He then started a second NIIT at Asansol in 1992.
Encouraged by the success of this enterprise, Cecil Antony entered the formal education sector, which he found to be very promising. It was then that NSHM Knowledge Campus came into being as a hotel management college in Durgapur.
Since its inception in 1996, NSHM Knowledge Campus has grown to become recognised as one of the leading educational institutions in Eastern India.