Cdr. PG Bhat is a retired Naval Officer. After early retirement, he worked as a Project Director at HCL Perot Systems, VP at ObjectOrb Technologies, and as founding Managing Director of Parity Computing India.


He is an advisor to two Schools on teaching methods and general management and is associated with a few NGOs. He has conducted several Faculty Development Programmes for schools and colleges.


As a corporate trainer, he has taught several courses in about 50 software companies in India and abroad. He has been a visiting faculty with some institutes like the National Institute of Design, National College, PES University, Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, and Kautilya School for Public Policy.


Since 2010, he has been analyzing public data like electoral rolls, PDS, and MNREGA. His feedback and help have resulted in the improvement of the data quality of the electoral rolls of the country. He has been a keynote speaker/panel member in seminars related to software for public causes.

• Analysis of public documents like Electoral Rolls, Census Data PDS, NRGA, etc., finding opportunities to improve the processes, data quality, completeness and accessibility.
• Sentiment analysis of important works like the Complete works of Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda.

• Namma Bengaluru Foundation Award for contribution as an individual citizen. This was mainly for the work on the analysis of electoral rolls, leading to the restoration of about 13 lakh illegally deleted voters of Bangalore in 2012 and various improvements in the electoral roll maintenance processes countrywide. This is ongoing work.