Vilas Pandhe is a Commerce Graduate from Pune University and holder of a PG Diploma in Logistics Management. Post his degree he entered the world of Maritime by a sheer coincidence and since then he decided to pursue his career in the same field. He started his career with a renowned Customs House Agency of those times, followed by more than one and half decade stint with 'Balmer Lawri& Company Ltd.', a mini Navratna PSU Company of Govt. of tenure he was actively involved and had successfully executed logistics of various projects in the field of Oil / Power / Industrial / Research and Defense sectors. Presently he is employed with a leading multinational Freight Forwarding Company (Geodis India Pvt. Ltd) owned by French National Railways- SNCF (Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais) and he is also known as an advisor for International Logistics.