Brief Bio

Lt. General Deepak Summanwar (Retd.) retired from the Army after forty years of service. Nearly half of his service was in the forward areas and combat zones. The General retired as Director General of Military Intelligence for the Country in March 2007. He has taken part in International and National deliberations and has represented the Country in Sri Lanka at JOC in Colombo during the IPKF operations, the Pacific Armies Conference and the Indo-US Strategic Dialogues on Military to Military Cooperation at the Pentagon in Washington.

He possesses wide expertise and skills in management, environmental security and risk assessment and analysis, leadership and decision making. He has been decorated five times for his gallantry and distinguished service and has received twenty operational and service medals.

Post retirement, has been nominated as an Independent Director on the Board of Peninsula Land Limited (retired in Sep 2024), GOL Offshore Limited (resigned in March 2014) and Waterbase Limited (retired in 2019), all Companies Listed on the BSE Limited, Independent Director Pusalkar Suraksha Pvt Ltd Pune, Director of PICA Corporation, USA (till March 2014, currently advisor); Regional Director of ESi 911, USA; Senior Advisor to GSA Exhibitions, United Kingdom(till2017); Dynamik Offshore Ltd., Dubai (till2019), and Trina Solar, China (till March 2014); Associate of Burrill Green and Co (till 2018) United Kingdom; Trustee of The Kunzru Institute of Defence Studies India, is a member of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Analysis and Pune International Centre.