Dr. Surendra Manjrekar is Chairman and Managing Director of Sunanda Specialty Coatings Pvt. Ltd. and is an ‘Honorary Member’ of the American Concrete Institute (2018) and ‘Honorary Fellow’ of the Institute of Concrete Technology (ICT), UK (2022).

Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) India honoured him with the “Industry Doyen Award” (2017). He was three times “President of the India Chapter of ACI” and is “Principal Convener of ACI Certification in India” (2008 – present).

Dr. Manjrekar is a Vice Chancellor appointee on the “Internal Quality Assurance Cell” of Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai, as an Industry representative. He is a Special Signatory to the MOU for technical co-operation between India, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia organized by ACI in Singapore (2019). He is active in concurrent R&D work in the fields of Corrosion Prevention in RCC/PSC structures with special emphasis on infrastructure, 3rd Generation Corrosion Inhibiting Admixtures, Internal Curing, Repairs of Dams, Bridges, Irrigation Canals, water-related structures, Polymers, Underwater Concreting, CO2 sequestration in polymers, Nano molecule Soil Stabilization, Waterproofing, Anti-freezing Admixtures in Concrete.