<\/a>Pushkar Rao, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a management consultant for Suncor Energy, Inc. He is advisor on strategic planning and development; led and executed projects for Sunjet aviation group; led an initiative to cut costs and streamline operations and led a team to streamline charter operations. He served as vice-president of business development and corporate development for TG Engineering, Inc., and was co-founder of True Site View, Inc., a geospatial technology company in the oil and gas industry. He serves on the board of directors of the Canadian Heavy Oil Association. He received his BS in Math & Computer Science from SAU in 2000. He was the presidential academic scholarship recipient, an award worth $40,000 over four years, and graduated Magna Cum Laude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Southern Arkansas University Alumni Association will honor six SAU alumni members at the 6 p.m. Dinner of Distinction awards ceremony on Thursday, April 6, 2017, at the SAU Reynolds Center Grand Hall. Alumni and friends are invited to attend. RSVP by calling the SAU Alumni Office at (870)235-4079 or toll-free at (800)797-1986. Alumni members… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":6046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,276,288],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}