Yad Senapathy, MS, PMP, is the Founder and CEO of the Project Management Training Institute (PMTI), North America’s leading PMP certification boot camp, which he co-founded in Dallas, Texas, in 2003. Over more than two decades, PMTI has trained over 80,000 professionals to earn their PMP certification, maintaining a 99% exam pass rate backed by a 100% money-back guarantee. Enterprise clients include Amazon, General Dynamics, Booz Allen Hamilton, Adobe, Genentech, L3Harris, and the U.S. Air Force.

Yad holds a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University, where he studied on a full scholarship. He served as Content Lead for the PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition and SME Reviewer for the 7th Edition — placing him among the small group of practitioners who have directly shaped the global standards governing project management professionals worldwide.

He is an exclusive contributor to Forbes Business Council, Entrepreneur.com, and Inc. Magazine on project management topics, and has been featured in Dice, Smartsheet, and Disrupt Magazine. Yad is available to journalists as a named expert on PMP certification, PMI exam standards, agile and hybrid delivery, and corporate PM workforce development. Connect with him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/yadsenapathy.