Suresh Garimella is a Doctorate and an MBA, both from the Osmania University, Hyderabad, and has an Honors degree in Zoology.

He has been a Sales & Marketing teacher for over twenty five years and has held both Academic & Administrative positions in Business Schools of National Repute in India. Gitam HBS, Kirloskar Institute, IBS Hyderabad, Badruka College P G Center Hyderabad, Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management Hyderabad, SP Jain Mumbai, NIPER Hyderabad are some of the B Schools with which he was associated since 1989. In addition to being a teacher, he held senior level positions as Academic Head, MDP head and Program Chair during this period.

He was a visiting faculty member to a number of Premier B Schools like IIM (Indore), IIM Sambhalpur, IIM Raipur, IIM Vizad, NMIMS (Hyderabad), TISS Hyderabad to handle UGP, PGP & Ex.PGP courses in the domain of Marketing and Sales. He was also a resource person for the ISB-Goldman Sachs women entrepreneurs program.

He was key resource person at a number of MDPs both open and In-Company programs. Some organizations where he was a resource person are JSW, L&T, Polyolefins, Godrej, BSNL, Bayer, NTT, Indian Railways, Indian Army etc., His consulting assignments include Channel selection with BSNL, Business Development at AGNI, Product rationalization with Bajaj Electricals, Employee Satisfaction Studies with JSW.