A Gold medallist in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Natarajan has a doctoral degree in Knowledge Management from IIT Bombay. He is the author of four McGraw Hill publications on Business Process reengineering and Knowledge Management and a regular columnist in India’s leading business and technology magazines. He serves on the Board of Global Talent Track, Asia’s pioneering venture in Technology enabled Skills development and is a member of the Board of Governors of NITIE Mumbai.
Ganesh was named 'CEO of the Year' by the Asia Pacific HR Conference in 1999 and received the Wisitex Foundation’s 'CEO of the Decade–Knowledge Award' from India’s Minister for Information Technology in 2000. In July 2005, he received the Asia HRD Congress Award for Contributions to the Organisation through HR. Natarajan was recognized by Ernst & Young in 2005 Award for exceptional entrepreneurship and in November 2010, awarded the ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award’ by Enterprise Asia.