Mario is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering (1962) from Government Polytechnic in India, and completed an Executive MBA program from the University of Chicago (1992). He worked in the Industrial Gases Production field in India for 15 years before migrating to the US, in 1977. In the US, he worked for 23 years in the Gas & Electric Utility Business, in Indiana.
He and his late wife (Theresa) moved to Mooresville, in 2001. They were married 40 years and had two children, a son Christopher, who lives in San Diego working for Amazon and a married daughter, Crista, who along with her husband Nathan Wagner serves in the US Army. Mario has 3 grandchildren.
Mario served on the Pastoral Council at his former parish, St. Michael, in Schererville, Indiana, as well as on its Building Committee, for their new church. Here, at St. Therese, he has, since joining the Parish, been active in the Music Ministry, the Stewardship Committee and in the Eucharistic Ministry. He is a 3rd Degree Knight.