Parmindar has a Doctorate from the University of Newcastle (Australia), an M.B.A. from University Malaya (UM) and a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science from the National University of Malaysia (UKM).

Parmindar has been teaching since 1987 and therefore has more than 30 years of experience. Through the years, he has taught in many courses such as ACCA, MBA, CIMA, ICSA, NCC, ABE and LCCI.

Of these courses, he has mainly focused on ACCA and has been teaching the ACCA since 1991. For the ACCA course, Parmindar currently teaches the Strategic Business Leadership (SBL) which was introduced in September 2018, replacing papers P1 (Corporate Governance, Risks and Ethics) and P3 (Business Analysis). 

In addition to teaching, he has also conducted corporate training for Fuji-Xerox (IT), Petronas (Project Management) and Shell (Brunei) (Systems Analysis and Design), and Kredit Microfinance (Cambodia) (Corporate Governance and Strategy) and in-house training in risk management, internal controls and corporate governance for Brown Coffee (Cambodia’s largest café). Moreover, he has also undertaken corporate training in Effective Report Writing for Exion Asia Private Ltd.

Parmindar was the first Malaysian to teach ACCA in Hong Kong (1995). He has also taught in Brunei, Singapore, and China (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Xi’An Jiaotong University).

His research areas are in strategic management, corporate governance, ethics, corporate social responsibility, and information systems.