Alpesh was born in India and received a Bachelor of Engineering (Instrumentation & Control) from Gujarat University in 1989 and then an MBA (Finance) from South Gujarat University. He started his career as an Instrument Engineer with Reliance Industries in India where he was employed for six years. From 1995 to 2000, he worked for Sabic, Saudi Arabia as a Control System Engineer and then as a Process Control Supervisor. In 2000, he immigrated to Canada and joined Langtree Controls. Since then he has worked his way up to become a Principal Parter at Langtree. Alpesh has over 20 years of experience working on many different projects in the Petrochemical, Refinery and Oil / Gas sectors.

Alpesh is a registered professional engineer with the Professional Engineers of Ontario and an active member of the Sarnia section of the ISA.