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Mr. S L Ganapathi (An alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad. Founder and CEO of Logistics Plus Limited)

President/ Managing Director a large Multinational Integrated Logistics Company in India (- Sembcorp Logistics Ltd – part of Temasek Group of Singapore Government
GM of Tata Tea Limited –Shipping Agency Division-precursor to P&O Container Service in India and Tata NYK Limited
Associated with IIM-Calcutta in their Management Development Programs.
Chairman of Several Chipping Conferences/Executive Committee Member of Association of shipping Interests at Calcutta
Member of CII’s National Committee on Logistics Services, National Transport committee of CII, Sub groups of Working Committee on National Logistics Policy under Planning commission for 11th Five year Plan.
Honorary Representative for International Road Union ( UN affiliate) Geneva for South and South East Asia
Have been addressing several seminars on Logistics as Key Note Speaker and also conducting training courses . Associated with AIMA as Director for Annual Supply Chain Summit conducted by them at Delhi

Ravi Kanninganti (Director and Head of Retail COE India, TYCO International Limited)

Over 14+ years experience in delivery management working with globally distributed teams and clients. Implemented IT solutions in USA, Brazil, France, UK, Malaysia and Philippines as an onsite consultant and also through offshore model. Delivered product customizations from Bangalore to various global clients with excellent client satisfaction. Worked on client projects as well as internal product development projects.
Part of the team that designed and developed course material for PMP training program at PMI Bangalore chapter and I actively volunteer to teach various project management concepts. Involved with PMI Bangalore chapter since 2004. Through PMI Bangalore chapter, gave invited lectures on project management at ITC, Yahoo! and various other companies.
Developed supply chain internal courses at Manhattan Associates, Bangalore Office. Working along with Learning & Training team, organized several invited lectures on various topics. Lead a project to setup Supply Chain Knowledge Center with miniature working warehouse with actual scanners and WMS software.
Coached and mentored IIM-B students working in supply chain area.

Chandradeep (CD) Mitra (Alumnus of IIM-Calcutta and IIT- Kharagpur)

Visiting Faculty to IIM-Calcutta, IIM-Kozhikode and MICA, Ahmedabad.
Founder & CEO of PipalMajik, where he plays the role of a Senior Marketing & Brand Consultant, Certified CEO Coach and Corporate Trainer.
Over 22 years of professional & academic experience in Marketing, Media & Communications in 3 of India’s largest marketing communication groups – Lintas/Lowe, O&M, and Mudra. Chandradeep has led large marketing communication organisations across multiple disciplines (Advertising, Media and Integrated Marketing), client industries (across FMCG, durables, auto, IT, services and commodities) and geographies (all Indian metros).
Anindra Kumar Haldar (Alumnus of IIM-Calcutta and IIT-Kharagpur)
Visiting faculty to IIM Shillong and Professor of Marketing area at Praxis Business School, Kolkatta.
Over two decades experience in Corporate, Civil Services and teaching in Management.
Apart from teaching he is extensively involved in Management Development Programs and in-company training.
Undertaken in-company programs with companies like Lafarge, Tata Motors, McNally Bharat, UBI and India Post.
Published research article in peered reviewed international journal.

S. Arvind (Alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur)

Professor of Operations Management at S. P. Jain Centre of Management (Singapore & Dubai campuses) and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (Bangalore).
Conducted over 100 workshops & training programmes for organisations like Ford India, Shriram EPC & Keller India, besides ‘open workshops’.
Contract trainer for Infosys and ICICI Bank.
Promoter of a technical training organisation in Chennai, DMS Enhancer
Seven years in operations with multi-nationals like Xerox and India Tele-Comp Limited.
Eighteen years as an entrepreneur in the business of manufacturing and consulting.

Naval K. Bhargava (Alumnus of IIM Calcutta & IIT Kanpur )

In July 2010, he was given the award of Best Professor of Marketing by CMO Asia
Resource faculty at programmes at IIM-A, XIM-B, NID & BOB Staff Training College Ahmedabad, amongst others
Visiting faculty at IIM Lucknow, SP Jain Centre of Management Dubai, IBS Ahmedabad & DA-IICT Gandhinagar. .
Formerly Dean International Relations, Sr Professor & Head of Marketing at MICA (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad).
Co-authored Global Marketing Management, 7e, Keegan W.J & Bhargava N.K (2010) New Delhi: Pearson Education, a text book for MBA students in the area of International marketing.
Prior to academics, he had 30 years of experience in industry. This covered diverse sectors such as FMCG, Foods, Consumer Electronics, Pharma & Chemicals at top management positions in MNCs & large corporations in India and Middle East. Here, too, he has won awards for excellence in domestic & international sales performance.

Venkatramanan Krishnamurthy (Alumnus of IIM-Calcutta)

Visiting Faculty with some prestigious b-schools like MICA- Ahmedabad, Symbiosis- Pune and Bangalore and IMT-Ghaziabad.
Had worked with different companies including Aditya Birla Retail Limited, Pantaloon Retail Limited, Infosys Technologies, Tata Strategic Management Group and Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited.
Headed functions and managed critical roles that have significant impact on bottomline, long-term competitiveness and growth. Areas of expertise include Supply Chain Management, Retail Management, Strategic Development, Order Management, 3rd Party Manufacturing, Process Improvement, Operations Scale-up, Cost Reduction and Change Management.
Built high performance teams, has appetite for learning, and believe in Team Work.

Shantanu Ghosh (Alumnus of IIM-Lucknow and IIT-Kharagpur, ICWAI)

Professor and Dean at South State Business school
Educator,enterpreneur,knowledge worker and coach at Self Employed
Leader-Business Development,Singapore at Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Wide experience in setting up Educational Institutions especially Business Schools. I have been involved from the start up phase of two leading management insitutions in India. I have been a Professor of Marketing and Business Strategy. My strength is in motivating and inspiring students.
Extensive experience in setting up and guiding large sales and service teams. I excel at motivating and guiding them and am comfortable chasing numbers. Wide experience in strategy formulation and execution. Have coached a number of enterpreneurs in the technology and higher education sectors.

Sebastian Tharakan (Alumnus of NLSIU Bangalore)

Visiting Faculty to IIM Kozhikode, SIBM Bangalore and other top b-schools in the country.
Has taught more than 5000 students of MBA/PGDM course.
Practicing lawyer in the areas of Writ Jurisdiction & Constitutional Law; Company Law, Consumer Law, Family Law, Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law (IPRs).
Prof. Sebastian Tharakan’s teaching methodology is “refreshingly-different”, with numerous case-studies and real-life illustrations taken from his vast experience in the court-rooms and his professional expert-expertise in these niche-areas, and with the focus to bring about awareness, fundamental knowledge and keen interest in these commercially important regulating and facilitating laws of business, he has made the Course-Subject of ‘Business Laws’ …. “one of the most exciting and vibrant Courses in the MBA / PGDM Curriculum.”

Vinod Srivastava (Alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communications)

Handled top level of corporate management responsibilities for past 15 years that include:
- Head of Dell’s international operations at the Middle East during the company’s formative years as the Assistant General Manager, a position next to the President of the company.
- Part of the top management team at AFL-DHL as General Manager (Marketing)
- Head of the Indian operations of a leading financial service marketing company, Inter-publicity as the Director (Strategy).
Has been conducting corporate training for managers of companies that include: Hindustan Uni Lever, Syngenta, GTL, ICICI Prudential, Mahindra & Mahindra, Mahanagar Gas, Gujarat Tea, Wipro, Raymond’s, DHL, Tyco, Godrej Industries, Bharti Axa
Visiting Faculty to reputed institutes like NITIE Mumbai, SIBM (Pune and Bangalore) and Welingkar.

Tansen Choudhari (Alumnus of IIT Bombay)

Chief Executive Officer, Intelux Electronics Pvt Ltd, Pune.
External Advisor - B.Tech projects at IITs and MBA projects at IIMs
Accomplished senior executive have an experience to lead large and small companies with increased revenues and profitability in fast paced business environment.
Articulate communicator able to foster valuable working relations with employees, customers, vendors and senior executives in the industry.
Dynamic career marked with rapid advancement to key leadership roles that required astute financial acumen, sharp strategic thinking and inherent entrepreneurial drive.
Transformed customer relations which translated in to increased revenues, enhanced profit margins, and
expanded market share for medium to large scale businesses.
Had been a Vice President at Xchanging PLC, Bangalore, and General Manager- Enterprise Sales & Supply Chain, GE Consumer & Industrial, Bangalore.
Founding Member, Vice Chair & Board of Directors - United Way of Bengaluru
Visiting Faculty - Symbiosis Group Institutions (Pune), College of Engineering (Pune)
Member - Education & Research Panel, CII Pune

VVRamasastry (M.Sc,DBM,MMS,Ph.D)

Director,Dr Sastry &Associates,Executive skill development consultants and Marketing faculty
Held Senior Management position with Foseco India Ltd and RR Labs.
Conducted public workshops as well as In company programs for over a dozen cos like Fosroc,KKNAG,Thermax, ACC,
Siemens. Forbes Marshall, MBT,etc.
Co-authored a book on effective credit management with prof.NHAtthreya,AKGuha.
Wrote over 200 mgmnt articles for Eco Times, Ascent, Indian Express, Fin Express etc.
Visiting Faculty to reputed b-schools across India.

Priya Ravi (Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and a Certified Information Systems Auditor)

12 years of experience in Corporate Audit, High Risk Project Management, Information Security and Process Consultancy in various industries like Information Technology, Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets.
Worked with companies that include Infosys Technologies, Virgin Atlantic Airways, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Peoplesoft India Services Center, Hexaware Technologies and Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited.
As a Senior Manager at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Limited, formulated strategies for internal control environment, risk control and management.
Identified loss events and cost savings amounting to INR 167.68 million in Internal corporate processes at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Limited
As a Senior Process Consultant at Hexaware Technologies Ltd, formulated and implemented strategies for identifying and managing High Risk Projects, external and internal process assessments
As a Process Consultant at Virgin Atlantic Airways, UK based client of Hexaware Technologies Ltd., conducted internal assessments of IT processes against international best practices
Conceptualized and spearheaded strategies for ensuring data at Infosys Technologies Ltd is reliable, complete and sufficient for business decision making.
Developed a results based model to assess the maturity levels of various business units at Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Balaji Ravi (MBA from BABSON COLLEGE, F.W. OLIN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Wellesley, MA, USA)

Visiting faculty to SIBM, Bangalore.
Possess international and domestic professional experience in the areas of Product Development and Management.
Currently Director of Engineering at S R BIZSCIENCES TRAVEL AND TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, BANGALORE.
Also Worked with companies like Zyme Solutions India, JUMPTAP, Cambridge, MA, IONA TECHNOLOGIES, Waltham, MA, ALLIED INFORMATICS, Atlanta, GA, and TATA INFOTECH, Mumbai, India
As a Director of Engineering at S R Bizsciences Travel and Technologies Ltd. Responsible for building the Engineering division from grounds up and also responsible for the technology platform of the company.
As a Project Manager at Zyme Solutions Limited responsible for setting project delivery expectations across the organization and risk management of the projects.
As a Solutions Manager at Jumptap Inc, based in Cambridge, MA, responsible for customized Solution delivery, core product enhancements and managing vendors for some outsourced projects.
As a Principal Engineer at Iona Technologies Ltd., based in Waltham, MA, responsible for the design and architecture of the web services and corba products.