ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Abraham Koshy
Professor of Marketing, IIM Ahmedabad & Chairman-Federal Bank
Prof. Koshy has specialized in management of products and brands. Dr. Koshy is a co-author of the best-selling book “Marketing Management – A South Asian Perspective” with the legendary marketing guru Prof. Philip Kotler, and others.
Prof. Koshy is a consultant to many international companies on marketing strategy and has helped companies to re-craft their target segment focus, launch new brands, review their brand portfolios and re-assess brand architecture, and reposition and re-launch brands. He is also a well-known corporate trainer.

Dr. Sanjay Muthal
Executive Director, RGF Management Search

Mr. Bimal Rath
Founder, Think Talent Services Pvt. Ltd

Ms. Mythili Bhusnurmath
Consulting editor, Economic Times

Dr. Jitu Singh
Professor, XLRI

Mr. Shombit Sengupta
Chairman, Shining Consulting

Mr. Pradipta Kumar Panda
Group President-HR, Adani Group

Mr. Arun Das Mahapatra
Chairman & Partner in-Charge – India Heidrick & Struggles

Mr. Deepak Hota
Chairman & MD, BEML

Ms. Ester Martinez
Co-founder/MD, People Matters

Mr.Rajeev Bhadauria
Director-Group HR, Jindal Steel & Power

Dr. Samarendu Mohanty
Head, Social Sciences Division International Rice Research Institute
His key Expertise are- Commodity Modeling,Trade and Policy Analysis, and Futures Markets,Trade, Finance, Marketing and Policy Analysis, Agricultural Marketing and Cooperation

K Sudarshan
Managing Partner - India & Regional VP – Asia EMA Partners International

Mr. Ishwar Subramanian
Co-Founder and Chairman, FORUM SYNERGIES (India)
He is currently the chairman of a private equity fund in Bangalore & also involved in a real estate development business in Bangalore and also has a consulting firm. He is also an independent board member of select companies.
He started his career at Ernst & Young & also worked at the Akzo Nobel operations in India as finance director. He was the chairman of the Indian Paints Association in 2004, a member of the National Committee on Chemicals of the Confederation of Indian Industry from 2007-2009, a member of the governing council of the Bangalore Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the past twelve years and held various offices with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), including serving on the International Forum board for three years from 2009-2012. He is also on the global board of the Chief Executives Organization (CEO) for the past two years.

Dr. Alwyn Didar Singh
Secretary-General, FICCI

Mr. Jayant Bhat
President, Scotwork India

Prof. Anil Bajpai
Former Director, KSOM, KIIT University
He has had a corporate career spanning mainly across two important sectors; semiconductors and telecom. Notable assignments he has undertaken include Vodafone Essar Spacetel Ltd. as Chief Operating Officer, Reliance Infocom Ltd. as CEO(Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Odisha), DSS Mobilink as Vice President(Operations), Airtel as General Manager (Sales, Marketing and Customer Care). He served Continental Device India Ltd in several capacities .
Mr Bajpai has initiated huge telecom network rollouts from scratch as a business head, overseeing both network infrastructure and sales and distribution infrastructure across several states in India. A techno commercial approach to Project management and strong Man management skills have been deployed to achieve and exceed targeted objectives

Cmde. Dilip Mohapatra
Chief Mentor & Strategic Advisor, KSOM, KIIT University

Mr. S. Samir Panda
MR, KSOM & KSRM
ADVISORY BOARD EMERITUS

Mr. A.D. Burman
General Manager (People Development), Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Mr. Adil Malia
President Human Resources Essar group of companies.

Mr. Allen Sequeria
Advisor, Mahindra & Mahindra

Mr. Arun Waklu
Executive Chairman, Pragati Leadership

Dr. T.V. Rao
Chairman, TV Rao Associate

Dr. Aquil Busrai
CEO-Aquil Busrai Consulting

Mr. Gautam Chakravarti
Executive Director, Blackstone

Mr. Kalyan Ganguly
President & Managing Director, United Breweries Ltd.

Dr. Minati Misra Ambarish
Managing Partner, SRB2 Group LLC
Dr. Minati Misra Ambarish has over twenty (22) years of experience in global financial markets, both as a portfolio manager and risk manager, with a focus on emerging markets, particularly currencies, derivatives and structured products.

Mr. Kamal Singh
Director General, National HRD Network
Prior to his, current assignment, Mr Singh was Director-Centre for Management Development & also the Director General at AIMA.. He was responsible for National Events, which include Awards, Competitions, Forums, Conventions, Management Development Programmes.

Mr. Len D’Costa
Co founder- Salt Labs & Non Executive Chairman of Digvijay Cement

Dr. Rajen Mehrotra
Ex ACC HR, Director, Sandoz

Mr. Rashid Kidwai
Director, Grasnet For Women

Mr. Sourav Daspatnaik
Director Global Protek Pte Ltd

Mr. Sudip Bandopadhyay
Managing Director,CEO, Destimony Securities pvt ltd

Mr. Rajinder Singh Maker
Director of Maker Executive Search
He started his career with ACC where he worked from 1974 to 1990. This stint with ACC gave him exposure to first work at the plant and later on at the corporate office in Mumbai. The Tata culture of ACC is strongly imbibed in him. During this period he was also groomed in Industrial relations and had the opportunity of working with trade union leaders like Mr. V G Gopal – President Tata Workers Union and other stalwarts such as Mr. G Ramamujam of INTUC, Mr. H N Trivedi- President of the Cement Workers Federation. He also handled maoist leaders like Mr. Shankar Goha Niyogi and in the later part of his career dealt with Shiv Sena Union in Mumbai.

Prof. Partho Sengupta
Professor, KSOM, KIIT University
Professor Sengupta is a Master NLP Practitioner He has also individually taken on project assignments of different nature. He left the corporate world in 2003, worked with the Gandhi Labor Foundation for a while and then was called over to KIIT University where he has been since 2005.