Faculty

Prof. Nagaraj Subbarao is the Dean of the School of Commerce & Management Studies and a professor of strategy, leadership and organization theory. He is a Master Mariner with specializations in Navigation and Dredging Technology. He has an MBA, M.Phil. and PhD in Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour with an advanced specialization in Leadership and Strategy from the University of Illinois (UC), USA.

Prof. Nagaraj Subbarao, as Captain, commanded state-of-the-art ships the world over in sometimes extremely arduous circumstances. He is passionate about team building and ethical leadership. He believes universities should define work's future and craft superior-quality human resources. He has been an academic over the last sixteen years and has developed unique pedagogical paradigms.

He consults in leadership, culture and team dynamics and has a deep interest in sports and history.

Dr. Vasudevan is an honours student in engineering from the College of Engineering-Guindy, having an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Purdue University. He has 32 years of industry experience. His clients include MNC firms like Unilever, ITC Foods, Castrol, AO-Smith, Maruti Suzuki, Pepsi, GECIS, GENPACT, Fidelity, HSBC Bank, Globus retailer, Titan, Tanishq, Titan eye plus, BPL Limited, BPL MOBILE, International Cell phone operators, and international automotive customers. He served as General Manager of Marketing for a multi-product durables company, as Vice-president of Analytics with an MNC Bank, and ran a start-up for a long time. He is a professor of strategy and analytics at SCMS, Dayananda Sagar University.

Dr. Abhijit Chakraborty is a double Master in Business Administration and Commerce and has qualified UGC NET in both Management and Commerce. He is a lifetime member and Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India. He completed his Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar in Finance. He has over fifteen years of corporate experience in the Financial Industry, mostly in Banking and Insurance companies like Axis Bank, Tata AIA, and Birla Sunlife. He has published papers in ABDC, Scopus & UGC Indexed journals and presented papers at International and National Conferences. He is a reviewer of reputed journals from Springer, Emerald, and Web of Science. His research interests are related to FinTech, Insurance, Risk Management, and Economic Growth.

Dr. Chakraborty is presently working as an Associate Professor and Deputy Director (Executive Education) in the School of Commerce and Management Studies, Dayananda Sagar University and teaches courses in Finance.

Prof.Anant Pophali is a senior level executive with 28 years of experience in global IT services industry in various leadership roles. He possesses extensive experience of setting up sizable IT services units in India, transition of services and stabilizing operations to steady state. He was with AIG Inc., as “Head & Director of AIG Data Services, India” and “Global Head of IT Professional Services Governance”.

Prof. Mohan Srinivasan worked at IBM India as Practice Area Leader - Digital and Offering Manager - Cloud Modernization. He is Post graduate in Industrial Engineering and is PMP® and IBM certified Senior Project Manager. He has more than 30 years IT experience with Retail and Banking customers. He teaches courses on Operations Management, Quality Management, Project Management and Systems Management.

Prof. Shweta Tewari is Professor of Marketing and holds a DBA degree from S.P Jain school of Global management.Along with her research experience she also demonstrates 8+ years of corporate experience.

Prof. K Sanjay is an industry veteran with over two decades of experience in financial services and insurance sectors. He has served as a senior executive in some of India’s leading companies (e.g., Tatas, HDFC) for over 20 years. He brings to bear his managerial experience as well as cutting-edge knowledge from world-class training programs. He has an engineering degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA. His core competencies are in three areas: sales management, entrepreneurship, and organization behavior. His mission is to create world class managers with Indian values.

Prof.Venkata Varadarajan has spent close to 23+ years in the communications domain ranging from Media planning, buying, Advertising Management, Marketing, Content creation. He was the Co-Founder and CMO at Urban IQ an advisory start-up. He is currently working with Dayananda Sagar University as Deputy Director – Executive Education

Prof. Arvind Keshav Giri is an Independent Consultant (Fertilizers; Chemicals; Supply-Chain Management). Prior to this, he has an industry experience of over 30 years across India, Canada/USA, and the Middle-East.

He has worked with reputed Indian Corporates such as Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals Corporation (DFPCL), Zuari Agro Chemicals (ZACL), SIV Group, and NOCIL, and also with Global Companies such as Linde, Praxair, and Ames True Temper.

He has held responsible positions such as Executive Director, Business-Head, Commercial & Supply-Chain Head, National Sales & Business Development Head, Operations Head, and has handled Diverse Corporate functions like Supply-Chain Management (International & Domestic Procurement / Stores & Inventory Control / Logistics & Transportation, Imports-Exports, Sub-Contracting & Tolling), Operations, Sales & Marketing, Business-Head & Leadership roles.

He has University-Level teaching experience and his area of interest is International Business, Marketing, Operations Management, Logistics & Transportation, Leadership & Communication, Maritime Economics, and General Management subjects.

He is a Post-Graduate in Chemical Engineering from CIT (Bharathiar University) and a B.E in Chemical Engineering from MIT (Mangalore University). He has a MBA (International Business) from JFK University with Specialization courses undertaken at UC-Berkeley, California, USA. He underwent a 1-year Advanced Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Prof. H.N. Shankar was the former CEO of DDE:ORG Systems, Denmark and has over four decades of experience in the manufacturing, IT and ITES industries. He teaches Business Analytics. He has over three decades’ in the industry and has a deep understanding of prescriptive and predictive analytics and is accomplished data analytics professional with impressive career credentials of more than two decades

Prof. A.G. Krishnan is a professor of finance and is a practicing Chartered Accountant. He has a deep understanding of financial risk management.

Prof. M.G. Raghuraman is a former officer of the prestigious Indian Railway Engineering Service Cadre and after serving the Indian Railways, he was the CIO at Mphasis, Bengaluru. He teaches courses on Operations Management, Project Management and Systems Management.

Prof.Rajat Rashmi is a chartered accountant by profession and is a professor of the Legal Aspects of Business and International Finance. She had a successful career with Oracle before turning to being a management consultant..

Prof.Karunakara Kudupu, is an alumnus of NIT-Surthakal, Karnataka and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He served as General Manager, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bengaluru and is an expert in contracts and contract law. He is a professor of marketing and consumer behaviour.

Prof.Ramesh N has over 30 years of Industry experience, majorly in Satellite and Satellite services for developed / developing countries in AMEA across various sectors. Addressed the Satellite services market as it oscillated between Media and Data on an 8 / 10-year cycle. Presently actively involved in delivering Satellite Bandwidth to Internet hungry and IoT markets for GEO and LEO satellites. Prof. Ramesh is a faculty of marketing.

Prof.Jitendra Patri is Former CMO of Central (Future Group) and Principal Consultant – Xeno. He teaches marketing management and is an alumnus of IIM- B, Bengaluru

Dr. K N Amarnath, is a professor of Business Analytics and Statistics. He has over three decades’ in the industry and has a deep understanding of prescriptive analytics and is accomplished data analytics professional with impressive career credentials of more than two decades. Versatile making noteworthy recommendations for strategic decision making. Senior Research Analyst with deep insight into market trends and business scenarios driving at effective market positioning. Key contributor for several product launches.

Prof. Santosh Chandrashekar is Senior Manager at Statestreet Global Asset Advisors and a chartered accountant by profession. He teaches Financial Risk Management and portfolio management.

Prof.Sriramu M.S. describes himself as a technologist and entrepreneur. An alumnus of the IIT-B, Bombay he teaches Business Analytics and the course on Research Methodology at Dayananda Sagar University. He believes in high quality and that data and its interpretation is the panacea to most issues.

Prof.Ravishankar Iyer is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and the University of Kentucky, USA, both in the engineering discipline, and a Chartered Financial Analyst, USA and a SEBI RIA. His experience has been extensively in the Financial Markets, Technology, and Management Consulting. He has significant international experience having worked for Investment Banks, Management Consulting firms and Technology Services organizations for over 30+ years in the Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management segments. His core focus areas are Markets, Finance, Technology, Architecture and Process. He has experience in teaching and also developed a variety of Training Academy Models in his prior companies, and also has been a visiting faculty to other Business Schools His personal interests are travelling, sports and writing.

Prof Hari Ambadapudi is a seasoned business leader with 18 years of professional experience in the areas of Analytics and Decision Sciences. He has provided strategic guidance, led, and delivered engagements across industries and across geographies. His experience is focussed on business value creation for Manufacturing and Supply Chain domains. He has built and nurtured teams for delivering decision sciences work in Supply Chain Management in various capacities. He is adept at engaging with CXOs for business transformation leveraging digital and analytics agenda. He is an APICS, PMP and Six Sigma certified professional and is extremely passionate in disseminating the learnings in the form of publications and trainings. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur.

Commander Himanshu Joshi is an Indian Navy Veteran, Anti-Submarine warfare (ASW) & Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter pilot. He specialises in Naval Logistics & Administration, is a specialist assessor of Group Behaviour, a Counsellor and a Psychotherapist. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Naval Academy and teaches subjects on HR, OB and Leadership and Communication. Prof. Joshi is an Educational Entrepreneur and his organization prepares young people for a meaningful work life and a career including the Indian Armed Forces.

Prof Satyajit Datta Roy is a professor of finance, strategy and operations management. He has an engineering degree from Jadavpur University and a masters in management from MDI, Gurgaon, India.

He has 18+ years of leadership experience across technology enabled industries with diverse roles with expertise in driving Organizational Strategy & Development, Global Operations, Client. He drove organizational improvements and solutions through Six Sigma and Design Thinking Methods.

Prof. Anurag Jalan is professor of economics, innovation and general management He is the founder of Red Harp Consulting has a B. Tech from IIT: B, Mumbai and a management qualification from IIM, Bangalore.

Prof.Tejas Rao is professor of strategy, and general management. He has a management degree from SDA-Bocconi, Milan, Italy and an engineering degree from the Rochester Institute, New York, USA.

Dr. Amulya Panda is professor of supply chain management, operations and project management. He was at General Electric, India for over two decades. He has a Ph.D. from IIT-M, Chennai.

Prof. Sunil Bhumralkar is professor of finance. He was at Ernst & Young, India for over three decades. He is a chartered accountant

Prof Solai Baskaran PhD from IIT delhi and he obtained LLB degree and a professionally qualified lawyer as well. He has spent close to two decades in corporate as COO/Director in operations / HR in unit and in corporate. Prof Baskaran has over 10 years of teaching management in MBA. He has been guiding PhD scholars. He has travelled globally and undertaken various MDP and consultancy assignments.

Prof. Satish Talikota has over 25 years of experience in SAP S4 HANA Business Process Consulting and Management, Software Business Development, and Large Multinational ERP Program Delivery. He continues to build cross-functional expertise in SCM-OM Business Processes, Business/ Consumer/ Cyber law & Cyber Forensics, Organizational Behavior, and Design Thinking. He has submitted his Doctoral Research work in the area of Innovative Work Behavior. He has authored and presented research articles and received best research paper recognition from the Birla Institute of Technology and Management. His association with SAP technology, as an alumnus of IIM-C and NLSIU, brings a blend of Technology, Management, and Compliance perspectives. Prof. Satish is currently working on a research paper on compliance, creative, critical, collaborative, and circular thinking, and another research paper on measuring Internal audit effectiveness.

Prof Srinivas Iyengar has been in Information Technology and Finance space for over 25 years managing businesses across Europe, USA and India.

“Srini” has been recognized as one of ‘Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on HealthTech by a leading global platform. With 20+ years of experience in “Healthcare and Technology” catering to global market, he has been in a unique position to bring world perspective to initiatives he is involved in to get the “Outside-In” approach. He has been a thought leader and visionary in “Future of Healthcare” and consulting organizations which are working towards bringing in required change today.

An active contributor and speaker at various business schools and NASSCOM events on Healthcare and Technology, Srini has been mentoring startups in emerging deep tech, data analytics and healthcare space.

Srini is a member of Board of studies and adjunct professor at DayanandSagar university.

Prof. Anirban Paul is a senior executive in the field of Supply Chain Management and Strategy. He is an alumnus of NIT Silchar, IIM Lucknow and Harvard Kennedy School, USA. He has led large supply chain transformation programs in India, USA, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines. He also has long experience in SAP implementation programs has led P&Ls with 40 member teams.

Anirban Paul consults in the areas of Supply Chain Management and Operations Management.

Prof SaiKumar K Chandrashekar has been working in the IT industry for the past 30+ years. He has performed lead roles in the areas of Product Solutioning and Development, Project Delivery Management, Program Development, Setting up Off Shore Development Centers and building teams. He has also worked Sales, Pre-Sales, and Customer engagement. The domains he has worked are Business Analytics, Social Media Analytics, HR Analytics, Healthcare and Travel Verticals.

Currently, he been working with early stage Start-up companies helping them in product strategy, building their technical and marketing teams, and ensuring the overall process setup. He is also into teaching in the areas of Business Intelligence and Analytics and processes in educational institutions.

He has done his Bachelor Of Engineering from Mysore University and “Executive General Management Program” from Indian Institute Of Management IIM Banglore.

Prof.Sanjai K, is an Information Technology professional with 27 years of experience in Enterprise Software having done a variety of roles spanning across Product Management, IT Strategy Consulting, Presales, Project / Program Management and Delivery Management. He is passionate about building products and is a Fellow with the International Software Product Management Association. He is an alumnus of NIT – Trichy.

Prof.Pramod Deshpande An Insurance Industry veteran, Pramod has more than 35 years of experience, the first 14 years in an Insurance company and the next 20+ years providing technology solutions to Insurance companies, providing him opportunities to learn the insurance business in North America, the UK, Europe, Japan, China, South America, etc. He has worked on mission-critical backend systems and also has developed various Innovative Solutions for Insurance Industry. For many software companies, he has set up Insurance Education and certification programs.

An MBA, with a PG Diploma in Computer Applications, and executive programs in Managing Technology Innovations from IIMB.

Pramod's other passion is fitness, he leads a fitness service company and has set up the largest structured training programs in India for runners. He has published a book, has written many articles and a well known motivational speaker.

Prof.Srinivas Padmanabhuni was awarded the title of "Eminent Engineer" by the prestigious and renowned organization "Institution of Engineers" (IEI). The award was given 2 Dr.SrinivasPadmanabhuni in recognition of his experience and contributions to the profession of Computers at the 32nd Annual convention of IEI His vast experience in the computing field, including marquee area of Artificial Intelligence (AI), brings a unique blend of academic, research and industry orientation, a rare combination. SrinivasPadmanabhuni is a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence. SrinivasPadmanabhuni co-founded CityMandi.com a next generation AI enabled smart B2B startup in Agri Tech focused on farm to fork. He is a guest faculty in CS at IIT Tirupati. He has been the past president of ACM India, the top professional organization of computing professionals. He is the chief Mentor for Tarah technologies an AI consulting and training company. He specializes in areas of software engineering, AI and Machine Learning. Earlier, he was a Principal Research Scientist and Associate Vice President at Infosys where he overlooked the university innovation ecosystem, alongside research and innovation group in Infosys Labs. He has won several other awards including the excellence award for Innovation at Infosys, Research excellence award at University of Alberta, and Merit award at IIT Kanpur, He is a Ph.D in AI from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, specializing in AI. Prior to Ph.D. he secured his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and M.Tech in CS from IIT Bombay. His interests: AI, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity. He has to his credit:Seven granted patents
Multiple additional patents in process
One published book by Wiley
100+ refereed international publications
400+ invited talks across eight countries
15000 + students lectured on AI, and related topics
4 + startups

Prof. Archie D’Souza is an expert in Supply Chain and Project Management, with a corporate career spanning four decades and over three decades in academics.

Among his other assignments is Subject Matter Expert for the Logistics Sector Skill Council of the National Skill Development Corporation. He’s contributed a great deal of content for them, He also teaches at Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University, Amethi.

He is currently working on a book on the applications of blockchain technology on project and supply chain management.

Prof Arvind Venkatadri has deep subject matter expertise in Design, Business Analytics, Decision Making and Problem Solving.

Aravind has served organisations like WIPRO and Texas Instruments.

He has a Bachelors in Engineering in from Bangalore University and a Masters in Engineering from IIT R, Roorkee.

Prof. P.N. Jairam is a Management Consultant. He provides subject matter expertise in areas of program performance and risk management, particularly for troubled projects. He worked for The MITRE Corporation in Washington D.C., a not-for-profit organization managing Federally Funded Research and Development Centers.

Jairam has successful careers in two diverse fields – Hospitality and Program Management. Lending his knowledge and expertise Jairam has successfully led P&L units, multi-million-dollar programs, and distributed teams across countries.

Jairam earned his MBA from the prestigious George Washington University in Washington DC and transitioned to a career in investment banking and subsequently to management consulting. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP).

Shashank Narendra is an accomplished professional with diverse experience in sales leadership, product and GTM strategy. He holds an MBA degree from IIM Bangalore and BE from NIE Mysore. He has gained expertise in building teams and setting robust processes by working in organizations such as Samsung, Udaan and Swiggy. Shashank is passionate about entrepreneurship and mentoring young talent.

Prof. Sridharan Narayan Armed with a BSc (Physics) from Bombay University, Sridharan Narayan acquired a post-graduate Diploma in Communication Arts from Xavier Institute of Communications, Bombay to embark on a career in Advertising.

Having worked with Film Production and a Television Serial, he went on to anchor the creative department for several advertising agencies. As a natural progression, he took on the additional responsibility of key account management and handled the branch operations for several agencies, looking after national and international brands, with exposure to leading tech brands in the bay area in California. He was also instrumental in setting up the south operations for a French Networked Agency which prompted his move to Bengaluru from Mumbai.

Prof. Sridharan Narayan has spent over three decades in the communication business, across ‘traditional’ and ‘digital marketing’ agencies and has created three business lines in rural marketing, web services and consumer retail.

As a brand consultant, he works with companies to help them create memorable brands and has handled celebrity endorsements. On the rare occasions, when he is not engaged with his students, he is often immersed in Science Fiction or intellectual conversations over a cup of tea.

Prof. Aravind Narasipur holds a degree in Engineering and a PG Diploma in Human Resource Management. He has 14 years’ experience in teaching and corporate training, that is preceded by a 16-year stint in industry. Aravind teaches Business Statistics, Quantitative Techniques, Business Analytics, HR Analytics, and Research Methodology at MBA programmes as a visiting faculty. He has been associated with Welingkar Institute of Management (BLR), Loyola Institute of Business Administration (Chennai) and Woxsen School of Business (Hyderabad) as a visiting faculty. He has conducted training programmes in Data Analysis and HR Analytics, at institutes like Beroe Consulting (Chennai, Bangalore), Ashok Leyland (Hosur), Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), Bangalore. He is a technical reviewer for the books titled Modern Business Statistics (with Microsoft Excel), and Introduction to Management Science by Anderson, Sweeney, Williams, Camm, Cochran et al published by Cengage, USA. Aravind works as a freelancer.

Prof. Ananda Das Gupta is a professor of HRM and PhD: UGC Research Fellow; (Faculty of Applied Economics and Business Management; Patna University); Post–Doctoral Research Fellow: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

At Indian Institute of plantation Management Bangalore, being one of the founding faculty members, Prof. Ananda Das Gupta has been Chairperson PGP for long ten years (2002 to 2015) and was in charge for placement activities as well as Fellow (Doctoral) programmes. He served as a part of Major Research Project sponsored by Ministry of Commerce, Government of India as National Co- coordinator of tea plantation Productivity Council. He conducted MDRs throughout the country extensively.

He taught in three IIMs like IIM Kozhikode, IIM Rohtak and IIM Sirmaur and has been associated with XLRI as External Examiner of Doctoral Dissertations, Conducting MDPs and as Member of Scientific Review Committee for International Conference on Ethics and Responsibility (2024/2025).

Prof Buchi Babu Muvva PhD has 30 years of diverse experience in Industry and academia. Prof Muvva has worked with customer-focused organizations spanning across different industry sectors including Pharma, Automobile, IT & Education. He has worked in various capacities like EDP Manager on projects related to IT Implementation, Product Management, Operations planning, Sourcing, and warehouse, Introduced computerization in POM area, and support Quality & Business Analytics.

He teaches courses in Business Research Methods and Analytics.

Prof. Chaminda Hettiarachchi is a Co-Founder and a Director at FabLanka Foundation, a Social Enterprise working on Industry 4.0 technologies including 3-D Printing for socio-economic development in Sri Lanka. Chaminda is also the CEO/Managing Director at Dil Consultancy, a research and management consultancy company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He teaches project management and e-business as a visiting lecturer for MBA programs at University of Colombo and University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.

Chaminda has 20 years of experience in the industry, academia, research and consultancy in 20 countries. Chaminda is a B.Sc. (Engineering) graduate from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1996). He has an MBA from the Graduate School of Esslingen University of Applied Sciences (FHTE), Esslingen, Germany (2002). He is also an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School in Boston, USA, Fletcher School, Boston, USA and a DAAD Scholar at Humboldt University and University of Koblenz-Landau in Berlin, Germany.

Chaminda’s has been a pioneer in popularizing digital technology in Sri Lanka and he has actively contributed to digital technology diffusion from 2005. His latest contribution is introducing fourth industrial revolution technologies to Sri Lanka.

Dr Stephen McKenna is Associate Professor, School of Management & Marketing, Curtin University, Australia. He has had an oscillating career in both the business and academic sectors in Europe, North America and Asia. He has researched internationally mobile professionals for many years and his current areas of interest include international mobility of professionals; global human resource management and organizational development (global careers, talent management and leadership); comparative ethical human resource management; career transitions of elite athletes; management in the International Development sector and flexible working practices.

He teaches across a diverse range of areas including global human resource management, strategic HRM, organization development, international management and qualitative research methods. Steve has a doctorate from the University of Warwick in the UK and is a keen sportsman, enjoys the gym, mountain biking.He is a big follower of rugby union and cricket.