Dr. Kunal Kanti Ghosh has a strong academic background and enriched teaching experience of ten years at IIT Kharagpur. He has twenty-nine years of industry experience in the areas of Business Analytics, and Information Technology Services in a complex systems environment in the automotive industry (Tata Motors) besides championing company-wide quality initiatives including CMMI Assessment (Level 5), and PCMM Assessment (Level 5).

With five years of experience in Project Management for spare-parts application systems in Nissan Motor Company, Melbourne, Australia, he had active participation in company-wide strategy development & deployment through Balanced Score Card for various Tata Group of Industries. He had participated as an external assessor (for six consecutive years from 2000-2006) for Tata Quality Management Services, a division of Tata Sons.

With a strong domain knowledge of manufacturing related to the automobile industry and skill in Business Process Re-engineering and Benchmarking projects, he has undertaken several consultancy projects and conducted many in-company training and management development programs.

Integrating industry experience and insight with classroom teaching and ‘real world’ assignments is his differentiating value proposition to establish the much-needed link between theory and practice.

Prof. S. Balachandran has a B. Tech (Mechanical Engineering) degree from IIT, Madras and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from IIM, Ahmedabad. He has 47 years of total work experience covering corporate career, consulting & training, and teaching.

His corporate career, spanning 27 years in well-known Indian and Transnational business groups, has been initially in functional areas like Marketing, Distribution, Product and Projects Management and later in General Management. The last two corporate positions held: Group VP (Corporate & Strategic Planning), Murugappa Group and CEO of Indian subsidiary of a transnational Engineering business group. He has lived and worked in Australia, and has a number of years of international business exposure to USA, Europe and S.E.Asia. Special expertise areas include turnaround management, business strategy, international business and mentoring & coaching.

He is passionate about teaching business management subjects and topics and has been a visiting faculty for 20 years in a number of premier business schools, including IIM Kozhikode, XLRI Jamshedpur, IIT Madras, IFMR, LIBA etc. He has special expertise in case teaching. His current interest is in developing online courses and classes for students, managers and young executives. He has also conducted a faculty development programme at IIM Kozhikode.

Dr. Badri Toppur came back to India after his PhD from University of Massachusetts in 2002 to take up teaching and research assignments, and has been teaching at some leading business schools in the country before joining RSB as an Associate Professor and Head of the Centre of Excellence - Business Analytics. His areas of interest are Quantitative Techniques, Decision Analysis, Operations Research, Business Analytics and Computer Simulation. He has jointly conducted Executive Development Programs for leading companies like HP and Oracle.

Dr. Toppur’s bachelor degree was in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and his M.S. was in Computational Mathematics and Operations Research, from Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. In the year 2002 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operational Research, on the area of heuristics for network design. He has also done his MBA in Global Energy from Bauer College, University of Houston, USA.

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Prof. Javier Gonzalez Nuñez is a higher education professor as well as an academic programs designer. His main areas of expertise are creativity & innovation, finance, and entrepreneurship, in which, he develops and teaches online and on-campus courses. He is teaching at bachelors, masters, MBA, and executive education level. He is also teaching at top universities like: Maastricht School of Management, Institute Mines Telecom in Paris, EM Normandie in Ireland, Geneva Business School in Barcelona, ISC Paris in China. Professor Javier worked in multiple geographies like India, Morocco, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain for large corporations mainly in the financial and pharmaceutical industry. Since 2020 he launched Tonic Teaching and they developed educational projects in more than 32 countries.

As a consultant he worked for companies like Santander Bank, Zurich Insurance, Lombard Luxembourg, and Sanofi among others. He is currently a Senior Consultant for the United Nations in the Gulf Countries, working on business incubators and accelerators related projects. As a social entrepreneur he launched HOPE, where he and his team are developing courses and academic programs to be taught in refugee camps. Believing that the only difference between persons is education or the lack of it.

Professor Javier is also a multiple times TEDx speaker.

Prof. Ganesh Balakrishnan is the Co-Founder and CBO at Flatheads, India’s first all-day work sneaker brand. He founded the company with his Co-Founder and CEO, Utkarsh Biradar, in 2018, after identifying a gap in the casual footwear market in India. Ganesh was also a founding member and the CMO at Momoe Technologies, a fintech startup based out of Bangalore. Momoe raised VC funding and expanded to 3 cities, and was then acquired by ShopClues.com - the e-commerce marketplace. He then became a part of the ShopClues leadership team as AVP – Merchant Ecosystem and expanded the seller base from 1 lakh to 5 lakh+ merchants. Ganesh has an engineering and business background;

He graduated from IIT Bombay and IIM Bangalore. He also has 7 years of entrepreneurial experience and 10 years of corporate experience at Honeywell, Bain & Company and Ingersoll Rand. With Flatheads, Ganesh aims to create a homegrown Indian brand with a personality that appeals to the discerning audience. There is a dearth of world-class Indian brands in the affordable premium casual footwear category, and Ganesh sees a clear opportunity to build an enduring urban lifestyle brand. Outside of Flatheads, Ganesh likes to spend his time with his wife, and nine-year old daughter. He also teaches entrepreneurship and runs start-up workshops at NID Ahmedabad, NID Bangalore and IIM Trichy.

Prof. Gaurav Sundararaman is a cricket fanatic. He holds degrees in computer science and business administration and has used his skills and strengths from these fields to carve a unique niche in the cricket world. He spent four years helping international teams (countries and franchises) use advanced analytics to create a winning edge. Among his highlights was playing a small but significant part of the WorldT20 winning West Indies team in 2016 and co-authoring a paper at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference at Boston. Over the last 5 years he has worked with the magicians at ESPN Cricinfo to provide compelling and intelligent insight into how teams and players really win.

Dr.J.Sathyakumar is a professor specializing in the area of Human Resources and Organizational Development. His work in Human Resources is backed by academic teaching of over 16 years and an equivalent time spent in corporate. He holds a Ph.D., from the University of Madras and had published research papers in the reputed International Journals like Taylor & Francis and in Japan. He had presented papers in several conferences in the area of Organizational Psychology. He has an international exposure of having attended a niche training program in the area of counseling intervention in Australia at Hobart, Tasmania. Before he found his passion in academics, he spent over two decades at corporate like Enfield, MRF, Ashok Leyland, Spic group of companies etc. This experience coupled with academics lead to OD consulting at leading corporate and several MDPs for seniors management of TVS Tyres, Apollo hospitals, HPCL, Textile manufacturing units etc., He had conducted specialized training programs for School Head Masters and the India Post employees and work-shops on Managerial Counseling. His primary research interests are in the areas of Behavior Modification, Emotional Intelligence, Counseling and PTSD.

Dr.C.SELVARAJ started his career at the Madras Institute of Development Studies as a Research Officer. Later he joined the Department of Economics, Madras Christian College, his alma mater. After serving this institution for more than three and a half decades, Dr.Selvaraj retired as Head of the Department of Economics in 2010. Subsequently he took charge as the Principal of St. Thomas College of Arts and Science, Chennai. During this long career Dr.Selvaraj has authored number of books, project reports and articles. He has supervised a number of Ph.D Theses, M.Phil Dissertations and has been a member of many Doctoral Committees. He was also appointed as a Governor’s Nominee in the planning board of Alagappa University, Karaikudi and served as member in Academic Councils, Boards of Studies, Boards of Examiners in Autonomous Colleges and Universities for his distinguished record of service he was awarded the Best Teacher Award in 2004.

Dr.SELVARAJ has been a Consultant Economist for a number of World Bank aided projects in areas of Monitoring and Evaluation, Resettlement and Rehabilitation and Social assessment studies. As a Visiting Faculty Dr.Selvaraj is associated with Madras School of Economist, University of Madras, Rajalakshmi School of Business, SRM University and earlier Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) He was Director of many International Programmes and organized conferences. He was also a visiting professor at the Georgia University System, Atlanta, USA. Although his interest in Economics and other Social Sciences his quite diversified, the main focus areas of his teaching and research are Economic Theory, Macro and Monetary Theory and International Trade and Finance.

In the domain of public service Dr.Selvaraj is currently the Chairman of Dr.Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust and is the Secretary of the Madras Christian College Alumni Association.