
The core management team consists of alumni from prestigious
colleges like IIM Lucknow, IMT Ghaziabad, and Narsee Monjee etc. who
have worked in India and abroad.
The investors include 15 IIM alumni with together more than 200
years of experience in Fortune 500 companies.
The advisors include such luminaries like Padmashri Pritam Singh
(former Director of IIM Lucknow and MDI Gurgaon),
Dr. Sashi Rai (member, UGC), Prof. Neerja Pandey (one of top 3
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CEO: Nishant Saxena
Nishant has eight years of experience in Corporate Finance/Planning with Procter & Gamble – including Strategic Planning, M&A, and Corporate Finance. Worked across various geographies in Asia (Japan, Philippines, India and Singapore). Nishant has also taught in IIM-Bangalore, IIM-Lucknow, National University of Singapore and SP Jain as guest/adjunct faculty. He has been profiled by Business World as a "Leader-in-Making", and has been a consistent top talent within P&G. He is returning to India to start this company. Nishant is a BE from NITT and MBA from IIML. |
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Honorary Dean: Prof. Tapan Bagchi
Prof. Bagchi served 16 years in Exxon Mobil US and was a recipient of Extraordinary Contributor award. He then returned to India to teach in IIT Kanpur – where he set up IITK's Bschool, then headed NITIE and finally moved as Dean, SP Jain Dubai Bschool. He has authored 6 test books and 75 papers. He currently is associated with IIT Mumbai and is leading research into KPOs.
Prof. Bagchi is a BTech from IIT Kanpur and PhD from University of Toronto, Ontario in Canada. |
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National Head of Corporate Expansion: Prashant Paleja
Prashant Paleja brings with him rich experience in education and training industry. He has been associated with IMS Learning Resources in various capacities - as a Faculty, Regional Head responsible for starting, developing and and supporting franchisees and later as a Franchise of IMS. Having been a Business Franchisee as well as managed and driven Franchise expansion, Prashant has been given the mandate for geographical expansion as well as driving and supporting the business of partners.
Prashant is a BE [Computer Science] from University of Mumbai and MBA from the prestigious Narsee Monjee [NMIMS] and has worked for Tata Infotech and Nucleus Software before IMS. |
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Head, Training: Amit Jyot Singh
Amit has been working in field of training and capability development for the last 9 years, with a long experience in leading training delivery at Hero ITES. He has also worked with companies like Bharti, Vangurad info, etc. Amit is a Post Graduate in English from DU. |
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Business Development Manager: Vaibhav Agarwal
Vaibhav having led Entrepreneurship Cell of IIM Lucknow during
his MBA from IIM L is passionate about start-ups and incubating
new ideas. He is a young enthusiast who invests his high energy,
knowledge, networking skills and execution capabilities to groom
India’s youth for the corporate world. He is responsible for the
New Business Developemnt, Institutional Sales, Client
Relationship Management and Innovation. He has worked on various
live projects for Procter & Gamble, Asian Paints, Ministry of
Rural Development - Govt. Of India, Diageo, TCS and SIDBI during
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HEAD OF CORPORATE RELATIONS AND PLACEMENTS : Saurabh Savyasachi
Saurabh started off working as a lawyer practicing before the
High Court of Delhi, before taking up Management as a career. He
has had a very diverse experience where in, after his law
background, he has worked as a PDP trainer with organizations
like IMS and Career launcher and has led MBA Orientation
workshops in some of the top colleges in NCR. Saurabh has also
led specialized functional training for junior and middle level
managers in corporates, including training on sales, marketing,
team building, attitude, etc. Apart from training related
experience, Saurabh worked as a Branch Manager with Olam
International Limited (global leader in the supply chain
management of agricultural products and food ingredients),
heading Sales and Distribution of an FMCG product portfolio in
West Africa.
Saurabh is a MBA (Finance/Marketing) graduate from IMT
Ghaziabad, and also holds a LL.B. (Hons.) degree from
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Overall Advisor: Prof. Pritam Singh, Padmashri. Former Director, IIM Lucknow. Former Director (and Professor of Eminence), MDI Gurgaon
Dr. Pritam Singh has devoted his life to the development of management education: He led refocussing of IIM Bangalore as an integrated management school, catapulted IIML to India's Top Bschool, delivered a dramatic turnaround of MDI and developed more than thirty international collaborations in 5 years. He is on the board of nearly a hundred top institutions (RBI, HAL, Oriental, SCI, UTI etc). He has also been conferred with many prestigious awards including ESCORT Award¸ FORE Award¸ Best Motivating Professor IIM Bangalore Award¸ Best Director of Indian Management Schools¸ Outstanding CEO (Chief Executive Officer) National HRD Award etc.
Dr. Singh is the author of seven academically reputed books and published over 50 research papers.
An M.Com (BHU)¸ MBA (USA)¸ Ph.D. (BHU)¸ Dr. Singh is the author of seven academically reputed books and published over 50 research papers. |
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Advisor, Academic Programme: Prof. Suresh Ghai, Director, KJ Somaiya Business School
Prof. Suresh Ghai has been the Director of K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, one of the top 20 Management Institutes in India, since 2001. Prof. Ghai has worked in the Industry for 28 years in the areas of Marketing and International Business. He has conducted several senior level MDPs and has presented papers at several prestigious conferences and seminars. Prof. Ghai is the Honorary Secretary of Bombay Management Association.
Prof. Ghai is a BE from IIT Roorkee and an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad.
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Advisor, Operations: Prof. Rajiv Srivastava, Former Dean, IIM Lucknow
Rajiv Srivastava is a Professor at IIM Lucknow focusing on Operations Management. His emphasis on Manufacturing and IT applications in Operations Management has helped create one of the most comprehensive collections of Operations Management software in any academic institution.
Prof. Srivastava is B.Tech (IIT K), PGDIE (NITIE Mumbai) and Ph.D. (Virginia Tech. USA) |
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Advisor, Business Communication: Prof. Neerja Pandey, Chair Communications Group, IIM Lucknow
Prof Neeraja Pande is an Associate Professor in IIM Lucknow in the communications group. She teaches Communication for Management and International Business Communication courses. Her research interests are in Corporate Communication; Managerial Excellence through Effective Communication and Organizational Integration Through Strategic Communication.
She is currently consulting on Interpersonal Communication Skills; Media and Crisis Communication Skills and Communication Strategies for Business Image Development. Prof. Pandey is a PhD in English from LU.
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Advisor, Managerial Effectiveness: Prof. Archana Shukla, PGP Chair, IIM Lucknow
Prof. Archana Shukla is a Professor in the Human Resource Management group in IIM Lucknow. She teaches Organizational Structure & Design and Team Building courses. Her research interests are in Knowledge Management and New forms of organizations. Her consulting interests are in Group dynamics, Team building and Organizational design. She has been a management consultant for J&J, Reckitt Benkiser, Hughes Software, SBI, SAIL, Crompton Greaves etc.
Prof. Archana Shukla has a Ph.D.(Organizational Behaviour) from IIT Kanpur.
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Advisor, Dr. Sashi Rai
Dr. Shashi Rai is a member of the University Grants Commission of India, the apex body governing all higher education in India. She has been trained in the presitigious Macquarie University in Australia and has over 40 years of teaching experience. She is also a member of the powerful NAAC committe which inspects and accredits various colleges across the country. She has presented in various conferences in India and abroad and has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals.
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