Elements Akademia : About Us - Management Team, Consulting Resources & Academic Advisors

Elements Akademia is a private limited company registered in NCR, India. It is fully funded by the management team and a group of angel investors, who are typically IIM alumni and mid/senior professionals from some of the world's most admired companies like Goldman Sachs, CSFB, GE, P&G, Bank of America etc.

We have a BIG, BOLD vision to be the leader in high-quality job oriented courses in India and other developing countries. We have courses on Banking, Financial Services, Retail and Insurance being offered to students in North India and courses on LPO, KPO etc. in the pipeline - our focus on growth makes us continue to look at niche, as yet unexploited areas.

Our tieup with SIMSR (KJ Somaiya's Bschool, India' Top 20 MBA programmes) assures a very high academic rigour and quality. The current growth projection is "10 by 10"... $10mn revenues by 2010.

		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.



		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.

		Head, Operations: Ankur Agrawal Ankur brings extensive experience in starting companies. Most recently, he started an HR consulting/recruiting firm (jobsjunction), and scaled it from zero to 5 cities in less than a year. Prior to that, in ICICI Lombard (new client acquisition) and Philips (setup rural distribution network in 4 states). Ankur is a Commerce Graduate and an MBA from IIML.

		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.

		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 his stint in the college.

		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 Indraprastha University, New Delhi.

		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.

		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.

		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)

		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.

		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.
		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.