Dr. Biplab Kumar Biswal
Director, KIAMS – Harihar.

Dr. Biplab Kumar Biswal has been a dynamic manager with wide experience of about 22 years in Corporate and Academics spearheading research projects, and business operations. He has handled numerous senior-level positions and attained proficiency in directing complex projects from concept to fully operational status. He has successfully launched the PLANETWORKZ program of NIIT across major towns of Orissa. He also has handled the Training & Placement for ICFAI for 5 years; academics and placement for 2 years at Krupajal, academics and placement for 4 years at BIITM, trained Faculty for ITES training program at NIIT, designed session plan for Soft Skills, implemented new projects like Odisha Land rights to Slum Dwellers Act 2017 with HUDA, Govt. of Odisha. He has been actively involved in network expansion, recruitment, content development and program designing of the Soft Skills Curriculum at ICFAI. He has been instrumental in formulating, writing, and implementing new employee orientation manuals. He has facilitated and developed over 200 employees into goal-oriented and cohesive groups. BIITM has achieved 95% of on-roll placement and full capacity admission for all 4 years of his tenure. He has been instrumental in empanelling the college with more than 50 corporate houses and full capacity admission, which is unique for any college in Odisha. He was able to drive PCNL East, which was a loss-making unit break even in a year and profit within 18 months.

Dr. Biswal is a PhD in Marketing Management from KIIT University, Bhubaneswar after completing MCom (Accounts) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in 1997, PGDIRPM from Sambalpur University, Sambalpur in 2003, LLB from Sambalpur University, Sambalpur in 2000, GNIIT from NIIT, New Delhi in 2001, BCom (Hons) from, G.M.College, Sambalpur in 1995.

He is a member of the Red Cross and a Life Member of the Indian Economic Association.

Dr. Tarun Agarwal
Director - KIAMS Pune

Dr. Tarun has more than 30 years of rich industry leadership and academic experience. In the past, he has been part of the team at HDFC, ICICI and State Bank of India. He has worked in the areas of Financial Inclusion, Literacy, Microfinance, Corporate Strategy, Operations, Product & Innovations, Human Resources, and Digital Payments Technology.

As an academician, he has been with leading business schools in India as HOD cum Chairman Placements. His areas of expertise include Commercial Banking, Corporate Credit Appraisal & Finance, Banking Operations, Microfinance & Inclusion, Financial Markets & Services, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, B2B Marketing and Human Resources Management.

Prof. Tarun has been consulting Mckinsey , E&Y, KPMG, Delloite, BNY Mellon, Oracle, and other Corporations, both, nationally and internationally in the areas of Financial Inclusion, Microfinance and Payments.

He has to his credit: Ph.D in Management,  MBA in Finance, he is a Fellow of the Cost and Management Accountants of India, a Certified Digital Money practitioner from the USA, Post Graduate in Human Resources & Industrial Relations and a Post Graduate in Financial Management with specialization in Project Management & Delivery.

He has been the recipient of “Stallion” award in his previous stints and is fondly known as the ‘India Inclusive Business Leader’ he has won an award from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and The World Bank Group for his contributions to the space of Digital Inclusion and bringing about a change in the lives of millions of people in the country.

His Vision is to create Academic Excellence, Build Collaborative Community, and Inculcate Leadership with Social Responsibility, Global Perspective and Experiential Learning.

Dr. Ashok Patil
Associate Dean Academics & Associate Professor(Finance) - KIAMS Pune

Dr. Ashok Patil is a committed learner and likes to teach with passion. He believes that imbibing core concepts and acquiring essential skills is critical for decision-making. He loves to teach finance subjects, and his research interest is asset pricing and market efficiency.

Financial derivatives, international finance, financial modelling, corporate valuation, and security analysis & portfolio management are some subjects that he teaches through case studies, role plays, and simulation using excel.

He has published two papers in the ABDC-B category employing multifractal analysis from the econophysics domain. The theme of these research papers is to test the dynamic relationship between price and volume in financial stock markets nonlinearly.

He likes to learn softwares that help enhance the delivery of the course. He has obtained advanced skills in R programming. Besides, he has a working knowledge of MATLAB, EViews, RATS, and Gretl software. For documentation of the research output, he uses LaTeX software. He keeps special interest in learning statistics and logical reasoning.

Dr. Ashok Patil is a graduate engineer from the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) and a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC). He has a PhD from Symbiosis International University (SIU), Pune. He has over six years of industry experience in Mahindra & Mahindra, Mumbai, and IBP Co Limited, Bangalore & Surat. He has been teaching for the last 18 years.

His hobbies include reading, learning to program, and driving.

Dr. Nagaraj B.V.
Business Analytics Dean (Academics), KIAMS, Harihar

Dr. Nagaraj B.V completed his post-graduation in Statistics topping Kuvempu University in 1996 with OR & SQC specializations.

He has industry experience exceeding 5 years. Soon after his MSc., he started his career as a CNC Machinist at Mysore Kirloskar Ltd., Harihar for a short duration of four months followed by a post of Executive - QA/QC at Katra Phytochem, Bangalore (Works-Telegi) a startup 100% EOU involved in Marigold natural colour extraction process.

He got into academics in 2001 at Polyfibers Junior College Kumarapatnam as a faculty member in Statistics & Mathematics and served for six years before joining ICFAI National College (INC) as a faculty member (QM & HR), Davangere in the year 2007 after completion of his MBA.

Prior to joining KIAMS, he was at Bapuji B Schools’ BIET MBA Programmes Assistant Professor. He is passionate about teaching Statistics, Statistical Inference, OR and OM. He has worked as SIP Coordinator at INC; guided more than 75 Management internship projects working as the coordinator for Summer Projects of VTU for five years at Bapuji Institute of Engineering & Technology. He has completed his PhD in the area of Supply and Value Chain Analysis of selected Agricultural Products in Karnataka from the University of Mysore, Mysore.

Dr. V. S. Pai
Senior Professor - Strategic Management, KIAMS-Harihar.

Dr. Pai has over 34 years of work experience. He has conducted research in the field of Strategic Management (guided 3 PhD scholars successfully, completed an ICSSR, New Delhi-funded research project and published several research papers). His publications, which number over 80, have appeared in refereed journals both in India and abroad, business magazines and national business newspapers. His business cases have been uploaded to The Case Centre (ECCH), Cranfield University, UK and have won prizes in international case competitions held in Canada.

His experience in Management teaching is in the areas of Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, International Business, Organization Structure and Design &Management Control Systems. He has taught in undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programmes.

Dr. Pai has also been actively involved in designing, developing and delivering executive education programmes for many organizations. He has also undertaken consulting assignments. Dr. Pai has also held academic administrative positions and has managed events.

Dr.Savitha G
Professor-Finance

Dr.Savitha G Lakkol is a graduate in commerce and postgraduate in Business Administration from Mangalore University, pursued a Doctoral degree from Kuvempu University. She has both industry and academic experience with long years of teaching experience of over 2 decades in MBA programs at various institutions.

Attended conferences of repute which include National and International Conferences and the most revered of all is the ones presented at ICIER- BRICS conference (2014) held in Rio, Brazil and another ICIER- BRICS Conference 2017, held at Christ University Bengaluru. She has bagged many best paper awards. Attended workshops at prestigious B-Schools such as IIM Kozhikode and IIM Calcutta.

Her research areas include Corporate Finance, Banking – Markets and Entrepreneurship. She has authored a book on bank mergers, contributed book chapters and published book reviews in leading publications such as Vikalpa by IIMA, Finance India and Journal of Contemporary Management Research (BIMS Trichy). Written research papers in peer-reviewed and indexed Journals such as Scopus and ABDC including a publication in ‘A’ category journal. Actively involved in guiding 5 PhD students of which 2 have completed and submitted the thesis work. She is associated with startups, preparing business plans and conducting Entrepreneurship Development workshops.

Dr. Manjunath B. R
Professor of Finance & Analytics

Dr. Manjunath B R has an overall 16 years of experience, 5 years of corporate experience in the Investment Banking and Analytics domain, and 11 years of academic experience. He is expertized in Applied Finance and his area of interest includes majorly Applied Finance and Analytics. He worked in the Philippines for JP Morgan Chase on Unit Unlisted Trust (UUT) migration project, Fidelity Business Services Pvt. Ltd. on Analytics and Data Services (ADS), Wipro-UBS as Corporate Action Specialist, and Thomson Reuters as Research Trainee.

He served as a Technical Consultant – Banking and Financial Services (BFS) for a World Bank Project implemented by Ernst & Young (EY), involved in Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance Project (LICT) initiated by Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) – Government of Bangladesh. Recently, he also served as a consultant and Finance Faculty for Nest Academy of Management Education, Dubai to deliver curriculum development and knowledge sharing across UK Qualifications at all levels in new-age careers. He worked as a Finance mentor (Online) for Australian Business School, and Victoria University - Australia.

As a full-time faculty, he worked with reputed academic institutions such as Bapuji B-Schools, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, International School of Management Excellence, and his last assignment was with the GM Institute of Technology, Department of Studies in Management as a Professor and Head.

He has presented and published 85 research papers and working papers at national – International level conferences and journal publications.

He has delivered and conducted workshops and training on Microsoft Advanced Excel for Managers, R-Statistical Programming Language, and Tableau – Data Visualization for Data Science in both domestic and international platforms.

Dr. V.B. Padmanabhan
Professor - Finance, KIAMS, Harihar

Dr. V.B. Padmanabhan is a highly accomplished professional with over 34 years of experience in the banking & finance industry. He started his career in banking beginning with Syndicate Bank- one of the leading nationalized bank in the country. He was gradually elevated to various positions of responsibility, the last of which was Chief Manager of the Bank. Apart from Syndicate Bank, he has also had positions of responsibility in several reputed banks.

Aside from the Banking operations, he is well trained in Advances and Foreign operations, handling Import and Export Trade, remittances, foreign currency, and Fixing foreign currency rates for different operations. He has worked in small, medium, urban, and metropolitan centres as Manager/Chief Manager of the bank, in different branches all over India. He was in charge of disbursement of ‘United Nations Compensation’ for Indian citizens returning from Kuwait, immediately after the Kuwait war in 1991 while in Syndicate Bank. Amongst his many responsible roles at leading banking & financial institutions across the nation, his stint as Chief Manager at Sangli Bank's Bangalore branch stood out.

Academically, he has also worked in many reputed management institutions. He was the Academic Chairperson at the International School of Business & Media (ISB&M) during 2013-14 at Niduvanda, Bangalore.

He has given lectures on Finance related topics at Raj Mangalam University in Bangkok, ICFAI, Sri Lanka and many other places within India.

He holds a doctorate from Corllins University (USA). He has also been a Fellow member of The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, Kolkata (FCMA); Certificated Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers, Mumbai (CAIIB); and Mutual Funds of India, Mumbai (AMFI). He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Science. He has got a passion for teaching various subjects in Finance and Banking.

Prof. Vinay Bhushan
Asst.Professor- IT, Asst. Dean Academics & MDP Coordinator, KIAMS, Harihar

Prof. Vinay Bhushan has a First Class at Graduation Level - B.Sc (Comp.Sc) from S.L. Degree College, Narayanpet (AP), Osmania University, Hyderabad. Distinction at Post Graduate level - M.Sc (Comp.Sc) from Karnataka University, Dharwad. First Class at Post Graduate level – MBA (IT/HR) from C.V. Raman University, CG and is pursuing Ph. D in Computer Science from Dravidian University, Kuppam. He has experience in IT & Systems of approximately nine years in teaching and research experience in various management and IT educational institutions. His areas of specialization include computer science, information technology, quantitative techniques, and ERP.

Dr. Bidyanand Jha
Associate Professor - Marketing - KIAMS Pune

Dr. Bidyanand Jha is a blend of industrial and academic expertise in Marketing and Sales. He has worked with several organizations of repute. He enjoys training 'Marketing Minds' and is passionate about teaching, research and consultancy. He is a rank holder in his MBA, scored 2nd position in the University exam and was fortunate to receive his convocation degree and reward by the then president, Dr. Abdul Kalam. After a considerable time in the industry, he decided to move in teaching, research and consultancy. The cumulative experience is nearly a decade now.

He has been teaching various marketing subjects such as Sales and Distribution, Consumer Behaviour, Retail Management, Marketing Management, Services Marketing and Strategic Marketing Management.

His research area spreads across Marketing Subjects such as Consumer Behaviour, Strategic Marketing Modelling, Online Retailing, and Sales. He has various international publication amounting to 15 in journals of repute with high impact factor.

He has been presenting his papers in various international conferences of repute organized outside India. He has been an award winner for the best paper in the conference organized by University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2012.

He has been involved in various kind consultancy and training program with organizations of repute in the field of Marketing, and some others in the digital & social media ecosystem.

He has done various programs for all level of managers in various organizations ranging from SME to large-scale entity. Some of his premier programs are 'Increasing Marketing effectiveness', 'Strategic Product Management', 'Social Media Analytics', 'Salesforce effectiveness', 'E-Commerce marketing Strategy' and 'EFQM Excellence framework'.

He has been a certified assessor of EFQM Excellence model by CII and EXIM Bank and has been involved in various assessment processes of the company. He has been an active member for Competency Mapping Assessment centre for Kirloskar Group employees. The purpose of this assessment centre is to identify the Fast Trackers.

He is a life member of various professional bodies such as “Higher Education Forum”, “American Marketing Association” and “National RTI Forum”

Since 2011, he is associated with KIAMS. During this tenure, he has contributed valuable inputs in the development of PGDM Marketing stream, subjects and research. He is currently leading a new project as a new course introduction of KIAMS in the field of Customer Insight and Analytics.

Prof. Nitin Appajirao Salunkhe
Assistant Professor - Human Resources, KIAMS, Pune

Prof Salunkhe has over fourteen years of teaching and research experience. His areas of research are in Leadership and Family Owned Business.

His experience in management teaching is in the area of Human Resource Management and its electives- like Human Resource Management, Recruitment & Selection, Training & Development, Strategic Human Resource Management, Compensation Management, Negotiation, Counselling, Conflict Management, Organizational Change & Development, Leadership & Team Building, International Human Resource Management, Principle & Practices in Management, Organizational Behaviour and Leadership & Family Owned Business.

Institutes he has served include JRE School of Management-A Joint venture of Raffles, Singapore & Educomp India, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune

Prof. Salunkhe also has experience in delivering and designing corporate sessions pertaining to Induction programs for entry-level managers, Advanced Management Program (AMP), Senior Management Programs (SMP), Leadership Management program (LDP), Manager Development Program (MDP), Technical Development Program (TDP) and Neuro-Linguistics Programming (NLP)

He also held an academic administrative position as Program Chairperson, while serving in the JRE School of Management as well as an Academic Council member.

Prof. Salunkhe is an ardent reader of fiction and non-fiction, autobiographies, short stories and philosophy also likes to play cricket and badminton.

Dr. Roshan Raju
Assistant Professor - Operations

Dr. Roshan has completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering and a post-graduation in Business Administration (Operation) from Savitribai Phule Pune University. He is pursuing his PhD in Management from Pune University. He has a total teaching experience of 6 years. He has worked with D. Y. Patil Institute of Management, Pune and his last employment was with Sadhu Vaswani Institute of Management Studies for Girls, Pune.

Dr Chetan V Hiremath
Associate Professor- Operations and Analytics

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Satpathy
Associate Professor – Marketing

Dr. Rajesh K Satpathy has been with Management Education for the last fifteen years and he has a mix of industry, academic, and research experience of eighteen years. His areas of interest include Integrated Marketing Communication, Branding, Consumer Behaviour, Cultural Values, Rural Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Agricultural Economics, Agro-marketing, and combining online and offline marketing strategies. He was awarded the Best Teacher Award.

Dr. Satpathy specializes in applying marketing and behavioural concepts to the Indian marketing context. His co-authored papers and cases have appeared in different National and International Journals. He has presented papers at several conferences of repute and has been a visiting faculty to different universities. He has completed his Ph.D. in the area of CSR and Branding. His research work on Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility in Odisha – A Study of National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), seeks to study the CSR Policy of NALCO and clarify the impact of Corporate Social Performance (CSP), assess the implications of Social Return on Investment (SROI) of CSR investment done to date on Branding of NALCO and to be cognizant of whether NALCO measure up to the stakeholder’s expectation.

He is the Editor, Designer, and Advisor to a Bi-monthly e-Magazine “VERBATIM”. He has conducted an innovative competition called “Pitch Perfect” based on “Super Brand India” and “Super Brand Global”. He was the Resource-Person and Coordinator for the “Certificate Programme on Branding & Advertising” at RGBS.

Message for the Students:

“Learning gives Creativity, Creativity leads to Thinking, Thinking provides Knowledge, and knowledge makes you GREAT & POWERFUL” well said by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam”.

Prof. Hemchand Jaichandran Mallya
Assistant Professor - Finance, KIAMS, Harihar

Hemchand Mallya has varied experience in the banking sector having joined initially a bank in the private sector and subsequently a major public sector bank. He has more than a decade of experience in retail banking having worked at all levels in the management cadre. He has a decade of experience in the IT department of the bank and had pioneered Administrative office computerization and was involved in Branch level computerisation as implementation manager and trainer at Bank’s Staff College in Bangalore.

Since 2001, he has been working as a freelance trainer and faculty and has been visiting reputed B-schools as faculty for Finance and Banking. He has also been mentoring bankers, preparing them for banking examinations. He has travelled to various reputed universities and colleges on teaching assignments.

He has been associated with KIAMS since 2016 and is presently a visiting faculty at Christ University of Management Studies.

He was also an examiner for the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance in the area of financial risk management. He has co-authored a workbook on Risk Management for the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.

Dr. Sudhansu Sekhar Nanda
Assistant Professor & Finance & Control

Dr. Sudhansu Sekhar Nanda has joined the Institute as an Assistant Professor in Finance & Accounting. He holds a Master's degree in Finance & Control (M.F.C.) from Utkal University along with Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Finance. He has also earned a Master's degree in Commerce (M. Com) and a degree in Law (LL.B.).
Dr. Nanda has been teaching for the last six years as an Assistant Professor. He also has industry experience of four years in Sesa Sterlite Ltd. (A Vedanta Group Company). His areas of interest are Startup Finance, Venture Capital, Private Equity, M&A, Alternative Investments, FDI, Financial Statement Analysis etc.
Dr. Nanda has 15 numbers of publications to his credit which includes reputed indexed journals like ABDC & Scopus. He has authored 2 books (‘Financial Accounting & Statement Analysis’ and ‘Cost Accounting: Theory & Practice’). He has attended and presented papers at 40 national and international conferences on a wide array of subjects. He has organized many workshops, Conferences, Seminars, FDPs and Certificate Programs. Dr. Nanda has a reviewer of Vilakshan: The XIMB Journal of Management.
He has a life member of the Indian Commerce Association (ICA), Indian Accounting Association (IAA), Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD), International Society for Research & Development (ISRD), International Society for Development & Sustainability (ISDS) and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA).

Prof. V Kiran Kumar
Assistant Professor & Controller of Examination

Brief Bio - 1. Mr. Voleti. Kiran Kumar, who has associated with reputed technical educational institutions for a period of around two decades, has rich experience in both academics as well as administration. He is instrumental in guiding and mentoring students from Engineering and Management disciplines. His personal and practical experience made him motivate engineering students to pursue higher studies in Management education. He is instrumental in establishing the management department and establishing benchmarks examination systems in the institutions he associated with. He authored many books on accountancy and financial management. He organized various national level workshops and management events. He published research articles in various reputed journals. He is about to submit his Doctoral dissertation to Lovely Professional University.

Dr. Danappa Pattar
Librarian, KIAMS, Harihar

Prof. Danappa Pattar has over 14 years of work experience in both Industry and Academic Institutions. He has professional training at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Prof. Danappa Pattar has also worked with several major IT Firms. He had an association with various esteemed academic Institutions.

Prof. Danappa Pattar submitted his Ph.D thesis at Gulbarga University, Gulbarga on the research topic 'Information Literacy among the rural community of Hyderabad Karnataka region: A study. In addition, he has published research papers in association with research guides in reputed National and International journals. He also presented a paper in International Conference at TAPMI, Manipal.

Dr. Srinivasa Suresh
Associate Professor, KIAMS, Pune

Prof. Srinivasa Suresh19 years of work experience. He has worked at Keshav Memorial Institute Hyderabad, MITWPU - MCA & International Institute Of Information Technology Affiliated with Pune University.
He is Ph.D. - Philosophy in Computer Science from Himalayan University, Arunachal Pradesh

Dr. Azharshaheen Shaikh
Associate Professor, KIAMS, Pune

Prof. Azharshaheen Shaikh has 12 years of work experience. He has worked at BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Karnataka & Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Karnataka as an Associate Professor.
He is Ph.D. in Consumer Behaviour and Innovation from Karnataka University, Dharwad.

RK Kishore Patnala
Librarian, KIAMS, Pune

RK Kishore Patnala obtained MA (Lit) BSc. B.Ed. degree from Andhra University. Visakhapatnam and Bachelor's degree in Library Science from Sri Venkateswara University, master in Library Science from Annamalai University, MPhil in Library Science from Global Open University, PhD thesis submitted in library and Information Science for the thesis “An Evaluation of and a model for APOnline” submitted to the Dravidian University. He qualified for UGC NET and AP-SET in library science.
He put up 18+ years of professional experience. He introduced Library Automation and established Institutional Repository and E-book management. As an IQAC member, he introduced Policies and Procedure codes for libraries. As a convenor, he organised national-level workshops, Book Reviews, and Book exhibition programmes. He is a member of professional bodies at the State and National levels. He served as a resource person in workshops, and seminars organised by various institutions. Area of interest includes Webometric, Scientometrics, ICT, e-resources, and User education. As of today he has published more than 38 research papers both at national and international journals and conference proceedings and participated in more than 62 conferences.

Dr. Arthur Fernandes
Associate Professor - HR, Harihar

Dr. Arthur Fernandes is a blend of proficiency of the industry and academia. He has worked with organizations of repute. He is a passionate faculty and trainer in the area of human resource development, business communication, personality enhancement, soft skills and the likes.

He has completed his MA in English, MBA and Ph.D on Workplace Learning and Development, Karnatak University, Dharwad. He has cleared National Eligibility Test (NET) and Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) in Management.

Dr. Kamalesh Mishra
Professor- Marketing, Harihar

Dr. Mishra started his professional journey in B to B marketing in the year 1987 and served various corporate entities in the same domain for more than ten years mostly in the western part of the country. The products handled during his stint in B to B market space range from Heavy engineering products to semiconductors. In the year 1998, Dr. Mishra shifted to his home state Odisha and opted into full-time academics, and served as a professor in the area of Marketing, Advertising, Branding and General Management for 18 years. During this time he also did consulting in the event management sector and managed Puri Beach Festival for three years, Managed India Zimbabwe one-day international at Barabati Stadium and India Pakistan Veteran series at the same venue.
Coming out of full-time academics in the year 2013 Dr. Mishra Co-Founded Abba Kaba Overseas (P) Ltd and forayed into Seafood Exports. The company today successfully exports seafood to various international markets and has plans for complete value chain integration in the coming years to make the company more competitive in the dynamically changing seafood market in the international space. Dr. Mishra is also presently serving his second term as the President of the Seafood Exporters Association of India, Odisha Region and has been actively contributing to the policy framework of the sector for better and faster growth in the same.
Dr. Mishra’s passion for Banding and advertising dragged him into further research in the branding area and he was awarded a doctorate degree by Ravenshaw University in the year 2015 for his research in the same domain. He is an active freelance honorary consultant to young entrepreneurs in the area of Marketing, Branding and Advertising. He also regularly contributes to the branding and advertising sector and provides consultancy to several ad agencies in BBSR.
He is really concerned about the wholesome development of the tourism sector, and very strongly believes that this being the sector having the highest potential for employment creation can drive the economy of Odisha to a much better level if every Odia internalizes the very statement “ ATITHI DEBO BHABA” in true spirit and action.

Dr. Ambuj Gupta
Professor-Finance and Area Chair-Finance

Dr. Ambuj Gupta brings twenty-six years of opulent experience in industry and academics. He has been actively involved with academic processes in Higher Educational Institutions and held many positions of responsibility viz., HOD MBA, Programme Director, Head-Executive MBA, Head-Research, Development & Publications, etc. He is passionate about teaching and learning. He had worked as Professor in Finance and Head of Finance Specialization with Christ (Deemed to be University) Lavasa, Pune. His other work experience includes IMDR, Pune; EABS, Pune; APIM, New Delhi; UPES, Dehradun; DIT, Dehradun, etc.
He was invited as a guest faculty by BITS Pilani to teach in their off-campus MBA Programme. He has also served as a resource person for financial education to conduct workshops under the aegis of the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the National Institute of Securities Markets under investor awareness programs. Dr Gupta got an Integrated Scholarship of U.P. for his studies, a Director’s Gold Medal for securing higher marks in BCom. (Hons.), Youth Merit Award for Rotary Club, Agra and many other awards for his commitment and contribution to academics.
His expertise is in Corporate Finance, Business Strategy, Emerging Business Models, Stakeholder Value Creation, Corporate Governance and Higher Education. He has attended a large number of FDPs and QIPs at reputed institutions. Among the notable ones are those attended at IIM Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, MDI Gurgaon, TISS Mumbai, NISM Navi Mumbai, etc.
He has been actively associated with curriculum revision and new curriculum development as well as the execution of an outcome-based education framework. He has served as a member of the Academic Advisory Board and Board of Studies at different institutions. He was also the Incharge of IQAC Cell. He customized the design and delivery of many corporate trainings. Among the notable ones are those delivered to the Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Uttarakhand Power Corporation, National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development; Principal Global Services, etc.

Dr. Bikash Debata
Professor-Marketing

With 16+ years of experience in the education industry and 4+ years in corporate with expertise in student recruitment, academia operation, team management, behavioural training, consulting, teaching & research and business development; I want to develop myself as a leader in the national/ international education space. I have in-depth knowledge of academic operations, admission processes & university tie-ups in Asia and (or) Europe and keen to develop my skills at the global level.
Dr. Bikash Debata is an academic and consultant in the area of medical tourism, controversial advertisement and service quality standards. He is also a visiting fellow at the University of Macau, China. Bikash had worked in the Hospitality and Management consulting industries in domains such as market research, branding and behavioural training. In his corporate tenure, he had worked with big data as a moderator to ensure the necessary data is captured and later translated into actionable recommendations. In addition, he had designed and delivered more than 3000 hours of the behavioural skill training programs in India and abroad to blue chips such as Steel Authority of India Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Satyam Computers (Now Tech- Mahindra), Idea Cellular, Avenion India, RPG and Royal Sundaram.
One of his recent research proposals on sustainable tourism with resident’s perspectives on cross-sectional issues was funded by Macau Government and sponsored by the University of Macau. In his research, he conducted surveys in India, Thailand, Malaysia and China, and analyzed the multigroup big data using SPSS, R, AMOS, LINDO, QFD, MONTE CARLO PCA and ISM software.
He has taught and practised research methodology, services marketing, integrated marketing communication, medical tourism, marketing management and event management for both undergraduate & postgraduate students. The delivery of classes included a number of different channels, including lectures, case studies, live projects with industries and research.
Bikash has twenty research papers published in reputed international journals, such as Benchmarking - An International Journal, International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, International Journal of Services and Operations Management, and International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management. He is a reviewer for the Asian Journal of Business Management and Benchmarking: An International Journal; and the associate editor for the International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Volume 8.
Bikash has an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University, USA and a Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology, India.

Mr. Kiran Kumar
Assistant Professor

He Graduated with B.com from St. Aloysius College and Post graduated with M.com (Accounting and Taxation) from Davangere University. Further, pursued an additional Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Kuvempu University, Bachelor’s in Education securing Distinction from Karnataka University Dharwad. In 2018, he cleared Karnataka State Eligibility Test by Mysore University.
He has 7 years of experience to his credit in teaching Economics, Financial Markets, Audit, Marketing and Statistics in Undergraduate courses. He had worked as vice principal (Administration and Teaching), Assistant Professor with multi-tasking as the organizer of varied internal and external events such as management fest, cultural fest, symposium (Inter-college), workshops and Faculty development program for institutional promotion. He was also a guide and Mentor for the students participating in the Management fest across Karnataka.
He is keen interested in writing and presenting papers in State, National and International conferences. As a result, he has written and presented 10+ papers at varied conferences at all levels. One amongst was awarded best paper in the national level conference organized by DUTCCM Titled “Emerging Paradigms in Business and Education; challenges to and opportunities for CSR, Bapuji B-School, Davangere. 3 out of 8 papers are published in ISBN Proceedings of the conference. Also attended a handful of quality workshops and FDPs. Among the notable ones are FDP on Research Methodology and Use of Statistical tools like SPSS.
Awarded Best Faculty 2018-19 for demonstrating excellent academic results and organizing 2 intra-college events which were remarkable. My hobbies include personalized learning, conducting a minor surveys, and playing cricket and Badminton.

Mr. Yogesh N
Assistant Professor

Yogesh N pursued Post Graduation in Commerce with a Specialization in Accounting and Taxation in the year 2013 from Kuvempu University Shimoga. Started his career in Academics in 2014 at SJVP College Harihar. Served as Assistant Professor in SRS First Grade College, Chitradurga for two years from 2017 and took charge as head of Commerce and Management of UG. Prior to joining the KIAMS-BBA branch, he served as a faculty member at RG Institute of Commerce and Management, Davangere from 2019 years. He has been a faculty guide for more than 25 student projects in BBM of Davangere University. Apart from academics, he took an active part is organizing events under NSS and Red Cross Units such as blood donation camps on the college campus from the Red Cross Unit and Management Fest. He is one of the university-recognized evaluators and Question paper setters for Davangere University for the last 4 years in the area of Accounting.
Presented 2 research papers at the National conference at GMIT in 2018 and at IBMR in 2020. He has attended more than 3 Faculty Development Programs in areas of his specializations. His hobbies are bike riding, badminton and reading fictional & nonfictional story books.

Shantika U Murdeshwar
Assistant Professor

She is a goal-driven person, a keen learner and has a penchant for teaching. She loves to teach Law Subjects together with Management Studies. She uses innovative teaching methods continually updating the subjects properly.
Her concern is to ensure that students get involved in the learning process with interest. Her research field is Law. She has a flair for learning new subjects related to Law and Management Studies including the new technologies related to them.
She started her career with a Banking and Law Firm and worked for about 3 years. She got into academics in the year 2016. She even was a women's Director for Karnataka State Scientific Research Council. She is recognized as a legal adviser and as a Legal Counsellor.
After Completing their B Com, she Completed her LL.B from Karnataka State Law University, Hubballi. She Added master in Business Law from National Law School India University, Bangalore and then M Com from IGNOU. Further, she is pursuing Company Secretary (Professional) from ICSI. She has to her credit 7 papers/ articles published in various UGC recognised Journals (National and International).
To her achievements, she was called to represent State level volleyball Tournament in the year 2005. She has received the “Best Marketer Award” and “Best Dancer Award” at Tanish 2010- a management fest conducted by J.H Patel Management and Technology, Davangere and Acharyan Heights conducted by ATNCC Shimoga respectively. Hobbies: Sports (Volleyball), Cooking (Trying New recipes), Travelling, Painting, Rangoli and reading.

Dr. Ravi Kumar C
Associate Professor – Finance

Dr. Ravikumar C earned his post-graduate degree in management with a focus on finance from Kuvempu University in 2003. In the year 2015, he completed his research entitled “Man Power Competency Mapping”.

Before joining KIAMS, he worked at prestigious institutions including the Institute of Management Studies, University of Kuvempu and Davangere, where he served as an Assistant Professor, as well as the Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, GM Institute of Technology, Davangere, where he served as an Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator.

He served on the Board of Examination for Management Studies and Chief of Flying Squad Examination at GMIT-Visveswaraya Technological University. Taught courses in Business Communication, Organization Behavior, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Industrial Relations, International Finance, International Business, Strategic Management, Counseling Skills for Managers and Managerial Economics.

He has been teaching for more than 18 years, including 5 years of research. To his credit, he has had research articles published in 5 prestigious overseas journals and 4 reputable national journals. His specialties include human resource management and finance.

His other Qualifications Include:
1. Diploma in Personal Management and Industrial Relations (All India Institute of Management Studies - Chennai).
2. Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (Karnataka State Open University).
3. Diploma in Human Resource Development (Institute of Management and Technology - Chennai).
4. Diploma in Hire Purchase and Leasing (Institute of Management and Technology - Chennai).

Dr Gururaj Phatak
Assistant Professor – Finance

He had a total of 14 Years of teaching and research experience. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurial Marketing from the University of Mysore; Mysore. He is VTU Approved Research Supervisor for PhD in Management Studies; He served as a member of the Board of Examination for Management Studies at VTU. He has published various research papers on Marketing and Entrepreneurship at National and International Conferences. His research interests include Marketing, MSMEs, Industrial Clusters, and Effectual Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Minal Uprety
Associate Professor

Dr. Minal Uprety has more than 15 years of academic experience. Previously she has worked with Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, Sanghavi Institute of Management & Science, Indore and ICFAI, Raipur. She is a registered Ph.D. guide in Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore. Till date, she has guided and awarded one Ph. D scholar. Her domain area is Statistics and Operations Management.

She has conducted various FDPs, certification courses and webinars in her area. She has published various papers in the ABDC category, Scopus, UGC Care and other indexed journals and ISBN books of national and international repute. She has presented several research papers in International and national conferences. She has also been awarded with best paper in some international/national conferences. She has also participated in several FDP’s, short term courses, training programme (Operations Management) and workshops in renowned institutes such as IIMB, IIT(BHU), ICFAI, Hyderabad. She is also certified in yellow belt in Six Sigma, Lean management, Statistics analysis using R.

Dr. Smita Khumbhar
Associate Professor – HR, Pune

She has a total experience of 14 years, she has worked in industry and in academics. She has done her Ph.D in Human Resource Management. Her areas of interest are organisational behaviour, Principles & Practices of Management, Industrial Relations, Labour Welfare, Training & Development, Strategic HRM and Labour Laws. She has attended many seminars and conferences and. has presented four research papers. Her ten papers are also published in national and international journals. She is a paper setter for MMM and MBS. served as a member of the local inquiry Committee and chairman squad committee for Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). Before joining KIAMS she was working at Siddhant Institute of Business Managements-Chakan.