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 modeling, 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 a 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 Ph.D. 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 programming, and driving.

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 Securities and Exchange Board of India and National Institute of Securities Markets under investor awareness programs.

Dr Gupta got Integrated Scholarship of U.P. for his studies, 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 into 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 execution of outcome-based education framework. He has served as a member of 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 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 academia operations, admission processes & universities tie-ups in Asia and (or) Europe and keen to develop the skills at 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 to University of Macau, China. Bikash had worked in 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 behavioural skill training program 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 perspective on cross sectional issues was funded by Macau Government and sponsored by University of Macau. In his research he conducted survey in India, Thailand, Malaysia and China, analyzed the multigroup big data using SPSS, R, AMOS, LINDO, QFD, MONTE CARLO PCA and ISM software.

He has taught and practiced research methodology, services marketing, integrated marketing communication, medical tourism, marketing management and event management at 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, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management. He is a reviewer for 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 National Institute of Technology, India.

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.

Neha Inamdar
Manager - Corporate Relations - KIAMS, Pune

Expert in setting up the Placement Department and Placement Processes for a B School from scratches. Excellent track record of lifting up the failed processed of placements to a value adding activity.

Presently taking care of end to end campus placements of MBA@IICMR, where in making the students job ready and place them in respective companies with respect to their specialisation. Has been extensively involved in understanding human resource, issues in employability, factor affecting performance at work place & motivation required to excel in one chosen function. Has a good understanding of the deliverables, skills set and competencies required by organisation in today’s VUCA world.

By understanding the needs effectively of the corporate world, has been instrumental & played a significant role in delivering staggering results for the organisations for which I am/was working by achieving placement targets , placing more than 200 students in different multinational companies in India in a year is something on which I can bang on.

Also carries a sharp understanding & insights in Marketing, Sales, CRM, and customer satisfaction. Also carries thorough experience in organising & executing grand events such as HR Conclaves and Job Fairs.

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 to Pune University.

He is Ph.D. - Philosophy in Computer Science from Himalayan University, Arunachal Pradesh

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. 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 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.

Mr. V Kiran Kumar
Assistant Professor & Controller of Examination

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. Digvijay Singh
Assistant Professor

Dr. Digvijay Singh  has successfully defended his thesis for the award of Ph.D degree(pending). His research interests involve Industry 4.0, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and postgraduate degree in mechanical engineering (thermal) from BITS-Pilani. He has 5.5 years of combined industry, research, and teaching experience. He had worked at Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd. Bengaluru. He was involved in an additive manufacturing project at IIT Kanpur for 3 years that was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Education (MoE), Indian government.

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.

RK Kishore Patnala
Librarian, KIAMS, Pune

RK Kishore Patnala obtained MA (Lit) BSc. B.Ed. degree from Andhra University. Visakhapatnam and Bachelor degree in Library Science from Sri Venkateswara University, Masters 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 UGC NET and AP-SET in library science.

He put up 18+ years professional experience. He introduced Library Automation, 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 review, Book exhibition programmes. He is a member of professional bodies in State and National level. He served as a resource person in workshops, seminars organised by various institution. Area of interest includes Webometric, Scientometrics, ICT, e-resources, User education. As of today he has published more than 38 research papers both at national and international journals and conference proceedings and participated more than 62 conferences.