Visiting Faculty

Mentor

Dr. P. Suresh Kumar,
M.Sc. (Agri), M.B.A., Ph.D.,

Mentor & Director
(Research and Industrial Consultancy)

Dr. P. Suresh Kumar
26 years of experience in Bank of Baroda. Former Director of MBA at Kongu Engineering College (5years). Former director of MBA at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (5years). Mentor of KBSS (Since 2014). Conducts Management Development Programmes (MDPs), Leadership Development Programme (LDPs) and provides consultancy for various leading companies in a wide array of industries.

Chartered Accountant

CA V Sreeraman

Chartered Accountant

Mr.CA V Sreeraman
A Gold medalist in Chemistry in his Graduation, he holds Masters in Management System from BITS, Pilani. He has also completed PG Diploma in Operations Research, PG Diploma in Human Resource Management. He is a Qualified Chartered Accountant (Rank Holder) & Cost Accountant.
He has 9 years of corporate experience; he has trained over 1500 employees in the areas of financial management, financial markets, banking and insurance for clients like Syntel Limited, Catholic Syrian Bank, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, HCL Limited.
He has a decade of teaching experience and enjoys to teach and train the future generation as published articles in the Chartered Accountant Journal, Case Folio, ICFAI reader on wide ranging topics from risk management to organizational behavior related issues. Has participated in national and international conferences and presented papers on areas related to corporate governance, transfer pricing, taxation and corporate risk management.

Vice President – HR

Dr.Rajini Sriraman

Vice President – HR & Admin, TVS Supply Chain Solutions, Global Freight Solutions Ltd.

Dr.Rajini Sriraman
Senior psychologist and a human resources leader with over 20 years of versatile organizational expertise.
People oriented, passionate facilitator and a competent communicator who has created robust development programs that led to sustainable people and organizational transformations. Has an unique experience of working with people across diverse cultures and industries. Rajini has converted strategies to actions and enabled institutions to move in progressive directions. Traveled extensively across the globe to connect with senior professionals and leaders to bring home desirable people practices that advance and align organizations. Led and facilitated talent programs to identify hi-potentials and hi-performers to re-vitalize talent development. Created high-end communication tools and methodologies that led to global collaboration, people engagement and organization development. Developed several psychometric tools and applied them in various groups and facilitations to bring about quick and lasting change in people. With the intrapereneurial attitude led breakthrough initiatives and programs across industries.

Passionate about advancing diversity. Chief architect of the Diversity & Inclusion through Women Allies (DIWA) – Pfizer India Women network with a vision to advance women talent in an inclusive manner. Led the Internal Complaints Committee of Pfizer India as its chairperson for 5 years and professionally led the committee by providing right recommendations to the board of Pfizer India. Rajini leads state & community wide people development and diversity programs. Well networked and has a child like curiosity and enthusiasm to explore and experiment the road less travelled.

Avid Reader | Social Media Enthusiast | Prolific Blogger | Natural Networker

Director of Information Technology,
AstraZeneca.

Ms. Vani Gopalan,

Director of Information Technology, AstraZeneca.

Ms. Vani Gopalan
Vani Gopalan is a seasoned IT Director in business technology with 2 decades of corporate experience in top notch organizations like IBM, Invesco and Flowserve Corporation in driving enterprise advancements through state-of-art technologies. She drives growth, efficiency, and profitability by leading strategic business, IT and M&A initiatives that generate significant ROI. Vani leverages innovative and collaborative leadership skills to build and direct high-performing teams and accomplish strategic objectives
She is a recipient of awards such as UNIFIED BRIANZ OF INDIA AWARD DE EXCELLENCE for Innovation and Organisational Leadership Excellence.

Her Doctorate in Organisational Leadership along with Certification in ITIL, APM, Prince2 and Prosci Change Practitioner enables her to deliver her duties effortlessly.Personally, her mission is “to enable a million graduates successfully transition from campus to corporate and climb the corporate ladder. She is also passionate about bringing the best out of people via constructive coaching & mentoring is her passion and have impacted 1000+ lives of executives, women and students.

Director,
ARRA Associates.

Mr. Bhanu Kumar,

Director, ARRA Associates.

Mr. Bhanu Kumar
Bhanu Kumar is an industry veteran with close to 3 decades of hands on expertise in Automatic Identification & Data capture, Data Analytics, Cloud, Infrastructure Delivery.
Passionate about mentoring and coaching students / entrepreneurs, and have been able to contribute to the growth of lot of youngsters as part of the current role in Giving back to Society.

Robust experience across Solution Design, Risk Analysis, Architecting Product, Program Management, Analytics. ITIL V3.0, Service Operations & SAFe Agilist Certified consultant. Leadership and operational roles in IT services organization – training, programming, solution designing, account management, life cycle practices, process, and IT infrastructure services /Management Agile Methodologies. Result oriented and high level of commitment and integrity with strong business acumen, information architecture, process & people practices
Over the years, established proven expertise around Solution design / architecting, product development, negotiating contracts, Transitioning projects, complete Project Lifecycle Management in a multi-shore project environment, including but not limited to Requirement/Scope Analysis, Risk/Quality Management, Infrastructure / Product Development and Operations Management.

Was an Expert Member from Industry in the Board of Studies of MCA for an autonomous College of Engineering. Currently a Visiting / Adjunct Faculty in multiple universities for various courses and a regular visitor to various colleges for Industry interaction lectures, mentoring / coaching students and faculty across various streams.

Also into Consulting & Training corporates on Areas around Data Analytics, Agile / Scrum / DevOps and Training Students on Employability and Niche Technical Skills like Analytics, Agile, Cloud, Big Data…..

Corporate Consultant

Ms. Sowmya Balaji,

Corporate Consultant & Visiting faculty.

Ms. Sowmya Balaji
Sowmya Balaji is a seasoned IT Director in business technology with 2 decades of corporate experience in top notch organizations like IBM, Invesco and Flowserve Corporation in driving enterprise advancements through state-of-art technologies. She drives growth, efficiency, and profitability by leading strategic business, IT and M&A initiatives that generate significant ROI. Vani leverages innovative and collaborative leadership skills to build and direct high-performing teams and accomplish strategic objectives.

Brand Consultant

Mr.Satheesh Krishnamurthy

Brand Consultant

Mr.Satheesh Krishnamurthy
U.S educated MBA based in Chennai, serving small and medium-sized clients in and around Tamilnadu. He has had long stints in Marketing and Advertising, having served MNC and Indian Companies viz., CavinKare, McCann Erickson, Mudra Communications, Cricinfo etc. Apart from his consulting assignments, he is a visiting faculty member in prominent B-Schools like BIM (Trichy) and Amrita School of Business (Coimbatore). He is an avid writer as well having penned his first book on Marketing in Tamil titled ‘Marketing Maayaajaalam’. Two more of his books – one on advertising and another introducing economics to the common man – are to be released shortly.

Director and Chairman,
Eduvalue Creators India Private Limited

Dr.G.Senthilkumar

Director and Chairman,
Eduvalue Creators India Private Limited

Dr.G.Senthilkumar
A pioneer to start an educational institution to help children with Specific Learning Disabilities in Salem district, a dream come true & uncontrolled love and affection on children community, started teaching one Dyslexic student in the year 2000 and progressively developed Helikx Special Learning School under Helikx Trust. Today it stands by the motto “Leading people from Darkness to Light” and the principle “CAN YOU TEACH ME THE WAY I CAN UNDERSTAND” for the students of Specific Learning Disability. One of the Education institutions which is First of its kind in Salem, endeavored for 17 years to make the dream into reality, a full-fledged residential school, Now with 75 students with state of the art facility. The school connects the students with multiple intelligence where it provides and teaches on Agriculture, Arts, Sports and linguistics.

Strategic Management Consultant

Mr.R.Kasthuri Rangan,

Strategic Management Consultant

Mr.R.Kasthuri Rangan
R.Kasthuri Rangan has 26 years of experience in the industry. He is the Director of a private limited company based in Chennai. Initially foraying into industrial automation and electronics, he has developed a number of automation projects for various industries and organisations. He has worked on business projects in association with many European, Japanese and US companies. He has considerable experience in ITES and wireless technology as well. He is currently engaged in strategic management consultancy and focuses on marketing strategies, market entry, research and business modeling. He is a visiting faculty at many b-schools in the country and handles subjects such as Consumer Behaviour, Services Marketing, International Marketing, Strategic Management and Sales & Distribution Management. He holds a black belt in Six Sigma methodology and is a Certified Management Consultant under the global ICMCI standards.

Independent Education Management Professional,
Former General Manager, Brakes India Ltd.,
Visiting faculty at LIBA-Chennai.

Mr. Kidambi Srinivasan,

Independent Education Management Professional, Former General Manager, Brakes India Ltd., Visiting faculty at LIBA-Chennai.

Mr. Kidambi Srinivasan
Mr. Kidambi Srinivasan, has extensive engineering and manufacturing experience. He is a Mechanical Engineer, and completed his Post Graduation from IIT Madras and ISI (Indian Statistical Institute), his qualifications also include a PG Diploma in Management from LIBA, Chennai. His depth of knowledge encompasses implementation of ISO 9000 and TS 16949 inside a variety of manufacturing settings. As Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Practitioner, he has worked with clients on site as a Project Leader and Project Mentor. His expertise includes Operations Management, Operations Research and Quantitative Methods. He also conducts programmes at MSME for project management, Six Sigma Programme.

HR Strategic Consultant, 
Facilitator and Coach, POSH Trainer, 
CEO

Mrs.G.Vanisree,

HR Strategic Consultant, Facilitator and Coach,
POSH Trainer, CEO & Founder, Velgha Learning Solutions.

Mrs.G.Vanisree
Mr. Vanisree, is a HR Transformational Leader with over 23 years of experience across industries. She is the Founder & CEO of Velgha Learning Solutions a Start-up venture with a mission to build Winning Organizations through Unleashing People Power. As a HR Leader, she has played a key role in transforming organizations to embrace a performance centric culture by building HR strategies, systems, processes and a continuous engagement with learning and development. She carries a rich experience as a HR Business Partner and a Learning and Development Facilitator with a global workforce. She has a rich experience of working with and resolving challenges faced by women at workplace including sexual harassment. She has trained over 7000 plus employees and has designed and developed 50 plus courses.

She is also an Internationally Certified Master Facilitator from The Blair Singer Academy. Since Jan 2021: Principal Consultant and CEO of Velgha Learning Solutions She helps organizations excel through enabling people achieve their professional and personal goals. She along with her team support SMEs to maximize people performance in manufacturing, services and retail industries through HR Audit, HR Strategy, Systems, Processes and Policies especially on Performance Management, Competency Development, Employee engagement etc. Help organizations with Talent Management, Learning and Development and Leadership Coaching. They also assist corporates with talent sourcing for mid and senior positions She is a POSH trainer and an external
member on the ICC for POSH for several leading organizations. She is also a visiting faculty for HR at the Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem. 1999 – 2018 – Two decades of rich corporate experience in the HR function in various capacities across industries in the country with an employee base ranging from 500 to 40000 Worked with PSUs and corporates like MTNL, Dimexon, ABT Foods(Sakthi Group etc).

Strategy Consultant and Product Head,
 Winfluentials.

Mr. Vignesh Raja

Strategy Consultant and Product Head, Winfluentials.

Mr. Vignesh Raja
Vignesh Raja,Vignesh Raja is a seasoned Business Research, Analytics Consulting Professional, with 16 years of Industry experience, having worked in Manufacturing, Service e commerce. Industry sectors Food Beverage, Ingredients, Consumer Goods Services, Kitchen Consumer Appliances, Retail, e commerce, Rural and Market Research Service companies. His Interests are Business Analytics, Market Intelligence, Digitization Strategy, Competitor Landscaping, Customer Research and Business Strategy helping companies GROW using Research Intelligence. MSc ( Master of Management Studies from BITS, Pilani.
He is a Professional Speaker and is an invited panelist in various educational, corporate, and management forums. He has been featured in the book “Muscle to the Mind”, an initiative by IIT Madras Hand in Hand for his contribution as a Mentor, assisting Rural Women Entrepreneurs in their Business Journey.

He was one of the elite Jury members for Singapore India Hackathon 2019 and most recently Toycathon 2021 organized by Ministry of Human Resource Development’s Innovation Cell, Government of India. He has authored numerous business research reports whitepapers, and has been quoted featured in leading industry publications.
He is an empaneled trainer with Madras Management Association, NIPM and Young Entrepreneurship School. Director, Chapter Relations BITSAA International Technology Expert Colours of Glory Foundation

Share this Info