Mentors
Gaurav Mantri
B.E. (Electronics) from Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur
- Technology professional with 20+ years of experience in the field of IT and Software Development.
- Expertise in building software products using modern technologies & framework.
- Successfully built and exited two startups.
- Involved with Saksham, IIM Udaipur’s entrepreneurship club since its inception.
- Mentor for Prarambh, Saksham club’s flagship event.
- Actively involved in developer community with a focus on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.
Mentors
Arif Sheikh
Group CEO & Chairman of Governing Council
- An accomplished CEO, groomed under the excellence of giants during budding phases of career and winning Boardroom seat at UAE in 1999 at very young age, consolidating superlative executive edges since then, stepped into global markets soon after and widened spread and depth of experience over Real estate, services, manufacturing, IT and exports while being P&L Head have handled and executed Projects honing the skills of Leadership alongside managing Stakeholder expectations. A well-recognized professional in the industry for academic and professional contributions Have been in the Leadership role for last 17 years.
- In past worked as CEO Gammon India, President -Retail AIPL( Celebration Mall included), ED&CEO EWDPL, and HIRO( Hiranandani ), Wal Mart, Harrods, among few other companies.
- Wrote two books which are on B school curriculum. Member of Curriculum Board of 5 B schools,Visiting Faculty to Global B schools.
- Keynote speaker on most of the National conferences/seminars; Appeared in the cover page of three leading business publications for best results in the sector.Wrote more than 100 articles for International publications as well as domestic magazines on various subjects.
- Excellence in Leadership from Global Retail Forum.
- CEO-Best Retail Chain Award, Dubai Shopping Festival.
- STAR- Real estate ICON of India award.
- Indira Super achiever award by CMO Asia.
- Reid & Taylor Retail ICON award.
- Mirror & PR Council of India- Image award.
- E&Y / Bhaskar - Realty King Award for Best Mall / Best residential township.
- VM & RD Best l design Award.
- Accommodation times - Best Commercial Project Award.
- Retail forum - Best Mall Professional-India 2005 Award.
- AGBS- Best CSR Programm Award.
- European Best Mall Marketing Professional Award.
- Business Innovation Award
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Faculty Area
Business planning, Business Diagnostics, Financial Modelling, Business Modeling
Sharad Talwar
MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (1986-88).
IIT Kharagpur (1981-85)
Sharad Talwar, currently serves as Regional CEO – India & South-East Asia of Grid Infocom, leading IT company in AI, Machine Learning, Big data and Cognitive Sciences
- He has over 30 years of rich experience in corporate sector and has worked at CEO/CXO levels for reputed organizations such as HCL Hewlett Packard, HCL Infosystems, Pearson, Educomp, Convergys, Dell, GE Capital, Syntel Inc and Knowledge Podium et al'. Before joining Grid Infocom, his last assignment was as a Founder and CEO of iCtrlBiz Consulting which is amongst the largest B to B app based, employee transport and logistics company.
- Sharad also serves as an Independent Director on the board of two subsidiaries in Digital Education and Education Technology space, of S Chand a public listed company.
- Additionally, Sharad also mentors startups in high tech space as a syndicate member with Padup Ventures, an incubator. Padup Ventures is also associated with Niti Aayog, as mentor organization of Atal Mission.
- Sharad has extensively worked in strategic planning, building and growing businesses in large multinational organizations across Technology, Education, after market services, ITES/BPO/KPO and transport/logistics sectors.
- He is proficient in managing P&L while achieving sustainable growth in revenue and profits by identifying opportunities and creating business alliances.
Mentors
Faculty Area
Marketing, Operations Management, Quantitative Methods and Information Systems
Venkatramanan Krishnamurthy
PGDM : IIM-Calcutta (2001)
B.E Mechanical: REC Silchar (1995)
- Venkatramanan Krishnamurthy had worked with different companies including Aditya Birla Retail Limited, Pantaloon Retail Limited, Infosys Technologies, Tata Strategic Management Group and Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited.
- Headed functions and managed critical roles that have significant impact on bottom-line, long-term competitiveness and growth.
- Areas of expertise include Industry Analysis, Retail Management and Supply Chain Management.
Mentors
Faculty Area
Marketing
Ashok Pratap Arora
Ph.D. IIM, Ahmedabad.
M.B.A
M.Sc. (Physics)
- He has taught in over fifty Indian and foreign institutions including Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (over 17 years), Management Development Institute Gurgaon (18 years), European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany, University of Bocconi, Milano, Masters of International Business, at University of Trieste and University of Torino, Torino, Italy Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.
- He had also been the India Chair Professor in management at Lagos Business School of Pan African University.
- He has served in the boards of several organisations including Calcutta Stock Exchange, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Learning Universe.
- He has been a consultant to over forty organisations including Bharti Airtel Ltd., National Petroleum Management Programme, Hindustan Levers Ltd., Larsen & Toubro, Maruti Suzuki, AV Birla Group, IMRB, Reserve Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Government of India, J.K Synthetics, Greenfield Ltd., Henkel Italia, Cooksons Ltd., India Steamship, Norwegian Development agency, BPL, ACC, United Bank of India, Cybermedia Research and Grasim Industries etc.
- He has organized over sixty Management Development Programs for very diverse organizations from India and abroad.
- He has guided over 20 Ph.D. scholars in the area of management and marketing.
Mentors
Faculty Area
CEO of IIM Udaipur Incubation Center
Umamahesvaram Mandi
MBA : Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1997
- 20 years of work experience in domains of Education, Media, Petroleum Retailing, Engineering Products distribution and Technology Venture Incubation.
- Has work experience in Godrej Agrovet Ltd, Reliance Industries Ltd, Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd etc in project leadership to Profit Centre head positions in Sales, Direct-Marketing and General Management space at National level.
- He has successfully played roles in establishing a large petroleum Retail Network, Affordable Education institutions (K-12 space), establishment of a KPO setup in Fintech area, Investing to augment the brand value proposition and co-founding a Agri-tech focused Incubator in his professional career. His personal interests span Distribution and Logistics, Retailing, Clean-tech and Agri-tech and non-for-profit ventures.
- He has successfully been guiding startups in the domains of Machinery, Imaging related deep-tech, FMCG, Education and Consumer Experience building. He is the CEO of IIM Udaipur Incubation Center.
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An engineering graduate from NIT, Jaipur and a management graduate from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Shabbir comes with a decade and a half experience in Consulting, Insurance, Education & Technology domain.
- His experience includes working in the technology space with TCS, strategy and operations domain at Boston Consulting Group and helping in building up the Corporate Planning division at Tata AIA Life. He had started and run a business school for 4 years before making an exit in 2013.
- He has been working for the last 5 year at IIM Udaipur as the manager for corporate relations helping build strong tie-ups with industry partners. In parallel he also is a partner in a hyperlocal media site that runs out of Udaipur.
Mentors
Faculty Area
Marketing & Finance
Arun Singhal
MBA : Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, 1981
Post Gradute in Marketing & Finance from IIM bangalore in 1981.
26 years of work experience in Unilever, johnson & johnson and Dumex India (now Danone Nutrition) in sales,marketing, operations and general management in senior position in india and Asia Pacific.
- Been consulting,coaching and counselling individuals, small and medium business since 2007.
- Working with IIM Udaipur since june 2015 as faculty for IBP in addition to driving enterpreneurship,emotional intelligence, Bloomberg Lab and career counseling.
- Also a certified CEO coach.
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Mentors
Faculty Area
Finance & Accounting Area
N. Viswanathan
PGDM : Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 1994
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical, Regional Engineering College Rourkela, 1992
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Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,1994 Bachelor of Engineering, Regional Engineering College Rourkela, 1992
- Prof. Viswanathan has been a faculty member in the Finance & Accounting area of IIM Udaipur since 2013.
- Before joining IIMU, he was associated professionally with leading companies in diverse sectors including telecommunications, real estate and cement, where he handled a range of responsibilities including financial planning & analysis,mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, investor relations and investment management. Apart from operating companies, he has also worked with a holding/ promoter company and in a management consulting firm.