MIDAS - Key Persons
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- Director of the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change ( CSBC ), Ashoka University
Dr. Pavan Mamidi is the Director of the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC), Ashoka University. Previously, he was the director (founding) of the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield - FLAME University. He is interested in investigating social norms, trust, pro-social behavior, and behavioral ethics using lab and lab-in-the-field experiments. He has also been a faculty member at IIM-Ahmedabad in the Business Policy area. He has taught courses on empirical research methods in the doctoral program along with law and negotiations, and dispute resolution in several public policy programs for the Government. He has also taught policy programs for senior government officers, including the IPS at the National Police Academy and IAS at LBSNAA in Mussoorie. He has held positions at IIM Bangalore, MIT (Sloan), the University of Michigan Law School, and Harvard Law School where he is an affiliated faculty at the Center on the Legal Profession. Pavan has an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a Doctorate (D.Phil) in Sociology from the University of Oxford.
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- Advisory Board Chair / Managing Director, Bombay Burmah Trading Company Ltd. Joint Managing Director, Bombay Dyeing
- Managing Director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation
Mr. Ness Wadia is the Managing Director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, a company with holdings in most of the Wadia Group subsidiaries, including an indirect majority stake in Britannia Industries. He was the Joint Managing Director of Bombay Dyeing, the flagship company of the Wadia Group. He serves as a Director on the Boards of group companies- Britannia Industries Ltd., Wadia BSN Ltd., and Nowrosjee Wadia & Sons Ltd. He is also a director of Gherzi Eastern Ltd., Tata Iron & Steel, Tata Chemicals, and other companies and is also a member of the Managing Committee of the Nehru Centre in Mumbai. He has been a trustee of Sir Ness Wadia Foundation and other charitable trusts within the Wadia family and a board member of Wadia Hospitals.
Mr.Chirag Gujarati is a serial entrepreneur in the education sector and committed towards helping startups reach their full potential. As a Business Coach, his expertise lies in Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, Product Development and Strategy; where he has been working since the past eight years.
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- Head - Alumni Relations & Digital Outreach
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- Chief Mentor
- Founder
- Entrepreneur
Prof Parag Shah is an experienced entrepreneur and a pioneer in the field of entrepreneurship education. He is the Founder-Director of FLAME University and the Managing Director of Oxford Golf and Country Club ranked the best golf course in Asia
As a Chief Strategy Coach, Prof. Parag Shah has a distinguished leadership style exhibited through his hybrid coaching method not just apt for the business, but also the entrepreneur running it. Prof. Shah works on the entrepreneurs' ability and intrinsic talents to create the best ways of running his or her business. He has successful mentored and coached SME and corporate setup business owners, charting their way from a small time business to creating a visionary entrepreneur.
Prof. Parag Shah's inspiring journey is documented in the form of a book called ‘Antarprerna' where he reaches out to everyone to ‘Dream Big, Dare to Fail'.
Prof. Parag Shah is an entrepreneur by profession but an educationist at heart. He was the Founding Chairman of FLAME University which was India's first Liberal Arts University. He traveled the world to culminate all his learnings and various forms of teachings available in this liberal arts format, partnering with the best institutes and faculties.
Critical Thinking, Creativity, Effectuation and Innovation are the key areas Prof. Parag Shah teaches and promotes through his form of education. These facets of education are now practiced by him as a Chief Mentor of MIDAS (Management, Innovation, Design, Arts & Social Sciences), a School of Entrepreneurship dedicated towards creating entrepreneurs. Prof. Parag Shah has won accolades for his work in education like being awarded the ‘Visionary Leadership Award' by DNA Group, being on the jury of International Innovation Centres, being awarded the ‘Icon of Education' by Minister of Education, Maharashtra and winning the ‘Business Acharya of the Year 2016" by Entrepreneur Magazine. His TEDx talk is nothing short of a preview to his passion of igniting minds and energy towards creating something new everyday.
Prof. Parag Shah is a serial entrepreneur who started off with a chain of Photo Finishing Labs called SNAP, was India's biggest distributor for Nestle Vending Machines, is a pioneer in real estate industry with close to 100mn sft being worked upon through his partnership with the Oxford Group in Pune, where he is also the MD of the award winning Californian style Oxford Golf Course.
Prof. Parag Shah has a dream of making 10,000 entrepreneurs who would thereby contribute to the livelihood of crores of people. He wants to empower young men and women to not just survive but thrive in their work and their lives. His dream is a result of his passion towards interacting with people and enabling them to become masters of their decisions, their lives.
Giving wings to an entrepreneur comes with great responsibility. At MIDAS we have curated the ideal eco-system with the Coaches being the air beneath every aspiring and established entrepreneurs wings to make them fly! The "Student to Founder" pathway at MIDAS enables every aspiring entrepreneur to turn his dreams into a reality. We know and believe that a mere idea is nothing by itself unless executed and brought to life. The emphasis is always to ideate, execute and launch in the real world at the earliest to begin business in totality. While undertaking my Masters in Entrepreneurship from Nottingham University, UK, I realized the big gap in India's higher education system - the lack of formal training to become an entrepreneur. Starting one's business requires proper direction, skill-set and a market to grow. While India is popularly thriving with job seekers, we at MIDAS create job enablers.
A unique offering at MIDAS like assessing the individual's key strengths with the business idea leads to an Entrepreneurial Fitment, which is a need of the hour with so many startups seeing the light but only for a few days. Our constant improvisation of the delivery is our key strength where great minds in the form of Coaches, are always enhancing the Entrepreneurial Quotient of every entrepreneur.MIDAS's greatest strength is the personalization of entrepreneurship education, as this is not something to be studied for best grades but to create the best life. I am the custodian of many dreams which walk in to our campus, only to be lighted up with immense dedication of my team and great withstanding support from all the parents, families and stakeholders.
Welcome to MIDAS where Magic is just not a word, but the very essence of how we make you feel.
The visionary behind the MIDAS School of Entrepreneurship, Prof. Pooja Shah is the torchbearer of young entrepreneurial minds in India. Being a Personal Master Coach herself, she has developed a one-of-a-kind course that dives deep into yourself, and makes you realise your true potential called ‘Transcend' With a global perspective for an Indian business, Ms Pooja Shah has been a revolutionary to scale MIDAS to new heights.
Sushimita Vikhe Patil is the CEO, Loknete Dr.Balasaheb Vikhe Patil (Padma Bhushan Awardee) Pravara Rural Education Society (PRES), Pravaranagar.She is also the Director, HAL-Pravara Aviation Institute. It's the only institute in India in Association with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited which has started the Aircraft Maintenance Engg, B.Sc. Aeronautics Avionics and Mechanical Stream in affiliation with UoM. She is also the Trustee for Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation, Vilad Ghat, Ahmednagar and running eight colleges including Medical, Engineering College and also a Multi-specialty hospital established in March 2000 with 520 bedded capacity, provides 24 x 7 medical service. She is also an E.A.to Director General of PRES and is currently pursuing her Ph.D in HR challenges in Institutions run by Political Families with specific reference to Educational Institutions belonging to Pravara Rural Education Society, Ahmednagar
Job Titles:
- CEO, Pravara Rural Education Society, Pravaranagar / Director, HAL - Pravara Aviation Institute
Sushimita Vikhe Patil is the CEO, Loknete Dr.Balasaheb Vikhe Patil (Padma Bhushan Awardee) Pravara Rural Education Society (PRES), Pravaranagar.She is also the Director, HAL-Pravara Aviation Institute. It's the only institute in India in Association with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited which has started the Aircraft Maintenance Engg, B.Sc. Aeronautics Avionics and Mechanical Stream in affiliation with UoM. She is also the Trustee for Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation, Vilad Ghat, Ahmednagar and running eight colleges including Medical, Engineering College and also a Multi-specialty hospital established in March 2000 with 520 bedded capacity, provides 24 x 7 medical service. She is also an E.A.to Director General of PRES and is currently pursuing her Ph.D in HR challenges in Institutions run by Political Families with specific reference to Educational Institutions belonging to Pravara Rural Education Society, Ahmednagar
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- CEO & Founder, Tribe Student Accommodation
Yogesh Mehra is a real estate veteran with 20+ years of experience in the real estate sector based in Pune. He has ideated and launched several products in the country around primary real estate and alternative real estate products that have been greatly inspiring and first movers in many cases. He is considered to have an extremely unique vision in terms of real estate and market needs and is known to create top-notch brands and internationally recognised products and experiences. Tribe Student Accommodation (www.tribestays.com) is his latest venture launched in 2018 and is already recognised internationally and has won multiple national awards including Fastest Growing Brand in Real Estate (2019) and Student Housing of the Year (2019).