CESS - Key Persons
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- PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT of MARKETING
Ashwini B. Desai has her master's in English literature from University of Mysore and has submitted her PhD thesis in English literature. Her research is an enquiry into how colonialism has impacted literary studies in India and how even the contemporary literary practices are shaped by European description of India by taking Literary criticism and Literary history. She is making an attempt to understand how colonial consciousness impacts experiences of people using literature domain as an example.
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- Honorary Professor
- President, National and Rural Education Association, Gauribidanur
An accomplished academic administrator with eight years' experience managing post-graduate business programs and a proven track-record of building new MBA programs, and developing business school brands. He has over fifteen years' experience teaching at business schools, backed by two decades in the industry. His Research focus is on the retail industry, with a Ph. D. in Management Studies from Osmania University, Hyderabad and a consistent record of publications in academic and industry publications. He authored a book titled "Integrated Retail Marketing Communication" published by Prentice-hall of India. He is also President of National and Rural Education Association, Gauribidanur.
He is formerly Professor at Department of Psychology, Bangalore University. He has involved in research projects in the area of management and entrepreneurship. He is associated with assessment centres such as Karnataka Skill Commission and Merittrac Services Pvt. Ltd. for development of psychometric tests. He involved in several research projects sponsored by NASCOM, Department of Science and Technology. He served as resource person for the projects undertaken by Karnataka Knowledge Commission. He also conducts training in human dynamics and behavioural aspects of men at workplace for both public and private sector organizations. Dr. Ashok associated with Assessment and Organizational Development programmes for both public and private sector organizations. He has developed modules for MDP for the Education Department and Project Swasthya Karnataka, Department of Health, Government of Karnataka. He also served as Member of Board of Studies, Board of Examination of several Universities within and outside Karnataka.
A motivating Professor in Management and able Administrator, he is committed to work on initiatives that would have a positive impact on overall development of students and quality in education. He has 35 years' experience in Teaching, Research and Administration. He has served as a Professor in Management, HoD and Director, Member of Board of Studies at various Business Schools and Universities in Karnataka. Under his guidance nine scholars have been awarded with Ph.D. from different Universities. He has more than 40 publications to his credit and contributed for many books. He has delivered lectures at various foreign Universities to name a few, Daito Bunka University, Japan, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, Wenzhou University, China etc.
Dr. K N Subramanya is presently working as Principal and Professor at R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru. His Academic Qualification includes: Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management, MBA with HR specialization (5 th Rank), M.Tech. in Industrial Management (IITM, Chennai) and B.E in Industrial and Production Engineering (Bangalore University). His 23 years of experience includes teaching, training and research. He is a research supervisor of four scholars, who are pursuing doctoral program in Lean Supply Chain Networks, Cloud SCN, Designing E-Procurement Models and Performance of B2B markets and a reviewer for IEEE International Journal on "Automation and Systems". He has executed / executing projects and consultancy works funded by Government and private funded agencies worth more than Rs. 1.5 crores. He has published and presented more than 70 technical papers in National and International Journals / conferences. The number of corporate training programmes / faculty development programmes / technical talks conducted is more than 100.
She has close to 14 years of experience in various fields, including teaching, training, data analysis, and consultancy. She has completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowship program from IIM Udaipur where she worked as Manager for a large MHRD funded SPARC project. Her area of interest is data analysis, quantitative research methods. She is interested in spirituality, philosophy, experimental research studies, and policy research.
Has 30 years' experience in Teaching, Research, Writing and Consulting. She has served as a Professor in Management, Director/Dean at various Business Schools in Bangalore. She has carried out research projects for Sarva ShikshaAbhiyaan, Karnataka Knowledge Commission and ICSSR. She set up AnalyZ Research Solutions in 2011 and successfully worked on several assignments like Moksh, Titan Industries, Infotrack Telematics, Hitachi, Banjara Foods and has supported several startups for their market entry. She received Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Award from Bangalore Centre for Education as Best Teacher in Management for the year 2007. She is Member (President nominee) of the Executive Council of Central University of Karnataka.
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- Director, Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bengaluru
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- Associate Professor, Centre for Consciousness Studies, NIMHANS, Bengaluru
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- Principal & Director ( Academics ), VET First Grade College, Bengaluru
Dr. Rajendra Joshi holds M.A. in Philosophy from Bangalore University and Doctoral Degrees Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai. As the head for Mission10X Research Center, WIPRO Technologies he involved in designing and delivering training programmes and executing academic leadership programme for the principals and faculty members of Engineering Colleges across the country. He also trained more than 2000 engineering faculty and 250 engineering college leaders as part of Mission10X. He served as Director of Indus Training and Research, Bengaluru and Dean of Education Studies at IACT. Dr. Joshi has wide experience in training and development and served as Director for Learning & Development at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat. He worked closely with National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) both as peer team member and co-coordinator of the Peer team to assess and accredit colleges in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. He was awarded with prestigious Emerald and the AIMA Research Fund Award in 2008 for a research project.
Has 30 years' experience in Teaching, Research and Consulting. She has served as a Professor in Management and HoD at various Institutions in Bangalore. She has successfully worked on several projects like "Innovations in Public Administration" (Karnataka Knowledge Commission), Psychological and Socio-Cultural dimensions - impact of Call Centre (NASSCOM), consulting project at Bowater School of Management and Marketing, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, collaborating project at Collaboration with Cornelia Daniel, Westfield State College, U.S.A. and many more. She has more than 30 publications to her credit and served as editorial board member of management journals.
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- Professor and Head, Department of Commerce & Management Studies, Govt. First Grade College, Kolar
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- Professor, Department of Economics, Bangalore University, Bengaluru
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- Director - Planning, R V Educational Institutions, Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust, Bengaluru
Has got his Doctorate in the area of "Strategy". While Accounting and Taxation are his areas of expertise, Finance is his area of passion. He has 25 years of experience in teaching at graduate, post-graduate and professional levels and has served various Institutions in different capacities. His paper on "Capital Asset Pricing Model" was selected for an International Conference at Harvard University, Cambridge, United States of America, during May-June 2011. Dr. Rajesh also has a rich experience in research, consultancy and training - both at the academic level and corporate level. He has conducted Faculty Development Programs in various educational institutions; and has conducted training programs for executives and managers of various companies like Wipro, Godrej, FCG, Honeywell, KPCL, Tyco Electronics etc. He is the Founder of ‘Vittam Pravina Gurushala (Finance Expert Academy).
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- President, Vidyarthi Shikshana Seva Trust
A well-known name in Karnataka as a historian and orator. He is a post graduate from Karnataka University, Dharwad and holds a doctorate degree from Hampi University. He has 15 years of experience as a history lecturer. He has been actively involved in historical research for the past 15 years. Presently member of Tagore National Fellowship Committee Delhi. He has published 15 books, more than 400 popular articles and has delivered more than 500 lectures across the state. He has received many awards to name a few "Basavaraja Kattimani" State Award in 2013 and Kadamba "Sevaratna" State Award in 2016. He is Honorary editor of Vikrama weekly magazine.
An inspiring Professor in Management popularly known as MKS is a Teacher, Researcher, Institution Builder and a Mentor to thousands of students. He has teaching and research experience of over forty years. He has served as Professor, Dean & Director of Department of Management Studies at Bangalore University. He was Member Secretary and Executive Director of Karnataka Knowledge Commission from 2009 to 2013. He was a Member of Committee for draft National Education Policy, Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), Ministry of HRD, UGC and Member of All India Board of Management Studies, AICTE. He has also served as Member of Executive Council of Central University of Gujarat and Kerala.
He is passionate to work on areas of education reforms, student & youth development. As a social worker he is serving the education community from last 25 years and committed to work towards bringing reforms in education system. He supports and involves in the initiatives that would contribute in quality improvement of education and overall development of the students.
Has 17 years of experience in office management and administration. He has wide exposure working at educational institutions, NGOs and Corporate. He has functional expertise in office and personnel management, documentation, compliance with statutary requirements etc.
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- Founder Partner, Guru & Jana Chartered Accountants
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- Professor and Head, School of Contemporary Knowledge Systems
He has served in the Indian Air Force from 1964 to 1986. He was a qualified Instructor at Air Force Instructors' Methods School, Chennai in 1972. He has worked with Kirloskar as Group Adviser. He is a Member of Governing Council, Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Karnataka. He is also a Managing Trustee for Mysore Kirloskar Education Trust which is currently running Eight Schools in rural areas. He leads assessment teams as Senior Assessor for assessment of major industries for their status on Business Excellence through EFQM Excellence model. He has also served as President of Centre for Leadership and Management in Public Services. He has been awarded "Vira Chakra" for Bangladesh Operations-1971.