SAI INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL - Key Persons

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• Member of the Advisory Board

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisory Board

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisory Board

Professor Damodar Acharya is the Former Director of IIT-Kharagpur and Former Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi. He completed his M.Tech in IE&OR and Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Rourkela. He has about 32 years of diversified experience, including 27 years of teaching and research experience at IIT, Kharagpur, and five years of experience in academic administration as Vice-Chancellor, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela and as Chairman of AICTE. Prof. Acharya held several important positions at IIT Kharagpur,, such as Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Chairman of JEE, Dean of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, and Chairman of Vinod Gupta School of Management. He is a consultant to many world-class companies, such as Tata Steel, General Motors, Hindustan Lever, and Tata Chemicals. His area of interest and research includes operation research, production planning and control, supply chain, and maintenance management. He is a fellow of both Indian National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences (India), and a member of several professional bodies, such as ORSI, IE(India), and IIIE. He has been nominated as a Director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India in October 2012.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisory Board

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisory Board
• Professor
• Vice - Chancellor for Research, University of California, Davis, USA

Dr. Prasant Mohapatra is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and is serving as the Vice-Chancellor for research of at University of California, Davis. He served as an Associate Chancellor during 2014-16, and the Interim Vice-Provost and CIO of UC Davis during 2013-14. He was the Department Chair of Computer Science during 2007-13, and held an Endowed Chair Professorship during that period. In the past, he has been on the faculty at IOWA State University and Michigan State University. He has also held Visiting Scientist positions at Intel Corporation, Panasonic Technologies, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore, and National ICT Australia (NICTA). He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Padova, Italy and Yonsei University, and KAIST, South Korea. Dr. Mohapatra received his doctoral degree from Penn State University in 1993, and received an Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award in 2008. He is also the recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He received an Outstanding Research Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis and the HP Labs Innovation Awards in 2011, 2012, and 2013. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of AAAS. Recently in Aug 2017, he received the Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence from Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik . Dr. Mohapatra's research interests are in the areas of wireless networks, mobile communications, cybersecurity, and Internet protocols. He has published more than 350 papers in reputed conferences and journals on these topics. Dr. Mohapatra's research has been funded through grants from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, Army Research Labs, Intel Corporation, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Raytheon, Huawei Technologies, and EMC Corporation. Dr. Mohapatra has consulted for many companies and organizations in USA, Australia, Korea, Ireland, and India.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisory Board

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisory Board
• Partner at Ernst & Young
• Partner, EY and Former CEO, GEMS Education India

Shri Amitabh Jhingan is a Partner at Ernst & Young and the Former CEO, GEMS Education India. He has over 20 years of Professional experience across General Management, Strategy, Business Planning and Growth, Operations, M&A and Finance. He has worked with Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton and GEMS Education over the course of his career. He is currently the Co-Chair of the FICCI K-12 Committee and has been closely involved with the School and Higher Education Sectors over the last 10 years. He has worked with a wide range of clients which include Pearson, Bertelesmann, Sri Chaitanya, GEMS Education, Symbiosis, Apollo Healthcare, Manipal, IFC, Interglobe, Bennett Coleman, Educomp Solutions, TIME, Aakash etc. He is passionate about Education and believes that the application of rigour across all aspects of education delivery, evidence based measurement of outcomes and implementation of best in class operating and people practises across educational institutions, can significantly enhance the quality in the classroom.

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• Member of the Advisory Board
• Chairman of the Board of JSC SB PNB - Kazakhstan

Shri Rakesh Sethi, Former Chairman & Managing Director of Allahabad Bank, also served as the Executive Director of Punjab National Bank and Executive Director of Union Bank. He has over 35 years of banking experience and has dealt with verticals like treasury, domestic foreign business and international banking, retail banking, transaction banking, third party products distribution, personal banking and operations, government business, corporate communication, central audit and inspection, credit policy, credit recovery and legal services and rural and agri business, overseeing Zones of Mumbai, Pine, Bhopal, Lucknow and Varanasi. Shri Sethi also server as Chairman of the Board of JSC SB PNB-Kazakhstan - an overseas joint venture and on the Board of PNB Housing Finance Ltd., PNB Gilts Ltd. and India Factoring & Finance Solutions Ltd. Shri Sethi is a B.com, LLB and Diploma holder in Personnel Management and also a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He is a Gold Medalist in Master of Commerce from Osmania University, Hydrabad.

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• Member of the Advisory Board
• Managing Director of Executive Access

Shri Ronesh Puri is currently the Managing Director of Executive Access. Prior to this, he was the Senior Consultant, Executive Access and had been an advocate and a banker. Shri Puri has worked on more than 300 searches across sectors, including over 100 Chief Executive and Board level searches. He has successfully facilitated numerous leadership transitions in sectors like Financial Services, Education, Real Estate, Consumer and Industrial. Shri Puri's expertise includes Board and Leadership Consulting, Education, Social Impact and Development Sector, Infrastructure and Real Estate, Financial Services, Private Banking and Wealth Management, Private Equity, Hedge Fund and Venture Capital, Corporate & Investment Banking, Asset Management and Real Estate Finance. Shri Puri actively mentors and coaches a number of leaders and CEOs on talent strategy, resource management and business performance. He frequently authors articles and books on leadership and HR issues. He has served on the FICCI HR committee and is also a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Delhi HRD Network and TiE. He was awarded the prestigious Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award, for being one of the most promising entrepreneurs in Asia. An alumni of Bishop's School, Pune, Shri Puri completed his graduation in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune and LLB from Punjab University. He also holds a Diploma in Management.