Faculty

Amit Krishn Gulati is an award winning industrial designer, entrepreneur and design educator with a multifaceted oeuvre encompassing new product development, healthcare, branding, built environments and retail experiences. Amit graduated from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad in 1995 and is the founder of Incubis, one of India’s well-known architecture and design companies. Incubis works with a very diverse mix of Indian and international companies. Amit is passionate about mentoring entrepreneurs and working closely with start-ups. He is one of the founding investors at Barista, India’s pioneering espresso retailer and was associated with Eye-Q – a successful and fast-growing chain of eye hospitals targeted towards low-income patients in small towns. In addition to leading the team at Incubis, Amit teaches at The School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and at his alma-mater, NID. Amit is actively engaged in creating design awareness and has served on the CII National Committee on Design for several years.

42 Years in IT/ITeS/Consulting/Training holding leadership positions Globally in eminent organizations such as CMC, Digital, IBM, NCR, PwC, Polaris & Capgemini. Have been Visiting Faculty at TMTC, IIMB, IIM-Shillong, NRTI beside Vedica. Have developed and delivered Training Programs at Capgemini University in Paris in 2006 & 2007.

Ankur Kulshrestha has worked with Suzuki India (Strategy) and EY (Consulting) for 10 years before joining academia. He is an Accounting and Finance enthusiast. He co-founded a start-up in 2014 in the ed-tech space and spends considerable time in the start-up ecosystem, both on the buy-side with investors and the sell-side with the businesses. He is a CFA® charterholder, a certified FRM®, and a practicing chartered accountant. He is a technical skills trainer for investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and loves to design management programs in association with EdTech firms.

Anunaya Rajhans is currently a PhD candidate at the Media Studies department, University of Amsterdam, where he studies internet memes; esp. meme culture in India and its impact on public and democratic discourse. His research involves browsing memes across platforms and borrows from practices across media & culture studies, anthropology, critical theory, digital methods and anthropology. He has taught writing, communication and critical thinking courses at the Young India Fellowship and the Plaksha Tech Leaders Programme. He runs a lit-pop magazine called Pendora. He is convinced that the internet and the classroom are the places where he truly belongs.

Baba Prasad (Prasad) is a leading thinker in the area of management strategy and innovation. He is President & CEO of Vivékin Group, a thought-leading management consultancy with offices in the USA and India. Prasad is also a Sloan Fellow at the Wharton School (USA) and Visiting Professor of Management at the International Institute for Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-H). He has degrees in Math, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, as well as a PhD in Operations & Information Management from the Wharton School. He taught at Purdue University (where he was rated MBA faculty of distinction), the University of Minnesota, and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Prasad and his wife, Professor Leela Prasad of Duke University, often work in economically-underprivileged elementary schools in Hyderabad. They helped to set up “Aksharavani,” a school for children of migrant construction workers which was subsequently adopted by Vivékin Group in 2012.

Professor Dana Brown is Dean, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University and the Founding Principal and Former Pro Vice-Chancellor, Enterprise of Leicester Castle Business School (LCBS) at De Montfort University. Under her leadership, Vedica has partnered with LCBS through which the Scholars get an opportunity to join the Global MBA at Leicester Castle Business School after completing 18 months of instruction at Vedica.

Dana Brown was the Executive Director of the MBA at Said Business School, University of Oxford. She has been Professor of Strategy at EMLYON Business School and a University Lecturer in International Business at Said Business School. She has taught in MBA and Executive Education programs in countries such including UK, US, France, China, Russia, Denmark, Spain and Egypt.

Her research interests focus on the way national employment and social policies affect business strategies and the intersection of public and private roles in determining policies that affect labor and environmental management.

Yugank Goyal is associate professor in public policy at FLAME University where he is the director of Centre for Knowledge Alternatives that works on district level data and cultures. He pursued his masters and doctoral studies in law and economics as Erasmus Mundus Scholar from Europe. He was a founding faculty member of OP Jindal Global University. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant on rural development projects in a major bank. He routinely engages with government on public policy issues and has published in peer reviewed international journals as well as national dailies on policy, law and development, and psephology. He is passionate about rural education and has recently set up a school in rural western UP.

After a 30-year career as a restaurant manager and owner, Eric attained an MBA from Missouri State University and a PhD in Organizational Communication from UCSB. His research interest focused on team dynamics, leadership, and workplace relationships. He currently lectures in the Technology Management Department at UCSB, working with both undergraduate and graduate students on entrepreneurship, management, leadership, strategy, communication, and persuasion. As a consultant, Eric works with a wide range of organizations on leadership development, team building, and strategy, as well as with small businesses tackling challenges such as market-validating a business idea to assessing how to expand to multiple locations. Eric is also a regular presenter on LinkedIn Learning.

Francis Rebello is a Human Asset Consultant and a Certified Executive Coach (PCC-ICF) who enables engaged aspiring professionals achieve their Impossible Future.
He engages with aspiring and engaged professionals in coaching conversations, academic explorations and learning add-ventures to enable them to maximize their potential by discovering and delivering the future of their dreams.
Francis Rebello has over Four decades of a successful track record in developing skills and attitudes, shaping behavior, nurturing culture and promoting personal and professional growth among highly motivated, self-driven people in the education and social development sectors in India.

Post his education in IIM Calcutta and NIT Kozhikode, Jishnu Changkakoti spent 22+ years working across the world in various roles in marketing, , sales and general management. The roles he handled include heading marketing for Johnson & Johnson in Indonesia, setting up the Indian operation of a US Foods MNC, heading sales & marketing in a highly rated Indian company. He has worked across multiple countries, as well as multiple categories like food, baby care, skin care, contact lenses, mobile phones etc.

Currently he is indulging in two of his passions - teaching, and helping small companies grow. In addition to teaching at Vedica, he is also a Visiting Faculty in IMT Ghaziabad. As Director, Sueno Management Consultancy, he provides consulting services, with particular focus on helping out smaller companies and startups develop their marketing & sales capabilities.

Kaustubh Chakraborty leads a retired life. He spends his time reading a lot, running his household along with his partner, and doing a little bit of teaching, writing, and pursuing his various other hobbies.
Before retirement, he worked in McKinsey & Company. He studied Economics at St Stephen\'s College, and has got an MBA from IIM, Bangalore.

Meena is a social entrepreneur (founder of niiti consulting and Questera Foundation) and  a management consultant specializing in marketing and change management strategies for corporate and social sector alike. A double Masters’ with degrees in Biotechnology and Management as well as a certificate in Social Entrepreneurship. Her rich 28+ years of experience working across industry sectors in senior management and leadership roles sit lightly on her. She has published many papers and articles and has contributed to several management case studies including some for Harvard Business School and INSEAD. Meena is also a passionate musician and a travel bug!

Neha Singh has over 14 years of corporate experience in financial services and strategy consulting with companies like Standard Chartered Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Deloitte India and MakeMyTrip.
Being passionate about gender equality, Neha believes financial freedom is an important lever for empowering women.
Combining her passion, with her knowledge and experience - Neha founded WOMONEYSTA in 2020 – a unique platform educating and enabling women to manage their money matters. Apart from conducting educational workshops and personal coaching, Womoneysta is also building a community of financially empowered women. Womoneysta has conducted over 100 workshops impacting over 5000 women, including partnerships with corporates like MakeMyTrip, Grohe India, Hello Meets, Lean In Network, UN75, OYO, 91 Springboard, WeWork and colleges like LSR, Gargi, JMC. Womoneysta has recently been featured as an Equal Pay Ally by UN Women India.
Neha has been mentored by the Cherie Blair Foundation, and is also a NISM certified mutual fund advisor. She has been featured on platforms like Upgrad and BigFM. She recently got recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equity 2022.

Nish Bhutani has 27 years of experience with digital and technology companies in Silicon Valley, UK and India. He is Founder & CEO - Indiginus - a digital growth consulting business specialising in digital strategies, experimentation and capability building. Clients include Bharat Matrimony, Saffronart, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Prior experience:

• SVP and Publisher, CNET.com - at NASDAQ-listed online media company CNET Networks in San Francisco (sold to CBS in 2008)
• Board Director and Senior Exec at Lovefilm - Incubated, grew and sold London-headquartered Lovefilm (the largest Netflix-equivalent in Europe) to Amazon, becoming the basis for Amazon Prime Video in the region
• COO, Saffronart - Drove brand, digital and mobile transformation of omni-channel auction house Saffronart, setting multiple global e-auction and mobile commerce records
• Head of content at Myntra, India’s largest fashion e-commerce player
• Global Head of Product for VIU, the streaming video app, across India, SEA and Middle East
• Columnist for the Mint newspaper, on digital practices and AI in the workplace
  

Education:

• MBA from Harvard University
• MS and BS degrees in Engineering from Stanford University

Pramath Raj Sinha is Managing Director, 9.9 Media and a Former Partner of McKinsey & Company and Founder of the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women. Dr. Sinha is also Founding Dean, Indian School of Business and the Young India Fellowship; and Founder Trustee, Ashoka University.

Priyadarshini Lakshminarayan is an Independent Director at the Member Board of Directors, and serves as the Chief Strategy and Sales Officer at Samarth Life Management Pvt Ltd. She has worked at Hughes Global Education in the capacity of Director, Sales and Marketing, and used to be the Vice President of Transaction Banking SAles at HSBC. She has also taught specialized courses in Finance and Marketing at various MBA institutes, including IIFT and JIIMS.

An entrepreneur, consultant & academic, Jigar Shah has experience working on then the world’s largest core banking project with Tata Consultancy Services before starting his own venture, Cresco® Mobility Solutions, in software, web & mobile app consulting, design & development. As an academic, he is associated as a Visiting Faculty with some of India’s best B-schools & edtech companies for courses in the domain of Operations & Decision Sciences, and Information Technology for post-graduate, executive-level, and management development programs.

Surinder S. Jodhka is  a Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He researches on social inequalities, caste in contemporary times, rural/agrarian change, and sociology of community identities. His recent publications include India’s Villages in the 21 st Century: Revisits and Revisions (with Edward Simpson OUP:2019); Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege and Inequality (with Jules Naudet. OUP:2019); A Handbook of Rural India (OBS 2018.); Contested Hierarchies: Caste and Power in 21 st Century (with James Manor OBS:2018); The Indian Middle-Class (with Aseem Prakash OUP:2016); Caste in Contemporary India (Routledge:2015); Caste (OISI/OUP 2012). He is also a recipient of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, 2012.

Prof. VP Ojha teaches Economic Environment and Policy at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He’s been a Visiting Fellow at the University of York and the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, and has also served as an Associate Professor at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC). Prof. Ojha has taught at the WTO Centre in the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi, and was a Reader at the Development Planning Centre of the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi. He has various consulting engagements to his name, from The World Bank to the National Council of Applied Economic Research. He has been a Guest Faculty Member at the Centre for International Trade and Development at Jawaharlal Nehru University since 2008.

Pushkal Kumar Pandey is an independent higher education professional who has previously worked in the construction industry. He is a visiting faculty in the areas of finance and quantitative methods at FOSTIIMA, IMD, NBA, and Skyline Business School. He was previously associated as visiting faculty with Princeton Review, TIME, JIMS, IILM and Wigan and Leigh.

Rahul is an entrepreneur and academic with interests in operations, supply chain, analytics, strategy, innovation, sustainability,
energy and climate policy, technology, mathematics, science, and education.
He is a founder of IGSA Labs, a supply chain analytics company, and a founder of CLE Trust, a nonprofit in education.
He is a visiting professor with IIM Lucknow and IIM Udaipur, besides Vedica.
Formerly, he was a faculty member with IIT Bombay and IIM Lucknow.
He writes regularly at medium.com/@rahulpandey.igsa

Rajiv Kapuria is an accomplished business and HR leader with extensive experience in leading businesses and transformational change at the enterprise level. He has held key leadership roles in HR, talent management, operations and integrations for ten years at Halliburton before bringing his expertise to the Board of Directions at HLS Asia Limited, a Haliburton Joint Venture, as well as an advisory, strategy and operations consulting role with Deloitte Consulting. Other hats he has worn include : Managing Director at Arkay Business Solutions, Mentor for Rice Alumni. Rajiv is recognised for spearheading strategy formulation and sponsoring and driving change through digital technologies and shaping organisational culture and effectiveness. He holds a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.

Dr Reena Mithal has spent over two decades working in global financial markets and investment research. Formerly, she was part of US-based emerging markets research teams at Putnam Investments, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers.

Rohit Kapoor is currently the CEO of Food Marketplace at Swiggy. He was previously the CEO of New Real Estate Business at OYO Rooms. He has 18 years of diverse experience across management consulting and industry. He worked with Mckinsey & Company for nearly a decade, leading several engagements in Banking & Insurance in India, South East Asia, and Canada. He was also the co-leader of Mckinsey India\'s recruitment team and led learning & development. Rohit also had stints with Usha Martin, a leading NBFC, and Eli Lilly Ranbaxy. He holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and is a certified Chartered Financial analyst (CFA Institute, USA). Rohit joined Max India in June 2012 and has made a notable contribution toward strengthening & executing the business strategy and performance management functions. He also led Project Uday and is a Governing Council member in Ma Bupa. He is Board Member at Antara Senior Living, MSF & Max One.

Sandeep Sen is an Education Consultant, Editor, and Writer. He has over 10 years of experience in Media and Education. Sandeep has conducted over 150 sessions, worked with an audience of over 10,000 students and professionals on their Professional Communication. With a dedicated focus on improving communications, his career goal is to enable his students to communicate effectively. In this endeavour, he has served as the Managing Editor of Higher Education Review for over 3 years. In 2017, he was selected for the Young India Fellowship and continued to pursue his love for writing. He then joined the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women in 2019 and served as the Head of the Writing and Communications Centre till 2021. Currently, he is an Educator who specializes in Professional Communication and a consultant who works with various organizations driving strategic initiatives and programme management.

Shefaly Yogendra, PhD is an internationally experienced strategist with experience of building organisations, brands, and culturally diverse teams. She has broad fiduciary and governance experience, and is a trusted advisor with the experience of shaping the executive conversation on technology, risk, branding and growth. Shefaly is a Non-Executive Director of JP Morgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust (LSE: JUSC) where she chairs the Remuneration Committee, and of Temple Bar Investment Trust (LSE: TMPL). She is also an independent Governor of London Metropolitan University where she chairs the Audit Committee and earlier chaired the Governance Committee. Earlier she was the COO and an executive director of Ditto AI. She founded the luxury startup Livyora. Shefaly was among the “100 Women to Watch” in the Female FTSE Board Report 2016 and holds a PhD in Political Decision Making from the University of Cambridge. She trained earlier in engineering, management, and technology policy.

Founder One Step Up Education, Ex NDTV CEO’s Office Alumni of IIM Indore, Shri Ram College of Commerce & Lawrence School, Lovedale Visiting Faculty at IIM Indore - ’18, ’19 & ’20 & Vedica Scholars (2019, 2020)

Shiv has spent the last ten years

• Trying to see which jobs are coming and going
• Looking for interconnections between subjects, professions, capitalism & social justice!
• In the classrooms of India\'s best schools
• Building a team of passionate individuals
• Trying to figure out whether education should be scaled or not
• Trying to win a Squash tournament in the paunch category (Over 35!)
• Travelling, (by road ideally!) across India to find and tell stories on careers to inspire 60,000 students (and counting)

Siddarth Menon is a sales, marketing and strategy professional with a record proving successful business growth, leadership and innovation. Until recently, he was the Branch Manager for Colgate Palmolive (North Division) where he led a team of over 90 people.He is currently volunteering with a non-profit organization for homeless children, Jamghat. He believes strongly in the power of strategy, innovation and analytics to drive business growth and has recently crafted a marketing strategy for an education platform. Master of Business Administration, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management

For three decades now, T. D. Chandrasekhar (called TD by friends) has been involved with businesses, first as a practicing executive and later as an external expert. In his current role as a coach, facilitator and a consultant for over a decade, he has coached over 200 senior executives, facilitated over a 1000 corporate programs, covering more than 15000 executives. As an invited speaker, he has addressed over 100 occasions including initiatives like TEDx. His focus has primarily been on excellence, creativity and innovation both at individual and organization levels with leading business organizations in India and overseas. His last corporate role was as Country head, India of Ameriprise Financial, which he setup and led till he started on his next phase. In his executive roles, he was known to focus both on professional excellence and personal wellbeing of staff as he believed strongly on the concept of sustainable business success hinging on motivated minds. He also loves interacting with students and teaching. At home, playing with his twin daughters bring him unbounded joy. The book he co-wrote with his close friend Br.Prasanna Swaroopa – Good Values Great Business- has given him an immense joy. The book has been dedicated to the millions of youngsters who join the workforce every year. He has been involved with Vedica from the very first batch. He takes courses such as – Mind of a Leader, Case Study Methodology, Consulting skills. He strongly believes in Vedica’s cause.

Dr Tripti P Desai started her academic journey from IIM-Ahmedabad, where she retrained in Managerial Teaching after working in Industry for 5 years.Post her experience at IIM-A, where she was, for 5 years, she has been teaching, researching, training, and consulting for more than 33 years. She was an assessor with leading consulting companies including Ernst & Young and Deloitte. Dr Desai has presented papers and chaired symposiums in International and National conferences. She regularly reviews papers for the conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology {SIOP)-USA. She has been and is an Independent Director with 4 Vodafone Idea non-Telco companies. She is also a member of the Managing Committee of a Education Society which runs 5 leading Public schools in Delhi and NCR. Dr Desai is also a member of the Governing council of a Manpower Management Centre, a Non profit Organization.

Vikas Gupta is Co-Founder and Director at 9.9 Media. A veteran marketing expert, he has over 37 years of experience in marketing management and business building. He has held leadership positions in globally reputed consumer groups across international markets. Prior to co-founding 9.9 Media, he was Senior Vice President and CMO of Coca-Cola India, Global Brand Director of Brand Coca-Cola at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, USA, CMO and President (Advertising Sales) at ABP Pvt Ltd.