Shrikanth Rao is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with over 27 years of industry experience straddling banking and audit with the big four.

His experience within the banking domain encompasses financial control, regulatory compliance, business finance, core banking solutions – evaluation and roll out, business process re-engineering, decision support systems and technology enabled management information systems.He has worked with banks abroad and in India.

His last banking engagement was with ING as Head of ING Group Reporting function that oversaw all accounting, budgeting and reportingaspects within the IFRS framework of ING’s India Operations to the parent at Amsterdam.

His stint with the big four (KPMG & E&Y) involved audits and management assignments at multiple blue-chip listed companies in the manufacturing sector. Assignments abroad covered companies in the Oil & Banking sectors and multi-brand diversified corporate groups.

• Accounting
• Banking
• Banking Regulations
• Business Valuation

Workshops

• Strategic Cost Management, IIMA.

• AIR 22 in the Intermediate Chartered Accountancy exam conducted by the ICAI in May 1982.

Mrityunjay Mahopatra joined SBI in 1982 as a PO. He had several assignments in India, UK and USA. He set up new businesses like Leasing, Private Equity and Insurance for SBI.  He was a Deputy Managing director in SBI leading global strategy, Marketing, New Businesses, digital, analytics and IT initiatives. As CIO, he established the innovation, data analytics, enterprise architecture verticals which was instrumental in creating many path breaking products like YONO, Loan Life Management System, SBI Chatbot etc.

Later, he was the CEO of Syndicate Bank, leading the transformation and repositioning of one of the India’s oldest and largest banks.

A writer in leading newspapers and a known public speaker, he is considered a thought leader in the Indian BFSI sector. He has won several awards and accolades and has served in various RBI and Gove committees besides being member of corporate boards

• Amit Kumar has over two decades of experience in marketing and advertising in leading food and non-food FMCG giants in diverse sectors. He has worked with organisations like Ogilvy, Lotte, 3M, Britannia, CavinKare and Mother Dairy and was part of the Chocopie launch in India. Mr Kumar’s interest and strength lie in Product Innovation, Brand and Product Management. He is also a guest faculty/visiting faculty at IMT-Ghaziabad, IIT-Delhi, GIM and Flame University. Currently working as the founder of online portal www.akshanova.com. Mr Kumar’s experience in diverse sectors and organisations helps brings out relevant cases and examples of key marketing practices to make our students’ industry ready.

• Product Management

• Won AlMA’s prestigious ‘Best Project Campaign of Marketing Practises’ in 2014 which was covered in the Economic Times.
• A marketing campaign was included in the ‘Global Best Practises’ repository at 3M.

• “Reinventing the India Story”, full page coverage in ‘The Economic Times’ on 26th September 2014.

• Marketing & Sales

• Marketing Management, Management Decision Sciences, Business Intelligence & Descriptive Analytics

• Executive Education

• P.G. Program in Rural Management, IRMA, Anand, Gujarat
• M.A. Economics, Loyola College Chennai

• “Reinventing the India Story”, full page coverage in ‘The Economic Times’ on 26th September 2014.

(A)   Cases

• Sunray India Limited- Distribution Strategy, Published in Asian Case Research Journal in 2021
• Zealvita- Winning Marketing Formula, Published in Emerald Publishing Limited in 2021
• Stemina Lubricants- Sales and Marketing challenges of a small enterprise, Ivey Publishing in April 2022
• Good Morning Breakfast cereal, Dimensioning Challenge, Asian Case Research Journal in 2022
• Masuum- A Positioning Conundrum

Link to the cases:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DBZ4uhn3g-UoTTEL-R8J4YEVldJZFaxh/view?usp=sharing

(B)   Articles in Magazines

• Digital Lending- A case for credit card innovation, published in ‘The Global ANALYST’
• ‘5G: Does it reset the competitive play in telecom industry’, published in ‘The Global ANALYST’
• ‘Airtel Digital Restructuring’ published in The Global Analyst
• ‘Dial T for Truce’ published in The Global Analyst
• ‘An idea whose time never came’ published in The Global Analyst
• ‘So, what has changed with GST’ published in The Global Analyst
• ‘The end game in Telecom’ published in the Business World magazine
• What’s next for Telecom published in The Global Analyst
• ‘Virtuosity of net neutrality’ in the smart CEO
• ‘The future of management education’ in the ‘Open’ magazine
• ‘Digital Learning- How does it help’ in the ‘Open’ magazine
• Vodafone- Idea – A new lease of life in ‘The Global Analyst’
• How to get the best out of Management Education

Link to all the articles:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10o5q3Blg3C1IvkjL734L7peULb7FKgPq/view?usp=sharing