World Renowned Faculties
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, World's #1 Leadership Thinker, Coach & Author
Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame. He is the only two-time Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the World’s #1 Executive Coach and Top Ten Business Thinker for eight years. Marshall was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Award for Leadership by the Harvard Institute of Coaching.
Dr. Goldsmith, a New York Times #1 bestselling author, has written or edited 47 books which have sold over 3 million copies, been translated into 32 languages, and become listed bestsellers in 12 countries. Amazon recently recognized the ‘100 Best Leadership & Success Books Ever Written’ - and included Marshall’s Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. H is the only living author with two books on the list. His other bestsellers include: MOJO, Succession: Are You Ready?, The Leader of the Future and How Women Rise (with lead author, Sally Helgesen). He newest bestseller is The Earned Life: Lose Regret and Choose Fulfillment.
Marshall’s acknowledgements include: Global Gurus - Corps D ’Elite Award for Lifetime Contribution in both Leadership and Coaching, Harvard Business Review - World’s #1 Leadership Thinker, Institute for Management Studies - Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching, American Management Association - 50 great thinkers who have influenced the field of management and BusinessWeek - 50 great leaders in America. He is featured in the documentary movie, “The Earned Life”.
Dr. Goldsmith served as a Professor of Management Practice at the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business. His Ph.D. is from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management - where he was the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. His MBA is from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business - where he was the Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year. He is one of a select few executive coaches who has worked with over 200 major CEOs and their management teams. He served on the Advisory Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. He has been a volunteer teacher for US Army Generals, Navy Admirals, Girl Scout executives, and leaders of the International and American Red Cross – where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.
Dr. Goldsmith has over 1.3 million followers on LinkedIn and over 3 million views on YouTube. Hundreds of his articles, interviews, columns, and videos are available (at no charge) online at www.MarshallGoldsmith.com. People from around the world have viewed, read, listened to, downloaded, or shared his resources tens of millions of times.
Dr. Nirmalya Kumar, Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing, Singapore Management University
Dr. Nirmalya Kumar is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing at Singapore Management University and Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute. Prior to this, heading strategy as Member-Group Executive Council at Tata Sons, he reported to Cyrus Mistry, the Chairman for the $100 billion Tata group with 675,000 employees worldwide. Professor Kumar previously taught at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), London Business School, and Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management).
As a consultant and speaker, Nirmalya has worked with over 50 Fortune 500 companies in 60 different countries. He has served on many boards of directors including ACC, Ambuja Cement, Bata India, Tata Chemicals, Ultratech, and Zensar, each with billion dollars plus in capitalization. As an author, Nirmalya has written eight books, the latest being Thinking Smart. His publications in leading academic journals as well as nine appearances in Harvard Business Review have attracted almost 20,000 Google Scholar citations. A prolific case writer; he has won six Case Centre adoption awards and the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method.
Nirmalya is considered one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy and marketing. He was thrice included in Thinkers50 (the biannual listing of the top 50 management thinkers in the world), received their “Global Village Award” for his contributions to the business community's understanding of globalization and emerging markets, and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2017. He has also appeared on the 50 Best BSchool professors in the world (Poets & Quants) and 50 most influential Business School professors (mbarankings.com).
Passionate about art, Nirmalya supports various museum exhibitions and publications through his art collection and served on the South Asian Acquisition Committee of Tate Modern. In recognition of his patronage and promotion of South Asian Art, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Dr. Ram Charan, Global Advisor to CEOs & Corporate Boards, Bestselling Author
Dr. Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. In his work with companies including GE, Bank of America, Novartis, Verizon, Aditya Birla Group, Tata Group, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings, UST Global, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), Longfor and two of the four largest digital companies in China, he is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing envi-ronment to uncover the core business problem. His real-world solutions, shared with millions through his books and articles in top business publications, have been praised for being practical, relevant and highly actionable — the kind of advice you can use Monday morning.
Former Chairman of GE Jack Welch says Ram “has the rare ability to distill meaningful from meaningless and transfer it in a quiet, effective way without destroying confidences,” while Ivan Seidenberg, the former CEO of Verizon, calls Ram his “secret weapon.”
Ram has coached more than a dozen leaders who went on to become CEOs, and has served on the boards of Hindalco in India, Emaar, Austin Industries, Tyco Electronics, and Fischer and Porter. His newest book, Talent Wins, co-authored with Dominic Barton and Dennis Carey (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2018), is a guide to radically rethinking the management of talent, because human capability is the ultimate determinant of a company’s success. Especially in this digital age.
Ram has authored over 25 books since 1998 that have sold over 2 million copies in more than a dozen languages. Three of his books were Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Execution, which he co-authored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy in 2002, which spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written for publications includ-ing Harvard Business Review, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Time, Chief Executive and USA TODAY.
Dr. Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. In his work with companies including GE, Bank of America, Novartis, Verizon, Aditya Birla Group, Tata Group, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings, UST Global, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), Longfor and two of the four largest digital companies in China, he is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing envi-ronment to uncover the core business problem. His real-world solutions, shared with millions through his books and articles in top business publications, have been praised for being practical, relevant and highly actionable — the kind of advice you can use Monday morning.
Former Chairman of GE Jack Welch says Ram “has the rare ability to distill meaningful from meaningless and transfer it in a quiet, effective way without destroying confidences,” while Ivan Seidenberg, the former CEO of Verizon, calls Ram his “secret weapon.”
Ram has coached more than a dozen leaders who went on to become CEOs, and has served on the boards of Hindalco in India, Emaar, Austin Industries, Tyco Electronics, and Fischer and Porter. His newest book, Talent Wins, co-authored with Dominic Barton and Dennis Carey (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2018), is a guide to radically rethinking the management of talent, because human capability is the ultimate determinant of a company’s success. Especially in this digital age.
Ram has authored over 25 books since 1998 that have sold over 2 million copies in more than a dozen languages. Three of his books were Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Execution, which he co-authored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy in 2002, which spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written for publications includ-ing Harvard Business Review, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Time, Chief Executive and USA TODAY.
Dr. Ram Charan, Business Advisor & CEO Coach, Global Best-Selling Author
Dr Ram Charan is a distinguished business advisor, author and speaker with 35 years of experience advising several top-ranking global companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. He is widely known for helping companies cope with the fast changing environment and transform their businesses. His real-world solutions to complex business problems are highly sought after for being practical, relevant and highly actionable.
Dr Charan earned MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School and also served on its faculty. He also taught at Northwestern University before pursuing consulting full time.
He has coached more than a dozen business leaders who went on to become CEOs and has ranked among BusinessWeek’s top ten resources for in-house executive development programs. Author of 15 bestselling books since 1998 including Execution which he co-authored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy in 2002, Dr Charan has written for publications including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Time, Chief Executive and USA TODAY.
Dr. Ravi Bapna, Curtis L. Carlson Chair Professor in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education, Academic Director, Carlson Analytics Lab, Carlson School of Management, University of
Ravi Bapna currently serves as the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education and the Academic Director of the Carlson Analytics Lab and the Analytics for Good Institute at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He has also served as Chief Data Scientist at Mississippi River Capital LLC, a Minneapolis based hedge fund. He is one of the foremost exponents of engaged scholarship that involves the full cycle of partnering with companies to conduct top-tier research, impacting practice, and taking the learning back into the classroom via executive teaching, writing teaching cases and running the Carlson Analytics Lab experiential program.
Bapna has been teaching executives at Carlson, NYU, ISB and other leading business schools since 2008. His core topics are digital strategy and transformation, digital and social media marketing, advanced analytics, ML and AI. He started the CIO Academy at the Indian School of Business and has done open and custom executive education in partnership with WU Executive Academy, Vienna, Tsinghua University, and the Indian School of Business. He regularly keynotes corporate leadership events.
Bapna’s career is built on very deep corporate partnerships that have been of mutual benefit to all parties involved. He has been a pioneer of online auctions research. He created and ran Cniper.com, a real-world sniping agent for eBay auctions, to accurately estimate consumer surplus. Bapna was invited to present this at the Federal Trade Commission in addition to a variety of leading universities. Bapna is one of the foremost proponents of the gold-standard method of randomized field experiments in social media, partnering with companies such as OkCupid, Last.fm, and others to develop new knowledge and impact practice. His research in this arena had significant impact in deconstructing how social media can be used to create economic and social value, and has been featured widely in the media (including, FT, NPR, Star Tribune, CBS, USA Today, ABC among other) and invited keynote talks at companies around the world (3M, Google, Facebook, Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Cargill among others). This work not only has had a huge theoretical impact in uncovering important causal mechanisms in important areas such as online dating and peer influence, but has had a huge impact on practice and teaching at the MBA and executive level.
Most recently he has been helping some pioneering ecommerce companies take their referral marketing to the next level. Referral programs are designed to accelerate organic word-of-mouth (WOM) exposure using financial incentives. He uses large scale RCTs to determine how firms can benefit from framing calls-to-action for referral programs in such a way as to move closer to the original intent of organic, intrinsically motivated, WOM marketing, and yet at the same time reap the benefits of using a financial incentive to increase referral rates. The research based approach is now the basis of the ongoing referral marketing program at Collage.com, a major online retailer in the printed products category in the US.
As the academic director of the Carlson Analytics Lab since fall of 2015, he has led close to $2.8 million of analytics consulting that spans descriptive, predictive, causal and prescriptive analytics across 54 companies in 14 industries and all possible functions.
Dr. Vishalli Dongrie, Partner - Human Capital Consulting Practice, Deloitte India
Vishalli Dongrie is a Partner with Deloitte India Consulting in the Human Capital Consulting Practice. She Heads the Talent Performance and Reward for Deloitte India.
Vishalli has over 14 years of experience and has been advising firms in India, Asia, ME, few countries in Europe in the area of Leadership, Talent and Performance consulting. Prior to joining Deloitte, she as worked with Hewitt and ECS (now PWC). Vishalli has an Ph.D. and has number of National and International publications in the area of Talent, Performance and reward,
Dr. Vishwajeet Rana, Professional Trainer - Global Bankng Training, London & Chairman, Sanrock Capital LLP
Dr. Rana is a seasoned investment banker with US $5-billion+ investment banking transaction experience. He has executed a number of complex cross-border equity/debt structured investments and financing transactions in the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Hong Kong jurisdictions while working at HSBC New York office. He started his Investment banking career with UBS Investment Banking in New York in Investment portfolio management. He likes public speaking, playing golf, squash and mentoring ambitious minds in his free time.
He has hands on experience:
• Raised Equity and Debt for 40MW Bio Energy (Bagasse) cogeneration plant.
• US$100m equity and debt investment in Mid-west wind farm project in USA.
• US$70m equity Investment in west coast based photovoltaic solar project in USA.
• Issuance of US$1.5bn Bond in Hong Kong for Canadian client, sale of the coupons to Hong Kong based Investors, private placement of the Principal in Germany.
• CAD$700m investment in leading Australian Bank via two tier partnership structure.
• Financial structuring of £1bn note out of premium of dual resident subsidiary in the UK.
• Financial structuring of limited partnership interest of CAD$1bn with leading Canadian Bank.
Dushyant Singh, Associate Director, Strategy, PWC
Dushyant is an Associate Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers in India, where he leads their business and commercial due diligence competency. He has over 15 years of experience across strategy consulting, due diligence and M&A. Dushyant specialises in providing strategic and market advice to corporate groups and private equity funds in the context of their investment, acquisition and growth decisions in India.
He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management(Kolkata) and of Sydenham College, Mumbai.
Eddy Lee, Managing Partner, Coffee Ventures
Eddy Lee, PhD has invested in and supported more than 50 startups predominantly in the US, Singapore and Indonesia. Interest areas include mobile health, big data, IoT and marketplaces. He has recently relocated from the Silicon Valley to Southeast Asia to tackle unmet needs in emerging markets. He works with entrepreneurs in product development, enterprise partnership, M&A exit, and entering international markets such as the US, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia.
At Stanford University, Eddy concurrently serves as a Consulting Professor at the School of Medicine, where he connects academic projects with commercial opportunities. He is also a mentor at Stanford's StartX incubator where he provides startups with cross border know how. During his career at Stanford, Singapore and Australia, he has devised medical imaging technology for visualizing stem cell migration and therapy. He used to design semiconductor chips at Marvell, a NASDAQ-listed Southeast Asia success story which he hopes his portfolio startups could one day emulate.
Faraz Alam Sagar, Partner, Trilegal
Faraz Alam Sagar is Partner, Trilegal and part of the dispute resolution practice. Faraz has significant experience in the areas of investment dispute arbitrations and commercial litigation. He represents a number of domestic and international clients in institutional as well as ad-hoc arbitrations under the rules of almost all major arbitral institutions. Faraz has been able to apply his knowledge and insight, to guide his clients through sometimes prolonged and highly complex proceedings in India.
He also regularly advises multinational corporations and financial institutions in investigations, litigation and regulatory enforcement proceedings in India. He has considerable expertise in conducting internal forensic and corporate espionage investigations for corporate clients. Notably, he has advised one of the world’s largest telecom service providers in the 2G Scam.
Faraz is a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML).