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Faculty Profile
The faculty at IIFM, for both the Business programs as well as the financial programs includes some of the best minds in education. Our faculty is a mix of top academicians from leading colleges, senior industry people, and a number of global faculty from the best institutes in the world.
Faculty from TJSL, USA and AAFM, USA will also be interacting with and teaching the students, both in the case of the Business programs as well as the financial programs.
This is a tremendous opportunity for students to gain not just from the best educationists in India but also from leading faculty overseas. Some prominent members are,
Kiran has more than twentyfive years of professional experience with over 20 years in Telecom Business Management experience as Head Product Management & Business Development of Wireless Telecom Products and Systems. He has also headed the Management studies function at Chetna Institute of Business Studies, Mumbai. He is a senior faculty for Principles of Management, Strategic Management & MIS. 28 years in the Industry.
Dr. Pandit has a post-qualification standing, of more than 25 years, having held middle and senior management positions, covering both operational and advisory roles, with corporates : Indian and foreign, in the public and private sector. He has held strategic responsibilities in institutional correspondent banking relations, euro-currency credits, investment banking and international finance, for the California-based Wells Fargo Bank, Inc. Such operations have extended over money centres such as New York and London, and transaction execution through Tokyo and Singapore. He has undertaken specialised portfolio management assignments for high networth individuals/corporates. Consulting assignments in related capital market inputs/investment banking have been a key area of his competency. Over the years, in his corporate profile, he has been uniquely placed to mentor high-tech entrepreneurs right from initial stages of concept/ incubation. He is currently handling assignments and business process reengineering, for firms such as Airtel, TVS, Infosys etc. He holds a Masters in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and has completed his Doctoral program in Strategy from U.S.A.
Chitra specializes in the areas of financial planning. Her quest for professionalism and expertise in the field of financial planning made her pursue the course in Certified Financial Planning – and is a distinguished Certified Financial Planner (CFP) from Financial Planning Standards Board India, an august body of Financial Planners. She is also a Life Underwriter Training Council (LUTC) Fellow of – and a recipient ‘Certificate on Professional Ethics & Compliance’ by - The American College & The International Academy of Insurance and Financial management, U.S.A. Chitra has worked as a senior faculty at JBIMS, NMIMS, Welingkar, Chetna and IIPM. She is also a faculty at the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She is taking Financial Accounting and Advanced Derivatives.
Jayaraman is an engineer by education. He passed the B.E. Mech. engineering with First Class (Honors), from the V.J.T.I. Mumbai University. He stood first in the University of Mumbai in the post graduation Industrial Engineering Course. He worked for 7 years in Indi-American Co (Wyman Gordon Ltd.) as chief superintendent industrial engineer. Subsequent to that he has worked for about 27 years for IDBI. Due to his exemplary performance he rose to the position of one of the youngest Executive Director. He is the recipient of awards twice from the Vice president of India and was felicitated by former Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhiji. He has served as CMD of Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd. (SHCIL) for about 2 years. He is currently the academic consultant/Professor with some well-reputed B Schools in Mumbai. Jayaraman’s expertise as faculty lies in Production & Operations Management & Systems Management.
Mrugank has more than 30 years of corporate experience. His last role was as CFO for Kalpataru group. Prior to this, he has worked in senior roles at Mid Day group and other companies. In addition to his corporate experience, he has an impeccable academic background. Among other achievements he has been ranked as first, all India in the Final Costing (ICWAI) & also stood first all India in the Inter CA & Second in Final CA. He is presently a visiting faculty with H R College of Commerce for the BFM (Financial Markets) Course, the Indian Institute of Financial Management (IIFM) for MBA Finance subjects, ICAI for specialized Finance Course for Chartered Accountants & Bhavans for specialized module for industry participants.
Prof Liselle D’Souza is an M.B.A with a specialization in Marketing Management. She has also done her B. Pharme along with a Diploma in Pharmaceutical Management. She has been extensively associated with the healthcare industry with an experience of 12 years, spanning the field of marketing, advertising and sales. She has been instrumental in setting up new divisions and launching new products in varied areas in healthcare. She has been teaching various marketing subjects like Marketing Strategy, Strategic Brand Management, Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior and Advertising.
He has a rich experience of about 32 years in various roles comprising industrial marketing, general insurance and corporate projects. He is presently working as a Professional Consultant for Corporate Projects on Risk Management, Valuation and Insurance Planning – Extra Large & Mega Projects. He is also a Senior Visiting / Guest Faculty at B.K. School of Management, Knowledge Academy, and Bhavnagar University on different Management Disciplines.
A post graduate in marketing with certification in International Marketing from IIFT, New Delhi, Anupam is currently Director Bocacomm Advisory Pvt. Ltd. India, a part of Bocacomm Global Capital Market BCGCM International and has an Expert empanelment with the United Nations Industrial Development for investment promotions, technology promotion and system Software. Anupam, is also a Faculty for International Business Mentoring program at Entrepreneur Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad.
Mr. Vora is a Chartered Accountant and visiting faculty having more than twenty five years of industrial and academic sound experience. Currently, a management consultant and corporate advisor, associated with leading national and multi-national listed groups of corporate dealing in textiles, automobiles, FMCG, export imports, foreign exchange, risk management, stocks and commodities market, finance and taxation. He is also attached with reputed academic institutions and management schools in Gujarat. Vijay is a regular speaker on finance, taxation, budgets, management, forex and commodity markets.
Ruja is a practicing chartered accountant and a certified financial planner (CFP). She is also associated with various institutes as a visiting faculty. She has conducted various seminars for training the distributors associated with Principal Mutual Funds.
Pramod brings a unique mix of a rich teaching and training experience in the domain of finance, energy, public policy, and carbon markets, from both the academic and practitioner’s world. He has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in the domain of risk and investment management in electricity generation, primary energy, and carbon markets, at IIM Ahmedabad. He has been invited at various national and international energy and climate changes conferences and workshops. He has also published papers/articles on variety of issues such as carbon trading, oil import risks, global financial crisis, budget analysis, real estate, and bond markets in India.
Purvish Shah has combined experience in field of finance and education. He did his Bachelor's of Engineering in the year 2001 with Mechanical as specialization. He received his Post Graduate degree in Business Management in year 2003 with Gold Medal. He has worked with various organizations like Domino Printing Sciences, ICICI Ltd. and last assignment was with HSBC Ltd. as Associate Vice President in Commercial Business Banking division. At present he is associated with Management Institutes like IIPM, NIMRA, ISM, SKUM, and IIFM as faculty for subjects like Business Statistics, Principal of Management, Economics, Indian Financial Systems, Trade & Equity Finance etc.
Rahul is an B.Tech (Hons) and currently pursuing his fellowship from IIM, Ahmedabad in HRM. Rahul has a rich background of thirteen years into training. He has been a part of ALTTC – Ghaziabad which is the biggest telecom training center for telecom management in Asia. His core competencies are in the subjects of leadership, change management, HRM strategy in Mergers and acquisitions, career planning, performance management etc.
Faculty from TJSL, USA and AAFM, USA will also be interacting with and teaching the students, both in the case of the Business programs as well as the financial programs.
This is a tremendous opportunity for students to gain not just from the best educationists in India but also from leading faculty overseas. Some prominent members are,
Kiran Paranjpe (IIM Kolkata)
Kiran has more than twentyfive years of professional experience with over 20 years in Telecom Business Management experience as Head Product Management & Business Development of Wireless Telecom Products and Systems. He has also headed the Management studies function at Chetna Institute of Business Studies, Mumbai. He is a senior faculty for Principles of Management, Strategic Management & MIS. 28 years in the Industry.Dr. Dilip Pandit (IIM Ahmedabad, Phd USA)
Dr. Pandit has a post-qualification standing, of more than 25 years, having held middle and senior management positions, covering both operational and advisory roles, with corporates : Indian and foreign, in the public and private sector. He has held strategic responsibilities in institutional correspondent banking relations, euro-currency credits, investment banking and international finance, for the California-based Wells Fargo Bank, Inc. Such operations have extended over money centres such as New York and London, and transaction execution through Tokyo and Singapore. He has undertaken specialised portfolio management assignments for high networth individuals/corporates. Consulting assignments in related capital market inputs/investment banking have been a key area of his competency. Over the years, in his corporate profile, he has been uniquely placed to mentor high-tech entrepreneurs right from initial stages of concept/ incubation. He is currently handling assignments and business process reengineering, for firms such as Airtel, TVS, Infosys etc. He holds a Masters in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and has completed his Doctoral program in Strategy from U.S.A.Chitra Potdar (CFP)
Chitra specializes in the areas of financial planning. Her quest for professionalism and expertise in the field of financial planning made her pursue the course in Certified Financial Planning – and is a distinguished Certified Financial Planner (CFP) from Financial Planning Standards Board India, an august body of Financial Planners. She is also a Life Underwriter Training Council (LUTC) Fellow of – and a recipient ‘Certificate on Professional Ethics & Compliance’ by - The American College & The International Academy of Insurance and Financial management, U.S.A. Chitra has worked as a senior faculty at JBIMS, NMIMS, Welingkar, Chetna and IIPM. She is also a faculty at the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She is taking Financial Accounting and Advanced Derivatives.Jayaraman Iyer (Ex CMD SHCIL)
Jayaraman is an engineer by education. He passed the B.E. Mech. engineering with First Class (Honors), from the V.J.T.I. Mumbai University. He stood first in the University of Mumbai in the post graduation Industrial Engineering Course. He worked for 7 years in Indi-American Co (Wyman Gordon Ltd.) as chief superintendent industrial engineer. Subsequent to that he has worked for about 27 years for IDBI. Due to his exemplary performance he rose to the position of one of the youngest Executive Director. He is the recipient of awards twice from the Vice president of India and was felicitated by former Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhiji. He has served as CMD of Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd. (SHCIL) for about 2 years. He is currently the academic consultant/Professor with some well-reputed B Schools in Mumbai. Jayaraman’s expertise as faculty lies in Production & Operations Management & Systems Management.Mrugank Kapadia (CA, Ex CFO, Kalpatru)
Mrugank has more than 30 years of corporate experience. His last role was as CFO for Kalpataru group. Prior to this, he has worked in senior roles at Mid Day group and other companies. In addition to his corporate experience, he has an impeccable academic background. Among other achievements he has been ranked as first, all India in the Final Costing (ICWAI) & also stood first all India in the Inter CA & Second in Final CA. He is presently a visiting faculty with H R College of Commerce for the BFM (Financial Markets) Course, the Indian Institute of Financial Management (IIFM) for MBA Finance subjects, ICAI for specialized Finance Course for Chartered Accountants & Bhavans for specialized module for industry participants.Liselle Dsouza
Prof Liselle D’Souza is an M.B.A with a specialization in Marketing Management. She has also done her B. Pharme along with a Diploma in Pharmaceutical Management. She has been extensively associated with the healthcare industry with an experience of 12 years, spanning the field of marketing, advertising and sales. She has been instrumental in setting up new divisions and launching new products in varied areas in healthcare. She has been teaching various marketing subjects like Marketing Strategy, Strategic Brand Management, Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior and Advertising.Bimal J. Bhatt (B.E.(Prod.), M.I.E., Chartered Engineer)
He has a rich experience of about 32 years in various roles comprising industrial marketing, general insurance and corporate projects. He is presently working as a Professional Consultant for Corporate Projects on Risk Management, Valuation and Insurance Planning – Extra Large & Mega Projects. He is also a Senior Visiting / Guest Faculty at B.K. School of Management, Knowledge Academy, and Bhavnagar University on different Management Disciplines. Anupam Bhatnagar (IIFT, New Delhi)
A post graduate in marketing with certification in International Marketing from IIFT, New Delhi, Anupam is currently Director Bocacomm Advisory Pvt. Ltd. India, a part of Bocacomm Global Capital Market BCGCM International and has an Expert empanelment with the United Nations Industrial Development for investment promotions, technology promotion and system Software. Anupam, is also a Faculty for International Business Mentoring program at Entrepreneur Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad. Vijay Vora (FCA)
Mr. Vora is a Chartered Accountant and visiting faculty having more than twenty five years of industrial and academic sound experience. Currently, a management consultant and corporate advisor, associated with leading national and multi-national listed groups of corporate dealing in textiles, automobiles, FMCG, export imports, foreign exchange, risk management, stocks and commodities market, finance and taxation. He is also attached with reputed academic institutions and management schools in Gujarat. Vijay is a regular speaker on finance, taxation, budgets, management, forex and commodity markets.
Ruja Sutaria (CA, CFP)
Ruja is a practicing chartered accountant and a certified financial planner (CFP). She is also associated with various institutes as a visiting faculty. She has conducted various seminars for training the distributors associated with Principal Mutual Funds.Pramod Yadav (Phd)
Pramod brings a unique mix of a rich teaching and training experience in the domain of finance, energy, public policy, and carbon markets, from both the academic and practitioner’s world. He has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in the domain of risk and investment management in electricity generation, primary energy, and carbon markets, at IIM Ahmedabad. He has been invited at various national and international energy and climate changes conferences and workshops. He has also published papers/articles on variety of issues such as carbon trading, oil import risks, global financial crisis, budget analysis, real estate, and bond markets in India.Purvish Shah (BE, PGDBM, Gold medallist)
Purvish Shah has combined experience in field of finance and education. He did his Bachelor's of Engineering in the year 2001 with Mechanical as specialization. He received his Post Graduate degree in Business Management in year 2003 with Gold Medal. He has worked with various organizations like Domino Printing Sciences, ICICI Ltd. and last assignment was with HSBC Ltd. as Associate Vice President in Commercial Business Banking division. At present he is associated with Management Institutes like IIPM, NIMRA, ISM, SKUM, and IIFM as faculty for subjects like Business Statistics, Principal of Management, Economics, Indian Financial Systems, Trade & Equity Finance etc.Rahul Vats (BTech, IIM Ahmedabad)
Rahul is an B.Tech (Hons) and currently pursuing his fellowship from IIM, Ahmedabad in HRM. Rahul has a rich background of thirteen years into training. He has been a part of ALTTC – Ghaziabad which is the biggest telecom training center for telecom management in Asia. His core competencies are in the subjects of leadership, change management, HRM strategy in Mergers and acquisitions, career planning, performance management etc.