Mr. N S Raghavan
Prof Kumar.K
Prof Mathew J Maniwala
Prof R T Krishnan
Prof Ganesh N Prabhu
Prof G Sabarinathan
Mr. N S Raghavan
Indian entrepreneurs have the skills and the ability to create enterprises that can thrive in the global marketplace. This belief was the driving force that led a group of visionaries to action and Infosys was founded. N.S. Raghavan, a founder and former Joint Managing Director of Infosys was one of those visionaries.
NSR as he is known took voluntary retirement from Infosys in 2000 to promote his vision of entrepreneurship and India-based global companies on a broader scale. To help create world-class enterprises and to support Indian entrepreneurs, he, along with a few associates, started Nadathur Holdings & Investments. To encourage entrepreneurship in the country and help incubate start-ups, he helped set up the N. S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB). NSRCEL has been set up with a generous contribution by N S Raghavan.
Over the years, the companies have grown and so has the investment portfolio. He together with his team, are now developing strategies and plans that will lay the foundation for growth over the next couple of decades - both as a major private equity player as well as the wellspring for tomorrow's leading companies. They are now increasing their investments in the Life Sciences as well as aerospace and engineering services domains.
NSR was selected by a reputed panel of International judges to receive the Dhirubai Ambani Award for the year 2004 on the 57th India's Independence Day banquet held in Los Angeles on August 15. The award was given to him for his outstanding contribution to Entrepreneurship and was given by FOIAC, City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles and Orange County, State of California and the Congressional offices of the USA.
Current Responsibilities
- Non-Executive Director Corporate Board, IDFC Private Equity Ltd.
Largest Indian Private Equity Fund focused on Infrastructure - Non-Executive Director Corporate Board,
ABB India Limited ABB is a global leader in Automation & Power Technologies - Chairman Advisory Council, N. S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning,
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India - Founder Director Nadathur Holdings and Investments Pvt Ltd, India
- Founder Chairman Nadathur Fareast Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Chairman Indegene Lifesystems Pvt Ltd
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Founding Trustee FAME (India), Foundation for Action, Motivation & Empowerment, focused on imparting training and education to children with developmental disabilities (mentally challenged)
Prof K Kumar
K. Kumar is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Chairperson in the N.S. Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIMB. He had earlier served as a Visiting professor in the Corporate Strategy and Policy area at IIMB before taking over his current position. His research and teaching interests are in the area of entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic management of new ventures, both in the entrepreneurial and large corporate settings. He has a keen interest in the development and nurturing of technology led innovations into viable new businesses and revenue streams. He is actively involved in consulting with many corporate organizations and entrepreneurial ventures, guiding them in the areas of strategy, resource mobilization, organization building and managing growth and innovation. He has also been playing a consulting and advisory role in to the government in the areas of innovation and commercialization of technology.
Kumar has over 18 years of experience in the industry in various capacities. He was the first CEO of Trigent Software Ltd, a mid-sized, Bangalore based software services company, between 1995 and 2001 and later served as its President between 2005 and 2006. His previous assignment was as a Management Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services for over four years, wherein he was involved in assisting many corporate and family businesses in building and implementing strategies to cope with the liberalized and globalized environment.
He started his career with a two-year stint as a Marketing Officer with Crompton Greaves Ltd, responsible for marketing a wide range of power equipment. He spent the next three years during his career as an entrepreneur, and successfully co-promoted two ventures in the services and consumer products domains. He also served as a Product Manager at Computer Point (I) Ltd, responsible for developing a nascent market for PC based software solutions, before moving on to pursue doctoral studies at IIMB.
Kumar has a B.E degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Madurai University) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IIMB. He is a Fellow of IIMB (equivalent of a Ph.D), with specialization in corporate strategy.
Prof Mathew J Manimala
Dr. Mathew J Manimala is Professor of Organization Behaviour and Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Prior to joining IIMB he has served as Senior Member of Faculty and Chairman, Human Resources Area at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and as lecturer at the University of Cochin and the University of Bhopal.
Dr. Manimala obtained an MBA degree from the University of Cochin, an MBSc degree from the University of Manchester and a Doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has received several academic honors including a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Research in the Field of New Enterprise Development from the Academy of Management (USA). His doctoral thesis on the “Managerial Heuristics of Pioneering-Innovative Entrepreneurs” has been widely acclaimed by the community of researchers both within and outside the country. He has been awarded research fellowships by prestigious international agencies such as the European Foundation for Management Development (at Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK: 1990-91) and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (at University of Calgary, Canada: 1998-99).
Prof Rishikesha T Krishnan
Rishikesha T Krishnan is a Professor in the Corporate Strategy & Policy Area & Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), India. His research interests are in the areas of strategy, innovation and competitiveness.
Prof. Krishnan has been a consultant to, or conducted management development programs for, British Telecom, Daimler Chrysler, Wipro, Siemens, Sasken Communication Technologies, the Murugappa Group, the Aditya Birla Group, Kochi Refineries and the Governments of India and Karnataka.
Prof. Krishnan worked for four years as the General Manager of a small high technology company in the telecom sector from 1987-91. During this period, he also co-founded a software company working on specialized engineering application software. From March 2001 to October 2001, he worked with a software product start-up in the knowledge management space founded by an IIMB alumnus.
Prof. Krishnan holds a M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur; an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems (now Management Science & Engineering) from Stanford University; and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where his thesis proposal won the outstanding thesis proposal award instituted by the Industrial Finance Corporation of India.
Prof. Krishnan has been a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Panel on Intellectual Property, R&D, Technology and Innovation, the Advisory Council of CII’s National Innovation Mission and on the jury of Nasscom’s innovation awards. He has been a member of government committees to review the performance of the National Innovation Foundation, and to study “The Future of Aviation and Aeronautics in India.” He has done external reviews of the plan schemes of India’s Department of Scientific & Industrial Research and the Department of Biotechnology’s SBIRI scheme.
Prof Ganesh N Prabhu
Ganesh N. Prabhu is Professor of Corporate Strategy & Policy at the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore (IIMB), India. He earlier held the positions of the Chairperson, Post Graduate Program and the Chairperson, Placement at IIMB. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Management, USA, on the governing board of the Strategic Management Forum of India, on the Innovation Forum of the Confederation of Indian Industries, and on the board of studies of the International Institute of Information Management Mysore and the Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore. He received the Best Young Teacher Award in 2000 from the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS). He also jointly won the AIMS Best Research Paper Award in 2002 and was second in the AIMS Case Writing Competition in 2003.
Ganesh's areas of research and teaching are product innovation, business strategy and entrepreneurship. He is a fellow (doctorate) (1996) of the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad (IIMA), India with specialization in strategy. His doctoral dissertation at IIMA, won the PD Agarwal -TCI Award for Doctoral Research in Management.
A faculty at IIMB since 1996, Ganesh teaches doctoral courses in strategy process research and qualitative research as well as MBA courses and executive program modules in business strategy, global strategy and product innovation at IIMB and other institutes. He has been on the dissertation advisory committees for several doctoral students at IIMB and on dissertation examination committees at both IIMB and IIML. He has conducted four commissioned or sponsored case writing projects - two cases on corporate-NGO partnerships for the International NGO Research and Training Center (UK), a case on the Indian dairy industry for Tetra Pak India, a jointly developed a set of cases on software product development for the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Advanced Study of India and a case research for the N S Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIMB.
Ganesh has a masters in rural management (1989) from the Institute of Rural Management Anand and a Bachelors in Physics (1987) from Bombay University (Elphinstone College). Prior to his doctoral studies he held executive positions for two years (1989-91) in the National Dairy Development Board working in a major turnaround project in Punjab State, India (for one year), in Amul Dairy (for six months) and several short projects (for six months). He was born in Mumbai (Bombay) and had his schooling in Loyola School, Jamshedpur and Bishop Cotton Boy's School, Bangalore. He likes listening to Hindustani Classical Music (especially Kumar Gandharva), watching movies and sports events (especially F1).