Academics and Research entails managing MOOCs, an IIMBx initiative; administering entrepreneurial programs such as the Management Program for Entrepreneurs and Family Businesses (MPEFB) and Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs (MPWE). Additionally, he plays a crucial role in the execution of academic collaborations with illustrious corporates including Texas Instruments and Goldman Sachs. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka. Post this; he started his own venture in sports hospitality, which enabled him to earn a Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Essex Business School – University of Essex, UK. When not moonlighting as an entrepreneur he actively engages in sports, particularly badminton, swimming and volleyball.

Ranita manages Incubation, Student Run Ventures and Launchpad@NSRCEL. She also manages the infrastructure and the Operations team at NSRCEL. She has 16 years of experience with Masters in Electronics & Communication and Masters in Applied Psychology.

Dheepti Jayasimha manages funding, financial and legal aspects of the center. Also, she manages the board meetings, documentations, the grants received from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Information Technology (DIT) and other private partnerships. She administers the share transfer from the incubatees, organizes legal workshops for entrepreneurs and coordinates with the Company Secretary, the Legal Advisor and Chartered Accountant. She has 1 year of experience in Marketing and HR with a Master’s degree in Marketing and Human Resource Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Information Science and Technology.

Supporting events and Incubation at NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, her responsibilities include providing administrative support services and coordination with various departments in smooth functioning of the NSRCEL’s day-to-day activities. She schedules NSRCEL’s engagements, manages mentoring, arranges vendor payments, logistics and assists in event conducts.

She has 3 years of administrative experience with Bachelors in Commerce. Prior to Joining NSRCEL, she worked at ITC (Foods division) Bangalore and Supply Chain Management Centre (SCM), IIM Bangalore

Radha HS provides administrative support and coordinates with various other departments within IIMB. She facilitates for smooth functioning of the NSRCEL’s day-to-day activities. She schedules all NSRCEL engagements, manages mentoring, vendor payments and logistics.

Previously she has worked at Genpact, Thomson Reuters in field of finance and administration. Radha is a graduate of commerce.

Aparna Sanjay leads the operations and strategy at NSRCEL Social Ventures. She will be driving the end to end strategy for IIMB to incubate early stage ‘not for profit’ ventures currently supported by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. She will be collaborating with multiple development stakeholders to build the first of its kind social incubator for the Institute.

She comes with a good blend of experience in the corporate and academic institutions. In her prior role at IIMB, she led the alumni office for the last four years designing and driving key engagement initiatives. She built strong networked alumni chapters worldwide and was instrumental in translating alumni office strategy into action forging excellent connect with the global alumni community.

In the past, she has worked in Standard Chartered Bank and Wipro Technologies . She has done her Masters in Business Administration from Mount Carmel College.

Mukta Sharma, is responsible for Outreach Partnerships at NSRCEL and supports Initiatives for start-ups by collaborating with NITI Aayog for Outreach. She used to assist Professor Suresh Bhagvatula, on the ‘DO Your Venture‘, MOOC previously. Working with the MOOC’s team of IIMB has helped her understand the finer nuances of digitizing content.

She is an MBA graduate from Pune with experience of 18 + years spanning different Industries, Corporates and with Educational Institutions as well. Marketing and Personnel Management are the areas of specialisation. She started her professional stint with an Advertising firm and consciously moved into People Management through her roles in Talent Acquisition, HR Consulting and Learning & Development. Retention & Development of people through up-skilling has been her interest and focus. She has a stint with Ernst & Young, General Electric, CNBC TV18 and Sony Corp. to name a few and was a guest Faculty for Engineering and Management Institutions majorly in Maharashtra.

She focuses on adding value through partnerships for NSRCEL and also supports the start-ups for their outreach activities through Online and Offline Marketing Channels.

Jacob C Mundapallil helps manage the social cohort at NSRCEL. He works with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Ford Foundation, NITI Aayog etc. His focus at NSRCEL is to provide all sorts of executive, administrative and regulatory support to the various programmes that are conducted at IIMB and NSRCEL. He frequently helps to coordinate various events at NSRCEL such as the InnovatEd, Enablemakeathon etc. He regularly conducts Gamification sessions (Gamified learning mechanism) for the Launchpad cohort.

Jacob C Mundapallil has completed his Master’s in Business Administration in both Marketing and Human Resources from one of the top institutes in Bangalore. He is ardent about entrepreneurship and before joining NSRCEL ran his own entrepreneurial venture. He is enthusiastic about college management fests and was an active participant in many a fest and is still an avid contributor in that space.

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