Dr. Purushottam Bung

Detailed Profile

Enterprising Academic Leader and Professor with a rich experience (30+ years in Academics and Industry) and a strong record of contributions in invigorating higher educational institutions through innovations and streamlining operations; Targeting senior level assignments as Campus Director/Pro Vice Chancellor/Vice chancellor in Tier-I B-schools/Institutions/Universities

Industry Preference: Higher Education and Training

PROFILE SUMMARY

Proficient in addressing matters of business / society through training, research and consultancy and using the experience to enrich classroom teaching and make it more interesting and effective, in the areas of Strategy, Innovation, Business Analytics, Yoga and Entrepreneurship
Proactive in working with the Administration/Management in facilitating intellectual growth of the students and staff by creating an atmosphere of mutual respect and open communication
Successful in establishing and implementing program review and outcome assessment criteria, standards, systems, and procedures; using technology at all levels for creating hassle free learning environment and administration; and integrating the same into future institutional planning with an objective of accomplishing institutional vision and mission
Proficient in creating a stimulating, challenging & innovative teaching/learning/researching atmosphere which empowers the learner
Actively visioning, planning, implementing and monitoring the Institutional long term growth agenda and simultaneously directing the day-to-day academic, administrative and associated operations of the Institution
Helping the management through the visionary and dynamic professional work and profitable budgeting without losing the safe and healthy environment of Institution with an objective of transforming an institution into Centre of Excellence

CORE COMPETENCIES

An enthusiastic, creative and passionate educator, mentor, consultant and advisor who believes that all students and staff can learn & thrive in a learning environment that is stimulating, comforting and appropriate to their unique talents & abilities
Use a unique blend of technology driven, innovative, motivational and targeted instruction and methodologies (pedagogy): to enrich curriculum and to make teaching-learning-evaluation more interesting, efficient and effective; to enhance focus and establish sound relationships with the students, staff, peers and other stakeholders
Rich experience of working closely with thought leaders, industrial undertakings, business enterprises, trade associations, NGOs, Government departments, nodal agencies, community partners and all the stakeholders of an institution, seeking/encouraging their involvement/Engagement/patronage in building an institution par excellence and Accreditation
Possess strong community focus. Developed and delivered various programs (education, training and development) for students, faculty, executives, and other interested groups and organized many workshops, SDPs, MDPs, EDPs, seminars and conferences
Resourceful education professional with proven skills to create, implement and evaluate strategies, tactics, processes, policies & practices that promote a safe and holistic yet conducive learning environment ensuring a rich culture that encourages continuous learning and improvements for faculty, staff, students and alumni with the ultimate objective of transforming an Institution into a great learning hub
Mentored educators (faculty and staff) in the creation and implementation of curriculum, pedagogy, course dockets, session plans, and student assessment in conjunction with teaching-learning standards of affiliating, regulatory and accrediting bodies

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb’18- till date with R. V. Institute of Management, Bangalore, Karnataka (Part of RV Group of Institutions) as Professor and Director, one of the prestigious and renowned autonomous B-school of excellence of Karnataka and India with 25 years of legacy with NAAC ‘A+’ grade. (AICTE approved; affiliated to a state university (BCU); and Recognized by State Government)

May’17-Jan’18 with Karnataka Law Society’s Institute of Management Education and Research (KLS IMER), Belgaum, Karnatakaas Professor and NAAC and IQAC Coordinator, one of the premiere autonomous management Institutions of Karnataka of25+ years existence and accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ grade (CGPA of 3.24) in the first cycle itself

(AICTE approved; affiliated to a state university (RCU); and Recognized by State Government)

Jul’11-May’17 with Karnataka Law Society’s Institute of Management Education and Research, Belgaum, Karnatakaas Professor and Director

Apr'11-Jul'11 with JSS Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade Institute of Management Studies and Research, Dharwad, Karnataka, as Professor in Management

(AICTE approved; affiliated to a state university (KU); and recognized by State Government)

Jul'09– Mar'11 with JSS Dr. D.Veerendra Heggade Institute of Management Studies and Research, Dharwad, Karnatakaas Assistant Professor

Jan'09–Jul'09 with KLE Society’s Institute of Management Studies and Research, Hubli, Karnataka as Assistant Professor

(AICTE approved; affiliated to state university (KU); and recognized by State Government)

Key Result Areas:

Designing, developing and delivering courses/programs in the area of Strategy, Innovation, Design Thinking, Business Analytics, Yoga, and Entrepreneurship and contributing to the ocean of knowledge; addressing the issues/problems of business/society through teaching, research, consultancy and training
Providing a strategic direction to the institution through revisiting the strategic plans periodically and making necessary amendments to the plan in the light of new information and changes
Overseeing the complete administration of institution, achieving greater heights in terms of transforming the institution across all the frontiers including; Academic Rigor, Admissions, Placements, Research and Consultancy, Extension and Social Outreach, Alumni Relations, 360 degree grooming of the students, Branding, Ranking, Accreditation, Active Collaborations with the Industry and Academia (domestic and international), continuously enhancing the quality of education and students (in terms of quality of admissions), Placements (quality and quantity), Faculty Empowerment, Recruitment, Compliance, etc.
Mentoring personnel across all the fronts including; work allocation, training, problem solving; managing contracts; planning, approving & monitoring budgets; preparing interim status reports on all activities (long term as well as short term)
Liaising & collaborating with all the stakeholders (students, parents, alumni, affiliating and accrediting bodies, alumni, management, other institutions, industry/business partners, government departments, nodal bodies, regulators and the community) to build an environment that maximizes student learning, academic and research performance, Institutional growth and of course the contribution towards the societal transformation.
Managing budgets, advising the Board of Management on academic & administrative matters (long term and short term)& ensuring that intended goals and objectives are met keeping the vision and mission of the Institution as a guiding force
Providing leadership to the entire Institution including teaching and administrative staff through monitoring their accomplishments and ensuring that the desired progression of them are being achieved

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

May'96–Dec'08 with Department of Agriculture Business Management, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka)as Post Graduate Faculty

Jul'91–May'93 with REPL (a sister concern of VIDEOCON group), Ahmednagar, Maharashtra as Production Engineer

PART TIME ASSIGNMENTS

Jun'96– Dec'01 with Kausali Institute of Management Studies (KIMS), Karnataka University, Dharwad as Guest Faculty

Nov'93–Jan'95 with Spotlight Stores Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia as Stock controller

Feb'94–Jul'95 with Australian Document Exchange Company Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia as Operations Assistant

Mar'94–Jul'95 with City Centre Private Hotel, Melbourne, Australia as Weekend Manager

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS ACROSS THE CAREER

Institutional:

R V Institute of Management

RVIM was awarded for Excellence in Student Outreach and Industry Engagement during Digital Bharat Education Conclave 2025 on 19.09.2025 at Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru.
PGCET cut-off for the 2025-26 admissions was 106 – highest in the state and we could fill all 180 seats even after increasing the fees.
Organized International Immersion Program at Singapore and Malaysia during 5-11 July, 2025, where-in 18 students and two faculty participated.
Organized International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligence (IJCACI-2025) with Washington University of Science and technology (WUST), Alexandria, US during 23-24 August, 2025 in collaboration with SCRS (Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi). Papers presented will be published in Scopus Indexed Springer Book Series. Received 856 papers of which 79 were selected for presentation and publication from 12 different countries.
Organized International conference BIDA-2025 (Business Intelligence and Data Analytics) in collaboration with SCRS (Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi) during 12-13 April, 2024. Received 600 plus research article from the scholars all over the world, out of which 80 papers were shortlisted for presentation and successive publication in Scopus indexed Springer Book series.
Represented India in UNESCO APEID (Asia Pacific Programme of Education Innovation and Development) Meeting at Tashkent during 10-11 October, 2024. We expressed our interest to host the next meeting in Bangalore. Over 250 Representatives from 50 plus countries participated in this event which is all about strengthening Entrepreneurship Education and Ecosystem. Visited Alfragnus University and Amity University in Tashkent for active collaborations.
PGCET (State Entrance Test for MBA Admissions) cut off rank this year (2024-25) was 76 (Highest in Karnataka). Since 2018-19 our admissions and students’ quality has been steadily improving in spite of significant increase in the fees structure (year on year)
Awarded Excellent B-School for Academic Excellence in Research as part of Education Impact awards 2025 by IIRF at New Delhi on 09.11.2024
Awarded Most Prominent and Leading Autonomous College of the Year 2024 – South India as part of India Elite Education & Institutional Excellence Awards – 2024 at Taj west end, Bangalore on 25.10.2024
Co-hosted International Conference on ‘Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the Global Economy’ with IISc, Bangalore during 9-11 January, 2025.
OrganizedMTC Global Education Summit during 14.09.2024 at RVIM
Established two new centres of Excellence with ultra-modern facilities and infrastructure, i.e. Centre for Emerging Technologies and Centre for media at RVIM
Organized International Immersion Program of one week in collaboration with Synergy University (Russia’s largest private University) in their Dubai campus during 22-29 July, 2024. 23 students participated in this program.
Started a new Program PGDBA (Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics) a one year evening hybrid program targeted at working professionals.
Bestowed ‘Award for Best Skills Learning and Development Institute/College’ at Education Awards - LREA 2023 by London School of Digital Business (05.01.2024)
Organized International conference BIDA-2024 (Business Intelligence and Data Analytics) in collaboration with SCRS (Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi) during 6-7 April, 2024. Received 500 plus research article from the scholars all over the world, out of which 58 papers were shortlisted for presentation and successive publication in Scopus indexed Springer Book series.
Collaborated with Eudoxia Research University, US in organizing MRD 2.0 - 2^nd Intl Conf on ‘Advanced research methods, tools and techniques for multidisciplinary research’ during February 20-21, 2024.
We have partnered with HBS Publishing for accessing all their knowledge resources (Dec-2023)
Organized Yoga Research Therapy Conference in collaboration with IYA – KSCC on 31.10.2023
Awarded ‘Outstanding Institution with excellent infrastructure and green campus initiatives’ as part of LinkedIn New Normal Education Leadership Awards at Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore on 22.09.2023
Won the AIMS National Management Week award -2023 during the AIMS annual convention 2023 at PSGCET, Coimbatore on 26.08.2023
Awarded ‘Best Educational Institution’ as part of World Education Congress awards – 12^th edition at Taj Lands in Mumbai on 13.07.2023
All the faculty members of RVIM Participated in 3 days’ workshop on “How teachers can make a difference’ organized by TLC of IIT-Madras exclusively for us during 10-12 August, 2023
One student team was amongst top 3 teams out of 300 plus teams in Manthan-2023 (state level B-Plan competition organized by FKCCI) and won the cash prize of Rs. 1.0 Lakh.
Established Centre for Business Analytics – a state of the art Centre with all the BA hardware and software (05.05.2023)
Established NSMART lab in collaboration with NSE Academy as part of Centre for Financial markets and Research (05.05.2023)
Established Centre for Peace and Yoga and became Associate Centre of IYA (Indian Yoga Association) in March-2023
Institutional partners in organizing the Manthan-2022 & 2023, a B-Plan competition across south India of FKCCI.
Rated DIAMOND by QS I Gauge – a global accreditation agency (scored 203 out 0f 250 across 10 different criteria on subject wise rating) awarded during Transformational Leaders Conclave on 24.11.2022
Awarded ‘Best Private Management Institute in India for Industry Interface - 2022’ by Centre for Education Growth and Research on 22.12.2022 by the hands of Governor of Karnataka
RVIM was awarded ‘Outstanding Academic Institutions – 2022’ by TIMES Ascent
RVIM was recognized amongst ‘50 best private B-Schools’ by Education Today – 2022
Organized ‘Guruvandana-2022’ on 04.09.2022 where-in we felicitated two Padmashree awardees – Sri. Harekal Hajabba and Mata B Manjamma Jogati in collaboration with Pranav Foundation and donated Rs. 5.0 Lakhs to Hajabba school for its development.
Received certificate of achievement from Education Today for Teaching – Learning Efficiency as part of India’s top PJA Awards-2021.
RVIM bagged the AIMS Management Week award consecutively for the third year (2020-21) for planning and organizing various social events throughout the week awarded by AIMS during virtual AIMS Convention on 28 August, 2021.
RVIM was awarded ‘Top and most trusted management college of the year -2021, India’ for Innovative teaching approach, outstanding Administration, Industry connect and Placements as part of Education Excellence awards during 23 September, 2021
We have partnered with Coursera to offer wide range of MOOCs (4500 plus) to our students and faculty. Unlimited access license is given to all the staff and students for the entire program (2 years)
We have been conferred Autonomy by the UGC for 10 Years from the A/Y 2021-22. We developed a unique and industry relevant curriculum for our autonomous MBA program and revised it in Dec-2023 just after two years
Year on year rise in the Overall quality (Job profiles, positions, companies, package) and quantity (number) of Placements since 2018-19
RVIM was awarded ‘Top Business School of the year 2020-South India’ as part of National Education Excellence Awards during conference on 27.11.2020
RVIM executed MOU with Ernst and Young to offer ITTC (International Taxation and Technology Course) to our students so that they can hire the suitable candidates post completion of the MBA program. (July-2020)
RVIM was awarded E-Lead Certification by QS: I-GAUGE, a global accreditation platform on 27.06.2020 for E-Learning Excellence for Academic Digitization (June-2020)
As part of Learning during COVID, RVIM has been organizing series of webinars/FDPs/MDPs/Workshops on various contemporary themes in Management since 2020.
At RVIM we have been deploying technology driven interventions like; Upswing – a lead management system to strengthen admissions, QUIKLRN - Learning Management System to streamline Academics, PIRUBY – A video sourcing platform to create content for the various subjects, IMPARTUS-Automatic lecture capturing system by Upgrad, partnership with COURSERA to offer wide range of courses, e-Governance of the entire Institution using SAP, Subscription to Pearsons 100 e-Books, video conferencing facilities, smart labs, smart classrooms, ZOOM enabled classrooms, simulation labs, language labs, to build the world class learning environment.
RVIM Organized and delivered HR Conclave on the theme ‘Future workforce and building talent pipeline’ in association with World Confederation of Productivity Sciences, Canada on February 24, 2020
RVIM was awarded ‘Best Management College of the year 2019 – Karnataka’ as part of national Education Excellence Awards during conference at Taj West end, Bangalore on 09.11.2019
Partnered with NIPM (National Institute of Personnel management) as an academic partner in organizing NATCON-2019, an International Conference on ‘India’s changing paradigm: Skills and Entrepreneurship for Global competitiveness at Bangalore during 25-27 September, 2019
Executed MOU with NOCN, UK – a leading awarding body of UK to offer various vocational, skill oriented and academic certifications, Diplomas and Post Graduate Diplomas as an International centre in India
Revamped the research journal and got it indexed by various agencies since 2018. Currently we have partnered with Informatics Publishing Limited to make it Platinum Open Access Journal of high repute (Dec-2023)
First batch of students participated in two-week certification program on Productivity and Innovation management at City of Glasgow college, Glasgow, Scotland from 24^th June – 6^th July, 2019
Running ‘GYANARJANA’ a CSR project in association with Aditya Birla Fashion Retail Ltd for the fifth year in succession (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25) of around 25.00 Lakhs aimed at providing specialized coaching to the X, XI and XII standard needy students from the underserved sections of the society.
We bagged A+ grade with a CGPA of 3.38 out of 4.0 by NAAC in June-2019
Successfully started ‘Diploma in Business Analytics’ program with IBM from March-2019 onwards
Executed MOU with Institute of Productivity, UK to establish IOP Centre for India at RVIM (2019)
Executed MOU with City of Glasgow College, Glasgow, Scotland for active academic and research collaborations ((07.02.2019)
Executed an MOU with DMAN (Deutsche Management Academie Niedersachsen GmbH), Germany for active Academic and Research collaborations (2019)
Our new pedagogical initiative ‘VENTURE FEST’ as part of ED course was listed amongst the top five initiatives across the nation and was presented the same at IIM-B during Indian Management Conclave on 03-04 August, 2018. Case on the same was published by the IMC. We are making it better every year and has become a niche event of ours
Establishment of RVIM Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Incubation. Formal inauguration was made on May 05, 2018 and has hosted several start-ups. We are revamping the same and the new Centre will be launched soon (June-2025)
Undertook several funded research projects sponsored by ICSSR, DST, Ashok Leyland, etc. since 2018
Undertook several consultancy assignments sponsored by Aditya Birla group, Kalpataru group, etc., since 2018
Organized several programs sponsored by NAAC, AICTE, AIMS, NCW, ICPR, DST, etc.. since 2018

KLS Institute of Management Education and Research

KLS IMER established ‘Sandbox IMER’ Incubation Centre, a full-fledged Incubation facility in collaboration with Deshpande Foundation, Hubli to promote and foster start-ups in the region and has hosted several start-ups since then. (2016)
KLS IMER Conferred with ‘A’ grade by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.24 out of 4.0 in 2016 (first cycle). We also worked on NBA Accreditation and Autonomy (We wanted to become autonomous Institution par excellence by 2020 which we did. IMER became autonomous since 2020-21).
At KLS IMER we deployed technology based interventions like; CONTINEO-Campus Management System, OUST- online learning platform, IMPARTUS-Automatic lecture capturing system, video conferencing facilities, smart labs, simulation labs, language labs, digitization of service records, etc., to build the world class learning environment.
At KLS IMER we made sincere and innovative efforts to make the campus eco-friendly and have created facilities like; rain water harvesting, bio gas plant, roof top solar power plant of 70KW, etc., to make the institution self-sufficient.
Year on year rise in the Overall quality (Job profiles, positions, companies, package) and quantity (number) of Placements since 2011 till 2017
Year on year rise in the quality of admissions since 2011 till 2017, in spite of increasing the fees significantly.

Individual:

Recognized for Exemplary Leadership and Commitment to Ethical Values upheld by Ethos Universitas and Panathlon International by the International Olympic Committee in October-2025 at Antwerp, Belgium.
Honoured for excellence in Academic and Institutional Leadership as part of 9^th Higher Education Innovation and Technology Summit and Awards on 01.11.2025 at Radisson, Bangalore
Awarded ‘Iconic Leadership in Higher Education’ during Digital Bharat Education Conclave at Lalit Ashok on 19.09.2025
Awarded ‘Inspiring Education Hero’ by EGN India during EGN HE Southern India Conclave during 28 June, 2025 at Kochi, Kerala.
Invited by the Ministry of Ayush to deliver a technical session on ’10 years of Common Yoga Protocol: Experiments and Experiences’ during Yoga Mahotsav on 13.03.2025 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi as part of International Yoga day celebrations.
Participated, presented a Research Paper and Chaired a session on ‘Entrepreneurship for start-ups and MSMEs’ as part of International Conference on Returnee Entrepreneurs (REEN) organized by IISc during 9-11 January, 2025
Participated in MEGA CAMPUS SUMMIT, where-in 5000 plus business leaders participated in Coco-Cola Arena in Dubai during 2-4 and visited Synergy University campus for active collaborations.
Awarded Impactful Leader in Enhancing the Quality and Accessibility of Management Education– 2024 by FWA (Federation of World Academics) in New Delhi on 09.11.2024
Enrolled for Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program with Eudoxia University, US. (2024)
Awarded Visionary Educationalist and Academician of the Year 2024 as part of India Elite Education & Institutional Excellence Awards – 2024 at Taj West end, Bangalore on 25.10.2024
Participated in 10^th UNESCO – APEID Meeting on Entrepreneurship Education at Tashkent (Uzbekistan) during 10-11 October, 2024
Elected as President of Rotary Club of Jayanagar, Bengaluru (RI District 3191) for Rotary year 2024-25
Nominated for National Council Member of CEGR (Centre for Education Growth and Research) – a national think tank for uplifting education in India.
Awarded ‘Outstanding Leader of the Year’ for the outstanding and exemplary contribution towards Education, Skill development and Research by CEGR (a national think tank) at New Delhi on 02.05.2024
Awarded CSR Eminent Director of Leading Institute of India by CSR (Competition Success Review)on 21^st April, 2024 atLe Meridien New Delhi
Awarded Fellow of Royal Golden Assembly of Eudoxia Lifetime by Eudoxia International, US
Featured as 10 most inspiring leaders in Business Education – 2023 by Higher Education Digest
Certified Behavioural Mentoring Analyst (CBMA) by Talent Metrix and Consulting (March- 2023)
Nominated as Chairman – Academic, Indian Yoga Association – Karnataka Chapter
Certified as NHRD Avatar Diversity Professional after successfully completing the training program (Nov - 2022)
Awarded ‘Best Academic Leader of the year’ by BMA (Bangalore Management Association) as part of 65^th Anniversary Awards – 2022.
Awarded ‘Excellence in Education’ by Saveetha School of Management as part of SIMATS Global Iconic Excellence Awards (2022)
Completed ‘Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills’, an online certification course (Coursera) developed by University of Michigan (Dec-2021)
Awarded ‘Outstanding Scientist Award’ as part of International Research Awards on Science, technology and Managemenet during May, 2022 at Chennai.
Awarded ‘Visionary Leader of the year -2021’ for the Transformational Leadership leading to growth across at all fronts as part of Education Excellence Awards on 23 September, 2021 at Taj West End, Bangalore
Qualified YPM (Yoga Professional Member – Yoga Prashikshik) and YVM (Yoga Volunteer Member) as well. Life Member of the IYA (Indian Yoga Association)
Organized and delivered one-week Certification Program on ‘Practicing Common Yoga Protocol’ as part of IYD Celebrations during 15-21 June, 2021. We have been offering similar certification programs since 2021 to various groups like; Physiotherapists, Senior citizens, MBA students, etc.
We have been awarded the ICSSR funded research project ‘Fostering health safety measures among vulnerable group during pandemic outbreak: A study with special reference to street vendors in Bengaluru’ worth Rs.4.8 Lakhs. I lead the project in the capacity of Project Director along with Prof. Padmalini Singh. (26.02.2021)
We have been awarded the DST sponsored research project ‘Intervention of Yoga and Meditation on mental health of senior citizens during pandemic outbreak – A pilot study’ worth Rs.1.65 Lakhs. I am associated with this project as co-Project Director. (24.02.2021)
Elected as Honorary Joint Secretary of SEE (Society of Entrepreneurship Educators) a South Asian nodal body promoting and strengthening Entrepreneurship Education and Research.
Awarded ‘MTC Global award for Excellence-2021’ for outstanding contributions to management education on 28.10.2020
Completed one-month Train the Trainer program on ‘International Taxation and Technology’ offered by Ernst and Young during July-August, 2020.
Completed ‘Leadership and Emotional Intelligence’, an online certification course (Coursera) developed by Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad (03.09.2020).
Awarded ‘Education Leader of the Year’ as part of National Education Excellence Awards – 2020 in a virtual award ceremony on 30.06.2020
Completed ‘Design Thinking for Innovation’, an online certification course (Coursera) developed by Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, US.
Qualified the Online Proficiency Self-Assessment Test for Independent Directors Data bank conducted by Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs which will qualify to become Independent Director of a listed Company.
Completed the HarvardX program titled ‘Future of Learning’ in collaboration with Pearson Professional and Ureka Education Grouup, UK. Concluding workshop and graduation happened at Curtin Global University, Dubai during 15-16 December, 2019.
Visited Guanghua School of Management, (Peking University) Beijing and also School of Management (Fudan University, Shanghai) and also attended Shanghai Marketing Summit at Fudan University as part of my educational visit to China during Nov-2019.
Elected as Fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science and was awarded fellowship at Beijing, China on 17.11.2019 by the hands of Dr. Thomas C Tuttle, President, WAPS
Selected as an Independent Academic Expert (LINC Fellow) to provide consultancy and academic support services LINC (AGAMLINC Edu Systems, i.e. LINC India and Singapore) (May-2019)
Awarded ‘Visionary Academic Leader of the year 2019’ by Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry during Education to Entrepreneurship Summit at New Delhi (Feb-2019)
Appointed as visiting Research Fellow by Institute of Productivity, UK with focus on education and funded research projects (UNIDO) in the areas of Productivity-Performance-Profitability.
Visited City of Glasgow College, Glasgow, Scotland; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; University of Lincoln, UK and Institute of Productivity (IOP), Grimsby, UK during Feb-2019 and executed MOU with City of Glasgow College and IOP for active academic and research collaborations.
Appointed as a Business Mentor at the Incubation centre of R V College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Visited University of East London; University of South Hampton; University College of London; Institute of Productivity, Grimsby; NOCN (National Open College Network), Sheffield – an awarding body of UK; Grimsby Institute; and University of Edinburgh, Scotland as part of the Study tour to UK undertaken by the R V Group of Institutions during Nov-2018 to explore the possibilities of collaborations with these Institutions.
Honoured with D.Litt (Doctor of Letters) by the International Economics University for SAARC countries in recognition and appreciation of my contribution in the field of Management during Aug-2018
“Enterprising Academic Leader of the Year (South India)” during Apr-2018 as part of National Education Excellence Awards
“Adarsh Vidya Saraswati Rashtriya Puraskar”: Best Teacher award by Global Management Council, Ahmedabad (2017)
“Best Director of a B-School in Karnataka” during March-2015 as part of Education Excellence Awards
“Distinguished Educator Award” by Discovery Education Media, New Delhi, during Jan-2013 for outstanding achievements
Selected and trained by SEBI for “Financial Education Resource Person” training program organized by NISM during Dec-2012. I have been conducting Financial Education workshops for the various target groups including; working executives, young investors, middle income group, home makers, retired people, and school children since then.
Project done as part of B.E. curriculum titled ‘Arrhythmia detecting cum monitoring system’ was adjudged as one of the Superlative Projects of the Year – 1990 and selected for ‘Projects of the year’ award by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Bangalore, India.
Conferred with ‘State of the Year’ award for being part of the Victorian team’s outstanding achievements and contributions to the AUSDOC (Australian Document Exchange Company Pty Ltd.) by the Managing Director of AUSDOC during 1993-94.
Successfully established ‘Entrepreneurship Development Cell’ (E-cell) at DVH IMSR, Dharwad, in collaboration with DCSE (Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship), an NGO founded by ‘Desh’ (Gururaj) Deshpande, the founder of Deshpande Foundation. Also rendering services as mentor for ‘Navodyami’ program of DCSE and ‘AVISHKAAR’, a NGO of women entrepreneurs and as charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur) to promote and foster entrepreneurship.
Actively involved in offering management consultancy services to Government departments, trade associations, business houses, SMEs in and around Bangalore, Dharwad and Belgaum. Mentored M/s. Parivartan Foods Pvt. Ltd., a Belgaum based MSME
Case titled ‘N.Food Products: Why family run small and medium enterprises fail?’ was shortlisted under the best case category and honored with Rs.10000.00 cash prize during ‘case chase – 2012’ organized by the SEE in collaboration with Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. It was further published by FBR (FIIB Business Review), a peer reviewed Scopus indexed journal in their March-2015 issue

ACADEMIC DETAILS

D. in Management. Research work undertaken: “Comparative study on fruit processing industry between India and Brazil – a case study of mango” at Karnataka University, Dharwad (Karnataka) under the guidance of Dr. A.H. Chachadi (Professor in Management, KIMS, Karnataka University, Dharwad), January 2011.
MBA from Monash University, Australia – ‘A’ class university of Australia, July 1995 (First Division with 67.74%)
PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management), Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia – one of the leading B-schools of the world, July 1994 (First division with 68.00%)
E. (Bachelors in Engineering) in Electronics and Communications, Mysore University (Karnataka), October 1990 (First division with 62.13% aggregate)
Level 7 Certification in Strategic Leadership of Performance and Productivity by NOCN, UK
Foundation Course in Yoga offered by BBAU, Lucknow (2020)
Certified Yoga Protocol Instructor by the Yoga Certification Board, under Ministry of Ayush, GOI (2021)
Certification Program on “Contemporary IT technologies in Logistics and Supply chain – Data Science, Analytics, AI and Block chain” by CII-Institute of Logistics, Chennai (May- August, 2021).
Certified Yoga Teacher and Evaluator by Yoga Certification Board under Ministry of Ayush, GOI (2023)
Advanced Certification Program in Digital Business Management: Re-envisioning and Re-wiring in the age of AI by AIMA, New Delhi (Oct-Dec 2023)

Memberships

IIM, Ahmedabad – Alumnus
Analytics Society of India (ASI) – Individual Life Member
SEE (Society of Entrepreneurship Educators) - Honorary Joint Secretary
Independent Directors Databank of IICA (Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs) - Member
World Academy of Productivity Science (WAPS) - Fellow
Institute of Directors (IOD) – Fellow
Indian Yoga Association (IYA), Karnataka Chapter: Chairman – Academic
BMA (Bangalore management Association) – Life Member and Management Committee Member
LINC India and Singapore – LINC Fellow
IOP (Institute of Productivity), UK – Research Fellow
IYA (Indian Yoga Association) – Life Member
Analytics Society of India (ASI) – Institutional Life Member
NIPM (National Institute of Personnel management) – Life member
National HRD Network (NHRD) – Bangalore chapter – Life member
ISTD (Indian Society for Training and Development) – Life Member
AIMA (All India Management Association) –Professional Life Member
BIMTECH, NewDelhi - Alumnus
TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur), Hubli Chapter - member
AIMS (Association of Indian Management Schools)- Institutional life member and Ex Treasurer Karnataka & Kerala chapter
AICP (Association of Indian College Principals)- life member
MTC-Global: Life member
IAS (Indo American Society) – Ordinary Member
EPSI (Education Promotion Society of India) – Institutional life member
APMINK (Association Of Private Management Institutions of North Karnataka) – ex Vice President
FKCCI (Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry) – Institutional member
BCIC (Bangalore Chamber of Commerce and Industry) – Expert Committee member of Start-up and Economic Affairs and Committee on Ease of doing business
Rotary Club of Jayanagar Bangalore – President – 2024-25
National TPO Club – Member
CII – Karnataka: Institutional Member
ASSOCHAM – Institutional Member

Research – Consultancy – Extension Summary

of research papers published in Scopus, WOS and ABDC journals: 15
of research papers,and book reviews published in other peer reviewed journalsof repute:21 + 5 = 26
of research papers submitted for publication but are under review: 10
of research papers presented in Conferences of repute: 37
of books published: 4
of funded Research Projects undertaken: 9
of funded consultancy assignments undertaken: 9
of Workshops/FDPs/MDPs/Seminars/Conferences organized and delivered: 91
of workshops/FDPs/MDPs/Conferences/Seminars attended/chaired: 108
of Ph.D scholars guiding(BCU Research Centre): 02
H-index: 5

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: July 5^th, 1967

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Rajasthani, Kannada, Telagu, Marathi, Tamil

Address (Residence): House No. 433, 35^th Cross, 16^th A Main, 4^th ‘T’ Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore: 560041(Karnataka)

Address (Permanent): “Geetashankar”, House No. 03, Sanskruti Palms, Mandoli Road, Belgaum: 590008 (Karnataka)

REFEREES

A.H.Chachadi, Former Dean and Director, Kausali Institute of Management Studies, Karnatak University, Dharwad: 580 008; Mob: +91- 9448631340;
Email Id: dr_ahc@rediffmail.com
Satyajit Majumdar, Professor, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School of Management and labour studies, TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences), Mumbai; MOB: +91-9869270725; Email Id: satyajit@tiss.edu
H.S.Vijaykumar, Former Head, Department of Agri Business Management, Former Registrar and Vice Chancellor, University of Agricultural Sciences, P.B.Road, Dharwad: 580 008; Mob: +91-9448495325/+91-9845254263; Email Id: hsveekay@yahoo.com

Annexure

FDPs/MDPs/MTPs/Conferences/Seminars/Summits/Conventions Attended and key Note

speeches delivered

Participated in The Vice Chancellors Conclave 2025: Manthan on Integrating IKS in contemporary higher education during 7-8 November, 2025 organized by AIMA at IFHE, Bengaluru.
Delivered a seminar on ‘Entrepreneurial trends and opportunities for Engineers’ at RVITM, Bangalore on 03.09.2025
Participated in Coursera Connect 2025 as the session Chair for a round table discussion on the theme ‘Building the future of Learning and work withAI’ on 18.09.2025 at Gardenia, Bangalore.
Presented a seminar on ‘Evolution of Edtech start-ups in India: The current state and future outlook’ at the International Symposium on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Tech Startups in Australia and India: A Comparative Perspective organized by IISc, Bangalore during 12-13 September, 2025.
Participated in IGIC-2025 (India Global Innovation Connect) – a two days’ International convention focused on Innovations where-in Start-ups from all over the world participated happened at Hilton, Bangalore during 4-5 June, 2025.
Participated in two days’ workshop on Agentic AI organized by IIMB during 13-14 July, 2025.
Participated in 15^th Symposium on Business Intelligence and Analytics organized by Analytics Society of India (ASI) at IIMB on 11-12 July, 2025.
Invited by the Ministry of Ayush to deliver a technical session on ’10 years of Common Yoga Protocol: Experiments and Experiences’ during Yoga Mahotsav on 13.03.2025 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi as part of International Yoga day celebrations (delivered).
Part of panel of experts of “HE Leaders: Policy and Exchange series – 2025” organized by IDA on 21.03.2025 at The Oberoi, bangalore
Participated in one day FDP on ‘Financial Modelling and evolution of FINTECH’ at IIMB on 21.11.2024
Participated in the MEGA CAMPUS SUMMITco-organized by Synergy University, Russia at their DUBAI campus during 02-04 December, 2024
Resource Person for the two days’ workshop on Design Thinking for Educational reforms for CSR Heads and Professionals at VVK, Art of Living Centre, Bangalore during 26-27 October, 2024
Resource Person for MDP at IRIFM (Indian railways Institute of Financial management), Hyderabad – 11.07.2024
Participated in the 10 days’ workshop on AI assisated manuscript writing by Sowmiya Reddy during 3-14 June, 2024.
Panelist for the panel discussion on ‘Making India a global learning hub’ at CEGR Education Summit at New Delhi during 28.08.2024
Panelist at CESIM Summit 2.0 on ‘AI powered personalization Management Education’ on 17.04.2024
Guest of Honour – MRD 2.0 - 2^nd Intl Conf on advanced research methods, tools and techniques for multidisciplinary research organized in collaboration with Eudoxia Research university, US (Feb- 2024)
Speaker – QS India Academic Forum at Jaipur (Dec-2023)
Participated in International Conference on ‘AI applications in ESG’ organized by IIM-B in association with ASI during 8-9 Dec, 2023
Participated in the workshop on Returnee Entrepreneurship in India (Bangalore) at IISc, Banagalore during Dec-2023
Delivered two Yoga-Spandana sessions organized by Indian Yoga Association – Karnataka chapter on ‘Ashtanga Yoga – The philosophy and the Practice’ and ‘One hour health capsule for overall wellbeing’ on 23-24 September, 2023.
Panelist – CXO Round Table Conference by The Talk during Aug-2023
Successfully completed global online certification course on ‘Demystifying environment data for communication and impact’ offered by CSE (Centre for Science and Environment) during 31^st May – 14^th June, 2023.
Participated in 2 days’ 13^th Symposium on ‘Business Analytics and Intelligence’ at IIM-B during 23-24 July, 2023.
Participated in 2 days’ workshop on ‘Generative AI’ organized by DCAL and ASI at IIM-B during 23-24 July, 2023.
Panellist at ‘Vision 2030 for Karnataka’ conclave organized by BMA on 21.09.2023
Panellist at ET HR World round table conference on “Connecting curriculum to careers’ in association with Coursera on 10.03.2023 at Ritz Carlton, Bangalore.
Panellist - CII Skills Conference organized by CII, Bangalore on 09.03.2023 at Taj West End in Banagalore.
Participated in International Conference on Business Transformation organized by St. Joseph’s Institute of Management, Bangalore during 17-18 February, 2023.
Successfully completed the Part A (Basic Learning) on Environmental Impact Assessment offered by AAETI (Anil Agarwal Environment Training Institute) a unit of Centre for Science and Environment during 06-15 December, 2022
Panellist at Start-up Inclusion Summit organized by Vananam on 26.11.2022. Ms. Nirmala Sitaraman, Honourable Minister of Finance, GOI gave the key note address.
Participated in three days’ international conference organized by IISc, Bangalore under the aegis of Asian Society for Innovation and Policy (ASIP) during 24-26 November, 2022.
Participated in 3 days’ workshop on “How teachers can make a difference’ organized by TLC of IIT-Madras during 21-23 July, 2022
Participated in 3 days’ FDP on ‘Teaching Stock markets effectively’ by Stock market Institute in association with Institute of Financial markets during 27-30 July, 2022.
Participated in FDP on ‘Qualitative research and Data analysis using NVIVO’ organized by VAMNICOM, Pune during 29-30 July, 2022.
Participated in two days’ workshop on ‘Data visualization and Storytelling’ at IIM-B during 17-18 July, 2022 jointly organized by DCAL and ASI.
Participated in three days FDP on ‘Volunteer evolution framework designed to foster social responsibility and community engagement in students’ by LetsTagOn – a start-up from Bangalore.
Participated in five-day workshop on ‘Data Analytics Tools and Techniques for Accounting and Finance’ Organized by Gitam University, during 18-22 April, 2022.
Participated in Digital South Asia Conference on ‘Uncertainty, Social Entrepreneurship and Role of Technology’ organized during 05-07 January, 2022 by Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, TISS, Mumbai
Participated in Conference on ‘PGDM in the context of NEP’ organized by XIME, Bangalore on 15.12.2021
Participated in the three days AIMS convention on ‘Rediscovering Management Education for the pandemic world: The road map ahead’ during 26-28 August, 2021.
Participated in two days training program on ‘Leadership and Management in Higher Education’ organized by AIMA’s Vice Chancellors Council during 26-27 August, 2021 designed and delivered by Dr. Rajan Saxena, former VC of NMIMS, Mumbai.
Participated in Yogastha e-conference on ‘Research in Yoga: Mind, Consciousness and Identity’ during 06-08 August, 2021 organized by the Yogastha club of IITB.
Participated in five days’ works-hop on ‘Google Cloud Platform’ organized by Turnip Innovations during 22-26 June, 2021.
Participated in AIMA case writing conference organized by AIMA in association with ICRC during 30-31 March, 2021.
Participated in two-day summit on ‘Global Procurement: Procurement as enabler for COVID-19 emergency response’ organized by Ministry of Finance, GOI and AIMA during February 3-4, 2021.
Participated in the 3 days’ conference on ‘Social Enterprise: Values and Processes’ organized by CSE, TISS, Mumbai during 7-9 January, 2021
Participated in five day MDP on ‘Leveraging data for effective decisions’, organized by XIME, Bangalore during December 19-23, 2020.
Participated in 15 days SQL for Business Analytics Course organized by Turnip Innovations during 21^st Oct – 04^th Nov, 2020.
Participated in two-day symposium on ‘Business Analytics and intelligence’ organized by IIM, Bangalore during 20-21 June, 2020.
Participated in ‘YOGASTHA’ conference and workshop organized by IIT, Bombay on 11-12 July, 2020 and also during 6-8 August, 2021
Participated in 4 day FDP on ‘Teaching Stock Markets Effectively’ organized by Stock Market Institute during 27-30 July, 2020.
Participated in a ten-day CEP in ‘Research approaches and methods in Management and Social Sciences’ organized by IIT, Bombay during 1-10 June, 2020.
Completed the 2-day training program of IIC, MHRD, for Institutional Innovation Ambassadors in the area of Entrepreneurship and Start-ups.
Completed the fourth T3 (Train the Trainer) program on “Big Data Analytics” delivered by IBM under the IBM ICE initiative (11-13 December, 2019)
Completed the third T3 (Train the Trainer) program on “Business Intelligence” delivered by IBM under the IBM ICE initiative (17-19 September, 2019)
Participated in the 2 days ‘Pearson professional Leaders of Learning workshop’ as part of ‘Future of Learning’ Program at Curtin Global University, Dubai during 15-16 December, 2019.
Visited China Home life and China machine EXPO at Dubai on 17.12.2019
Participated in the Symposium and Induction ceremony of new fellows of World Academy of Productivity Science at Beijing, China on 17.11.2019
Participated in conference on ‘Funding for Social sector: Decoding Coding, Amplifying Impact’ organized by SEE (Social Entrepreneurs and Enterprises) at IIM-B on 12 October, 2019.
Participated in the 10^th Indian Management Conclave during 2-3 August, 2019 at India International Centre, New Delhi
Participated in the Research AI Day on the theme “Usable Artificial Intelligence” organized by IIM-B on 29.06.2019
Participated in the symposium on Internationalization of Indian MSMEs jointly organized by School of Management, REVA University and Kingston University, UK as a resource person to talk on ‘Role of HE, Research and Training in Internationalization’ on 28.06.2019
Completed the second T3 (Train the Trainer) program on “Data Mining and Predictive Modelling” delivered by IBM under the IBM ICE initiative (26-28 April, 2019)
Completed the first T3 (Train The Trainer) program on ‘Introduction to Business Analytics’ delivered by IBM under the IBM-ICE initiative through which we are offering Diploma in Business Analytics Program (1-4 March, 2019)
Participated in the Orientation Program for aspiring autonomous colleges organized by UGC-SWRO, Bangalore (19.02.2019)
Participated in the International Education Symposium “Rethinking Skills Symposium” organized by City of Glasgow College, Glasgow, Scotland on 07.02.2019 at Glasgow, Scotland.
Participated in one-day Workshop on Assessment and Accreditation (Prashnottara Malika) at NAAC headquarters (09 January, 2019)
Participated in the Round Table Conference on ‘Developing Future Competencies’ organized by CINQUE at Bangalore
Delivered key note speech at the one-day orientation Program for Placement Officers/Principals/HODs on “Managing Students Placements – Emerging Trends” organized by Chetan B-School, Hubli (29 September, .2018)
Delivered key note address during the two days National Conference on “New Dimensions and Applications of NAAC/IQAC” organized by M S Irani Degree College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Gulbarga (26-27 December, 2018)
Participated and presented two papers in the International Conference organized by SSMRV College, Bangalore, and chaired a session on ‘Environment’ track’ (24-25 January, 2019)
Participated in Capacity Building Programme on ‘Commodity Markets’ by MCX at SIT, Tumkur during 6-7 September, 2018
Participated in the ASMA (Adoption of Social Media in Education) convention and workshop at Bangalore, September-2018
Participated in the AIMS convention during 30-31 August and 01 September, 2018 at Infosys Convention Centre at Bangalore. Our Institution bagged the AIMS Management Week award for planning and organizing lot of social initiatives
Participated in the workshop on MOOCs at IIM-B on August 02, 2018.
Participated in 9^th Indian Management Conclave at IIM-B during 3-4 August, 2018 and presented our new initiative ‘VENTURE FEST’ one amongst the top five initiatives across the nation.
Participated in “Millenium – 2018: A capacity building program” organized by R V Group of Institutions at Bangalore (7-8 July, 2019) and also in year 2019 and 2022.
Participated in “8^th Symposium on Business Analytics and Intelligence” at IIM- Bangalore on 23-24 June, 2018
Participated in “Pragati: Pan IIM start-up conclave” at IIM, Bangalore on February 24, 2018
Completed the four days residential Executive Education Program (EEP) “Family Businesses: Organization, Strategies, Internationalisation and Succession” at IIM, Ahmedabad
Participated in SANIM (South Asia Network of Impact Masters) meeting anchored by TISS,
Mumbai and organized by Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society at their centre in Rajagurunagar, Pune on 18-19 May, 2018.
Participated in “Start-up Dialogue” organized by Deshpande Foundation at the Infosys campus in Hubli
Participated in UKISEEN (United Kingdom India Social Entrepreneurship Education Network) meeting and the seminar at IIT, Chennai, of which we are a member
Participated in the International conference organized by TISS, Mumbai and attended the SANIM (South Asian Network of Impact Masters) of which we are one of the member.
Completed residential EEP (Executive Education Program) on ‘Building Excellence in Professional Higher Education Institutions’ at ISB, Hyderabad
Completed one week residential MDP on ‘Innovating for excellence’: A program for Academic leaders in management education, at IIM, Ahmedabad
Completed one week EEP “Parivartan” on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ organized by TISS, Mumbai in association with Baba Amte’s MSS (Maharogi Sewa Samithi, Warora) at Anandwan, Maharashtra with an objective of replicating the same in Belgaum for local executives
Completed 10 days rigorous residential ToT (Training of Trainers – an achievement motivational training program for trainers) conducted by NIESBUD (National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, New Delhi) hosted by Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Hubli (Karnataka)
Completed the Management Teachers Program (MTP) on “International Business Strategy” organized by IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) New Delhi campus under the aegis of SMF (Strategic Management Forum)
Completed the MTP on “Managing Strategic Incoherence” organized by IIM-L (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Noida campus) under the aegis of SMF
Completed the Foundation Course (MTP) on Strategy conducted by IIM-B (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) under the aegis of SMF
Completed the MTP on “Innovation Technology and Strategy” organized by BIMTECH, Noida in association with SMF.
Participated in three-day International seminar on social entrepreneurship organized by TISS, Mumbai in association with The University of Texas, Austin, US and Dell Social Innovation Challenge at their Mumbai campus
Participated in MDP on ‘In pursuit of excellence’ organized by GIT, Belgaum delivered by Mr. Nikhil Desai, an international trainer from The Centre for Excellence, Mumbai.
Participated in FDP on ‘Powering teaching competencies’ delivered by Dale Carnegie Training group.
Participated in FDP on ‘New trends in teaching management’ organized by Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum, delivered by Dr. Prafulla Agnihotri, Director IIM-T
Participated in the national seminar on ‘Twenty years of India’s liberalization’ hosted by XIME (Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship), Bangalore and BIC (Bangalore International Centre) at XIME, Bangalore
Participated in the national seminar on “Assessment and Accreditation: Future Possibilities and Challenges” hosted by We School (Prin. L.N.Wellingkar Institute of Management Development and Research), Mumbai, in association with AICTE and Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra at Mumbai
Participated in two-day Leadership Development Program for Heads of the Management Institutions organized by Karnataka University, Dharwad lead by Prof. Murthy (Former Director, IIMB) Prof. Nagabrahmam (Former Director, TAPMI) and Prof. Joe Philip (Former Director, IIMB)
Participated in the 25^th AIMS Silver Jubilee Annual Management Education Convention, 2013 on ‘Envisioning Management Education’ at Bharati Vidyapeeth’s IMSR, Navi Mumbai
Participated in ‘Alumni Leadership Master Class’ program on the significance of Alumni relations and strategies for strengthening the same organized by Saviance technologies in association with AIMS, Bangalore chapter at Bangalore
Participated as a delegate in ‘world education summit-2012’ at New Delhi
Participated in fourth annual TPO (Training and Placements Officers) conference at Hyderabad organized by Rangroot.com, a company offering Training and Placement services to educational institutions across India.
Participated in several MBAUniversse.com Directors’ round table conferences
Participated in two day ‘Indo – Global education summit’ organized by Indus Foundation, US at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
Participated in ‘Development Dialogue - 2015’ a three-day flagship event of Deshpande Foundation to promote entrepreneurship in the Hubli sand box region. Also participated in DD-2011, DD-2012, DD-2013 and DD-2014
As a charter member participated in TiECON - 2017, a national conference organized by TiE, Hubli chapter at Hubli. Moderated a session of the world class social entrepreneur Zenia Tata during TiECON-2016. Also participated in TiECON-2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
Participated in National Conference on “Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development” organized by TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences), Mumbai
As a charter member participated in ‘TiECON – 2014’ organized by TiE, Delhi chapter during October 17-18, 2014 at Taj Palace, New Delhi
Participated in Directors round table conference organized by MBAUniverse.com on 16.03.2018 at Bangalore

FDPs/Workshops/Conferences organized and delivered

Delivered a three credit course on ‘Managing People’ for the Executive MBA program of RVU during August – October, 2025.
Organized International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligence (IJCACI-2025) with Washington University of Science and technology (WUST), Alexandria, US during 23-24 August, 2025 in collaboration with SCRS (Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi). Papers presented will be published in Scopus Indexed Springer Book Series. Received 856 papers of which 79 were selected for presentation and publication from 12 different countries.
Organized International conference BIDA-2025 (Business Intelligence and Data Analytics) in collaboration with SCRS (Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi) during 12-13 April, 2024. Received 600 plus research article from the scholars all over the world, out of which 80 papers were shortlisted for presentation and successive publication in Scopus indexed Springer Book series.
Delivered one week Staff wellness workshop titled ‘One hour health capsule: The Patanjali way’ for the staff of RVITM, Bangalore during 28^th July to 01^st August, 2025.
Co-hosted International Conference on ‘Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the Global Economy’ with IISc, Bangalore during 9-11 January, 2025.
OrganizedMTC Global Education Summit during 14.09.2024 at RVIM
Organized one week on ‘Creative Expression on Visual Thinking’ lead by Prof. Bakul Jani and the team, primarily aimed at nurturing creativity amongst all RVIM staff (Teaching and Non-Teaching) during 01-08 January, 2025.
Organized 10 days’ webinar series on Emerging Technologies in collaboration with RV Skills during 22.07.2024 to 09.08.2024.
Organized an exclusive talk on ‘Using generative AI to strengthen and speed learning’ by Dr. Barbara Oakley, distinguished Professor from Oakland University, Michigan, US on 23.08.2024 in collaboration with Coursera.
Organized one day FDP on ‘AI assisted manuscript writing’ by Dr. K. S. Sowmiya Rani on 19.04.2024
Organized International conference BIDA-2024 (Business Intelligence and Data Analytics) in collaboration with SCRS (Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi) during 6-7 April, 2024. Received 500 plus research article from the scholars all over the world, out of which 58 papers were shortlisted for presentation and successive publication in Scopus indexed Springer Book series.
Organized one-day workshop on ‘Case and simulations driven teaching’ by Prof. Balakrishna Grandhi, S P Jain Global MBA Program, UAE (Dec-2023)
Organized one-day workshop on ‘Case based Teaching and Case writing’ by Prof. Prakash Singh, IIM-L (Nov-2023)
Organized a Thought Leaders Speak session by Prof. Krishna Kumar (KK) on ‘Management Education – Experiences from SAARC countries’ on 30.09.2023
Organized and delivered 3 days’ FDP on Universal Human Values (UHV-I) sponsored by AICTE during 14-16 September, 2023
Organized and delivered 2 days’ AIMS sponsored workshop on “Leaders in the Making” during 16-17 June, 2023 where-in Prof. T. V. Rao and Dr. Arvind Agrawal were the resource people.
Organized and Delivered AIMS sponsored FDP on ‘Bibliometric Analysis’ during 12-13 January, 2023
Organized and delivered NAAC sponsored workshop (2 days) on ‘Application of Design Thinking in Higher Education (22-23 December, 2022)
Organized and delivered NCW (National Commission for Women) sponsored seminar on ‘Promotion of work for housewives’ on 25.11.2022
Organized Doctoral Colloquium in collaboration with TISS, Mumbai under the aegis of SEE – a pan Asian body promoting Entrepreneurship during 18-19 November, 2022.
Organized Venture Fest – a flagship event of RVIM showcasing the student ventures in the real world market conditions during 14-15 November, 2022. Ms. Sowmya Reddy, Honourable MLA, Jayanagar, Bangalore was the chief guest.
Organized ‘HR Conclave’ during 19-20 August, 2022.
Organized and delivered one-week Certification Program for Physiotherapists on ‘Practicing Common Yoga Protocol’ as part of IYD Celebrations during 21-27 June, 2022.
Rotaract Club of RVIM Organized mega blood donation camp in association with Rotary Club, Jayanagar on 14.05.2022
Organized and delivered ICPR (Indian Council of philosophical research) sponsored lecture series on diverse topics connected to Indian philosophy as part of World Philosophy Day celebrations during March-2022
Organized and delivered NCW (National Commission for Women) sponsored webinar series on ‘Personal capacity building, Professional career skills and Digital literacy and effective use of social media’ for the UG and PG girls on 28.04.2022.
Organized one week MDP on “Role of Business in Sustainable Development” during 24-28 January, 2022. I was one of the resource person.
Organized and delivered one-week Certification Program on ‘Practicing Common Yoga Protocol’ as part of IYD Celebrations during 15-21 June, 2021. Received appreciation certificate from the Yoga Certification Board.
Organized one week MDP on “Understanding Organizations and the Role of Management in today’s context” during 24-28 May, 2021. I was one of the resource persons.
Organized one week FDP on “Learning Management from Gitopanishads” during 22-26 February, 2021. I was one of the resource persons.
Organized one-week CEP on ‘Data visualization using Tableau” during 1-5 February, 2021. I was one of the resource persons.
Organized ‘#My research story’ session by Prof. Saras Sarasvathy, Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, USA on 16.12.2020 under the aegis of SEE.
Organized ‘#My research story’ session by Prof. Sougata Ray, Professor, IIM, Kolkata on 24.11.2020 under the aegis of SEE
Organized ‘#My research story’ session by Prof. Sankaran Venkataraman, senior Associate Dean, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, US on 20.10.2020 under the aegis of SEE
Organized ten days CEP on ‘Quantitative Analysis using R’ during 2-11 November, 2020
Organized six-day CEP on ‘Big Data Analytics’ during 5-10 October, 2020
Organized and delivered six-day ‘The Perfect Immunity Booster: Cool Yoga’ workshop during 19-24 October, 2020.
Organized Four-day Continuing Education Program (CEP) on ‘Commodity Derivatives’ during 01-04 September, 2020.
Organized ‘# I have a story’ session by Mr. Giridhar Sounderrajan, Founder and CEO, Barrel Exhaust on 08.08.2020
Organized one week MDP on “Ensuring Certainty during uncertain times” during 25-29 August, 2020.
Organized six-day FDP on ‘Emerging Technologies – A way forward covering IOT, Blockchain, Crypto currency, RPA, AI, and Cloud computing during 3-8 August, 2020.
Organized ‘# I have a story’ session by Mr. Narendra K Pasuparthy, Chief farmer and CEO, Nandu’s Chicken on 25.07.2020
Organized and delivered a four day online SDP on ‘Dynamics of Entrepreneurship’ during 21-24 July, 2020.
Organized and delivered one week FDP on ‘Building Research Capabilities in management and social sciences’ during 19-25 July, 2020.
Organized one-week workshop by TLC of RVIM on ‘Grooming higher education teachers with technologies available to make online education effective’ in collaboration with IBEDO during 22-27 June, 2020
Organized a three-day orientation program on ‘How can teachers make a difference’ by the Teaching Learning Centre of RVIM in collaboration with IIT, Chennai during 29-30 June, 2020 and 1 July, 2020.
Organized and delivered a seven-day online workshop on ‘Cool YOGA for all’ during 15-21 June, 2020 as part of International YOGA Day celebrations.
Organized and delivered a three day online FDP on ‘Future of Learning: COVID or No COVID’ during 27-29 May, 2020
Organized and delivered a five-day online FDP on ‘Applications of Business Analytics in the areas of Management’ during 22-26 June, 2020.
Organized and delivered a webinar on ‘Customer Experience Management: Aligning with the customer journey’ on a9 June, 2020.
Organized an online MDP on ‘Empowering MSMEs during crisis times’ during 20-23 May, 2020.
Organized an online FDP on ‘Implications of COVID-19 on world economy’ during 20-22 May, 2020.
Organized and delivered a series of webinar on ‘Business Analytics: Way forward – Education and Industry’ during 4-5 June, 2020 in association with SetConnect, US.
Organized and delivered one day FDP on ‘Business Analytics’ on 10 March, 2020
Organized ‘HR Conclave on the theme Future Workforce – Building talent pipeline’ in collaboration with WCPS (world Confederation of Productivity Sciences) at RVIM on 24.02.2020.
Organized and delivered three days’ workshop on ‘Digital Marketing’ during 17-19 February, 2020
Organized and delivered two days’ workshop on GST during 24-25 October, 2019
Partnered with NIPM as an Academic Partner in organizing NATCON-2019 at Bangalore during 26-28 September, 2019
Organized and delivered symposium on ‘Institution building for university, engineering and B-school campus’ in association with NIPM – Karnataka chapter on August 16, 2019
Organized and delivered three days’ workshop on ‘Research in Social Sciences using SPSS and R Programming’ during 22-24 August, 2019
Organized and delivered a FDP on ‘Project Based Learning’ at RVIM (26.02.2019)
Organized and delivered seminar on “Transformational Leadership” at RVIM (23 January, 2019)
Organized and delivered seminar on “Industry 4.0 and Future of HR” at RVIM (22 December, 2018)
Organized FDP on ‘Global best practices in Higher Education’ at RVIM (29-31 October, 2018)
Organized and delivered one day FDP on ‘Customer Experience Management (CEM)’ on August 10, 2018. Mr. Gurudatt Shenoy-Consultant, CEM; Mr. Sandeep Pai, CEM expert, Oracle; Mrs. Kanchan Pai, Senior Executive, Singapore Airlines; Prof. Anupama Malagi, Professor, RVIM and myself were the resource people.
Coordinated the Foundation Day Celebrations - 2017 of the Institution on 16.09.2017. We honoured Mr. Mahesh Bhirangi, MD, Pragati Engineering Belgaum Private Limited, with the title ‘Entrepreneur of the year-2017’. Mr. Suhas Gopinath, Youngest CEO of the world was the chief guest.
Organized one day FDP on ‘Teaching-Learning-Evaluation Excellence” on 22.09.2017. Prof. L.S.Ganesh, Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT, Chennai and I were the resource persons. Fifty plus faculty participated in the FDP.
Organized one-day seminar on ‘Social Entrepreneurship Education and CSR’ in association with IIT, Chennai under the aegis of UKISEEN (United Kingdom India Social Entrepreneurship Education network) on 23.09.2017. Prof. Satyajit Majumdar, Prof., TISS, Mumbai; Prof. L.S.Ganesh, Prof., IIT, Chennai; Sri. R.S.Balu, CSR Head, Aditya Birla NUVO Ltd.,; Sri. Jayant Humbarwadi, JMD, Ashoka Iron Works, Belgaum; Dr. Neelam Maheshwari, Director, Deshpande Foundation were the resource people. Forty plus participants from the Industry and Academia including UKISEEN members participated.
Organized two days’ workshop on “Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis in Research using SPSS” with the assistance of AIMS during February 27-28, 2017. Thirty plus faculty participated in the workshop.
Organized one-day workshop for ‘AVISHKAAR’- an NGO of women entrepreneurs on “Developing Marketing Strategies for small businesses” on 03.12.2016. Forty plus women entrepreneurs participated.
Delivered two day workshop on ‘Writing research papers and drafting proposals in Social Sciences’ on 29-30 March, 2016 along with Dr. P.M.Charantimath and Prof. S.G.Chiniwar for the research scholars and faculty at MES College of Arts and Commerce, Goa. Fifty plus faculty and research scholars participated in the workshop
Organized “ARIVU” and “ASKHR” workshops for the HR professionals of sugar and cement industries in and around Belgaum, Bijapur and Bagalkot districts in association with HR department of Dalmia Cements, Yadwad plant, Belgaum during 2015-16
Part of the organizing committee of the INCGB – International Conference on Green Banking organized by Rani Channamma University, Belgaum in partnership with all the affiliated Institutions scheduled on February 12-13, 2016
Organized two day workshop on ‘Writing research papers and drafting proposals in Social Sciences’ on January 12-13, 2016 along with Dr. P.M.Charantimath and Prof. S.G.Chiniwar for the research scholars and faculty. Forty-Five plus faculty and research scholars participated in the workshop. We three were the key resource people
Organized one-day workshop along with Dr. Kirti Shivkumar, Professor on “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs” for women entrepreneurs of Belgaum in association with “Avishkaar”, a NGO catering to women entrepreneurs of Belgaum on 22nd August 2015 at IMER, Belgaum. Forty plus women entrepreneurs attended this workshop
Part of organizing committee of IMER and the resource person as well of the one-day workshop on ‘Writing quality research articles’ held at IMER on 04.07.2015
Organized half day workshop on ‘Innovations in packaging’ for the local industry people on May 28, 2015. Dr. H.B.N. Murthy, a renowned packaging consultant was the resource person
Organized and participated in six days ‘Export Management Training Program’ for the local industry people and entrepreneurs in association with VTPC, DIC, BSSIA, FIEO, KCCI during 25-30 May, 2015, where-in 31 participants got trained. 20 plus resource people shared their experience. I was also a resource person
Convened one day retailers’ conclave on ‘Brick and Mortar retailing in an era of E-tailing’ in association with TiE, Hubli, where-in around 80 plus retailers of Belgaum took part on February 24, 2015
Convened a two-day workshop titled ‘Management Education beyond 2020’, a curriculum review workshop on February 13-14, 2015 to revise the entire curriculum of Rani Channamma University, Belagavi which will be in force from A/Y 2015 onwards. I was part of the core committee formed by the University
Convened My Story / Her Story sessions in association with TiE, Hubli, where-in the following entrepreneurs shared their entrepreneurial stories with the entrepreneurs of Belgaum;
1. A. Muruganantham, Founder, Jaishree Industries, Coimbatore (popularly known as Muruga - the pad man)
2. Sachin Kate, CEO and Founder, Clear Car Rentals, Aurangabad
3. Vijay Sankeshwar, Founder and Chairman, VRL group of companies, Hubli
4. Vivek Pawar, Founder and CEO, Sankalpa Semiconductors, Hubli
5. Shravani, Founder, Safe hands, Hubli
6. Soniya Netalkar, COO, Netalkar Group of companies, Belgaum
7. Kanwal Rekhi, internationally renowned venture capitalist and founding member of TiE from US.
8. Radhakrishna Pillai, Author of the book ‘Corporate Chanakya’ and founder Director of Chanakya Institute of public leadership, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
9. Phil Britten, Author, Motivational Speaker, Sports celebrity, Corporate Trainer from Australia
10. Chendil Kumar, International Toast Master, Author, Corporate Trainer
11. Manoj Ambike, Corporate trainer from Mumbai
Convened the national conference on ‘Responsive Management Education’ organized by all the Institutions affiliated to Rani Channamma University, Belgaum scheduled on August 9-10, 2014
Organized two day FDP on “Developing effective curriculum and using innovative pedagogical tools” for the faculty from various Institutions on May19-20, 2014
Organized an International Conference (IC-GBMTI) on Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in Global Business, Management, Tourism and Information Technology on September 28-29, 2013 at International Centre, Panjim, Goa, in association with RDA, Jaipur. Around 200 plus delegates from ten plus countries registered for the conference and 108 delegates from eight countries presented their papers at the conference
Organized two-day workshop on “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs” for women entrepreneurs of Belgaum in association with “Avishkaar”, a NGO catering to women entrepreneurs of Belgaum on 17^th and 27^th August 2013 at IMER, Belgaum. Forty-three women entrepreneurs attended this workshop
Organized two day FDP on “Effective Teaching and Curricuclum Design” for the IMER faculty on August 3-4, 2013
Organized half day seminar on ‘Significance of values, ethics, social responsibility and spirituality in business’ commemorating the contributions of late Sri. Suresh Hundre (successful ethical local entrepreneur of Belgaum) to the field of management on 23.07.2013
Organized two day FDP on ‘Powering teaching competencies’ in association with Dale Carnegie Training group on 29^th and 30^th June 2012
Organized ‘MSME conclave on leveraging IT’ a workshop for MSMEs of North Karnataka during December 2011.
Organized ‘NEBULA - MSME conclave’ on ‘Creating star organizations’, a workshop for MSMEs of North Karnataka during January 2013
Organized half day workshop on “NPTEL” for the UG and PG faculty of all the streams during February 2013
Being a Resource Person, identified and trained by NISM and SEBI, organized series of workshops on ‘Financial Planning’ for young investors, young executives, retired people, school children, entrepreneurs and working women as part of Investor Education Campaign of SEBI
Delivered lectures and key note speeches on several occasions and was a resource person in different forums like; seminars, conferences, staff training programs, FDPs, MDPs, EDPs, workshops, training programs

KEY Assignments and RECOGNITIONS

Guiding two Ph.D scholars under BCU Research Centre (2024-25)
Editorial Borad Member of Clareus Scientific Science and engineering Journal of US
Undertook Ph.D Thesis evaluation and External defence for Christ University, Bangalore
General Chair - BIDA-2024 an International Conference
Editor of the Conference proceedings of International Conference MRD 2.0 organized in collaboration with Eudoxia International, US. (Feb-2024)
Published patent titled ‘Online payment fraud detection using data science and machine learning in Python’ in the Patent Office Journal No. 06/2024 (Application No. 202441002584 dated 09.02.2024)
Published an algorithmic driven intelligent monitoring system design patent on ‘Big data, cloud based determination of the relationship between height and Heart Beat of male and female students’ (Application No. 202221025992)
Published patent titled ‘Role of Financial management in Indian and Foreign country economic development’ on 15.09.2023 (Application No. 202321044675)
Co-Supervisor for Ph.D program in Management by RV University
Academic Advisory Committee Member – GM University, Davangere, Karnataka
Research Guide (Supervisor) by Bangalore City University to guide Ph.D scholars
Member – BOS – Mangalore University (Commerce Department) (2022)
Member of the Scope database – International Advisory Board (30.12.2021)
Advisory Board Member – Pranav Foundation, Bangalore
Member – Governing Council of NITTE School of Managemnt, Bangalore, part of NITTE group of Institutions.
Member - Academic Council of the RV University as a nominee of the sponsoring Body RSST
Honorary Director of the Advisory Board at AyurYoga Life Institute, Bangalore. (Sep-2021)
Member - Governing Council of SSMRV Degree College and also SSMRV PU College as a nominee of the sponsoring Body RSST since 2018.
Member - BOS of Kalasilingam Academy of Research and Education, a Deemed to be University, Krishnankoil, Tamilnadu.
Convenor for framing the syllabi for all the Business Analytics specialization courses at BCU, Bangalore
Member - BoE for PG – MBA for the year 2021 and 2022 by Bengaluru North University, Bengaluru
Member - BoS of Global Academy of Technology, Bengaluru an autonomous Institution for year 2021-2023 by VTU, Belagavi (FEB-2021)
Member - BoE for 2018-19 Examinations of Bangalore University and Bangalore Central University, Karnataka and also for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 year for BCU.
The chief editor of “RVIM Journal of Management Research” a refereed management journal of R V Institute of Management, Bangalore since March-2018
D. supervisor by the PAHER University, i.e. Pacific Academy of Higher Education and Research University, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
The chief editor of “TATVA” a refereed management journal of KLS’s IMER, Belgaum from July-2011 to May-2017
Reviewer for many reputed journals including Journal of Business and Economics (JBE) of US (ISSN: 2155-7950)
Member - Editorial Board of “Journal of Management Research and Analysis”, published by Innovative Publications, New Delhi
Member - Expert panel for the evaluation of Doctoral Thesis at University of Mysore, Karnataka, Savitribai Phule Pune University, CMR University, Bangalore and Vishveshvarayya Technological University, Karnataka
Member - DAC (Departmental Advisory Committee) for DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra.
Coordinator for the revision of MBA curriculum at Rani Channamma University, Belgaum and Bengaluru City University, Bangalore.
Reviewer - peer reviewed journal “Business Perspectives and Research” of K.J.Somaiya IMSR, Mumbai (a SAGE publication)
Reviewer & Advisor - refereed journal “Prashastya” (ISSN: 23496487) published by Gogte College of Commerce, Belgaum
Member - Editorial Board of ‘Journal of Advances in Business Management’ (jadbm)
Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Hospitality Administration and Management (IJHAM)

Research Papers and Cases Published / Presented

Presented the RP titled ‘Disruptive role of AI in Gen Z financial decision making – Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Literature’ in an International Conference organized by RVU during April 24-25, 2025 and the same will be published in a good journal of repute. (With Sumera)
RP titled ‘Examining the impact of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) on consumer buying decisions’ was presented in Anveshan-2025 (ICT Journal - Sumera).
RP titled ‘Assessing environmental vulnerabilities in Kodagu: geospatial analysis of landslides, river encroachment and hydrological risks in Kodagu district of Karnataka, India’ is selected for presentation and publication in Scopus indexed journal in the International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference happening at Kashiwa, japan during 19-23 October, 2025.
RP titled ‘Digital divide among senior citizens in India: Challenges and Strategies’ is submitted for presentation and publication in ICDFB’2025 (Intl Conf on Digital transformation, Fintech and Business Innovation organized during 26-27 October, 2025 at Al Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan). It will be published in Scopus indexed proceedings.
RP titled ‘Evaluating the impact of recent select geopolitical conflicts on exchange rate dynamics’ is accepted for publication in ICTACT Journal of Management Studies (July 2025)
RP titled ‘Inflation adjusted return comparison of sovereign gold bonds with alternate investment avenues: A decadal analysis (2015-2024)’ is selected for presentation and publication in the International Conference on Business and Technology (ICBT Cardiff-2025) during 23-24 July, 2025 at Cardiff University, UK. It will be published in Springer Book series – Scopus indexed.
RP titled ‘A comparative study on Intrinsic Value versus Market value of Mid-cap stocks using the Dividend Discount Model on NSE” is selected for presentation and publication in the International Conference on Business and Technology (ICBT Cardiff-2025) during 23-24 July, 2025 at Cardiff University, UK. It will be published in Springer Book series – Scopus indexed.
RP titled ‘A bibliometric investigation into the evolving consumer behaviour and market dynamics’ is selected for presentation and publication in the International Conference on Business and Technology (ICBT Cardiff-2025) during 23-24 July, 2025 at Cardiff University, UK. It will be published in Springer Book series – Scopus indexed.
Presented a RP titled ‘Analysing the interplay between Forex rates and financial assets in India: Insights from ARIMA and VAR models’ at the International Conference on Business and technology (ICBT Edinburgh-2025) during 12-13 April, 2025. The same will be published in Scopus Indexed Book chapter.
Presented a RP titled ‘Neural network based volatility forecasting: A hybrid GARCH-ANN model for NIFTY 50’’ at the International Conference on Business and technology (ICBT Edinburgh-2025) during 12-13 April, 2025. The same will be published in Scopus Indexed Book chapter.
Submitted research paper titled ‘Impact of AI on HRM: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis’ for publication in Emerald Book series titled ‘Transformative Impacts of AI on HRM: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis’ (Scopus indexed); DoI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83662-982-520251015
Presented a RP titled ‘The penetration and impact of digital payments on the business performance of informal sector enterprises in Bangalore’ at the International Conference (ICE-FWB-DFL-2025) organized by IIM – IIM Tiruchirappalli on 14.02.2025. The same is selected for publication in JIBR(Journal of Indian Business Research) – a Scopus indexed journal published by Emerald.
Published research paper titled ‘Exploring the dynamics of flexible work, digital platform and the sharing economy: a multifacetedexamination of security, trust and risk’ in the journal Accountancy Business and the Public Interest, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Jan - 2025) (ISSN: 1745-7718) – Listed in ABDC - B category and Scopus; https://abpi.uk/index.php/jan-2025/
Published research paper titled ‘AI implementation in digital payment: an empirical analysis on banking sector in India’ in South East European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Vol. XXV S2, 2024 (ISSN: 2197-5248)- Scopus indexed and ABDC listed; DOI: https://doi.org/10.70135/seejph.v1.3525
Presented a research paper titled ‘Fostering entrepreneurial mind-sets: Analysing the influence of higher education on entrepreneurial intentions among Indian youth’ at the International Conference organized by IISc during 9-11 Jan, 2025. The same was published in QTanalytics book series titled ‘Business Analytics and Intelligence: Driving strategy with data’ indexed by Crosref with a high IF; ISBN: 978-81-980647-7-6 (June-2025); DOI: https://doi.org/10.48001/978-81-980647-7-6-11
Presented a research paper titled ‘Digital pathways to success: The influence of social media on the growth of women entrepreneurs’ at the International Conference organized by IISc during 9-11 Jan, 2025.
Presented RP titled ‘Innovations and Challenges in Alternative Dispute Resolution: Leveraging Technology for conflict reso;lution and peace building’at The International Conference organized by IPE, Hyderabad.
Presented a research paper titled ‘Evaluating the dynamic relationships and its impact between Forex rate and financial assets in India: An ARIMA and VAR approach’ at 2^nd International Finance and Accounting Conference (IFAC-2024) during 12-13 Dec, 2024 at IIM Jammu.
Published research paper titled ‘Impact of Common Yoga protocol practice on the overall wellbeing of the practitioners: An empirical study’ in International Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering and Management (IJSREM), Volume 08, Issue 11 (Nov-2024) with an impact factor of 8.448 (ISSN: 2582-3930). DOI: 10.55041/IJSREM38237
Published case study titled ‘Sustainability in candle production: A case study on Gandhadagudi Candles eco-friendly practices and market impact’ in Asian and Pacific Economic Review, Vol 17, Issue 1 (2024) ISSN: 1000-6052 [ABDC Listed]
Presented the research paper titled “Dynamic market dependence between the Indian market and other Asia-pacific markets: Evidence from DCC GARCH and Copula model” to Joint Asia Conference on Business and Economic Studies (ACBES-2024 – 15. 06. 2024) at Bali. The same was published in Economic Letters journal ABDC listed.
Published research paper titled ‘Social Entrepreneurship Development: Assessing the Role of Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Effect of Government Regulations as Moderator’ in JIER (Journal of Informatics Education and Research) – a Scopus indexed and ABDC listed journal - ISSN: 1526-4726, Vol 4, Issue 2 (2024)
Published research paper titled ‘Comparing econometric and machine learning models for gold price forecasting: A comprehensive approach’ in the Springer Book titled Sustainable Data Management – ISBN: 978-3-031-83914-6(Scopus indexed); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83915-3_22 (Apr-2025). The same was presented in an International Conference on Business and Digital Technologies (ISBDT-2024) by Kingdom University, Bahrain and EuroMid Academy, Turkey during 27-28 November, 2024 at Bahrain.
Published research paper titled ‘A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation on Internet of Things and Digital Marketing; Opportunities, Issues and Challenges’in journal Educational Administration: Theory and Practice (Scopus indexed and ABDC-B listed) with ISSN: 2148-2403. Vol. 30(4) (2024)
Published research paper titled ‘Key variables influencing AI implementation in SCM: An empirical analysis on SMEs’ in journal Migration Letters (Scopus indexed Q2 and ABDC listed with ISSN: 1741-8984 and 1741-8992, vol.20, No. S11 (2023)
Published research paper titled‘Evaluating the impact of E-service quality attributes on customer satisfaction and purchase intentions for electronic gadgets and home appliances, India’ injournal of Eco humanism, Vol. 3, Number 8, Nov-2024(Scopus indexed with ISSN: 2752 – 6798), DOI: https://doi.org/10.62754/joe.v3i8.4910
Presented research paper titled ‘Localized machine translation: Utilizing offline data for efficient cross-language communication’’ for presentation at the International Conference on Business Intelligence and data Analytics (BIDA2024) organized by Soft Computing Research Society and for further publication in Springer Book Series (Scopus indexed). (17.02.2024)
Published research paper titled ‘Exploring Factors Influencing YouTube Earnings: A Comprehensive Study’ in International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research, 14, Issue 1(1), Jan-2025, with an IF of 9.014 (UGC Listed)
Published research paper titled ‘A study on factors influencing workplace happiness and its relationship with job satisfaction, employee retention and workplace performance’ in Scopus indexed and ABDC listed journal – Journal of Informatics Education and Research (ISSN: 1526-4726)
Presented research paper titled ‘Analysing Twitter and YouTube posts for identifying influencers of Apple products in the Bangalore region: A comprehensive study with sentiment analysis’’ at the International Conference on Business Intelligence and data Analytics (BIDA2024) organized by Soft Computing Research Society and published in Scopus indexedSpringer book series titled Smart Innovations, systems and Technologies, Vol. 413, ISSN: 2190-3018. (2025) ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7717-4_32
Presented research paper titled ‘Exploring the Impact of security, confidentiality and associated factors on M-Banking Adoption in India: A Machine Learning perspective’ at the Silver Jubilee International Conference (SJIC2024) organized by Kristu Jayanti Autonomous College and published in Scopus indexed book series titled Harnessing AI, MachineLearning, and IoTfor Intelligent BusinessVolume 1(ISSN 2198-4182 and ISBN: 978-3-031-67889-9)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67890-5_42
Presented research paper titled ‘Assessing Machine Learning algorithms performance in predicting stock market trends using varied input combinations’ for presentation at the 8^th International Conference on Embracing Digital Transformation in Business for Sustainable Growth (EBTBSG2024) organized by Kristu Jayanti Autonomous College and the same was published in Springer Book titled “Anticipating future business trends: NavigatingArtificial Intelligence Innovations” volume 2,indexed in Scopus. (ISBN: 978-3-031-63401-7; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63402-4_29
Presented research paper titled ‘Predicting Exchange rate between USD and INR using SARIMA model’ at an International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence at IISc, Bangalore during 18-20 Dec, 2023 and published in International journal of research in Finance and Management [2024, Vol.7, Issue 1, with ISSN: 26175762(E) and 26175754(P)], DOI: https://doi.org/10.33545/26175754.2024.v7.i1a.283
Presented a case titled ‘Evlogia Eco Care: Start-up to scale-up’ at 4th International Case Study Conference (ICSC) 2023 during Dec-2023 at IBS, Hyderabad and published by EmeraldEmerging Markets Case Studies, 14(4), 2024 (Indexed inScopus)
Submitted the research paper titled ‘Key determinants of stress, anxiety and depression among senior citizens during pandemic outbreak’ for publication in Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in mental health journal (Oct-2021)
Presented a paper titled ‘Impact of Digitalization of healthcare services during pandemic: A study with special reference to online Yoga’ at the International Conference organized by MSRIT (2022)
Presented a research paper titled ‘The lockdown and its aftermath on street vendors: A review” in the International Conference on Global perspectives on business, economy and society – for sustainability in the new normal” organized by ISBR Business School, Bangalore during 5-6 August, 2021.
Published a book review on the book titled ‘Emotional Intelligence – AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP’ by HBS Publishing in RVIM Journal of Management and Research – a peer reviewed journal, vol. 12, Issue 01, Jan-June 2020 (ISBN: 0974-6722)
Published a book review on the book titled ‘Design Thinking for educators’ by D M Arvind Mallik in RVIM Journal of Management and Research - a peer reviewed journal of RVIM, vol. 11, Issue 02 July-Dec, 2019 (ISSN: 0974-6722)
Presented a research paper titled “Enriching Customer Experience Journey – The key to better productivity and profitability” at the International Conference organized by SSMRV College, Bangalore (24-25 January, 2019). The same was published in IJHRMR (International Journal of Human Resources Management and Research) (ISSN:22497986), Vol. 9, Special Issue, June-2019, P145-152
Presented a research paper titled “Outcome Based Education: A promising tool to enhance productivity: A case of R V Institute of Management” at the International Conference organized by SSMRV College, Bangalore (24-25 January, 2019). The same was published in IJHRMR (International Journal of Human Resources Management and Research) (ISSN:22497986), Vol. 9, Special Issue, June-2019, P1-7
Presented a case titled “Venture Fest – an innovative pedagogical initiative to develop managerial competencies” during IMC-2018 (Indian Management Conclave) at IIM, Bangalore on 03-04 July, 2018. The same got published in the peer reviewed International journal ‘Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship’ of XIME, Bangalore (Vol 13, Issue 1, Jan-Mar 2019; ISSN: 2229 – 5348)
Published book review on the bookon‘Entrepreneurship and Impact’ by Desh Deshpande in RVIM Journal of Management and Research - a peer reviewed journal of RVIM, vol. 11, Issue 01 (ISSN: 0974-6722)
Presented an article titled ‘Skilling Millennials to remain entrepreneurial through new age education’in the NATCON-2019 souvenir and later published in the PERSONNEL TODAY, a peer reviewed journal of NIPM (National Institute of Personnel Management) in their July-Dec 2019 edition Vol. XXXX No. 02 (ISBN: 0970-8405)
Presented research paper titled “Benchmarking at macro level – a comparative study on fruit processing industry between India and Brazil” at 11^th International conference on Business and management at Jaipur organized by Research Development Association in collaboration with Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The same was published in peer reviewed bi-annual journal ‘Indian Journal of Management’ (ISSN No.22773304), Vol 2, number 1, October 2012 – March 2013 edition
Presented research paper titled “Pooch at work”: A novel stress buster for employees working in stressful environment”, at HR conclave 2012 organized by Rani Channamma University, Belgaum. The same was published by peer reviewed international Journal ‘journal of Advances in Business Management’ (ISSN: 2395-7328), Vol 2, Issue 1; Jan’-Mar’16 edition
Presented a case titled ‘N.Food Products: Challenges of Entrepreneurship and Family Owned Businesses’in ‘case chase – 2012’ competition at the academic conference organized by the SEE (Society of Entrepreneurship Educators) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. The case was shortlisted under the best case category of the competition and honored with Rs.10000.00 cash prize. It was further published by FBR (FIIB Business Review), a peer reviewed journal (Scopus indexed) in their March-2015 issue (ISSN: 2319-7145)
Published a Research paper titled“Indian fruit processing industry: Import and Export Analysis”in the peer reviewed management journal ‘DHARANA’ (Bhavan’s International Journal of Business) of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore (ISSN: 0974-0082); Vol 6, issue 2 (July-December 2012)
Presented a Research paper titled ‘Collaborative mentoring models in higher educational institutions: A win-win-win strategy for mentor, mentee and the institution’ at the national seminar on ‘Professional Education – road ahead’ by Rani Channamma University, Belgaum on 18.05.2012. The same was published by the peer reviewed international Journal ‘journal of Advances in Business Management’ (ISSN: 2395-7328); Vol. 01, Issue 3; July-Sept. 2015 edition
Presented a research paper titled “Challenges facing mango cultivators of India and the feasible solutions”in an international conference ICCOMIM-2012 organized by M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The paper was published by the international peer reviewed journal ‘International Journal of Management and Development Studies’ (ISSN: 2321-1423) Vol. 04, Issue 3 (2015)
Published research paper titled“Critical analysis of exports: Mango and processed mango products by Indian mango processing industry”in “TATVA”, a refereed biannual management journal (ISSN No. 0973-0974, Vol. IX, (2), July-December, 2012)
Published a book review on the book titled “18 minutes: Find your focus, master distraction, and get the right things done” by Peter Bregman in “TATVA”, a referred biannual management journal (ISSN No. 0973-0974, Vol. IX, (2), July-December, 2012)
Published an article titled “Effects of Modern Technology in the present world” in “TATVA”, a refereed biannual management journal (ISSN No. 0973-0974, Vol. IX, (2), July- December, 2012)
Presented a research paper titled “Co-operative movement: The only way to turnaround Indian fruit processing industry” in an international conference on Global Business – opportunities and challenges organized by PESIT, Bangalore in association with ISC (International Society for Competitiveness) and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA at PESIT campus, Bangalore. The same was published by the international peer reviewed ’Intercontinental journal of marketing research review’, vol 4, issue 01, January-2016 (ISSN: 2347-1670)
Presented full length research paper titled “Challenges facing mango processors of India and the feasible solutions” in 12^th international conference on ‘Global Contemporary Issues, Innovations and Future Challenges in Businesses” organized by Research Development Association and Research Development Research Foundation, Jaipur in collaboration with Rajasthan chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jaipur in Jaipur. The same was adjudged as the best paper and awarded “Best Paper Award” and was published in the peer reviewed journal ‘Indian Journal of Management’,(ISSN No. 2277-3304) Vol.2 No.2 (April– September 2013 Issue)
Presented research paper titled “Comparative study between the functioning of NHB (National Horticulture Board) of India and EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agency for Agriculture Research and Animal Husbandry) of Brazil, the nodal apex bodies controlling horticulture industry” in SMART – 2013 (Strategic Marketing Research and technology) conference organized by VESIMSR, Mumbai. The same was published in the refereed journal JDR (Journal of Development Research) Issue 1, vol 5, March-September 2013 edition (ISSN No. 2229-7561)
Presented research paper titled ‘Mango Cultivation Industry of India: Problems and Prospects” in the ICMIS (International Conference on Management and Information Systems) organized by INFOMS (International Forum of Management Scholars) and AIMS-International at Bangkok during 22-24 September, 2013. The same was published in the peer reviewed international journal ‘ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Retail Management’ in their October 2013 edition (ISSN: 0976-7193)
Presented research paper titled‘Mango Processing Industry of India: Problems and prospects’in ICTBM-2013 (International Conference on Technology and Business Management – 2013) organized by American University in the Emirates, at their Dubai, UAE campus in association with INFOMS (International Forum of Management Scholars) and AIMS-International. The same was published in international peer reviewed journal ‘Intercontinental Journal of Marketing Research Review’, Vol.3, Issue 2, April-June, 2015 (ISSN: 2347-1670)
Presented research paper titled ‘A study on the placement of MBAs in the management Institutions located in the tier 2 cities of Karnataka and its implications’ at the International Conference (IC-GBMTI) at International Centre, Panjim, Goa. The same is published in the peer reviewed international journal of Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore; ‘Chavara - International Journal of Business Research’, vol.1, Issue 1 (2015)
Published a book review on the book titled“Start it up: why running your own business is easier than you think”,by Luke Johnson in “TATVA”, a refereed management journal (ISSN No. 0973-0974, vol X, 2013)
Published research paper titled“A study on competitive marketing environment of milk and milk products in Belgaum city” in the peer reviewed international Journal ‘journal of Advances in Business Management’ (ISSN: 2395-7328); Vol. 02, Issue 04; Oct-Dec. 2016 edition

Books published/Edited:

“Current status of Indian Fruit Processing Industry vis-à-vis Brazil: a case study of mango” published by Himalaya Publishing House Private Limited, Mumbai. ISBN No.978-93-5142-464-2
“Responsive Management Education” published by Excellent Publishing House, New Delhi, ISBN No. 978-93-83083-91-6
“Digital Literacy for Beginners’ published by RVIM Publications, Bangalore, ISBN: 978-81-929834-6-2 (2024)
Conference Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Research Designs Vol. 2 (MRD 2.0) – ISBN: 979-8332155277 by Eudoxia International University

Research and Consultancy assignments and Projects undertaken:

We were awarded a Research Project titled ‘Effectiveness of FINTECH Apps in Financial Literacy and Responsible Finance among lower income individuals’ by AIMS with a grant-in-aid of 1.0 Lakh (April-2025)
We were awarded ICSSR sponsored major research project worth 12.00 Lakhs on ‘Women farmer’s decision empowerment in the adoption of climate smart agricultural practices in India’. I am one of the co-PI.
Completed the research assignment on ‘Consensus Survey of all the Schools (Private, CBSE and ICSE) of Bangalore District on transportation facilities needs and requirements for students and staff ‘for Ashok Leyland Ltd (2023) worth 0 Lakhs
Completed Capacity Building Program (drawn over one and half years involving around 6.0 Lakhs) for the KGBV (Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya – Govt. schools for rural girl child dropouts in the backward districts of India) Teachers sponsored by Aditya Birla Fashion Retail Ltd as part of their CSR initiative to convert four such schools from Krishnagiri District into Model Schools. (October-2022 till February -2024)
Awarded the Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan Project titled ‘Telehealth interventions to deliver cost effective healthcare solutions in rural Bengaluru region combating coronavirus care and prevention’ worth 0.5 Lakhs (15.04.2021). I am associated with this project as co-PI.
Awarded the DST sponsored research project‘Intervention of Yoga and Meditation on mental health of senior citizens during pandemic outbreak – A pilot study’ worth 1.65 Lakhs. I am associated with this project as co-Project Director.
Awarded ICSSR funded research project titled ‘Fostering health safety measures among vulnerable group during pandemic outbreak: A study with special reference to street vendors in Bengaluru’ worth 4.8 Lakhs (Januray-2021). I am associated with this project as Project Director.
Completed the consultancy assignment on preparing a DPR for RV Training Academy, Banaglore (13.06.2020)
Completed the research assignment titled ‘Sample survey of pre-schools in Bangalore district’ for Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust, Bangalore (Jan-Mar, 2020)
Completed the research assignment on ‘Consensus Survey of all the Schools (Private, CBSE and ICSE) of Bangalore District on transportation facilities needs and requirements for students and staff ‘for Ashok Leyland Ltd (2019) – 0 lakhs
Heading a CSR Project of Aditya Birla Fashion Retail Ltd called ‘Gyanarjana’ – Providing free specialized coaching to the needy, underserved and meritorious students of X, XI and XII from Science stream worth 00 Lakhs (2019-20; 2020-21; 2021-22; 2022-23; 2023-24; and ongoing)
Completed Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan project worth 0.5 Lakhs to create awareness about rural problems / issues amongst students; to develop Gram Panchayat Development Plan and to do need assessment in the six villages surrounding Bangalore Urban district. (March-2019). We adopted these six villages and have been doing series of interventions.
Providing Academic consultancy services as part of Academic Audit to Kalpataru Group of Institutions, Tipatur, Karnataka (January 2019) – 5 Lakhs
Completed the consultancy assignment on preparing ‘Vision 2013-2017: A perspective plan for Belgaum district’ assigned to us by The Joint Director, DIC (District Industries Centre), Belagavi – 0 Lakhs
Completed the consultancy assignment on ‘Preparing a strategic marketing plan to penetrate in to adjacent districts of Karnataka, i.e. Hubli-Dharwad, Belgaum, etc. and Goa’ after conducting thorough market research’ for Gokul Dairy, Kolhapur Milk Producers co-operative Union Ltd., Kolhapur. This assignment will be further extended to other markets and also to help them in implementing the same – 25 Lakhs
Completed research assignment titled ‘Analysis of unsold residential inventory (new) in Belagavi city as on August-2016’ for CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India), Belagavi chapter - 75 Lakhs
Completed the consultancy assignment on preparing a research backed detailed project feasibility report on establishing a three-star hotel in Karad for M/s. Aditya Engineers, Wind Project Developers, Karad, Maharashtra – 90 Lakhs
Completed the consultancy assignment on preparing a DPR (Detailed Project Report) for establishing “Common Engineering Facilities Centre” involving outlay of around 15.78 Crores for Belgaum Foundry Cluster, Belgaum. – 1.5 Lakhs

International Conference - TISS

MDP on Family Business - IIMA

Talk at the BMA- 65th Anniversary Awards - 2022

Welcoming Dr. (h.c.) A V S Murthy - Hon Secy of RSST for an event