Visiting Faculty

Pradeep Joshi has done B.E.(Production) and M.M.S (Finance) , both from University of Mumbai. He has qualified in UGC NET with 99.96 percentile. He has over 25 years of experience in Finance and IT industries, in areas of corporate finance, budgeting and cost control, export-import finance, banking, IT project delivery, Quality, PMO, ERP, Application development and maintenance. He has worked with leading IT services companies providing solutions to premier American and European clients. He worked as profit centre head handling revenue of more than 30 million US $ per annum with team size of 500+. He has worked in India, UK and USA. His teaching experience includes teaching over online platforms to international students, coaching students to ace international entrance exams like SAT in USA. He has also worked as visiting and guest faculty in premier management institutes in Mumbai.

AIMSR Faculty

An influencing, enterprising leader and accomplished senior information technology director

Educational Qualification:

• M.S in Information Systems from New York with specialization in Technology Service Operations and Information Risk Management
• Certified Novell Engineer
• Master CNE Internet/lntranet Solutions
• Microsoft Certified System Engineer
• Cisco Certified Network Associate
• Cisco Certified Design Associate
• Cisco Certified Network Professional
• Certified Solaris (UNIX) Administrator
• Check Point Firewall Security Associate
• Check Point Certified Security Expert
• Sun Certified Data Mgmt. Engineer (VERITAS)
• Sun Certified Net Backup Architect
• Sun Certified Storage Architect (SAN)
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
• ITIL 3.0 Certified in Service Delivery
• COBIT 4.1 & VAL -IT & ISO 27001

Main Professional Experience:

• Director Global Technology Infrastructure, Barclays Bank Plc. 2018- 2020
• Vice President – Asiapac Global Technology Infrastructure. First Data Corporation 2017- 2018
• Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase 2010- 2017

Other Assignments:

• Merit of setting up 2 organisations from scratch in Asiapac entailing Management of technology Infrastructure & Service Delivery. Have expertise in managing 14 countries (Asia, Africa & MENA) for Technology Governance, Risk, Audit, Assurance and IT Security at Barclays.
• Designed and architected the in-country Technology Operating Model & technology Risk setup including Data centre, service management, Risk processes and procedures, Audits, Wintel/ Unix platforms, Networks, security, BCP & disaster recovery for Barclays India.
• Facilitated the infrastructure and Technology Operations setup with Application Support End to End of Non-Banking Financial Services (Barclays Finance) encompassing new product launches, Branch rollouts, ATM, payment portal, and wealth management.
• Rated as the Best Manager in JP Morgan Asiapac Technology & Second best manager in JP Morgan Chase Global Technology with the highest Employee Satisfaction scores for 4 years in succession.
• Maintaining the lowest talent attrition in Asiapac for 4 years in succession.
• Recommended and earned VP/Director Promotion thrice in 3 years in JP Morgan Chase for excellence in IT Infrastructure Operations, Agile, Technology Risk, Performance Engineering, Quality Assurance and Project Delivery in Asiapac.
• Headed entire Non-Development Global Technology operations at 3 facilities in Mumbai & Hyderabad with 742 IT Professionals.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce
• Post Graduate diploma in Business Management
• ITIL and Certified Scrum Master Certifications

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Vice President - Technology working in Service Operations, Service Assurance and Production management for Barclays Bank Plc.
• JP Morgan from January 2007 – November 2018

Other Assignments:

Adjunct Professor of Management teaching for the MMS and PGDM program in London School of Economics (LSE), University of Wolverhampton

Mr. Samir V. Charania, M.M.S. (Marketing);B.Com. Prof. Samir V. Charania is an Entrepreneur & an Academician with 16 years of teaching experience, handling various domains in Management & Marketing. He has been taking lectures in his area of specialization in various management institutes across Mumbai. He has also attended several National & International Research conferences & has several Research articles published in National & International Journals.

Certified green belt and has been instrumental in using techniques like 5 S /TPM/Six Sigma

Educational Qualification:

· Degree in Mechanical Engineering

· Materials Management with a gold medal

· Certified green belt and has been instrumental in using a lot of improvement techniques like 5 S /TPM/Six Sigma to achieve quality and productivity improvements

Professional Experience:

Prof. Hemant Jog has over 33 years of industry experience in the areas of Sourcing and Supply Chain, project management and operations. He has a vast experience in automotive sector.

He has experience of executing green field and brown field projects.

He is now a management consultant in the areas of Supply Chain and Operations amd is Partner in ImproveGuru Consultancy and a Director at Dietz Consulting Partners Pvt. Ltd, a German Subsidiary of Dietz – Germany

Other Assignments:

Prof. Hemant has been associated with professional bodies like IIMM, CII, ACMA and has worked as Head of Manufacturing Panel for CII Aurangabad and has been a chair person for hosting many conferences on manufacturing excellence.

He has participated in many panel discussions related to sourcing and Supply chain as well as logistics. He has been a facilitator for various trainings conducted on Continuous improvement, TPM, TQM etc

Educational Qualification:

• Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Management (2019) from Calorx Teachers’ University
• Advanced Programme in Strategic Management (2016) from IIM – Calcutta
• CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER CM (2011) from Financial Planning Standards Board
• PGDBM – Marketing and Finance (2005) MSRIM, Bangalore
• PGDM – Corporate Communication (2005) MSRIM, Bangalore
• M.S. University, Vadodara (2002) BBA

Professional Experience:

Senior Vice President and Principle Officer at 5nance.com.

Regular speaker on Bloomberg Quint and CNBC.

Other Assignments:

Visiting Faculty and Guest Lecturer with reputed B-Schools.

Practical subject command over financial and management avenues.

Associated with Management schools as a member of Board of Studies.

Assisting students in the academic projects.

Educational Qualification:

• B.E (Mechanical)
• PG Diploma in Foreign Trade
• PG Diploma in Marketing Management

Professional Experience:

• Insights Specialist- InQognito Insights Pvt. Ltd. from Sept 2019 – Aug 2020
• Associate Vice President-MarketVistas Consumer Insights Pvt. Ltd. from Dec 2018 – Aug 2019
• Sr. Group Manager-GFK India Pvt. Ltd. from Feb 2012 – Nov 2018
• Sr. Executive (Client Servicing)-Nielsen India Pvt. Ltd. from June 2007 -- Jan. 2012
• Joint Manager- National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. from June 1996 --Jun. 2007

Other Assignments:

• Proficient in primary customized quantitative research across Consumer and B2B categories
• Specialist in Brand strategy / positioning, Business strategy, Equity tracking, Communication evaluation, Product
• Innovation, Segmentation, Customer / stakeholder Satisfaction, Mystery shopping, marketing analytics, etc.
• Client management across multiple categories - FMCG, Telecom, Mobile, Automotive, Financial, Retail, Logistics,
• Consumer Durables, Agri & Rural, Media, Engg & Chemicals, Electrical products, Healthcare, Real Estate, etc.
• Expertise in integrating business metric, data and consumer findings for an insightful presentation
• Ensure timely preparation of quality research reports for effective decision making.
• Training of resources and clients on market research topics
• Team management - Led a team of researcher, scripting team, Data collection team, Data processing team, etc.and drove operational efficiencies