The faculty at Crescent School of Business have been hand-picked from across the world and within India to interact with and inspire our students. Faculty members bring their unique pedagogical styles to the courses they teach. Through a combination of visiting faculty, periodic guest lectures, seminars and workshops, every course promises to be an outstanding experience for the students. Our faculty members are experts and thought leaders in their respective fields, and will enrich our students keeping in mind the core philosophy of the MBA Programme.
Dr. S.Panboli, a Civil Engineer by graduation and a Management teacher by profession, possesses a strong aptitude for teaching Accounting, Finance, and Human Resource subjects. She is a Doctorate in Management, specialized in HR. She is a UGC-certified management teacher and the author of numerous publications in national and international journals. Attended and organized National and International conferences and organized AICTE sponsored STTPs. Has been teaching for more than 30 years. At present, she is the Programme Coordinator and Associate Professor in Crescent School of Business.
Dr. Vaseehar Hassan is an alumnus of University of Aston (UK), HEC (France), INSEAD (France) and Vrije University (Netherlands). He is one of the pioneers in South East Asia’s executive and development coaching. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Saudi conglomerate, Dallah Al Baraka’s portfolio of businesses in Malaysia. Dato’ Vaseehar also served as Chairman of RHB Islamic Bank Bhd, Chairman of the Board of Unicorn International Islamic Bank Malaysia Berhad and the Chairman of Utama Merchant Bank Berhad.
Mr.Robert Boxwell was the Founder and Managing Director of SAN FRANCISCO COFFEE and COFFEE PARTNERS LTD. He has written many articles and Harvard Cases in the areas Finance and Strategy.
He is an MBA graduate from Harvard Business School and a recipient of Exxon Corporation’s Teagle Foundation Scholarship for academic excellence.
David Heng is the founder of Global Leadership Dynamics Asia, a global leadership solutions company, focused on organization leadership coaching and consulting. David has 20 years of progressively responsible corporate experience in Asia, Europe and North America spanning a variety of organizations, industries and functional areas in both the private and public sectors.
Most recently, he served as Head and Managing Director, Talent Management and Culture Building for CIMB Group operations. He established the CIMB Academy, a corporate academy supporting more than 40,000 employees worldwide. David has a BA degree in Mass Communications and Economics from the National University of Singapore and a MS in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University, USA.
Doctor of Business Administration, CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management
Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management Systems
Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Awards received by Prof. Antony Paulraj
Second International Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance, and Social Sciences, Chennai, India, July 2014.
IABE (International Academy of Business Economics) 2013 Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2013.
Decision Sciences Journal, November 2012
For the article published in JOM between 2007 and 2011.
21st Annual National American Research Symposium on Purchasing and Supply Management, Institute for Supply Management.
Transportation and Logistics Flagship Program, University of North Florida,
Rev. Dr. Fr. Casimir Raj S.J. specialized in Business Administration from St.Louis University, St. Louis, U.S.A. He has made significant contributions as founder of Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) developed the institution from 53rd position to 9th at the national level during his leadership. The institution extends its resources to all aspiring business administrators at various levels. After the valuable contribution to LIBA, Dr. Fr. Casimir Raj S.J. extended his service to Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI) as Director where his untiring, creative and skillful leadership elevated the standard of the institution to 6th position at national level.
Fr. Casimir Raj has been associated with education and teaching marketing for the past three decades in various institutions including XLRI Jamshedpur; St. Louis University, Missouri; Wheeling Jesuit College, Wheeling and XIM Bhubaneshwar. He was the founder Director of LIBA and Principal of Loyola College, Chennai. He was also Director, XIM Bhubaneshwar, Goa Institute of Management. A member of the American Marketing Association and a Ph.D. from St. Louis University, (in Missouri, USA), Fr. Casimir is widely regarded to be an authority in marketing with numerous publications to his credit.
Dr. Sadakkadulla is a central banker with over 35 years of experience at the Reserve Bank of India. Most recently, he was the Regional Director of the Chennai Region, overseeing the states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. Dr. Sadakadulla has been an active academic and taught across various institutions. He was the Principal of the Reserve Bank Staff College between 2010 and 2013 and has been serving on the academic councils of various institutions including the Loyola Institute for Business Administration. He has participated in several national and international conferences and was awarded the RBI’s Golden Jubilee Full Scholarship for Overseas Study to pursue a masters programme in Finance at the Arthur D. Little School of Management in Boston, where he graduated as Dean’s Fellow. He has been published multiple times in various journals, guides and books.
An energetic and ambitious person with 25 years of work experience in Management and a Ph.D holder in H R & Law.
A highly organised, dedicated Teacher with proficiency in Entrepreneurship, Business Laws, Corporate Laws, Labour Laws and Employees Legislation.
Excellent track record as a Resource Person for 10 years in teaching Management subjects in leading Business Schools. Extensive background in Industry, Corporate and Legal
Post Graduate Diploma In Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management. Ahmedabad.
Retired as VP (HR) from Payoda Technologies, Coimbatore.
More than four decades of experience in HR.
Balaji Consults, Trains and Teaches B2B Sales & Digital Marketing
As a Visiting Faculty, Balaji has taught various subjects in Marketing at TAPMI, NIT Calicut, Great Lakes, LIBA, GIM, CEG Guindy and has done guest lectures across multiple leading B-Schools in the country
Balaji comes in with around 20 years of sales experience in the IT Industry. As VP of Sales for over a decade, he has run large inside sales teams for over a decade and specializes in selling software to the Global Market on the phone. He also has selling experience in US and UAE for close to 2 years.
Balaji founded a Sales Process Consulting and Digital Marketing Consulting firm (www.scovelo.com) in June 2013, and works with IT Services and Products Companies. He streamlines their Sales and Digital process, trains the teams and helps them achieve a Consistent Sales Engine.
He runs www.firstfewcustomers.com, a startup sales demystification portal. He interviews successful founders and publishes their Sales and Digital Marketing secrets on how they got their First Few Customers when they were startups. This has more than 160 interviews. He does this as a contribution to the startup ecosystem from a sales perspective.
He is a regular speaker across the e-cells/e-summits of IITs and IIMs. He has done more than 100 workshops across Nasscom, TiE, NEN and leading accelerators across the country.
T. Pattabiraman, worked as Vice-President in M.M.Exports, a Govt. of India recognised Export House with $100 Million turnover in exports of Projects, Institutions Supplies, Equipment / Materials, Commodities and is the Senior Consultant of many other group companies.
He had a luminary career in Ashok Leyland, India, a leading Commercial Vehicle manufacturer and exporter and held position finally as General Manger-Exports. He also had a stint in Binnys and in State Trading Corporation of India (A Govt. of India Enterprise) for 12 years prior to joining Ashok Leyland.
He has an experience in International Business spanning over 40 years in both Public and Private sectors in India.
He has visited more than 150 countries, multiple entries, on work and business for initiating Joint Ventures and Tie-Ups with various companies and also on Consultancy.
He is the Member of Apex Committees of CII / FIEO / ASSOCHEM / EEPC / FICCI / MMA and other such Export Promotional Bodies in India. He teaches regularly in all these fora and conducts development programmes in Foreign Trade. He also takes part in Industry-Institutional interactions. He is the Advisor to the International Desk in CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) and CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial research) Education Programmes under the Govt. of India. He is a regular Faculty in FIEO.
He has been also a faculty in many institutions like IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade-Min. of Commerce) / IIMM (Indian Institute of Material management) and in Universities delivering Guest Lectures in Foreign Trade. He is also the member of the Selection Panel of IIFT and University Groups. He is the Member – Board of Studies for many Deemed Universities. He is a Mentor in HCL Tech. & HP, leading I.T. MNCs for their Foreign Trade Education and BPO Operations in USA.
He has been keenly associated with the Govt. of India Task-Forces nominated from the Trade & Industry.
He holds a master’s Degree in Engineering, Management and from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He is a Chartered Engineer being a Member of the Institution of Engineers (India) and a Member of the Commonwealth Engineer’s Council.
• Worked as General Manager, Brakes India Ltd ( 30 + years’ experience)
• Working as Consultant in a leading engineering industry, Chennai
• Associate Director, Benchmark
• Advisor, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Chennai
Expert coach in Six Sigma Training – Green Belt / Black Belt Certification, Project Management – PMP certification training , Lean Practices, Business Statistics, Operations Research, Operations Management, Inventory Management etc
• Visiting faculty at LIBA for Quantitative technique, MS (Management science), Six sigma,
Project management, Operations Management
• Visiting faculty for Quantitative Methods and Operations Management for MBA students at IBS
(ICFAI Business School)- Chennai
• Visiting faculty, IFMR, Chennai for operations management
• Visiting faculty, Great Lake Institute for QT & OR
• Visiting Faculty, Sona Institute of Management, Salem
• Visiting faculty at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Chennai for the past 20 years, have
been handling OR related topics in Cost management and Statistics
• Lead faculty for MSME (Govt of India) Public program for Project Management and Six sigma
• Conducted Six Sigma Awareness Program to German Industries. Chennai
• Conducted Project management Program at Tangasa college Nairobi &Catholic university Ghana for
2 years
• Conducted Faculty Development Program for ANNA UNIVERSITY Coimbatore
• Conducted Training programs for Green Belt Certification & Black belt for Corporates like Hp,
Otis elevator etc
• Conducted Quality improvement program for Renault Nissan Tier 2 suppliers
Psychologist by qualification. He has taught at Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, ICFAI Business School and IMT Nagpur. Currently an adjunct faculty at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore
Sandhya Rao has been working in the media for many years, as a print journalist, books editor and children’s books writer. She is one of India’s best children’s book authors and has written about 25 books for children in English, many of which have been translated into other Indian languages. In 2006, she was one of only two children’s authors from India to be invited to the Frankfurt Bookfair. Several of her books have received international acclaim across various forums including the Berlin Literary Festival and the US Board on Books for Young People.
Sandhya has worked in editorial capacities at Indian Express, India Today, Frontline magazine, Tata McGraw-Hill, Tulika Print Communications, and Tulika Publishers. Since 1979, she’s been contributing articles and features to magazines and newspapers, and writes a fortnightly column called ‘Pictures & Words’ for BusinessLine’s online paper for management students, BL on Campus. Currently, she is an editorial consultant with the Hindu BusinessLine in Chennai.
Sandhya has a master’s in English Literature from Madras University (Madras Christian College).
Psychologist by qualification. He has been a professor in XLRI Jamshedpur for decades. He is a visiting faculty at Great Lakes institute of Management.
24 Years of Experience in IT Industry. 3 Years of Experience in Teaching
Area: IT & Project Management
Also teaches at : SP Jain School of Global Management – Sydney/Singapore/Dubai
Empanelled as Faculty with BSE Institute, NSE Academy, Times Pro – Chennai.
Formerly Regional Head and South (Assistant Vice – President – Marketing & Business Development at Chennai.
HSBC Bank – Associate Vice President.
Visiting faculty at LIBA, Chennai
Currently CEO of Edu Central.in
Visiting faculty at LIBA & PSG Institute of Management
Area: Service operations management
Enterprise: SRM & Spend Management software, Minitab v-17 statistical software, MES, ERP systems (SAP, Oracle and IFS), Salesforce.com (CRM) and Microsoft Office suite.
Visiting faculty on Supply Chain Management at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai (Top 10 Management Schools in India).
Associate Instructor – APICS USA for Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) program. An avid Golfer with a high handicap.
Area: Operations & Supply Chain Management
Over 8+ years of working experience as a Python and R Software – Data Modeler and Data Analyst with high proficiency in Machine Learning, Business Analytics.
HR / Educational Consultant, National Head (HR), ETA Ascon Star Group, Chennai (2004 – 2008)
Management & HR Consultant
Principal Consultant & Founder of MaPS Retail Resources (Established in 2004)
Visiting faculty with Madras School of Economics, KREA University and India Maritime University.
21+ years of Academic experience
Professor at VITBS, VIT,
Symbiosis Institute of Management, a constituent of Symbiosis University, Pune
Srategist
Thought Leader
Intrapreneur
Innovator
Associate Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur Since February 2016
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad (Jan. 2012 – Feb. 2016)
Assistant Professor, SKIPS School of Business, Ahmedabad (March 2009 – January 2012)
Faculty, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad (May 2007 – Feb. 2009)
Principal, SRK Institute of Management & Computer Education, Anjar (Sept. 2006 – April 2007)
Faculty, INC, Gujarat (A Constituent of ICFAI Group) (Jan. 2005 – Sept. 2006)
Guest Faculty BITS since 2019
SchnkerStinnersLogictices, New York, USA-1997-2014
Over 29 years of experience including 6 years of independent chartered accountancy practice and proven skills in finance planning, annual budgeting, costing, fund management and IPO.
Area: Accounting & Finance
Also teaches at: LIBA, Chennai & BIM, Chennai
GM-Maersk Technology Center and over 16 years of Industry experience
Awarded as one among top 40 Data Scientist under 40 years of ageIn India
Area: Business Analytics
Adjunct Professor – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Great Learning, India
Visiting faculty IIM Bangalore
Corporate Training & Management Consultancy
Area: Economics
Also teaches at: IIT Madras
Expertise in providing consultancy and training services for Database Systems, Big Data and Machine Learning, ITIL processesfor corporate(India & Abroad).
Adjunct Professor in Velammal Institute Of Technology.
Guest Professor in Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Professor & Dean- School of Computing Sciences in Hindustan University
Database consultant in Optima Technologies, Inc.
Mentor, VeiBa Consultancy, Chennai
Regional General Manager ( Advt-RoTN) November 1994 – April 2018 (23 years 6 months), The Hindu, Kasturi & Sons, Ltd
Dr.Svend Hollensen is an Associate Professor of International Marketing at University of Southern Denmark (Sønderborg). He has industry experience as International Marketing Coordinator in a large Danish multinational enterprise and as International Marketing Manager in a company producing agricultural machinery.
After working in industry he received his Ph.D. from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark in 1992.
He has published articles in international journals and is the author of globally published textbooks, e.g. Global Marketing, 5th ed, which was published in July 2010. This book has been translated or adapted into Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and Russian.
Svend Hollensen’s research interests are within Relationship Marketing, Globalisation and Internationalisation of companies.
Svend Hollensen has also worked as a business consultant for several multinational companies, as well as global organisations like the World Bank.
Laxminarayanan G is the Chief Strategy Officer of VegaHR and Global Delivery Head of Polestar Solutions. He is an experienced management consultant with extensive experience in providing AI and analytics consulting to many Fortune500 companies over the last 15 years. He has played leadership roles in various firms including Deloitte and PwC. He is a management graduate from IIM Lucknow with a Post Graduate Diploma in AI/Machine Learning from IIIT Bangalore. He is also a visiting faculty in IIM Kolkata and IIM Lucknow engaged in teaching modern day tools and techniques for students. He is an avid speaker at different industry forums and a regular guide to several MSMEs.
MBA (BIM Trichy)
Former Professor, LIBA. Experienced as an entrepreneur, and an expert academician in the area of Strategy & Entrepreneurship.
