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Faculty Profiles

Brahm Sharma
National Academic Head & HOD Business Studies, Bangalore
B. E. Regional Engineering College, MBA Western lllinois University, Macomb, USA, He has more than 28 years of corporate and teaching experience. He served in senior positions with several major corporate houses in USA and India. For the past 9 years, Mr. Sharma has been heading WLC College India, Bangalore.

Vijay Sagar
Center Manager, Hyderabad
B.Tech (M Tech) from IIT Madras, PGDBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, he has over 30 years of experience with several MNCs, along with experience in teaching. He now heads the WLC College India campus at Hyderabad.

Parijat Biswas
HOD Management, Kolkata
B.Tech (IIT Madras), PGDM (IIM Calcutta), he has over 12 years of corporate experience in telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services in companies like Idea Cellular Limited, ITW Signode India Ltd. amongst others. He has also served as a Visiting Faculty with various educational institutions prior to joining WLC College India.

Sujata Saha
A Chartered Accountant and a MBA from IISWBM, she has 23 years of experience in the corporate world. Her experience includes freelance marketing for companies like IMRB, Metal Box, Boc, Chandra Chemicals, and several others. She worked as an Audit assistant for 5 years and for 18 years in a senior managerial position in EIH Ltd (The Oberoi Hotels) in their Finance Department. She has been teaching in WLC College India, Kolkata campus from January 2004.

Bhagwan N Karnani
BE IIT New Delhi with a specializing in Project Management and Training, he has served at senior positions with reputed companies like GE, Bajaj, AFCO, Blue Star. He was Vice President Marketing in Man Industries and has been a faculty with WLC College India for the past three years.

K. K. Dua
PGDBM from IMDR Pune with a Masters from Punjab University Chandigarh, he has worked for 20 years with the Indian Navy in personnel selection, appraisal and development. He is a trained psychologist in personality assessment techniques from the Defence Institute of Psychological Research, New Delhi. He has worked as HRD consultant with the Industry.

Girish Ahuja
B.Com (Hons), M.Com (Finance), PGDIM from Delhi University, he is a faculty with WLC, Delhi having had over six years of teaching experience. His core areas are Management Accounting, Financial Accounting and Financial Management & Cost Accounting.

Pooshan Upadhyay
M.A. (Eng. Lit.), MBA (Marketing), M.A. ( Journalism & Mass Communication), Pursuing Ph.D (Marketing & Strategic Management), With an industry experience of over 15 years, he has served in senior managerial positions in central government and private sector organisations in hospitality, media and real estate. Currently into academics, pharmaceutical manufacturing, marketing and social service, he is also associated with WLC College India as a Part Time Faculty.

Preeti Mayee
HOD Management, Pune
Master in Personnel Management and Diploma in HRD, with 10 years experience in teaching, she has been involved in conducting Corporate Training Programmes. She has also conducted various ‘soft skills’ Training Programmes for industries.

Sarath Garimella
HOD Management, Hyderabad
MBA, currently pursuing his PhD in Service Marketing, he has over 5 years of experience in teaching, consulting and marketing and has given guidance and conducted many research projects in various fields of marketing for both existing and start-up companies. He is a permanent faculty in WLC College India and teaches Integrated Management, Organizational Management and Management Information systems and Business Analysis.

Raja Gopal Sudarshan Chari
Center Head, Chennai
Chartered Accountant, Indian Institute of Chartered Accounts, Institute of International Accountants (U.K), and International Institute of Internal Auditors (USA). He has 30 years of industry and academic experience, and has held senior positions with organizations in India and abroad.

Dr. Parkavi M.
Ph.D. in Human Resource Management, M.Phil, MBA, She has 6 years of Academic and Industry experience. She has written & published articles in several HR journals. She teaches various Management subjects like Human Resource Management, Organization Development, Marketing Management and others.

C. Vijaya
A gold medallist and University ranker, M.B.A. in Finance (gold medal) from the Institute for Technology & Management, Chennai, She completed her computer studies from BITS and in Basic Securities market from National Stock Exchange. She has over 4 years experience in the middle management level in Banking and Financial service sectors like HDFC Bank, Unifi Wealth Management. She has published articles on Finance and Advertising in magazines her and case studies on management topics uploaded in the European Case Clearing House website for an international audience

T R Subramanian
B A Honours, M A, LLB, He has completed his school level education from Stockholm (Sweden) New York (USA) & Peking (China). After his LLB he was selected as a Management Trainee by Brooke Bond India (now a part of HLL India/Unilever World wide). He then specialized in Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations (JWT International, Inter Publicity Group) and became the Managing Director of MC&A; (Marketing Consultants and Agencies).

G N S Krishnan
BA, FICWA, teaching Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Advanced Financial Accounting, Project Planning, Appraisal and control since 1989. He now serves with WLC College India as a faculty since July 2003, teaching finance related subjects

Dr. Namita Sharma
PhD in Marketing Management, MBA and Engineering, After completing her doctorate in Marketing Management she has 4 years experience working as General Manager Exports. She has also been into academics, teaching management subjects such as Marketing, Business Statistics, Operation Management, and CRM. She has extensively worked on a research thesis, mapping lifestyle variable with design variables for consumer durable products. She is a highly motivated self-starter, balances education and practical background in her workshops and sessions for students to hone their management and soft skills.

Govind Sultaina
B.Com, LLB, AICWA, FCS, Practicing Company Law for the past four years as a Company Secretary, he has a total of 20 years of corporate experience as a Company Secretary and Finance Controller. He has a teaching experience of more than four years in professional Institutes. He specializes in teaching Corporate law, General law, Costing, Income Tax, Finance and Accounts, Economics and others.

Duane Levefre
BSBA with Honors, MBA with High Honors, Boston University, He is a native of Boston, Massachusetts USA. His industry experience includes working with advertising agency as well as with the clients, entrepreneurial start up companies, MNCs, B2B enterprises, and Internet e-commerce and restaurant retailers. He spent the majority of his career working for top US fast food chains and their advertising agencies. He held executive positions and had an ownership stake in two Internet start up firms that were competing with companies such as AOL and Microsoft. prior to moving to India in 2004. He has travelled extensively in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, as well as North and South America.

Prof. K Ramdas
HOD Finance , Bangalore
MBA (Finance), M Phil (Mgt), OCM, PGDFM, PGDIM, B.Sc. (Ag), CAIIB, MIMA. He has 20 years of industry experience in Banking sector and has held senior executive positions in Dena Bank, Cosmos Bank and the National Cooperative Bank Ltd. He has a rich teaching experience and has been a Professor, HOD and visiting professor for MBA courses in leading management institutes in the country.

Dr. Gunjeet kaur

Ph.D, M.Phil, M.com from Delhi University, B. Com (Hons.), She has both corporate as well as academic experience. She has served with organizations like Western International University (Asst. Dean), The Mind Eye, and is a visiting faculty to Fore school of Management.

K.P. Ramakrishnan
MBA, Diploma in Export Mgmt, He has a working experience of 25 years with SBI, Oriental Bank of Commerce & Ministry of Health & Family holding senior positions.

C.B. Lal
Diploma in Business Management, M.B.A., DIM, & Diploma in Advertising & Marketing, With 20 years of experience with multinationals like Pfizer, Warner Hindustan, Richardson, Panki International & Lakhanpal National holding senior positions, Mr. Lal also enjoys his association with academics.

B. A. Anant
MSc. (Mathematics), Certificate courses in Software Technologies, He has over 13 years of corporate experience in organisations like Forbes, Patni Computers, CMC Ltd. He also has 10 years of teaching experience in institutes like NIMS, IIPM, GNIMS.

Dr. Bhanu Ranjan
Ph.D. and Masters in Public Administration, She has been associated with various reputed management institutes as visiting faculty. Her forte lies in Public administration and personality development programmes. Her publications include a book on Effective Communication Skills, and an article on ‘Emotional Quotient an important Factor’

M. K. Rampal
PGDBA, B.Sc. Engineering L.L.B. Certificate Diploma in Project Management, His publication works include ‘Services Marketing’, a book now prescribed as textbook in more than 30 universities, and ‘Cases and Simulations in Marketing Books:-Project Report Writing. His areas of interest include Industrial Marketing, Rural Marketing Management Control Systems, and Retail Marketing Management.

Pavan Mahajan
C.A. B.Com(Hons), he has served with ATM FIBRE COM (P) LTD in the capacity of Director Sales & Marketing. ATM provides high performance, scalable data network technologies to address the complete networking life cycle of a business enterprise. He has also served in a subsidiary of ABS India (P) Ltd. He brings with him an industry experience of over 12 years

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
BE (BESU, Shibpur) PGDM (IIM Bangalore)
Alumni from IIM Bangalore and Mechanical Engineer from BE College, Shibpur, he has more than 20 years of industry experience with leading corporates and multi-nationals

Kamalika Bhattacharyya
MA (English, CU)
Masters of Arts, Winner of the Gautam Ghoshal Award (the highest award for Marketing & Creative work), She was a pioneer newsreader for Doordarshan Kolkata for 21 years. She has worked with Clarion Advertising Agency and was a consultant with Shobhagya Advertising. She teaches Marketing & Advertising course at the Kolkata campus

Ms Madhupa Bakshi
MA (English, CU) Master in Business Communication (California State University). She has been associated with WLCI Kolkata from its inception and her expertise in Communication and Public Relations is required by the Business Studies and Media Schools. Her Corporate connections have always proved invaluable to the students both in terms of traineeship and placements. She has work experience of over 12 years.

Debashis Roy
Batchelor in Engineering, he had a long and an illustrious career spanning 30years as Vice president, Blue Star, Sr. General Manager of Mather and Platt, Consultant –Vivendi Water U.K. Plc. His core areas of interest are TQM, Resource Management, Production and Operations Management.

Dr. Meenu Sareen
M.A., Ph.D (Psychology), she has 10 years of industry experience and is a Human Resource Consultant and trainer for Corporates.

Kaveri Narang
An Alumnus of IIM (C) and presently a director of a software development firm, she has worked with companies like BOC Ltd and now in Academics. Her strengths are Sales and Marketing.

Abhijit Chakraborty
PGDM (IIMC), LL.B Diploma in Labour Welfare and Personal Management. Working as a Consultant for several companies, he is well versed in HR subjects and is an exellent educator.

Pradeep Coomar
MBA, LL.B., Diplomas in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Currently General Manager (HR) of a well known pharmaceutical group, he has been a faculty /trainer for many prestigious Institutes. He is teaching HR subjects

Subhasis Mitra
FCA, ACS, he has over 27 years of work experience and presently is the Company Secretary of CESC Ltd. He teaches Finance subjects in WLC College India,.

Dr Jayasri Chaudhuri
M.Sc. (Maths), NBU), Ph.D. (CU), She retired as Deputy Director General, NIC, Ministry of Information Technology, GoI after serving there for 30 years. She teaches IT courses at WLC College India.

Moheet Gupta
MBA from XLRI and a Cost Accountant, he has worked with companies like ITC, Wipro, NIIT and has his own consultancy firm.

Dr. Manas Das
MA (PM&IR;, TISS Mumbai), Ph.D. (XLRI), he has worked with organizations like WIMCO and NICCO. He has been an HR consultant to several corporates including GE.

A. K. Majumdar
Masters in Industrial Relations & Labor Law, Diploma in Business Mgmt. MIRPM, LLB, he has 26 years of corporate experience and specialises in Human Resource.

R Swaminathan
Bachelors in Psychology, Diploma in Communication and Marketing, Diploma in Printing and Technology, He has worked with leading newspaper like Indian Express, and advertising agencies like Ogilvy & Mather Advertising and Trikaya Advertising Pvt. Ltd.

Raj Wadhwa
C.A., B.Com from Shivaji University, he has around 18 years of experience in Corporate Accounts & Taxation. He is also a practicing Chartered Accountant and Sr. Manager – Corporate Accounts and Taxation for Blue Cross Laboratories. He has been associated with WLC College India, Mumbai, since its inception.

Niranjan Prakash
Management Graduate in Economics, Diploma in International Studies, University of Cambridge, Business English Certificate (BEC) II from University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), He has worked as a producer/editor for the following programmes: Tonight at 10, Political Analysis, India Business Hour Evening News with CNBC.

Rakesh Varanse
PGDBM, he has worked with Trikaya Grey, MAA Bozzel, Bulls Eye Media & Brandeepts at senior positions. He has seven years of experience of working in the advertising industry. Currently he heads a consultancy firm in Branding and Communication

Neil Sequeira
Post Graduate Diploma in Materials Management, MBA (Materials Management), Diploma in International Trade Management, Diploma in Financial Management, Graduate Diploma in Packaging Technology, Diploma in Management Consultancy, Diploma in Logistics and Multimodal Transportation, Masters Diploma in International Business, With thirteen years of cross-industry exposure in fields of materials management, logistics, network implementation, project management, process management, quality systems implementation and technology infrastructure implementation, he is presently working as Asst. General Manager – Projects in BSE, while teaching at WLC College India.

Geeta Chaturvedi
Master of Arts, She is an industrial Psychologist by qualification with an overall HR experience of over 12 years in different capacities from Management Trainee to heading the department at CGI Information Systems. She has been honoured with Six appreciation awards during her tenure of five years in view of her Result Oriented Approach to work combined with excellent interpersonal relationships.

Vinay Prabhu
M.A. in Industrial Psychology, He has over 15 years of teaching experience in Post Graduate & Under Graduate courses. He has presented two papers at national level conference & one paper at state level conference. He is an author of 10 books on Psychology & management.

S. K. Tiwari
M.A. Economics, PGDBA, With 33 years of corporate experience at very senior positions, he has teaching associations with other professional institutions in the capacity of a Guest/Visiting faculty.

Gaurav Ambedkar
Diploma In Marketing(AIMS), Diploma in HRM, he has a teaching experience of over 4 years and industry experience of 10 years includes association with Axis software Pvt Ltd., Superlex Trading Corporation, and Maruti Molecular Plast.

Pralay Kumar Ghosh
M. Sc. (Stat), MDP (General Management) IRMA, Computers Certificate, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, he has attained training in Advanced Management techniques (USA, USDA-Iowa State University, University of Missouri, Columbia, Chicago Board of Trade. He also has a vast experience in industry, working at senior positions.

Vivek V. Raj Sekhar
Associate Member of the Institute of Cost Works Accountants of India (AICWA), PGDBM, he has industrial experience in Hindusthan Antibiotics Ltd., Premier Seals India Ltd. as Advisor-Commercial.

Sandeep Khedkar
Graduate in Chemical Engineering and a postgraduate in Financial Management, his areas of specialization are Strategic Marketing and Operations. He has a rich experience of over eleven years, primarily in the areas of ERP / IT Solution consulting and business development. He has worked as a consultant with leading global companies like Baan Info Systems, (now SSA Global) and Satyam Computer Services Limited, and has handled consulting assignments across a large number of industries.

Dr. B. Ramesh Rao
Post Graduate – Doctorate D’Universite, University of Grenoble, France, B.E. (Electrical), He has industry experience as General Manager (Marketing & Exports) in PMT Machine Tool Automatics Limited. He has also worked in TATA Exports Limited, and has been Advisor to the National Company for Electricity and Gas – SONELGAZ in Algeria, TATA Merlin & Gerin

Atul Bohra
A Company Secretary in A.S. Bohra Associates, he is also associated with The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Allana Institute of Management Sciences (AIMS), The Indian Institute of Management Training (IIMT).

Dr. Meera Kullkarni
MBA & PHD, she has to her credentials 13 years of teaching experience at leading Management Programmes (Under Pune University). She is also a corporate trainer in Pune in various private as well as public sector organisation. She has won second place in Innovations in teaching QIP, Pune University. Her specializations are Marketing and its allied subjects. She has a flair for conduction Self Growth related workshops for students and working professionals.

M.V. Kali Prasad
A fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants on India and practicing in the areas of Accountancy, Taxation, Corporate Laws, Banking and Syndicate of loans, he is a surveyor and Loss Assessor under General Insurance. He has teaching and training experience of over 27 years. He is a regular contributor of articles for Business Line and has also authored many books on accountancy. He has participated and chaired many technical sessions of conferences and seminars, and has addressed officers of several PSUs on matters relating to taxation and other accounting related fields.

Sunder Rao
A Postgraduate in Management with HR as specialization he has experience of over 30 years in various HR activities and also acts as consultant for various companies.

Sanjay Lal
A Science Graduate, MBA and PG Diploma in Marketing Management, he has been on the panel of consultants for many major hospitals in Hyderabad like Mediciti, Hysec Cardiovas (P) Limited, Sneha hospital etc for handling their Human Resource development profile. He has contributed articles for the publication of a book called Legal issues in Healthcare at N.I.M.S. He has an extensive corporate experience of 14 years, with Cedilla Labs (P) Limited, Bombay Dyeing and conducting surveys in U.K, France, Holland, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. He has an extremely proficient teaching background of over 6 years

G. Sai Kumar
A Chartered Accountant by profession, he is presently working as an Assistant Director in Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. He has an overall experience of 9 years in corporate sector and teaching.

Rathnam
Author, Industry Professional and faculty, he retired from NMDC Ltd., (A Govt. of India Undertaking) as G.M. (Finance). He is the author of Rathnam’s Costing Adviser, Advanced Accounting, Financial Management and Cost & Management Accounting etc., useful to the students of ICWA, CS, M. Com, and C.A.

D.P. Dash
Bachelor of Arts and Post Graduate in Personnel Management & Social Welfare from XLRI, Jamshedpur, He has 28 years experience, working with leading industrial houses like TATA STEEL, BHEL, BIRLA’S and NRC.

Subramaniam R
ACS from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, ACA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, He has vast experience of 20 years in Audit Department in various Companies. He is the faculty for Finance and Mathematics.

Aga Aravind
Masters in Law, she has been practicing as a Lawyer in Madras High Court for 10 years. She also serves as a Legal Advisor in various companies in Chennai. She is the visiting faculty for Law Subjects at WLC College India.

Vijay Ladha
B.Com graduate from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, he is a Fellow Chartered Accountant. He is also the Director of Fourell Appliances Pvt Ltd. and has also been the President of Rotary Club of Bangalore.

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