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The Faculty

The Faculty Amit Jamsandekar is a practising Advocate in the Bombay High Court, and is also a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He holds a Masters degree in Entertainment Law from Cardiff University. At Cardiff, he specialised in Intellectual Property Laws and since then he has practised primarily in that field. He lectures extensively on Intellectual Property and allied topics; and he has published a substantial body of work on the subject.
The Faculty Anamaria Wills is the Chief Executive of the Creative Industries Development Agency (CIDA) which she co-founded with Lee Corner in 2000. CIDA aims to provide artists and creative entrepreneurs with professional development and business support, helping them to maximise their potential for earning from their creativity. She is a member of the UK Government's Task Group for Skills and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries.
The Faculty Andrew Senior is the Head of the Creative Industries Unit at the British Council, and he was the Acting Head Arts and Creative Industries at the British Council in India during 2006. In this role he is managing the arts programme across the country and developing the new Creative Future project. The creative economy work of the British Council regularly takes Andrew to many of the 110 countries within the British Council's network.
The Faculty A fashion and interior designer and an experienced entrepreneur, Anjalee Wakankar has worked in Cambodia with rural artisans, weavers and silversmiths, assisting them in design and business. She later worked out of Singapore, gaining insights into arts of Indo-China, Thailand and Malaysia. She believes design is the key in innovating alternatives that are universal yet rooted in the local.
The Faculty Anmol Vellani joined India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), an independent philanthropic organization, as Executive Director in 1995. From 1986 to 1995 he served as Program Officer in the New Delhi Office of The Ford Foundation with responsibility for grant programmes in the performing arts, folklore and classical learning.
The Faculty Chippy Gangee is a Human Resources Consultant, imparting training in Communication Skills including Non-verbal communication, Personality Enhancement Skills, Leadership & Motivation, Social Behaviour and Lateral Thinking. Chippy promotes, advises and deals in Art and has organised successful shows and Camps including with the top contemporary artists of Bangalore.
The Faculty J Ramachandran is BOC Chair Professor of Business Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. A qualified Chartered and Cost Accountant, Professor Ramachandran obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His major research interests are in the areas of corporate transformation and competitive strategy.
The Faculty Dr J M Sampath is the Managing Director of Arpitha Associates Pvt Ltd - a Centre for Excellence with offices in Malaysia, Singapore and India. Arpitha Associates is today acknowledged by a top line roster of Fortune 500 clients for its understanding and professionalism in developing the abilities of employees to increase productivity and the value of individual contributions to the organization.
The Faculty Dr Kalpana Sampath is the Director of Arpitha Associates Pvt Ltd. Kalpana is a human resource professional and development artist, active for the last 10 years helping individuals and organizations focus on their vision and clarify their values. Currently she is a member of Arpitha, a group committed to spreading the concept of Values Clarification. She leads the education and organizational research wing at Arpitha Associates.
The Faculty Kate Jones is half of the partnership known as Gillies Jones Glass, a partnership between herself and glass maker Stephen Gillies, established in 1995 in rural North Yorkshire. The business designs and makes design led blown glass, small batch production pieces and large one off unique works. Kate Jones specialises surface pattern using sand carved surface techniques with glass, and she the practical day to day running of the business.


The Faculty Lee Corner is an independent consultant specialising in organisational development and human resource management. She has worked in the creative and cultural sectors for more than 25 years, and has devised specialist programmes of training and professional development which she now runs for individuals, groups and organisations across the UK.
The Faculty Professor Mithileshwar Jha is Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Professor Jha has worked with leading management institutes in the country, like IIM-Lucknow, Institute of Rural Management, Anand & XLRI in Jamshedpur. While working with IIM-Lucknow, he has held the position of Escotel-CRM Chair and Dean Academic. He has also worked with a consulting engineering firm, Holtec India in their business development function, before joining academics in 1981.
The Faculty P.N Thirunarayana is the Director of National Center for Practicing Negotiation Skills, Bangalore and a Visiting Professor at IIM Bangalore. Thiru has a Bachelor's Degree in Science and in Engineering and PGDBA from IIM Ahmedabad. An author of several cases and papers on Marketing Management, Thiru has had articles featured in many prominent Indian and International Management publications.
The Faculty Ramnath Narayanswamy is a Professor in the Economics and Social Sciences Area in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. His areas of interest include Business and Society, Spirituality and Self Development, Entrepreneurship in the Creative Sector and Creativity and Innovation. He has won several teaching awards from successive batches of students in both creativity and innovation.
The Faculty S Gopalakrishnan is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited, a prominent Consulting, IT services and Business Process Management company operating in the global market. He has played a key role at Infosys in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry. Kris is currently the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM) in Kerala
The Faculty S Srikrishna is the Operations Director of Hi Fidelity Solutions Private Limited, which provides financial management services to businesses woven around the development of entrepreneurial endeavours by integrating financial strategy with business strategy. His professional interests include financial strategy, coaching, training, entrepreneurial development, writing in professional journals, and capability building.
The Faculty Shombit Sengupta is the originator of the Emotional Surplus business strategy which is the laddering and balancing of the rational, functional and emotional attributes of any selling proposition. Shining Emotional Surplus Pvt. Ltd. is the world's foremost innovation led business and branding equation for shareholder wealth creation. Shining has set up its India and Asia Pacific headquarters in Bangalore.
The Faculty Srinivas Prakhya is an Asst. Professor in the Marketing area. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, he has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. His research and teaching interests include Individual Choice Behaviour, Econometric Modelling of Consumer Behaviour, Knowledge Creation and Transfer, Leadership, Self-Enquiry and Management.
The Faculty Subroto Bagchi is the co-founder of MindTree Consulting, where he currently works as Chief Operating Officer. MindTree is among India's most admired companies across the industries. Subroto has written extensively in leading newspapers and magazines, and spoken at industry platforms and educational institutions the world over. His Businessworld column Arbor Mentis and Times of India column Times of Mind were widely read and discussed.
The Faculty Vasanthi Srinivasan is an Associate Professor in the area of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management. Her areas of interest are Career and Performance Management, HR Management in the International Context and Team-based Work Systems. Her consulting work has been in the areas of building capability of HR professionals, performance management and leadership development.


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