The faculty team at Praxis consists of core full-time faculty as well as visiting faculty from XLRI, Jamshedpur. In addition, there is a significant participation of the industry in the form of guest lectures. The choice of the faculty members includes a blend of industry and academics thus reflecting the philosophy of Praxis.
Srinivas Govindrajan
B.Com (Utkal), PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad)
Marketing
Has worked with the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar from 1989 to 2005 and was Director, IBAT School of Management from 2005 to 2006 before joining Praxis Business School as Dean. He has been closely associated with the placement of XIM and has coordinated with several external agencies, government institutions and other donors and funding agencies during his tenure. His team’s work on innovative methods of revenue collection mechanisms in rural areas has been incorporated in the Electricity Act, 2003 and has been appreciated by leading development banks, including the World Bank. He has worked in the industry for six years and this includes stints at PricewaterhouseCoopers and MAA Bozell. He has been a visiting faculty at XLRI, Jamshedpur since 1995 and is currently an Adjunct Faculty at XLRI in addition to being Dean at Praxis. His teaching interests include brand management and sales & distribution management. His classes create an atmosphere that encourages energetic discussion and debate.
Charanpreet Singh
B.Tech (IIT Kanpur), MBA (University of Iowa)
Information Technology and Strategic Management
Has been a part of the corporate world for 20 years and has a rich experience in industries as varied as Cryogenics, Steel, International Trade, Consulting and IT with organizations such as British Oxygen, Tata Steel, PwC and Compaq-HP. At HP he was Country Manager, Marketing for SMB when he decided to switch to his first passion, academics, and embarked on a mission to set up a Business School of the highest quality in the country. A winner of the Chevening Scholarship for Young Managers awarded by the British Government, he has strong professional interests in the areas of information technology and business communication. He has taught at the Business School at the University of Iowa and has been a visiting faculty at some of the prominent management institutes in the country. He brings with him a good blend of real-world industry experience and academic insight and, while his courses are rooted in academic theory and fundamentals, they never let the student lose sight of the real business value of each concept.
Dr. Prithwis Mukerjee
B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur), M.S., Ph.D. (University of Texas at Dallas)
Head – Research; Information Technology
Has a rich experience of 18 years in the Consulting and Software business. Has worked in Tata Steel, Tata Information Systems Limited, PricewaterhouseCoopers where he became a Partner and subsequently became head of the IBM Global Delivery Centre in Calcutta when the consulting division of PwC was acquired by IBM globally. He has published three papers in refereed international journals as well as a book that interprets Vedanta in terms of genetics and computer programming. His areas of interest are Classical Systems Engineering as well as the emerging paradigms of Web 2.0. He has his own website at http://www.yantrajaal.com and through his avatar Calcutta Cyclone maintains a presence in the virtual world of Second Life, a domain in which he is widely recognized as a thought-leader. He retains his links with his alma mater as a visiting professor at the Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT, Kharagpur.
Anindra Kumar Haldar
B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur), PGDM (IIM Calcutta)
Marketing
Has 19 years of rich experience in industry, civil services and academics. He has worked in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries in international marketing. He served in The Indian Railways as an officer in the Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) managing the safety aspects of an entire division. He has been teaching for the last 11 years and has introduced new programs and set up new institutes. Prior to joining Praxis he was Head, Department of Management Studies, NIT, Durgapur. He is pursuing a PhD in the area of service quality for the postal services of India Post. He has published research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and presented papers at international conferences. He has conducted MDPs and in-company training programs for leading companies. His area of interest is marketing and he delivers courses in marketing management, marketing research, consumer behaviour, business-to-business marketing among others.
Dr. Manaswee Kumar Samal
M.Com, F.C.A., DISA(ICA), Ph.D.(UU)
Finance
Has been a full-time faculty at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar from 2000 to 2003 and is a visiting faculty there now. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. His doctoral research is on Corporate Accounting & Disclosure Practices. He has rendered consulting to Government of Orissa on infrastructure projects and state PSU restructuring, to POSCO-India on port project and to many national and international donor agencies on developmental projects. He has conducted MDPs for middle and senior level executives of leading organisations. At present, he is Director, Centurion School of Rural Enterprise Management (CSREM), Orissa. As a trustee, he is involved in setting up a B-school named ORETUS. He has been training commercial tax officers of CTD, Govt. of Orissa, on VAT Audit skills. He is also involved in designing and executing a training programme under CSR of Vedanta.
Prof. Amit Parakh
B.Com (Hons.), ACA, CS, PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad)
Finance
Has worked extensively in the banking and equity research areas before entering academics. He has been manager with Structured Products Group, ICICI Bank, where he played a key role in carrying out valuation assignments, building credit rating models and structuring transactions. In the credit research space, his sector specialization was infrastructure and FMCG. He has also been an equity research analyst with JP Morgan where he was involved in building valuation models and financial analysis of Indian IT Services companies. He specializes in the financial sector, takes active interest in capital markets and specifically, likes to get involved in valuation assignments. Amit is seeking charter from the CFA Institute, USA, having cleared the CFA program. He conducts workshops on corporate finance, asset valuation and financial analysis.
Malabika Chatterjee
BA (Hons), PGDPM & IR (XLRI Jamshedpur)
OB, HRM & Business Communication
Has over 20 years of rich and varied industry experience in leadership roles in HR in banking, consumer products and software industry in Kolkata. Her last corporate assignment was as the Head HR, Kolkata Operations of Cognizant Technology Solutions. She has been teaching in various MBA institutes and offering consulting and training services to leading corporates. She has presented papers at corporate seminars organized by The Institute of International Research, UK, on Retention Practices in the Telecom Industry and on Measuring Emotional Intelligence at the workplace. She has enjoyed significant success in setting up organizations in the software services domain – developing and operationalizing HR strategies including shared values/culture, behavior, structure, systems, competencies/skills, policies and processes. She enjoys teaching, interacting with and counseling young people.
Ajay Majumdar
B.E(Mech), PGDIE (NITIE Mumbai)
Production and HRM
Has been a part of the corporate world for 30 years working with reputed organizations like Tata Motors, Hindustan Motors, Bata India and ABP Group in various functional areas like general management, human resource management and productivity services. He was the HR Head of ABP Group and has been an independent consultant in the same area providing HR support to various private and public sector undertakings. He has been a visiting faculty at various esteemed B-schools including XLRI, Jamshedpur. His areas of interest include productivity studies, operations management, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, leadership development and team building. He has participated in the turnaround strategy initiatives of and worked as a team member with McKinsey & Co to facilitate change management programs for corporate sectors.
