Advisory Board
Our Advisors
Mr. R. S. Hiremath
A Mechanical Engineer, CEO of M/s.Flexitron, engaged in research & innovations. To his credit he has innovated over 600 + products and that are being used by millions of users across the globe and aiming to be seen that the poorest get the best advantage of technology through low priced, reliable high quality products and solutions to improve their lives and empower them for a better life . Won many awards for his work namely, 1995 – National Award for Best innovation, 2000 – National Award for Best innovation, 2005-National Award for Best innovation, 2010-Nina Sibal Award, 2013 – National Award for Best innovation.
Mr. Ananth Ravi
A Chemical Engineer with ME (Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and B.Sc in Chemical Engineering, have over 3 decades experience in leading Corporates, viz., Canbank Financial Services Limited (1986 -1992 – Advisory Services), GE Shipping (1992-1995- General Manager, Finance), HCC (1995-1997 – VP, Finance), RIL (1997- 2010-President, Corporate Finance), GTL Infra (Dec 2010 – July 2011, CEO & Whole time Director) and Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (July 2011 to January 2018). Instrumental in setting up of the 4G telecom project of Reliance Jio Infocomm in the State of Karnataka and was the State Sponsor till January 2018. Spearheaded mega financial closures for a wide array of businesses, ranging from Construction, Infrastructure (Shipping, Power, Ports, and SEZ’s) to Petroleum Refinery, Gas Transportation to Telecom and has expertise in legal aspects of Project Financing. Held positions as the project heads of the three Greenfield projects in the State of Karnataka from its commissioning to completion viz., Reliance Communications Limited a CDMA telecom project, Reliance Petroleum Retail Outlets and Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and also been as the Government liaison for approvals, real estate acquisition, legal, construction, contract management and overall project coordination. In recognition to his contribution, the Government of Karnataka appointed him twice as the Member of “Vision Group of Industries” constituted under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka. Presently holding the key responsibility as Director and Mentor at Kayess Square Consulting Private Limited, a company specialized in raising Debt/equity for start-ups and other corporates.
DR. Sridharan S
Dr. Sridharan.S, M.B.A. Ph.D. M.A.(Econ), PG Dip. Coop. Mgt, PG DIP(Mass Communication), Founder Director & CEO, Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development Foundation, a Trainer in Entrepreneurship Development, is also an excellent trainer on Marketing and Creative Selling Techniques. He has served in Government of India and Government of Karnataka as Senior Executive and served 12 years as Director of Business Schools, under Bangalore University. An UNDP Accredited – as a Motivation-Trainer and International Resource Person on ‘Motivation-Assessment and Business Management/Enterprise Development for UNDP/World Bank, GTI, UNICEF, ITC, Geneva, Projects, Project Director with Govt. of India (Ministry of Industry) and Govt. of Karnataka on SME Development, Cluster Development, UNICEF, World Bank Projects, Resource Person for CSR Projects-Project Consultancy/Management, Educator, Trainer and Research Guide for Ph.D scholars.Visited Italy, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, U.K., Malaysia, on various project assignments.
CA. SACHIN KUMAR BANGRE
A Chartered Accountant with Audit, Taxation, Business Laws and Accounts from ‘The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India’, an Almanite and become a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Hehas completed a specialized Executive Programin ‘Business Analytics and Intelligence’ from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has an experience over a decade in domestic taxation as well as in International Taxation. Represented before the Commissioner of Income Tax and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal with regard to tax matters on many occasions. Presently, he is the Chief Strategic Partner of Manohar Chowdhry & Associates, Chartered Accountants, having branches across the country and heading the Bangalore branch as the Chief Partner in charge of International Taxation and Transfer Pricing. He, with his rich experience in advising, visited many leading Indian Corporates and MNCs on various domestic and International tax matters for the benefit of the corporates and employees.He a member of ‘Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce’
Adv. T N C. SRIDHAR (IRS-Retd)
A former Joint Commissioner of Income tax, served at different places over 37 years in various capacities at Mumbai, Karnataka & Goa with coveted positions and assignments at corporate, Non-corporate, Salary, central circle, investigation, intelligence, prosecution, acquisition, training, administration and also as department representative at ITAT Panaji bench. Graduated in B.Sc, with a specialization in Micro Biology, completed Bachelor of Law and Diploma in Labour Laws and he is an expert in Labour Law matters.Currently he is practicing as an Advocate at Karnataka High CourtasTaxation Counsel His has a passion to visit higher educational institutions as a motivational speaker, visited many Income Tax Training Institutes, Law College, forums including Enforcement Directorate on economic & enforcement. He is regularly invited by the TV channels namely; News 9 English & Kannada TV9, Suvarna news, News 18, News X, Power TV, Public TV, Dig Vijay etc. as a panelist on income tax related discussions. Served as the Chairman –Income tax department co-operative Bank, Director-Greater Mumbai co-op banks’ Association, Chairman- Maharashtra Salary earners’ co-op banks’ Association, Member advisory board of leading CA firms. He has language proficiency in Tamil, Hindi, English, Guajarati, Marathi and Kannada and a bit Konkani & German
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DR. KRISHNA RAJ. Ph.D.,
A doctorate (Ph.D) in Environmental Economics,Master in Environmental Economics and Graduate in History, Economics and Political Science.Serving asa Professor at Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, have over 20 years of experience in research and teaching in Economics and Environmental Economics. A visiting scholar to University of Wisconsin, USA, and earlier worked as Indian Chair Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. He has published more than 60 research papers &reports, books and popular articles published in print media on several occasions. He is a consultant for MOEFCC for preparation of State of Environment Report for Karnataka for more than a decade,holding several other coveted top positions in environmental arena namely; expert committee member of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Central Pollution Control Board for estimation of Environmental Compensation. Expert committee member of the National Green Tribunal, Government of India, Expert committee member for Karnataka State Wetland Conservation Authorityand he is the subject expert discussant for many TV channels on contemporary economic development and environmental issues .
DR. M. SRINATH
He has 24 years of teaching and industry experience which includes more than 5 years of overseas experience in Oman and Eritrea. He is a Ph.D. in Networking from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University.
He has few distance learning certifications to his credit on NetOp, LIO, BlackBoard, Apache2Triad, and testing tools. He was also a ‘World IT Skills’ Trainer in OMAN. His technical strength includes Networks, Data Communication, Data Warehouse, and Big Data.
He is having expertise in the subjects includes Data Communication, Computer Networks, Network Management, Big Data, Mobile Communication, Multimedia Communication, Data Management, Data Structure, Distributed Operating System, Artificial Intelligence, Database Security and Neural Networks.
He worked as the Head of Department – Computer Science & Engineering at Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, Eritrea for 3 years and as a lecturer and Placement Officer at Kalpataru Institute of Technology for five years and Network Administrator and Systems Administrator at Pearl Technology for 3 years.
He has many publications to his credit, attended various national and international conferences, and also presented 7 papers in the conferences.
