Chartered Accountant MBA, London Business School
GOVERNING COUNCIL
Our Governing Council comprises pioneering leaders of industry and academia whose strategic vision defines the BITSoMian values of imagination, innovation and action. Their rich and diverse experience shapes our approach to your education: grounded in practicality yet soaring in spirit. The Governing Council is one of the main pillars of BITSoM’s commitment to a multidisciplinary, real-world educational experience that propels our learners into leadership roles.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Chancellor, BITS Pilani Chairman, Governing Council, BITSoM Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
Kumar Mangalam Birla
In the 28 years that Mr. Birla has been at the helm of the Aditya Birla Group, he has accelerated growth across markets and geographies, and significantly enhanced stakeholder value. In the process, he has raised the Group’s turnover by over 30 times to USD 60 Bn. Today, over half of the Group’s turnover comes from global operations.
He has been the architect of over 40 successful acquisitions in India and globally. Under his stewardship, the Aditya Birla Group enjoys a position of leadership in all the major sectors in which it operates, from cement to chemicals, metals to textiles and fashion retail to financial services. Over the years, Mr. Birla has built a highly successful meritocratic organisation, anchored by an extraordinary force of 140,000 employees, belonging to 100 different nationalities.
Mr. Birla is also an eminent educationist. Apart from being the Chancellor of BITS Pilani, he has served as Chairman of the Board of IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Delhi. An alumnus of the London Business School, he is on its Asia Pacific Advisory Board and is an Honorary Fellow of the school.
Shobhana Bhartia
Chairperson, Hindustan Times Group, Pro Chancellor, BITS Pilani
University of Calcutta
V. Ramgopal Rao
Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani
Post-doctoral Fellow, UCLA, LA
Doctorate, Bundeswehr University Munich
M.Tech, IIT Bombay
Saravanan Kesavan
Dean and Professor of Operations, BITSoM
DBA, Harvard Business School
MS, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BTech, IIT Madras
Bharat Puri
Managing Director, Pidilite Industries Ltd.
BCom, Punjab University
MBA, IIM Ahmedabad
Dilip Gaur
Director, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Ltd (ABMCPL)
BTech, Nagpur University
Advanced Management Programme,
Harvard University
Geoffrey Garrett
Dean, USC Marshall School of Business
Marshall School of Business
Ph.D. and MA, Duke University
BA, The Australian National University
Hari Menon
Chief Executive Officer, BigBasket.com
MBA, Carnegie Mellon University
MSc (Tech), BITS Pilani
BTech, University of Kerala
Nishi Vasudeva
Former Chairman & MD, HPCL
MBA, IIM Calcutta
BA, Lady Shri Ram College for Women
Preetish Nijhawan
Co-founder and Partner, Cervin Ventures
MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management
MS, University of Southern California
BS, BITS Pilani
Rajagopal Raghunathan
Professor of Business University of Texas Austin
Ph.D., NYU Stern School of Business
MBA, IIM Calcutta
BE, BITS Pilani
Revathi Advaithi
Chief Executive Officer, Flex
MBA, Thunderbird School of Global Management
BTech, BITS Pilani
SP Kothari
Professor of Accounting and Finance MIT Sloan School of Management
Ph.D., University of Iowa
MBA, IIM Ahmedabad
BE, BITS Pilani
Tulsi Mirchandaney
MD, Blue Dart Aviation
MBA, International Aviation,
Concordia University, Montreal
INDUSTRY ADVISORY COUNCIL
Our Industry Advisory Council comprises accomplished Industry leaders with keen interest in education and represent a range of industries and functional expertise.
They have an objective to achieve high level of industry integration and experiential learning components into the BITSoM curriculum which would sharpen the program design and relevance to the needs of industry. The council will also advise the B-School on building executive programmes and on applied research initiatives.
Saravanan Kesavan
Dean and Professor of Operations, BITSoM
DBA, Harvard Business School
MS, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BTech, IIT Madras
Leena Chatterjee
Professor of Organizational Behaviour BITSoM
Ph.D., IIT Kanpur
MA, Delhi University
BA, Lady Shriram College, Delhi
Bhaskar Das
Governing Council Member, MICA Advisor to M&E
Ph.D., JIS University, Kolkata
Masters, Kolkata University
Brajesh Bajpai
Commercial Director, Vodacom Africa
Oxford Brookes University
Deepali Naair
Director, Digital Sales, IBM
University of Mumbai
Haresh Chawla
Partner, True North
MBA, IIM Calcutta
BTech, IIT Bombay
Mohan Natarajan
MD and Head India, Avista Advisory Group
PGDM, IIM Calcutta
BTech, IIT Bombay
Rajkamal Vempati
Head HR, Axis Bank
PM&RI, XLRI
Sachin Kotak
Partner, Bain & Company
MBA, IIM Ahmedabad
MCom, University of Mumbai
Shantanu Bhanja
Advisor to Chairperson, Ashoka University
AMP, Said Business School, University of Oxford
MBA, IIM Calcutta
BTech, IIT Kharagpur
Shiv Shivakumar
Group Executive President,
Aditya Birla Group
The Wharton School
MBA, IIM Calcutta
BTech, IIT Madras
Vivek Sunder
CEO, Kerala Ayurveda Ltd
MBA, IIM Calcutta
V.S. Ram
Director at Paints and Coatings Skill Council
PGDM, IIM Calcutta
BTech, IIT Madras
Rahul Kohli
Advisor, BITSoM
PGDM, IIM Ahmedabad
BTech, University of Mumbai