The IIT panel will include select individuals from the following group:

IIT Delegation members include:

1. IIT Guwahati - Prof. Pinakeswar Mahanta, Head, Centre for Energy
2. IIT Bombay - Prof. Ali Contractor, Deputy Director
3. IIT Bombay - Prof. Anil Date, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA)
4. IIT Bombay - Prof. Chitta Amarnath, Science & Innovation Network (SINE)
5. IIT Madras - Prof. Job Kurien, Dean Sponsored Research
6. IIT Madras - Dr. Sandhya Shekhar, CEO IIT Madras Research Park
7. IIT Kharagpur - Prof. Amit Patra, Dean Alumni Affairs and International Relations
8. IIT Kharagpur - Prof. Tapan Bagchi, Vinod Gupta School of Management
9. IIT Delhi - Dr. Anil Wali, Managing Director, Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT)
10. IIT Delhi - Prof. Ashok Gupta, Dean Alumni Affairs and International Relations

The panel will also include some industry participants. Names of these participants and more recent
programme updates will be available on the IITLC website: www.iitlc.org

Profile of Prof. Nirmalya Kumar

Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of the Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School.

Professor Kumar received his B.Com. from Calcutta University (graduating first in a class of 5,251 students), his MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (scoring a perfect 5.0 grade point average), and his PhD in marketing from Kellogg Graduate School of Management (winning the Marketing Science Institute's Alden G. Clayton Award for his PhD dissertation).

He has taught at Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), and Northwestern University and worked with more than 50 Fortune 500 companies in 50 different countries as coach, seminar leader and speaker on strategy, marketing, branding, retailing and distribution.

Nirmalya has made more than 300 press appearances including BBC, Business Week, CNBC, CNN, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and Wall Street Journal. He has authored Global Marketing (Business World) as well as Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the CEO’s Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation, Private Label Strategy: How to Meet the Store Brand Challenge (with J-B. Steenkamp); Value Merchants: Demonstrating and Documenting Superior Value in Business Markets (with J. Anderson and J. Narus), and India’s Global Powerhouses: How they are Taking on the World, all published by Harvard Business School Press. In addition to his books, Nirmalya has written more than 40 cases and teaching notes, and published five articles for the Harvard Business Review, most recently How Emerging Giants are rewriting the Rules of M&A.

Profile of Prof. Phanish Puranam        

Phanish Puranam is Associate Professor in the Strategy and International Management Area and Co-Director of the Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School.                

Phanish’s research and consulting interests centre on the design and management of strategic relationships between organizations. He has published his research on topics such as the structuring of alliance and outsourcing arrangements, post-merger integration, inter-divisional collaboration and reorganizations in internationally reputed academic journals, in addition to working with companies such as Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, 247Customer, Unisys, Tata Consulting Services, IBM and CapGemini in advisory/training roles on these topics. He currently focuses his attention on European/US companies with an interest in India as well as Indian companies that are actively globalizing.

Phanish obtained his PhD at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has been on the faculty of London Business School since 2001, where he teaches electives on “Corporate Strategy” and “M&A and Alliances”.  He also holds affiliate scholarly appointments with other institutions such as the Advanced Institute of Management (UK), the Mack Centre for Emerging Technologies (Wharton) and the Indian School of Business. His research features in the top practitioner journals such as the California Management Review and Sloan Management Review as well as the top academic journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and Organization Science. He is on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science and is also frequently quoted in the business press.