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EDII FACULTY

Samit Kumar P. N. Srivastava
MBA (Agribusiness M. Com
Management) pnsrivastava@ediindia.org
samit@ediindia.org

Mr. Samit Kumar has over 16 years of work Possesses over 32 years of experience in
experience. He has a blend of expertise from providing training inputs and conducting
both the corporate and development sectors various entrepreneurship related
and has successfully led teams and projects programmes across sections and sectors of
related to farmer empowerment, technology society. Has rich field level experience of
commercialisation, farmer collectives, working at the grassroots in various
business incubation, agri-business prestigious projects supported by reputed
entrepreneurship, branding and organic organizations, ministries and departments.
farming. His case study presentation on His areas of specialization include
‘production and marketing of rice bran oil in entrepreneurship, technology-based
India’ secured the first prize at an international entrepreneurship, cluster development,
conference. He also received an ‘operational Business Plan, Skill Development, New
excellence award’ for designing ‘effective Enterprise Creation, Project Report
communication and campaign plans’ for the preparation, Capacity Building etc.
cotton-growing farmers in Madhya Pradesh.

Suneel Sharma Sivan Ambattu
Ph.D. (Fin Tech) Master in Social Work
Post Doc (Certified sivan@ediindia.org
Academic Practice)
suneelsharma@ediindia.org

An alumnus of BITS Pilani, IIM Bangalore A versatile professional in the field of
and Lancaster University, UK., Dr. Sharma entrepreneurship and project management.
has more than 28 years of experience in Developed strong linkages with state
Digital Technologies and Analytics. His government, national, and international
areas of interest include; Cognitive developmental agencies besides bilateral and
Automation, Risk, and Operation Analytics. multilateral organizations. Areas of
He is engaged with over 20 ventures in specialization includes strategy formulation,
domains like Automation, MarTech, donor management, partnership development,
FinTech, MedTech, EdTech, New Media, establishing rural business institutions, value-
SaaS and D2C. He has been Director of chain development, cluster development,
Professional Programmes at SP Jain School start-up facilitation, incubation management,
of Global Management, and is presently & youth and women entrepreneurship. Expert
associated with governments, eminent in rebuilding the economy after natural
organisations in India and abroad. disasters like Tsunami and Earthquake.
Authored 12 publications and several articles
and reports.

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