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EDII FACULTY                                                                                                       EDII FACULTY







               Abul Kalam Azad                               J. B. Patel                                                         Piyush Kumar Sinha                                P. G. Makhija
               PhD (Agricultural                             B.Sc. (Chemistry &                                                  Ph.D. (Management)                                Ph.D. (Entrepreneurship)
               Extension Education)                          Chemical Technology)                                                pksinha@ediindia.org                              pgmakhija@ediindia.org
               abul@ediindia.org                             jbpatel@ediindia.org
                                                                                                                                 Dr.  Piyush  Sinha  has  previously  served  on   He has industry experience of over 40 years,
               Dr. Azad has more than 5 years of experience   Over three decades of experience in the areas of                   deputation  from  the  Government  of  India  as   including 18 years in the top-management
               in  Government  and  academia  in  climate    business  opportunity  identification,  project                      Advisor  to  Rwanda-India  Entrepreneurship       level including as CEO of Bombay Dyeing &
               change,  agriculture,  agri  startups  and  allied   formulation, project appraisal, counselling and              Development  Centre  in  Kigali,  Rwanda.         Manufacturing Company Ltd and Executive
               sector research, teaching and extension. He   guiding  entrepreneurs.  Conducted  more  than                      Concurrently,  he  holds  the  position  of  Chief   Director of Gujarat Ambuja Exports Ltd.  He
               has handled 16 Tribal Development Projects    10 international programmes and worked as an                        Mentor  at  the  Startup  Village  Entrepreneurship   has  worked  across  diverse  industries,
               of  NABARD,  Meghalaya,  besides  a  flagship   expert in a number of developing countries in                      Programme  (SVEP),  a  flagship  program  of  the   including  textiles,  edible  oils,  industrial
               project  on  'Promotion  of  Millets  in      the above-mentioned fields. He is also the Local                     Ministry  of  Rural  Development,  GoI.  With     automation,  pharmaceuticals,  engineering
               Meghalaya'. His efforts have led to promotion   Representative  for  the  Netherlands  Senior                     professional experience spanning over 40 years,   plastics  and  banking.  Advises  SMEs  on
               of  noted  agri-startups,  Farmer  Producer   Experts Organisation.                                               Dr. Sinha brings extensive expertise in teaching,   consolidation  and  growth  strategy,  and
               C o m p a n i e s   &   C o m m u n i t y - b a s e d                                                             research,  advisory  and  training,  as  well  as   helps in its implementation.
               Organizations. Dr. Azad has several research                                                                      managerial  experience  in  entrepreneurship  and
               papers,  edited  books,  book  chapters  and                                                                      business strategy. Dr. Sinha has held prominent
               articles  to  his  credit.  He  is  the  recipient  of                                                            academic  positions  IIM  Ahmedabad,  IIM
               prestigious merit fellowships and the Young                                                                       Bangalore, XIMB, and has also served as the Dean
               Professional Award.                                                                                               at MICA.






               Mayank Upadhyay                               Shailesh Modi                                                         Satyajit Majumdar                               Bhasker Jani
               Grad. Cost &                                  Post Graduate Programme                                               Ph.D. (Management)                              B.E. (Electronics &
               Works Accountants (CWA)                       in Business Administration                                            satyajit@ediindia.org                           Communication)
               mayank@ediindia.org                           ssmodi@ediindia.org                                                                                                   bhasker@ediindia.org
                                                                                                                                   Leading  expert  in  business  and  social
               Specialises  in  the  areas  of  finance,      A practising management consultant with a multi                       entrepreneurship  with  over  44  years  of     A practitioner with over 40 years of experience
               management  accounting,  project  planning    disciplinary  work  record.  His  experience                          experience in industry, teaching, research and   in  initiating  and  successfully  managing
               and strategic management, with extensive      encompasses  work  on  SME  sector,  social                           mentoring startups. Prof. Majumdar has been     various  industries, including manufacturing of
               experience  in  Onships.  development         entrepreneurship,  energy,  hospitality,  tourism,                    Professor and Dean at School of Management      mechanical  and  electro  mechanical
               banking, commercial banking, management       textiles, transport and food processing sectors, in                   and Labour Studies, TISS, Mumbai. For more      components  and  sub-assemblies,  industrial
               consulting and NGO management. Involved       addition  to  the  development  sector.  Has  also                    than two decades he has played critical roles   valves,  fabrication  shop,  foundry,  etc.  He  is
               in  conceptualising  and  conducting  of  a   worked  extensively  in  the  areas  of  business                     in entrepreneurship eco-system with focus on    also  involved  in  mentoring  potential  and
               number  of  national  and  international      plans, market research, sectoral studies, cluster                     ‘technology for societal impact’ especially at   existing  entrepreneurs.  He  was  Director  and
               programmes in corporate financial strategic    diagnosis  and  design  &  management  of                             remote  locations  and  with  marginalized      CEO  of  M/S.  Odhav  Estate  Infrastructure
               planning  and  management,  project           development programmes for large companies,                           groups of people. Currently he also holds the   Development Ltd., an SPV for development and
               formulation and appraisal, microfinance and    bilateral  and  multilateral  agencies,  Indian                       position of Managing Director of TISS Incube    upkeeping of the Odhav estate.
               management control systems.                   development  institutions,  and  state  &  central                    Foundation.
                                                             governments.  Has  authored  two  manuals  on
                                                             direct help to small entrepreneurs.













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