Deepa Mani

Professor, Information Systems

Deputy Dean - Digital Learning and Executive Education

Professor Deepa Mani’s research interests are at the intersection of technology, organisation, and society. Her research articles have been published in leading academic journals. Deepa works closely with industry to drive innovation and strategies for the digital economy. She also works closely with the central and state governments to explore the impact of technology interventions in areas such as education, healthcare and urbanization. Deepa completed her undergraduate education from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and her graduate education from Carnegie Mellon University. She received her doctorate degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Bhagwan Chowdhry

Professor, Finance

Executive Director - DIRI

Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry’s research interests are in international finance and corporate finance and strategy and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at a variety of institutions, including the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and ISB. He is a current visiting scholar at the Stellar Development Foundation.

Professor Chowdhry is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and is the co-founder (with Professor Ivo Welch) and executive editor of a new publication, Finance & Accounting Memos (FAMe). He has also served on the editorial boards of a number of finance and economic journals, including Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy.

Anand Nandkumar

Associate Professor, Strategy

Executive Director - Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (SRITNE)

Anand Nandkumar explores industry and firm level phenomena that influence innovation - the generation of new ideas and entrepreneurship - distribution and commercialization of new ideas. His research focuses on high technology industries such as pharmaceuticals, bio-technology and software, and falls in between industrial organisation (IO), economics of technological change and strategy. His current work examines the influence of venture capitalists on entrepreneurial performance.

He graduated with a PhD in Public Policy and Management, with a focus in strategy and entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Prior to his PhD, he worked with a startup in the Silicon Valley and in New York City with one of the world’s largest financial services firm. At the ISB, he teaches Strategic Innovation Management and Strategic Challenges for Innovation based startups.

Milind Sohoni

Professor, Operations Management

Deputy Dean - Hyderabad Campus and Faculty & Research

Milind Sohoni’s research interests span large-scale stochastic airline optimization, supply chain analytics, healthcare delivery and nonprofit operations management in resource constrained settings. He has also received excellence in research awards from academic and practitioner societies. He serves as an associate editor for leading academic journals in operations management.

He has several years of corporate experience in consulting and research. Prior to joining ISB, he was a research advisor with the R&D group at Delta Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, GA. Prior to that, he worked with the Advanced Decision Support Systems group at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, and Ryder Dedicated Logistics, Miami, Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Vishal Karungulam

Visiting Faculty at ISB

Group Product Manager, Google

Vishal Karungulam is a visiting faculty to PGP and Executive Education participants at ISB, for Software Product Management and Digital Transformation. For the last 15 years, he has built world class products across hardware and software and has led multiple large scale digital transformation initiatives in the Supply Chain space. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, and currently leads Product Management in India for Cloud Security at Google.

Prior to Google, he was with Microsoft for more than a decade, where he led envisioning, design, execution and Go to Market aspects of FarmBeats, a Digital Agriculture offering from Microsoft. In addition, he also led multiple product launches ranging from Xbox 360, Kinect, Xbox One, to the latest Surface family of devices specializing in product development and supply chain technology and operations.

He is a TEDx speaker, with deep expertise in Product Development, Digital Transformation and Supply Chain. He is super passionate about bringing together the worlds of academia and industry.

Vasudeva Varma

Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Vasudeva Varma’s research interests include search (information retrieval), information extraction, information access, cloud computing and software engineering. He heads the Search and Information Extraction Lab at IIIT Hyderabad.