Dr. Abraham Koshy
Abraham Koshy was a faculty member of IIMA from 1989 to 2018. At IIMA, Professor Koshy was a highly regarded teacher and corporate trainer.
He held degrees from the University of Kerala, the University of Calicut, Cochin University of Science and Technology, and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He started his career as a probationary officer with the Union Bank of India and subsequently switched to academics by joining the School of Management Studies at the Cochin University of Science and Technology. He also worked as an Associate Professor with the Centre for Management Development in Kerala before joining IIMA as a faculty member in 1989. At IIM Ahmedabad, he held several administrative responsibilities as the chairperson of marketing area, chairperson of the alumni centre committee, the editor and chairperson of the editorial board of Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, and as a member of executive committees for various programs and activities. He was a visiting scholar at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and a visiting professor at the Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. He was also a visiting professor at the European School of Management (ESCP-EAP), Paris, and at Glasgow University, UK.
Professor Koshy conducted training programs for senior executives of several companies, both in India and abroad including Matrix and Astro Group of companies; Mauritius Telecom, Johnson & Johnson (Asia-Pacific), STMicroelectronics, General Electric, the Sumaria Group of Companies, the Zubair Group of Companies, OTIS Elevators, Pfizer, the British Council, Total Elf, the Indian Oil Corporation, Tata Steel, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, the Bank of Baroda, Zydus Cadilla, Mahindra & Mahindra, Apollo Tyres, HDFC Bank, and Bharti Airtel.
He conducted executive training programs in Singapore, Malaysia, France, the Sultanate of Oman, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Kenya, and Egypt. Professor Koshy was closely associated with several companies, in India and abroad, as a consultant addressing decision issues relating to marketing strategy, product and brand management, and customer management processes. He was an independent member of the board of directors of public limited companies such as Malayala Manorama, the Federal Bank, Cera Sanitarywares, Autoline Industries, and Deepak Cements and Chemicals. He was also a member of advisory committees constituted by government organizations and industry associations.
Professor Koshy's areas of expertise and research interests included new-brand development strategies, product and brand management processes, customer relationship orientations, and social marketing. He was the co-author of Growth and Transformations of Small Firms in India and the co-editor of Managing Alternatives and Marketing of Information Products and Services. He conducted research, sponsored by the World Health Organization, on developing a communication strategy for a revised national tuberculosis program and on evaluating a public-distribution system in Kerala and other parastatal organizations. He published several research papers and case studies in journals such as Revue Francaise du Marketing, Asian Journal of Marketing, and the IIMB Management Review.
Prof. Dr. Mary George
Prof. Dr. Mary George is a nationally recognized scholar, critique and commentator on the socio-economic environment in the State of Kerala. She is a much respected columnist in the state's leading newspapers and a frequent economic expert panelist in the state's television news media.
M. A., M. Phil., Ph. D. in Economics, 32 years of teaching at Post-Graduate and Graduate levels. 4 years as Head of the P. G. Department. Chairperson, Board of P.G.Examination, University of Kerala
Member
Public Expenditure Review Committee, Govt. of Kerala
AssociateProfessor
Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Director
Centre for Social Science Research, Kerala.
Dr. K Krishnakumar
Dr. K Krishnakumar completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from TKM College of Engineering, the University of Kerala with the fourth rank in 1987, Master’s Degree in Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, and Ph.D. from IIT Madras. He also holds an MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
He started his career in College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET) in the year 1990 and served there as Lecturer, Asst. professor, Professor, Head of the Department and Dean of Research till 2018. He retired from Govt. Service as Joint Director of Technical Education, Kerala in 2019.
He has published about 75 research papers in International and national journals and conferences. He has also undertaken many sponsored research and consultancy projects of DST, ISRO, KSCSTE, etc.
He is also a Research Guide to the University of Kerala and to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU).
R.K. Pillai
Prof. Pillai has been in the forefront of information technology and business management, for over forty years in India and in United States.
Prior to his retirement, he was in Information Technology & Management Consultant to several US Government Agencies such as, US Army; US Dept. of Education, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; US Dept. of Labour; US Patent and Trademark Office; World Bank / Inter American Development Bank; and Fortune 500 companies such as, Bell South Communications, and BlueCross & BlueShield, the US Healthcare giants.
During 1978-86, he was EDP Manager, at Cochin Shipyard Ltd.. He was Visiting Faculty at Cochin University. Former PTA President of Bharatiya Vidhyabhavan School, Giri Nagar. Founder Chairman of the Computer Society of India, Cochin Chapter 1979-86.
In the early seventies he started his computer science career at the Computer Center, IIT Delhi. From 1973-78 he was a staff member at IIT Madras Computer Science Department.
He has Masters Degree in Computer Science from IIT New Delhi, Master Degree in Mathematics & Statistics, Diploma in Business Management.
His current interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, eiot; and emerging technologies, such as Blockchain & Autonomous computing. He is a writer, lives in Washington and travelled over forty countries.