Mr. J.N. Amrolia is a Senior Executive Coach and a Strategy Advisor to a number of organizations. He is a ‘Lead Assessor’ for the EFQM-Business Excellence Model for CII and the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) model for the Aditya Birla Group. He is actively associated with a number of industry and professional bodies as well as Academic Institutions.

Mr. K. Krishnan was the Joint President in charge of Broadband and Telephone Services of Airtel.

Prior to joining Airtel, Mr. Krishnan worked for the RPG Group in various capacities for 10 years including CEO of the Cellular business and as the Managing Director of their Entertainment business.

He is currently running his own organisation called thinksynq Consulting engaged in Management Consulting, Technology and Knowledge Process Outsourcing.

Majoring in Science from Bombay University, he has obtained a PG qualification in Advertising & Public Relations. He has been trained in Toronto and New York and has extensive experience in multifaceted roles: creative, brand management and running offices and regions. Mr. Menon has lectured widely and was for sometime a visiting faculty at the IIM, Ahmedabad. He consults in the area of advertising, branding and change management. He was a member on the Board of Ogilvy & Mather.

Prof. Sridar Natarajan is a Metallurgical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur and a management graduate from IIM Bangalore, specializing in Finance and Systems.

A large part of his professional career has been at Ernst & Young, where he has executed a wide range of assignments from developing costing and accounting systems for manufacturing companies and banks, to developing business requirements using CASE tools for retail and manufacturing companies. He held the post of Director, MBA of a leading college in Coimbatore for 3 years. He has also been a visiting faculty for Finance and Operations in BIM and PSGIM.

Prof. Sridar joined Chennai Business School as Dean in 2007.