Faculty Profile

All the members of the Governing Council of CBS interact with the students and teach subjects pertaining to their area of specialisation.

Prof. Sridar Natarajan Dean B.Tech (Hons) IIT Kharagpur , PGDBM (Finance & Systems ) IIM Bangalore
Prof Sridar Natarajan is a Metallurgical Engineer from IIT Kharaghpur (1977-82). After a two-year stint as a Quality Assurance Engineer in Tata Motors Co. (then TELCO), he resigned to pursue his PGDBM at IIM-Bangalore, specializing in Finance and Systems (1984-86).
Most of his post-management career has been at Ernst & Young and member Firms in India and Saudi Arabia (1986-1998) as a management consultant. In E&Y, 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 was involved in a start-up venture in IT-Training for a couple of years before he entered into the teaching profession. He was the Director - MBA of a leading college in Coimbatore for 3 years. Between 2005 and 2007, he has practiced as an independent management consultant - executing assignments on costing and finance and conducting executive development programs for companies in Coimbatore. He has also been a visiting faculty for Finance and Operations in BIM and PSGIM.

Prof.Sridar handles Quantitative Techniques and Financial Management as part of the General Management course and Derivatives for the BFS varsity.

PERMANENT FACULTY

Prof. K Rajeshwari  B .E (College of Engineering, Anna University); PGDM, Marketing ( IIM Ahmedabad)
Head of Marketing & Communications Management and Retail Management Varsities
A consistent academic topper through her student life, she has a rich experience of working in Corporate India for fifteen years. She has worked in organisations like HUL, Cavinkare and Nippon Paint in many aspects of Sales and Marketing. Her professional experience also includes working in several industries like- FMCG, Paints and technology across various parts of India, adding a rich diversity to her profile.
 
She did pioneering work in setting up rural distribution for tea shops when she was at sales in HUL- this won her the Chairman Award. She moved onto handling two top brands Brooke Bond A1 and Lipton Tiger- an innovative tea based beverage.- the first of its kind in the World. As a category manager for skin care, Cavinkare gave her an exposure to marketing personal care brands in urban India. Post which she moved on to head Marketing function at Nippon Paint- and was a part of the start up team that rolled out the brands in India. Her last assignment was as Vice President Marketing and Branding at Novatium Solutions- an affordable computing service company.
 
Having worked with the top in the industry, she is passionate about teaching at various business schools like IIT, CBS for the last one year. She has also been a part of the panel of jury in many B School competitions. Bringing real life learnings to the class room is her strength.
Her research interests are in the area of New product development in the Indian context. She teaches Marketing management courses like  Brand Management , Sales and Distribution  and New product development.

Prof. Palanivelu
Head of IT and Operations Management Varsities.
With a B.E(Hons) in Electrical engineering, Prof. Palanivelu has more than 30 years of progressive experience in information technology with cross functional assignments in marketing and manufacturing and a proven track record of leveraging information technology to deliver bottom line results and building high powered, result oriented teams.He has many years of rich experience in IT industry in General Management and in managing Service operations. He has worked in Bharat Electronics, Fujitsu ICIM, RPG Telecom, RPG Retail and Zensar Technologies in various roles.
 
Prof.Palani teaches Operations Management as a core subject and ERP, Strategic Information systems Planning  and IT in Retail  and Telecom Domain as specialisation subjects.
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Dr.Prasanna Sivanandam
Head of Human Resource Varsity
She is a result-oriented professional with over 14 years of experience in teaching and corporate consultancy, besides three years of experience in  responsible management positions in India .She has conducted workshops on parenting  and stress Management for employees  of   Blue chip Companies
like Cognizant Technologies ,Polaris ,Ford  and had also been a regular guest consultant for Britannia Industries. She has been involved in designing curricula, organizing & conducting Training & Professional Effectiveness Programs  for different groups of audiences like Management Executives, Non-Government Organization Executives, General Managers, Engineers, Medical Doctors, Academicians and Students in India. She has completed her Ph D from the University of Madras & MBA at Indira Gandhi University.

Dr.Prasanna teaches Organizational Behaviour and HR Management as core subjects and Training and Development and Strategic HRM as specialisation subjects.
 

Prof. A. Venkata Subramanian – B.Com, PGDM (IIM-B), FICWA, ACS
Head of Financial Management and Banking & Financial Services Varsities
Prof. A. Venkata Subramanian has a brilliant academic record to his credit and has over 30 years experience in industry, consulting and teaching. He did his B.Com from Loyola College, Chennai and the 2 year full time Post Graduate Programme in Management from IIM Bangalore, He is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India and Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
He has been teaching/training for the past 5 1/2 years – before joining CBS he worked with ICFAI Business School (IBS), Chennai as a Faculty Member. Prior to entering the teaching profession he worked for over 27 years in industry and consultancy with reputed companies in India and abroad. His experience has covered a wide range of areas like Project finance, Joint ventures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate planning & Strategy, Financial planning, Compliance and Corporate governance, Accounting, MIS and training.
Prof. Venkat worked in senior management positions in India / abroad with leading organizations -Shell Group companies, Essar Oil Ltd, PSEG Group (a Fortune 500 US Based large energy company),Torrent Energy, A.F.Ferguson & Co. etc.
Prof. Venkat teaches subjects like Business Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management Control systems, Financial Management, Accounting for Managers, Personal Financial Planning etc for MBA / Post Graduate Programme students.  He has also participated in conducting Management Development programmes, Faculty Development programmes, Management Seminars and other institution building activities. He received the ‘Best Faculty’ award at IBS Chennai for the year 2008-2009.
Prof. Venkat has published various articles and book reviews in areas of Strategy, M&A management, Collaborative advantage, decision making, change management etc.  in reputed management magazines.

 
Ms. Vijaya.C
Ms. Vijaya is a Management graduate in Finance with a merit rank and university gold medal for academic credentials. She has a work experience of 7 years in the financial services industry as well as in well-known B-schools. She has worked in the areas of corporate planning, retail banking and portfolio management in organizations such as HDFC Bank, YCS and Unifi Wealth Management. On the academic front, she has been part of institutions such as ICFAI Business School and Wigan & Leigh. Her teaching interests lie in the areas of finance and accounting and she has developed a number of case studies and articles in management topics currently used by international management institutions.

Ms.Vijaya teaches Financial Accounting and Business Economics as core subjects and Capital Structure and Mutual Funds as specialisation subjects.

Ms.Doris John
Doris John has specialized in developing case studies as pedagogical tools for management education. She has published more than 200 Case Studies and Teaching Notes on the European Case Clearing House (ECCH), with leading international B-Schools like the Manchester Business School, University of Bath, Kingston University etc. using them regularly in their curriculum. She was the first runner-up in the IIMB-Tata Steel Prize (a cash prize of Rs. One Lac.) for the best cases in the competition conducted by British Council along with the Nottingham University Business School International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility and the IIMB Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship. She is a management graduate from the Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM) and has both industry and academic experience. She was involved in academic publishing with Icfai and has also handled client servicing and PR assignments.

Ms.Doris teaches Principles of Management as a core subject and Marketing Management as aspecialisation subject.

Prof.Vijayaraghavan.S.V, ACA (Chartered Accountancy), MBA (IIM, Bangalore)
In addition to being a Chartered Accountant , Prof.Vijayaraghavan holds an MBA degree from IIM, Bangalore He has held a number of very senior positions in a wide spectrum of industries. In his capacity as Director, Finance ISOFT R&D Pvt. Ltd and CFO, Thinksoft Global Services Pvt. Ltd., he has independently handled the finance and accounts operations and has vast experience in the areas of Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Costing, Statutory Audit, Central Excise, Credit Control in diverse industries such as Automobiles, Financial Services, IT (Hardware and Software).
Currently he is visiting faculty at a number of premier educational institutions. He teaches Financial and Cost management and related courses.

Prof. Aravind Narasipur
Aravind Narasipur is an engineering graduate with 16 years of industry experience, mostly in the field of IT-related Quality Assurance and has been a visiting faculty at ICFAI, Bangalore and CBS, Chennai. He teaches Managerial Statistics and Business Research Methods.

Prof. Srinivasan Suresh Charted Accountant, Cost Accountant MBA from Bradford Business School, UK. Over 20 years of industry experience, serving companies like TATA Steel, IDBI, McDermott (Texas based), Emirates Airlines. Currently running a Management Consultancy based out of Chennai.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION TEAM
The Executive Education at CBS is being spearheaded by Prof. A. Panneer Selvam

Prof. A.Panneer Selvam
Prof. A. Panneer Selvam is a PGDBA from St.Josephs and he is incharge of Placement and Executive Education of CBS. Formerly, he was the Head of Retail varsity for two years at CBS. He has totally 23 years of experience in Retail Marketing, in various senior positions.
He worked with Dunlop India Ltd. for 14 years in various senior managerial capacities, which includes a stint as Regional Sales Manager for southern region.
Prof. Panneer Selvam was a practising SAP consultant with Pentafour on sales & distribution module. He was also heading a Malaysian multinational infrastructure company for their Indian operations for 6 years.