Executive Programme In Digital Transformation

Dr Ashwani Kumar (Director)

Professor

Information Technology and Systems

Dr Ashwani Kumar is a Professor, Business Analytics and Information Systems at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. He has over 19 years of academic work experience and about four years in the industry. Ashwani has designed and developed new courses / management development programmes in Business Analytics in collaboration with SAS and ERP / Enterprise Systems in collaboration with Microsoft. His articles have been published in globally reputed international journals. His areas of teaching and research interest include predictive analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, information systems and digital transformation.

Ashwani holds a PhD degree from Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, an MBA from Melbourne Business School, MS in Technology Management from the National University of Singapore and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur.

Prof. Amit Agrahari (Director)

Associate Professor

Information Technology and Systems

Prof. Amit Agrahari teaches programmes on digital transformation and government information systems at IIM Lucknow. His doctoral dissertation explored e-Procurement adoption and has resulted in a book and several research papers in this area. Before joining IIM Lucknow, he worked with Infosys Technologies Limited in their research Labs (SETLabs). He co-founded the Procurement Observatory, Uttar Pradesh www.procurementobservatoryup.com and a fintech incubator (SCIFI) at IIM Lucknow. He is a member of the working group in analytics (WGA) at the Government e-Marketplace. As a procurement and information systems consultant, Prof. Amit Agrahari served the World Bank Group, Indian Army Service Corp and Weapon and Equipment Directorate, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, Pradeshik Cooperative Dairy Federation, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited, Department of Posts, Kolkata Port Trusts, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Government of India etc. He delivered a customized training programme for the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation, Atos India and Yum Brands India.

He co-developed training programmes on public procurement and business analytics which has attracted participants from multiple countries. He received the Emerald/IAM Indian Management Research Fund Award 2015.

Dr Anirban Chakraborty (Faculty)

Assistant Professor

Marketing

Dr Anirban Chakraborty is an FPM from IIM Bangalore. He is currently a faculty in the area of marketing at IIM Lucknow and has five years of managerial experience. He teaches design thinking and consumer behaviour to postgraduate (PGP) students of IIM Lucknow. His course has been voted as the best marketing elective by two consecutive PGP batches of 2018 and 2019. He has conducted multiple well-acclaimed design thinking workshops for participants from organisations like Franklin Templeton, Samsung India, Piaggio, KFC etc.

Laxminarayanan G (Faculty)

Associate Director, Analytics & Cognitive

Deloitte, India

Laxminarayanan G is a senior executive from one of the Big4 consulting firms. He is a management graduate from IIM Lucknow with a Post Graduate Diploma in AI/Machine Learning from IIIT Bangalore. He is an experienced management consultant with diverse experience in consulting, analytics, training and mentoring of teams in the areas of strategy, management and technology. As a successful practitioner, he has been involved in delivering end to end transformational engagements for clients over the last 14 years. He has been involved in mentoring executives through workshops and lectures for the last 13+ years. He is a regular speaker at different CII forums on the topics of management and technology.

Sridhar Srinivasan (Faculty)

Enterprise Transformation

Business Analytics and Information Management

Sridhar Srinivasan is a Technology Practice Leader with over 25 years of experience in the IT Services industry. He has held positions such as SVP Verticals, SVP Global Delivery Head, VP Media Vertical, VP Microsoft Practice, Practice Manager BI / DW at Wipro Technologies, Brillio Technologies and WinWire Technologies. Sridhar has also serviced over 150 global clients who are majorly in Fortune 1000 and incubated businesses from start-up to $ 100 million run rate. He has an extensive industry exposure in BFSI, MFG, Retail & CPG, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Telecom, Media & Technology and Public Services. He has built and nurtured practices addressing Analytics & Big Data, BI / DW, Oracle Applications and Microsoft. Sridhar is a PGDM from IIM Lucknow (1994) and has a BE Electrical from Visvesvaraya NIT, Nagpur (1990).

Dave Poritzky (Global Practitioner)

Dave Poritzky is the CEO of Envista Strategies, a boutique advisory and investment firm focusing on early-stage company growth and later-stage strategic challenges. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, where he has taught five different MBA Business Communications courses over the past decade, and has led various online courses at The Wharton School and IMD.

Dave spent almost a decade as part of the leadership team of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), a leading advanced-energy research and data firm that was acquired by Bloomberg LP during his tenure there. Dave led several initiatives at Bloomberg/BNEF, including the firm’s Future of Energy Summit series and various other consulting projects serving top-tier companies in the energy/power/fuels arena. Dave graduated Cornell University with honors and received his MBA/MA from the Wharton School and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.