ABOUT FLAME UNIVERSITY
Board of Management
Prof. Dishan Kamdar is the Vice Chancellor of FLAME University. He took charge of this position on August 8, 2018. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Dean of Academic Programmes and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business (ISB). A leading researcher, senior faculty member, executive coach to CEOs of renowned corporates and family businesses in India, and a favourite professor to all his students, Prof. Dishan handles these multifaceted roles with equal ease.
Prof. Venkataramanan is a distinguished scholar, holding a Ph.D. in Business Analysis from Texas A&M University, an M.S. in Business Computing Science from the same institution, and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras. His expertise spans a range of disciplines, including technology management, decision support systems, supply chain management, computer simulation, and enterprise resource planning. He has published over fifty research articles in leading journals, co-authored a book on Operations research, and has been awarded several teaching awards.
Prior to joining FLAME University, he served as the Executive Vice Provost for Finance, Budget, and Strategy at Indiana University Bloomington, one of the top universities in the world, and held the position of Jack R. Wentworth Professor of Decision Sciences in Operations & Decision Technologies at the Kelley School of Business, Bloomington Campus.
Dr. Santosh Kumar Kudtarkar holds a Master’s in Physics from IIT-Madras and a Ph.D. from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (MATSCIENCE), Chennai. A Theoretical Physicist by training, his research interests are in applications of field theory in High Energy and Condensed Matter Physics, Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Modelling in the Social and Management Sciences. He is passionate about Quantitative Models and has completed multiple industrial projects.
Mr. Krutarth Shah is a member of the proprietary investing team of ENAM Holdings Pvt. Ltd. ENAM Holdings is a privately managed principal investment group with a long heritage of investing in the Indian capital markets. He holds a Master’s degree from Cass Business School, City University London and a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He has ten years of industry experience. His passion lies in creating and building institutions. Mr. Shah is an ardent follower of the latest technological trends. His energy, enthusiasm and interpersonal skills help him negotiate the complex enterprise of building a world-class university. He is also an avid photographer and enjoys singing and travelling.
Mr. Tejas Trivedi has been in the capital markets since 1993. After receiving a rich experience of core research at Corporate Database (equity research-based organisation), he has been associated with Anvil group, a broking and wealth management organisation. As a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant, his core interests lie in research, investments and yoga.
Mr. Tejas Patani is a member of the proprietary investing team of ENAM Holdings Pvt. Ltd. ENAM Holdings is a privately managed principal investment group with a long heritage of investing in the Indian capital markets. Before ENAM, Mr. Patani worked at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in New York as a member of their U.S. Large Cap Equity Research Team. He is a CFA Charterholder. He also holds a BS, magna cum laude, from Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. An avid sportsman, he plays cricket, volleyball and squash regularly. A relentless passion for perfection and an eye for detail are the hallmarks of his organising abilities.
Kuntal Shah is a value investor with three decades of experience spanning various aspects of the capital market. He is an investor turned entrepreneur with experience of having invested in all sorts of enterprises-seed, early growth, and late-stage growth. Now working on developing technology related solution to deal with unstructured streaming data and founded Needl. Ai
Prof. Andrea Phillott has broad experience as a field and laboratory research biologist and a specialised research focus on the biology and conservation of sea turtles and other marine megafauna in South and Southeast Asia and Australia.
Viraj Shah is an archaeologist, specialized in ancient Indian art, architecture, iconography and socio-religious history. She has Master’s degrees in Ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology from Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, and in History from Mumbai University.
Aparna Shankar is a Professor in Psychology at FLAME University. Aparna holds a doctorate degree in health psychology from the University of Leeds. Her doctoral thesis examined psychosocial predictors of maintenance of health behaviours. She also holds MSc in Applied Statistics with Medical Applications from Birkbeck, University of London.
Reshmi Sengupta is Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Chair in the Center for Economics and Public Policy at FLAME University, Pune. She received her PhD from Northern Illinois University, Illinois, USA, and her M.Sc. from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. She also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Health Services Management from the Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar.
Member Secretary
Virender Sharma is a postgraduate in English from Panjab University and holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Pune.
With over four decades’ association with some of the leading and premier educational institutions of the country, he brings a wealth of experience and expertise in academic administration. Before joining FLAME, he was the Head of Administration of the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Pune, for over ten years. Preceding that, he held the position of Registrar at the National Defence Academy (NDA), Pune.