Raj Jalan, MBA in Marketing and Finance from XLRI Jamshedpur, is also a commerce graduate from St. Xavier’s College Kolkata and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) from ICFAI University, India.

With over a year experience of working as a consultant for some of the big multinationals around Asia-Pacific region, he has the understanding of the market and market research. Preparing relevant research designs and putting rigour in his data analysis techniques is his forte. 40 months experience with an ITC distributor in Kolkata has also given him the understanding of how the market works, especially, for the CPG industry.

Saket Sanganeria, MBA in Personnel Management and Industry Relationship from XLRI Jamshedpur, is also a commerce graduate from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and Chartered Accountant (CA), ICAI.

He has a 26 month work experience with a CA firm responsible for income tax planning, auditing and industrial compliance for various clients. With his experience in consulting companies with their tax issues, his firm is now one of the leading tax consultants for small and medium business i the region.

Sharad Sarin is BE [Electrical], MBA and Ph D [Marketing]. He has been a faculty member since 1976, with XLRI, Jamshedpur.  He has been the Dean of XLRI [1984–1988] and a Visiting Faculty to the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, the University of Rhode Island, Kingston [USA], Colorado University at Boulder [USA] and  Helsinki School of Economics [Finland]. He has presented seminars in around 20 universities in the US between 1984 and 2001. He has participated and presented papers in several conferences in India and abroad. For the last two years, he is actively involved in organizing seminars on “Marketing for Masses” aimed at generating ideas to improve quality of life of the masses.

Over the last 30 years, Prof Sarin has been involved in several consultancy assignments including marketing studies for a variety of industrial and household products. Prof. Sarin is widely known as the originator of the novel concept of ‘Marketing Fair.’ Amongst the NGOs, Prof Sarin is on the advisory board of Tata Steel Rural Development Society [Jamshedpur], and Krishi & Grameen Vikas Kendra [Ranchi] – two leading NGOs in the area of rural development.

Dr. Israel is a M. Com and M. Phil from Madras University and has completed his Ph D from Pondicherry. He is also an FDPM from IIMA. He qualified the National Educational Testing (Master’s Level) conducted by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi in 1988 and was awarded both Junior and Senior Research Fellowships for pursuing his doctoral thesis on Conjugal Power Structure in Purchase Decisions which he had completed in 1994 from Pondicherry University.

Areas of interest include Business Research Methods, Marketing Research, and Data Analysis for Marketing Decisions and Service Loyalty Measurements. He has conducted Development Programmes on the Application of Statistical Tools through SPSS and has published several articles in the refereed journals. He has recently published a book on the methods of data analysis used in market research.

Dr. Gourav Vallabh is a Certified Risk Manager (GARP, USA), a Chartered Accountant (ICAI, India), a Company Secretary (ICSI, India), Ph.D. (UoR, India),and also has completed his LL.B. A Gold Medalist in B.Com and M.Com exams. Published research papers in referred academic journals and presented papers in conferences. He was honored with “Best Young Researcher Award – 2004” jointly by ICWAI and IAA & also won the best paper award in XXV All India Accounting Conference.

He has undertaken Consultancy assignments for the Reserve Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Government of Rajasthan. Conducted in-company training programs for Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, SRF Limited, ETA Dubai, Citibank, Union Bank of India, Tata Steel, Kanbay India Pvt. Ltd, JUSCO Ltd. and many others in the area of Finance and Risk Management. Practices. Currently also associated with the Government of Rajasthan in the capacity of Honorary Advisor to the Ministry of Revenue.

Prof. Sabyasachi Sengupta is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI), Cost Accountant (ICWAI) and a Company Secretary (ICSI). Has worked for various organizations, across few industries for eight years, before joining XLRI (Jamshedpur) in the year 1998.

Areas of expertize, specialization and interest includes Management Accounting (Financial & Cost Accounts), Corporate Financial Management, Working Capital Management, Financial Planning and Control, Project Appraisal, Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Restructuring, Direct & Indirect Taxation, Corporate Laws & their implications etc. While in industry he had specialized in developing Accounting & Costing Systems, structuring MIS reporting, dealings with Banks and Financial Institutions and in various fields of Management Consultancy services.