Full-time Faculty
Veeravalli R S
veeravalli@greatlakes.edu.in
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- Currently Director – Corporate Initiatives & Exec MB, and Associate Professor, with Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India, responsible for running the Global Exec MBA program and for generating & conduct of all the Executive Development programs, Management Consulting and Applied Research Engagements with corporates.
- Head of “Entrepreneurship Development Forum” at the Institute, which shall evolve into an incubation center in the coming years
- Teaching areas - Negotiation, Entrepreneurship & Communication
- Other activities include case writing, guiding students in projects and empirical study
- Written a case in Entrepreneurship on a company in Indian Infrastructure domain for London Business School. Was one of the 9 India-centric cases selected out of about 130 proposals and 15 finalists from India
- Member of the TIE Chennai Fund core group, a seed funding and support initiative for budding entrepreneurs from Tamilnadu
- Member of the CII Tamilnadu think-tank.
- Did/does Management Consulting work in Product Supply Chain, Total Quality, Human Resources, Sales & Distribution management, and Business Strategy for FMCG / SME
- Director in a software co producing Automated Test Software
- Last held position as Chief Operating Officer of a tertiary care Super Specialty Hospital in Chennai called Harvey Super Specialties Hospital. Continues to be a member of the Management committee
- Previously was the Chief Operating Officer handling two FMCG companies of a group in chennai, one of them a start-up, in Bottled Drinking water and other FMCG products
- Prior to that was General Manager with Godrej Sara Lee Ltd., Mumbai. Headed Product Supply, Total Quality, and HR functions on job rotation. Handled Sales & Distribution before that. Was responsible for achieving spectacular growth of the company sales in south and east zones as the head of sales for these regions
- Became General Manager at 33 years age, one of the youngest in the Godrej group to do so. Had a Fast-Track growth
- Trained ISO 9000 Auditor.
- Was the nominated Chief Executive Officer for ISO 9000 Quality Systems in Godrej Sara Lee Ltd
- Certified Assessor for CII-EXIM BANK BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD model (which is based on the European Quality Award (EFQM) model). Was part of the team that assessed TATA STEEL.
- Member of the TQM STUDY MISSION to the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE), JAPAN through CII, to study Total Quality management processes.
- Has taught a course on Quality Management at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) School of Management, Mumbai, as a Co-faculty
- Other previous experiences include shipping management, projects planning and execution
- Holds a Masters Degree in Sociology. Qualified in Shipping Management.
- Done an accelerated Senior Management Certificate Program (six months duration) with Cornell University, USA, with special focus on Strategy
- Trained in the entrepreneurship teaching under the Stanford Eentrepreneurship Educators Program by invitation and done the Entrepreneurship Educator Development Course with Indian School Of Business.
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