About us

Mission: To encourage the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship for creating sustainable business ventures that contribute to the overall welfare of the society.

• 	Dr. Krishnashree, CEO - Amrita TBI Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan CEO - Amrita TBI. Ph.D. in Semiconductor Fabrication from Sandia National Labs in New Mexico. More than 29 US Patents to her credit. She has had key roles in the Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Initiative for Higher Education and Research, signed into agreement in 2005 by about 20 of the top US Universities including Harvard, Princeton, SUNY Buffalo, etc.
  	Dr. P Venkat Rangan, Chief Mentor Dr.P Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Dr. Rangan founded Yodlee Inc and served as its CEO, for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of United States.Dr. Venkat has been the recipient of President of India’s gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984. As a Ph.D. student in Computer Science he spent a year at Cornell University, where he secured the top-most rank for graduate studies, before moving to University of California, Berkeley. In 1988, his Ph.D. thesis at University of California, Berkeley was judged as the outstanding PhD of the year by IBM.
  	Raghu Raman With more than 20 years of Technology and Leadership experience in the development and delivery of Enterprise-class Software applications, Raghu serves in the capacity of an advisor for Amrita TBI. Most recently, Raghu worked as an Entreprenuer with NEC Research Labs, USA on a Video Surveillance technology that was spun out into a new company with venture backed financing.With his experience working with Fortune 1000 companies like Cisco, Nokia, ST Microelectronics, Phillips, Ford, Wal-Mart and Apple, Raghu has a proven track record of implementing large scale customer deployments. Previously Raghu was the Vice President of Engineering at Saltare Inc. and Promptu Corporation where he was instrumental in architecting and building the technology infrastructure, solution sets and managing the customer implementations. Raghu holds a MCA from JNU, New Delhi and a MBA. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California , Berkeley.
  	Prof. Jay Misra Prof.Jay Misra, Advisor on Business Plans & Finance Professor, Amrita School of Business, MBA from Harvard Business School, taught at Stanford Business School.He has held senior management positions in leading companies in the USA like Intel, 3Com, Capital Group and Soros Fund Management.
  	Kartik Raj Mudaliar Kartik Mudaliar is a Certified Practicing Accountant (Australia). He has previously worked with Deloitte LLP - a leading consulting firm and has consulted with several Fortune 500 Fortune 1000 companies. He has also worked in two entrepreneurial settings (start ups), one of which was ranked as one of Australia's fastest growing small-to-medium sized firms in the Business Review Weekly Fast 100 for three consecutive years and received the Hudson Business Award at the NSW Telstra Business Awards in 2006 - which recognizes Australia's most successful businesses.
  	Dr. Deepak Gupta Advisor - Marketing, Branding, Market Research, B.Tech (IIT-Delhi), PGDM (IIM-Calcutta), MS (Mktg., California-Berkeley), MA (Economics, California-Berkeley), PhD (California-Berkeley). Dr.Deepak Gupta is currently working as a full time faculty at Amrita School of Business.
  	Prof. S.G.Kulkarni Advisor- Marketing Strategy, Pricing, Sales and distribution. BE (Nagpur), PGDBM (XLRI). Professor at Amrita School of Business. Worked in Philips India Ltd. for 25 years handling sales and distribution.
  	Dr. E.Meera Advisor – Financial Accounting, M.Com., PhD (Bharathiar University).Head, Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri.