Faculty and Researchers
Anil K Sood
Professor and Co-Founder
Prior to the founding of IASCC, Anil practiced as an independent self-employed professional helping firms build growth capability through his customized learning solutions in Business and Corporate Finance and Strategy. Read more..
M C Srikanth
Professor of Practice, Infrastructure Finance
Srikanth has 35 years of experience in financial services and infrastructure sectors. He has worked with Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services in various senior positions.
As Chief Financial Officer of New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Limited, he was part of the top management team responsible for financing and implementation of the Tirupur Water Supply Project, the first greenfield PPP water supply and sanitation project in Asia.
Uday Bhate
Professor of Practice, Market Research
Prof. Uday Bhate is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad, with over 40 years of Corporate, Academic and Entrepreneurship experience. At IASCC, Prof Uday leads our research on India’s consumption economy.
Prof. Bhate has over 14 years of industry experience at Middle and Senior Marketing positions in diverse sectors such as Consumer Goods, Processed Foods, Utilities, and Industrial Goods.
Jyotsna Ayyagari
Professor of Practice, Strategy
Jyotsna Ayyagari is a Research and Strategy professional with over three decades of experience across Banking, Financial Services, EdTech, and Corporate Learning. She brings a rare combination of industry insight, analytical rigour, and social impact to her work. She is a Co-founder and Head of Strategy & Research at Excelrate Factors Private Ltd., a growth execution technology firm, serves on the Board of Directors of Vishya Learning Solutions Private Ltd., and is the Co-founder and President of Prema Pravinya Society (PRAVINYA), a not-for-profit focused on academic and vocational skilling.
At Excelrate, she is a co-founder and heads research and strategy. She has been instrumental in shaping the Growth Execution Management Software (GEMS). At IASCC, Jyotsna leads the strategy formulation and execution practice.
Debleena Majumdar
Professor of Practice, Strategy
An alumnus of FMS Delhi, Debleena has 20 years’ experience in Strategy and Finance having worked in investment banking and investment management leadership roles in GE, Fidelity, JP Morgan, Prudential, Lazard and Unitus Ventures.
Srinivas Chirravuri (Ch)
Professor of Practice, Leadership Development and Change Management
Helping individuals and teams discover and evolve their mental models is Ch’s passion and approach to leadership development and change. At IASCC, Ch leads the Institute initiative of building on John Dewey and Donald’s Schon’s work on critical thinking and reflective practice.
Ch designed & facilitated leadership development and organizational talent development initiatives across organization levels during his 20+ years with General Electric. Ch assisted the leadership teams in crafting vision, structuring operating systems, learning need diagnostics, design & delivery of learning programme to enable change and build transformational culture. He contributed to diversity & inclusion besides passionately working on creating a safe and fair environment.
Ramya M
Research Associate, Strategy and Finance
Ramya holds a master’s degree in commerce from Acharya Nagarjuna University and a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Osmania University. She is currently pursuing Executive Post Graduate Program in General Management from IIM Ranchi. Ramya has two and half years of combined experience in operations and process improvement at Amazon, where she contributed process improvement ideas for reducing delivery failures.
At IASCC, Ramya’s research work focuses on industry and company specific studies that explore the relationship between strategy and business performance. Currently, she is working on steel, two-wheeler, and retail industry firms. Her work also contributes to building Business Simulation products at IASCC.
Pranav Kommaraju
Research Fellow, Finance and Economics
Pranav contributes to research on financial decision making and cognitive and social processes that guide the choices. He also works on public policy choices, and the impact policy choices have on individual, family and organization choices.
Prior to joining IASCC, Pranav worked with KPMG in the Business Consulting practice, where he was involved in financial modeling, feasibility studies, and infrastructure advisory projects across energy, utilities, and transport sectors. He has also co-founded Afthonia – a crypto focused fund, where his work focused on market signals and digital asset strategy.
Apart from research, Pranav’s current work integrates insights from behavioral finance, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, aimed at building scalable tools that make financial behavior measurable and actionable.
He holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam.