Designation: Director
Prof. (Dr.) Shailesh Rastogi holds a Ph.D. in Finance. He is a management graduate from the National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (MNNIT) and has a PhD in Management (Finance) from MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.
Dr Rastogi is no stranger to the world of academia, he has impressive 23 years of experience in academic, research, and administrative roles. His expertise includes conducting MDPs on Panel Data Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Financial Analytics using spreadsheets & VB and Corporate Valuation.
He is a prolific researcher with more than 210 research papers published in national and international journals of high repute which are indexed in Scopus, Web of Science and ABDC.
In addition, Dr Rastogi has more than 11 research scholars who have completed their doctorate under his supervision. His areas of interest for teaching are Analytics (Financial Econometrics, Financial Modelling using Spreadsheet and VB, Financial Data Analytics using Python) and Corporate Valuation and Corporate Finance. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Dr Rastogi is an active contributor to social and spiritual causes, adding a unique dimension to his approach to education.
Email Id: director@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Dy. Director
Rajesh Vaidya holds PhD in Management and specializes in the areas of Marketing and sales management, Corporate grooming, Campus recruitment, Personality Development , soft skill training and Training for teachers.
He Has Total work experience of 38 years out of which 19 years’ experience in the field of Academics and 19 years in Pharmaceutical and Insurance industry in various leadership positions.
His Research include 62 Publications in international Journals, out of which 15 are Scopus indexed and 10 in Web of science. he has recently been awarded Lifetime achievement award for Research,
in the 10th International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine, as well as received award for consistent research for last 3 years by management of Shri Ramdeobaba college of engineering and management, Nagpur.
Email id: dydirector@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation:Professor
Qualification: PhD, MBA, B Com
Dr. Nikhil Arun Polke is a retail consultant and trainer with expertise in marketing and human resources. His career spans both industry and academia, with specialization in store operations, team management, vendor negotiations, and public speaking. Dr. Polke has a proven track record of coordinating between regional and head offices, developing new business opportunities, and enhancing store performance through effective staff training.
In addition to his work in retail, Dr. Polke has significant achievements in academia. He has been involved in training and development, managing academic and administrative tasks, and organizing seminars, conferences, and industry visits. His contributions include publishing research papers and a book on Marketing Management, being an approved Assistant Professor, MBA Syllabus Moderator, and MBA Exam Valuator by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) since 2014. He is an active participant in placement activities and the research cell of his institute, driven by his belief in the LEAP Theory (Leadership, Education, Achievement & Personal Growth). Dr. Polke has also presented papers at national and international conferences and published work in UGC-listed and Scopus-indexed journals.
Email Id: nikhilpolke@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Associate Professor
Sonal Purohit is a faculty of marketing at SIBM Nagpur. A gold medallist in her graduation she comes with an experience of over 14 years in prestigious institutes across India. She was
associated with MICA, Ahmedabad as a postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Learning & Innovative Pedagogy. She had attended a FDP program at IIM Ahmedabad rendering her the
alumna status.
She has published impactful research papers in the marketing area in indexed and internationally ranked journals. Her cases are listed in Harvard Business Publishing, Ivey and IIM-A case
centre. Her areas of research interest are consumer behaviour, artificial intelligence in marketing and services marketing.
Email Id: sonal.purohit@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Smruti Patre is a faculty of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour. She is a gold medalist in B.Tech-Textile, She comes with over 17 years of teaching experience.
She teaches courses like HRM, Learning & development, Talent management, Performance Management system, Organizational Behaviour etc.
She has published several research papers in reputed international Journals. Her research areas include Industrial psychology, Talent Management, etc.
She was the recipient of the Best Faculty- teaching, Best Faculty- Research and Best Faculty- Maximum Commitment and contribution to the Institute award at
SIBM Nagpur.
Email Id: smruti.patre@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Dr. Pallawi Sangode is a faculty in the area of Operations and Supply Chain Management. She has over 15 years of teaching experience. Being a hardcore engineer in “electronics” and further with “production and materials management” as her specialization, her research interest includes sustainability and green supply chain. She has published several research papers in journals of high repute indexed in Scopus and WoS. She has been recently awarded a funded project from SIU on the project based on blood supply chain.
She teaches courses such as Operations Management, Quality Management, Theory of Constraints, Supply Chain Risks and Reliability Management, Operations Research, and Outsourcing and IT Delivery Models.
Email Id: pallawi.sangode@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Soma Sharma is a faculty of HRM. She has 18 years of teaching experience. She has Completed her MBA in HR and Marketing from ICFAI University and has Qualified PhD and UGC- NET in 2013. She is Proficient in Training and Development Activities and has collaborated with many PSUs and corporates for conducting MDP’s with various industries at National Platform.
She has Received several prestigious awards like – Best teacher award by Global Teaching excellence awards 2022. Received India Prime women Icon award for ‘Top 100 women Icon’ 2021, presented by Fox clues. She has also Received Best Professor Award in Business Administration Studies by 27th Business School Affaire & Dewang Mehta National Education Awards in July 2019. She was awarded Copyright by GOI in 2019. She teaches courses like Industrial Relations, Labour Laws, Business Law etc.
Email Id: soma.sharma@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Arif Abad is a faculty of Food and Agri business and has an experience of around 2 years in Teaching. He holds a Ph.D Degree in Agricultural Economics and Business Management and has completed MBA with Agribusiness Management specialization both from Aligarh Muslim University.
He is a Qualified UGC JRF (Management) of 2019. He specializes in Food and Agri-Business Management and his interests include Advances in Agri-Business, Agricultural Marketing, Food Branding etc. His research area revolves around food marketing, green supply chain management, brand management, agricultural marketing channels.
Email Id: arif.abad@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Rimjhim Jha is a faculty of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour. She has a total working experience of around 14 years.
She has research papers of national and international repute indexed in Scopus and ABDC. She is In charge of website management.
She teaches Organizational Development and Change and Leadership, Conflict and Negotiation and other courses from the area of Human Resource Management.
She received Award for Best faculty admin responsibility and Best Faculty for maximum commitment and devotion to SIBM Nagpur in 2023-24.
Email Id: rimjhim.jha@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Vinod Surange is a faculty of Operations Management. He brings a wealth of expertise with over 15 years of combined experience in industry and academia. He holds Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai and completed specialized Ph.D. coursework at IIT Bombay. He has made significant scholarly contributions, authoring 16 papers published in prestigious international journals and conference proceedings, including those by Springer and Inderscience. His research interests span Supply Chain Management, Quality and Reliability Engineering and Production and Operations Management.
He has successfully completed a minor research project sanctioned by the University of Mumbai. He is also a co-principal investigator for an ongoing minor research project at SIU. He teaches courses like Materials Management, Operations Strategy and Control, Lean Six Sigma, ERP Modules and their integration etc.
Email Id: vinod.surange@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Ashok Patil is a faculty of Finance . He has an experience of more than 16 years in academics and 6 years in industry. He is tech savvy and is well versed with programming languages like R, SPSS Eviews, Latex, etc. His Research interest is in asset pricing and market efficiency. His focus lies in application of Econophysics methods such as Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis to Finance.
He teaches courses like Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Financial Derivatives, International Finance, Financial Modelling etc. He is alumnus of IIM Calcutta and College of Engineering, Pune.
Email Id: ashok.patil@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Ganesh Rede is a faculty with a specialization in Agricultural Economics. He has a total working experience of around 7 years. He teaches courses related to Food & Agriculture Management. He holds Ph.D. from BCKV Mohanpur, West Bengal. He is a Qualified ICAR JRF (2011) and ICAR ASRB NET (2023) in Agricultural Economics.
He has been Honored with the Best Young Researcher and Young Scientist Award. He has Authored several Research papers, book chapters and books in esteemed publications.
Email Id: ganesh.rede@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Palaniappan is a faculty of Finance. He has a total working experience of around 19 years out of which 14 years in academics and 5 years in Industry. He teaches courses like Security Analysis , Portfolio Management and Business Simulation.
He did his Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from Bharathiar University. He is NCMP-Level-2 certified. He did UGC-NET and SLET in Management. He has published around 18 papers in various conferences and journals of which some are in ABDC-Scopus indexed journals.
Email Id: s.palaniappan@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Jagjeevan Kanoujiya is a faculty of Finance. He holds Ph.D. from SIBM Pune and has completed MBA in Financial Management from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He holds B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from CSJM University Kanpur.
He has done many International Certificate Courses from World’s esteemed university like Yale University USA, Stanford University USA, University of Michigan USA, State University of New York, Hong Kong University of Engineering and Technology and Bacconi University Italy.
He is qualified NET-JRF (Management) three times and GATE (Computer Science) five times in a row.
He is a prolific researcher. His area of research interest revolves in corporate finance, financial inclusion, FinTech, blockchain, financial markets etc. He has more than 55 research papers published in internationally reputed journals indexed or abstracted in ABDC A, Scopus Q1, ABS, and WOS. He has been honoured with International Best Researcher Award 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Email Id: jagjeevan.kanoujiya@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification: B.E., M.S., Ph.D.
Pulkit Marwah is a faculty of marketing at SIBM-Nagpur. He is an alumnus of Panjab University (Chandigarh) and Texas A&M University (USA). With a diverse background in Agribusiness, Applied Economics and Biotechnology, Dr. Marwah has experience in various domains of Agriculture, Food, CPG/FMCG, Pharmaceuticals. He has contributed to the corporate strategy for a $5 billion-dollar Californian company in the agribusiness industry. He has published impactful research papers, and contributed to conference presentations, at an international level. His areas of research interests include Agribusiness, Product Development, Consumer Behaviour and Insights, Market Research, and Strategy.
Email Id: pulkit.marwah@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification: Ph.D.
Dr. Prakash Bhongade is an accomplished professional with 22 years of experience in both corporate and academic sectors within the IT industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Management, an M.Sc. in Computer Science, an MCA, an MBA, and is qualified by SET. In addition, he is an Oracle Database SQL Certified Associate from Oracle University. Currently, Dr. Bhongade serves as the Information Officer at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIU Nagpur Campus). His passion for teaching and continuous learning keeps him at the forefront of IT advancements.
Email Id: prakash.bhongade@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Anish Buche is associated with SIBM Nagpur as a Faculty for Finance.
He has teaching experience of 3 years and over a decade of professional experience in the fields of Financial Analysis, Investment Banking, M&A and Corporate Finance.
His past roles consists of holding senior management role in Investment Banking organization and also a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Wealth Manager (CWM) and cleared CFA Level -1
Email Id: anish-buche@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Dr. Rahul Singh Gautam, Ph.D
Faculty of Finance
Designation: Assistant Professor
Rahul Singh Gautam has holds Ph.D in finance from SIBM, Pune. He has qualified M.Phil in finance from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University , Lucknow. He has completed MBA in finance from Dr. Shakuntala Misra National University, Lucknow. He has Qualified SIU Senior Research Fellowship and Junior Research Fellowship. He is prolific researcher and work in the area of finance. His research interest is focused on exploring and leveraging financial inclusion, financial technology, sustainable development goals, corruption, and government financial services to improve equitable access to financial services for the poor and rural development, etc.
He has presented and published many research papers in national and international conferences and journals which are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and are Abstracted in ABDC. He has also Published Book Chapters in Management He has also reviewed research papers from journals of high repute and many IEEE Conferences which is indexed in Scopus.
Email Id: rahul.singh@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification: MSc Food and Nutrition, Research Scholar, Pacific University Udaipur, Rajasthan
Shounak Nazar serves as an Adjunct Faculty at SIBM Nagpur, where he teaches MBA students specializing in Food and Agribusiness Management. With an extensive career spanning 25 years, he brings a wealth of experience in academics, the food industry, and entrepreneurship. A qualified Chef and Nutritionist, Mr. Nazar has a profound passion for New Food Product Development.In addition to his academic role, he has been a Counsellor for IGNOU’s MSc Dietetics and Food Service Management program for the past 14 years. As a professional trainer, he has collaborated with Durga Caterers to provide culinary and food safety training to the catering staff of Mahindra & Mahindra Nagpur and Forest Ranger College Chandrapur.
Mr. Nazar has also contributed to eco-tourism initiatives, working on a project with the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra at Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Nagpur. As a Diabetic Educator, he has provided honorary dietary consultation at Vivekananda Medical Mission. Currently, he is associated with Apanga Mahila Bal Vikas Sanstha Nagpur, focusing on the production of organic therapeutic food products. He has also trained numerous health workers and nurses in culinary nutrition, showcasing his commitment to advancing health and wellness in the community.
Email Id: shounak_nazar@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Mr. Gautam Ghosh
Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification: PGDM, IIM Calcutta, B.Tech, IIT Kanpur
Email Id: gautam_ghosh@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Research Interests & Expertise: (a) Marketing: Service Marketing/Product & Brand Management/Strategic Marketing/Sales & Channel Management (b) Strategic Management: Competitive Strategy
Dr Zericho R. Marak
Designation: Assistant Professor
Qualification: M.Com, MBA, PhD, UGC-NET JRF/SRF
Dr. Zericho R. Marak is an Assistant Professor at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Nagpur. He holds a PhD from Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, and has extensive academic credentials, including an MBA from Liverpool Business School (UK) and a postgraduate degree in Commerce from North Eastern Hill University. He has also earned UGC-NET JRF and SRF fellowships during his doctoral studies.
With over 7 years of experience in academia, including 3+ years of teaching and 5+ years of research experience, Dr. Marak specializes in supply chain finance, working capital management, SMEs financing, and financial technology innovation. He has published extensively in international journals and has served as a reviewer for several high-quality publications.
His key skills include financial accounting, management accounting, financial statement analysis, and data analysis using tools such as SPSS, R, Python, SQL, Tableau, and Power BI. Dr. Marak is proficient in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, including PLS-SEM and thematic analysis.
In addition to his academic work, he has acted as a guest faculty at various institutions and served as the assessment coordinator at the University of the People, USA. His research has been recognized through grants and numerous conference presentations, particularly in the fields of supply chain finance, factoring, and innovation diffusion.
Email Id: zericho.marak@sibmnagpur.edu.in
Designation: Assistant Professor
Sathish Kumar M holds Ph.D. in Agribusiness Management from Anand Agricultural University, Anand. He has completed MBA in Agribusiness Management from Junagadh Agricultural University and has qualified UGC- NET (Management). He has worked with ABC Fruits Pvt Ltd, Krishnagiri and an international research experience from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Nepal.
He has more than 30 research papers published in internationally reputed journals indexed in Scopus, WoS and NAAS rating. He has Authored book and some book chapters. He has been honored with Young Scientist Award from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. His research areas are Agricultural Marketing, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Finance, Agricultural Statistics, Irrigation and Water Management and Renewable Energy (Solar).
Email Id: satish.kumar@sibmnagpur.edu.in
CA Premlata Saboo
Designation: Adjunct Faculty
Qualification: B.Com, FCA, LCS, DISA (ICAI), Registered Valuer (SFA)
Premlata is a Chartered Accountant and educator with expertise in Financial Accounting. As the youngest faculty at NADT, she has taught over 10 batches of IRS officers and conducted 500+ sessions on financial investigation. A partner at GTA & Co. LLP and an Independent Director on a company board, she is also involved in ICAI committees, including Direct Tax, IND AS, Valuation, and CPE.
Honored as the Star Woman of WIRC 2024, she co-founded FLQ Knowledge Foundation to promote financial literacy. Her teaching combines practical insights and strong foundational knowledge to deliver impactful learning.is a Chartered Accountant and educator with expertise in Financial Accounting. As the youngest faculty at NADT, she has taught over 10 batches of IRS officers and conducted 500+ sessions on financial investigation. A partner at GTA & Co. LLP and an Independent Director on a company board, she is also involved in ICAI committees, including Direct Tax, IND AS, Valuation, and CPE. Honored as the Star Woman of WIRC 2024, she co-founded FLQ Knowledge Foundation to promote financial literacy. Her teaching combines practical insights and strong foundational knowledge to deliver impactful learning.
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Dr. Nivedita Jha is an accomplished academician with over 16 years of experience in higher education. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor at SIBM Nagpur, where she brings a wealth of knowledge and practical insights to her students. Her research interests primarily focus on Employee Experience, Team Building, and Organizational Excellence.
Dr. Jha has authored numerous research papers in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals and presented her work at prominent national and international conferences. Her scholarly contributions have earned recognition within the academic community. Notably, she was honored with the Emerald Literati Award in 2020 for her exceptional paper, “Employee Engagement for Millennials: Considering Technology as an Enabler,” published in Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal.
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