Advisory Board

Atul Pande A graduate of IIM Ahmadabad, has experience of over 19 years in various sectors including FMCG and consumer finance. His last assignment has been as the Managing Director of Cholamandalam DBS, a Chennai based financial services company. He has worked in Citigroup, GE Capital and P & G in various assignments previously. He is currently MD of Tensports.

Mr Atul Tandon: A graduate of IIM,Ahmedabad, He started his career with Hindustan levers and has also worked with brands like Cadburys. He has been Managing Director of J L Morrison Pvt Ltd for seven years.

He has been the Director of Mudra institute of Communication, Ahmedabad and currently he is a freelance brand consultant and is in the advisory board of many institutes.

Ms Meenakshi Neylim: A graduate NID, Ahmedabad. She has done her PhD in product innovation from Texas University and since then has worked with FIAT, Italy and has worked in various areas of innovation and user research in the automobile industry. For last 5 years she has been working as a consultant and has worked with various brands like Renault, Kodak Films, and Colgate and Palmolive.

Professor Robert Gerrad : A graduate of Royal college of Art , London, He has around 40 years of work experience in this field and has been a follower of design management for last 15 years. He has many books to his credit and has worked with various international and national brands in his life.. He has taught in BIAD , UK for more than two decades and

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Who am I:

I am a person who wanted to be a healer and wanted to have powers to heal the world in a magical sense of the word.

I wished I had power to fly and dance in air. I wish I had power to till stories all the time... As stories always amazes a human mind, numbs them of the pain in their lives , what if even if it is momentary and hence that journey took me to painting class in 12 standard and then into NID as a design manager and later into FTII as a direction student.

You see , I am also a film maker not just a design researcher. I was trained at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune in film direction. I have made several documentary films, ad films and couple of animations, and taught the various aspects of film making and design at various design, films and media institute all over India. I have taught in NIFT , Welingkar, MICA , SCMS, ASMS...... And I still do...

Teaching for me is a getaway to learn more stories and understand the social dynamics of today and changing dynamics of tomorrow's life......

I have conducted several creative writing, design management , ethnographic workshops . I feel all are end to one for me... to continuously explore about the future by learning from the world around us .... and hence there after to be able to tell stories which are magnificent, amusing and heart wrenching..... I hope i can fulfill my dreams .....