Prof. Ramachandran Kallankara

Ramachandran Kallankara is a visiting faculty in Executive Education Programs at Mahindra University. He has extensive experience in IT consulting in the supply chain and Analytics domains. He has set up businesses providing analytics services for clients in the manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, HR industries. He was a founder CEO of a company that built a recruitment platform bringing together the candidate/job seekers and the organization/ jobs, all on one platform. He drove the product road map, business strategies and customer acquisition strategies. Mr. Kallankara started his IT career at Infosys. He was a key contributor in setting up the Enterprise Solutions practice, focusing on enterprise package related services. He is currently a partner at Value Qwest, a boutique consulting firm in the supply chain domain

He is currently involved in:

• Supply Chain capability development programs for a wide variety of individuals. The aim is to develop industry-ready supply chain professionals who are new to the industry, as well as continuing education for the senior supply chain professionals.
• Developing thought leadership in new areas such as sustainability

Mr. Ramachandran Kallankara also holds a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a B.Tech from IIT Madras

Prof. Ganapathy S. Nathan

Ganapathy S. Nathan is a visiting faculty member in Executive Education Programs at Mahindra University. He has nearly 35 years’ industry experience in managerial and leadership roles in India and the US (Asian Paints (I) Ltd. and Wipro Ltd., primarily). Supply Chain: Decorative and Industrial Paint Sales and Distribution Management (operational role with zonal responsibilities at AP). ERP: product development, presales, and solutioning across multiple major ERP products (SAP, Oracle, and Ramco) in Supply Chain and Asset management domains. Consulting: ERP selection, business process mapping and reengineering, application consolidation, and business benefit realization, primarily in SCM domain. Open Innovation: organization-wide innovation and IP management, incubation of tech start-up partnerships for Wipro. Emerging tech IP creation (Blockchain, Robotics and AI) with a focus on operations and customer experience.

His current focus is on

• SCM’s capability development programs with a wide range of industry leaders in consumer products, retail, chemicals, and infotech domains. (Senior, Mid-Career and Junior executive segments)
• ERP Strategy Advisory and Consulting, with a focus on transformation benefits realization