The MYRA School of Business, Mysore, set up in 2012 under the aegis of the Mysore Royal Academy (MYRA), offers AICTE approved 2-year PGDM, one year PGPX, customised executive education and PhD Programs.
Three IIM Fellows have joined MYRA as faculty in Finance, Operations Management, and Organisational Behaviour. They are Dr. Sudhir Kamath (Finance), Prof. Sivakumar S (PhD) (Operations Management) and Dr. Aparna Venugopal (Organizational Behaviour).
Dr. Kamath is a Fellow in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, with a specialization in Finance, and Masters of Management Studies from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.
Apart from a brilliant academic record, he has more than two decades of experience in private equity/venture capital/projects/leasing areas in India. He is also well versed in the full-fund cycle, debt as well as equity transactions.
Prior to his stint in private equity, Dr. Kamath worked for eight years in ICICI as a Project Officer and as Leasing Manager to corporate clientele. He has led and managed investments in over 50 companies as VP (Investments) in ICICI Ventures; served as Founding Partner/Director of Global Technology Ventures; worked as Managing Director with 2i Capital; and as Director of Brand Capital at BCCL.
At BCCL, he achieved significant milestones for Brand Capital-South whose growth increased by over 100% both in terms of deals sanctioned and actual advertising spend by portfolio companies.
He has contributed to some marquee deals at Cafe Coffee Day, Big Basket, and Caratlane; maintained the leadership position in the real estate space in Bangalore and Hyderabad. Over the years, he has served on the Boards of over 20 companies across sectors, and on the Investment Committees of all the funds he was involved with and currently also serves as Independent Director on the Board of Sical Logistics Limited, Chennai.
He joins MYRA as associate professor of Finance.
Prof. Sivakumar S (PhD) is soon to be awarded doctoral fellow in Production and Operations Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has a PG Diploma in Management from IIM, Bangalore, and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Trichy.
Prof. Sivakumar has 14 years of IT industry experience with Wipro Technologies including 7 years of international experience in Europe and the US.
During his tenure with Wipro, he has been in diverse roles including software delivery management, project management, account management, mining sales, domain competency development, and corporate training.
He is the recipient of several academic and professional awards and honours – the winner of SAP Labs Merit Scholarship award during his doctoral program at IIM, Bangalore; the winner of Director’s Merit List (DML) award for his academic performance at both doctoral level and post-graduation level at IIM, Bangalore.
He joins MYRA as assistant professor of Operations Management.
Dr. Aparna Venugopal has a doctoral degree in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. She has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and holds the First Rank for MBA from University of Calicut 2010.
Her PhD thesis is on ‘Enabling mechanisms of top management team processes for organizational ambidexterity in SMEs’ strongly anchored in the themes of strategic management and organizational design of innovations.’
She brings strong quantitative methods to behavioural sciences and problem solving in businesses. She has an excellent academic record, and significant research experience having publications in national and international conferences/journals.
Dr. Venugopal has a number of academic and professional awards to her credit, including full grant from Oikos Academy -“Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy” held at Zurich in January 2015. She joins MYRA as assistant professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management.
MYRA adds intellectual diversity in the classroom by bringing faculty from some of the top B Schools in the world such as Cornell, Kellogg, Cambridge, IIMs and others.
Its Study abroad program partners include W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, US; Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal; The University of Washington, Bothell, US; Dalhousie University, Canada; and the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany.
