Dr Abraham Koshy,
Professor of Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Abraham Koshy, working as Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is a reputed teacher, researcher, consultant and corporate trainer. He joined IIM Ahmedabad as a faculty in 1989. At IIM Ahmedabad, he teaches in various long-duration programs such as the 2-year Post Graduate Program in Management, One-year Post Graduate Program for Executives, One-year Post Graduate Program in Public Policy and Management and the Doctoral Programme. Besides, he is also a program faculty in several short-duration executive training programs offered by the Institute and designs and conducts customized programs for companies.

 

He has held responsibilities at IIM Ahmedabad as Charperson, Marketing Area, and has also been a member of various executive committees that manage different programs and activities of the Institute such as Doctoral Program Committee, Post Graduate Program Committee, Executive Committee for the One- Year Post Graduate Program for Executives, One-Year Post Graduate Program in Public Management and Policy, Post Graduate Program in Agri Business Management, Admissions Committee, Executive Committee for Management Development Programs.

 

Professor Koshy is a co-author of the Marketing management book with marketing guru Prof. Philip Kotler and others (Marketing Management: A South Asian Perspective by Kotler, Keller, Koshy and Jha; Person Education, 2006). In addition to this book, he is a co-author of Growth and Transformations of Small Firms in India (Oxford University Press) and a co-editor of Managing Alternatives (Macmillan India Limited) and Marketing of Information Products and Services (IIM Ahmedabad).

 

Professor Koshy's general areas of expertise and research interests are on issues relating to new brand development strategies of companies, product and brand management processes, and customer relationship orientations of companies cutting across different verticals.

 

Prof. Koshy has conducted training programs and offered modules relating to Strategic Marketing and Customer Management for senior executives of several companies in India and abroad. Some of these companies include Tata Steel, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson Medical Division (Asia-Pacific), General Electric, Aviva Insurance, ST Microelectronics, Sumaria Group of Companies, Zubair Group of Companies, Mauritius Telecom, OTIS Elevator, Pfizer, British Council, Indian Oil Corporation, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Bank of Baroda, Zydus Cadilla, Mahindra & Mahindra, Apollo Tyres, HDFC Bank, Bharati Televentures, State Bank of Saurastra. He has also conducted executive training programs in countries such as Singapore, France, UK, Malaysia, Sultanate of Oman, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Kenya, Mauritius and Egypt.

 

Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at European School of Management, Paris and Glasgow University, UK. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Marketing and at Strathclyde Business School, Strahclyde University, UK.

 

He is an Independent Director in the Board of Directors of many public limited companies including Malayala Manorama Publishing Company Limited, The Federal Bank Limited & Autoline Industries Limited. He is also part of different advisory committees constituted by government organizations and industry associations.

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   SPEAKERS
*All names in alphabetical order
Dr Abraham Koshy,
Professor of Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Dr. Anadi S Pande,
Vice President, (HRM, Corporate Planning & Strategy) Hero MotoCorp Ltd.
Dr Anubha Singh,
Dean, Alliance School of Business, Alliance University, Bangalore
Dr Apoorva Palkar
President COME; & Director, SIMCA
Mr Ashok Mittal,
Chancellor, Lovely Professional University (LPU), Jalandhar
Mr Atul Dhawan,
Regional Managing Partner (North) & National Leader -Clients & Markets, Deloitte Haskins and Sells
Dr AM Sherry,
Chairman-Admissions, IMT Group & Director IMT-CDL
Dr Bala Balachandran,
Founder, Great Lakes Institute of Management
Mr Bharat Gulia,
Senior Manager, Ernst & Young & Co-author of ‘Higher Education in India’ Report
Dr Bibek Banerjee,
Director, Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad
Dr C Raj Kumar,
Vice Chancellor, OP Jindal Global University
Dr Eileen Peacock,
Senior VP & Chief Officer, Asia of AACSB International
Dr GPC Nayar,
Chairman, SCMS Group
Dr H Chaturvedi,
Director, BIMTECH
Dr Jitendra K Das,
Director, FORE School of Management
Mr Kunal Dureja,
Country Manager –Career Education, Software Group-India/SA, IBM India
Dr MJ Xavier,
Director, IIM Ranchi
Mr M Masood,
President, Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS)
Mr Madan Padaki,
Co-founder & Director, MeritTrac; & CEO, Erudient
Dr Murali Chandrashekaran,
Director, Robert H. Lee Graduate School, Sauder School of Business, UBC, Canada
Dr. Nagesh Rao
Director, MICA
Mr Nitish Jain,
President & Director, SP Jain School of Global Management
Mr P K Gupta,
Chancellor, Sharda University, Delhi NCR
Dr PV Ramana,
Chairman, ITM Group
Dr PY Agnihotri,
Director, IIM Tiruchirappalli
Dr Pandit Mali,
Director, Indira Institute of Management, Pune
Dr Pritam Singh,
Director General, International Management Institute (IMI)
Mr R C Bhargava,
Chairman, Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Dr RC Natarajan,
Director, TAPMI
Dr. R. K. Mishra,
Director, Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE)
Dr. R.Nandagopal,
Director, PSG Institute of Management
Dr. Rajan Saxena,
Vice-Chancellor, NMIMS Mumbai
Dr Rajiv K. Sinha,
Lonnie Ostrom Chair in Business, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA; & Dean, MYRA School of Business
Dr Rajani Gupte,
Director, Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB)
Dr S S Mantha
Chairman,All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Professor Said Irandoust,
President, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Ms Savita Mahajan,
Deputy Dean & CEO, ISB – Mohali
Mr. Sanjay Padode,
Secretary, IFIM Bangalore
Ms Sharon Bamford,
Chief Executive, Association of Masters in Business Administration (AMBA), UK
Dr Soumitra Dutta,
Dean Designate, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Prof. Stephen Rawlinson,
Academic President, JRE Group of Institutions
Mr. T.K Srirang,
Senior General Manager, Human Resources Management Group, ICICI Bank.
Mr Vijay K Thadani,
CEO, NIIT Limited & Co-Founder, NIIT University
Mr Vivek Agarwal,
Chief Executive Officer, Liqvid
Dr.Zhou Lin,
Dean, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jaio Tong University, Shanghai, China