We Communicate Your Leadership Thoughts
We Communicate Your Leadership Thoughts
Rajesh Puneyani , Senior Director, Lowes India
As organizations compete in a more worldwide market, they need leaders who are adept at navigating international situations where local conventions, cultural subtleties, and foreign stakeholders frequently influence business results. A leader with international experience will have dealt with people from many various cultural backgrounds. That kind of environment fosters the kind of highly evolved leaders like Rajesh Puneyani, who have honed their abilities to adapt, listen, process solutions, and mitigate risk with international experience. Rajesh has been working in the IT field since 1996, making him a seasoned veteran of the sector. Rajesh has worked with multiple Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) firms and has experience in a wide range of sectors. In addition to his work in India, Rajesh has extensive experience in the US, having worked for several notable firms where he was responsible for infrastructure development, business operations, and service management.
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Top 10 IIM Kozhikode Alumni Leaders – 2022
In this evolving tech & digital world, business management has become increasingly complex, and working around the functionalities of changing business environ has become far more intricate. It is necessary that an able leader equipped with industry knowledge and skills to lead the change management scope within the businesses for greater growth being future-ready.
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM Kozhikode or IIMK) is an autonomous public business school located in Calicut (Kozhikode), Kerala, that efficiently nurtures the individuals to become productive business leaders of tomorrow leveraging its curative course curriculum. Set up in 1996, by the Government of India in collaboration with the State Government of Kerala, the institute is one of the 20 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), however of all, it was the fifth IIM to be established. Spread over about 112.5 acres of land, the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, is situated on two hillocks in the Kunnamangalamarea of ancient city of Calicut in Kerala. IIM Kozhikode was the first institute in Asiato offer an intense and rigorous learning programme in management for working executives, through a blended hybrid model.
Having started with 300 class contact hrs in 2001–02, the year-long Executive Management Education programme is today the most-sought available in the country having 850+ class contact hours equal to the PGP-BL one year model. Moreover, the Management Development programme was also introduced the same year in IIM Kozhikode. The institute has a world class infrastructure, and hosts a fully automated Library & Information Center (LIC) which is one of the Centers of Development of Digital Libraries in the world. With such advanced educational curriculum and defined infrastructure for students, IIM Kozhikode has nurtured a team of business management professionals, over the years, and they are placed at good leading companies today leveraging their extensive skills.
In this issue of the CEO Insights magazine, a list of ‘Top 10 IIM Kozhikode Alumni Leaders - 2022' is provided to the readers in corporate and different sectors, for informing on the excellent services leveraged by the Leaders in diverse domains. The listing is prepared by a team of industry veterans, CEOs and VCs, and the CEO Insights magazine editorial board.
Our subscribers play a decisive role in finalization of our annual list of "Top 10 IIM Kozhikode Alumni Leaders – 2022" by nominating those which have served them with excellence and are praiseworthy. If you feel there is a company that deserves to be on our annual list, do write to us about them mentioning their value proposition.
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Ajit Raghavan, Director- Sales, Asia | Ramcro | As an alumnus of one of the prestigious management institution of India, avers that he owes a fair share of his professional success to his alma mater IIM Kozhikode from where he had completed his MBA in Marketing & Strategy Management |
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Amit Panda, Co-Founder | Shelff | An avid entrepreneur, explorer, and reader provides a retail platform for emerging brands to make the products reach the right place |
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Anand Vijay, Co-Founder | By Hand Delivery | A serial entrepreneur with over five years of experience in the FMCG industry and is a ‘Smart Fifty’ winner, wherein IIM Kolkata Innovation Park listed his startup among the top promising startups in the country |
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Anit Mehrotra, Director & CEO | Sgdc India | An industry leader in the field of Golf Course Infrastructure, Development, and Management within the Indian Peninsula with over 25 Years of Service and also a great negotiator, Business Planner, Team Builder, and Sports enthusiast |
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Archana Vasudevan, Founder | Coco Oosh | A Corporate Banker for 14+ years, has handled large & mid corporate portfolio with sales and profit targets, dealt with promoters and executives for business development and managed multiple product teams |
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Arpit Pareek, Co-Founder & COO | Eduncle | An enthusiastic about trying various fields with major field of interest are Marketing, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, History, Chess and football |
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Diksha Singh, CEO | Stree | A first-time entrepreneur and is hungry to learn and unlearn, has Sales, Marketing, and Product Management experience with an engineering degree in Computer Science and MBA from IIM Kozhikode |
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Lalit Ananth Chawla, CEO | Oremus Corporate Services | A Chartered Accountant and a consultancy expert in the field of finance, his experience and knowledge make him an insightful leader whose idea is to serve financial solutions with higher efficiency |
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Rajesh Puneyani, Senior Director | Lowes India | A technology leader with 26 years of global experience in building up, establishing, and directing GCC/GCOE activities, Global Operations Governance and Management, for multinational corporations |
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Shruti Gotarkar , Co-Founder | Chota Pakoda | An IT engineer turned MBA graduate turned entrepreneur who is using her skills to make unique pet products |
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