Dr. Raghupathy Santhanakrishnan
Professor
A highly experienced Academician and Financial Expert with over 40 years of expertise in Skilled in teaching specialized finance. Implementing AI & ML projects Administration, Project Management, Financial Operations, Risk Management, and Team Leadership. Has diverse experience in Pharma manufacturing, Information Technology and Financial Risk management domains. Strong leadership abilities in managing faculty and staff, ensuring smooth operations, and promoting a safe, productive learning environment. Adept in setting strategic goals, overseeing institutional activities, and fostering teamwork to achieve organizational objectives.
- Introduce specialized electives in all areas in consultation with industry experts and enhance the placement quality.
- Improve the quality of question papers on par with global professional organizations and mentoring the students to excel both in academics, placements training and building life skills.
- Open a topic with an industry relevant example and relate the concepts to it.
- Simplify a topic relating to, day today transactions and build up to advanced concepts.
- Introduce quantitative aspect in most of the subjects.
- Solve problems on board and in spreadsheet.
- Assign projects relating to the topics.
- Collate set of articles and news items to the course and explain them.
- Bring in ethical perspectives on all the topics.
Expert in teaching in subjects:
Quantitative Finance, Alternative Investments, Fixed Income: Analysis and Valuation, Advanced Financial analysis, Strategic Financial management, Strategic Cost management, financial modelling through spreadsheets, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management.
Leadership in Business Schools and Industry
Has served as Dean at ICFAI Business School and Thiagarajar School of Management and had been the author of the PGDM program and introduced several specialised Finance subjects and innovative teaching practices. He also built the order book at Bahwan Cyber Tek Private Limited from $500K to $2M for the Financial Services practice. He has travelled widely in the Middle East region for Portfolio Management software implementation and was also the product development head. He also was Risk Management head at California Management Services Private Limited, a subsidiary of Chemoil Corporation, USA.