Shahrukh Moin Khan

Designation: Associate Professor of Practice, Masters' Union

Founder – 7 Lakes Consulting and Co-Founder – Shelflyf, driving consulting, admissions mentoring, and AI-led sustainability initiatives.

Entrepreneur and education consultant with experience across admissions consulting, placements training, business strategy, and startup execution.

Co-Founder & CEO – Shelflyf, leading AI-driven solutions focused on food waste reduction, inventory optimization, and sustainable supply chain practices.

Founder – 7 Lakes Consulting, providing end-to-end admissions and placement consulting, mentoring 250+ students for top Indian and global B-schools through SOP guidance, mock interviews, and career preparation.

Delivered placement readiness workshops across multiple B-schools, conducting mock GDs, PIs, CV workshops, and domain training sessions to enhance employability outcomes.

Previously worked with Backspace Consulting LLP, contributing to business development, market research, education transformation projects, and go-to-market strategy execution.

Early career exposure includes digital media strategy at Star TV Network (Hotstar) and academic mentoring & marketing strategy roles in education institutions.

Education:

• MBA – Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

• B.Tech – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Recognized for bridging academia, industry, and entrepreneurship, combining consulting expertise, innovation mindset, and student mentoring impact.

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Prof. Dr. Vandana Panwar

Associate Professor – PGDM Rural Management, contributing to rural development education, research, and policy-oriented management learning.

Holds a PhD in Management (Venture Capital) from Nirma University, Ahmedabad, along with PGDBM in Rural Management (IIRM Jaipur), MA in Public Administration, and BA (Hons) Economics.

Brings 21+ years of academic and teaching experience, having served at institutions including Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya (Jabalpur), Rajasthan Technical University (Kota), College of Materials Management (Jabalpur), and Xavier Institute of Development Action and Studies (XIDAS).

Actively engaged in research, consulting, and development sector projects, including CAPART and NGO project evaluations, with consulting work in water management, rural livelihoods, infrastructure development, and poverty reporting.

Serves as Reviewer – Agriculture Research Journal and member of global forums focused on Sustainable Rural Development, contributing to research dissemination and policy dialogue.

Recipient of Best Research Paper Award – International Conference (Bali, 2022), with research cited by the India Gold Policy Centre, IIM Ahmedabad.

International exposure includes participation in Student Exchange Programme – New Mexico State University (USA) and mentoring teams achieving Smart India Hackathon Grand Finale recognition (2024).

Author of the book “Venture Capital Funding: Global & Indian Experiences”, with 45+ research publications, book chapters, edited volumes, and academic contributions in development and rural management domains.

Recognized for advancing rural management education, integrating research, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and grassroots development perspectives into management learning.

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Dr. Bhattacharjee is an MBA and PhD in marketing and is associated with academics for more than one and half decades. His thought provoking opinions on enterprises, brands and their changing social and environmental roles are published on reputed and widely read platforms such as Business Insider, Economic Times-Brand Equity, and TSS. Some of his recent pieces on brand activism and marketing to the deprived markets have received significant appreciation from practitioners and academics. He is a firm subscriber of shared-value idea and believes that social and economic impact are synergistic in nature which creates a symbiotic relationship between enterprises, brands and the society.

Early in his career, he worked for Telecom behemoth, Reliance Infocomm, in Bangalore. He is a member of academic council and board of studies in few Indian Universities.

His research interest is in the social marketing domain, which predominantly deals with tools and strategies to induce a process of permanent behavioral change in the members of the society for achieving a greater or common good. He also holds keen interest in diffusion of innovation theories as this area has high proximity to social marketing. Technology Startups in deprived and low- income markets is also an area of his interest.

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