Lead Faculty

Lead Faculty

The programme will include academic sessions, projects, and guest lectures from academia and industry practitioners.
The lead faculty of DAFA are experts from the field of Finance Education, and have decades of experience in both concept and practice.

  • More than three decades of experience in executive training, teaching, consulting and research in Accounting, Finance and Information Technology.
  • Has trained more than 1000 executives across multiple organization covering both private and public sector.
  • Some of his most sought after courses are Finance for Managers and Financial Modeling.
    • Balasubramanian G
    Balasubramanian GSenior Professor,
    Advisor - Finance and Accounting
    IFMR GSB, Krea University
  • Over 25 years of FinTech and consumer financial services experience.
  • Spent more than 11 years with Capital One as a senior strategy executive.
  • Also served as head of Strategy and was a member of the senior leadership team for Capital One’s Global Financial Services (GFS) division.
    • Doug Lowenstein
    Doug LowensteinFinTech Advisor
    D’Amore McKim School of Business,
    Northeastern University
  • Has an M.S. in Mathematical Finance from Columbia University, New York, a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Purdue University, Indiana.
  • Well known and sought after for his expertise in Mathematical Finance.
  • He was invited by CRISIL for a three-month consultancy, where he worked with a team engaged in Quantitative Research.
    • Samir Ranjan
    Samir RanjanProfessor
    IFMR GSB, Krea University
  • Has a PhD in Finance from Georgia State University.
  • Research focuses on empirical corporate finance with emphasis on incentives of economic agents.
  • Just before starting his doctoral studies, he worked as an investment banker for five years.
  • Refereed for Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Financial Education.
    • Anand Venkateswaran
    Anand VenkateswaranAssociate Professor – Finance
    D’Amore McKim School of Management
    Northeastern University
  • He is a former senior banking professional with specialization in Corporate Banking, Credit & Enterprise Risk Management.
  • His work experience includes senior management roles in MNC banks in India, UK, Australia and the Middle East, brief stints in Tata Consultancy Services as their Head-Risk Management in the Banking & Financial Services Industry (BFSI) vertical and a specialized Risk Management Consultancy company, Aptivaa Consulting Co.
    • Krishnan Chidambaram
    Krishnan ChidambaramDirector - Financial Assistance,
    Senior Advisor
    IFMR GSB, Krea University
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