An alumnus of Asian Institute of Management Manila Philippines, Prof. (Dr.) Dilip Nandkeolyar is a Management post graduate, specialized in Marketing and Strategic Planning & is a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry. He has a Doctoral degree from Thapar University, Patiala.   The topic of his thesis was “Marketing Strategies and Business Planning amongst Small and Medium Enterprises in this era of Globalization with special reference to Automotive Sector”

Beginning November 15, 1976, Dr. Nandkeolyar has had varied hands-on, bottom-up combined professional experience of over 43 years in the field in Industry, Consulting, Research, Training and Teaching. His exposure has been in both domestic and international professional environments – having been a Manager and various level for over 31 years of which 22 have been at the Senior/Top Levels. He has been deeply involved in career planning and development of his team mates, in a variety of cross functional and multi-racial workforce, both within India and abroad as the key factor in ensuring organizational success. It may be pertinent to add in his working career after 1984 that Dr. Nandkeolyar has always been a part of the core teams that contributed to turning around organizations either as a direct employee of a Company or as a business consultant to for-profit/not-for-profit Organizations.

Besides actively being involved in Research, Training and Consulting activities in the SMEs sector, he has a teaching experience of nearly 13 years in a variety of B-Schools across the country. His areas of interest are Entrepreneurship and SMEs Development, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Retailing, Rural Marketing, Service Marketing and Branding.

Dr. Nandkeolyar has until recently been a Professor at Christ (deemed to University) at the Lavasa Campus. He has written several research papers, case studies and book chapters published in National/International Journals. Besides having hosted national and international Conferences, Dr. Nandkeolyar has also participated in several National and International Conferences and has been awarded several times for his works. Dr. Nandkeolyar is a regular keynote speaker in conferences and seminar, besides having been a panelist on several occasions and has conducted a few workshops relating the Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Branding.

In his free time, Dr. Nandkeolyar likes to listen to music, watch films and generally socialize with friends and family. Occasionally, he writes short stories and poems, which have been published.

The guiding philosophy behind all the endeavours of Dr. Nandkeolyar has always been to succeed because his Employers, Peers, Subordinates, Customers, Clients, Students/Trainees or anyone choosing to associate with him must – by delivering value plus.