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Scott Weiss

Senior Consultant and Director

Scott Weiss (Ph.D.) is a versatile professional who can enable business success through improved business processes, quality deliverables, and strategic & innovative solutions. Scott over the last 30 years has worked extensively in the fields of Quality Improvement, Learning & Development, and User Experience / Customer Experience and has served with organizations such as AT&T, Costco, Infosys, Lockheed Martin, NASA and UST Global. His industry experience includes aerospace, information technology & information services (IT / ITIS), retail, software development and telecommunications.
He has also taught science, math, and engineering courses in the U.S. and India, including classes on Total Quality Management at Indian Institute of Technology –Madras (IIT–M) and Hindustan University, Chennai.
Scott has B.E. (Electrical) and B.E. (Civil) degrees from University of Dayton, M.S.I.E. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Houston.

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V. Jyothi

Senior Consultant and Director

Over 20 years of active management experience at various levels in Customer Interface and relationship building with clients and team members. Confident and articulate speaking abilities in managing various activities with core strengths in Training & Development (Soft skills, NLP, Public Speaking), POSH&POCSO and Diversity & Inclusion.
Adept in training small and large groups across diverse sectors from Emergency Response center, Animation, Insurance, automobile sectors to Government projects.
Conceptualized, executed and delivered “Business For Non Business Professionals” programs for NIT’s and other Pvt colleges along with LifeReady Programs© for students.
Distinct and Effective Delivery of Soft Skills for the Police, various Govt aided Projects at the Centre across various States.
A certified POSH enabler, regularly conducting training and awareness sessions in corporates, on the same.

A certified POCSO trainer, imparting awareness on the same to schools and NGO’s.
Been the MC/Anchor person for various events.
Been an active member of the team training the Telangana Police on soft skills,
Visiting faculty at Telangana State Police Academy since March 2018
Empanelled with the National Institute of Social Defence, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowermentfortrainingofassociates for National Helpline for Senior Citizens.
Faculty with Madras Management Association.
Visiting Faculty, School of Management, National Institute of Technology Warangal.

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Vijay Thundi

Senior Consultant and Director

An accomplished strategic business advisory professional with passion for Consumer Business with expertise in Presently I help early-stage ventures in scale up strategy, Process execution, GTM , ready to investment stage to actual investments.

  • Expertise in P&L Management, Business Operations,
  • India entry strategy, GTM strategy & Financial Literacy
  • People Management, building future leaders
  • Leadership in rnultisector ( FMCG, Petroleum, Telecom, Media & Food N Beverage)
  • Mentoring Start up & early-stage ventures for scale up, process built up and helping raising funds

Backed with more than three decades of rich experience in consumer business, I was involved in three green field projects, two scale up projects. I have held leadership roles in all my engagements till date. With my exposure to various sectors, was successful in creating a hybrid business model, integrating best of all industries. My professional career was always demonstrated process orientation, strategic thinking, P&L responsibility, GTM expertise across country in different trade segments, expertise in start up. Few notable achievements in my long career have been crisis management due to trade boycott of NUL, India entry of Mobil Gas, Entry of Reliance Mobile & MTS in Indian telecom space & scale up business model for Paradise Biryani.
Vijay is a commerce graduate & PGDM from Mumbai university. Beyond professional life , My passion is photography, focusing on Indian culture and published photo feature on “Maha Kumbh meta” and released calendars since 2013 every year for philanthropic cause . You can reach me @ 9779775090 OR vijaykurnar.thundi@gmail.com

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K. V. Vishwanathan

Executive Director
  • Trained over 12500 executives across India, USA, Malaysia, Singapore, UK, Mexico and Philippines in leadership, communication, emotional intelligence, collaboration and thinking skills.
  • Has rich industry experience of 30+ years in Manufacturing, Financial services, Consulting, Media and IT.
  • Completed over 272 hours of one-on-one Coaching leaders across the globe.
  • Has developed an exclusive tool and framework CPS© (creative problem solving) to help Business owners, leaders from organizations and individuals in achieving their goals and addressing specific business and personal challenges.
  • Held senior level positions including:
  • Co founder and Director, Nivritti Associates LLP (current)

At Nivritti Associates LLP,

  • spearheading the conceptualizing and developing need based learning modules for persons across alllevelsoforganisation individuals.
  • designing, developing and facilitating modules for graduates and post graduates to help them becomefuturereadyindustryleaders as well as Life ready leaders.
  • Member and Licensed Trainer- National Federation of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Florida, USA ( current)
  • Head of Capability Building, Mahindra and Mahindra-AFS Division
  • Global Head-Strategic Learning and Leadership Development– UST Global
  • Global Lead- Executive Coaching and People Leadership– Satyam Computer Service
  • Training Head- South & West – Times of India Group
  • Regional Director(Hon)-India-National Bureau of Certified Consultants, San Diego USA ( Hon.)
  • Head of Investor Relations and Lead- Private Equity Deal-Merchant Banking Operations– Nagarjuna Group

Vish

  • is a Graduate in Commerce and Law and a Post Graduate in Applied Psychology.
  • holds a certificate of Global Business Leadership from U21 Global and Harvard Publishing.
  • is a diploma holder in Hypnotherapy from the School of Natural Sciences, London, UK

Vish believes that learning is continuous and we need to keep unlearning to learn and be current.

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Dr Anil Jampala

Advisor-Education Practices

Anil received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (Warangal) and a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai). Following this, he pursued a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). After receiving his Ph.D, he joined ESCA corporation (which through various acquisitions is now part of GE Vernova) as a Power Systems Engineer and retired as Senior Staff Engineer.  He is currently a Senior Director at PSC Inc. Anil was a Vice-President at Satyam Computer Services Ltd. and held leadership position at EMRI and was involved in the design, implementation and national rollout of 108 service. 

Anil has also spent over a decade in Hyderabad's IT sector and was very active in HYSEA and IEEE where he held leadership positions. Anil is a Fellow of IEEE, registered Professional Engineer in the state of Washington and has a PMP certification from Project Management Institute.  

Anil is passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and empowering Indian youth to be successful on the global stage. This manifested in creating and running an undergraduate business course for engineering students called Business for Non-Business Professionals at IIIT Hyderabad and NIT Warangal.

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Sanjay Devudu

Advisor-HR Practices

Experienced HR Professional with over 25 years in corporate sector across multiple business sectors – within and outside India.

– Exposure to IT, ITeS, Hospitality, Pharma and Automotive sectors.

– Handled entire gamut of HR function – Strategic HR, Operations HR, Talent specialist.

– Certified assessor for psychometric assessments – Insights and Harrison.

– Experienced Executive Coach and Mentor

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Keyur Shah

Business Consultant

Keyur Shah a Finance Advisory Professional with an extensive experience of 30 years in Corporate Sector as Vice President with renowned HDFC Group and Lalbhai Group. Having Expertise in Indian Stock Market Operations and various Financial Products.  Presently Director at   WealthSurge Strategies LLP.  

>  Expertise in Acquisition, Activation, Grievance Resolving, Broking and all Financial 
    Products like Insurance, Mutual Funds, Fix Income, Portfolio Management Services, etc. 

>  Corporate & HNI Dealings & Franchisee Development Business. 

>  Expert in Managing Big Teams and Business Development.  

>  Highly Analytical Skills in Operating and Executing System.  

>  Visiting Faculty as a panelist at Bombay Stock Exchange (Ahmedabad chapter) for lecture on  
    Stock Market Operations.  

>  Attended Arbitration at National Stock Exchange as well as Bombay Stock Exchange on 
    behalf of Company. 


Reach out at +91 9925526444 or Email at keyur.shah@nivrittiassociates.com

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Sreeram Subramaniam

Director - Middle East and Africa

Sreeram has two and half  decades of experience building multi-billion dollar profitable banking portfolios.

With an innate passion for mentorship and career counselling, Sreeram recognizes the essential balance between mind and body for overall success. His commitment to  excellence drives him to deliver innovative learning solutions, foster sustainable growth and empower young individuals to become empathetic, high performing leaders.

Sreeram through his venture Shiksha has created a nurturing community of life-long learners, parents, and trainers to promote enriching learning experiences.
Shiksha has provided over five million hours of live instruction and consistently maintains a very high parent satisfaction rating. Parents continually witness significant improvements in their children’s attitudes, confidence, and academic success.

Sreeram is dedicated to integrating both academic and non-academic education, embracing AI-based learning technologies, and fostering a deep sense of social responsibility in students.

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