Nirmalya Kumar — Co-Founder

Nirmalya has “enough”! He taught at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), ISB (Hyderabad), London Business School, Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management) and Singapore Management University. Besides having been a visitor at INSEAD, BITSom, and Judge Cambridge Business School, he was also responsible for strategy at the $100 billion plus Tata group between 2013-2016.   Considered one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy and marketing, as a consultant and speaker, he has worked with over 50 Fortune 500 companies in 60 countries. He has served on 12 boards of directors including ACC, Ambuja Cement, Bata India, Tata Chemicals, Ultratech, and Zensar. Thrice included in Thinkers50 (the biannual listing of the top 50 management thinkers in the world), he received their “Global Village Award” for his contributions to the business community's understanding of globalization and emerging markets before being inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2017.   Author of 10 books, including Clash: Amazon vs Walmart, Marketing as Strategy, India Inside, Brand Breakout and Private Label Strategy. His publications, including six in Journal of Marketing Research and 10 in Harvard Business Review, have attracted 30,000 Google Scholar citations. The 2006 Academy of Management Journal article was quoted from in Oliver Williamson’s 2009 Economics Nobel Prize acceptance speech. He is recipient of two American Marketing Association awards for lifetime research contributions to marketing strategy and Interorganizational relationships. Winner of six Case Centre adoption awards and the lifetime award for Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method. Of 73,300 cases published by the Case Centre over 50 years, his cases rank 1, 14 and 28. His TED Talk on Indian innovation has 1,000,000+ views. Recognised for teaching excellence at Harvard, IMD, Kellogg, London Business School and SMU, he was included in the 50 Best B-School professors in the world (Poets & Quants) and 50 most influential Business School professors (mbarankings.com). An art lover, Nirmalya has supported exhibitions at Bauhaus Germany, Leicester Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Museo Della Culture Lugano, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, National Gallery Singapore and Tate Britain through his Bengal School 1875-1950 art collection and served on the South Asian Acquisition Committee of Tate Modern. For his patronage of South Asian Art, he received an Honorary Fellowship by University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

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Location: Singapore, Singapore

Experience: 33 yrs 7 mos