Venkatesh Ganapathy

Venkatesh Ganapathy is presently Associate Professor at Presidency Business School, Bangalore. He joined academia in 2012 after an experience of two decades in the industry. He worked in Castrol India Limited (later part of BP PLC) in 1992 and proved his mettle in various roles in Research, Technical Services, Performance Management and Project Management. He has authored over 50 research papers and more than a 100 articles. His writings have been featured in the Hindu, Money Life, Arbiter, People matters. He is also an avid blogger with a deep passion for writing. The Indian authors who are his role models are Sudha Murty and Chetan Bhagat.

Venkatesh is also pursuing his doctoral program in operations (in the field of Supply Chain Management). He has authored 4 books so far - Introduction to Green Supply Chain Management, Managing Successful Innovations, Innovation Management and Management Musings - An anthology of emerging managerial concepts. His book on "Retail Marketing Management" and "Strategic Human Capital Management" are expected to be released by end of 2017.

Having qualified as a Fellow of Insurance from Insurance Institute of India, Venkatesh has won a number of awards for essays/ technical papers related to insurance. He attributes his research cravings to the institution from where he graduated with a degree in Oil Technology - University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT, now UICT) in 1992.

He is an avid Bollywood buff and a great fan of K A Abbas and K Balachander. He is also crazy about old Hindi songs and considers Rafi, Kishore and Mahendra Kapoor (playback singers) as the best the world has seen.