Board of Advisors

V.N. Prasad
Mr. V.N. Prasad has around 40 years of Economic and Marketing Research experience. He is well acquainted with the status and growth of SME Sector and has over 10 years’ exposure to issues related to SMEs development and growth. He has directed and conducted studies/research on SSI sector in India to help develop appropriate policies and programmes. He has authored many reports/articles/papers on SME related topics for magazines, conferences and other such events directed at SMEs.

He is an honorary Advisor to Samadhan Foundation and GSME News (an E-magazine).

Pingali Venugopal
Mr. Pingali Venugopal, has 30 years of association with the industry has worked as a consultant on various assignments with many companies. Mr. Venugopal has authored four books on Marketing and one book on Input Management in the Indian Agriculture industry, besides, various articles/reports that have been published and used for providing inputs to the government policies for the sector.

At present, Mr. Venugopal is the Associate Director, XLRI- Loyola University, Chicago and Professor (Marketing), XLRI, Jamshedpur.