The Board of Management

Suresh Ramani

Vice-Chancellor I/c

• Alumnus – IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore
• President – Sricity Education Foundation; former Chief Commercial Officer at DP World
• 3+ decades across supply chain, logistics and consulting with senior roles at TVS Supply Chain, TCS and Whirlpool

K. Nagabhushan Raju

Pro-Vice-Chancellor

• Commonwealth British Fellowship for doctoral research at UMIST, Manchester, UK
• Founder Director of an Atal Incubation Centre under NITI Aayog
• 32+ years in academia with 110+ publications and 18 PhD scholars guided; recipient of A.P State Scientist and Teacher Awards
• Early Career at Tata Energy Research Institute

Gopi Santhanam

• Deputy Dean & Director – School of Nova Media at Sricity International University
• 30+ years across Branding, Telecom, Advertising and Digital Transformation; Marketing Leadership at Airtel
• IICA-certified Independent Director; expertise in Web3, Blockchain and emerging media technologies

Sathishkumar Thangaiah

• Deputy Dean – School of Technology & AI at Sricity International University. Alumnus NIT (Trichy)
• 28+ years in higher education with leadership roles in AI, cloud computing and national accreditation initiatives
• Published 15+ Scopus/Web of Science research papers and filed 3 patents; former State Head of a Government of India skill development program

Ritesh R Bhatt

• Deputy Dean – School of Advanced Manufacturing at Sricity International University
• Editor-in-Chief of a Scopus-indexed engineering journal
• International academic experience in Industrial automation, Robotics and Lean manufacturing
• Published 3 Books, 45 Scopus-indexed journals, 9 Scopus-indexed proceedings, 13 Scopus-indexed editorial prefaces

Ranganadha Raju V
(Venu Raju)

• Alumnus of IIT Madras, Duke University, Rice University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Specialist in geotechnical engineering, sustainability and infrastructure systems
• Technical Director & Board Member for Keller Group Plc.
• Led global engineering operations and innovation across 40+ countries

M.K. Badrinarayanan

• Associate Dean – School of Business at Sricity International University
• Ph.D in Competitiveness of MSME Clusters and MBA in Finance & Systems; University Rank Holder and three-time Gold Medalist
• Academic leader with over 20 years of experience in higher education, institutional leadership and industry-academia collaboration
• Expert in academic strategy, accreditation, research and entrepreneurship
• 22 Scopus-indexed publications and six Ph.D scholars guided

Srinivas Rao Mahankali
(MSR)

• Alumnus – IIM Bangalore
• Former CEO – T-Hub, one of the world’s largest startup innovation ecosystems
• Co-Founder & CEO of a leading cybersecurity company (acquired by NSEIT); nearly 4 decades across IT services and innovation ecosystems

Padma Kiran Rao

• Alumnus – XLRI Jamshedpur; IICA-certified Independent Director and Executive Coach
• Senior Director & Head – HR Global Operations and R&D Centres at Kantar (across 6 countries)
• 35+ years of global HR leadership, including senior roles at Société Générale, Deloitte, and Cognizant

Manikandan

Professor

• Director, Industry Partnerships, Sricity International Unviersity
• PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
• Professor at VIT with 23+ years of leadership in industry partnerships, curriculum design, placements and skill development initiatives
• Recognised for pioneering AI-driven education ecosystems

Vijay Kumar

Registrar I/c

• Ph.D. in Computer Science with research expertise in Deep Learning, Computer Vision & Cognitive Computing.
• Academic administrator and technology mentor with 17+ years of experience in higher education
• Expertise in Artificial Intelligence & Academic Digitisation.