Dr. Tarun Panwar
CEO, Indian Retail School.
PhD, MBA and has studied Retail at State University of New York
He has around 20 years of experience in academics and Industry with leading brands in India and US. He has also worked in Nautica headquarters in New York. He has keen interest in Retailing research and has presented several papers in Inter¬national conferences. His recent research papers in international conferences are (1) 'Globalization of Fashion Retailing presented in Tokyo, Japan 2005’, (2).’Retailing Luxury Online', presented in North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, 2006, (3) Online Simulation Games, pre¬sented in RMIT University Melbourne, (4) Fashion Business Intelligence System, presented in Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Mr. Aloke Mukherjee
Mr. Mukherjee is an Economics (Hons) graduate and has international diploma in Principles of Supervisory Management from American Management Association. He has also done a diploma in Footwear Technology and Salesmanship from Footwear Institute of Canada. He is seasoned retail professional having 35 Years of working experience in Retail Marketing of footwear, accessories, garments with emphasis on Retailing, Merchandising, Store Operations, Brand Management in Bata, Woodland and Duckback. He was also involved in Trading, Hire-Purchase, Franchising and Retailing of Consumer Durables with Peerless Finance.
Ms. Meenakshi Sehgal
Recipient of the coveted “Shiksha Rattan Puraskar” for the year 2011, conferred by India International Friendship Society (IIFS).
PGCHE from Nottingham Trent University, UK, MA from JNU and a PGDM in International Business.
Ms Meenakshi has strong retail operations and management experience of over 15 years combined with knowledge of global retail market. In addition to being a faculty member at JNU in the past, she has led operations team with leading brands like Oswal, Ebony and Big Jo's. She has been with IRS for over 5 years as a senior faculty and has expertise in Buying and Merchandising, Mall Management, Fashion Retailing and Luxury Retailing. She has also conducted specialized training capsules for various corporate houses.
Her recent research paper in International Conference is “The Role of Luxury Fashion in Reviving Heritage Fashion Arts” presented in Paris 2011.
Ms. Surbhi Jain
PGCHE from Nottingham Trent University, UK. A Post Graduate in FRM from PAF. She is also trained in Mock-shop and Fashion Designing from IIFT, Delhi.
Ms. Surbhi is a keen professional with more than 8 years of experience. She has more than 2 years in Retail Operations with leading brands like Gini & Jony, USI and has over 6 years of experience in Training & Development with IRS, IIFT and DIFT. She has been associated with IRS for over 5 years as a faculty in Retail Environment, Store Operations, Retail Selling Skills, Customer Service, Fashion Retailing, Visual Merchandising and Luxury Retailing. She is also actively involved in corporate training programs.
Ms Alka Gupta
M.Com, B.Com(Hons.), B.Ed.
Ms. Alka is a keen professional with more than 10 years of experience in teaching. She has done her Masters from Hansraj College (Delhi University) and has been teaching subjects like Economics, Accountancy, Statistics, Business Environment for many years. She has been associated with various Educational institutions for last many years. Erudition is important to her, it signals genuine intellectual curiosity.
Mr. Firoz Khan
MBA, Marketing
Mr. Khan has wide experience in Retail Operations having worked with Medimix, Subhiksa and Ninety Nine General Retail for over 9 years and is exposed to various aspects of hard core retailing. He has expertise in developing & managing Retail Channels for increased market share, revenue and profits. He excels in analytical and interpersonal skills.
Prof. Sham Sharma
M.A. from Lucknow, DIM from University of North London
Prof. Sharma has wide experience of 30 years in Marketing of Liquors - served as GM, Market¬ing with Shaw Wallace. Expert in CRM, Services Marketing, Consumer Behaviour. Associated as Guest Faculty with ICFAI, Amity, IIMT -Meerut, CMD – Modinagar and other reputed institutes. He guides out students in the art of Customer Relationship Management, Services Marketing.
Mr. N.S.Uppal
Education from IIT, Delhi and PGDBM from IIM, Ahmedabad
Mr. Uppal has more than 25 years experience in Supply Chain and Logistics in Voltas, H N Miebach Logistics (as MD). He has worked as a consultant with Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad. He has also been associated as a Faculty with IIT, Delhi, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Pearl Academy of Fashion and with Sriram College of Commerce, Delhi. He takes classes in Supply Chain & Logistics and in Retail Commercials.
Mr. Gaurav Vashisth MBA, Marketing
Mr. Vashishth has worked in industry with growing brands like SPICE Ltd., Just Dial (P) Ltd., HERO, ITES. Besides his entrepreneurial venture, he has been rendering teaching services in Marketing Management, Marketing of Services, Sales & Distribution, Advertising & Sales Promotion, Brand Management, at various institutes and management bodies of repute like Institute of Chartered Accounted of India (ICAI), Jagan Institute of Management Studies(JIMS) Rohini, AIMA, IMT(Distance Learning), National Institute of Financial Management(NIFM) Faridabad.
Mr. Manu Mansheet
Visual Merchandising Expert.
Mr. Mansheet had undergone three weeks intensive training in IKEA, DELET (Netherlands) for VM. He has more than 15 years of experience with IKEA, Ebony and Khazana in Visual Merchandising, Store planning, Image makeover, Teaching. He has also been associated with Pearl Academy of Fashion, Bimtech and Delhi University.
Mr. Jayant Bose
PGDM from IIM, Calcutta
Mr. Bose has more than 22 years experience in the Corporate sector with reputed brands and in Advertising. He has been associated as Faculty member with IILM, Wigan & Leigh College, IIPM etc. He takes classes in Retail Marketing, Brand Management and Retail Strategy at IRS.
Mr. Varun Duggal B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IT-BHU(through IITJEE)
Mr. Duggal has more than 24 years of experience in the IT Industry with companies including Tata Infotech, Zenith and Multi-Tech. He has expertise in the areas of Networking and Hardware, Information Systems, Systems Integration, Websites and Internet Solutions, including Out-Sourcing. Currently he provides consultancy in IT projects and also takes classes in Retail IT.
Mr. Sandip Mishra An expert in Training.
Mr. Sandeep has varied experience of training in sectors like Banking, Insurance, BPO, Trav¬el, Aviation, Retail and so on. He is involved in imparting skills like sales, customer services, Business Communication, Accents etc. to our students.
Ms Abha Singh A graduate in Accessory Design from NIFT
Ms. Abha has been working as store design consultants on freelance basis. She has over 11 years of experience and has worked with Dastakar, Shoppers' Stop, Hutch in profiles such as Retail & POP designer and Visual Merchandiser. VM strategy, shop window display, merchandise presentation & communication design are the areas she excels in.
Ms. Lipi Das Post-Graduate Diploma in Management-AIMA, PG (HON) in Airlines, Tourism and Hospitality (ITFT) and M.A (History), Delhi University
Ms. Lipi is a Soft Skills Management Consultant with more than 14 years of Corporate and Training Experience.-CME. Her areas of expertise are Customer Relationship Management, Soft Skills Training and Consultancy, with a philosophy of "WOW-Service First" to Organizations and individuals. She has gained varied experience in Standardization of Customer Service Processes and Procedures, Team Management, Leadership and Communication. At IRS, she is working as Visiting Faculty - Personality Development.
Mr. Himanshu Parmar PG Diploma in Fashion Technology from NIFT, Bangalore.
Mr. Himanshu is an expert in space planning, design and brand wise planograming. He pos¬sesses deep insights and aptitude for design and setup and has ably led various companies with their store planning, exterior and interior signage's, designing and redesigning. He has over 10 years of rich experience in complete setup of the stores and has held senior positions in many of the reputed Indian brands like Pantaloon, Gini & Jony. He is an expert in designing Interior & Exterior Signages and has built strong relationship with developers like Unitech, DLF, Emaar MGF, MGF SEL, TDI, Ansals API, Paras, Cosmos etc.
Mr. Sanjay Bakshi MBA, Marketing
Mr. Bakshi is a Retail Professional with an experience of last 16 years in industry. He has been associated with NANZ, EBONY & SPENCER’S. He is also associated with IRIS Ad¬visory as a Senior Retail Consultant and with IRS as a visiting faculty. The areas of his expertise are Buying & Merchandising, Retail Operations, Retail planning & Consulting. His Retailing experience includes an extensive range of product categories such as Food & Grocery, FMCG, Apparels and Non-Apparel Lifestyle products.
Mr. Gurpreet Khanuja
A post graduate in Marketing & Merchandising from WLC ,UK carries more than 6 years of experience in the field of Marketing with the brands like WLC , Gras Academy , ICARD ( International centre of Aromatherapy Research & Development ) , International College of Fashion ( Bajaj Group Undertaking ). Has been exposed to all marketing activities ATL, BTL activities. He has been taking classes in Luxury Retailing.
Prof. Subhash C.Kapoor
Mr. Subhash Kapoor holds a PG in Behavioural science with specialization in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the University of Delhi. He also holds Diploma in Training & Dev. and Labour Law from the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.
Mr. Kapoor is presently associated with TMBRA Pvt. Ltd. as Executive Director. He has over 34 years of experience at the Corporate, consulting and innovative mix of academics. Besides rendering training services for the institutions he has been also conducting workshops for ICAI, ICSI, ASSOCHAM and IMCI. He is also a visiting professor at NIFM, AIMA, IMT, PAF and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
Mr. Sharad Mathur
Mr. Sharad Mathur is a consultant in the field of design and management, with an experience of 27 years behind him.
He has done prestigious projects like organizing India Promotions for stores in Holland and Switzerland. He has worked on costumes for films and theatre in Europe, and also for Bollywood films. He has also opened a couple of buying agencies in Delhi, and is working as a consultant for several Export and Retail organizations on Product Development. He is associated with several educational institutes like NIFT, Pearl, Indian Retail School, Amity University Raffles University (Singapore), IMM, etc where he teaches both Design and Management.
Ms. Chhaya Sharma
Ms Chhaya Sharma has done Experience Design management (specialization in Visual Merchandising) from Pearl academy of Arts and Design. She has also done her training as a visual merchandiser under Pantaloons India Pvt Ltd Mumbai.
Ms Chhaya has worked as a freelance interior designer for 4 years and has successfully completed several residential and commercial projects. Presently she is working in Sai School of interior design and Indian retail school as a design Faculty.
Ms. Bhavna Chopra
Ms Bhavna is an MBA from Lucknow University. She has more than 12 yrs of experience in training, development and teaching.
She is working as a visiting faculty for Human Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour at various institutes for the graduate and post graduate programmes. She has also been working as a senior manager with Prabhaav Learnings Pvt. Ltd. since 2010 where she has been involved in designing and development of life skills and leadership training programmes for faculty and students of professional institutes.
Ms. Arati Ghosh
Ms Arati did fashion designing from NIFT, Bangalore and has more than 10 years of working experience.
She has been a Visual Merchandiser in Bombay Store and Ebony. She has worked as a Head Retail Designer with Maximus. She has also done retail consultancy in interior décor, graphical branding and design as a freelancer.
Mr. Ranjan Paul
Mr. Ranjan Paul is a Commerce graduate from St. Xavier’s College and has done PG Diploma in BM from Calcutta.
Mr. Paul has more than 25 years of experience in business development, consultancy and training. He has successfully developed and implemented business development strategies for various companies to fuel growth. He is the founder of an international Consultation firm, Square Melon Consulting. Prior to start this firm, Mr. Paul has held positions such as Country Manager and Director of reputed companies.
Prof. V.P.Gupta M.A. (Economics) from Delhi University
Prof. Gupta is a visiting faculty with more than 30 years experience with leading management institutes like Amity Business school, ICFAI Business school, Centre for management Development, Institute of Productivity and Management and others. He has been associated with Industrial House of Birlas and J.K. Organisation (Raymond) as sales and export executive. He has done extensive international travelling on sales mission. He is specialised in the field of Strategic Management and International Marketing.
