Dr. Manasa Nagabhushanam
Director
Has 30 years’ experience in Teaching, Research, Writing and Consulting. She has served as a Professor in Management, Director/Dean at various Business Schools in Bangalore. She has carried out research projects for SarvaShikshaAbhiyaan, Karnataka Knowledge Commission and ICSSR. She set up AnalyZ Research Solutions in 2011 and successfully worked on several assignments like Moksh, Titan Industries, Infotrack Telematics, Hitachi, Banjara Foods and has supported several startups for their market entry. Six Students have been awarded Ph.D under her guidance. She is a recognized guide of Jain University and the University of Mysore.She Received Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2009 from Prestige Group of Institutions, Indore and SarvepalliRadhakrishnan Award from Bangalore Centre for Education as Best Teacher in Management for the year 2007. She served as a nominated member on the Syndicate of Bangalore University (2011-2014) and currently serves as a President nominee for the Executive Council of Central University of Karnataka, Kalburgi.
Email:manasa@cessedu.org
Dr. Sadhana S M
Director
Has 28 years of experience in medicine and in public health working with government, UN agencies and private sector, spanning to different States to Tier-A cities to small regional districts in India. As an established expert in public health, she is specialized in Health Care Delivery System, Maternal and Child Health and emphasize on social and behavioral aspects to improve the quality of healthcare. She has taken up many initiatives and implemented “tailored” health programs in Allopathy as well as Indian Systems of Medicine (AYUSH) for women and children mainly and other vulnerable groups in general. She has attended a course on decentralization of Health Policy in Harvard University, USA. Previously she has served as Executive Director, Karnataka State Health System Resource Centre (KSHSRC), Surveillance medical officer in National Polio surveillance project–NPSP-WHO, State child health consultant, NRHM, Govt. of Karnataka and Medical officer in urban family welfare Centre (UFWC), Bengaluru (BBMP).
Email: sadhana@cessedu.org
Sri. Gowrisha
Deputy Director
Has 12 years of teaching experience at postgraduate level teaching Management subjects and served as coordinator for Internal Quality Assurance Cell. His areas of interest are Quality in Education and Management of NGOs. He has published and presented many papers at national level and presently working on research in the area of Happiness Index in Organizations. He has worked as Chief Consultant in the Technical Secretariat of Committee to draft National Education Policy headed by renowned Space Scientist Dr. K Kasturirangan, which was constituted by MHRD, Government of India in the year 2017. He also served as honorary Secretary and Treasurer of C-LAMPS, a Bengaluru based NGO.
Email: gowrisha@cessedu.org
Dr. SoumyaPrakash B S
Assistant Director
A Doctorate in Management, she has over 9 years of Corporate Experience and 4 years of Academic experience. She has been awarded the “High Impact Award” from Ernst and Young and “Champion of Progeon-Infosys” award from Infosys for Performance excellence. She is also a Certified Learning Leader, certified by Ernst & Young. She has published many research papers in National and International Journals. She has worked as a Researcher in the Technical Secretariat of Committee to draft National Educational Policy headed by renowned Space Scientist, Dr. K. Kasturirangan, which was constituted by MHRD, Government of India in 2017.
Email: soumya@cessedu.org
Sri. B K Shivakumar
Office Superintendent
Has 17 years of experience in office management and administration. He has wide exposure working at educational institutions, NGOs and Corporate. He has functional expertise in office and personnel management, documentation, compliance with statutary requirements etc.