Koustubh Kanti Ray is a Professor of Finance at the School of Management, KIIT Deemed to be University. In a career spanning more than two decades, he has served in leading national level institutions in the country - Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal; Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, and Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai. Dr. Ray has a passion for teaching and taught business valuation, financial engineering, merger & acquisition, and corporate finance at one or more of the above institutions. He regularly conducts management training programs for corporate and government executives in finance and related subjects. His research interests are mainly in the areas of corporate finance and financial markets. Bhuwandeep is a management professional with over 6 years of experience in Plant Management, Quality Circle assessment, Supplier management, Project management Business Development, and Marketing - across Steel, E-commerce, Textiles, Cement, and Mining businesses. His expertise is in the domains of Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Project planning and execution, and Plant operations. He has worked with Global Indian conglomerates like TATA Group and Aditya Birla Group. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur where he was the recipient of the Merit Cum Means Scholarship. He has also done his PGDBM from IIM Bangalore in the areas of Marketing and Sales. He has also done specialization in Marketing from Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France as an exchange program.
