Faculty

Education

• Masters – Leadership & Strategy – Sloan Fellow, The London Business School, UK
• Certificate – Psychometrics & Occupational Test Use – University of Cambridge, UK
• Bachelors – Computer Science – University of Southampton, UK

Overview

• Head of Start-ups & Incubation for SPJIMR (SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai-India) 
• Strategist, Assessor & Trainer – interests in Learning, Branding, Digital Media & Entrepreneurship

With 22 years of experience, 20 of which as an entrepreneur, Kaustav has been involved in businesses and consulting /advisory assignments in India, UK, USA, Ireland, Russia, Singapore and Bangladesh.

Kaustav works with young start-ups and early stage companies and helps them set up their businesses, build brands, hire right and stay focussed. Larger companies hire Kaustav for his ability to think disruptively, at times ‘outside comfort zones’ and advise on understanding what went wrong/right and what may happen in the future and how one can prepare for it. He currently advises a number of traditional organisations to embrace the Internet and realign their practices to benefit from the ever-changing world of the Internet

At SPJIMR, besides teaching, Kaustav is usually busy with various incubated start-ups and helping them not make the usual mistakes most start-ups make, including many he made over the years. Kaustav is setting up an ecosystem that will assist tomorrow’s new businesses, especially the ones trying to venture into the Social Entrepreneurial space. The ecosystem will connect like-minded organisations in the space within and across the country.

Competence & Interest

• Behavioural Skills including Emotional/Social Intelligence & Thinking Skills
• Digital Strategies – Helping brands develop and leverage the dynamic world of Internet
• Customer Engagement/Relations including Consumer Behaviour & Managing Expectations
• Team Building & Young Leader Programs and building a collaborative yet competitive culture
• Entrepreneurship and its many nuances – can this really be taught, lessons from failures, is there a common code amongst entrepreneurs from different parts of the world