Executive Management
MaxValue Online is managed by a young and dynamic team of leaders with the right blend of experience in the academia and industry.
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Austin P.M. 
Student Support Executive &
Chief Executive Officer
Austin P.M. is an engineer and an MBA from IIM, Bangalore, with more than two decades of management experience in the areas of internet-based technologies. He set up Carstreet.com, India’s first auto web site for SIFY and was the founder and CEO of India’s first financial services portal, PaisaPower.com, funded by ICICI Ventures.He was the Director of the Management Development Centre at LIBA, Chennai. At LIBA, he helped create the executive MBA programme and enlisted working managers from leading corporates.He has conducted several short-term, Management Development Programmes for corporates in the area of Leadership and Personal Effectiveness. He is a guest faculty at several well-known business schools. |
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Dr. M.J. Xavier Student Support Executive &
Chief Academic Officer
Dr. M.J. Xavier has more than 20 years of professional experience in teaching, academic administration and industry. He obtained his Doctorate in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is an engineer with a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology and an M.Tech. in Chemical Plant Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Warangal. He served as the Director at Karunya Institute of Management. He has conducted a number of training programmes for executives and has also been a consultant to several companies in India and abroad. He has authored three books and published more than 100 articles in Journals and Magazines worldwide. His book 'Marketing in the New Millennium' won the DMA-Escorts Award for the best Management Book of the Year 1999. He has served as Visiting Faculty to a number of business schools in India and abroad. |
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Ganesh
Student Support Executive &
Sr. Vice President (Academic Marketing)
Ganesh is a teacher by passion and an educationist by profession and has been successful on both counts during his corporate career spanning more than 10 years. He is a commerce graduate with an MBA in Finance and Marketing from XIM Bhubaneswar. He has been a successful educational projects manager with organizations such as Reliance Webstores, Everonn Systems and his almamater XIM Bhubaneswar where he worked towards launching innovative technology enabled educational models. As a Social Entrepreneur, he has successfully established 7 vocational training institutes for school dropouts in the states of MP, UP and Rajasthan. Earlier, during his stint with CRISIL, he has been awarded and recognized globally for creating an innovative talent augmentation pipeline through a unique work and study programme. He is also an expert in managing both small and large educational institution operations and has successfully managed the operations of IMS Learning Centre in Chennai. A brief research stint with McKinsey Knowledge Centre and a sales stint with Johnson & Johnson have provided him with a strong research and marketing orientation in all his assignments till date. He is an avid reader and a guest faculty on marketing and finance to some of the business schools across the country.. |
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Vandana Viswanathan
Student Support Executive &
Vice President (Marketing and Strategic Alliances)
Vandana, a Mass Communications graduate, heads the brand management effort at MaxValue Online in addition to looking after corporate relationships and enrollments. She started her career in a national advertising agency. She then joined The New Indian Express Group in the brand management function. As a brand manager in-charge, she played a vital role in conceptualizing and rolling out several successful marketing campaigns for the daily and its supplements. She brings immense creativity and enthusiasm coupled with result-orientation to the brand-building effort at MaxValue Online. |
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Chris Immanuel
Student Support Executive &
Vice President (Content Management)
Chris Immanuel, a Public Administration postgraduate, has more than 12 years of experience in the online learning industry. He started out as a content editor in a content management company that specialized in providing content services to the U.S. healthcare industry. As an e-learning professional, he has led teams that implemented several key projects for top U.S. universities and Fortune 500 companies. He has experience in developing visually rich content and rapid e-learning solutions. He has been in charge of development teams that have created courses in the management, engineering, and K-12 domains. He has worked on numerous e-learning consulting projects for many start-up companies. At Frost & Sullivan, a business research and consulting firm, he was an Associate Editor exclusively in charge of editing the Country Industry Forecast (CIF) and Business & Financial Services research studies. |
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Anand Kannan
Student Support Executive &
Asst Vice President (Business Development)
Anand Kannan, a business management graduate with more than a decade of experience in leading corporates, heads the Business Development function at MaxValue Online. Starting his career in management consulting, Anand took up business development and channel management functions in HDFC Life, Tata AIG and SBI Life. At SBI Life, he worked closely with the bancassurance channel and successfully acquired several large corporates as clients. At Tata AIG, he promoted group insurance solutions through the retail channel and made successful inroads into the highly competitive SME market. Anand brings to MaxValue Online, strong relationship management skills and channel management expertise. |
