Tuesday, June 22, 2004

New Director, Dean for XLRI

Fr N Casimir Raj, SJ, has taken charge as XLRI’s new Director after Fr P D Thomas retired at the end of a ten year stint. Meanwhile, Dr Pingali Venugopal has taken charge as Dean (Academics) of XLRI after Dr E M Rao's stint of three years.

About Fr Casimir Raj:
Fr Casimir Raj has been teaching Marketing for the past 30 years in various institutions such as XLRI Jamshedpur; XIM Bhubaneswar; Goa Institute of Management; St. Luis University, Missouri; Wheeling Jesuit College, Wheeling and Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai. He was the founder Director of LIBA and Principal of Loyola College, Chennai. He was also Director, XIM Bhubaneswar.

About Dr Pingali Venugopal:
Dr Venugopal is a Professor of Marketing at XLRI. His areas of interest include Marketing Research and Distribution Management. His book, “Marketing Channel Management: A Customer-Centric Approach” published by Response Books is highly popular. He has conducted several Management Development and In-company Training Programmes on Marketing topics. He has regularly been publishing papers in national and international journals. He is also a Visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Lucknow and XIM Bhubaneswar.

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