Dr Prashant Dhopavkar
Associate Professor (Finance & Business Analytics)
Dr Prashant Dhopavkar is a graduate in Engineering (Electrical, S.P.C.E - Mumbai University 1997), post graduate (Pune University 2013) and PhD (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics 2019) in Economics.
Industry Experience
He has nearly two and half decades of industry experience primarily with the Information technology industry. While working with Infosys Ltd for 16 years he has worked on multiple technologies and managed multiple complex programs for clients across the globe. With specialization in Business Intelligence and Analytics, handled green field enterprise data warehouse implementation projects. Completed various assignments related to architecture definition, stakeholder management, Knowledge management, Techno functional consulting for multiple fortune 500 companies. He has functional expertise in the Banking and Financial services domain. He had completed prestigious certifications like CBIP, CDMP and PMP during that tenure. He is currently working as an independent consultant for a technology firm.
Academics
For the last 7 years, teaching as visiting faculty for multiple reputed B schools in Pune. He has taught various courses and conducted workshops related to Economics, finance, Information technology and management stream. He has special focus on skills development with emphasis on implementation of concepts and relating with changes impacting the industry ecosystem.