Board Of Advisors

Mr. Nitin Khanapurkar is a seasoned professional with over 35 years of experience. Over the past two decades, he has proven his capabilities as a business leader by driving growth, leading expansion, and optimizing operations and controls for global professional services firms across diverse regions including the Middle East, UK, USA, South Africa, and India. Currently, Mr. Khanapurkar serves as the Global Head of Governance and Internal Audit at Apex Group Ltd., based in London. He is member of the CA Institute of India as well as England & Wales and also has several certification to his credit. He has attended Leadership development program conducted by premium management institutes like Harvard and ISB.

He has also been actively involved in various social causes and philanthropic efforts for more than 30 years and has been connected with Ratna Nidhi since 2008.

Prof. B. Ravi is an Institute Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay and founder of BETiC – Biomedical Engineering & Technology incubation Centre. In the last 25 years he led several inter-disciplinary multi-institutional R&D projects, leading to indigenous products, startup companies and social impact. He guided the development of AutoCAST and FLOW+ software used in 150 foundries and institutes. Ten medical devices developed in BETiC have been licensed to startups, industry or NGOs. These have won prestigious awards and benefitted many patients.

Prof. Ravi has guided 14 PhD and 80 Masters students. He shared the relevant knowledge through 250 technical papers, 300 invited or conference talks, and 60 training programmes benefiting several thousand teachers and working professionals. His books on Metal Casting, and Medical Device Innovation are widely appreciated. More than 25 institutes are part of E-foundry or BETiC network. As a member of many advisory councils and review committees, Prof. Ravi is also contributing to best practices and policies related to translational research and product innovation. These efforts have been recognized by several awards, as well as INAE Fellowship and Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship.

Rukaiya Joshi –Frmr Professor and Chairperson for Center of Education in Social Sector at SPJIMR, where she conceptualized and headed two initiatives, Abhyudaya and CEdSS. The Post Graduate Programme in Development Management designed for Management of NGOs and CSR got an international accreditation in 2020 as a unique programme globally. She is instrumental in getting 6 awards for her initiatives.

She has over 4 decades of teaching experience up to MPhil. She led Board Of Studies at the University of Mumbai to restructure all the courses UG 7 PG and added new commerce courses. She has been paper setter and chief moderator.

She has presented papers at National and International conferences (invited twice to USA) and has published research papers in peer review journals (one of them given an award). She is a visiting faculty, consultant to B Schools and Engineering colleges in Maharashtra, on management & academic committees of educational institutions in Mumbai. She has been on jury panels and Audit committee of many CSR organisations and NGOs.

She is on the board of NGOs in Mumbai and Gujarat. She was a trustee with Baba Amte at Jabhua. She is mentoring, advising many NGOs and CSR across India and over 35 years, has led many grassroots projects. She is a core committee member of ACCA of UNGCNI. She is consulting and training development sector to SROI and SDGs, Volunteer Management, etc.

Her area of work and research interest is Gandhian Studies, Women empowerment, Experiential Learning, Indian Philosophy in Management Education.

She is, Master of Commerce: 1979, Diploma in Management Studies: 1983, Master of Philosophy (MPhil): 1992 University of Mumbai, Inter ICWA: 1983 Institute of Cost and Works Accounting India.