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Management Team
Dr. Chandru Rajam, Chief Executive Officer & Director
of Academic Advisory Services
Mr. Robert T. Galvin,
Vice President
Mr. Ravi Shankar,
Vice Chairman & Chief Financial Officer
Dr. Chandru Rajam is Chief Executive Officer
& Director of Academic Advisory Services of EduMetry Inc. Prior to founding EduMetry, Dr. Rajam had served as Founding Dean of Universitas 21 Global, an online university offering graduate business education. Universitas 21 Global is a joint venture between The Thomson Corporation (a US$8b diversified group) and 16 research-intensive universities from across four continents. Prior to serving as a dean, Dr. Rajam was a business school professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and at the National University of Singapore, where he taught in the areas of Strategy and International Business in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. Dr. Rajam was also Founding Director of the Asia-Pacific Executive MBA Program, the first of its kind in Asia.
After leaving full-time teaching, academe, Dr. Rajam worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a division of The Economist Group, as Regional Director for Advisory Services. Based in Singapore, he led EIU’s Corporate Network, overseeing research and providing briefings to help heads of multinational companies understand the business environment in Asia. Earlier, while at the university, Dr. Rajam was Chairman and Moderator of BusinessWeek Executive Programs, which involved chairing and moderating CEO, CFO and CIO conferences across Asia.
Dr. Rajam has consulted for or taught extensively in executive-education programs offered by Harvard Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, IBM, McDonnell-Douglas, Mobil, General Motors, American President Lines, Singapore Airlines, GE, Samsung, GlaxoSmithKline, Elf Atochem and Swiss Re. While at The Economist Group, he appeared regularly on CNBC, BBC and Bloomberg.
Prior to founding The EduMetry Group, Dr Rajam worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a division of UK-based The Economist Group, as Regional Director for Advisory Services. He led EIU’s Corporate Network in Singapore, overseeing research and closed-door briefings on the business environment in Asia for regional managers of multinational companies. In this capacity, he was a regular commentator on BBC and CNBC Asia and occasionally appeared on Bloomberg TV, Channel NewsAsia and NDTV.
A Malaysian citizen, Chandru was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, before he continued with secondary education in India. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and the MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). He later received the Ph.D. in Business from the Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Robert T. Galvin is Vice President. Based in St. Louis, he previously worked for EMC/ Paradigm Publishing serving as Vice President.
Robert brings a strong background in Sales and Sales Management to EduMetry. His career started as an Inside Sales Representative at Midwest Tire Company, after which he worked at Southwestern Bell Publications and SRA Publishing, an IBM Company.
Robert has had extensive experience and developed expertise in the high-school and all post-secondary markets, including two-year community/technical colleges, four-year universities and Independent Career Colleges. He played a key role in the development of a product called SNAP, an EMC/Paradigm state-of-the-art tool for training, assessing, and managing student proficiency using Microsoft Office 2003. Robert is not only accomplished in Sales, but also has a deep understanding of the role that technology plays in education. Robert is a seasoned presenter and frequently speaks at conferences.
Robert earned a BA in English from the University of Missouri, Columbia. At the age of 35, Robert was one of the youngest executives in the US publishing industry to rise to the rank of National Sales Manager (VP) at Paradigm Publishing. Working alongside Paradigm CEO David Feinberg and Sr. VP Paul Michaelson, Robert was instrumental in helping build the company from an entrepreneurial venture into a respected force in higher-education publishing.
Overall, Robert brings critical expertise and experience to promote its signature RichFeedback assessment solutions, which have the potential to fundamentally transform higher-education for learners, teachers and the institutions that bring them together.
S. Ravi Shankar serves as Chief Financial Officer of EduMetry. He brings considerable experience and an extensive background in Insurance, Finance, Shipping and Maritime projects. His previously worked as Regional Director for Finance and Business Development the Norwegian shipping giant, Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA. During the 19-year career there, he implemented several novel business projects, merging traditional shipping with innovative, modern technical solutions.
Ravi Shankar was formerly the Finance and Operations Director for the largest ship-management company, Barber Ship Management, overseeing the technical and commercial management of over 280 ships globally. There, he implemented (for the first time globally) a planned and integrated maintenance system linked to the purchase and accounting functions through an on-board connection via satellite communication for all of the company's 280 ships sailing globally.
Ravi Shankar also has extensive experience in the (non-life) reinsurance industry and is a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of London.
He has developed and implemented many successful projects, many in the technology area. He was successful in developing an alternative mode of logistics for liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distribution; a floating terminal for ore-handling. He is one of the founding members of PostX, a leading California-based technology venture providing solutions for the encryption of e-mail.
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