Dr Maruthi R Suresh, is a Professor in the School of Management Sciences at Chanakya University. His areas of interest are the Interface between Marketing and Strategy, Product Strategy and Brand Management, Macromarketing, Social and Sustainable Enterprises and Educational Leadership. He also explores application of Indian thought to the management field. He has a Ph D in Management from the M S University of Baroda (MSU) with focus on Strategy and graduated earlier with PGDRM (now known as PGDM-RM) from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). He has had formal training in Case writing, Case research and has completed many modules for entrepreneurship educators offered by NEN-IIMB.
Dr Suresh has many years of professional experience in academics, research, and consulting. He started his career as Researcher TERI, New Delhi (earlier known as Tata Energy Research Institute), was one of the youngest Area Conveners there and examined institutional dimensions in renewable energy. He taught in leading institutions such as IRMA, Indian Institute of Plantation Management (IIPMB) under Min of Commerce), Icfai Business School (IBS), Bangalore. He was a Professor in the Marketing area at SDMIMD-Mysore, an EFMD accredited institution and contributed to multiple theatres in the institution building process there in addition to teaching for several years.
His consulting experience was with Tata Economic Consultancy Services (TECS-a division of Tata Sons) where he was principal consultant for corporates, non-profit sector, government and international organizations. As a Senior Consultant he has handled around 30 plus consulting and research assignments of varying durations in different managerial contexts. His research has covered different ownership forms. He has designed several MDPs for executives in corporate firms, cooperative sector, public sector enterprises, civil servants and FDPs. He has taught courses on faculty exchange at the British University in Dubai (BUiD) and Montpellier Business School, France.
He won awards from Higher Education Forum for Academic Excellence, Emerald-AIMA Indian Management Research Fund award, AIMS Silver Medal for Innovation for conceptualising and implementing the Social Relevant Project at SDMIMD and was also among the 10 top reviewers for a global business publications group. He was Consulting editor, Icfai Journal of Marketing Management, and is on the Editorial board of Icfai Journal of Brand Management. At SDMIMD he was the Chairperson for Placements in 2009-10 and Chairperson of Entrepreneurship cell which he pioneered and nurtured from its inception in 2013 till 2023. He anchored a program called Startup Charcha there which completed the 10th year in 2023. He held Academic Administration positions such as Administration Coordinator and SFA Coordinator at IIPM, Alumni Coordinator at IRMA and assisted the Organisational Restructuring Committee at TERI.
He has published several papers, cases in leading journals and has edited 4 publications, a notable one being the 2 volume Case Collection on PPP jointly with Administrative Training Institute (ATI Mysore). As a recognised Ph D guide, he is guiding 2 Ph D candidates (one in the area of sports strategy implementation at the grassroots and another with focus on Marketing and Sustainability).
He has a keen interest in Yoga which he has learnt systematically under a very senior Yoga teacher. He also has a keen interest in Indian Philosophical thought which he pursues in parallel to his academic endeavour.