Prof. (Dr.) Mukti Kanta Mishra
MBA, PhD (Commonwealth Scholar), Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia 
Former Marketing Professor & Placement Co-ordinator, XIMB 
Adjunct Professor, MDI (Gurgaon) & BIMETCH (Gr. Noida), India 
Adjunct Professor, Victoria University, Australia 
Country Advisor (India), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Prof (Dr) Mukti Mishra, an outstanding Commonwealth Scholar, earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration and his Ph.D. from the Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He also holds Master’s Degrees in Public Administration and Applied Economics from Utkal University (India).
After a brilliant and hugely successful career in the corporate sector with Fortune 500 companies such as Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (India), Kinhill Engineers Pvt. Ltd. (Australia) and BHP Billiton (Australia), Prof Mishra turned his attention toward education. He was associated with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) as Professor-Marketing and Coordinator Placement until 2005 and Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur as Adjunct Professor (Mktg) until 2007. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University and Country Advisor to RMIT University, Australia.

Presently, besides his extremely demanding teaching schedule in India (MDI, Gurgaon & BIMTECH, Noida) and overseas (Australia, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and Bangladesh), Prof Mukti Mishra is on a path-breaking mission as an edu-entrepreneur, to generate the opportunity and capacity to train one million school dropouts/pass-outs, enhancing their entrepreneurial skills, employability and livelihood-earning capacity. He has the conviction that educational institutions must have an immediate and sustained substantial value-based impact on the community and the society within which they function.

Prof. D. N. Rao
BE, PGDM, IIM, Calcutta 
British Chevening Scholar 
Managing Trustee-Cum-Director, Centurion Group of Institutes 
Former Marketing Professor & Co-ordinator-CENDRET, XIMB

Prof. D. N. Rao, a British Chevening Scholar, is a Civil Engineer from Osmania University and an IIM Calcutta alumnus. He is an expert in Rural Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship, fields in which he has successfully pioneered many projects.  These include the Power Sector Reforms Project, whose novel approach and immense success in the field prompted the Government of India to frame a national policy.

Prof Rao chose to build a career in the rural field instead of the much coveted corporate world.  As a fresher from IIM-C, his contribution and zeal belied his youth and inexperience. He turned to teaching in 1994, when he joined Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar as Faculty and Coordinator of the Center for Development Research & Training (CENDERET). 

He pursued a brilliant academic career for more than 15 years, during which time he consulted for many national and international organisations. In 2005, when he realised that he could contribute better to the cause of the common man as an edu-entrepreneur than as a pure academic, he took over Jagannath Institute for Technology & Management (JITM), then an ailing engineering college.  Within just one year, he turned JITM into one of the finest colleges in eastern India. 

Prof DN Rao has embarked on a project for creating a cadre of BDS providers for SHGs in Odisha. He is pioneering “Gram Tarang”, a rural relations organisation which is linked to the SHG movement in Odisha.