SPJIMR Mumbai Director & SPJIMR Mumbai Faculty: Profile, Expertise, Research
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai is one of the top B-School in India that is highly ranked and triple accredited by top global agencies. SP Jain average package is Rs 32.00 lakhs per annuum. SP Jain last date to apply 2025 is November 28, 2025. SP Jain form fees is Rs 2,000. Apply Now. Read more about SPJIMR dean and faculty members.
SPJIMR Director and Dean is Dr Varun Nagaraj. He holds a Ph.D. in Management with an emphasis on Designing Sustainable Systems from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from Boston University, an MS in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, and a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
Prof. Nagaraj is a ‘pracademic’. Prior to joining academia in 2021, he held senior leadership roles, including C-level responsibilities for venture-funded start-ups as well as public companies in the US. His three-decade industry career focused on driving product innovation in networking, data centre computing, IoT, and AI. At SPJIMR, he teaches a mandatory foundational course on the what, why, and how of wise innovation, along with courses on product management and entrepreneurship.
SPJIMR Mumbai faculty represents a blend of academic excellence and industry expertise. SPJIMR Mumbai faculty team includes distinguished Associate Deans such as Janakiraman Moorthy (Academics and Research), Preeta George (Executive Education), and Renuka Kamath (Full-time Programmes), who oversee the institute’s academic and strategic direction. SPJIMR Mumbai faculty programme chairpersons bring deep subject knowledge and leadership experience: Anshul Verma (Post Graduate Programme in Management), Ashita Aggarwal (PGDM and PGDM in Business Management), Bikramjit Ray Chaudhuri (Fellow Programme in Management), Debmallaya Chatterjee (PGDM Online), Milind Kamat (Global Management Programme), Ruppal W Sharma (PG Programme in General Management), Shabbir Husain R.V. (Executive Management and Marketing & Business Management), Tanajokumar Meshram (Development Management), and Tulsi Jayakumar, Chairperson of the Post Graduate Programme in Family Managed Business (PGP-FMB)
Together, they shape SPJIMR’s reputation as one of India’s most respected business schools for practice-oriented and socially responsive management education.