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Amplify Mindware was started in 2004 with a simple vision - to be the "partner of choice" for quality-conscious clients requiring technology training solutions.
Inside Amplify Mindware

Amplify Initiatives

Student Mentoring | Method of Instruction | CSR: Village economy, NGO, Micro & Macro Governance | Industry Partnerships | Career Impact
Academic & Professional Tie-ups
National Tie-ups | International Tie-ups
 

Leadership Team

Amplify is managed by people with diverse professional experience & qualifications, in areas such as pure technology research, strategy and IT consulting.

Vijay Kaushik - Chairman

Col. Vijay Kaushik has more than 39 years of experience with the Indian Armed Forces (Corps of Signals) and Civies streets. He has extensive experience in Mobile Communication, design & deployment.
Armed with rich experience in managing Human Resources & Public Relations, he has been instrumental in charting out the organization vision. He specializes in areas such as Leadership & Team building skills, Mind Management, Stress Management & Senior Management interventions.

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Joy Basu - CEO

Having done his degree in Computer Science from University of Pune & business studies from IMDR & IIM, he acquired his Fellowship from RWTH (Germany). With about 13 years of Industry experience in leading and managing projects across Airlines, Manufacturing, Education and Automobile domains, he specializes in technology deployment & project management.
He has project delivery & consulting experience in more than 15 countries and has worked very closely on turnkey project execution with organizations such as Siemens, DASA, Daimler Chrysler, Price WaterHouse Coopers, WJ Towell, IBM, Bajaj, Kinetic Engineering etc. across India, Europe, USA & Middle East.
He is one of the first Navision certified professional in India and an avid sportsperson, having won the championship at National Games in Delhi, 1991.

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Raj Duggal - Senior Advisor, Academics

He has served for over three decades in the Army in the Telecom branch, which is responsible for providing communications and electronic data support to the Indian Army. Thereafter he has headed the Marketing, Production and Materials divisions in a large PSU for more than a decade, and also a short stint with private industry.
Apart from being an IIM (A) alumnus, he has obtained B.Tech, M.Tech and MBA degrees from premier defence institutes. He has vast experience with training establishments in technical, diploma, degree and computer courses.

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Jamshed Khursigara - Director, Academics

Jamshed Khursigara is a Commerce graduate from St. Xavier’s college - Kolkata in 1969 and completed his MBA from XLRI - Jamshedpur in 1973. He has 36 years of rich professional experience in the field of Human Resources with TATA MOTORS LTD. He is having expertise knowledge in Manpower Planning, Recruitment, Training and Development, Performance Management, IR, Payroll Management and Administration.

He has been actively involved & streamlined HR operations at Commercial Vehicle manufacturing unit, Passenger Car Business manufacturing Division and Daimler-Benz-Tata Motors joint venture at Pune. He is founder member of National HRD network, Pune Chapter, and also represented TATA MOTORS at CII – H.R. Forum, Pune. He was also associated with various reputed educational institutions such as Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and Balaji Institute of Modern Management at Pune.

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Anil Gupte - Director, Technical Studies

A graduate of IIT Kharagpur, he also has partially completed a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has recently moved to Pune after living in Milwaukee for 23 years.
His primary experience has been in starting and running businesses in various technical fields. These areas include Computer Aided Design, Computer Networking and the Internet. He has a deep knowledge of LAN and WAN deployment, management and applications. He has also spent key portions of his career managing the development and delivery of software applications.
Anil Gupte has been involved in Internet based content delivery for ten years and has provided solutions to large and small organizations such as the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Cumulus Media (then owner of over 200 radio stations) and Houses.com. He is a serial entrepreneur who has created four companies or business units within companies and is the originator of several technology brands.
His last venture was maxNetwork, a business oriented ISP with a Point of Presence in Chicago and Milwaukee and customers from around the world. As CEO of this last company he grew the company at the rate of 34% per quarter for 20 consecutive quarters.
He has a deep understanding of technology, especially Internet and Video related technologies. He has filed five patents in the area of cross-platform video distribution.
Anil's interests are technology, movies, music and his family.

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R. Manoharan - COO

With more than 31 years of experience with Indian Army in the Corps of Signals, he has been the Head of Department, Telematics in Military College of Telecommunication Engineering,
Training Head of Military Technical Training Regiments. He has B.Tech (E&TC), M.Tech (CS), PGD (SDM).
He has also served for the Indian Army as Interviewing Officer (IO) in Services Selection Boards. After Army, he took over as Vice President HR for country’s one of the largest BPO units and managed training, Quality initiatives apart from laying down lean HR practices. He has been actively managing Public Relations, Brand building and Media services at Amplify. He specializes in Planning, Execution and Implementation of ISO 9001:2000 and BS 7799 certification activities for range of industry domains.

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Dilip Thosar - Vice President, Operations

Dilip is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Ahmedabad.
He has over 20 years of experience in the Indian IT industry, spanning sales and marketing, software architecting, project management, delivery management and resource management.
He has worked with large corporates like Wipro, HCC, UTC and Hexaware and also runs his own entrepreneurial venture providing software services and products to banks, corporates and software companies.

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V. Gomes - General Manager, Professional Courses

He is a Telecom domain specialist with over 34 years of rich and varied experience across industries. Armed with B. Tech (Telecom) and a Business degree in Marketing, he has extensive experience in the field of Engineering, HRD, Administration and General Management. He was directly responsible for the Technical, Managerial & Leadership trainings in the Indian Army and has led units with 3000+ strength. He has been instrumental in laying Telecom infrastructure across the nation for leading Telecom service providers in the country.
Having lived in UK, Europe and India, he brings in his rich global experience at Amplify. He steers both the Telecom Management & Information Technology Management apart from taking keen interest in organizational development.  He is an avid sportsman and an ace Paratrooper with active interests in adventure sports.

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Gurmeet Singh - General Manager, Academics

Brigadier Gurmeet Singh is a specialist on Materials Management and HRD, with over 35 years of experience in handling various types of Logistics Installations.
He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy Khadakwasla and is armed with MA in Materials Management, PGDHRM, DIM and a host of other professional courses.
He has been a Professor and Head of Faculty at College of Materials Management Jabalpur. Recently, he had undertaken Loss Mitigation Audit of Tata Yazaki Autocomp Ltd. as Auditor.

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