Dr. Kranti V. Toraskar, CISA, Fulbright Scholar (MIS)

• Education: Wharton PhD, M.Sc.(EE)(UNB), Mgmt. Sci. MBA (McMaster), B.Tech.(EE)(IIT)

• All-round experience in Business Information Systems (BIS) from India, USA/Canada, Hong Kong, and Macau. Certified IS Auditor (CISA, ISACA.

• Consultant at “KITE-Consult”: 1-Stop Consulting/Advisory in IS/IT, Info-Security, and Business-Operations Improvement especially aimed at Small/Medium (SME/NGO) clients.

• PT Teaching: Would greatly appreciate any IS/IT or OR/MS teaching/training and Executive-Education opportunities. Completed U21-Global (Singapore)'s Online Teacher Training (Jun-11 FTP), so welcome any Online Teaching opportunities.

• Cutting Edge Industry Experience in Product R&D: Created microprocessor-based (Intel-4004) “firmware” in the 1970s to develop NCR (Canada)’s 1st micro-computerized cheque-processing machine (NCR-7740) for the Banking Industry. Corporate Inventor Award (NCR).

• Real-world Consulting Experience at Wharton’s Busch-Center on wide variety of Consulting Projects with major U.S. Corporations, e.g. Corporate Information-Flows (Analysis & Design), Beer Cost Control (Anheuser-Busch), Candy Market Research (Mars Corp.), Product Strategy/Financial Planning using BCG Approach (PQ Corp.), and the Phone-of-the-Future!

• 27 years Professorial experience in both Technical and Business areas of BIS: Intro-MIS, Decision-Support (DSS) & BI, E-Commerce, IS/IT Planning/Strategy, Database, DataCom/Networks.

• Unique, global Socio-Cultural perspectives on issues like Change-Management and Org-Culture/Awareness, which are often critical in IS/IT/Info-Security projects.