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What makes a behemoth remain nimble?
Global Head, Android Partner Engineering, Google
Wed, 2 March 2022 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm in conversation with
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T T RAMGOPAL
SURESH RAMANATHAN
GLOBAL HEAD, ANDROID PARTNER ENGINEERING GOOGLE
DEAN & PRINCIPAL GREAT LAKES INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
5:30 PM
Registration & High Tea
6:00 PM
Welcome Address
Mr K Mahalingam Partner/Director, TSM Group of Companies
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Dr Suresh Ramanathan Dean & Principal Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
in conversation with Mr T T Ramgopal Global Head, Android Partner Engineering Google
Q&A 7:15 PM
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Suresh
Ramanathan
(Ph.D.,
New
York
U.),
is
Dean
and
Principal
and
holds
the
Bala
V.
Balachandran
Distinguished
Professorship of Marketing and Strategy at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, a position that he took in July 2019 after 22 years in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University in 2002, following which he spent nine years on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2011, he joined the faculty at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, holding the David R. Norcom’73 Endowed Professorship in Marketing till his move to India in 2019. Dr. Suresh holds a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Prior to joining the Ph.D program at Stern, Suresh worked with Brooke Bond (now Unilever) in their tea and coffee business for three years and then moved to the world of media and advertising, where he worked with JWT, Lintas, MTV, and McCann-Erickson for seven years.
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He was part of the core leadership team at MTV India, helping launch the channel in India in 1996. He was the head of media research at McCann-Erickson India before moving to the US for his PhD.
Dr Suresh Ramanathan
Research Dr. Suresh is a leading academic expert on consumer emotions and motivations. His research focuses on the role of changing emotions and goals in different domains, such as social consumption of experiences, self-control and impulsive behavior, health-related marketing and sales promotion effectiveness. He is presently investigating the role of customer engagement in brand experiences and the effectiveness of social communities in driving customer engagement, health, and customer satisfaction and engagement.
Teaching Dr. Suresh is also a renowned educator. He has extensive experience in executive education, leading modules on customer value creation, brand equity and brand valuation for mid- and senior-level executives. He also teaches a module on customer and brand value in the Executive MBA program at Mays, and has previously been a member of the visiting faculty in the EMBA program at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. In addition, he teaches in the Professional MBA program for mid-level executives at Mays. He has also taught courses on Branding and Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior at the graduate level at Mays, at Chicago Booth, and the Indian School of Business.
TT Ramgopal joined Google 15+ years ago, and soon relocated to India to head Advertiser Operations for 3 years. He then led SMB Sales for Americas, working with over a million advertisers helping to make the Web successful for them. TT then
joined
the
Shopping
product
team
to
lead
Channel
Intelligence,
a
acquisition
and
expanded
his
responsibilities to include Google Express, Metadata Operations and International expansion. TT is currently the Global Head for the Android Partnerships Engineering team that works with mobile OEMs, Carriers and SoCs partners globally
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to bring the best of Android to 3+ billion users.
Prior to Google, TT was a General Manager of the Service Provider Division at Avaya where he was responsible for developing
T T Ramgopal
hosted
Management,
telephony
Business
and
contact
Development
and
center
products
Engineering
at
for
SMBs.
companies
TT
such
also as
held
Qwest
various
positions
Communications,
in
Product
CenterLine
Software and Encore (sold to Sun). He was an associate at the strategy consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton in the Communications, Media and Technology practice.
TT holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Masters in Computer Science & Engineering from UT Austin, and Bachelor of Engineering from India.
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