Prof KNS Acharya joined GITAM as Prof and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Bangalore Campus, from May 2023

Prof KNS has a unique blend of professional experience spanning across Academia and Industry over 37 years. As an academician, he has scaled through the roles of Lecturer, Assistant professor, professor and dean of postgraduate education with Indian and overseas university partners.

Over the last 22+ years, he has served as senior management leader at leading organizations like Honeywell, Infosys Ltd, KPIT Technologies, and at L&T Technology Services. His focus in these leadership roles has been to develop technology education and solutions in diversified industry sectors of Automotive, Aerospace, telecom, medical, digital manufacturing etc. His experience also encompasses Leadership Development, Corporate recruitment and driving business strategies. He has widely traveled across many countries to partner with global customers and universities.

At GITAM, he is leading the Bangalore campus Research collaborations, working with schools to deliver quality education in alignment with industry needs, and sharing and implementing industry best practices for GITAM’s growth trajectory.

Awards and Recognitions

• Learning Leader of the year 2022 by Economic Times HR World, Best Corporate Technical University of the Year 2022
• “Chief Learning officer of the year 2022” by UBS Forums 10th edition of Future of L&D Summit & Awards
• Best Industry – Academia collaboration Award – Coventry University UK – 175th year celebrations Award (2018)
• 4 Consecutive years Awards of Excellence from Infosys ltd