A Brief Profile
Professor Eur Ing Muthu Singaram
BEng, CEng , MIET , MBA
Chief Education Officer
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
SMOT The Business School, Chennai, India
http://www.smot.edu.in/
Mentor / Consultant / Corporate Facilitator
Muthu Singaram Consulting – http://www.singaram.com/
PQMDC – http://www.pqmdc.com
Co-Founder – OdrWorld.com – http://www.odrworld.com/
Muthu Singaram is currently the Chief Education Officer and Professor at SMOT. Muthu is the Chief Mentor, Head of Consulting and a corporate facilitator at Muthu Singaram Consulting. Muthu has a MBA in Multimedia Finance and Muthu’s passion is in Entrepreneurial Development, Mentoring, Management of Emerging Technologies and Innovation. Muthu’s first-degree is in Engineering. Muthu is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and Chartered Member (IET UK), a Chartered Engineer (Engineering Council, UK) and an European Engineer (European Federation of National Engineering Associations) Muthu has been a judge and mentor in many business plan competitions including HSBC Business Plan Competition, McKinsey’s Business Plan Competition and several others in the last 5 years.
Muthu was responsible in developing the Malaysian National Uniprenuer Development Programme (NUDP) at the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC). Muthu was also a council member for the National Incubator Network.
Muthu has mentored, consulted and facilitated participants from many parts of the world, these include companies like British Telecom, Institute of Public Administration Malaysia, Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers, Malaysian Employers Federation, Small and Medium Industries Development Corporation, The National Productivity Corporation, Malaysian International Chamber Of Commerce and Industry, The Institute of Leadership & Management (UK), Management Concept Asia Pacific, Shell, ExonMobile, DHL and others.
Muthu is / has been a Visiting/Adjunct Faculty Member/Professor at several Universities in Malaysia and India. These include the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Kanpur, Anna University Madras, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India, University Technology Petronas, Malaysia and University Multimedia Malaysia where Muthu teaches / taught Entrepreneurship and Management of Technology at Degree and Master levels.
Before forming Muthu Singaram Consulting, Muthu was the Project Director at British Telecom at their Asian Research Center. In a span of 16 months the team filed 10 patents and 16 publications. Muthu has two patents pending and four international publications. One of Muthu’s project’s ORDWORLD an online dispute resolution service is a provider to eBay India. Muthu has almost 20 years of experience in Engineering, Management and Entrepreneurship.
Muthu is a regular speaker at many international Entrepreneurship conferences and a lead facilitator for innovation and other workshops.