Professor T. Viswanathan, holds a Ph.D from Bharathiar University Coimbatore, Master’s Degree in Finance and Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University. He has 22 years of teaching, training and consultancy experience. He was associated with Alliance University as Faculty in Alliance School of Business. He served as a Member of Board of Studies. He had spent a decade with Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies. He has conducted over 150 MDPs for Kirloskar Group of Companies, in the area of Finance and trained over 500 executives. He served as an Assessor for Ravi Kirloskar Quality Price Award for business excellence and CII EXIM Bank Award. He is a CII certified Assessor for Competency Mapping and Assessment and conducted five assessment centres. He is a program committee member of Global Science and Technology Forum – Singapore. He has presented several papers in national and international conferences. His areas of interest include Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management and Financial Derivatives.