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  Dr. Deepal C. Joshi, Director, SLIBA
FDP-IIMA, Ph.D., MBA (Gold-Medalist)
Dr. Deepal is associated with Som Lalit Institute of Business Administration, as a full time management faculty, since last 23 years and is the Director of the B.B.A. programme.   Besides being a gold medalist at management graduation and post-graduation, she has completed her doctorate in management on ‘Trends in B2C e-commerce’ under the guidance of Dr. Sarla Achuthan, Ex-Director, B.K. School of Business Management, Gujarat University. Her research interests include trends in B2C e-commerce, e-loyalty, website usage experiences of e-buyers, human and virtual influencers effect on sustainability messages, leadership in Indian high-tech start-ups, governance of higher education in India and sustainability overload and counter-reporting of CSR practices.She possesses 25 years of teaching experience for management students at the undergraduate level. She has taught subjects such as strategic management, international business, production and operations management, principles of management, advanced marketing management, basic financial management, Indian financial system, research methodology and management learning from world leaders.  She guides the final year students for grand projects, which gives practical research and industry exposure to the students. She also teaches business ethics and corporate governance at the post-graduate level of management education.

She has worked as Central Assessment Coordinator for B.B.A. exams conducted by the Gujarat University. She has been the chairman of syllabus revision committee for Group Project Report and Viva-voce paper (Semester 6), and member of syllabus revision committee for several subjects for incorporation of semester system in B.B.A. programme under Gujarat University and for developing the BBA curriculum under NEP 2020. She has served as paper setter, evaluator and moderator during annual pattern and semester exams for B.B.A. programme under Gujarat University. She has also served as observer during the various Gujarat University exams.

She has completed one orientation and three refresher courses in management from Gujarat University, as a part of academic pursuits for constant improvement. She is trained in using advanced statistical softwares for research as well as writing cases for management education. Her research papers and book chapters on various topics of her research interest have been published in reputed national and international journals. She has also presented papers in reputed conferences. She has attended several conferences, seminars and workshops on marketing, management, research methodology and effective teachingShe has imparted hands-on training to various corporates during her long academic tenure.

She has completed two faculty development programmes from IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and was the convenor of first ever IIM-A FDP conference-cum-reunion held at the IIM-A campus during May 2023.  She is writing a book of management cases under the guidance of Prof. Vijaya Sherry Chand from IIM-A.

  Dr. Archana U. Shah
M.Com., LLM (gold medalist), Ph.D.Dr. Archana is a faculty of Industrial and Mercantile Laws with 14 years of academic experience. She is associated with Somlalit Institute of Business Administration as a full time faculty since last 11 years.She was awarded two gold medals for securing first position at Gujarat University in LLM. She has completed her doctorate in law on the topic of ‘International Instruments on Human Rights: An Analytical Study with Special Reference to Promotion and Protection of Women’s Rights in the State of Gujarat’ under the guidance of Dr. Kaushik Raval, Director, School of Law, Gujarat University.She is a member of syllabus committee at Gujarat University for law subject.She has been serving as a paper setter, moderator, examiner and observer at annual pattern and semester system for BBA and B.Com Programmes of Gujarat University. She has presented and published research papers at various institutions, universities, national conferences and international seminars on the topic of women empowerment, social rehabilitation centre for women, untouchables and manual scavenging, etc. Her research papers on the topic of ‘Agariya women’ and ‘Cross border broken marriages’ were published in UGC recognized journals. Her chapter on ‘Social Media’ is in the book published by renowned international publication. She had done orientation course and had attended workshop on legal research methodology. She had attended International Faculty Development Programme by UK-India Education Collaboration, organized by Gujarat University and coordinated by Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat.
  Prof. Parin Shah
BBA, Post-Graduation in Marketing Parin Shah has more than 11 years of Corporate and Academic experience. He has been teaching, in PG (MBA) since Jun-2009 and in UG (BBA) since Nov-2009, subjects like Management, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour, Product & Brand Management, Sales & Distribution Management, Banking & Finance, Macro Economics and Strategic Management etc. Apart from Gujarat University’s BBA programme, he also has been teaching in other autonomous and universities UG/PG programs like IIPM, IIFM, Annamalai University, Punjab Technical University, and Manonmaniam Sundaranar University etc. After earning his management degree he joined corporate world. He has served various companies at different management levels for 7 years, like Citi Corp (channel Sales manager for loans), Vadilal (product executive designing-&-managing promotions and advertising), ICICI Bank Ltd (Equipment Loans Manager), , and HSBC (Associate VP for liabilities). He has been active participant in Gujarat University’s activities like paper setting and evaluating, conducting Viva and guiding students for industrial visits and reports etc.
  Prof. Navaz S. Postwalla
M.A. (Economics-Gold medalist) Prof. Navaz Postwalla has teaching experience of thirteen years in undergraduate and post graduate courses like B.B.A., B.com., B.M.S., M.com. At Veer Narmad South Gujarat University(Surat) and Gujarat University. She has completed Masters degree in Economics in 1999 with distinction , attended two UGC sponsored refresher courses with first class, also attended various seminars and workshops organized by university and Economics department .She has also presented paper in agricultural economics at State level economic conference. She has wide experience as paper setter, examiner, and observer of various exams conducted by Gujarat University.
  Prof. Ghata Shukla
M.Phil., Ph.D. Prof. Ghata holds M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature. She is a communications skills and English language and literature faculty at SLIBA since 2007 and possesses an overall teaching experience of 18 years. She received her Ph.D. degree for a study entitled ‘New Literatures: Socio-Political Realities in Select Fiction’ in 2018. She grooms students in English language and communication skills through debates, speeches, group presentations, group discussions, framing questionnaires, English grammar learning, etc.
  Prof. Mittal Parikh
M.Com., M.Phil., B.Ed., UGC- NET (Commerce),
GSET (Commerce), Ph.D. (Pursuing).

Subjects: Accountancy, Taxation and Finance
Prof. Mittal Parikh possesses teaching experience of more than 16 years in undergraduate courses like B.Com. and B.B.A. and an experience of more than 4 years in teaching postgraduate courses like M.Com. She is appointed as an Assistant Professor at Som Lalit Institute of Business Administration from the academic year 2023-24. She was previously associated with  a Gujarat University affiliated BBA College as an Assistant Professor since 2016 and as a visiting faculty at various commerce, arts and business administration colleges since 2007.She has completed her B.Com. from Som Lalit College of Commerce and has secured first rank in the college for university exams in F.Y.B.Com. and T.Y.B.Com and second rank in the college for university exams in S.Y.B.Com. She has completed M.Com. and M.Phil. in Accountancy from S.D. School of Commerce, Gujarat University. She holds B.Ed. degree from Gujarat University. She has also done SCOPE and CCC. She has qualified UGC- NET and GSET in Commerce. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. from Department of Commerce & Business Administration at Saurashtra University in the field of Commerce under the guidance of Dr. Jyotindra Jani.  She has presented papers at national – international seminars and conferences. She has also played active role in revising the syllabus of Accountancy subject for BBA at Gujarat University. She is the co-author for the books of Accountancy subjects for BBA syllabus of Gujarat University.

She has taught subjects like Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Company Accounts, Auditing, Corporate Financial Statements, Management Accounting, Taxation, Fundamentals of Financial Management, Indian Financial System, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Investment Management, Risk Management, Principles of Management etc. at undergraduate and post graduate levels. She is also the paper setter, moderator and examiner at Gujarat University.

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