Dr. Omkumar Krishnan completed his PhD in the area of Rural Marketing and M.Phil in Planning & Development from IIT Bombay, both with institute scholarships. He has worked with Drshti Strategic Research Services, Bombay and with Lowe Lintas, Bombay in the domain of Market Research. He has earlier worked as a full-time faculty in IBS Bangalore. His areas of interest are Marketing Research, Rural Marketing, Qualitative Research, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Capital.

He has carried out international market research as part of the Research team doing Market Exploratory study for a leading Indian Automobile manufacturer in three cities of Indonesia. He has publications in refereed journals and has presented a number of conference papers at national and international forums. Over the last seven years he has been conducting training programmes on SPSS at various Business Schools in the country. At IMT he is handling courses in Marketing and Research Methodology.

Omkumar is an active member of the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) funded by Wadhwani Foundation and regularly organizes workshops and seminars. He also conducts management development programme for corporates and academics. He is the Programme Director of a one year training programme for an established international retail chain. Presently he is the Chairperson of PGDM (Executive) and PGDM (Part-Time) at IMT Ghaziabad.