Vijay Kumar is an IT corporate professional turned researcher and academician. He has had a successful 25-year corporate tenure of building and managing world-class technology companies in India. He was the Corporate Product Marketing Manager at Wipro before being the India Center Head of Tektronix Engineering, a subsidiary of Tektronix, USA. Vijay later became Chief Operating Officer of Raffles Software, Singapore, and Chief Executive Officer of Mindteck, a public listed software company promoted by a global investment bank. As Managing Director of Manystreams USA and Managing Director of Citec Finland, he led the formation and growth of these companies in India. He was the President of IP consulting at Bizworth, a boutique consulting company.

During his tenure as the Dean of Management Studies at PES University, Bangalore, the MBA program became the most preferred choice of management study in Karnataka and catapulted PES MBA to being the #1 Business School in Karnataka and # 3 in South India in successive years (2020 and 2021, TOI Business Schools ranking).

He currently consults in the area of ESG.

His co-authored book ＂Global Innovation and Economic Value＂ (2018) was published by Springer.

Dr. Kumar is an Electronics Engineer with an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA, and has a PhD from IIT Madras