Hitendra Wadhwa
Hitendra Wadhwa is an Indian-American businessman and educator. Wadhwa is currently a professor at Columbia Business School. He is the founder of the Mentora Institute.''''
Early life and education
Wadhwa was born in Chandigarh, India, to Puran Chand Wadhwa and Nirmal.Wadhwa received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi in 1988. He then received an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in management science from Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by 1996. Wadhwa’s doctoral research focused on optimizing price decisions for retail products with seasonal demand patterns.
Career
Wadhwa became a consultant at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, in 1996. In 1999, after raising $10 million in venture capital, he founded Paramark, a marketing optimization technology startup in Silicon Valley. The company was acquired by NewWorldIQ in 2002. Wadhwa also founded a consulting firm, Delphinity, in 2002, which through a series of mergers became Mentora Institute.Wadhwa first began teaching as a PhD. student at MIT in the 1990s. From 2004-2006, he served as an adjunct professor in Marketing at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Wadhwa became a professor at Columbia Business School in 2006. In 2007, Wadhwa oversaw Columbia Business School’s alliance with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.