Vijaykumar Krishnan

Prof. Vijay Krishnan is currently a Professor of marketing at Northern Illinois University. He brings thirty-four years of leadership experience to the table- fifteen in the academic world and nineteen in the Indian corporate world previously. Recently, he concluded a six-year tenure as Chair of the Department of Marketing at Illinois. His leadership journey began in the corporate world, where he held senior positions for nearly two decades including at Tata Steel ,JWT India, NIIT and Times of India. He is a Ph.D.in Marketing from the University of Cincinnati in 2009, an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a BTech from IIT Delhi. He has fifteen years of research and teaching experience, numerous teaching awards, twenty-one peer-reviewed publications, and 300 Google Scholar citations.