Educational Qualification

• PhD – School of Management Studies, CUSAT
• MBA – M.G. University

Work Experience (Research /Teaching)

• Assistant Professor – MBA    Naipunnya Business School (2014 – 2017)
• Assistant Professor – MBA    Naipunnya Business School (2012-2013)
• Programme Manager   - Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP)2013 – 2014 -Department of Higher Education Board, Govt. Of Kerala
• Lecturer and Programme Coordinator -Programme Coordinator MBA - Naipunnya Business School (2010 – 2012) Lecturer in NIMIT- (2010 – 2012)

Area of Interest (Research /Teaching)

• Scientometric analysis, Network Analysis
• Big data analytics, Text analysis, Sentiment Analysis
• Financial Modelling, Panel data Analysis
• Entrepreneurial Finance, Valuation, Venture Capital, Business Incubation, Crowdfunding, Social Venture Capital, Derivatives

Consultancy

Trainings Given:

• Resource person for Higher Secondary School Transformation Programme (HSSTTP – Commerce- 2019) organized by Department of General Education and Higher Education (Topic: ‘Entrepreneurship and Start-ups’, Venue: Govt. College Kottayam)
• Resource Person for Sree Vivekananda College (Topic: Effective Resume Preparation)
• Resource person for ICT academy of Kerala’s as part of Certified Specialist in Data Science and Analytics program conducted on February 20, 2021. (Topic: Statistics for Data Science)
• Resource person for “Henry Harvin Education “for Design thinking Workshop (Topic: “Kano model for Product development”, March, May, June 2021 – Text analysis)
• Resource person for a webinar organized by Sree Vivekananda College conducted in June,2021. (Topic: A Hands-on Session on MS Excel)

Journal Publication

• Pynadath, M.F., Rofin, T.M. & Thomas, S. Evolution of customer relationship management to data mining-based customer relationship management: a scientometric analysis. Qual Quant 57, 3241–3272 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01500-y (Journal: Quantity and Quality, Scopus Q1-Top 10 percentile, Publisher- Springer)
• Pynadath, M. F., & Thomas, S. (2022). Valuation of Growth START-up: A New Approach by Drawing Analogies and Variations Among Existing Methods. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 3619. Scopus -Q3
• Pynadath, M.F., Paulose V., Thomas, S. Book Title-Emerging Trends in Financial Development and Economic Growth, Chapter -'What drives venture capital financing of start-ups: Supply or Demand."
• Pynadath, M.F. and Thomas, S. (2021) ‘Social venture capital – a new investment alternative for Indian social entrepreneurs’, Int. J. Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp.230–245.

Case Study

• Titled "From Mug to Mike: The Scale-Up Puzzle", publisher: Ivey Publishing House,in May 2023 with ISBN # W31817

Paper Presentation

• Presented a paper titled “Venture Capital as an Entrepreneurial Accelerator: A Scientometric Analysis on two decades of academic research” in 4th EntFin conference on July 2-3, 2019, in Trier, Germany.
• Presented three papers on Social Venture Capital, Disruptive Innovation, Data driven CRM in an International conference ICBM -2019 organized by Delhi Technological University
• Presented a paper titled “Tourism Development and Sustainability –A Resident Perspective” in a national conference on Contemporary Practices in Social Science Research organized by Panambilly Memorial College – 11th and 12th October 2018.
• Presented a Paper titled as “Hyper Funded Technology Start-ups Valuation -An empirical analysis” in a national conference organized by Department of Commerce, Government College, Kottayam-2018

Workshops / Training Attended

• National Level Faculty Development Programme on ‘Demystifying Machine Learning’ organized by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham during 10th -14th December -2018
• Teaching Summer School on “Accounting and Finance” “organized by The Financial Research and Trading Laboratory and Indian Finance Association during April 23- 29, 2018 at IIM Calcutta
• Summer school on “Empirical Finance and Accounting research “organized by The Financial Research and Trading Laboratory and Indian Finance Association during May 1- 9, 2017 at IIM Calcutta
• Five days National Workshop on “Applied Econometrics for Research” Organized by SMS, CUSAT
•  A five-day National Workshop on “Econometric Tools for Business Research “Organized by Pondicherry University
• Data Science and Analytics organized by IIIT Nagpur (ATAL Academy, Nov 30^th to Dec 4^th, 2020)
• “Six days hands-on FDP on Data Science using Python, R and Orange” held from 10^th -15^th August 2020. (Rajagiri College of Social Sciences)
• One-week online workshop on Panel data analysis 17^th -22^nd august 2020 (Department of Humanities, Delhi Technological University)
• 7 days FDP on “R Programming” (Department of Computer Science, St. Josephs College)
• Two-day hands-on FDP on "MS Excel essentials for academicians “20^th and 21^st November 2020 (Rajagiri College of Social Sciences)
• Research workshop on " Mixed-Methods Research" (Research and Publications Office IIM Ahmedabad by Prof. Devasmita Chakraverty)
• Attended an e-workshop on "Qualitative Analysis using NVivo” held from 27-29 January 2021.
• Attended an Online Workshop on “Web and Text Analysis”- 14^th and 15^th May 2021
• International FDP on “Recent Advances in Computer Science and Allied Domains (RACSAD – 2021)” organized by Sharadha University 5^th -10^th July 2021
• Attended workshop on "Regression Analysis and Event Study" from 29 July 2021-2^nd August 2021

Certifications

• Certified Specialist in Data Science and Analytics- ICT Academy
• Certified Trainer as Skill Development Executive for Additional Skill Acquisition Programme
• Project management- Management Development Programme at IIM- Kozhikode