Educational Qualification

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

Work Experience (Research /Teaching)

• Assistant Professor – MBA    Sahrdhaya Institute of Management Studies 
• Assistant Professor – MBA    Naipunnya Business School
• Programme Manager   - Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP) Department of Higher Education Board, Govt. Of Kerala
• Lecturer and Programme Coordinator -Programme Coordinator MBA - Naipunnya Business School

Area of Interest (Research /Teaching)

• Machine Learning, Deep learning, Scientometric analysis, Network Analysis, Big data analytics, Text analytics, Sustainability Analytics, Patent Analytics
• Financial Analytics, Panel data Analysis
• Entrepreneurial Finance, Valuation, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding, Social Venture Capital

Journal Publication

• M. Rožman, D. Oreški, A. Elias, M. F. Pynadath and P. Tominc, "AI Literacy Among University Students: A Comparative Study of Three Countries—Slovenia, Croatia, and India," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 110671-110688, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3581128. (Scopus Q1-Top 10 percentile, Publisher- IEEE)
• Pynadath, M.F., Rofin, T.M. & Thomas, S. (2023).  Evolution of customer relationship management to data mining-based customer relationship management: a scientometric analysis. Qual Quant 57, 3241–3272 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. (2022) 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

• From Mug to Mike: The Scale-Up Puzzle by Abhilash G. Nambudiri and Minnu F Pynadath, Product#: W31817-PDF-ENG, Ivey Case Clearing House, listed in Harvard Business Review Repository, Recognised as the top 23 trending cases (2023)

Paper Presentation

• " Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach”Received the Best Paper Award in the Sustainability track at the 9th International Scientific Conference titled "Sustainable Management in the Age of ESG and AI: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities," at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. (May 13, 2025)
• "The Role of Soft Competencies in Startup Success: Insights from Women-Led Ventures in India" Presented at the 9th International Scientific Conference at the University of Maribor, Slovenia (May 13, 2025)
• "The Dynamics of Signaling in Startup Valuation: A Life Cycle Perspective on Venture Capital Investment in India" Presented at the 9th International Scientific Conference at the University of Maribor, Slovenia (May 13, 2025)
• "Forecasting Start-up Pre Money-Value a Comprehensive Approach using Machine Learning and Deep Learning" at the 37th ANZAM international Conference (December 2024)
• "Integrating Fuzzy AHP and GIS for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach" at the 5th International Conference (August 2024)
• Collective Influence of Start-up Financials and Life Cycle Stages on Firm Value: Examining Moderated Effect of Serial Entrepreneurship “6th ICMR 2021organized by Sabaragamuwa University Sri Lanka (December 2021)
• “Venture Capital as an Entrepreneurial Accelerator: A Scientometric Analysis on two decades of academic research” in 4th EntFin conference in Trier, Germany. (July 2-3, 2019)
• Three papers on Social Venture Capital, Disruptive Innovation, Data driven CRM in an International conference ICBM -2019 organized by Delhi Technological University (2019)

Conferences / MDPs Attended / FDPs Attended

• Session Chair- 37^th ANZAM conference at University of Wollongong, Australia (December 2024)
• Session Chair for the Financial Dynamics track at the 9th International Scientific Conference on Sustainable Management in the Age of ESG and AI: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. (May 13, 2025)
• Session Chair- ICMRS 2024 (June 2024)

Workshops / Training Attended

RESOURCE PERSON

• Advanced Excel Workshop at Nest Digital with a national-level audience of 60 participants. (2023-2024)
• Sree Vivekananda College (Topic: Effective Resume Preparation) 
• ICT academy of Kerala’s as part of Certified Specialist in Data Science and Analytics program, “Statistics for Data Science” (February 20, 2021)
• “Henry Harvin Education “for Design thinking Workshop -Topic: “Kano model for Product development”, March, May & June, 2021 – Text analysis)
• Webinar organized by Sree Vivekananda College -Topic: A Hands-on Session on MS Excel (June 2021)
• 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)

PARTICIPANT

• Wharton Global Faculty Development Programme Sponsored by Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania (2022)
• Data Science and Analytics organized by IIIT Nagpur (ATAL Academy, November 30 - December 4, 2020)
• Teaching Summer School on “Accounting and Finance” “organized by The Financial Research and Trading Laboratory and Indian Finance Association at IIM Calcutta (April 23-29, 2018)
• Summer school on “Empirical Finance and Accounting research “organized by The Financial Research and Trading Laboratory and Indian Finance Association at IIM Calcutta (May 1-9, 2017)
• One-week online workshop on Panel data analysis, Department of Humanities, Delhi Technological University (August 17-22, 2020)
• E-workshop on "Qualitative Analysis using NVivo” (January 27-29, 2021)
• Online Workshop on “Web and Text Analysis” (May 14-15, 2021)
• International FDP on “Recent Advances in Computer Science and Allied Domains (RACSAD – 2021)” organized by Sharadha University (July 5-10, 2021)
• "Regression Analysis and Event Study" (July 29 - August 2, 2021)
• National Level Faculty Development Programme on ‘Demystifying Machine Learning’ organized by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (December 10-14, 2018)
• Five days National Workshop on “Applied Econometrics for Research” Organized by SMS, CUSAT (2019)
• A five-day National Workshop on “Econometric Tools for Business Research “Organized by Pondicherry University (July 2-6, 2018)

Certifications

• Global Online Certification Course on “Social Network Analysis and its applications” Course from NITIE Mumbai (2022)
• Global Online Certification Course on “Deep Learning in Finance” in association with(Clemson University) Course Timeline: October 2021. NITIE Mumbai (2021)
• 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

Professional Memberships

• Life member in Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD)-ID- P-1569/2020

Awards And Achievements

• " Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach”Received the Best Paper Award in the Sustainability track at the 9th International Scientific Conference titled "Sustainable Management in the Age of ESG and AI: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities," at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. (May 13, 2025)
• Erasmus + Teaching Mobility Grant for International Teaching at Institute of Finance and Artificial Intelligenece at Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Maribor (December 2024)
• Loyola College of Social Sciences (Autonomous)           Member - Board of Studies Data Science            For FYUP (Since November 2024)
• Served as a subject expert for curriculum submitted by ASAP Kerala for National Skill Quality Framework (NSQF) aligned Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP)course (2022)

International Exposure

• Visiting Faculty – Machine Learning for Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization Using Python, Data mining for Mathematicians for University of Maribor, Slovenia [December 2024]
• Visiting Faculty – International Teaching Week Financial Analytics for University of Maribor, Slovenia [May 2025]

Other Details

• Editorial Board member for Management Review Quarterly – [Scopus Indexed (Q1, Top10 Percentile), ABDC – B, Impact factor – 9, SSCI and Web of Science Indexed Journal]

Journal Reviewer

• Cogent Business Management [ABDC A]
• Applied Economic Letters [ABDC B]