Dr. Sinha’s rich experience over the years - across academia, consulting, education and business - has given him a rare insight into the running of organizations and different operating environments. His powerful and lucid delivery is valued by his audiences across genres – students at one end, and top management teams at the other.
Education & Career
Dr. Sinha received M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
He spent 12 years with McKinsey and Company, the international management consulting firm, as a Partner. During his McKinsey tenure, he assisted both public and private sector clients in a diverse set of industries on issues relating to business strategy and performance improvement in North America and Asia. After starting his career in the North American Practice, he moved to India in 1997 and helped build and grow the Indian Practice. He led McKinsey India’s telecom, IT, and media practices as well as its organisation practice, where he focused on issues of transformation and leadership. He has assisted several blue-chip Indian companies’ address the challenges of transforming their existing organizations to world-class levels. He has worked closely with several MNCs to help meet the organizational and leadership challenges of setting up a world-class operation in India.
Subsequently, Dr Sinha took a year off from McKinsey to be the Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB), an initiative led by McKinsey and a group of leading Indian business leaders, in partnership with Kellogg and Wharton, to establish a world-class business school in India.
Before founding 9.9 Media last year, he was the MD & CEO of ABP Private Limited, one of India’s most prominent and diversified media conglomerates with leading properties in the newspaper, magazine, and TV genres.
Boards
• Board of Governors of the Indian School of Business.
• Board of Directors of Vienova, an online education venture he helped found
• V-Soft Inc., a Silicon Valley-based hi-tech services company
• Technopak, a management consulting firm specializing in the retail sector.