Prof. Murali Manohar Bhupathi, Dean – SCM & Research, DY Patil Agriculture & Technical University Kolhapur, person with more than three decades of professional experience across the globe, to be precise, in Asia, Europe, North America, and Africa. He started his career soon after completing MBA (1989) in Marketing and got into teaching. He moved to Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore (then Vellore Engineering College), in 1994 and worked there until December 22, 2021. He played a pivotal role at VIT Business School as a Senior Professor and member of the core team for getting ACBSP (Co-Champion) and AACSB accreditation for both the Vellore and Chennai campuses. As a Convenor of VIT’s Riviera (2008–10) International Sports & Culture Festival, He had the opportunity to showcasing organisational skills to one and all by taking Riviera to new heights in terms of footfall and sponsorship for various events. As a Director, VIT Library-Knowledge Resource Centre (2018–21), he transforms the functioning of the library by adopting open source LMS Koha from licenced Libsys software. He has the opportunity to secure a Group Study Exchange (GSE) fellowship from Rotary International to visit North Yorkshire, UK, during 1999, and a DAAD fellowship for a professor assignment at the University of Cologne in Germany during October 2011 to March 2012.  Shifted to D Y Patil Group’s newly established D Y Patil Agriculture & Technical University, Kolhapur, on December 24, 2021, as Professor & Dean, School of Commerce & Management.