Dr. Uday Salunkhe, a mechanical engineer with a management degree in Operations pursued his doctorate in Turnaround Strategies as his major. He has 12 years of experience in the corporate world, which includes his tenure with Mahindra & Mahindra, ISPL and other companies. Owing to his valuable experience, he has turned around a number of sick units in India. He is presently Director of Prin. L.N. Welingkars Institute of Management Dev. & Research. He has transformed the institute and brought it to the forefront in management education. Dr. Salunkhe has been invited as visiting fellow at Harward Business School USA, European University Germany, as a part of the effort to benchmark the management curriculum on the lines of leading business schools abroad. He is also associated with a number of Universities abroad, Wharton & University of Chicago to name a few. At Welingkars, Dr. Salunkhe has taken the lead by innovating models, which have given a new dimension to management education. These include the BTS (Build Transfer Support) model, the Career Counselling Centre, CAN group and Management Development Program (MDP). He is a person with a penchant for excellence in anything undertaken. He is also a recipient of prestigious national and international awards in the field of management. To mention few of them are - Superior Performance and Most Outstanding Entrepreneurial Project at Asian Institute of Management 1997. The Best Teacher of Management for 1997-1998 by the Indian Express Group and Best Teacher of Management 1996-1997 by Bombay Management Association. He was awarded scholarship in Quality Management by AOTS, Japan. Dr. Uday Salunkhe has also been involved in the official bodies of the university of Mumbai and the Directorate of Technical Education to improve the quality of management education.