Prof. Dr. Mahesh Halale, B.Sc., MBA, MCA, Ph.D. (Fin; UoP). He is presently working with SVIMS, Pune as Professor in Business Administration. He is recipient of 2009 Dewang Mehta Best Teacher Award. He is SEBI certified trainer. He has vast academic experience of 10 years and industry experience of 18 years in the field of Project Finance with Maharashtra State Financial Corporation. He is a resource person in the field of Finance and Information Systems and delivered keynote address in various national international conferences. He has conducted number of corporate training programs. He is regular guest faculty and has delivered guest lectures in the subjects of MIS, MCS, SFM, IBM, BPSM with number of management institutes. He has published papers in the aforesaid domain in ISSN journals of repute. He has written a book on MCS. He has acted as member / subject expert on various committees. He has provided consultancy to 50+ SMEs in project finance. He is member of All Indian Management Association.