Prof. Vinod V. Sople is Director at Dombivli Campus of ITM Business School. He is pursuing research in the areas of Marketing, Intellectual Property Rights, Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He received Ph.D. Degree in Management from University of Pune. He obtained his Bachelor`s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur and Master`s Degree in Business Administration from University of Pune. He was associated with industry for twenty-two years and worked in Grindwell Norton, Crompton Greaves, Chicago pneumatic, Amtek Projects, Gujarat Perstorp etc. in various capacities handling assignments in functional areas of marketing, distribution, customer service, projects, and product management etc. He had over a decade of experience in teaching of various management subjects in the country and abroad. He contributed several research papers and articles in leading management journals and magazines. He authored six books titled `Supply Chain Management`, `Logistics Management`, `Managing Intellectual Property`, `Legal Aspects of Marketing in India`, `Business Process Outsourcing`, and `E- Marketing. He is a Chief Editor of `International Journal of Business Insights and Transformation (IJBIT) and `Supply Chain Pulse (SCP)` and `Wealth - International Journal of Money, Banking and Finance`.