Background
Kumar, Nirmalya was born on March 8, 1960 in Delhi, India. Son of Narendra and Pratibha (Agarwal) Kumar. arrived in Switzerland, 1995.
Kumar, Nirmalya was born on March 8, 1960 in Delhi, India. Son of Narendra and Pratibha (Agarwal) Kumar. arrived in Switzerland, 1995.
Kumar was educated at Louisiana Martiniere Calcutta school, and received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Calcutta University in 1980, and his Master of Commerce degree from Shivaji University in 1983. In 1986, he completed his Master of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 1991, received his Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University.
Between 2001 and 2009, he also served on five Boards of Directors of Indian firms including Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Limited and Zensar Technologies. Education
Kumar has recently joined Tata Sons as a member-group executive council. Before this, he was a Professor of Marketing and Director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School.
He previously served on the faculty of Harvard Business School, Institute for Management Development-International Institute for Management Development (Switzerland), and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He has authored seven books on marketing and business-related topics. He is notable for proposing the culture of "3Vs": valued customer, value proposition and value network, explained in his book Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the Chief Executive Officer"s Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation.
He appears on the lists of Thinkers50, World"s Best B-School Professors, and 50 Most Influential Business School Professors. In 2011, he received the Global Village Award by Thinkers50 for the person who contributed most to the business community"s understanding of globalization and the new frontiers established by emerging markets.
In 2012, he received an honorary fellowship from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Member American Marketing Association.
Married Norma Adriana Garcia, June 10, 1988 (divorced March 1995). Married Gunnel Berggren, August 11, 1995.