
Dr. B S. Murthy
(Director – Indian Institute of Technology- Hyderabad)
Dr. B S. Murthy is an Indian metallurgist. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2007 in the engineering science category.
He is serving as the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
He graduated as Bachelor in Metallurgical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur (VRCE) (now Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT)), in 1986 at the top of the class.

Dr. R W. Khare
(Industry Expert)
Dr. R W. Khare graduated as Bachelor in Metallurgical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur (VRCE) (now Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT)), in 1972 as a university topper.

Dr. Dilip Peshwe
(Head of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering)
Dr. Dilip Peshwe graduated as a Bachelor in Metallurgical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur (VRCE) (now Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT)), in the year 1983.

Mr. Manoj Saraf
(Managing Director – FACOR Group)
Mr. Manoj Saraf is a B.E. in Metallurgy. He has been with the Facor Group for over 25 years and has expertise in the field of Production, Mining, Exports and related functions.

Dr. Subhash Paranjpe
(Founder – Welmet Technologies Private Limited, Nagpur)
Dr. Subhash Paranjpe is the founder of Welmet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He has worked in the field of Alloy development, Coated welding Electrodes and in development and manufacture of welding consumables for automatic/ semiautomatic welding processes.