RETAIL STORE'e

Profile Snapshot of Dr. Raja Roy Choudhury
Managing Trustee, 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation & Chief Mentor, RETAIL STORE'e

Dr. Raja Roy Choudhury, MSc (Eco), MS (Psychotherapy), MBA, Phd, Certified Lead Auditor, is Former Head, Retail & Executive Education, Russell Square International College, Mumbai having over 22 years of rich experience in Strategic Planning, Sales & Marketing, Research, Training & Development in critical domain areas such as IT Education & Consulting, Business Process Redesign & Change Management, TQM & ISO 9000 QMS, International Trade, Immigration & Study Overseas, Media, Office Automation and Retailing. He has served organizations such as Price Waterhouse, Datapro, Aptech, Zeba, AToZ, Times Group in senior management positions before embarking upon an international assignment as CEO, Fuji Xerox in South Pacific. He returned back to India in May, 2006 and since then has been working on research, training and development activities pertaining to the growth of retailing as a sunrise industry in India. He has received his doctorate in technology induced retailing for his pioneering work in converting a philatelic bureau called Post Fiji into a convergence retailing hub and the related technology & quality systems associated with such a change.

Being inspired from his thesis, Raja has written a book on retail process mapping to develop robust & scalable retail software systems called RETAIL STORE’e which just got published couple of months back. The book has relevance with his real life projects in retail technology in Times of India and Post Fiji. He has attempted to map the business of retail as per retail process specifications to help enrich understanding of the retail business and significantly benefit the student community, entrepreneurs, software engineers involved in designing retail systems architecture and retail professionals.

Raja runs 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation, an educational trust which strives to create a happy, healthy and secure childhood for the girl child by helping her avail formal education. The goal is to enable a Nanhi Kali blossom into a socially responsible adult who is aware of her rights and responsibilities. All the sales proceeds of his book, RETAIL STORE’e will go in strengthening the activities of the foundation.

Raja had successfully launched ReStore, a niche programme to develop and nurture retail store managers as part of the retail learning initiative of Russell Square International College and have so far trained in the capacity of a Principal Faculty, senior managers from Nokia, Vodafone, Hypercity, Brandhouse Retail, Welspun, NEXT, Madura Garments, Spinach, Suvidha, @Home, Sherwin Williams, Abbott Lab, R&P Gelato, Furtado to name a few of them. He has been appointed as a Principal Faculty to conduct a retail seminar in Bahrain by Dr. N.J. Verghese Group of Co and in Kuala Lumpur by Ansa House. He has delivered lectures on technology induced retailing at Singapore Quality Circle and IIJ, Mumbai. Raja has been recently invited as a mentor in Self Management, Leadership & Retail Management by Europe Asia Business School, Pune. He is also a Visiting Faculty (Family Managed Business) with SP Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai, Dr. Gazi Management & Technical College, Tarapur & Indira Group of Institutions, Navi Mumbai.

Raja is scheduled to launch CEED (Certificate of Excellence in Entrepreneurship Development), a specialized programme which will help create in every budding entrepreneur an intrinsic motivation, desire, passion for excellence and endeavor to transform economies of emerging markets by identifying and assisting high impact entrepreneurs. In addition to the above, he has designed a series of business excellence programmes in the field of marketing, finance, technology, leadership, counseling & psychotherapy which would be offered as a finishing school concept.

Raja’s major training and mentoring strength revolves round his ability to understand and focus on technology induced retail business solutions with clinical precision. He is an expert in taking sessions on Self Management, Professional Selling & Effective Customer Services, Leadership, Retail Buying, CPFR, SCM & Logistics, Retail IT, Store Operations, Footfall Management & Customer Loyalty Programmes.

Raja is ably assisted in his endeavour to spearhead 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation in offering career oriented quality education by Ravindra Pratap Gupta, a well known professional having more than 14 years of rich experience in working with Aventis, Novartis, Micro, Future Group before taking a plunge in the world of academics. Mr. Gupta is currently the Director, Strategic Management for the foundation & heads it's Executive Committee.

The foundation boasts of highly experienced mentors with national and international exposure in modern day retailing and related businesses. It has entered into a strategic partnership with an UGC recognised university to offer graduate/PG programmes in areas of business excellence under distance learning mode.