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Nishant Saxena is the Founder & CEO of Elements Akademia (www.elementsakademia.com). He returned from Singapore to set up this National award winning institute with a grand “10x10” vision… Making 10,000 Indians Employable by 2010 which was met successfully. Business Today recently profiled his company as “One of the Hottest Startups in India”. Elements is emerging as India's first B-school management firm: partnering with Tier II business schools to make them one of the best in their city: owning the entire value chain on Marketing & Admissions, Teaching, Industry Interface and Placements. Strict performance criteria on revenues, profits and operational parameters are aligned with the Promoters and then monitored rigorously. Some of the highlights are: 50% teaching by IIM Alumni, 100% placements with minimum salary of Rs. 20,000-50,000 per month, at least 80% student satisfaction rating etc. B-schools can aspire to have 120+ students with a gross margin of 50%. Nishant started his career with Procter & Gamble, one of the top 3 most admired firms in the word, and worked in different countries within Asia - Philippines, Japan, India and Singapore. At Procter & Gamble, he was responsible for Strategic Planning, M&A and Corporate Finance and was a consistent top performer. His last few roles included Head of M&A overseeing the historic $55bn Gillette acquisition in India and Deputy CFO, P&G India, overseeing critical aspects of Strategy & Finance. Nishant is also an accomplished corporate trainer and has trained senior employees of blue chips like P&G, Cadbury, Kraft, Nestle, Aon Hewitt, HT Media, Sumitomo Motherson, Aircel, Macmillan, J&J, ICSI, ICAI etc. He trains in areas of Finance, Strategy and Leadership. Most of his workshops are rated 4.5-4.9 out of 5. He also teaches at IIM Lucknow, and in the past, has taught at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, SP Jain Mumbai/Dubai and NUS Singapore. Nishant was profiled by Business World as a ‘’Leader-In-Making’’, has visited 35+ countries and taught almost all major nationalities. He was recently profiled by Outlook Business as one of ‘’50 Social Entrepreneurs… Making India Better ‘’. He has also been profiled more than 100 times by almost all the leading newspapers and electronic media in the country.