Jaya Deshmukh

Director and CEO, MICA

Academic Area: Business Analysis and Consulting

A business leader in the field of Digital, Technology & Cloud, Ms. Jaya Deshmukh’s career spans the last 25 years holding leadership positions across the globe, in India, the Asia Pacific, the USA, and Europe. Prior to joining MICA, she served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Colt Technology Services, USA.

Her earlier positions include Head of Strategy – Google Cloud EMEA; Senior Director – Business Strategy, Enterprise Commercial, Microsoft; Senior Director – Digital Platforms, PwC Consulting Services, London, UK, and Director & Business Head – Cognizant Interactive, UK & Europe, London, UK among others.

She is one among the select business leaders with extensive experience in Strategy & Transformation, Business Operations, and Commercial and Solution Development across the full digital and data stack.

Ms. Deshmukh has served as a Jury member for the Webby’s since 2011, won a CLIO award for the work done with Childish Gambino, has numerous papers published in industry publications and holds a patent for “Fuzzy cohorts for provenance chain exploration”. Her authored chapter has been published in a prescribed textbook for MBA students, US Universities “Global and Digital Governance Handbook” published by Routledge. She is an active mentor for Women@Tech and has been selected as part of Capacity Media Power 100 2022.

She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing Communications, from MICA, Ahmedabad, India – 1994-1996 batch and is a gold medallist in BA (Hons) in History & Economics

Infrastructure details like: fire and safety certificate, barrier free build for disabled and elderly

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1Fire-Safety-Certificate-MICA
The validity period of 2 years and the expiry date is 31/08/2028
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2Barrier-free-Build-by-Architect
The validity period of 3 years and The expiry date is 31/08/2028 
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Affirmative Action/SC/ST Committee (STATUTORY)

Sr. No. Member
1CTSO (Lead) – Nirja Sharma
2Faculty/Anchor for Environment & Creativity AI Centre (Co-Lead) - Harmony Singanporia
3Faculty – Deepika Meena
4Staff representatives – Bhikabhai Chauhan
5Staff representatives – Manu Parmar
6Staff representatives – Jaydeep Vaghela
7Secretary: Kruttika

IQAC & Assurance of Learning

Sr. No. Member
1Registrar (Lead) - Professor Panda
2Dean & Principal (Designate) – (Co Lead) – PK Sinha (Prof. Sinha will continue to play this role post his becoming Dean & Principal)
3Controller of Examinations (Lead Assurance of Learning) – Niyati Bhanja
4Dean & Principal – Githa Heggde (Prof. Heggde will continue once she transitions to her new role)
5Director & CEO – Jaya Deshmukh
6Associate Dean Knowledge – Suresh Malodia
7Head of FRC – Rasananda Panda
8Head of CLIP – Pooja Thomas
9Faculty – Harmony Siganporia
10External Review Member – Amrita Randhawa (MICA Alumni)
11External Review Member – Arun – Accenture Song (MICA Alumni)
12External Review Member – Maya Indira Ganesh (TBC)
13Secretary: Sethu Iyer

Institution Industry Cell / Placements (Including Summer Internship)

Sr. No. Member
1Head of External Relations & Growth (Lead) – Indranil Banerji
2Executive Advisor – Strategic Initiatives (Co-Lead) – Githa Heggde (Githa will play this role even when she is Dean & Principal)
3Dean & Principal (Designate) – PK Sinha (Sinha Sir will continue to play this role when he becomes Dean & Principal)
4Associate Dean – Academics – Santosh Patra
5Faculty - Bikram Bindra
6Faculty – Govindrajan
7Director & CEO – Jaya Deshmukh
8CMO – Ruchi Tewari
9Management Trainee – CEO’s Office – Strategic Initiatives – Kuldeep Raj
10MICA 2026 leaving placecomm member – Akhilesh
11MICA 2027 SPC sitting member – TBC
12MICA Committee List 2026-27 5
13Student MLS Lead 2026 - TBC
14MAA Board Placement Enabler – Navneeth L V
15Secretary: Harjeet

Institution’s Innovation Council – IIC (Entrepreneurial Initiatives)

Sr. No. Member
1 Faculty & IIC Lead: Adwait Mardikar
2 Faculty (Co-Lead): U T Rao
3 Faculty/ Anchor Technology in AI Centre – Viral Nagori
4 Faculty – Ashutosh Yadav
5 Faculty – Saurabh Pandya
6 Faculty – Sukaran Thakur
7 Director & CEO – Jaya Deshmukh
8 Dean & Principal (Designate) – PK Sinha
9 Secretary: Pooja Sharma