Chandru Rajam

Chandru Rajam is CEO of RichFeedback, a provider of technology-solutions and services to the Education sector that help students improve their learning through timely feedback and help faculty get more done. Dr. Rajam also teaches in the MBA program at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Business, where he previously served as Director of Assessment of Learning and as Visiting Associate Professor. Prior to his arrival at GWU, he was Co-Founder and CEO of EduMetry, Inc., a provider of learning-assessment solutions to universities globally.

Before founding EduMetry, Dr. Rajam served as a business school professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he taught in the areas of Strategy and International Business. Dr. Rajam was also Founding Director of the Asia-Pacific Executive MBA (APEX-MBA) Program, the first of its kind in Asia in 1997 and which was ranked 11th globally by Financial Times in 2009. That program became the inspiration for the UCLA-NUS EMBA Program. He went on to become Founding Dean of Universitas 21 Global, an online university offering graduate business education. Universitas 21 Global was a joint venture between Thomson Learning (now Cengage) and a global university association called Universitas 21.

While serving as a professor, Dr. Rajam consulted as Moderator of BusinessWeek Conferences, advising editorially and chairing CEO, CFO and CIO conferences across Asia. Dr. Rajam later s as Regional Director for Advisory Services at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a division of The Economist Group. Based in Singapore, he led The Economist Corporate Network, overseeing research and providing briefings to the regional presidents of multinational companies on the business environment in Asia. He has been a commentator on CNBC, BBC, NDTV, Bloomberg and CCTV.

Dr. Rajam has consulted for or taught in executive-education programs offered by Harvard Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, IBM, McDonnell-Douglas, Mobil, General Motors, American President Lines, Singapore Airlines, GE, Samsung, GSK, Elf Atochem and Swiss Re.