Kurien Joseph is a former business executive, with 31 years of experience in management and teaching, in international business and communication, in the public and private sectors, in India and overseas. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

Graduating in Architechture from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1970, he did post-graduate studies in Mass Communication at the Xavier Institute of Communication Arts, Mumbai, in 1972, and in Marketing Management at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, in 1978. In 1976, he was a member of the 3-man team that won the National Competition for Young Managers (All India Management Association).

He has lived and worked in Delhi,Mumbai,Banglore and Sydney (Australia). In addition he has travelled on work to nearly 30 countries. During the period 1980-1983,while posted in Sydney, Australia, as STC's Regional Manager for Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, he participated in Indo-Australian Joint Trade Consultations. In 1996 he was on the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce delegation to the State of Arizona in the USA.

After 19 years of hands-on international business experience in the public sector (STC), he spent another 6 years in the corporate private sector, before starting his own independent consultancy services for Indian and foreign organizations. His consultancy, Komark draws upon the talents of a pool of experts with vast experience and superb communication and teaching skills in the areas of Communication and Business Management.

Side by side, however, he has taught MBA-level courses (Communication Skills, Marketing, International Business ) in India and the UK, and on more than one occasion was on the admissions Committee of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and Fortune Institute of International Business. In addition, he has taught undergraduate students at the prestigious Pearl Academy of Fashion, New Delhi.

At one time he had been actively involved with theatre, having been a member of Delhi's dramatic groups Yatrik and Theatre Action Group (TAG). Indeed, in august 2000 he returned to active theatre in the midst of his heavy professional commitments. He brings to his work a unique blend of hard-core management experience, academic work and theatre craft.

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