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- Mr. Ashok Shah (Head of the department)
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Mr. Ashok Shah
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Experience
A 10th Batch Direct Recruit who joined LIC in 1977.
In the more than 3 decades in the organization, most of which has been in Marketing, Operations, he has been incharge of several Branches, Marketing Manager, Sr. Divisional Manager of Shimla and Mumbai DO – III, RM (Mktg.) in Central Zone and prior to joining NIA on deputation was Zonal Manager of Northern Zone from 2004 to 2009.
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Areas of Interest (Insurance)
LIFE INSURANCE MARKETING
Qualifications
Post Graduate in Economics
E-mail :ashok.shah@niapune.com
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Mr. Ashok Kumar
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Experience
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- Lecturer,Symbiosis Insititute of Business Management (1980-82)
- Research Associate, Times Research Foundation (1982-91)
- Partner,NNN Associates(1991-95)
- Professor and Dean, ICFAI Business School (1995-2000)
- Professor, Symbiosis Centre for Management and HRD(2000-01)
- Head,Sales Training, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (2001-2005)
- Principal,The Institute of Insurance Sales Training (2005 till date)
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Publications
- Towards Preparing Indian Managers (1983)
- Introduction to Lease Financing (co-author Rajas Parchure) (1984)
- Mergers and Takeovers in India (co-author Rajas Parchure), (1990)
- You are the Modern Financial Advisor (2008)
Areas of Interest
Life Insurance Sales and Sales Management
Qualifications
M.Com
E-mail : ashok.iist@niapune.com |
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Mr. M. K. Taunk
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Experience
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Joined LIC in 1974. He was selected Direct Recruit A.A.O. of Eleventh Batch of LIC in 1981. He has worked in Varanasi Division (Accounts, IT and Branch Administration), Central Zonal Office at Bhopal (IT and Estate & Office Services Depts.), Eastern Zonal Office at Kolkata (Estate and Office Services Depts.), Corporate Office of LIC Housing Finance Ltd. (IT Dept.), Central Office (IT Dept.) and Suva (Fiji) Overseas Office (as Manager (Administration). Before being posted to NIA he was Vice Principal of Zonal Training Centre, Akurdi (Pune).
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Areas of Interest
Areas of Interest: Life Insurance Management, IT
Qualification
B. Sc.
E-mail: mktaunk@niapune.com
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Mr. Satyanarayan Sharma
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Experience

Joined LIC in 1981. Worked in various Divisions like Pune, Mumbai Division-III, Aurangabad as AAO, ABM (S), Branch Manager / Sr. Branch Manager. He has worked as Manager (P&IR) in Surat Division & Faculty Member at ZTC Akurdi. He has also worked as MARKETING MANAGER in GOA Division. Before being posted to NIA he was Sr. Divisional Manager (I/C), Chennai DO-II of South Zone.
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Areas of Interest
Life insurance, Underwriting, Marketing, CRM
Qualification
B.Sc., BGL, FIII
E-mail:svs@niapune.com
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Mr. Basavaraju
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Experience

A 10th Batch Direct Recruit who joined LIC in 1977.
Held various responsibilities in the organization such as Head of the branches both rural and urban, Marketing Manager of Mumbai DO IV, Head of the Divisions – Bangalore I and Surat, Regional Manager (Personnel and Industrial Relations) of North Central Zone, Principal of Zonal Training Centre, Chennai and prior to joining NIA on deputation, was Zonal Manager of East Central Zone, which was carved out of Eastern Zone in 2007.
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Areas of Interest
Marketing, HRD & CRM
Qualifications
Post Graduate in English literature.
E-mail : basav@niapune.com
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Mr. Sumesh Sheth
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Experience
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Shri Sumesh Sheth joined LIC of India in 1992 as a 19th batch direct recruit officer. He was in charge of Sales, NB, OS, and Accounts departments of a branch office in Bhavnagar Division for more than two years. He was then posted as a COO (Computer Operating Officer) in EDP of Western Zone, Mumbai working on DME, Unix mainframe with COBOL .In 1997 he joined IT Department of Corporate Office and worked there for about 7 years. During his stint at CO he had a wide exposure to different areas of IT and developed expertise in Various application software, Coding in Various languages, Web applications, Networks, IT Security, Hardware and worked on various platforms .In 2002 he was selected as a special IT cell officer and trained for about 3 months at ZTC, South Zone of LIC by faculties drawn from IIT, Chennai. He scored first rank in the examination conducted during training.
After return to IT Department of Corporate Office he was part of the team that worked on e-learning project and drafting of first IT security policy of LIC.
In 2004 he was deputed to IT Department of Western Zone, Mumbai to be a leader of a small team that set up the first PCMC (Premium Collection through Internet, ECS, bill payment, ATM etc.). He later worked in Personnel department. of Kolhapur division for 2 years.
Before coming to NIA he was the Manager (IT) at Shahdol Division.
His main areas of expertise lie in application of IT for Insurance and handling large IT projects right from conceptualization. |
Areas of Interest
Implication of advances in biology for Insurance , Health Insurance research
Qualifications
MSc, NET for lectureship of CSIR-UGC, DBM(Fin),Associate(III) , Passed 1 papers of fellowship exam of III and pursuing it further Passed 2 papers of fellowship exam of Institute of Actuaries and pursuing it further
E-mail : sumesh@niapune.com
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Ms. Kiran Chugh
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Experience
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She joined LIC in 1993 as Direct Recruit AAO of 20th batch. She was first posted in a branch under Vadodara Division of Western Zone. Thereafter she has worked in different branches of Northern Zone of LIC. |
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Areas of Interest (Insurance)
Mathematics, Actuarial, CRM
Qualifications
MA (Mathematics)
E-mail : kiran.chugh@niapune.com
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