Mr Muralidharan (also called TMD or Murali by his friends) is the founder and Chairman of twenty‐eight‐year‐old TMI Group. With 3000+ employees, TMI Group is a human productivity consulting and services group with pan‐India presence. Mr. Muralidharan, a first‐generation entrepreneur has built the TMI Group into one of India’s big five in its domain with customers in IT, BFSI, Manufacturing and Services sectors. TMI Group has placed over 1,00,000 Managers in the Indian Corporate Sector over the last 28 years.

TMI Group with several offices in India, works with over 400 of India’s leading companies in the India, Middle East and USA. Mr. Muralidharan is also the Founder of TMI e2E Academy Pvt Ltd. which is an NSDC (National Skills Development Corporation) Partner company, involved in graduate employability and employment and is tasked to provide employment and training to 0.5 million young Indians within in the first ten years of its inception.

Education:  B. Tech from IIT‐Madras (1979)  Post‐Graduation from IIM‐Ahmedabad (1981)

Serial Entrepreneurship: 4 Start‐ups till date. The first start up in Agri Seeds failed. The second ‐ TMI Network (28 years old), the third ‐ C&K Management Ltd. (18 years old), the fourth ‐ TMI e2E Academy (8 years old) are national leaders in their respective domain.

Independent Journalist Accredited by Government as an Independent Journalist since 2015

Columnist:

• Regular columnist on careers, jobs and skills for – Opportunities, The Hindu – Education Plus, Telangana Today, The Week Magazine, , Nav Bharat Times, Sakshi etc.

Professional Connections  Member of the National Board of MSME  Member of the National Executive Board of FICCI, New Delhi  Chairman of FICCI, Telangana State Council  Advisory Board Member of APXLR8 ‐ AP Government Accelerator Program for start ups  Board Member of B‐Able – Subsidiary of Basix Academy  Co‐founder of Alchemy Enersol International Pvt Ltd, India’s first waste to alcohol technology start up  Governing Board Member – Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), a NABARD Institution

Professional Connections (Contd..)

 Former Co‐Chair of National Skill Development Forum, FICCI, New Delhi  Former President of the CEO Clubs, Chapter  Former Vice President of Hyderabad Chapter of Indian Institute of Management‐ Ahmedabad, Alumni Association (IIM‐AAA)  Former invitee member to the Board of National HRD (NHRD) Network  Former Employability consultant to government of Rajasthan

Initiatives:

 Co‐created India’s first job‐oriented skill training program (JOJOE) in 2005  Introduced the Second Careers programme among the Indian Armed forces personnel in partnership with ICICI Group (2007)  Managed Second Career Internship Program (SCIP) for women professionals seeking re‐employment after brief career break for TATA Sons (2008)  Launched India’s first mobile based technology platform for hiring fresh entry level talent into the MSME Sector – www.jobsdialog.com in 2014  Launched India’s first Job Counselling & Guidance (JCG) course in 2016

Awards:

 Small scale entrepreneur of the year Award 2012 ‐ Hyderabad Management Association  Distinguished Alumnus award from IIMA Alumni Association Hyderabad in 2014

Areas of Interest:

 Serial entrepreneurship, MSME, Education, Employment, Talent Acquisition, Human productivity, Employee branding, Constitutional law

Domain Knowledge

Recruiting:

o Over 25 years of experience in hiring at entry, middle and top management levels for clients in BPO Engineering, Insurance, IT, Life Insurance, Manufacturing, Pharma, Retail Finance, Telecom sectors. o Have interviewed over 25,000 professions and involved the hiring over 1,00,000 managers o Developed two Applicant Tracking Systems

Training & Assessments

O Co‐owner of “Career Preference Test (CPT)”7 built with inputs from XLRI and administered online. Over 50,000 freshers have taken this test on behalf of our clients o Introduced JIM Training (Job Induction Method) for day 1 productivity

Books:

 First career guidance Best Seller Book titled “An Experts Guide to Your Right First Job” published by Rupa Publications in Feb 2015.  Second career guidance book titled “An Expert’s Guide to top 101 Entry Level Job for Graduates and MBAs” published in August 2016 by Rupa Publications.  Third book titled “The Complete Reference to Acquisition of Indian Talent” is in final stages of publication

About TMI Group:

TMI Group is a 28‐year‐old group with 3 legal entities.

TMI Network (18 years old) in India’s largest recruiting service for supervisory and middle level managers with end to end Talent Acquisition Service in ‐house

C&K Management Ltd (18 years old) is a top 10 e‐learning and class room learning content and assessment’s company.

TMI e2E Academy Ltd (8 years old) in India leading employer driven Skill Training company with a mandate to 0.5 million graduates over 10 years.

To know more about these entities visit http://tmigroup.in/ http://www.tminetwork.com, http://www.tmie2e.com http://www.cnkonline.com , http://www.careerdialog.com