Featured Alumni
Mr. Bikash Kumar
Founder of Integrated Retail
Singapore
Mr. Bikash Kumar is an entrepreneur being the founder of Integrated Retail (www.integratedretail.com),a retail and consumer focused consulting firm. Today, Integrated Retail is one of the largest retail focused Information Technology (IT) consulting companies with presence in 5 countries and servicing over 4,000 retail outlets which consistently ring up over USD 1 billion in retail sales. As a company they are actively working with leading consumer and retail brands to re-invent the consumer shopping experience and grow their businesses.
After graduating from FMS in 1993, Mr. Kumar joined UK based multinational Coats Viyella, at that time the largest clothing and fabric businesses in the world, as a management trainee and subsequently started working on brand and retail management for Van Heusen.
Mr. Kumar is an avid distance runner and this is how he tries to keep himself fit. He is now training to run his fourth full marathon and hopefully his first sub 4 hour full marathon. He loves reading and has a very eclectic taste in reading ranging from fiction to futurology, to human development to management.
Mr. Kumar lives in Singapore with his wife Anupama and son Yash. On personal front, he is very keen to join active politics in India and working on this objective.
FMS for him makes his core. He believes that it has given him a huge leg-up in life and career. According to him, FMS is without doubt a premier institute in India which has produced alumni who are business leaders across the board.
To him "Management is continuously striving to add value to the customer. To get a smart team, and then relentlessly work on grooming them, and be continuously invested in the team's success and to be authentic at all times"