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Dr Thammaiah completed his MBA from University of Mysore (1984) and Ph.D. in Finance (1991). He started his career as Sales officer at Manikya Plastichem Ltd (1984) and moved up the ladder to hold the position of General Manager Sales (1993).  In 1997, he moved to Pioneer Polyfab Ltd; as Vice President sales for Industrial product and Agri products division.

In 1999, he made mid-course career change to Academics and held the position of Professor, Head, and later as Director of JSS centre for Management studies (2001–2010). In 2010, he joined as Dean and Director of M.S. Ramaiah institute of Management Bangalore. 

Dr Thammaiah Joined MAHE in 2011 as the Director, Manipal Academy of Banking. The Academy trains probationary officers for public and private sector banks and Insurance companies. The Academy trained 1,75,000 officers for the financial sector. In 2017, he was designated as Pro Vice Chancellor MAHE - Corporate – Academia relations and continued until April 2022.

Dr Thammaiah Joined D Y Patil (Deemed to be University) Navi Mumbai in May 2022 as a Vice Chancellor. He has a Professional career spanning about 36 years. His Functional competency includes, Sales, Project Management, product Development, Academic delivery and people Management. His Academic specialization includes Investment Management, Capital Markets, Risk Management and Derivatives. Dr Thammaiah also handled Several consultancy projects for World Bank, Government of India (Ministry of Rural Development) and Government of Karnataka.

Dr Thammaiah can be reached by email: thammaiah.cs@jaipur.manipal.edu