Naavi –Credentials as a Faculty

 

Naavi has been a Corporate executive working in the field of Banking and Finance as well as Marketing and Advertising. During over 30 years of his Corporate life, Naavi has also developed a special expertise as a Faculty for a Corporate audience.

 

Naavi was one of the officers who were specially selected after a competitive screening test from NIBM in 1979 to  the post of Faculty Member in Indian Overseas Bank.

 

During this special posting which lasted for 5 years, Naavi was provided special training in Teaching Methodologies, Behavioral Sciences etc at SIET, Hyderabad, NIBM Pune and many in-house training programmes

 

During these years, Naavi headed the Bank’s training center in Coimbatore. His responsibilities during this time included  conceptualization  and Conduct several programmes   for Bankers at all cadres, on Banking Law, Credit Management, Foreign Exchange, Transactional Analysis etc. The highlight of Naavi’s stint in the Training System was the introduction for the first time in the Bank, of a Course on “Marketing of Bank Deposits” for senior officers. This was the first time the “Marketing” Concepts were ever brought into the training system at Indian Overseas Bank.

 

After the end of the posting as Faculty member in 1984  Naavi moved over to Merchant Banking and later switched over to private sector as a Corporate Executive in 1987. Between 1989 and 2000 when Naavi was heading the Financial Promotions Division and Internet Division of R K SWAMY/BBDO, Naavi was engaged in developing and implementing Strategies for Corporate and Financial Product  Marketing.

 

Since 1997, Naavi started specializing in E-Commerce and picked up Cyber Laws as an area of specialization. He authored the first book on the subject in December 1999 and opened the Cyber Law portal http://www.naavi.org/.

 

In October 2000, Naavi left RKSWAMY/BBDO as Resident Director and opened the Virtual College of Cyber Laws viz www.cyberlawcollege.com. This was a pioneering effort for providing formal education in Cyber Laws in India

 

Cyber Law College initially started with an online course for “Certificate in Cyber Laws” containing a curriculum similar to what was observed as a standard curriculum in Australian MBA programmes. Subsequently, a more detailed programme was introduced and a unique course in Techno Legal Cyber Security was also introduced. This is again a one of the kind programme in the whole world and was conceived keeping in view the need for legal compliance as a part of IT security environment. Today Cyber Law College is the only dedicated Virtual Cyber Law Education Center in India. It is also a pioneer in the conduct of courses in HIPAA in India. It has associations with several law colleges in Karnataka and conducts Certificate Courses in Cyber Law and related disciplines.

 

The unique expertise in Cyber Laws, the existence of the Virtual College, and the Portal has made Naavi one of the most sought after speakers in Cyber Law and E-Commerce related seminars in India. Naavi has therefore participated in several seminars and workshops all over India.

 

Naavi is a visiting faculty in a number of institutions IDRBT. Naavi has also conducted Cyber Law classes for Journalists undergoing Diploma Course in Journalism at the Asian School of Journalism, Chennai. He has also participated in training programmes on Cyber Law at IMAGE, Chennai, NCRB, Delhi, National Police Academy, Hyderabad, besides a number of workshops and seminars.

 

Naavi has been a member of several working groups of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India on Cyber Laws and Cyber Security. He has also a member of the e-Governance advisory committee of Government of Karnataka and one of the Trustees of the International Institute of IT Law. Naavi is presently the Chairman of the NIC sub committee on Legal Enablement of E-Governance (G2C).

 

Naavi has also conducted series of courses on Cyber Crimes for TN police at the Police Training College, Chennai.

 

Naavi has also conducted  in-house training programmes on Cyber Laws and HIPAA in various Companies.

 

Currently, Naavi has been conducting various courses in Cyber Laws in Cyber Laws at Cyber Law College.

 

Naavi is one of the few specialists in Cyber Laws available in India and one of the   fewer who are also trained and experienced as a faculty.

 

 

List of Seminars and Workshops conducted/participated in by Naavi