The President

At XIME you will experience the ambience of a place where students are always striving for excellence. In all these years since XIME's inception, its students have continued to scale new heights of achievement in manifesting talent and winning laurels in virtually every student competition where they have participated.

We believe that XIME students not only excel across several dimensions, like domain knowledge, communication, basic values and soft skills, but they combine these with priceless qualities of mind and heart that their training here takes every care to nurture. It is for this important reason that we have succeeded in maintaining our position among leading business schools in the country. 

Prof. J. Philip is currently Vice Chairman and President of XIME. He was the Director of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore from 1985 to 1991. Educated at XLRI and Harvard Business School, Prof. Philip has a rich blend of experience in management, both in public and private sectors, in human resources development and in educational administration.

Prof. Philip started his career at Xavier Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur in 1960, where he became Dean and Professor of Management in March 1970. He was one of the founders of the MBA programme of XLRI. Prof. Philip left XLRI in 1971 to join the Steel Authority of India Limited as the Principal of the Company's Central Management College in Ranchi. In January 1980 he joined Oberoi Hotels Group as its Vice President (Human Resources). He was with the Oberoi Group of Companies for over five years managing its Human Resources functions worldwide. Prof. Philip was the President of the Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) during 1979-1980. 

AIMS
Prof. Philip is the Founder President of the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), the national level association of management schools / university departments of management in the country (1988-92).

ABBS
He is also the Founder President of the Association of BRICS Business Schools (ABBS), the first association of management schools of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) established in Jan. 2009.