Prof Srinivasan is the vice-president of the Institute for Research in Management and Engineering (INRME) and joined the INRME in 2018. Prof Srinivasan manages research support and knowledge partnerships with academic institutes and industry stakeholders. She has more than 30 years of experience in industry as HR Head & in academics teaching MBA & PhD. Dr Padma is 5 times Best Research Paper Award winner – International and National; author of 4 books and a consulting editor of ICFAI journal of Risk & Insurance.

She holds Masters in Commerce, FCS (Chartered Company Secretary), ACMA (Certified Cost accountant) and PhD in finance & strategy. Dr Padma is an Entrepreneur Educator of NEN, IIMB, Stanford, ISB, SP Jain Educator 10K programme. She represented NEN on Goldman Sach's Round Table on 10K Women Entrepreneurs, Executive committee member of Karnataka SME association, Mentor of Start-Up winning VC funding at IIM Kolkata’s B Plan Contest, Speaker at Global Young Entrepreneurs Forum, IIT Bombay, a Visiting Faculty to Indonesia (Solo City) & Malaysia (Kuching) on Research methodology. She has also been a track chair and key note speaker for numerous conferences and reviewer for International research journals.