iTTU Mentor

Priya Gill

Functional Expertise

• Business Plan Preparation

• Valuation, financial documents

• Costing and cost analysis

Industry Expertise

• Refineries & Petrochemicals

• Utility Industry

• Airline Industry

Priya Gill is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech. She teaches entrepreneurship to chemical engineering students. It includes learning basic business concepts which the students then use in creating and presenting business and execution plans.

She has a B.S in electrical engineering from Osmania University, India and an MBA from Georgia Tech. She has over 16 years of experience in the utilities, oil & gas and airlines industry where she managed several multi-million dollar projects, first as an engineer and then as a business manager. She has interned with a start-up company as the marketing and operations manager and was the CFO of the team that won the 2nd place in the Georgia Tech Business Plan competition.

Her passion is to work with start-up companies to create successful ventures. Outside work, she enjoys time with her 7-year old son and loves to read fiction.