Imprints September 2016 Edition by Imprints-KJSIMSR Alcom

IMPRINTS September 2016 Edition

SIMSR Alumni Newsletter

Inauguration of MMS & MCA Batch

Team ALCOM Speaks The Alumni Committee is happy to present Imprints September edition. In this edition, Team ALCOM is glad to present an exclusive interview with our Alumnus, Mr. Vikas Arora. We are happy to share the success of Anveshan, which saw a great count of students eager to interact with Alumni from the batch of 2016! Our team thrives on strengthening the bond that you share with your Alma Mater and are committed to being the channel to do so. It is a pleasure to receive your suggestions and feedback. Keep writing to us!

SIMSR welcomed the students of MMS batch 2016-18 and MCA batch 2016-18 at the inaugural function held on 19th August, 2016. Dr. Mukund Rajan, Member-Group Executive Council TATA Sons Ltd, Brand Custodian of TATA Brand and Chief Ethics Officer of the TATA Group of companies was the guest of honour.

Alumni Achievements Mr. Kaushal Thakkar, SIMSR Alum of batch 2002-04 received the prestigious ECHO Silver Award for Strategy/Best Use of Digital-Search in India. The DMA International ECHO Awards are the benchmark for extraordinary digital, data-driven and direct response marketing. Mr. Kaushal, Sr. Product Manager at Myntra received this award from Mr. Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Executive Creative Director - South Asia, Ogilvy & Mather. Read more here

Chairperson for SIMSR Alumni Relations

Dr. Rupali Paranjpe

Dr. Rupali Paranjpe has stepped down as Alumni Relations Chairperson of SIMSR due to personal reasons. We thank Dr. Rupali Paranjpe for her support and contribution. She will continue to remain a faculty team member of the Alumni Committee. Dr. Bharati VW will take over as the Chairperson. Dr. Bharati has 23 years of academic experience. She joined SIMSR in 2010 and specializes in communication networks & wireless technology.

Dr. Bharati VW

Interview with Mr. Vikas Arora Head of Acquisitions at Deutsche Bank & SIMSR Alum of Batch 1993-95 Mr. Vikas Arora serves as the Head of Acquisitions for Private and business Clients at Deutsche Bank. He has been in the industry for almost 21 years in the area of Sales & Distribution, Business Management & Alternate Channel Development across International Financial Services ( Wealth management-Insurance, Investments and Banking ) & Office Automation industry.

Q: What are your most

Q: You are also an alumni of IIM-A. What

memorable moments at SIMSR?

motivated you to go back to education after almost 15 years of working in the industry?

A: The first that comes to A: It is important to challenge yourself and also my mind is the campus. I spend quality time with people from various believe you cannot find a industries and like-minded people working towards better campus anywhere in a common objective. The program provided me a Mumbai. The fact that I great platform to meet people from various industries. got into games like golf is because I got tuned to living a I wanted to develop myself for Senior Management life in so much of open space in our campus, a luxury in role in the Global Banking environment. It helped me Mumbai. Secondly, I remember Prof. Pyarelal Arya who get out of my comfort zone. was our Dean. He left a very strong im- Q: What is your advice to SIMSR students? pression on us. He came from the A: Students should know that MBA To be professionally industry and was a highly respected program is not a ticket to get into a professional, we were lucky to have successful you have to comfortable job. You have to strive, someone like him to mentor us. We be personally happy struggle and make your mark in the made lifelong friendships in college industry. You must have dignity of and have stayed in touch. The friendships that you labour. Also never put anybody on a pedestal and make while growing up are the best because you do provide an equal platform to people, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the not have expectations from each other! boss, customer or subordinate and you will find the Q: What are the significant learnings you had in these discussion ending on a meaningful note. Be in the field, understand whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in the industry. two years on the campus? A: I had completed my engineering and worked for one Contribute on various topics and always be open to year before joining the MMS program. I did not want to learning and doing things that add value to you. respect you for your principles. Never be singled out as a specialist in a particular field. SIMSR People provided me the opportunity to look at various budge away from them. I believe, to be professionally industries. We did projects in Consumer Durables successful you have to be personally happy. Invest good industry, Banks, FMCG etc. Those two years allowed time with family, develop a hobby, play a sport. Chase happiness not success. Lastly, read a lot. Be aware of me to explore and decide what I wanted to do. what is happening around you.

Outreach Mr. Sanjog Ahuja, a member of the Alumni Committee, met with Mr. Jatindeep Sachdeva, SIMSR Alum of batch 2001, on 14th June 2016. Mr. Sachdeva is currently the Senior VP, Corporate Banking at BNP Paribas. He is one of the alumni who persuaded Team ALCOM to begin with a SIMSR Jobs portal and is very keen on attending Nostalgia this year. Mr. Akshay Kamath, a member of the Alumni Committee, met with Mrs. Jyoti Gouda, SIMSR Alum of batch 2009, on 5th August 2016. Mrs. Gouda is currently the Assistant Manager, HR, at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. She was impressed with the activities performed by ALCOM and expressed her interest in being involved with the PGDM recruitment process from next year onwards.

SPRIHA

Anveshan

Spriha 2016, a summer internship competition, witnessed second year students from all over the country. The esteemed panel of judges had our prestigious Alumni at the INTRA Final Round which was held on 6th August, 2016. Alumnus

Designation

Organization

Mr. Bhavesh Barchha Mr. Rahul Kumar

Deputy Manager Sales and Distribution International Risk Manager Vertical Head - Asset Servicing Group Sales Head, Mid East Project Manager

Vodafone

SIMSR Batch 2004

Honeywell

2006

Syntel

2006

ICE Wipro

2007 2007

Vice President Vice President

BNP Paribas KDA Corporate Advisors LLP Crossmatch Inc

2007 2008

SBI Cap Security

2008

Mr. Muralidharan Sivaramakrishnan Mr. Manan Sampat Dr. Anantkumar Bhide Mr. Rajan Jain Mr. Mitesh Gala Mr. Ameya Bhagwat Mr. Kaitav shah

Head - Sales (India & Subcontinent) Lead banking analyst

2008

The esteemed panel of judges for the INTER Final Round, held on 27th August, 2016 had Mr. Ramesh Vishwanathan (SIMSR Alum of batch 1998), Chief Bancassurance & Alliance, Reliance Life Insurance and Mr. Sunil Lobo (SIMSR Alum of batch 1996), Director- Head Corporate Banking (Western region), BNP Paribas. We thank our Alumni for their valuable insights and presence! Winner: Mr. Sanjog Singh Ahuja (SIMSR) 1st Runner-up: Ms. Sadhvi Chopra (SCMHRD) 2nd Runner-up: Mr. Ankit Vajani (JBIMS) Read more here

Anveshan, the meet between the first year students and alumni of the latest graduating batch saw a turnout of nearly 150 students! They were interrogating their super seniors about what exactly awaits them at the other side of the fence. 25 alumni from the batch 2014-16 successfully allayed the doubts of the students. The Alumni Committee was delighted to welcome back to campus Ex Alumni Committee members Rohan Pai, Swinston Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;almeida, Bishavjot Singh, Apurva Mishra, Yash Sanghavi, Bivash Bala, Ridhi Gupta and Rishikesh Dhabolkar.