The Triumph at Gabba - 5 February 2021

FRIDAY FEB 5, 2021 | 6.00 PM 6:00 PM

Welcome & Introduction Mr C Siva Kumar Managing Partner Prabha Associates & RV Industries

Distinguished Panelists Mr Syed Kirmani Former Indian Cricketer

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Mr Laxman Sivaramakrishnan * Former Indian Cricketer

Mr Achanta Sharath Kamal

Distinguished Panelists: Mr Syed Kirmani Former Indian Cricketer

Olympian & Arjuna Awardee Table Tennis

Distinguished Moderator

Mr Laxman Sivaramakrishnan * Former Indian Cricketer

Dr Sumanth C Raman Television Anchor and Sports Commentator

Mr Achanta Sharath Kamal Olympian & Arjuna Awardee, Table Tennis Distinguished Moderator: Dr Sumanth C Raman Television Anchor and Sports Commentator

Q&A Session 7.45 PM

Vote of Thanks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

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synopsis On 19 January 2021, India scaled a peak. History was written. Fortress Gabba in Brisbane was breached by an Indian side that hardly managed to put together eleven fit players on the field for the fourth and final test match against Australia, playing for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

How did the Indian team rise from an abysmal low of 36 all-out

in the first test at Adelaide and going down 0-1, to storm the Australian bastion of Gabba and end up victors in the four-test series by 2-1? How did a depleted Indian team with a bunch of rookies upset the vastly experienced and mighty Australians in their own backyard? What made the Indian side believe in themselves and achieve the nearimpossible feat? How often do we face a similar situation of being in dire straits in business and hope for turning around the situation? What lessons can the business world pick from this scintillating Gabba win and surge ahead with confidence?

Tune into the high-profile panel discussion organised by Madras Management Association on February 5, 2021 at 06.00 pm on the theme, "Management Lessons from Gabba."

Dr Sumant C Raman who wears several hats such as Health Care Expert, Quiz Master, Sports Commentator, TV Anchor and Panelist for TV discussions will be in conversation with Syed Kirmani, Lakshman Sivaramakrishnan and Sharath Kamal Achanta This is a "not-to-be-missed" MMA Event!.

DISTINGUISHED

PANELISTS

SYED KIRMANI Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani (born 29 December 1949) played cricket for India and Karnataka as a wicket-keeper. In 2016, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India.

LAXMAN SIVARAMAKRISHNAN* Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (born 31 December 1965), popularly known as "siva" and LS,

is

a

former

Indian

cricketer.

He

was

a

right

arm

leg-spinner.

Currently

Sivaramakrishnan is a cricket commentator started his commentary career in a test match between India Vs Bangladesh on 12 November 2000. He also serves as one of the players’ representatives on the International Cricket Council’s cricket committee.

ACHANTA SHARATH KAMAL Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is a professional table tennis player from Tamil Nadu, India. He is the first Indian table tennis player ever to become nine times Senior National Champion hence breaking the record of eight times National Champion Kamlesh Mehta. Recently he received the fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri.

His current world rank is 41 as of September, 2019. He beat Joo Se Hyuk and Chuang Chihyuan, world no. 8 and 16 respectively in 2015 28th Asian cup at Jaipur. Sharath won the men's

singles

gold

in

the

16th

Commonwealth

table

tennis

championship

held

at

Kuala

Lumpur in 2004. He is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2004. He currently lives in

Düsseldorf,

Germany.

Over

the

past

few

years

he

has

been

playing

in

the

European

league. After stints in Spain and Sweden, he is currently playing in the German Bundesliga for the club Borussia Düsseldorf. He is employed with the Indian Oil Corporation as an officer.

He has won the US Open Table Tennis Men's championships held at Grand Rapids, Michigan in July 2010. During the course of the tournament he went on to defeat the defending champion Thomas Keinath of Slovakia in an epic battle of 7 games to win 4–3. In the same year he won the Egypt Open beating Li Ching of Hong Kong in straight sets 11–7, 11–9, 11–8, 11– 4; thus becoming first Indian to win a singles title on the ITTF Pro Tour. He also captained the Indian men's team that won the team title at the same championship by defeating favourites and nine-time champions England.

MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

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DISTINGUISHED

MODERATOR

DR

SUMANTH C

RAMAN

Sumanth C. Raman is a Tamil television anchor and sports commentator. He was the host of BSNL Sports Quiz on Doordarshan's Podhigai TV channel. On September 17, 2017, BSNL Sports Quiz celebrated its 800th episode, continuing to be India's longest running

quiz

program.

Dr

Raman

holds

a

Diploma

in

Child

Health

and

an

MD

in

General Medicine. He also holds a Diploma in Computer Applications. He currently works with one of India’s biggest IT companies in the Healthcare vertical. He is also a consultant in General Medicine at a leading hospital in Chennai. Dr Raman is a senior quiz master, having conducted over 1000 Quiz shows over the last 2 decades.

C SIVA KUMAR A

Strategic

nearly

thought

redefined

leader,

the

Quality

perception

Driven, of

the

Passionate Small

and

serial

entrepreneur,

Medium

Industry

he

has

in

the

Manufacturing space, especially around Asset Light Manufacturing, apart from guiding his Retail organizations towards an innovative and customer centric excellence model.

With a proven ability to convert Human talent to productive outcomes, his passion is to innovate and improvise on techniques and initiatives that lead to customer delight. A Strategic thinker, he believes in creating and sharing wealth, which he has demonstrated across the group, a mid-tier conglomerate, straddling the domains of

Asset Light Manufacturing, Consultancy and

Retail.

His trend setting HR initiatives has been featured regularly in most leading business journals like The Business Line, Economic Times, Auto Monitor, The Business Standard, The Financial Express to name a few.

He is currently the Director – Roots Industries India Limited Director – Skillveri Training Solutions Pvt Ltd Director – Planys Technologies (An IIT Madras Incubated Company) Partner - Timelinks Managing Partner – R.V. Industries Managing Partner – Prabha Associates Partner & Promoter – Punniamoorthi Pillai Departmental Stores He is winner of various national and state awards which includes the “inc india award” for the top 100 people to be watched out for the “Excellence in Hr Practices”.

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