19 Apr : Talk on Innovation - Singapore

Hi everyone

D.Chandran, our local FMCG guru is giving a talk on INNOVATION on Apr 19.@ xlri singapore at 1300hrs.

Wih experience from Unilever,Thailand and Kraft Foods he is going to blow your mind away on why you buy what you buy.

Chandran co-founded I-morph, an innovation consulting company. Prior to this, he worked as Marketing Director, Southeast Asia, Kraft Foods. In Kraft, he provided Strategic Direction, guided Business Development and ensured world class in-Market Execution using Kraft's Integrated Marketing Tools. Before joining Kraft, he spent 11 years with UNILEVER in India and Thailand, spending considerable time in Sales and Brand Management, eventually serving as Regional Marketing Manager in the Home Care division.

You are welcome to attend.

XLRI@Sinagapur is located at

Image International [S] Pte Ltd
167, Jalan Bukit Merah
#07-11, Connection ONE
Singapore 150167.
Ph: 6272 0785

www.streetdirectory.com.sg has all the details and maps

Best Wishes

Ramesh Ramakrishnan

ReVive - Singapore

2-8 April : Art Show Invitation from Amitabh aka Shorty (IR 80)

Galerie Karma, Kolkata, owned by Amitabh aka Shorty (IR 80) will be in Chennai exhibiting a variety of Bengali Art at the Lalit Kala Akademi between April 2 and April 8, from 11 am to 7 pm.

On display will be 80 works of 20 artists, curated by the renowned Akumal Ramachander who became internationally known for his discovery of the American Abstract Expressionist painter, Harold Shapinsky, in the mid 1980s. Salman Rushdie narrated an hour long documentary on Akumal's discovery and also wrote a 20-page long article for the Christmas issue of "The New Yorker".

Please make it convenient to visit and to patronise the Exhibition.

Thanks...and take care.

Vijay Kumar (Rocky)

Potler (96 batch) an author

Congrats to Ramki Potluri (96BMD) to join the list of Xlers with a book to their credit!

Folks!

please visit"

http://www.amazon.ca/Consultants-Guide-SAP-PadmaPrasad-Munirathinam/dp/1592291546

to see the details of Consultant's Guide to SAP/SRM

Way to go, Ramki... congrats!

Invitation to XLRI's 52nd Annual Convocation (March 29th, 5pm, Tata Auditorium)

Further Updated : XL Alumni Achievements '07-'08: A Round-Up

Compiling such a list will always remain an incomplete task...

Nevertheless, here is an indicative list of what XLRI Alumni have been upto during last year:
[Last Year's List is available here]

PL Barua (70PMIR) assumed charge as the Executive Director of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Assam Oil Division).

RS Thakur (72BMD) took over as Executive Director of TACO, the Tata auto-component company.

Jagdish Dore (73BMD) was appointed the CEO & Managing Director of Matrix Laboratories Ltd. (of Mylan Group).

Ninad Gupte (75BMD) took over as the Managing Director of Cheminova India, and was elected the Vice Chairman of the industry association, Crop Care Federation of India.

Rattan Bhavinani (75BMD) joined Cisco Globalisation Center East, Bangalore, as Director Head of AsiaPAC Vendor Management Services.

Madhukar Kamath (76BMD) Managing Director & CEO of the Mudra Group, was elected as the President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI).

S Nandkumar (76BMD) was elected the President of Institute of Management Consultants of India (Hyderabad chapter)

Bipin Lal (78BMD) was appointed as the Managing Director, Nitrex Chemicals India.

Prakash Puram (78BMD), President & CEO, iXmatch Inc., was appointed to the Advisory Council on Small Business & Labour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

N Krishnakumar (81BMD) took over as the CEO & Managing Director of Mindtree Consulting.

Prabhakar Jain (81BMD) joined as the Chairman and Managing Director, Goodyear India Ltd.

Aneeta Madhok (81PMIR) joined as the Dean, Center for Human Resources (Dubai & Singapore), SP Jain Center of Management.

Deodutta Kurane (81PMIR) joined as the President (HR) of Yes Bank.

Kamlajeet Bhullar (81PMIR) took over as the Group Head (HR) of Anand Automotive Systems.

NS Rajan (83BMD), Partner (Human Capital), Ernst & Young, was chosen as Global Leader-HR Advisory of Ernst & Young. He was also elected the President (Northern Region), National HRD Network.

Jaspal Bindra (84BMD) took over as the Head-Asia Region, Standard Chartered Bank.

K Pandiarajan (84PMIR), Founder-CEO of MaFoi Consulting, was inducted into the Board of Madras Stock Exchange Limited as one of its Directors.

K Shankar (84PMIR) joined Airtel as the Director (HR).

Radha Krishnan Nair (84PMIR) joined as the Chief HR Officer of Tata Steel. He was also inducted into the Board of Governors of XLRI.

Sankaran Raghunathan (84PMIR) was elected as the President of IT SME Association, which represents 3,200 companies with exports of $10bn.

Vineet Nayar (85BMD) took over as the CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd from its founder, Shiv Nadar.

Mahesh Nair (86BMD) published his book of photographs Let There Be Light: Exploring Nature Through Light (Roli Books).

Ramesh Gudalur (86BMD) joined Mphasis is President – BPO, and Member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Sandra (Sequeira) Mahadwar (86PMIR), Sr Director (HR) with KLA-Tencor Corp., was selected to receive the 2008 YWCA’s Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award, for Executive Leadership.

Arjun Trivedi (87BMD) was appointed the Head of Nokia Siemens Network, Indonesia.

Srinivas Duvvari (87BM-Eve) took over as the Managing Director of Rolls-Royce India Ltd.

Ernst Louise (87PMIR) was appointed as the Global Head (HR) for Essel Propack Ltd.

Ronald Mark D’Souza (87PMIR) took over as the Vice President (HR), Alcatel-Lucent (India).

Anurag Prashar (88BMD) took over as the Chief Officer, Customer Management Systems and Shared Infrastructure for all telecom businesses of Bharti Airtel Ltd.

M Shankar Prasad (88BMD) joined Tata Communications Ltd (formerly VSNL) as President, Broadband.

Amar Babu (89BMD) was appointed as the Managing Director of Lenova India.

Amitabh Jaipuria (89BMD) joined as the Managing Director of Monsanto India Ltd.

KR Ravi (89BMD) published his 2nd book Ten Minutes to Creativity (St Paul’s Publications).

Satish Nambisan (89PMIR) published his book The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster & Smarter in a Networked World (Wharton School Publishing).

Sutapa Banerjee (89PMIR), Head of Private Banking at ABN Amro Bank, was nominated among 20 most successful, rising wealth managers in the world by leading international business magazine, The Institutional Investor.

Ajay Bagga (90BMD), CEO of Lotus India Asset Management Co Pvt. Ltd., was elected the Vice Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board of India.

Ashish Khera (90BMD) took over as the CFO of Microsoft India

VS Sridhar (90BMD) was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of the VSNL Global Services.

R Chandrasekar (90PMIR) took over as the Group Head (HR) of the Noor Islamic Bank (Dubai Investment Group), Dubai.

Sudip Mall (91BMD) joined as Country Manager (Philippines), Kraft Asia.

Suprio Guha Thakurta (91BMD) joined The Economist as its Associate Publisher in India.

V Chandramouli (91BMD) was appointed as the Director (HR) of Cadbury India

Jayaram Philkana (91PMIR) took over as the Director (HR) of Cargill Inc.’s Health & Nutrition business at MN, USA.

NT Arunkumar (91PMIR) took over as CEO of Dun & Bradstreet.

Ramesh Soundarajan (91PMIR) joined as the Vice President (HR) of Trianz India.

Ravi Parmeshwar (91PMIR) joined Cargill India as their Director (HR).

Anurag Behar (92BMD) was selected to the World Economic Forum’s list of Young Global Leaders 2008.

Lokesh Jindal (92BMD) returned from USA to take over as Sr Vice President & General Manager of Computer Associate’s India Technology Center.

Leena Nair (92PMIR) took over as the Executive Director (HR) of Hindustan Unilever Ltd., thus becoming the youngest and the first woman director in HUL’s Board. She was also featured in the Business Today’s “25 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business List”.

Sabyasachi Nag (92PMIR) published his first book of poems Bloodlines with Writers' Workshop.

Salil Raghavan (92PMIR) took over as the Head (HR) of Great Eastern Shipping.

Ratnesh Mittal (93BMD) branched out to start his own firm, Market Entry Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Sadashiv Nayak (93BDM) joined the Pantaloon Retail India Ltd, as the CEO, Food Bazaar.

Sharat Dhall (93BMD) was appointed as the Managing Director (India) of the travel portal Expedia.com.

NV Krishna (93BMD) joined EXL Holding Inc. (NY, USA), as the Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

Amitabh Hajela (93PMIR) joined as the Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources of the ExlService Holdings, Inc, USA.

Uday Shankar Sinha (94BMD) took over as Executive Director of PepsiCo India.

Biplob Banerjee (94PMIR) joined Nokia Siemens Networks as Director (HR – Global Services, India).

Raj Ambekar (94PMIR) moved to the shipping & logistics company, Maersk, as the Head (HR) for South Asia.

Naveen Kumar (94PMIR) took over as the Vice President (HR) of Lehman Brothers, India.

V Satish (94PMIR) took over as Sr Vice President (Global HR & Recruiting) at AztecSoft.

Ramki Sundaram (95BMD) was appointed the CEO of Air Deccan.

Suman Bose (95BMD) joined Dassault Systemes (part of French Dassault Group) as the Country Head – India.

Brajesh Bajpai (96BMD) moved into an enlarged role as the Head of Middle East and North Africa Region of Marico’s International Business.

Zohmingliana Hualngo (96PMIR) joined as the Head (HR) of Airbus Engineering India.

Ketan Awalegaonkar (98BMD) joined McKinsey & Co. as Associate Principle & Leader for North American Operations Practice, USA.

Indraneel Roy (98PMIR) took over as the Global Head of Hewitt Leadership Consulting.

Gaurav Lahiri (00PMIR) was elected as the Partner, Hay Group. He also co-authored the book The Indian CEO: Portrait of Excellence (Sage Books).

Kulshaan Singh (01PMIR) took over as the Country Manager (Singapore), Hewitt Associates.

Tanmay Prusty (06BMD), Sales Manager with ITC, won the south zone BusinessToday ACUMEN 2007, and was the runner-up in the national finals.

Jishnu Dasgupta (06BMD), Sales Manager with ITC, and joined as bass guitarist and backing vocals with the Hindi Band “Swarathma”, which won the Best Band prize in All India City Radio Finals.

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Posted By Madhukar to XLRI Alumni: Making News at 3/18/2008 08:31:00 PM _

Anurag Behar (BM '92) in WEF's Global Young Leaders list

The World Economic Forum has named 17 Indians, including budget carrier GoAir Managing Director Jeh Wadia and market regulator SEBI's Executive Director Sandeep Parekh, in its annual list of Young Global Leaders for 2008.

However, India has scored below China in terms of total presence in the list of 245 leaders from across the world. There are as many as 31 Chinese individuals on the list against the 17 from India. The chosen ones are from all walks of life, including business and politics.

WEF said in a statement that the honour is bestowed each year to recognise the top 200-300 young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.

Indians on the list

Other Indians on the list include Lok Sabha MP Sachin Pilot, SKS Microfinance's CEO and founder Vikram K Akula, Chairman of Bhatia Enterprises Sabeer Bhatia, Managing Director of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Anurag Behar, senior NDTV journalist Barkha Dutt, Global ITeS' CEO and President Suhas Gopinath, Director of PRS Legislative Research C V Madhukar and Thermax Ltd Chairperson Meher Pudumjee.

Besides, music composer Allah Rakha Rahman and noted sitar player Anoushka Shankar also find a place in the list.

The World Economic Forum is a true multi-stakeholder community of global decision-makers. We need the Young Global Leaders to be a voice for the future in the global thought process and as a catalyst for initiatives in the global public interest, Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum said in a statement.

Further, Moser Baer India's Executive Director Ratul Puri, Adlabs Films' Director Pooja Shetty, Petro Tiger founder and President Joseph Sigelman, DLF Universal ad DLF Retail's Managing Director Pia Singh and founder and Director of Association for Democratic Reform & Centre for Collective Development Trilochan Sastry figure in the list.

Young global leaders

The young global leaders represents over 60 countries and includes the like of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of search engine Google, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Hiroshi Nakada, Mayor of Yokohama, Japan, and Jack Ma Yun, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba Group, People's Republic of China.

All the individuals named are aged 40 years or younger.

From about 5,000 candidates, the young global leaders for this year were chosen by a selection committee of 31 eminent international media leaders, including Arthur Sulzberger, Chairman and Publisher of The New York Times, and Robert Thomson, the Publisher of The Wall Street Journal. The committee is chaired by H M Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Business leaders

Among the names are 121 business leaders, as well as leaders from government, academia, the media and society at large from 65 countries. Further, the new class represents all regions, including East Asia (64), Europe (58), the Middle East and North Africa (12), North America (45), South Asia (24), sub-Saharan Africa (21) and Latin America (21).

Thanks Doc (BMD 08) for highlighting this achievement.

Mihir Bose (74batch)... RIP

Just a little while ago, I got the sad news that Mihir Bose (PM & IR 1974) passed away at about 6 pm today. Mihir had been suffering from cancer for a while.

Let us all pray for that he finds lasting peace hereafter.

DP

Mrs Evelyn Vanjour

In late October 07 Mrs Vanjour (wife of Dean Mike Vajour) underwent cancer Surgery.

Since then she has undergone the arduous and taxing post-surgery cancer routine but apparently, without much success.

I had a call from Franklin (her Son) last night informing me that his mom is now terminal and is admitted to Karuna Ashraya.This is on the main road leading up to Whitefield and is on the left side of the road, after Corner House and before the left turn to Brookfields.

Visiting hours are up to 2100 hours,

Franklin has already taken 3 months off from work and is now assisting his mom full time at this beautiful hospital, which takes care of the terminally ill.

It is indeed sad that both his parents have been afflicted with cancer--Professor Mike having passed away some years ago.

I hope many of you will rally around an XL family in their hour of crisis through prayers and solidarity.

David D'Costa

Official Press Release on Placements from Campus

The Placement season for the batch of 2008 ended on an exceptional note, with the batch of 180 students placing themselves in the crème de la crème of corporate responsibilities across the domain of business expertise. A notable feature of the entire process was not just the increased leeway for the average student to choose, but also depth of specific roles that were tailored to woo the best of the country’s business graduates. 298 offers were made for a batch of 180 students, with the average domestic offer coming in at 14.75 Lacs and the highest domestic offer being Rs. 28 Lacs. 12 international offers were also made with an average of $90,000 USD.

The first time recruiters included the likes of JM Financial, Barclays, Kotak, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, Centrum, Aptivaa among others. 8 Capital Hedge Fund recruited exclusively from XLRI while P&G for the first time offered branding roles for XLRI students.

31% of the offers were made in the Finance domain, in Private Equity, Hedge Funds Investment Banking, Treasury, Commercial Banking, Relationship Management, Trading, Mergers and Acquisition Advisory, and Human Relations, among others. A plethora of multinational and domestic giants such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, JM Financial, HSBC, Citibank, Barclays, Deutsche Equities, Standard Chartered, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, ICICI Bank, ICRA, Kotak and Centrum were among the first to recognize the ever-increasing stature of XLRI in the Financial Domain. The quality of candidates was impressive enough for the recruiters to offer treasury roles at their offices in London, Toronto, and Bahrain.

Consulting roles offered on campus followed the same pattern. McKinsey, Accenture, The Hay Group, Ernst and Young, KPMG, Mercer, PWC, Hewitt Associates, Deloitte, Aptivaa were some of the Global players who contributed to the added portfolio of consulting options that the typical student found in her consideration set. 21% of the students accepted these offers which were spread across verticals – Strategy, Banking and Financial Services, Human Resources, Risk Management, among others.

Keeping in tradition with its image of a veritable powerhouse of marketing and sales talent, XLRI was the hub of the best of the Global FMCG majors vying for a share of the marketing interest in the batch. Procter and Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Johnson and Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Nestle, Cadbury, Asian Paints, Reckitt Benckiser, Marico, Glaxo Smithkline, ITC, Pepsi, were some of the recruiters to reinforce their traditional relationships with the campus and 23% of the students accepted offers in this domain. Along with the traditional sales positions, branding and marketing roles (with international locations) were the new positions that the same recruiters offered. Notably, Global Sales and Strategy were offered as lateral entry positions by IT majors like Infosys and HCL Technologies – a paradigm shift from the traditional breadth of branding on campus.

General Management was the new flavour of a placement season that saw renewed interest in taking up dynamic responsibilities across a spectrum of verticals. TAS, Al Ghanim, The Aditya Birla Group, The Hinduja Group, Essar, The Murugappa Group, offered both national and international roles with compensation packages that reflected the gravity of responsibility thrust on the new recruits. 14% of the batch snapped up offers in this arena

Microsoft, HCL, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, and others lead the Technology Sector that offered lateral roles for students with previous experience in handling Information Services. 11% of the batch took to these offers.

With the students leaving such footprints, Professor Uday Damodaran, the Chairperson of the Placement Committee said, “There is nothing more gratifying than seeing an entire batch of graduating students being rewarded for their two-year study with career starts in exactly the sort of roles they aspired for. This year, yet again, we at XLRI are happy that we have been able to provide each student with a dream start to his/her career. The quality and diversity of roles that were on offer this year surpassed all previous standards that we had set for ourselves”.

XLRI takes a big leap with huge offers

From Economic Times

KOLKATA: XLRI Jamshedpur’s final placements for the batch of 2008 drew to a close with 298 offers being made to 180 students. A total of 12 international offers were made at an average of $90,000, with the highest offer coming in at $100,000. Domestic offers scaled a high of Rs 28 lakh while the average domestic offer stood at Rs 14.75 lakh.

First-time recruiters on campus included the likes of JM Financial, Barclays, Kotak, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, Centrum and Aptivaa among others. 8 Capital Hedge Fund recruited exclusively from XLRI.

As expected, finance ruled the roost with around 31% of the offers made in this domain by global and domestic biggies like Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, JM Financial, HSBC, Citibank, Barclays, Deutsche Equities, Standard Chartered, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, ICICI Bank, Icra, Kotak and Centrum among others.

“Some even chose to offer treasury roles at their offices in London, Toronto, and Bahrain,” said XLRI placement committee chairman Uday Damodaran.

Consulting roles too, were offered in plenty by names like McKinsey, Accenture, The Hay Group, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Mercer, PWC, Hewitt Associates, Deloitte and Aptivaa. Around 21% of the students accepted these offers which were spread across verticals like strategy, banking and financial services, human resources, risk management, among others.

Global FMCG majors too lined up for placements with companies such as Procter and Gamble, Hindustan Unilever, Johnson and Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Nestle, Cadbury, Asian Paints, Reckitt Benckiser, Marico, Glaxo Smithkline and ITC offering positions to 23% of the batch in sales, branding and marketing (with international locations).

Notably, global sales and strategy were offered as lateral entry positions by such IT majors as Infosys and HCL Technologies. General management roles also proved popular with names like TAS, Al Ghanim, The Aditya Birla Group, The Hinduja Group, Essar and The Murugappa Group, offering both national and international roles. Approximately 14% of the batch snapped up offers in this arena.

Another 11% were made lucrative offers by technology sector companies like Microsoft, HCL, Infosys, Cognizant and Wipro, who offered lateral roles for students with previous experience in handling information services.

XLRI Placements

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XLRI takes a big leap with huge offers 7 Mar, 2008, 0000 hrs IST, TNN

KOLKATA: XLRI Jamshedpur's final placements for the batch of 2008 drew to a close with 298 offers being made to 180 students. A total of 12 international offers were made at an average of $90,000, with the highest offer coming in at $100,000. Domestic offers scaled a high of Rs 28 lakh while the average domestic offer stood at Rs 14.75 lakh. First-time recruiters on campus included the likes of JM Financial, Barclays, Kotak, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, Centrum and Aptivaa among others. 8 Capital Hedge Fund recruited exclusively from XLRI. As expected, finance ruled the roost with around 31% of the offers made in this domain by global and domestic biggies like Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, JM Financial, HSBC, Citibank, Barclays, Deutsche Equities, Standard Chartered, 8 Capital Hedge Fund, ICICI Bank, Icra, Kotak and Centrum among others. "Some even chose to offer treasury roles at their offices in London, Toronto, and Bahrain," said XLRI placement committee chairman Uday Damodaran. Consulting roles too, were offered in plenty by names like McKinsey, Accenture, The Hay Group, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Mercer, PWC, Hewitt Associates, Deloitte and Aptivaa. Around 21% of the students accepted these offers which were spread across verticals like strategy, banking and financial services, human resources, risk management, among others. Global FMCG majors too lined up for placements with companies such as Procter and Gamble, Hindustan Unilever, Johnson and Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Nestle, Cadbury, Asian Paints, Reckitt Benckiser, Marico, Glaxo Smithkline and ITC offering positions to 23% of the batch in sales, branding and marketing (with international locations). Notably, global sales and strategy were offered as lateral entry positions by such IT majors as Infosys and HCL Technologies. General management roles also proved popular with names like TAS, Al Ghanim, The Aditya Birla Group, The Hinduja Group, Essar and The Murugappa Group, offering both national and international roles. Approximately 14% of the batch snapped up offers in this arena. Another 11% were made lucrative offers by technology sector companies like Microsoft, HCL, Infosys, Cognizant and Wipro, who offered lateral roles for students with previous experience in handling information services

XLRI signs MoU with Grenoble & Aston

From The Financial Express

Jamshedpur, Mar 7 XLRI recently signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with two reputed B-schools, Grenoble Ecole de Management in France and Aston Business School, the UK.

“The activities covered in the MoUs are similar to those signed with most institutes, namely student and faculty exchange programmes and joint research work,” E Abraham, director of XLRI, told FE on Thursday. The MoUs were signed last week.

XLRI has so far signed student & faculty exchange programmes with 13 institutions around the world. Some of them are the Asian Institute of Management (Manila), the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok), the Malardalen University (Sweden), the Universiteit Antwerpen Management School (Antwerp), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne), and the Loyola University (Chicago). The B-school’s French connection started with the University Bordeaux in southwest France and went on to the Audencia Nantes Ecole de Management, and then to EM Lyon, a leading international and European business school.

However, its latest MoU with the Lille Catholic University, signed in January during the French President’s visit to the country, covers a student and faculty exchange programme that is unlike most others. XLRI students intending to join the programme will be offered four to five scholarships.

During academic year June 2008-May 2009, the B-school can send at least 40 of its students under exchange programmes it has with the 13 institutions.

"The seats are nominated and stand distributed over the institutes. The total period of the exchange is three months---or one full term," said the director. The number of students actually accepting the exchange programme will be announced later.

Barring some scholarships being offered by some of the institutions, in most cases it is the student interested in joining the exchange programme who has to arrange for the finance as well.

The B-school has so far decided to send one of its professors to Loyola University in Chicago in May-June.

XLRI is expecting a couple of professors from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Manila to conduct a workshop on ‘case studies’ as AIM is considered to be strong in that field.

Alumni Achievements in the Last one Year 2007-2008

thanks to all who made this search for what the XL alumni have been upto during last one year, into a collective venture:0)

am pasting updated list below. Two caveats:

1. This is only a compilation of alumni achievements during last one year (April'07 to March'08... some yet to materialise, e.g. a new Head of HR for Airbus India) have not been included.

2. This list is like life itself... even when you are done with it, it will remain "incomplete"... so please take it as indicative...

so here goes:

Madhukar

Some Alumni Achievements (2007-08)

· PL Barua (70PMIR) assumed charge as the Executive Director of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Assam Oil Division).

· RS Thakur (72BMD) took over as Executive Director of TACO, the Tata auto-component company.

· Jagdish Dore (73BMD) was appointed the CEO & Managing Director of Matrix Laboratories Ltd. (of Mylan Group).

· Madhukar Kamath (76BMD) Managing Director & CEO of the Mudra Group, was elected as the President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI).

· S Nandkumar (76BMD) was elected the President of Institute of Management Consultants of India (Hyderabad chapter)

· Bipin Lal (78BMD) was appointed as the Managing Director, Nitrex Chemicals India.

· Prakash Puram (78BMD), President & CEO, iXmatch Inc., was invited to join the Advisory Council on Small Business & Labour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

· N Krishnakumar (80BMD) took over as the CEO & Managing Director of Mindtree Consulting.

· Prabhakar Jain (81BMD) joined as the Chairman and Managing Director, Goodyear India Ltd.

· Aneeta Madhok (81PMIR) joined as the Dean, Center for Human Resources (Dubai & Singapore), SP Jain Center of Management.

· NS Rajan (83BMD), Partner (Human Capital), Ernst & Young, was chosen as Global Leader-HR Advisory of Ernst & Young. He was also elected the President (Northern Region), National HRD Network.

· Jaspal Bindra (84BMD) took over as the Head-Asia Region, Standard Chartered Bank.

· K Pandiarajan (84PMIR), Founder-CEO of MaFoi Consulting, was inducted into the Board of Madras Stock Exchange Limited as one of its Directors.

· K Shankar (84PMIR) joined Airtel as the Director (HR).

· Radha Krishnan Nair (84PMIR) joined as the Chief HR Officer of Tata Steel. He was also inducted into the Board of Governors of XLRI.

· Vineet Nayar (85BMD) took over as the CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd from its founder, Shiv Nadar.

· Mahesh Nair (86BMD) published his book of photographs Let There Be Light: Exploring Nature Through Light (Roli Books).

· Sandra (Sequeira) Mahadwar (86PMIR), Sr Director (HR) with KLA-Tencor Corp., was selected to receive the 2008 YWCA’s Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award, for Executive Leadership.

· Arjun Trivedi (87BMD) was appointed the Head of Nokia Siemens Network, Indonesia.

· Srinivas Duvvari (87BM-Eve) took over as the Managing Director of Rolls-Royce India Ltd.

· Ernest Louise (87PMIR) was appointed as the Global Head (HR) for Essel Propack Ltd.

· Ronald Mark D’Souza (87PMIR) took over as the Vice President (HR), Alcatel-Lucent (India).

· Anurag Parashar (88BMD) took over as the Chief Officer, Customer Management Systems and Shared Infrastructure for all telecom businesses of Bharti Airtel Ltd.

· M Shankar Prasad (88BMD) joined Tata Communications Ltd (formerly VSNL) as President, Broadband.

· Amar Babu (89BMD) was appointed as the Managing Director of Lenova India.

· Satish Nambisan (89PMIR) published his book The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster & Smarter in a Networked World (Wharton School Publishing).

· Sutapa Banerjee (89PMIR), Head of Private Banking at ABN Amro Bank, was nominated among 20 most successful, rising wealth managers in the world by leading international business magazine, The Institutional Investor.

· Amitabh Jaipuria (89BMD) joined as the Managing Director of Monsanto India Ltd.

· Ajay Bagga (90BMD), CEO of Lotus India Asset Management Co Pvt. Ltd., was elected the Vice Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board of India.

· Ashish Khera (90BMD) took over as the CFO of Microsoft India

· VS Sridhar (90BMD) was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of the VSNL Global Services.

· R Chandrasekar (90PMIR) took over as the Group Head (HR) of the Noor Islamic Bank (Dubai Investment Group), Dubai.

· Sudip Mall (91BMD) joined as Country Manager (Philippines), Kraft Asia.

· V Chandramouli (91BMD) was appointed as the Director (HR) of Cadbury India

· Jayaram Philkana (91PMIR) took over as the Director (HR) of Cargill Inc.’s Health & Nutrition business at MN, USA.

· NT Arunkumar (91PMIR) took over as CEO of Dun & Bradstreet.

· Ramesh Soundarajan (91PMIR) joined as the Vice President (HR) of Trianz India.

· Ravi Parmeshwar (91PMIR) joined Cargill India as their Director (HR).

· Lokesh Jindal (92BMD) returned from USA to take over as Sr Vice President & General Manager of Computer Associate’s India Technology Center.

· Leena Nair (92PMIR) took over as the Executive Director (HR) of Hindustan Unilever Ltd., thus becoming the youngest and the first woman director in HUL’s Board. She was also featured in the Business Today’s “25 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business List”.

· Sabyasachi Nag (92PMIR) published his first book of poems Bloodlines with Writers' Workshop.

· Salil Raghavan (92PMIR) took over as the Head (HR) of Great Eastern Shipping.

· Sadashiv Nayak (93BDM) joined the Pantaloon Retail India Ltd, as the CEO, Food Bazaar.

· Sharat Dhall (93BMD) was appointed as the Managing Director (India) of the travel portal Expedia.com.

· NV Krishna (93BMD) joined EXL Holding Inc. (NY, USA), as the Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

· Amitabh Hajela (93PMIR) joined as the Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources of the ExlService Holdings, Inc, USA.

· Uday Shankar Sinha (94BMD) took over as Executive Director of PepsiCo India.

· Biplob Banerjee (94PMIR) joined Nokia Siemens Networks as Director (HR – Global Services, India).

· Raj Ambekar (94PMIR) moved to the shipping & logistics company, Maersk, as the Head (HR) for South Asia.

· Naveen Kumar (94PMIR) took over as the Vice President (HR) of Lehman Brothers, India.

· V Satish (94PMIR) took over as Sr Vice President (Global HR & Recruiting) at AztecSoft.

· Ramki Sundaram (95BMD) was appointed the CEO of Air Deccan.

· Suman Bose (95BMD) joined Dassault Systemes (part of French Dassault Group) as the Country Head – India.

· Brajesh Bajpai (96BMD) moved into an enlarged role as the Head of Middle East and North Africa Region of Marico’s International Business.

· Ketan Awalegaonkar (98BMD) joined McKinsey & Co. as Associate Principle & Leader for North American Operations Practice, USA.

· Indraneel Roy (98PMIR) took over as the Global Head of Hewitt Leadership Consulting.

· Gaurav Lahiri (00PMIR) was elected as the Partner, Hay Group. He also co-authored the book The Indian CEO: Portrait of Excellence (Sage Books).

· Kulshaan Singh (01PMIR) took over as the Country Manager (Singapore), Hewitt Associates.

· Tanmay Prusty (06BMD), Sales Manager with ITC, won the south zone BusinessToday ACUMEN 2007, and was the runner-up in the national finals.

· Jishnu Dasgupta (06BMD), Sales Manager with ITC, and joined as bass guitarist and backing vocals with the Hindi Band “Swarathma”, which won the Best Band prize in All India City Radio Finals.

Where are the XLers of 72, 73 batch ?

Dilip Bam of 73 batch compiled this list. Thanks Dilip!

Sujit Baksi (72) is President of Tech Mahindra.
RS Thakur (73) is Exec. Direktur, TACO.
Vinod "Yank "Malhotra (72) is some mysterious biggie in Zensar Tech.
Pradip Dubashi (72) is doing M&A.
Jagdish Dore (73) is MD, Novartis.
Anand Nayak (73) is VP-HR, ITC Ltd. since very long ago.
Vaidyanathan (73) is Exec. Director, ITC Ltd.
Aspi Khambatta (73) is Asst. Prof. Balaji Centre for International Business, which is approved by AiCTE.
Dilip Bam (73) is MD, Idiotics unLimited

Swarathma: The Best Hindi Band in the Country!

I had earlier posted on how Swarathma won the Regional finals at Bangalore


They are now, "The Best Hindi Band in the Country!"

Swarathma rocked New Delhi on the 29th of February and went on to win the Radio City finals, to be adjudged the Best Hindi Band in the Country!

The judges Palash of Euphoria and Subir of Parikrama were all praise for the repeat of the act they did at the Bangalore regional finals. Before a five hundred strong crowd at the Garden of Five senses, Swarathma were off the mark from the word go, creating a lasting impression on the capital in their allotted 15 minutes.

Catch Swarathma in an interview on NDTV Metro Nation, where they played 4 songs live on air, and on Radio City New Delhi, with bytes being played on Radio City all over the nation.

Before leaving Delhi, Swarathma will descend on Cafe Morisson, in South Extension II, where they will play a 1 hour slot starting at 9pm. Entry free.

Swarathma would like to thank everyone of you for the support and good wishes.

See you soon!

Swarathma Team

www.swarathma.com

First year XLers give gyan on the budget

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080301/jsp/jharkhand/story_8967732.jsp

A 7.5 from pleased XLRI - ‘... but FM has failed to say from where the funds will come’

NILANJANA GHOSH CHOUDHURY

(From left) Darshan Rathod, Sankalp Vaid, Saurabh Bagadia, Nityanandham M and Aditya Kankaria. Picture by Bhola Prasad Jamshedpur, Feb. 29: XLRI students seem generally pleased with the Union budget, though they are critical of a few issues. All agree, it is undoubtedly a populist election budget. On farmers’ loans, no one seemed fundamentally opposed to the idea. But their opinion is that more planning would have helped. Also, the FM (finance minister), they felt, needed to be specific about how he would provide for the farmers’ loans he planned to write off. In fact, Chidambaram had provided something for everybody — the salaried class would be happy with the tax cuts and the corporate sector will be happy that it has been left alone. We spoke to five first year students of business management — Nityanandham M, Saurabh Bagadia, Aditya Kankaria, Sankalp Vaid and Darshan Rathod. Here’s what they had to say: What is the budget’s big idea ? Waiving farmers’ loans to the tune of Rs 60,000 crore is unprecedented — after all, farmers need it. Also, he has increased outlays in education (20 per cent) and health (15 per cent). Where has the finance minister scored? Various areas: new IITs, tax sops have brought in more flexibility in household budgets, duty cuts have been announced on the pharma and auto sectors, and the implementation of NREGS also gets a boost. Where has he failed? It all looks very good but the FM has failed to say from where the funds will come from. Actually, one-time loan waivers are not enough, in depth planning is required. Also, paramilitary forces need investment too. If you were the FM, what would you have done keeping elections in mind? This is undoubtedly a populist budget. But the finance minister could have done with a little more planning. There was no need for so much of minority appeasement. Certain revenue generating areas such as retail, infrastructure and telecom have been neglected.