SIMSR ALUMNI NEWSLETTER MARCH 2017 EDITION Team ALCOM is proudly presenting the March edition of Imprints with the theme – SIMSR City Meets. The SIMSR team is travelling across India to meet its Alumni. We would also request you to sign up on the Alumni Portal to get connected to the huge alumni base of the Somaiya Group Team ALCOM Speaks Dr. Prema Barsargekar and Prof. Chandan Singhavi had a great time meeting the SIMSR Alumni in Singapore on 23rd February 2017. Read More Singapore City Meet GD PI Schedule IMPRINTS City Date Day Mumbai 4th,5th March Saturday & Sunday 11th,12th March Saturday & Sunday 17th,18th,19th March Friday, Saturday & Sunday Ahmedabad 4th & 5th March Saturday & Sunday Kolkata 4th & 5th March Saturday & Sunday Patna 7th March Tuesday Bhubaneshwar 7th March Tuesday Chennai 8th & 9th March Wednesday & Thursday Bhopal 9th & 10th March Thursday & Friday Hyderabad 11th & 12th March Saturday & Sunday Bengaluru 11th & 12th March Saturday & Sunday Chandigarh 15th March Wednesday Jaipur 15th March Wednesday Lucknow 15th March Wednesday Delhi 17th,18th,19th March Friday, Saturday & Sunday Head — Alumni Relations, Somaiya Vidyavihar With great delight we welcome Ms. Babita Krishnan, who has joined as Head-Alumni Relations, Somaiya Vidyavihar. She has done her Post Graduate diploma in Business Administration and has a rich professional experience of 22 years in the publishing industry. We believe that under her guidance Somaiya Alumni Relations will reach greater heights. SIMSR City Meets City Date Day City Date Day Ahmedabad 4th March Saturday Hyderabad 10th March Friday Kolkata 4th March Saturday Bangalore 11th March Saturday Patna 7th March Tuesday Chandigarh 15th March Wednesday Bhubaneshwar 7th March Tuesday Jaipur 15th March Wednesday Bhopal 9th March Thursday Lucknow 15th March Wednesday Chennai 9th March Thursday Delhi 18th March Saturday Pune 25th March Saturday Click Here for Registrations GDPI City Meets 2017 Mumbai City Meet The Mumbai City Meet was conducted on 26th February 2017 at Global Fusion, Bandra. It was a joyful event attended by Alumni across batches and was attended by senior faculty from the institute as well. It was a great networking event where Alumni from different fields came under the same roof to meet their batch mates as well as fellow Alumni. Read More
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SIMSR ALUMNI NEWSLETTER MARCH 2017 EDITION
Team ALCOM is proudly presenting the March edition of Imprints with the theme – SIMSR City Meets. The SIMSR team is travelling across India to meet its Alumni. We would also request you to sign up on the Alumni Portal to get connected to the huge alumni base of the Somaiya Group
Team ALCOM Speaks
D r . P r ema Ba r sa rg eka r an d Prof. Chandan Singhavi had a great time meeting the SIMSR Alumni in Singapore on 23rd February 2017. Read More
Singapore City Meet GD PI Schedule
IMPRINTS
City Date Day
Mumbai
4th,5th March Saturday & Sunday
11th,12th
March Saturday & Sunday
17th,18th,19th
March
Friday, Saturday &
Sunday
Ahmedabad 4th & 5th March Saturday & Sunday
Kolkata 4th & 5th March Saturday & Sunday
Patna 7th March Tuesday
Bhubaneshwar 7th March Tuesday
Chennai 8th & 9th March Wednesday &
Thursday
Bhopal 9th & 10th
March Thursday & Friday
Hyderabad 11th & 12th
March Saturday & Sunday
Bengaluru 11th & 12th
March Saturday & Sunday
Chandigarh 15th March Wednesday
Jaipur 15th March Wednesday
Lucknow 15th March Wednesday
Delhi 17th,18th,19th
March
Friday, Saturday &
Sunday
Head — Alumni Relations, Somaiya Vidyavihar
With great delight we welcome Ms. Babita Krishnan, who has joined as Head-Alumni Relations, Somaiya Vidyavihar.
She has done her Post Graduate diploma in Business Administration and has a rich professional experience of 22 years in the publishing industry.
We believe that under her guidance Somaiya Alumni Relations will reach greater heights.
SIMSR City Meets
City Date Day City Date Day
Ahmedabad 4th March Saturday Hyderabad 10th March Friday
Kolkata 4th March Saturday Bangalore 11th March Saturday
Patna 7th March Tuesday Chandigarh 15th March Wednesday
Bhubaneshwar 7th March Tuesday Jaipur 15th March Wednesday
Bhopal 9th March Thursday Lucknow 15th March Wednesday
Chennai 9th March Thursday Delhi 18th March Saturday
Pune 25th March Saturday Click Here for Registrations
GDPI City Meets 2017
Mumbai City Meet
The Mumbai City Meet was conducted on 26th February 2017 at Global Fusion, Bandra.
It was a joyful event attended by Alumni across batches and was attended by senior faculty from the institute as well.
It was a great networking event where Alumni from different fields came under the same roof to meet their batch mates as well as fellow Alumni.
Group President - Sales & Marketing, UTI Mutual Fund
SIMSR Alum 1986-88 batch
Q. What was your most significant learning experience at SIMSR?
A. Collaboration is the biggest thing to learn in college. Back in 1988, we didn’t use to have access to much information, so
collaborating with peers to get projects done is something SIMSR
taught me. The leanings from working in team and the challenges
faced is something that added to the skills which I now realize is very
important. Students of our batch were close to each other. Adding to
that, I must mention that we indeed were blessed with few great
faculty.
Q. What was your most memorable moment at SIMSR?
A. There was a samosa joint outside the college main gate called
Ashok Dugdhalaya (AD). This is where we not only enjoyed some
snacks but spent hours gossiping, completing our projects and at
times just sitting there and doing nothing. My experience of the
college days would be incomplete without mentioning about AD.
Q. How was your experience teaching at SIMSR as a visiting
faculty?
A. It was amazing. It is very enjoyable when you go back to teach
at a place where you once studied. I started teaching there in a
course named ‘Marketing of Financial Services’. Due to
the flexibility of PGP batches, I created a course on
Advanced Finance based on money and capital markets
that covered securi t izat ions and ADRs
(American depositary receipt). These were quite a new
concept in those days.
Q. What was your turning point in your career?
A. It has to be campus placements. I got placed in
HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation). I
was in lending profile for the first year. While working
with balance sheets and credit reports, I started
realizing that this is something I enjoyed much more.
I really believe there is a purpose we are created for
and it won‟t come easy. One needs to try a lot of
different things to actually understand what they are created for.
In my industry, I have been credited for creating the concept of
SIP. I relentlessly marketed the SIP concept, which has now become
the primary method of investing in equity mutual funds.
Q. How has been your experience with UTI Mutual Funds so far?
A. In most part of my career, I have worked with American
companies. I worked for almost 7 years with Franklin Templeton
Investments, 4 years with Met Life and another 7 years with Fidelity.
When Fidelity was acquired by L&T Financial Advisory Services, at
that point in time I moved to UTI mutual funds. UTI has been
amazing mostly because it’s an institution with 50 years of history. I
joined when UTI was going through a phase of restructuring to make
it more relevant to the current market situation. I thoroughly
enjoyed it as the job was really complex. But I am really glad that we
got back very strongly by repositioning our brand house as a fund
house. It has strengthened the company quite significantly over the 3
years.
Q. Being a part of the financial segment over the past 25 years,
what do you think about the current economic conditions and the
future of mutual funds in India?
A. I think whoever is living in India at the current point in time is
fairly blessed and fortunate. Over the past 25 years of my working
career, we have never experienced such a strong economy where we
were growing at a pace fast enough to be among the top 3 world
economies. Secondly, getting fiscal deficit in control has been a big
problem for India along with inflation staying at these levels. For the
first time Indian investors are going to experience a real return on
fixed income, which I feel is quite unique. The primary challenge is
that, we need to believe that we can grow faster than what we are. The
real challenge for the country is to fix the infrastructure issue,
addressing the employment issue etc. Mutual Funds are growing at a
rate of 15%-18% per annum and I believe it can grow at this rate for
decades.
Q. Which is the best media channel for attracting the investors?
A. In today's age digital media has taken off quite aggressively. The ability to reach the right customer at the right time has
gone up significantly. So I am very excited about it as it also
allows us to customize the product based on customer
requirements. We have a used cookie pool where
we know what the user is searching. It is a very
important part of our sales growth.
“In my industry, I
have been credited for creating the
concept of SIP.”
Q. How should we manage work life balance?
A. Nowadays youngsters do not want to work hard. I feel it's about
wrong priorities. Our generation was the last one to slog really hard.
Nowadays people slog on irrelevant stuff. There are enough projects.
We need to give enough time to our family, friends, and social life.
Also, when it comes to managing time, a lot of the tedious processes
have become automated. So a lot of time gets saved on those ends.
Q. You have a staff of 700 and as we look to become managers in
the near future, what advice would you give to us?
A. The best part is that whatever you study in management is borne
out of practice. I feel that if you have learnt well in college, it reflects in
your work. The principles that we learn in college are useful in future.
You should identify what’s the goal, and who all will be able to achieve
it for you. Post this is setting targets and giving them
strategic vision. In the last three years we have grown significantly in
digital aspect. So once that is decided, we can accomplish it. As a
leader we need to communicate to the last mile. We need to be
proficient in what we do and as we progress further we become the
manager of a team. We graduate slowly and figure out which skill sets
we are missing at each stage and then we try and acquire those skill
sets.
With an experience of over 25 years in the financial sector, Mr. Suraj Kaeley is currently the Group President– Sales & Marketing, UTI Mutual Fund. He is an alum of SIMSR from the batch of 1986-88 (MMS). He was also a visiting faculty at SIMSR till 2001.
“Collaboration is the biggest thing to learn in college.”
SIMSR Global HR Conference
Melange 2017—In Pictures
Startup LaunchPad—Get Set StartUp Standing Ovation to Mr. A Velumani,
SIMSR hosted its 4th International HR conference on the topic “Bui lding Organizations of Tomorrow: Leadership Challenges of Human Capital in a Digital Workplace" on 3rd and 4th February 2017.
The keynote speaker for the event was M r. Kamlesh D ang i , Group Pres ident - Human Resources, UTI AMC, Alum of 1993-95.
The esteemed panel of guests included the likes of Ms. Sudha Moni Jayshanker, VP - HR, Aon Global, Alum of 1987-89 and Mr. Arvind Sharmaa, HR Director, India - Black & Veatch, Alum of 1 9 9 4 - 9 6 . . Read More
SIMSR hosted the 12th
SIMSR Global Marketing Conference from 7th to 10th February 2017.
The conference included
workshops, key note address, research papers and presentations along with a two day workshop by Mr. A. Parsuraman on the top i c „Cu t t ing Edge Marketing based on Service Quality Foundation‟.
Mr. A. Parsuraman is the
“ G u r u o f S e r v i c e Marketing” and the author of ‘SERVQUAL model‟. He currently teaches at the University of Miami.
On the second day of the
event, the institute hosted a CEO dinner, where reputable personalities shared their experiences and interacted on the current industry trends over a sumptuous dinner. Read More
Mr. Lloyd Mathias, Alum of batch 1986-88, is currently the Head Marketing, Consumer PC's, Asia-Pacific & Japan
at HP Inc.
He was the Executive Vice President at Pepsi, Senior Director at Motorola and was the President and Chief Marketing
Officer at Tata Teleservices
In 2006 he was named Among the Top 15 International Marketers of the Year.
Conference, Somaiya International Con-ference on Technology and Information Management (SICTIM) on 25th February 2017 organised by MCA and MIM programmes.
The theme for this year was,
“Digitization and Automation: I n n o v a t e … D i sr u p t … T ra n s f o r m Society”.
Mr. Ashish Joshi, Head, Emerging
M a r k e t s , M e z i C o m m e r c e (MCSA Alum 2000-02) was one of the panellists during the research paper presentation.
SIMSR hosted the most awaited annual technical event of the MCA Department - 'ICON-
2017' on 2nd and 3rd February, 2017.
This year's theme was on futuristic technology - 'Virtual Reality and Artificial
Intelligence'.
Ms. Kanchan Dhar, Consultant, CGI, MCSA Alum 1996-98 and Mr. Faiz Khan, Manager,
Reliance Infrastructure, MCA Alum 2007-10 were the chief guest for the valedictory function.
Along with empowering its participants with its technical events, it also had something