IMPRINTS SIMSR ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2017 EDITION
Mumbai City Meet The Mumbai City Meet was conducted on 26th February Fusion, Bandra.
2017
at
Global
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.
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GD PI Schedule City
Mumbai
SIMSR City Meets
Singapore City Meet
Date
Day
City
Date
Day
City
Date
Day
4th,5th March
Saturday & Sunday
Ahmedabad
4th March
Saturday
Hyderabad
10th March
Friday
11th,12th March
Saturday & Sunday
Kolkata
4th March
Saturday
Bangalore
11th March
Saturday
17th,18th,19th March
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
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
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
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City Meets 2017
Team ALCOM Speaks 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
Dr. Prema Barsargekar and Prof. Chandan Singhavi had a great time meeting the SIMSR Alumni in Singapore on 23rd February 2017. Read More
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.
Exclusive Interview with Mr. Suraj Kaeley
Group President - Sales & Marketing, UTI Mutual Fund SIMSR Alum 1986-88 batch 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. 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 c ov e r e d s e c u r i t i z a t i on s 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.
“Collaboration is the biggest thing to learn in college.”
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.
SIMSR BigWigs
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.
SIMSR Global HR Conference
SIMSR Global Marketing Conference
SIMSR hosted its 4th International
HR conference on the topic “Buil ding 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 Dangi, Group President - 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 1994-96. . 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 topic „Cutting Edge Marketing based on Service Quality Foundation‟.
Mr. A. Parsuraman is the “Guru of Service 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
Melange 2017—In Pictures
Startup LaunchPad—Get Set StartUp
Standing Ovation to Mr. A Velumani, Founder, Thyrocare
Scintillating Dance Performance
Fashion Show
Nucleya Live @SIMSR
War of Bands
ICON 2017
Job Opportunities Top Recruiting Companies (in February) The Smart Cube, Bajaj Finserve, Paytm, Airtel, Deustche Bank, HSBC, Raymond Ltd.
Total No Of Recruiting Companies
SIMSR hosted the most awaited annual technical event of the MCA Department - 'ICON2017' 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 in its bag for the fun ones.
Total No of Vacancies 10 To share a job opportunity at your organisation write to us at simsrjobs@googlegroups.com Alumni Relations Dr. Radha Iyer, Advisor SICTIM 2017 Dr. Bharati VW, Chairperson
SIMSR
hosted its an nual IT Conference, Somaiya International Conf er en c e on T echn ol og y an d Information Management (SICTIM) on 25th February 2017 organised by MCA and MIM programmes.
Arvind Pandi Dorai, Manager Shriya Pawar, Officer Team Imprints
The
theme for this year was, “Digitization and Automation: Innovate…Disrupt…Transform Society”.
Chief Editors Priyanka Mirajkar &
Mr. Ashish Joshi, Head, Emerging
Parul Pathak
Markets, Mezi Commerce (MCSA Alum 2000-02) was one of the panellists during the research paper presentation.
Contributors Suryani Sinha Ray, Kushal Thakkar,
Interface
Tulika Singh, Aditya Sankhe, Sreya Mukherjee, Vatsala Rajvanshi,
Tanvi Vassa
It is guided by Prof. Isaac Jacob, Dr. Monica Khanna , Dr. Kiran Sharma, Prof. Hardeep Singh and Prof. Brajesh Bolia. With un-rivalled industry experience in marketing and driven by the student body with a passion to impart up-to-date knowledge and insights into marketing, the club hosts interactive sessions regularly. Interface covers four broad areas: Industry Interface
Vikram Gupte (Convener, Alumni Committee) Akshay Kamath
INTERFACE is the Marketing Club of SIMSR.
Newsletter Guest Lecture Knowledge Initiatives Solutions to Brands
Marksman is the monthly newsletter of Interface, the link to which is provided below.
Marksman
(Co-Convener, Alumni Committee)
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