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.

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Exclusive Interview with Mr. Suraj Kaeley

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,

Founder, Thyrocare Scintillating Dance Performance

Fashion Show

SIMSR Global Marketing Conference

Nucleya Live @SIMSR

SIMSR BigWigs

War of Bands

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.

Job Opportunities

Top Recruiting Companies

(in February)

The Smart Cube, Bajaj Finserve, Paytm, Airtel, Deustche Bank,

HSBC, Raymond Ltd.

Total No Of Recruiting

Companies

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

Dr. Bharati VW, Chairperson

Arvind Pandi Dorai, Manager

Shriya Pawar, Officer

Team Imprints

Chief Editors

Priyanka Mirajkar &

Parul Pathak

Contributors

Suryani Sinha Ray,

Kushal Thakkar,

Tulika Singh,

Aditya Sankhe,

Sreya Mukherjee,

Vatsala Rajvanshi,

Tanvi Vassa

Vikram Gupte

(Convener, Alumni Committee)

Akshay Kamath

(Co-Convener, Alumni Committee)

ICON 2017

SICTIM 2017

INTERFACE is the Marketing Club of SIMSR.

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

Newsletter

Guest Lecture

Knowledge Initiatives

Solutions to Brands

Marksman is the monthly newsletter of Interface, the link to which is provided below.

Marksman

Interface

Contact Us Write to us / Contact us

alcom.simsr@somaiya.edu

022-6728 3120/3185

SIMSR hosted its annual IT

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

in its bag for the fun ones.

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