AlumniOn the moveBook by an Alumni - Rohit Gore, Class <strong>of</strong> 2003Rohit Gore, alumnus from the class <strong>of</strong> 2003 inMarketing & IM has written his first novel FOCUS SAM.It has been published by Rupa & Co.PGEMP alumni awardedApril, <strong>2011</strong>Mr. Prakash Sharma-Chief Financial Officer at PLEngineering was awarded 'CFO-100 Roll <strong>of</strong> Honour'at CFO-India's first annual ceremony at Taj President,Mumbai, in the category ' Winning Edge' in Finance forStart-ups. He is alumnus <strong>of</strong> EMBA- B12, 2008. Thejury members were J.J.Irani - Tata Sons; Damodaran,ex Director <strong>of</strong> SEBI; Narayan Seshadri Chairman &CEO, Halcyon Group; T.V. Moh<strong>and</strong>as Pai- Infosys; D.Sundaram, Vice Chairman <strong>of</strong> TVS Capital; CaptRaghu Raman, CEO National Intelligence Grid <strong>and</strong>Hari Mundra ex Joint Managing Director Essar Oil.AdoRoi is TiE50 - <strong>2011</strong> Award Finalist<strong>May</strong>, <strong>2011</strong>Mitesh L Thakker CEO & Founder AdoRoi, Inc. is anSYB alumnus. He has been innovating his valueproposition(s) <strong>and</strong> winning awards nationally <strong>and</strong>globally.AdoRoi, Inc. / AdoRoi Marketing Science Pvt. Ltd.is TiE50 Finalist, which is most prestigiousachievement for Global Technology Companies<strong>and</strong> is Key Feature <strong>of</strong> TiE Silicon Valley'sTiE-CON (http://www.tiecon.org/) event at SantaClara, CA USA. on <strong>May</strong> 13 & 14th, <strong>2011</strong>. Only Top 50made to the winning slot.From starting <strong>of</strong>f being ahead <strong>of</strong> the market, bothAdoroi <strong>and</strong> marketers are now converging throughcontinuous interaction <strong>and</strong> market -led innovation.32Alumni AchievementsRahul Sharma, an alumnus is one <strong>of</strong> the founders<strong>of</strong> ProGen Business Solutions founded in 2008.Konnect' a Business Intelligence (BI) Platform for theSocial Media from ProGen Business Solutions wonthe Best Product Award under the Enterprisecategory at Advantage AP Product Conferenceorganized by ITsAP (IT &ITeS Association <strong>of</strong> AndhraPradesh) during 1st & 2nd March <strong>2011</strong>.Sunil Lulla (MMS 1984) is now the ManagingDirector <strong>of</strong> the Times Television Networks, which ismade up <strong>of</strong> ETNow, MoviesNow, TimesNow, Zoomat Times Global Broadcasting & ZoomEntertainment Networks.Naresh Mehta (1988 MMS) specialized in HR <strong>and</strong>joined Godrej through campus placement. His workcovered IR, h<strong>and</strong>ling factory closures, VRS, Strikes,Lockouts <strong>and</strong> HR including OD interventionsleading Culture Change <strong>and</strong> LeadershipDevelopment in Godrej, Balsara Hygiene, Blue Star,Blue Star Infotech, iflex Business Solutions. Hejoined Raymond in November 2005 as DirectorCorporate HR <strong>and</strong> has h<strong>and</strong>led the IR <strong>and</strong> HRFunction for Apparels, Retail, Shirting <strong>and</strong> FMCGBusinesses. He has been identified as a potentialbusiness leader <strong>and</strong> moved into the Retail SBU in acomplete business role as Director-RetailOperations. In this role, he is responsible for thesales <strong>and</strong> operations <strong>of</strong> 500+ The Raymond Shopnetwork in the country generating more than` 1,000 crs revenue.Rolls-Royce has appointed Atul T<strong>and</strong>on asExecutive Vice-President, Civil Nuclear-India as asignificant step towards positioning itself as a strongplayer in the evolving Indian civil nuclear industry.In his new role, Atul will focus on developingcustomer relationships <strong>and</strong> growing Rolls-Roycepresence in the Indian nuclear power market.Atul T<strong>and</strong>on is a senior executive with 16 years'experience in the industry working for the NuclearPower Corporation <strong>of</strong> India Limited <strong>and</strong> has alsoheld a number <strong>of</strong> senior roles with majorcorporations including Wärtsilä India Ltd. He holdsan Executive MBA from SPJIMR.Contributions by Alumni The alumni from the MMS 1985 batch have initiatedthe idea for a SPJIMR Alumni Fund <strong>and</strong> havedonated to the fund. Prashant Ursekar, Sunil Dalal,Vivek Damle, Hatim(Asif) Chitwala, Ujwal Andhari,Manu Patel <strong>and</strong> Parthiv Godiwala made the start. Abhyudaya: This year Bindu Kulkarni (1996) <strong>and</strong>Vivek Kulkarni (1995) were the first to adopt twoSitaras . Mr. RadhaKrishnan Govinda, (1985) hasadopted three "Sitaras". Lovish <strong>Jain</strong>(2010) alsocontributed to Abhyudaya.SPJIMRnews
AlumniOn The MoveAditya Swamy Channel Head, MTV speaks onMTV.Aditya Swamy, channel head, MTV India <strong>and</strong> SPJIMRalumnus explains why the youth br<strong>and</strong> bases itssuccess on more than just ratings.Aditya Swamy's worked atCoca-Cola for 8 years, <strong>and</strong>shifted to MTV in 2006. “I didtwo summer projects withCoke, including one while Iwas in B-School at SP <strong>Jain</strong><strong>and</strong> joined them in 1998”.Swamy did a lot <strong>of</strong> work withMTV during his years atCoca-Cola, as heprogressed from sales toMr. Aditya Swamy marketing, including theSprite-sponsored 'One TightSlap' segment on the channel, <strong>and</strong> a talent hunt for aKen Ghosh movie.Swamy moved to MTV in 2006 <strong>and</strong> his currentdesignation is channel head, MTV, but he joined thenetwork five years ago as marketing head for MTV,VH1 <strong>and</strong> Nick.Rahul Agarwal, Ideal Insurance - exclusivechat with ‘YourStory’Rahul Agarwal was looking for a job when a salesmanager at Max New York Life made him aninsurance agent. He was unbelievably effective butinstead <strong>of</strong> simply basking in theglory, Rahul decided to strike hisown path <strong>and</strong> started IdealInsurance, which is one <strong>of</strong>India's leading insurancebroking companies today. Inexclusive chat with YourStory,Rahul spoke about hisentrepreneurial journey <strong>and</strong>managing insurance for assetsworth Rs. 1 lakh crore, withinRahul Agarwalfive years.In 2003, he did his MBA from SPJIMR <strong>and</strong> wanted tostart something on own. Since he oved sellinginsurance <strong>and</strong> insurance broking was a relatively newconcept in India, he decided to start Ideal.Google appoints Guneet Singh as Lead,Consumer MarketingGoogle has roped in Guneet Singh as lead <strong>of</strong>consumer marketing initiatives who pined the internetcompany at its Gurgaon <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>and</strong> will report to NikhilRungta, country marketing head <strong>of</strong> Google India.Prior to this, Singh was co-founder <strong>of</strong> daily deals orgroup buying site named Deals<strong>and</strong>You.com, which heleft after divesting his stake in November 2010. Hewas responsible for the management <strong>of</strong> internaloperations <strong>and</strong> marketing <strong>of</strong> Deals<strong>and</strong>You.com.Guneet is PGDM alumnus<strong>and</strong> has more than 13 years<strong>of</strong> experience. He startedhis career with Samsung,where he was responsiblefor product marketing <strong>of</strong>consumer durables. Singhlater moved to ABN AMROBank as business head,personal loans. In 2005, hejoined Micros<strong>of</strong>t (India) <strong>and</strong>was responsible for Mr. Guneet Singhmarketing <strong>of</strong> Windows,Hotmail <strong>and</strong> Bing br<strong>and</strong>s inIndia.Sponsorship portal/platform created by SYBparticipantTo promote corporate sponsorship in different areaslike Art & culture, Education, NGO, Business, Media,Sports events across different regions in India's firstmultilingual portal www.sponsorshipgateway.com hasbeen created by SYB 09 batch student - Ch<strong>and</strong>erMohan Malhotra.Benefits <strong>of</strong> this platform/portal is that corporatescan contribute by the way <strong>of</strong>cash sponsorship as well as"kind sponsorship" in the various forms like BeverageSponsor, Technology Sponsor, Media Sponsor, NewsSponsor, Web Sponsor, Prize Sponsor, Print mediaSponsor, Banking sponsor, CSR Sponsor, TelecomSponsor, Gift Sponsor, Online Radio Sponsor, ApparelSponsor, Logistic Sponsor, Insurance Sponsor, AirlinePartner, Security Partner, Venue Sponsor, LocationSponsor, Decoration sponsor, Catering Sponsor,magzine sponsor after selecting the area <strong>of</strong> interest .33SPJIMRnews