FW: Anusmaran 2017 - 13th May - Event Details
Nagpal, Gaurav
Dear All
A few interns in town and will be an event to join everyone for some drinks
Please feel free to pass along to all IIM alumni in town
Regards
Gaurav
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From: IIMB Europe <iimb....@gmail.com>
Subject: Anusmaran 2017 - 13th May - Event Details
Dear all,
Kindly note that instead of the monthly drinks next week, the entire IIM community in Europe has been cordially invited by IIM Bangalore alumni London chapter to Anusmaran 2017 this Saturday (13th May). There will be short talks by few of IIM Bangalore's alumni and professors (profiles below) followed by discussions, food and drinks.
Event Details:
Date: 13th May 2017
Schedule:
12.30pm to 1pm: Welcomes and catch-ups
1pm to 2pm: Talks and discussions with professors and senior alumni
2pm to 3pm: Networking
Venue: The Dickens Inn, St Katharine's Way, St Katharine's & Wapping, London E1W 1LA
Event Format: Informal discussions, pay as you go for food and drinks (no registration fees)
Speaker Profiles:
1. Professor Sankarshan Basu
Positions:
· Professor in the faculty of Finance and Accounting
· Chairperson of Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy Management
· President of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA)
Alma Maters:
· PhD in Statistics: LSE
· MSC in Statistics: IIT Kanpur
· BSC Honours in Statistics: Presidency College, Calcutta
Career:
Prior to joining IIMB, Professor Basu was briefly in the finance industry, working in the Treasury Operations of ICICI Ltd. (now ICICI Bank Ltd.) at their Mumbai office. He is actively involved in various consulting and training projects across various domains like banks (e.g., State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, Vijaya Bank, and Federal Bank), insurance companies (e.g., ING Vysya Life Insurance), stock exchanges (Bombay Stock Exchange), and various governmental agencies (e.g., Indian Revenue Service and the Indian Foreign Service) as well as other corporate entities. Sankarshan also serves on the boards of a few companies like The Clearing Corporation of India Limited, The Bangalore Stock Exchange Limited, and Bilcare India.
Professor Basu’s areas of interest in terms of research are in Financial Calculus, Option Pricing, Bond and Portfolio Valuation, Applications of Quantitative Techniques to Finance, Insurance, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Biostatistics and Corporate Finance. He has presented his work at international conferences in Thailand, USA, UK, France, Spain, Norway, Iran, Tunisia, Morocco, The Netherlands and India. He has, to his credit, a number of papers in international journals of repute like Insurance: Mathematics and Economics and the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
2. Professor Prithwiraj Mukherjee
Position:· Assistant Professor in the faculty of Marketing
Alma Maters:
· PhD in Marketing : ESSEC Business School
· Visiting Doctoral Student : Penn State University
· ME in Chemical Engineering: IISC
· BE in Chemical Engineering: NITK Surathkal
Career:
Prithwiraj Mukherjee joined the faculty of IIM Bangalore as Assistant Professor of Marketing in 2015. Since then, he has taught Marketing Research and Product Management there. His research interests include agent-based modelling, behavioral decision making and new product development. His research has been published in the International Journal of Research in Marketing.
Prior to joining as faculty of IIM Bangalore, Prithwiraj worked as adjunct lecturer of marketing in ESSEC Business School for a year. Prithwiraj holds a PhD from ESSEC, France, a Master of Engineering (Chemical) from IISC, Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from NITK Surathkal. He has previously worked for General Electric and Oracle.3. Laurens De Bruijn (IIM-B alumnus)
Laurens is a Dutchman who has lived in London for the past ten years. In 2005 Laurens earned a masters degree in finance and investments from the Rotterdam School of Management, as part of which he spent a term at IIMB.
He has since worked as an entrepreneur and in the investment industry. For AllianceBernstein Institutional Investments he was in charge of the Benelux market and at Ludgate private equity he focused on VC/Growth investments and global fundraising.
Before moving to London Laurens set up a series of private cardiology outpatient clinics in the Netherlands, which focus on improving care and relieving the Dutch public healthcare system (Cardiology Centres Netherlands, CCN). With waiting times of less than 48 hours for NHS patients and pricing 25% below traditional hospitals, the Dutch minester of healthcare endorsed CCN as the 'go-to' place for NHS patients.
Laurens is now working with NHS England and NHS hospitals around London to bring this model to NHS England, where cardiology waiting times are eight weeks on average. With most of these patients ending up at A&E, Cardiology Centres Britain can cut the costs incurred by the NHS system manyfold.
4. Shweta Jhajharia (IIM-B alumnus)Shweta Jhajharia is a serial entrepreneur, an author, an international business speaker and a leading global business coach.
She was with Unilever for 7 years before founding The London Coaching Group in 2008. She is a multi-award winner including “London Coach of the Year” consistently since 2009, 2 prestigious International Stevie awards, Millionaire Coach Award, British Franchise Association’s Judges Award and has been featured by more than 50 media outlets including BBC, FT adviser, City AM, Training Journal, Evening Standard and Management Today.
Shweta’s book SPARKS, Ideas to Ignite Your Business Growth, is due for launch on the 23rd May 2017.
She lives in London with her husband (who also studied at IIMB and is her business partner) and 11-year-old son. She enjoys mountain climbing (her last climb being Kilimanjaro), squash & traveling.
5. Rohini Rathour (IIM-B alumnus)
Rohini wants to help individuals and small businesses discover and fulfil their potential. In her capacity as business and life coach, she runs bespoke one-one coaching sessions, workshops and public speaking events. She self-published her first book Leading Ladies in November 2016.
Previously she spent nearly two decades working as a fund manager and analyst for a wealth management firm in the City of London and at the time of her leaving was responsible for the investment performance of £2 billion of clients' money. She was good at spotting turnaround situations and undervalued companies. Her investment approach was proactive and patient, and often involved constructive engagement with the management of the companies she invested in.
She is a huge believer in the power of storytelling as a means to solving many of life's problems. She is also a part-time hoop-fitness instructor and founder of UK charity Raindrop Campaign which helps children in impoverished communities in India get an education so they may break the circle of poverty.
She grew up in India where she graduated from St Xavier's College, Bombay with a BSc. in Statistics and later from IIM-Bangalore in 1991.
We look forward to meeting all and having an engaging discussion this Saturday. Please do reach out to the contacts below if you have any queries regarding the event.
Contacts:
1. Sanhita Athalye (sanh...@gmail.com)
2. Srinivas Narayanan (srin...@gmail.com)
Warm regards,
IIM Bangalore Europe
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