SIIB leadership series 2009!!

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SIIB Leadership 2009

Every year SIIB organizes the “Leadership Series” as a platform for interaction between its students and Industry leaders. This helps the students gain the much needed industry insights, adding to their learning process.

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Following the success of the first SIIB Leadership Series in 2003, which was graced by prominent personalities of India Inc such as Mr.Homi Khusrokhan (MD,Tata Tea), Mr.U.V.Bose (CEO, Air Sahara), Mr.Rajnish Narula (CEO, Alliance Capital Asset Management) to name a few - SIIB Leadership has served as an exceeding platform for the future young managers of SIIB and delegates from other top B-schools to interact and the get the real feel of what it takes to make it to the pinnacle in a career ladder.

Over the subsequent SIIB Leadership Series in following years, the annual flagship event of the Symbiosis Institute of International Business (Pune) has witnessed the confluence of the diasporic experiences and rejuvenative thoughts, from the leaders of all genre of Corporate India.

Mr. Adi Godrej (Chairman, Godrej group), Mr. Habil Khorakiwala (Chairman, Wockhardt Ltd), Mr.Jagdish Capoor (Chairman, HDFC Bank), Mr. M. N. Singh (Chairman, Invent ARC Pvt.Ltd), Mr. Bala Swaminathan (MD, Standard Chartered Bank) are few of the many distinguished personalities who have graced the ocassion in succeeding Leadership Symposium.

The Leadership Series of 2008 saw the extension to a yet new dimension of inviting speakers from diverse professions apart from the corporate leaders to noted movie directors and photographers. With the theme "Journey to Success", 2008 series was marked by the presence of Ms. Ranjana Kumar (Vigilance commissioner), Mr. Prabir Kumar Aditya (Director-IT, United Health Group), Mr. Ravi Kastia (Global Head, Aditya Birla Group), Mr. R. R. Balakrishnan (Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas India Pvt. Ltd), Mr. Vipin Ghate (Head HR, Suzlon Infrastructure Services Ltd), Mr. Ramesh Chandak (MD& CEO of KEC International Ltd) and the Ace Photograper Mr. Gautam Rajadhyaksha, who is one of India's best known celebrity portraitist, having photographed almost all the icons of the Indian Film industry

They say in a competitive changing world, “entrepreneurship”, whether at corporate level or at individual level, is absolutely necessary for long term survival. The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. With this spirit the theme for this years Leadership series to be held on 12th September 2009 at Symbiosis Infotech Campus, Hinjewadi, Pune is “Leadership and Entrepreneurial Spirit”.

Watch this thread for more details on the speakers!!!

Salar
 
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From the past speakers!!

The following are few words that guests at SIIB leadership series in the past years had to share about the event, campus and last but not least, the students !

"I am very impressed with the work being done by the Institute in building the brain power for India in the 21st century. I wish the Institute all success."
Mr. Baba Kalyani, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Forge Ltd.


"Very attractive campus, enjoyed the seminar of the speaker."
Mr. Neeraj Kanwar, COO, Apollo Tyres.


"Impressed and proud of the achievements."
Mr. Pheroz Pudumjee, Director, Thermax India.


"Very Impressive. A remarkable Educational Institution. We can all be proud of it." Mr. Vivek Bharati, Advisor, National Policy & Prog. FICCI.


"It was a great pleasure addressing the students and interacting with them."
Mr. Adi Godrej, Chairman, Godrej Industries Ltd.


"I was very impressed by the quality of the questions as well as the organization."
Mr. Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Nicholas Piramal.


"Very enjoyable and instructive session. Enthusiastic interaction."
Mr. S. K. Dutta, Executive Director, Jet Airways.


"Highly motivated students with great potential."
Mr. Rajesh Mokashi, MD, CARE.


"An excellent opportunity to interact with very bright students who put such intelligent queries."
Mr. S. Dutt Majumder, Commissioner of Customs, Pune.


"A wonderful afternoon with a wonderful bunch of eager youngsters! The quality of interaction was thoroughly enjoyable."
Mr. V. Raghunathan, President, ING Vysya Bank Ltd.


"A unique opportunity that takes you back into memory lane, also giving an insight into 'today's students and tomorrow's managers.' Truly an enjoyable experience and I look forward to more such campus visits to SIIB. Good Luck."
Mr. A. Srinivasan, V P - Sales, i-Flex Solutions Ltd.


"It was a great experience to spend time and share my views before a very bright, live and responsive student community. My Best Wishes."
Ms. Ranjana Kumar, Former Chairperson & MD, Indian Bank


"It was a wonderful experience to interact with the students. I felt very satisfied and happy being here."
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Santoor exponent.


"An extremely enjoyable session with bright inquisitive students."
Mr. S. Pradhan, Group Head - HR, Tata Sons Ltd.


"This is a great occasion and very inspiring to all of us. All the Best for future!"
Mr. Deepak Ghaisas, CEO, i-Flex Solutions Ltd.


"A wonderful experience!"
Mrs. Lila Poonawalla, Chairperson, De Laval Ltd.


"The participant group was vibrant and engaged in high level of interaction. The standard of the students is high and are very impressive. God Bless & all the best."
Mr. N. K. Mohanty, Head-HR, Bayer (India) Ltd.


"Great opportunity to interact with a group of achievers who are our future torch bearers. Loved your energy and enthusiasm."
Mr. Rajnish Narula, CEO, Alliance Capital Asset Mgmt. (I) Ltd.


"The only true differentiation in a competitive world will be knowledge. Institutes like Symbiosis are therefore discharging a truly valuable & essential duty for our young people."
Mr. Homi R. Khusrokhan, MD, Tata Tea.


"It was great seeing young enthusiastic crowd of students."
Mr. V. V. Bhat, Group Head, Mgmt Systems, Reliance Group.


"Great opportunity to interact with very active students. Best of Luck."
Mr. N. Swarup, Country Head - Retail Banking, HDFC Bank.

Salar
 
Hey, Salar... thanks for sharing. I hope leadership series becomes a sort of national symposium someday... too much to ask for huh... :)
 
And the speakers for this year are!!

Our esteemed speakers this year are:
Mr. Ravi Pandit (Chief Guest)
Chairman and Group CEO
KPIT Cummins Infosystem

Mr. P. P. Chhabria
Chairman
Finolex Cables Ltd.

Mr. Navin Suri
CEO
ING Investments, India

Mr. David Wiitenberg
The Innovation Workgroup, New Delhi

Mr. Ravi Deshpande
Chairman and Chief Creative Officer
Contract Advertising, India

Mr. Abhijeet Ranade
Associate Director
Price waterhousecoopers


Salar
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Rome,

YEah that day will come soon :)
 
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