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D'apprendre
D'apprendre is a year round activity of Empresario. It’s an event which brings the best from the entrepreneurial world. D'apprendre provides a unique platform for entrepreneurs to showcase their proficiencies and skills; also it provides a discussion forum for the audience to interact with the best in the industry. It provides an opportunity to witness their performance and to learn from them. The overall idea behind conducting D’apprendre is to build a scaffold where the young inquisitive brains interact with some of the gems from entrepreneurial world. Each D’apprendre workshop is organized around a particular theme of entrepreneurship.D’apprendre is a French term which means “To Learn" & here is an opportunity to learn from successful entrepreneurs. It is a platform where Experts from industry express and share their views and actual cases with students. Being a successful entrepreneur requires more than skills, aptitude, attitude and persistence and passion.
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This Session
Theme: My Entrepreneurial journey and Challenges FacedDate – 31st July, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Venue – Auditorium, NITIE
Speakers:
- Mr. Allwin Agnel, Founder & CEO, PaGaLGuY.com
- Mr. N. H. Nemade, Managing Partner & Co-founder, Nikhil Comforts
- Mr. Shrirang Tambe, Director, Infogenia Analytics
About The Company -
PaGaLGuY.com is a media company that provides news and brings together prospective MBA applicants from across the nation. The members of PaGaLGuY.com comprise over 50 percent of the students in the top B-schools of the country. Catering to the needs of the members with niche web applications and doing so effectively has enabled PaGaLGuY.com to retain its members and command surprising levels of brand loyalty. With over 2,25,000+ registered users and having over 1,100,000 articles on their website with over 5M impressions clocking per month, they are the first and foremost source of information and interaction for everyone interested in management education.
About Mr. Allwin Agnel –
Allwin's career has progressed on two tracks since he has individually pursued two separate entrepreneurial ventures, one in the tech industry and the second in the media industry.
At the age of 21, he took the plunge and co-founded Neutral Web, a company which provided digital storage to clients seeking to host their own websites. Today, Neutral Web has clients in over 16 nations and hosts in excess of 8,000 websites. All this started from a credit-card loan and a co-founder's apartment.
Alongside Neutral Web, in September 2002, Allwin Agnel began his research into MBA degrees, but could not find an unbiased website for Indian business school aspirants and to therefore founded pagalguy.com (translates to "crazy guy") - a website that would allow aspirants to share information about getting into top Indian MBA programs.
About NIKHIL COMFORTS -
Nikhil Comforts was formed in 1991. It is a project based contracting company executing projects in the field of air-conditioning and ventilation. It started in 1991 as a company with single room office and now has five offices in Mumbai, one office in Pune and one in Chennai. The overall operations of the firm are managed by Mr. Nandkishore H. Nemade, PGDIE from NITIE Mumbai and B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) from IIT Bombay.
Nikhil Comforts is a leading dealer of Carrier Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Ltd. in India and consistent winner of Awards for Excellence in Sales & Service every year.
It has grown exponentially over the last few years and currently has a turnover in tune of INR 65 Crores. We are executing the projects for major companies all across India. Major Clientèle of the company consists of reputed names like J P Morgan, ICICI Bank, Kotak Bank, Mahindra Resorts, ITC, Godrej, INOX Leisure, and Pantaloon etc.
Going forward the company is diversifying its operations and is entering in the field of fire fighting, electrical and other services related to infrastructure development.
About Mr. Nandkishore H. Nemade -
Mr. N.H. Nemade graduated in chemical engineering from IIT Bombay in 1982. After IIT he directly joined NITIE and was a student of PGDIE batch 12. After completing his Masters from NITIE in 1984 he joined NELCO as Marketing Executive. He worked for NELCO from 1984 to 1986. In 1986 he started his first venture in PCB Edge Gold Plating with a working capital of INR 15000. He continued in the field of PCB Edge Gold plating till 1994. In the meanwhile, in 1991 he started Nikhil Comforts as a dealer of Carrier Air Conditioning. Since then he is working as Managing Partner of Nikhil Comforts. From 1997 to 2004 he also worked as air conditioning consultant under the brand name of Ujwal Consultancy. During that period he did consulting for more than 200 companies including big names like Citi Group, I Flex, ICICI and HLL.
Shrirang leads assignments in the corporate advisory domain and helps companies prepare for investments. He has worked for sectors like manufacturing, logistics and media and entertainment.
Prior to Infogenia,he has been with a US based stressed asset debt fund “Clear water Capital Partners” operating in India with focus on funding special situation high yield turnaround cases. He has been responsible for entire range of functions from initial identification of investment to execution and asset management.
He has been involved in LBO deals in Thailand upto the bidding stage. Prior to Clear water Capital Partners, he has worked with ANZ, investment Bank and Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Shirnag is a chartered Accountant.
Previous Sessions
- “Funding and Marketing challenges faced by entrepreneurs” on 25th July 2008
- Executive Director & CFO, SEEDfund. Exec. VP Operations of Hurix Technologies, a Deloitte Fast 50 company focusing on publishing services.
- Co-founder of Brainvisa, one of the leading e-learning companies in India.
- Started his career with finance stints at Asian Paints and ICICI Treasury.
- Masters from Indian Institute of Management and a Graduate in Engineering.
- Anand loves to motivate entrepreneurs, help them in structuring their finances, handle legalese and be a sounding board on day to day operations.
- ‘My Story’ Sessions held on 12 Oct, 2007
- “Branding Initiatives and Start-Up Challenges for a new venture" was held on 28th July 2007
Topics and Speakers
1. Is there an entrepreneur in you?
-by Mr. Ravindra K Tulsyan, Chairman & Chief Mentor, KnoWerX Education (India) Pvt. Ltd.
2. Funding challenges faced by Startups.
-by Mr. Anand Lunia, ED & CFO, Seed fund advisors Pvt. Ltd.
3. Sales & Marketing challenges faced by startups.
-by Mr. Ashutosh Bijoor, Director, Reach 1 to1 technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Profiles of the honourable speakers:
Ravindra K Tulsyan:
Ravindra Tulsyan, popularly known as Ravi, is a highly effective change leader and ERP/SCM/business process guru. In his career starting 1982, he has had very wide and deep insight of business problems of more than 150 companies, in India and abroad, in all kinds of manufacturing, distribution and service businesses. He is the pioneer of ERP and business process movement in India.
Prior to starting his business, he worked for Tata Unisys Ltd. (now Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.) for more than six years. He started his own ERP consulting practice in 1989 in the name of Saksham Consultants. Later he formed another company that was SAP channel partner. Now, he is the Chairman and Chief Mentor of KnoWerX Education (India) Pvt. Ltd, an international associate of APICS The Association for Operations Management, USA and the international licensee of American Society of Transportation and Logistics, USA. He is one of the founders and played the lead role in forming the Business Process Council.
His book titled "How to Eat the Elephant?" is one of the most acclaimed books on the subject of enterprise systems implementation. He remains a well known personality in this field that organizations and individuals love to work with.
Anand Lunia:
A post-graduate in Mathematics from I.I.T. Kanpur, Ashutosh is a techno-preneur involved in development of several innovative products in areas ranging from pattern recognition and image processing, multi-media applications, parametric 3D modeling, process monitoring and analysis, and business process / workflow management.
He is a co-promoter of RowdyRascal, a TV+Web+Mobile venture in the making.
Ashutosh is a founding member of the Business Process Council, a non-profit platform to collaboratively build a business process repository to educate and train individuals on best practices, and to develop a benchmark for companies to evaluate their processes.
He is an advisor and mentor to Reach1to1 Technologies Pvt. Ltd., which is a provider of customizable web and mobile-based information and workflow products, offered in the form of Software as a service (SaaS).
In addition to his professional interests, Ashutosh is involved in the support and promotion of adoption, and is also an avid adventure sports-person and a semi-professional musician.
‘My Story’ Sessions in 2007, saw Mr. Girish Kelkar, Chairman and co-founder, Jopasana Software Services Ltd and Mrs Bhairavi Jani, Director, SCA group of Companies, enthrall the audience with their successful entrepreneurial stories and Mr. Manak Singh, ED, TiE Mumbai, the moderator for the evening made it more entertaining with his witty questions.
Topics and Speakers
1. Branding and Marketing strategies for a startup
-by Mr. Jagdeep kapoor, Chairman & MD, Samsika Marketing Consultants.
2. Is there a Funding Gap or a Leadership Gap ailing the Startups in India.
-by Mr. Kiran Kulkarni, MD, Geodesic Information Systems
3. The Joys and Frustrations of First Generation Entrepreneurs
-by Mr. Ram Ramdas, CEO & Co-Founder, Herald Logic
Brief Profiles of the Speakers:
1. Mr. Jagdeep kapoorBrand Guru, Jagdeep Kapoor is the Chairman and Managing Director of Samsika Marketing Consultants, Mumbai, a leading brand strategic marketing consultancy with an impressive list of clients drawn from both multinational and Indian firms.
Samsika has successfully entered its 12th Anniversary year.
He has contributed to the brand building of a large number of brands including Carrier, OTIS, Navneet, Halls, Mother Dairy, Seven Seas, Monginis, Frooti, Panacea Biotec, Cinthol, Nirma, Fevicol, Nutrela, Anchor, Safal, FedEx - Blue Dart, Bailley, Peppy, M - Seal, Balrampur Chini, Welspun Spaces, Aptech, Arena, Listerine, D’damas, Nakshatra, Asmi, Hiranandani, Garware, Motilal Oswal, Wizcraft, Tetrapak.
Respected as a “Brand Guru”, Jagdeep Kapoor is a prolific writer and has published over 1342 articles on brand marketing and sales in newspapers and magazines such as Economic Times, The Afternoon, Business Today, The Hindu Business Line, Business World, Deccan Herald and The Times of India. The author of several successful books, his earlier books titled “24 Brand Mantras”, “Brand Serve”, “Brand Naamkaran”, “18 Brand Astras”, “9 Brand Shaastras” , “Brand Switch” ,“27 Brand Practices” and “Brand Seg ‘meant’ation” were all bestsellers.
2. Mr. Kiran Kulkarni
Mr. Kiran Kulkarni is the Co-Founder, Geodesic Information Systems Ltd.
He has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry. He is an expert in networking applications and web technologies and has led a team that designed and developed a path-breaking ERP system for one of ACC's plants in the Middle East. He also designed developed and implemented Internet mail services for the city of Belgaum. He works with Geodesic's development team to turn great ideas into useful software solutions.
3. Mr. Ram Ramdas
Mr. Ram Ramdas is the CEO & Co-founder of Herald Logic which provides visionary realtime exception based "closed loop monitoring and control" and closed loop "BAM" ( Business Activity Monitoring ) solutions to mid size and large enterprises in manufacturing, distribution, insurance and health care verticals. They also offer real time analytics and monitoring solutions for hedge funds.
He is an alumnus of IISc, Bangalore.and has worked at different levels with profiles as Head of labs at Cordys R&D, Head of Systems and Cybernetics Center at Tata Consultancy Services, Assistant Professor at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.
Herald Logic has award winning "disruptive" technologies recognised by Stanford University in their annual e-challenge contest (July 2002). Ram Ramdas’s Specialties lies in developing strategic partnerships in the enterprise SW and solutions space.