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Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

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Abhishek Mourya B.E, Computer Engineering, SGSITS Indore

Bipin Palande M.Com. (University of Pune), A.C.A. (ICAI, New Delhi)

24 Years Work Experience: 11 months, Impetus InfoTech Pvt. Ltd.

Abhishek has an experience of 11 months in the IT sector. He worked for 2 US-based clients - Trintech and Connecture. It helped him gain knowledge in the finance and health insurance domain. Apart from work, he was also part of groups such as Icare and Ispice. § Student Council Representative - IIM Trichy § Member, Food & Beverage Secretary - IIM Trichy § Selected as Marketing Associate for Toptalent.in § Worked as a Brand Ambassador for DiscussionLeaders.com § Won Interbranch Football and Handball Competition - SGSITS Indore Summer Internship: Mydeals247 ecommerce pvt. ltd “Abhishek was responsible in Mydeals for Webpartnership which involves segmenting the online web-space with a similar target audience as required by their platform, and crafting and communicating a pitch to generate effective business partnerships to the qualified prospects. He was also responsible for promotion of the website on social media. In addition, he was involved in social media analytics using various marketing and analytical tools. He also worked on improving the secondary focus as a strategy to sell more effectively."

24 Years Work Experience: 12 Months, U.V. Bodas& Co. (9 months), Anant V Karve& Co. (3 months)

Bipin has performed consistently well throughout his academic career. He has worked in the field of Cost Accounting, Audit and Taxation. He has also been active in his extracurricular activities. § Member of Students' Council and Secretary of the Sports Committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Passed 'CA FINAL' exam in the first attempt § Part of many award winning in the first attempt 'one act plays'(drama) in Marathi and Sanskrit as an Actor/Director. drama reading activity at University of Pune's community radio station 'Vidyavani'. Part of

§ Topper of the college in M.Com. in both the years. Merit holder of Middle School (District level 3rd rank, State level 11th rank) and High School (District level 10th rank, State level 15th rank) scholarship exam § A district level basketball player; part of the Basketball Team of IIM Tiruchirappalli at Sangram, 2013. Summer Internship: ICICI Bank Ltd. Bipin interned with the Operational Risk Management Group (ORMG) of ICICI Bank Ltd. His project dealt with 'Merging of Risk & Control Libraries (RCL) of ORMG and Sarbanes and Oxley Compliance Team (SOX) and establishing a common methodology for control testing'. The primary objective of the project was to avoid the duplication of effort happening due to separate RCLs maintained by ORMG and SOX. The final recommendations included a methodology to design a common RCL and a new framework which will align the Risk and Control Self Assessment (RCSA) process carried out by ORMG and SOX procedures prescribed by the SOX Team. 2013-1

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Amarjeet Singh Rathore B.E, Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala

Elsa Joseph B.A, English Literature, St. Teresa's College, Ernakulam

23 Years Work Experience: NIL

Amarjeet delivered a distinctive performance not only in the field of academics but also displayed his brilliance in different spheres of extra curricular activities such as quizzing and athletics. § Worked on a live project for Savegenie E-Marketing Pvt. Ltd.:

Ÿ Market research for online grocery store in gurgaon Ÿ Human Resource Management

§ Winner of ALGOMANIA QUIZ at THAPAR UNIVERSITY § Member of event management in CHAKRAVYUH (THAPAR UNIVERSITY) § Member of publicity committee in ARANYA(THAPAR UNIVERSITY) § 4th rank in INTERNATIONAL INFORMATICS OLYMPIAD (Intra School) Summer Internship: Savegenie E-Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Amarjeet's major role during his internship was to co-ordinate the 'Go to market' strategy for Savegenie in E-Retailing. His roles and responsibilities were to plan a marketing strategy for an area allotted to him in Gurgaon, data collection and validation from grocery stores and to form a sales team by recruiting interns from different B-Schools.

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Elsa is a National Merit holder for securing 100% marks in CBSE AISSE Social Science Exam. She nurtures a flair for writing and has won many accolades in both writing and reciting at school and college level. Moreover, she is a person with self-belief and strong values. She has maintained consistent records in both academic and non-academic activities. § 3rd Rank – College-wise B.A English § Class topper – Elective Course (ENOF 1) during the Sixth Semester § Organizing Committee Member of Panache 2013, an Inter-collegiate/school fest conducted by the Department of English, St.Teresa's College § Volunteer in Arcturus 2014- National Level B-School fest of IIM Trichy § Alapatt Sisters Prize 2011 for Selfless Service of a deserving student of St. Teresa's College § School Trophy and Cash Award for securing National Merit in Social Science in CBSE AISSE

Summer Internship: Future Generali India LIC Ltd. At Future Generali, her internship involved two projects pertaining to market research. The project titled “Revival of inactive advisors in agency channel” focussed on analysing the key reasons for the inactivity of agents or advisors, for which she applied research methodology tools. Based on this analysis she devised effective measures to improve their performance. Working on her other project titled “Persistency analysis and customer retention in Mallassurance”, she attempted to evaluate the consistency in renewal payments by employing industry calculation methods and also interacted with customers to identify ways to retain them. Apart from this, she was also engaged with the Training and the Development department in improving their training standards.

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Gokula Bala P B.Com, Computer Application, Sri Krishna College Arts and Science, Coimbatore

Himanshu Verma M.Tech, Mechanical (Design) Engineering, IIT Bombay

21 Years Work Experience: NIL

Gokula is calm, composed and interactive. He is interested in science and passionate about Human Resource Management. He has conducted and participated in various seminars and debate sessions on topics such as IFRS, GAAR, etc, at his college. § Internship Training on Marketing and Human Resource Department at EUREKA FORBES, Coimbatore, June 2012. § Paper on 'Economical Situations - Inflation, Recession, etc.', in an International Conference on "Business Growth in Emerging Markets: Global Shifts and Local Effects"(December, 2011) § Paper on 'Issues of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India' in a National Seminar on "Issues of FDI in India"(January, 2011), organized by Bharathidasan University, Trichy § 1st place in RJ Competition conducted by HELLO FM at Trichy in 2008 § 1st place in marketing competition conducted by Department of Information and Technology of Sri Krishna Arts and Science College, Coimbatore Summer Internship: TAFE - Tractor and Farm Equipments Gokula Bala worked with the Deputy HR Manager of TAFE to build a new methodology for competency mapping for all the employees in the organisation. He also successfully coordinated the field officer's assessment process and worked on building up their payroll. In addition, he contributed on the annual Performance Appraisal process by valuing each employees' ratings to their raise in compensation.

26 Years Work Experience: 9 Months, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing

Himanshu worked as a manager in the Research & Development, Appliance Division of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. His primary role included design and structural analysis of components of refrigerators. § Secured AIR-80 (99.66 Percentile) in GATE 2009, Mechanical § ANSYS Certified workbench and APDL user § Second prize in TECH-SOFT, Di-Tech Fest 2008 § Winners – Handball, Cluster Level Games & Sports Summer Internship: Indian Clearing Corporation Limited (ICCL/BSE) Himanshu worked with the risk management department at ICCL. His project was titled “OTC & exchange traded derivatives: an overview of major reforms in the OTC regulation”. Through his project, he pointed out the major differences in the clearing of OTC vs exchange traded derivatives. The report highlighted the effectiveness of a central counterparty (CCP), which would eventually help the CCPs as ICCL brought the OTC trade to stock exchanges like BSE (parent company of ICCL).

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Harinivash B B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Tiruchirapalli

Nijanthan Sundararaj B.E, Electricals and Electronics Engineering, Anna University

22 Years Work Experience: NIL

Harinivash published a research paper on the topic “Line Removal Technique for Document and Non document Images” in the 11th International conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Melaka Malaysia on December 5-8, 2011 organized by IEEE, MIR Labs. A novel technique for the removal of both vertical and horizontal lines in the document images using shift, difference and coordinate logic operations. § Obtained Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate award from Benchmark Six Sigma for competency in the internationally recognized RABQSA Green Belt body of knowledge § Event manager of Great Ideas Challenge in Probe '12 (National level technical symposium of Electronics and communication engineering of NIT-Trichy) § Overall coordinator of electronics and communication engineering department in Nittfest '13 (Inter-departmental cultural festival of NIT Trichy) § LBA Chairman's award under Ministry of Defense for excellence of achievements in all the fields of training for the year 2006-07 and Academic award for the year 2006-07 § Secured 'A' grade in 'C' certificate examination in National Cadet Corps, under the authority of Ministry of Defense, Government of India Summer Internship: Reserve Bank of India Harinivash worked on the project titled “Study on fraudulent financial schemes- Lack of financial awareness” under the Department of Non-Banking Supervision, RBI Chennai. The objective of the study was to find the root causes of financial frauds including unauthorized deposit schemes floated in various parts of Tamil Nadu and the measures to be taken by regulators to prevent financial frauds in the future. The methodology included primary research in three districts namely Tirupur, Salem and Trichy on four different parameters including socio-economic characteristics, fraudulent schemes, details of loans and financial awareness. After having analyzed the scenario, recommendations were provided to improve financial literacy among different sections of the people including the poor and illiterate.

23 Years Work Experience: NIL

Nijanthan is a fresher and also an international chess player. He believes that academic knowledge should be supplemented with industry experience. So, he has done live projects with 4 companies, namely Nakasa, Bridgestone, Datacrawl and Aurgurtron, while doing his MBA. His interest lies in plotting strategies, where Nakasa, a bio-fertilizer company was able to implement his rural marketing strategies and attain an increase in sales. § Got 66th place in Asian Junior Chess Championship 2010. Also captained IIM Trichy chess team in the Inter-IIM Sports meet, 'Sangram’ § Core member of Entrepreneurship club (E-cell) of IIM Trichy and has conducted many events for the same. § One year internship as sales trainee in Sunlight Electricals § Secured 3rd place in Suguna chicken case study competition § Worked with Augurtron Company, in launching two new products Summer Internship: Bridgestone Tyres India. He worked in Bridgestone tyres India as a Market researcher for the Sales team in Chennai. His role was to find new opportunities in Chennai for the upcoming launch of two wheeler tyres and also to identify changes in the market. He found an untapped market space in the two wheeler segment for launching the product. Also, he highlighted many changes in the market in the two-wheeler as well as in the four wheeler segment. He found one niche demand in the two wheeler segment, which was not catered to before. He also provided critical success factors to win customers and provided a list of products that Bridgestone needs to launch.

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Rakesh B B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad

Supriyo Chakrabarti B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

22 Years Work Experience: NIL

Rakesh is an all-rounder who has been consistent in academics as well as in extra-curricular activities. He was an active participant in various State level and Inter Collegiate events. He is the founder of Sahashra Productions and has directed a short film under his own banner. § Core member of 11 Megapixels, a photography and film making club at IIM Trichy. § Won 1Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals for Table Tennis, Badminton, Khokho and Tennis respectively at Sangram - Inter IIM Sports Meet conducted by IIM Kozhikode in 2013. § Awarded the certificate of merit for the 8th NIIT National IT Aptitude Test in 2012 § Sports Secretary and Awarded the Best Outgoing Student in Sports in 2007 § Participated in Regional Spelling Bee Championship held in 2006 Summer Internship: ACH Management Consultants Rakesh worked on a project involving the “Study of the Indian SME FMCG Sector and their HR Challenges” which broadly explored opportunities and crafted strategies to help SME FMCG companies to expand their business. His work included identifying prospective clients who were willing to associate with ACH Management Consultants for present/future manpower requirements. He also took an initiative to identify and help those sales representatives who had the calibre and were willing to be in a higher position by introducing a training program. Unlike CRISIL, which categorized SME FMCG companies based on creditworthiness, he proposed a new rating system to categorize SMEs based on annual revenues.

24 Years Work Experience: NIL

A sincere and hard working person, Supriyo has been a consistent performer throughout. He always takes active part in various events and workshops during his school and college days. He takes great interest in Hindustani Classical music and plays the sitar. § Secured first position in Modus Operandi event in Parivartan'14, held from 14th to 16th February, 2014 and organized by the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi § Member of Matrix, the Systems and Technology Club of IIM Trichy § Selected for National Merit Scholarship award in Higher Secondary examination 2008 § Ranked 50th in Secondary Examination (West Bengal Board of Secondary Education) 2006 § Selected for National Merit Scholarship award in Secondary examination 2006 Summer Internship: Tata Consultancy Services During the course of his internship, Supriyo worked on the Bid Management and Program Management processes under the Presales division of TCS Oracle Enterprise Solutions. His deliverables included preparing responses to RFI/RFPs from prospective clients, analysing Oracle realisation base data and unbilled project milestones and preparing Revenue and Cost-Head analysis reports

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Samantha Saradhy B.Com, Ethiraj College for Women

Rajesh Ungaratwar B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

23 Years Work Experience: 11 months, Deloitte

Samantha has worked at Deloitte and Touche AERS India Private Ltd as an Audit Analyst for 11 months. In her short stint, she won the Spot Award for her commendable contribution to the firm. Apart from this, she has always been a very enthusiastic student, participating and organizing various events and bringing accolades to her college. § Core member, Cultural committee IIM Trichy 2013-15 § President, Ethiraj College for Women 2011-2012 § Head of Public Relations, Make a Difference 2011-2012 § Founded a startup, Camouflage Inc, a screen printing unit Summer Internship: ICICI Bank Ltd. Samantha worked with the Commercial Sector of ICICI in Chennai. The main objective of the project was to provide banking opportunities in the Automobile and the automotive sector of Chennai. The project involved meeting various involved players in the sector and identifying the gaps that the bank could leverage on. Some of the main solutions included a method for strategizing the OEMs to adopt dealer funding and a value based analysis for the bank to enter into the auto building sector.

23 Years Work Experience: NIL

Rajesh is a good team player and always tries to explore new avenues. He has been actively involved in various extra-curricular and co-curricular activities throughout his academic career. He has worked on “Panel Assignment using Multi-objective optimization” during his summer internship. § Cofounder, TripEngineers.com, an online travel solutions Marketplace. § Core team member of Public Relation and Branding team of Alcheringa 2012 (annual cultural festival of IIT Guwahati). § Secretary of Trekking & Mountaineering club of IIT Guwahati Gymkhana for 2011-12. § Certified with Lean Six sigma Green Belt awarded by Benchmark Six Sigma Summer Internship: Basket Options Ltd. Rajesh's project was to understand the current market scenario of the Health Care industry and formulate the marketing strategy for MyHealthCheckup.in. He developed a flexible and scalable working process for the company by doing primary research to understand the buying behaviour of the target segment in the Health Care Industry. He analysed the data collected and used it to formulate the marketing strategy and approach to reach the target segment.

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Vijeta Basumatary B.E, Mechanical Engineering, KCG College of Technology Chennai

Aaron Ernest B.E, Aeronautical Engineering, Anna University

24 Years Work Experience: NIL

Vijeta has been a consistent performer and has always maintained a balance between her academics and extra-curricular activities. § Member-Food & Beverage Committee at IIM Trichy § Core Member- Breakfree, the Dance Club of IIM Trichy § Volunteer in Arcturus- National Level b-School fest § Secured 1st position in Poster Presentation 2012 for project titled “Design and fabrication of Stair Climbing Wheel barrow” § Was among the top 5 teams in IET project challenge for the project titled “Design and fabrication of Stair climbing Wheel barrow” Summer Internship: Garuda Vaayu Shakthi Ltd Vijeta worked on the project “Brand Building Strategy for Garuda Vaayu Shakthi Ltd”. The project mainly focused on website development and promotional activities carried out in the wind industry. During the internship she did a cost analysis and an analysis of the competitor's promotional activities which helped Garuda Vaayu Shakthi Ltd to develop their promotional activities. Along with this, she also met many wind industry veterans to learn marketing trends in the wind in the industry. Apart from this, she got an opportunity to converse with prominent IPP's (Independent Power Producer) for their views on how to build a new brand in the wind energy market and how to make customers aware of the company's attributes, identity and worth.

25 Years Work Experience: 30 months, Engineering Solutions, Infosys.

Aaron was deputed to work as an Offshore Designer for FORD Technologies Services India. His work included Interior Designing of various models of cars viz. Lincoln, Mustang and Endeavour. He was in charge of the Instrument Panel Commodity (OPD) & Resource Allocation offshore. He was selected to handle an NPD project for the APAC process, involving direct interaction with the clients. § TAE KWON-DO : 2nd Dan Black Belt & National Medalist (2 Golds & 7 Bronze) § BASKETBALL: State Level Player and has represented his School, College & Infosys § NCC: 'B' & 'C' Certificate Holder from the T.N. Air Squadron Contingents § Presented 2 papers in the field of Aeronautics and also won the 3rd place in Flight Simulation at a National Level Symposium § Received the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Scholarship (2006-2007) from the Union Minister for Sports, Shri. Mani Shankar Aiyar. Also received the MRF Ravi Mammen Scholarship for Excellence in Sports for 12 consecutive Years (1997-2009) and for Studies (2008) Summer Internship: TVS Logistics Services Ltd - Supply Chain Solutions Team. Aaron developed a Milkrun Design for inbound collections of a major OEM's Greenfield Parts Centre from over 100 suppliers. The project was mission critical and of high visibility. Moreover, he designed a training document for LOGVRP a simulation software for, vehicle route planning. Under the Transportation & Integrated Logistics vertical, he worked for the Toll Benchmarking Project. His work primarily involved arriving at an operational benchmark for the key routes operated by TVS LSL, locating tolls and future- proofing of toll price changes.

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Vivek Sundar M B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Trichy

Aayushi Mehta Master in Science, Inorganic Chemistry, Mumbai University

23 Years Work Experience: 8 months, ABB Limited

Vivek has always been a meritorious student. He usually delves deep into his interest areas, both in academics (culminating in research publications) and in extracurricular activities (which has won him awards and laurels). He possesses good communication skills and interpersonal skills. He worked as a service engineer in the drives division of ABB Ltd. He evinces a keen interest in the political and economic situation of the nation. His hobbies include playing chess, tennis and cricket, watching F1 racing, rail fanning. § Published a paper on “Optimal sizing of reactive power support in a standalone hybrid excited Induction Generation System” in IEEE Power India conference (Dec 2012) § Published a paper on “An Enhanced Method of Segmenting the Retail Market Based on Store Images Using Artificial Neural Networks” in “Athenaeum” conference at BIM Trichy (Feb 2012) § Member of School Chess Team § Member of National Service Scheme in NIT Trichy. Summer Internship: KPMG India Pvt. Ltd. At KPMG Vivek worked on developing a new product for improving the cost efficiency of educational institutions. It comprised client presentations, benchmarking and a summary of various activities which need to be performed to achieve the said objective of minimizing costs. This framework will be used as a tool for all future engagements in the area of Cost efficiency. Along with this, Vivek helped with many other live projects which were going on, with activities like Data collection, Analysis, Presentations etc. He also created templates for creating reports for certain KPMG offerings which would potentially minimize the time and effort needed to prepare them in the future.

25 Years Work Experience: 25 months, Grishma Special Materials, Bucketbolt Commerce Pvt Ltd.

Aayushi is the founder-director of the e-commerce portal www.bucketbolt.com.Aayushi handled the verticals of finance and logistics and played a pivotal role in B2B sales. Her experience as an entrepreneur has honed her into a leader with good management skills and a team player. Aayushi has also worked for 2 years as a Research Associate at Grishma Special Materials where she worked extensively in the field of extraction of Precious Metals (Silver, Rhodium, Ruthenium etc.) from secondary grade materials. Aayushi strives for overall development and is involved in extracurricular activities like dancing and sketching.

§ Member of the Business-Fest (Arcturus) Committee of IIM Trichy § Member of Breakfree Club, Official Dance club of IIM Trichy § Underwent a Powder Metallurgy course by NFTDC § Member of Kshitij , Annual fest of Mithibai College Summer Internship: Birla Sunlife Asset Management Company Aayushi interned with Birla Sunlife Asset Management Company in the mutual fund- investment division. She worked closely with the senior mid-cap manager in the application of Piotroski Model to identify lucrative companies. Her work involved extensive top- down research of all listed companies to evaluate their historical performance and predict their future potential. Aayushi went through an extensive Bloomberg training and worked on the Bloomberg terminal for equity research.

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Abhishek Dhakare B.Tech, Information Technology, NIT Patna

Amit Kumar B.E, Electronics and Communication, BIT Mesra

25 Years Work Experience: 24 Months, Motorola Solutions

Abhishek's experience with Motorola Solutions has given him a solid platform to hone his Analytical Skills. As a part of the Platform test team, his work included – assessing requirements, creating test plans and coordinating with development & test teams spread over 3 continents. He excels in events management and team building, and has organized various cultural and technical events at his college § Joint Secretary of Cultural Society of NIT Patna during 2008-09 § Executive member of Cultural Society of NIT Patna during 2009-10 § Senior member of Event management team at Corona'09, tech fest of NIT Patna § Founded a startup Vivianto Online Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd. Summer Internship: Plus Capital Pvt Ltd At Plus Capital, Abhishek was involved in the feasibility study of acquiring an NBFC in the National Capital Region. The project was at the core of Merger and Acquisition strategy of Plus capital. His work included market research of NBFC products, along with studying various trends in the real estate market of the NCR over the years. His inputs and recommendations were very valuable for the feasibility study.

25 Years Work Experience: 24 months (15 months in Indian Space Research Organization, 9 months in Freescale Semiconductor)

Amit has worked with ISRO as a Scientist/Engineer on the project - IRNSS and as an Engineer-In Charge for ISRO's IRCDR and IRIMS ground stations established at NESAC. Before ISRO, he worked for Freescale Semiconductor as a Design Engineer and was a part of the Front-End Integration team which dealt with integration aspects of chip design technology. § Worked on a live project in marketing, in which he was responsible for increasing the footfall in a premium sports store in Trichy § 2nd runner up in national B-school competition MARKOPOLIS - by NMIMS and Dollar Industries Limited § Received a letter of appreciation from NESAC/ISRO and a Certificate of Recognition from Freescale Semiconductor for Application Development § Secured AIR 109 in ISRO entrance examination 2011 and AIR 39 in the final merit list § Secured rank 8 in the preliminary and rank 21 in the mains of the Jharkhand Combined Engineering Entrance Examination 2007 Summer Internship: TTK Prestige Ltd. - Primary Market Research Amit worked on the project “Distribution review and competitor analysis” in the distribution segment of TTK's supply chain. He conducted market research in primary markets of Kolkata, Jharkhand, and Bihar, and interacted with more than 250 authorized dealers. His research identified the weaknesses in the distribution system of TTK Prestige Ltd, and thus enabled TTK Prestige to strengthen its relationship with distributors. His research also identified the strengths and weaknesses of its product vis-à-vis competitors and subsequently recommended improvements in product features. Further, he brought insights reflecting key market areas where TTK Prestige is stronger than its competitors, and weak market areas where it had a scope for improvement.

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Ajit Kumar B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad

Amol S Sonparote B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, GCOE Amravati

25 Years Work Experience: 24 months, Infosys Limited

Ajit has worked as Systems Engineer in the Financial Services and Insurance unit of Infosys. He was involved in the implementation of claim processing part of 'Obama Health Care Reforms'. He was recognised as “Emerging Talent of Infosys Bhubaneswar Development Center” by Cynosure, a quarterly magazine published by Infosys Limited. He has also received letter of appreciation from Infosys for obtaining 5 out of 5 CGPA (Grade 'A') in Infosys Mysore Industrial Training. § Cleared CFA Level 1 in Dec 2013 and has given CFA Level 2 exam in June 2014 § Awarded Live Project in the area of M&A Modeling of Dr. Reddy and Cipla (Approved by CFA) for being in top 5% of the batch in C-FAT, a finance test § Coordinator and Core Committee Member of Finvest: The Finance and Investment club of IIM Trichy § Recipient of Indian Oil Talent Scholarship for academic achievement § Rank 2 in Computer Science Department at the end of B.Tech out of a batch of 43 students Summer Internship: Indus Law. At Indus Law, Ajit was involved in different M&A and PE/ VC deals in technology and e-commerce sector. His work was to review the live M&A transaction and PE/VC transaction from financial perspective. He was involved in the due diligence of the parties involved in the deal. He also looked into the different Indian laws related to a typical M&A deal.

27 Years Work Experience: 14 months, SMS Infrastructure Ltd., Nagpur

Amol started his corporate journey as a Junior Engineer under Infra Phase I. His work focused on site supervision and project- planning. He was responsible for execution of work as per SLD, assurance of quality work, relationship management with clients, handling contractors as well as departmental teams and maintaining safety standard at work place. § Member- Organizing Committee, Annual College Day Celebrations at GCOE § Trainee- Plant Industrial Practical Training at MSPGCL, Thermal Power Station, Paras § Participated in a national level technical festival in the paper presentation, robotics and contraption events § Participant- robotics in Mindspark, an event organized by College Of Engineering, PUNE Summer Internship: Tripura Industrial Development Corporation Limited The internship involved working on 4 projects. The primary work involved a detailed study of marketing strategies for TIDC and comparing TIDC with similar organizations such as KSIDC& KFC, GIDC & GSFC, AIDC & AFC and HPSIDC & HPFC. The research involved gauging the current awareness level about TIDC & its services among local citizens, to study choice of advertising media and to frame strategies that will help TIDC in the future. Comparative study was done using SWOT analysis to show TIDC's position as against other organizations involved in the study.

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Ankur Lal B.Tech, Electronics and Communication, BCREC Durgapur

Beri Pradeep B.E, Electronics and Communication, MVSR Engineering College, Hyderabad

26 Years Work Experience: 30 months, Tata Consultancy Services

Worked as a Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services and was responsible for enhancing and maintaining SharePoint applications used for content management of information such as training activities, financial planning, help sites, and information portals. The work involved coordinating with client teams from different regions of the world, gathering requirements and resolving issue. § Member-PGP Academic Committee at IIM Tiruchirappalli § Member-Finvest, Finance Club at IIM Tiruchirappalli § Course topper in Financial Accounting and Corporate Finance at IIM Tiruchirappalli § Member-Organizing committee of Horizon'10, tech-fest at BCREC Durgapur § Won 1st prize in WizComm Biz(technical-quiz event) of Horizon'08 at BCREC Durgapur Summer Internship: Marmore MENA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. Ankur worked as a research analyst for financial markets in GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and UAE). He successfully completed one industry report and a company profile report. He also wrote two articles on current topics related to the GCC region. His work included creating presentations, generating social media content for the publicity of the reports and preparing survey questions to gauge current trends and the future outlook, which was directed at industry experts.

26 Years Work Experience: 24 Months, Canara Bank

Pradeep worked in Canara Bank as a Probationary Officer for 2 years. He was responsible for the day to day operations of the branch and ensuring customer satisfaction. He worked in four different types of branches and has an experience in dealing with different types of customers. § Won a medal at district level school chess competition and participated in various other state level chess tournaments § Completed a certification in life insurance conducted by Life Insurance Institute of India § Certified with Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, awarded by Benchmark Six Sigma § Represented IIMT Carrom and Chess Teams in Sangram'13: Sports meet of IIMB, IIMK and IIMT Summer Internship: DCB Bank During the course of the internship, he worked on the project “Customer acquisitions & Business Development-Retail Liabilities” to ascertain the level of awareness among customers about retail products of the bank and find out the satisfaction level of the customers. He identified the issues they were facing by conducting a customer survey. He also worked on optimizing banking operations in the branch based on the day to day banking operations. He was responsible for briefing the customers on and recommending them to switch to alternate channels of banking.

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Ashis Behera B.Tech, Electronics and Telecommunication, KIIT University

Bhanu Putumbaka Bachelor of Engineering, CBIT, Hyderabad

25 Years Work Experience: 20 Months, Tata Consultancy Services

Ashis worked as an Asst. Systems Engineer with TCS and was associated with a UK based financial services company. His responsibilities included monitoring and fixing daytime failures in agile environments to ensure smooth functioning of batches. He also provided on-call support for the overnight batch as a part of end-to-end solutions to the client. § Core member - Matrix, Systems and IT club of IIM Tiruchirappalli § ITIL Certified (IT Infrastructure library-V3 Foundation Exam) § Received TCS "Gems" for special initiative during the client CEO's visit to TCS Bangalore § Completed two months industrial training at All India Radio and Doordarshan in May'10 § Volunteered in the 38th ISTE National Annual Convention and IFEES International Conference, Dec'08 held at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar § Successfully cleared the NCC Certificate A examination under the authority of MoD, Government of India Summer Internship: Flextronics Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd. Ashis worked as a Consultant to coordinate with the strategic initiative at GBS Chennai to set up a Business Continuity Plan. He helped in setting up an automation and formal continuity process. His responsibilities included understanding the existing process, identifying the irregularities and thus working on the enhancement, creating master templates and documents. He also did a benchmark study and BCP scenario analysis for GBS Chennai.

24 Years Work Experience: 19 months, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)

Bhanu was a Programmer Analyst at CTS, where she worked on Macros for the fast retrieval of patient records for a Health Care client. As part of a Business Development team she developed requirements, and used case diagrams and wire-frames for internal projects. She collaborated with members across teams to implement an internal project to reduce the idle time per associate. Apart from regular duties, as part of an innovation team in the Health Care domain, she gathered and collated initiatives that were of potential benefit to the client.

§ Core member of Finvest, the Finance Club, IIM Trichy § Cleared CFA Level 1 in December 2013 § Member of Badminton Team, IIM Trichy § Won an article writing competition for the online magazine Flaunte, NDIM, October 2013 § Member of the Cultural Committee, 'ChaitanyaSmriti', CBIT, 2008-11 Summer Internship: Marmore, Chennai Bhanu worked as a Research Analyst where she made an industry report on the aviation sector of the GCC. She worked on the analysis of a shipping company in Saudi Arabia. She did a detailed financial analysis, evaluated the Corporate Governance Policy and analyzed the Earnings Quality of the company. She also worked on two articles related to the current issues in the GCC. Further, she worked on a database of stock parameters of the GCC and MENA regions.

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Kaustav Banerjee B.E, Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Nancy B.E, Electrical and Electronics, Manipal University

25 Years Work Experience: 26 months, Technip KT India Ltd, Noida

Kaustav has good analytical skills and was entrusted with a techno-managerial role (Project Cost Estimation and Risk Assessment- Mitigation) in the Oil-Gas Design Consultancy Company that he worked at. § Worked on implementing Technip Group standard Risk Measurement tool in its Indian subsidiary § Part of the organizing team of the departmental reunion 'CHEMBridge 2010' (budget 25 lakhs). Responsibilities included Expediting Communications, Website design handling, Souvenir preparation handling § Class-Representative (2006-2010) and Student Member of Library Committee (2007-2010) in B.E. § Secured first position in the paper of Mechanics (10th) and Mathematics-II (12th) in board examination Summer Internship: Explico Consulting Private Limited Kaustav worked as an analyst in the finance domain of a boutique consultancy firm specialising in valuation. He worked on live assignments with a significant involvement in an arbitration litigation case. He interacted with the client in understanding the issue and procuring required documents. Kaustav gained proficiency in different valuation methodologies as well as financial modeling.

25 Years Work Experience: 17 months, Thorn Lighting (13 months) Retail Light Techniques (4 months)

Nancy has worked with Retail light techniques as a territory manager where her job responsibilities included – meeting new and existing customers, product demonstrations, price negotiations, coordinating product dispatch, delivery and after sales service. Prior to that, she worked with Thorn lightingas an application design specialist where she was responsible for – lighting design conception, implementation and selling. She was also responsible for increasing the company's customer base through regular client interactions.

§ Coordinator - External Relations Committee, IIM Trichy § Core Member - Podium, Literary & Debating Club, IIM Trichy § Secretary - Toastmasters International Club, Mumbai § DELF DALF- A1 certified diploma by French National Education Ministry § Won the second prize at a National level biotechnology symposium Summer Internship: Dabur India Ltd Nancy worked on new product development in the Face Wash & Face Wipes category where she participated in developing launch strategies for the products, conducting and participating in consumer researches and developing packaging artworks. She also worked on several brand activation exercises such as consumer promotions, launching product combos and product label upgradations. Her internship also helped her understand the sales & distribution network of the FMCG industry in great detail. 2013-1

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Kumar Saurav B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering, CUSAT

Nishant Kumar B.Sc., Honours, Physics, Bihar University B.A. Honours, Economics, Ramjas College, Delhi University

25 Years Work Experience: 21 Months, Oriental Bank of Commerce

Saurav has worked as an assistant manager in Oriental Bank of Commerce, where he was responsible for the management of routine banking operations, credit appraisal and processing of loans. § Received certificate of merit from CBSE board for scoring full marks in mathematics in 10th board examination § Represented school in table tennis zonal level tournament § Worked for financial inclusion project through bank Summer Internship: DCB Bank During the course of his internship, Saurav worked on Alternate Channel Promotion, which included collecting primary data on consumer behaviour of customers through surveys. In addition, he provided recommendations based on the data collected from the survey. Further, he briefed the customer about the alternate channels and influenced him to switch to sms/phone banking.

34 Years Work Experience: 31 months, Copal Partners (09 Months), UCO Bank (22 Months)

Nishant, with his degrees in both Humanities as well as Pure Sciences adds to the diversity of the batch. He has worked with Copal Partners, a Knowledge based firm in Delhi- NCR. He was into Financial Statement Analysis. His primary responsibilities were Comparable Company Analysis and Benchmarking. He also worked as an Assistant Manager at UCO Bank. There, he was leading a team of eight people and was looking after the day-to-day operations of the Branch. § Diploma in French, DELF - 1 exam (92.5%) § Core Member , HR Conclave 2013 § Bronze Medal Winner, Lawn Tennis, Sangram 2013 § Member of Organizing Team, Arcturus'14, annual fest of IIM Trichy § Holds NCC 'A' certificate Summer Internship: Basket Options Pvt. Ltd. " As a part of his summer internship, Nishant worked in the areas of venture capital and corporate valuation and modeling. He helped to develop the future plan of a new business that the company was venturing into. He also critically evaluated the selling process of a product of the company and submitted recommendations in order to improve the same."

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Parimit Lohani B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Dehradun Institute of Technology, Dehradun

Prince Atul B.E, Electronics and Communication, BIT Mesra

25 Years Work Experience: 30 months, Tata Consultancy Services

Parimit has worked at the Research and Development division of TCS to develop high quality software solutions. He also worked as a Validation Engineer with the responsibility to write, perform and verify various validation activities for the client. He has also volunteered for various community and social services. § Secretary, B-School Fest Committee and a member of Students' Council at IIM Tiruchirappalli § Worked on live projects in the area of Market Research and Human Resource Management. § Finalist - Flagship Strategy event at DoMS IIT Madras, Supply chain simulation event at IIM Kozhikode § Represented TCS as a developer at a marketing event by Intel and at the non-profit open source industry alliance GENIVI § Worked for the NGO “Youth For Seva” as a volunteer to impart education to the underprivileged Summer Internship: Savegenie E-Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Parimit worked on formulation of sales strategies and business development. He led a team to understand the Gurgaon market, segment the market based on socio-economic basis and formulate marketing strategies for the area. He also worked on Business Development by bringing retail partners to the company. His other responsibilities included integration of the retail stores to the online space and building & optimizing the consolidated database containing all product SKUs in the retail FMCG industry.

26 Years Work Experience: 32 months, Infosys Limited

Prince has worked as a systems engineer at Infosys Ltd for 32 months. His area of work was supply chain management on Sterling Commerce software where his role was to design and develop solutions after gathering requirements from the client. He has also organized various events including chess event in Infosys Ltd. Hyderabad and national level inter-college event Technika'10. § Core Member – Podium, Literary & Debating Club, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Successfully cleared the certification exam of wealth management and secured AIR 20 in the FLIP National Challenge-2013 § College level winner of ICICI Stock Mind Season 2 § Successfully completed the Financial Essentials course under the Harvard Manage Mentor § Student Member of Institute of Actuaries of India Summer Internship: Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited Prince worked with marketing department of MF7250 (a 45 HP tractor) in TAFE. He conducted a survey of customers and dealers in Maharashtra. His objectives were to understand the reason for customer preference of MF7250 over competition in 45 HP segment, to gauge customer loyalty and to understand the difference in customer perception of the product across different geographies. He also delivered geography wise application reports, haulage usage patterns, gaps in the positioning and activities to improve customer loyalty and sale.

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Pratik Gupta B.E (Hons), Computer Science, BITS-Pilani Goa Campus

Ragil Ravindran B.E, Electronics and Telecommunication, Mumbai University

25 Years Work Experience: 22 months, Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd.

Pratik worked as a software developer at Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. on a health and disease management Application for a global Health Care client. He worked in the Business Process Management (BPM) domain and is a certified systems architect in the BPM tool PEGA. His job responsibilities included requirement gathering, defect fixing, new requirement development and handling different stages of the application development lifecycle - Development, Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance (UAT) and Production § Core Member, SigmaEta Operations Club, IIM Trichy § Core Member, Quizzotica (Quiz Club), IIM Trichy § Certified with Lean Six Sigma Green Belt awarded by Benchmark Six Sigma § Won 1st position in 'M&A Frenzy', an international level mergers and acquisitions competition at 'Confluence 2013', the annual business summit of IIM Ahmedabad. § Runners-Up in 'Optio', a national level operations case study presentation event at 'Samanvay 2013', DOMS IIT-Madras Summer Internship: HCL Technologies Pratik worked as a Business Analyst in the Health Care Domain. He conceptualized and designed an mHealth mobile application for a leading multinational pharmaceutical company for awareness generation using augmented reality. His responsibilities included requirement gathering, research and data collection on medical conditions, designing mock-screens and making design documents. The app was to be distributed to different stakeholders, namely – Pharmacists, Specialists, Insurance Providers and Patients. In addition, he performed analysis of the MLR (Medical-Loss Ratio) values for different Health Insurance companies and identified trends through MLR reports and Earnings Call Transcripts.

25 Years Work Experience: 32 months, Infosys Limited

Ragil has worked as a Systems Engineer with Infosys Limited. His main area of work was Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using Tibco tool. He is an active contributor on Wikipedia having created three articles under business/businessmen category and edited numerous others. § First prize in Electronics Mini Project presentation organized by Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in association with IETE-ISF of Fr.C.R.I.T § Presented the project "Smart Exam Cell and classroom communication system" at Khojj, 2010 an inter-college event organized by K.C. College of Engineering § Member – Runner up team – Inter department football tournament in 2005 Summer Internship: The World Bank Ragil developed a statistical model to forecast loan disbursements for IDA(International Development Association). His project also involved developing an excel application using the results of the statistical modelling project to forecast loan disbursements. He also developed a plan to optimise a report generation process for the non-structured products team in Chennai.

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Rajarshi Sen B.Pharma, BITS Pilani

Sadhanand B.E, Mechanical Engineering, Anna University

25 Years Work Experience: 14 months, The Smart Cube

Rajarshi has extensive experience as a Business Research Analyst, conducting secondary and primary research for market entry projects in the Health Care domain. He has excellent communication skills and has always been a hard worker. In addition, he has pursued various extra-curricular activities to augment his skills and development. § Secretary, External Relations and member of Students' Council, IIM Trichy § Successfully completed DELF A1, Alliance Francais § Selected for FUR's Gurukul Program of 2010 from several national and international candidates § Department Editor at English Press Club, BITS Pilani § Has participated and won positions of merit in various inter-school creative writing competitions. Was declared district champion in a Junior Level Essay writing competition conducted by the National Council of Museums Summer Internship: Genpact Analytics Rajarshi worked as a Social Media Analyst for a top pharmaceutical client. He analysed share of voice and brand sentiment for brands specified by the client on major online platforms. The study panned across competitive products as well. Based on the analysis, he drew insights on brand perception and provided recommendations to improve brand sentiment. In addition, he developed a checklist module for conducting effective secondary research on non-English speaking geographies.

25 Years Work Experience: 23 months, Infosys Limited

Sadhanand worked as a Systems Engineer at Infosys Ltd. for a period of 23 months with various clients such as Lexis Nexis, Elsevier, British Petroleum and so on. At Infosys, he interacted with clients and provided them with technical support as well. § II rank in Mechanical Engineering department during UG § III rank in district in Class X CBSE Board Examinations, 2004 § School Pupil Leader for two years, 2004 and 2005 § Runners-up, Cricket at Sangram - Inter-IIM Sports meet 2013 § 1st prize in District level quiz competition conducted by Rotary Club of Nagercoil in 2004 Summer Internship: ACH Management Consultant Pvt. Ltd. Sadhanand worked as a research consultant in ACH Management Consultant Pvt Ltd. He executed a research project on “FMCG Companies in the top 15 economies of the world”. The research involved both primary and secondary market research alongside financial research on the concerned companies. A comprehensive research report was prepared documenting the future of Indian FMCG industry, which could pave way for global companies to make their presence felt. Based on the research and analysis, a set of recommendations was provided along with targeting strategies and growth model for ACH Management Consultant Pvt Ltd.

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Reetika Rajawat B.Tech, Computer Science and Technology, SNDT University

Saikh Mahammad Haider B.Tech, Civil Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology

24 Years Work Experience: 22 months, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.

Reetika worked as a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte for almost two years in the public health industry domain for the US state government. Her experience at Deloitte has helped her hone her communication skills and has made her adept at client interaction. Besides good communication skills, she has a healthy mix of excellence in academics and extracurricular activities. § Placement Committee Member, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Live Project with Reckitt Benckiser for identifying a new distribution channel for OTC products § Member of the core student council and also acted as the sponsorship in-charge for the college cultural festival, 2009-2010 § Awarded certificate for being a topper in Computer Science and Technology branch in the first year. Summer Internship: Saint Gobain Glass India, Marketing Research and Analysis Reetika worked in the B2B space for glass mirrors which is a major product line in Saint Gobain. She worked on user profiling and understanding the supply chain for this category of products. She also conducted primary market research to study current usage, awareness among users as well as the buying and decision making behaviour of customers. Based on the findings and secondary market analysis she provided market targeting and positioning strategies for the entire range of company mirror products.

24 Years Work Experience: 24 months, McNally Bharat Engineering (9 months), Maknan Consultancy (15 months)

Haider has work experience of 24 months in the civil engineering sector. He has worked for 9 months with Mcnally Bharat Engineering Company Ltd. on an industrial project site as a site engineer. He has also worked at the designing division of Maknan Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. for 15 months. He has good knowledge of project site management and designing. § Sports Committee member- IIM Trichy § Cultural Secretary of College fest(JECLAT'11,IRINA) § ASST. General Secretary of College (JGEC) in 2009-10 § Member of Inter College Cricket Tournament organizing committee in 2010 § Won various prizes in different cultural events throughout the academic career Summer Internship: Kshatriya Sports Pvt. Ltd. Haider's project was titled “Marketing, Branding and Financial Planning for the establishment and expansion of Inter Milan Academy”. He was mainly involved with the strategic financial part of the project. He executed a pro-forma analysis statement for the deal. Apart from the financial part, he developed sponsorship proposals for the title sponsor and event sponsor. The project involved intricate knowledge of cash flow projections and other financial projections.

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Sandeep Bodanapu B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University

Shailendra N B.E, Instrumentation Technology, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore

25 Years Work Experience: 23 months, Wipro

Sandeep worked for Wipro Technologies as a Project Engineer in GMT domain for Sony Music over a range of technologies (Java/J2EE, spring framework, Ext JS, Ajax) and held critical responsibilities. He has an excellent academic record balanced with extracurricular activities, good communication skills and dedication § Winner of “Modus Operandi”, flagship operations event of DMS, IIT Delhi - Feb 2014 § Six sigma certified (Green Belt) (2014) § His article on the topic “Going Lean” was selected for “OpVision”, the operations magazine of IIM Trichy § Core member, SigmaEta, operations club of IIM Trichy § Organiser, Inter-University National Youth Festival-2011, which was sponsored by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India Summer Internship: TVS Srichakra Ltd., Operations, Kanban(six sigma) implementation Sandeep worked in an operations role to streamline the company's manufacturing process through Kanban system, a six sigma quality improvement tool. He designed and implemented a Kanban system between two departments (supermarket concept) which set the stage to extend the system to the whole manufacturing plant. The tasks included problem identification, data collection, process design, presenting to plant heads, requesting for cost approval and final implementation. The result of the Kanban implementation included reduced inventory costs, elimination of space constraints, and efficient manufacturing process which could be easily traced with bottlenecks (if any).

24 Years Work Experience: 23 months, Tektronix India Private Ltd.

Shailendra worked at Tektronix India Pvt Ltd as an Account Manager, where he was responsible for Business Development and sales of Test and Measurement equipment for educational institutes in South India. He also managed the distributor network consisting of six distributors in the region. His role in the organization allowed him to hone and exhibit his communication, negotiation, technical, and managerial skills. § Member - External Relations Team at IIM Tiruchirappalli. § Core Member - the Marketing & Advertising Club (MAC) of IIM Tiruchirappalli. § Won the Silver Medal as part of IIM Tiruchirappalli's cricket team at Sangram, an inter-IIM sports meet. § Appointed the Public Relations Secretary of RAAG – The Culture Club of R.V. College of Engineering § Event Coordinator at “8th Mile” – The annual Techno-Cultural Festival of R.V. College of Engineering Summer Internship: Mapro Food Pvt Ltd Shailendra conducted a market research study to analyse the HoReCa industry as a potential B2B customer segment of Mapro. He surveyed over 110 hotels and restaurants in Mumbai to understand the market dynamics, customer preferences, and competitors' penetration for crushes, squashes, and syrups in the segment. He met with numerous distributors to study the existing business models of the major players in the industry. He also understood the company's sales to the GT (General Trade) and MT (Metro Trade) segments. Based on the findings, he formulated a strategy for Mapro to enter the HoReCa industry by proposing an alternate range of products and flavours, and suggested distributors to help set up the distribution network. 2013-1

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Sarathy D B.Tech, Information Technology, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai

Shankar M B.E, Information Technology, University of Mumbai

24 Years Work Experience: 24 months, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Sarathy worked as a Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions in the insurance sector for the client Teachers Insurance Annuity Association. His role included portal development and testing. He was also a part of billing and process management activities for more than 150 associates spread across multiple locations § Received 'Spot Excellence Award' for his development and testing skills in Cognizant Technology Solutions § Organized National level Technical symposium 'Protocol 12E' in 2009 § Organized National level Conference on Communication and Informatics '09 § Received proficiency award for being school first in 12th Std Board Exams in Tamil § Received 'Best Student Organizer award ' in 12th Std Summer Internship: United Biscuits Pvt Ltd Sarathy explored various opportunities for United Biscuits' McVities in Institutional/Emerging Channels (CPC, CSD, RAILWAYS and Industries). He exceeded the sales target by 50% and generated a purchase order of 6 lakhs during his internship period from CPC. He also created demand for the new products in various unit run canteens. In addition, he helped the company in getting contacts and meeting various officials for registering McVities brand in the Southern Railway Zone. Further, he introduced the brand and products to various industries/factories around Chennai and was involved in the process of convincing factory canteen managers to provide purchase orders. As a part of his project, he understood the customer perception about the product and provided recommendations.

27 Years Work Experience: 17 months, Infosys Technologies Limited

Shankar worked with an international banking giant during his tenure at Infosys. He optimized their critical banking processes by developing multiple enhancements and automated alert generation systems. He was also responsible for eliciting and understanding the business requirements from the client for a new project awarded to Infosys. § Graphics editor and designer for Infosys' internal monthly magazine 'Gurukul' § Event organizer for the inter-college robotics competition at Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology § 3rd Prize in the state level 'Junkyard Wars' competition organized by IEEE § 2nd Prize for the graduation project 'Parallel Graphics' which was based on supercomputing principles § 19th Rank in Maharashtra state in Maharashtra Talent Search Examination Summer Internship: Saint-Gobain Glass India At Saint-Gobain Glass India, Shankar was involved in improving the leads handling system. To achieve the aforesaid, he studied the interactions between various parties, identified the critical bottlenecks and suggested changes that would improve the system. He was also responsible for analysing the database marketing initiatives and coming up with future strategies. As a part of the database marketing study, he designed experiments and performed hypothesis tests to identify the ideas that might or might not work in the future. He also performed extensive data analysis using web tools like Google Analytics and Google Adwords to study the behaviour of people visiting the company's website and other digital properties.

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Shankar Suman B.E, Electronics Engineering, University of Pune

Shipali Jangra B.Tech, Industrial Engineering and Management, NIT Kurukshetra

25 Years Work Experience: 28 Months, Infosys Limited

Shankar is an SAP technical consultant and he has worked for a manufacturing client for development of their HR applications. He has handled responsibilities like MDM uploads and mentoring new joiners in his project team, in addition to his technical role. § Lean Six Sigma green belt certified § Won various business competitions- 1st prize in Nokia Odyssey, a national level case study event conducted by Nokia and IIM Calcutta; 1st prize in Markopolis, national level case study event conducted by NMIMS; Campus winner in Trailblaze, national level six sigma case study event conducted by BenchmarkSix Sigma § Got the 'You are Spotted' award, and several appreciations from his client as well as his managers, in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to his project at Infosys § Won inter-departmental chess trophy held at college, and represented college in state level Chess tournaments during Engineering; Also, won twice in track events in school § Secured 100/100 in Mathematics CBSE board and got 119th AIR in 6th National Science Olympiad securing 98.82 percentile in class Xth Summer Internship: General Motors India Shankar worked with supply chain division of General Motors and studied various operations handled by the division such as warehousing, in-house supplies, logistics, etc. He successfully completed a project on inventory storage optimization to create space for storing additional new parts required for a new model of car, thus providing an expected saving of around Rs 1 crore per year for the company.

26 Years Work Experience: 31 Months, Computer Science Corporation

Shipali was the Student Secretary-in-Chief for a tie-up between NITK and MHRD. She started her career with CSC. At CSC she was responsible for end-to-end product testing, engaging with clients and leading business requirements from offshore and was influential in cost savings of over $50,000. Her prodigious performance led her to a promotion to software engineer in a short span of time. § Campus ambassador, on a national level for: Ÿ Amaethon, IIM Ahmedabad' summit Ÿ Infusion, IIM Rohtak's annual festival Ÿ Manthan, India's biggest youth movement Ÿ Femina Miss India, IIM Bangalore § Core member: Cultural Committee and Breakfree Club, IIM Trichy § Organizer: Arcturus- Annual business festival of IIM Trichy § DELF DALF- A1 certified; diploma by French National Education Ministry § Chief Convener: 'Confluence 2007'-National-level-cultural festival and 'Literati 2007'- National-level-technical festival NITK Summer Internship: TVS Srichakra “Shipali recommended processes at TVS which helped to save 11.11% of the lead time in Global Inbound Supply Chain Management. She also developed a matrix aimed to help the organization identify the need for vendor development processes. She performed lead time analysis in order to help strategize when they should start the vendor development process following which she suggested how the lead time could be reduced by 21%."

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Sharat Sushil B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics, SBCE Alappuzha

Shree Ranjan B.E, Mechanical Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

28 Years Work Experience: 32 months, Sree Panchami Travel Company

Sharat Sushil has had a varied experience during his professional journey so far. He has learned the nuances of managing a small business through his first start up, a gymnasium. He has also worked as an Asst. Office Manager where he was in charge of running the company, coordinating with external agencies for boosting sales, recruitment, etc. § Started, managed and nurtured BALAVAN, a gymnasium § Organized and managed district level body building competition conducted by Bodytune in December 2011 § Runs his own apiary business unit since 2013 § Overall class topper in Electricals & Electronics (2004-'08) batch Summer Internship: Basket Option Sharat did his summer internship with Basket Option. Pvt Ltd. for which he did multiple projects under two verticals. His primary project was equity research for an Equity Research Vertical. Other projects included analysis of market potential for setting up a martial arts gym. He also did digital marketing projects for both the verticals.

25 Years Work Experience: 29 months, JSW Steel Limited

Shree Ranjan has worked as a Junior Manager in JSW Steel Limited where he handled responsibilities in execution of projects, plant maintenance, stores management, spares planning and operation of production facilities in a Steel plant. § Member- Infrastructure Committee at IIM Trichy § Core member- Marketing and Advertising Club at IIM Trichy § Volunteer in Arcturus - National level B-School fest § Underwent training on Business Skill Development Programme conducted by MSME Development Institute, Bangalore in 2009 § Secured NCC 'A' certificate in school Summer Internship: Emami Limited Shree Ranjan was involved in the measurement of effectiveness of Below-the-line (BTL) promotional activities undertaken by Emami Limited for Navratna Cool Oil in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh. He monitored execution of various BTL activities such as wall paintings, door-to-door promotions and sales van promotions. He conducted a customer research to measure effectiveness of the promotional activities in communicating the intended message to potential users and conversion of non-users to users of Navaratna Cool Oil. He also undertook market visits with sales personnel, conducted a retail survey, and interacted with distributors to understand rural and urban distribution channels of FMCG firms. His final recommendation stressed need for better control of BTL activities and effective use of technology in BTL activities.

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Shreyas Mithare B.E, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Subhash Rajeev B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, SVNIT, Surat

26 Years Work Experience: 25 months, iGATE

Shreyas has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at iGATE at client-site ING-Vysya Bank in JAVA/J2EE Technology. His responsibilities included Client Interaction, Requirement Collection, Design and Development. He is also passionate about theatre and social service. § Member - Placement committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Volunteer in Arcturus - National level B-School fest § Secured 30th rank in NTSE exam at state level in 2003 § Secured NCC 'A' certificate with A grade. § Volunteer at an NGO CRY (Child Rights and You). Summer Internship: ICCL/BSE Shreyas worked with the Risk Management department at ICCL. His work involved the study of the OTC market in India and major reforms in OTC derivative regulations set by RBI and BASEL III norms. He analyzed different margin requirements by CCP and its members and settlement procedures followed in the OTC market for different OTC-traded products. Based on the study of feasibility of central clearing, he gave a detailed analysis report to ICCL, which was later used to provide recommendations to SEBI.

24 Years Work Experience: 23 months, Larsen and Toubro

Subhash has almost 2 years of work experience in the fabrication of offshore oil and gas platform modules having been a part of the team that worked on India's largest ever offshore platform, Mumbai High North (MHN) § Coordinator, External Relations Committee, IIM Trichy § Co-Secretary of College newspaper, RENESA § Anchoring coordinator at SVNIT's cultural fest, SPARSH-2011 § Event coordinator, Ad-aptitude, advertising event in SVNIT's B-fest, Entrumeet 2009. § City finalist, Career Launcher Tycoons 2008 Summer Internship: Transport Corporation of India Limited. Subhash worked on exploring strategies to help improve the Key Account Management (KAM) systems of TCIL through secondary and primary research. The research was conducted on some of the global practices being followed in KAM in the logistics industry as well as what level of service was expected from both existing and prospective domestic customers. Based on his research, he presented his findings along with recommendations to help improve the company's service to their key accounts thereby helping to maximize the business potential of these accounts.

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Sridhar Bathula B.Tech, Civil Engineering, NIT Raipur Sumit Kumar Panjwani

B.E, Electronics and Telecommunication, IET DAVV Indore 25 Years Work Experience: 24 months, NSS Associates (18 months), Galacon Infrastructure (2 months), Sandilya Constructing Engineers (4 months)

Sridhar worked in the construction industry as a Design Engineer as well as a Planning Engineer. He is very amicable and possesses a decent academic record with excellent extra-curricular achievements. His interests include dancing, acting and movie-making. § Member – Cultural Committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Selected as Assistant Executive Engineer (Gazetted Officer), Irrigation & Catchment Area Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, as Junior Engineer (Works) for Indian Railways, as Junior Engineer (Civil) for Military Engineering Services § Successfully published National level Annual Magazine of NIT Raipur, SHILPI-2010 as a member of the Editorial Board § Member- Literary Committee, National Institute of Technology Raipur, 2007-2011 § Secured 1st Prize in the Acting Event during Cultural Fest held at NIT Raipur, Eclectika-2011 § Member of Cultural Committee, Civil Engineering Department, NIT Raipur 2009-2010 Summer Internship: DCB Bank - Operations & Marketing Project-1: Operations (Forecasting & Scheduling) Sridhar developed an automated tool using Excel, which helped in forecasting customer call volumes and accordingly yields a schedule of call agents to be appointed. DCB bank is currently using this tool which helps them prepare shifts for the call agents, avoiding extra call agents and loss of customer loyalty. Project-2: Marketing (Market research for Alternate channels of banking) Sridhar developed a framework for Alternate Channels of banking to increase sales. He conducted market research taking internal customers', external customers’ and competitor banks' perspectives. Based on the survey results and industry analysis, he came up with a framework detailing DCB's future course of action, competitive intelligence and ideas/suggestions for new developments to augment alternate channel sales.

24 Years Work Experience: 22 Months, Mu- Sigma (12 months), Accenture (10 months)

Sumit worked as a Business analyst with Mu-Sigma Business solutions for a year. His work included analysis of online advertising industry and subsequent generation of insights for a leading software company based in the US. Before this, he worked with Accenture as an Associate Software Engineer for about a year where he was entrusted with the responsibility of developing an application for a large private sector bank of UK. § Winner of M&A Frenzy, a finance event, at International Business summit conducted at IIM Ahmedabad,2013 § National Runners up for Samnvay_Optio, a case based event in Operations, at IIT Madras, 2013 § Campus winner for Six-Sigma Benchmark Trailblaze competition at IIM Tiruchirappalli, 2013 § Green Belt certification obtained from Six-Sigma Benchmark Trailblaze § Letter of appreciation for working as the Student Coordinator of the Annual inter-branch sports meet of the institute during the academic year 2010-11 § Led college Cricket team during UG to win inter-departmental Cricket Tournament 2009-10 Summer Internship: Sumit interned with NODWIN Consultants as an analyst. He created a detailed marketing plan for an online retailer of tyre and associated services. His work included figuring out various media (online as well as offline) available for creating the brand awareness and optimizing the branding strategies so as to create an impact. He helped his client in various business activities, which were required before the launch phase of the business such as creating scripts for call center executives, finding homepage banners to convey brand's positioning, writing terms and conditions in a structured manner by coordinating with operations head of the client. Also, he helped his client get an alliance partner in Gurgaon for providing wheel alignment services.

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Sunil Kumar Nasam B.E, Information Technology, Army Institute of Technology Pune

Venkatkrishnan Iyer B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, NIT Surat

25 Years Work Experience: 27 months, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Sunil worked as a Programmer Analyst in the Oracle Solutions Provider (OSP) domain of Cognizant Technology Solutions. His job involved working on ERP tool to develop reports and forms as per the business requirements in the manufacturing domain of the client - Tektronix. § Secured first position in 'Modus Operandi', an operations case study competition held at IIT-Delhi as part of management fest, Parivartan'2014 § As a member of Alumni committee, collated information on alumni from varied sources for the development of an Alumni portal § Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified § Participated in the initiative, 'Share a Drive, Save the Environment', with support from Green Brigade Team at Cognizant Technology Solutions § Secretary- Heritage and Spiritual Club in graduation (2008-09) Summer Internship: Hindustan Pencils Pvt. Ltd. Sunil did his summer internship with Hindustan Pencils in an Operations and IT profile. He worked on enhancing the existing capabilities of the Apsara pencils manufacturing plant. The work involved identifying the major source of machine breakdowns by keeping track of those breakdowns on a day-to-day basis through an MIS tool. Also, additional features implemented in the tool helped the company in faster processing of the production, machine and worker data.

25 Years Work Experience: 22 Months, Reliance Industries

Venkat has worked as a Production Manager at the Naphtha Cracker and Poly-butadiene Rubber plants at Reliance Industries Ltd., Vadodara. His work experience has honed him into a team player and a leader with excellent written and verbal communication skills. He has also been involved in extra and co-curricular activities before and during his stint at IIM Trichy. § Chief Convener: 'Mindbend 2010'- The National level Techfest of NIT, Surat § Chief Convener: 'Entrumeet 2009'- The National level B-fest of NIT, Surat § Winner: 'Best Short Film' at 'Video Vision', a National level film festival judged by National Award jury members § Finalist: Gujarat State level Lawn tennis tournament organized by Govt. of Gujarat § National finals: ESPN Sports quiz, conducted by Harsha Bhogle Summer Internship: Venkat interned with the Mahindra and Mahindra (GMC program) group and worked with Mahindra Finance in developing a digital marketing campaign for their brand. His work entailed primary research and competitor analysis in 6 states across a period of two months after which he had to statistically evaluate options and devise a strategy for the brand. He presented his recommendations in front of a steering committee at MMFSL which constituted of the CEO, CMO and CFO of the firm and received plaudits for his work.

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Surbhi Richa Kerketta B.Tech, Production Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad

Vishal D Wagh B.E, Electronics, Mumbai University

26 Years Work Experience: 24 months, Infosys Limited.

Surbhi has worked as a Systems Engineer with Infosys Limited. In her tenure, she has worked with a US-based banking client. Her responsibilities involved Incident/Problem Management and review of Critical Incidents/Outages and their resolution. It also involved the management of knowledge portals and Known Error Databases along with identifying opportunities for automation and driving them. She has in-depth knowledge and exposure in the banking domain and has developed good problem solving skills during her tenure with the US-based banking client at Infosys. She has also developed good communication and interpersonal skills while directly interacting with the client. § Core Member- Persona, the OB & HR club, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Team Member- Alumni Relations, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Third position- Basket Ball and KhoKho at 'Sangram' 2013 conducted at IIM Kozikode § Vice President- Painting Wing club (2009-10) and Programme Coordinator- BIT Cultural Society(2010-11) at BIT Sindri, Dhanbad § Recipient of Mother Teresa Meritorious Certificate for academic excellence in 2005 Summer Internship: Larsen and Toubro Surbhi interned with the Leadership and Talent Management team at Larsen and Toubro and designed a framework for Leadership Competency Assessment and Development for the top performing employees in L&T, B&F IC. The key objective was to understand the leadership competency gap of top performing employees for 3 job levels at L&T, B&F IC and provide a solution framework. To identify the key strength areas of competencies and how to develop them was the main focus among the three job levels of L&T, B&F IC. This would enable the company to bridge the competency gap of top performing employees. The framework proposed would be used in planning and training activities in talent management system at L&T, B&F IC.

24 Years Work Experience: 23 months, IBM India Pvt Ltd.

A sincere and hard working person, Vishal has worked with IBM India Pvt Ltd, Pune, where he worked as an Associate System Engineer for a UK-based client in the Energy & Utility domain. His experience at IBM helped him to hone his communication skills and has made him adept at client interaction. Vishal has been a consistent performer in academics. In addition, he has pursued various extra-curricular activities to enhance his skills and development. § Core Member- Cultural Fest Committee at IIM Trichy § Core Member- Elixir Club (Social Activities Club) at IIM Trichy § Live Project with Bombay Hemp Company for deciding a strategy for new product launch § 1st position in 50m Breast Stroke and 3rd position in 100m Free Style at Sangram'13: Sports battle of IIMK, IIMB and IIMT § A certified professional bartender Summer Internship: TTK Prestige Vishal worked in the distribution space for all TTK Prestige products in multi-branded retailers' and authorised dealers' segments, which are the most important distribution channels for TTK Prestige. He conducted primary research consisting of interactions with 700 dealers of Kitchen Utensils and Home Appliances in 20 districts in Maharashtra. Through the research, he identified the loopholes in the distribution channel of TTK Prestige, analysed market share of each product category and also executed a competitors' analysis. Based on the findings and competitors' analysis, he provided recommendations to remedy the loopholes of the distribution channel and increase market share of TTK Prestige in various product categories.

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Vishnu Poduval B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kerala

Aditya Hathi B.E, Mechanical Engineering, L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad

25 Years Work Experience: 24 months, Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.

Vishnu has worked at Accenture as a Quality Assurance Engineer where his responsibilities included business requirement analysis with clients and E2E testing of CRM applications in the retail domain for a UK-based telecommunications client. He is passionate about music and is a diploma holder in Western Guitar from the Tagore School of Arts. He also enjoys public speaking and has won several awards at the school and regional level. § Coordinator - External Relations Committee, IIM Trichy § Core Member - Podium, Literary & Debating Club, IIM Trichy § RABQSA Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified § Received the “Rising Star” award for the 1st Quarter of FY12 for “demonstrating ownership and working to reduce time and costs on projects” at Accenture § Secured 4th position out of 30 teams in the event - "Junkyard Wars" at NIT Trichy's Annual Technical-Festival - "Pragyan",2009 Summer Internship: Citibank Vishnu worked with the Balance Sheet Control Group (BSCG India) where his project deliverables were the development and implementation of an "Automated Proof Package" as part of a Global Account Review Standardization Directive. Post the defect resolution, he handled the pan-India rollout of this process automation across 294 Citibank India units covering their Global Consumer Business (GCB), Institutional Client Group (ICG) & Citi Affiliates divisions.

26 Years Work Experience: 35 Months, Larsen & Toubro Limited

Aditya worked in a Project Management team wherein his primary responsibilities were coordinating with the vendors for ensuring timely ordering and procurement of material, ensuring availability of material at site, and expediting engineering activities. It involved interfacing with all the stakeholders – vendors, consultants and client. He has also worked as a Quality Assurance/Quality Control engineer on a power plant construction site. § Member - Placement Committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified § Level A1 DELF certification in French language § Completed Level 0 course of Institute of Project Management at L&T which included Introduction to Project Management, SAP orientation and Primavera for beginners § Trained in Indian Classical Music (Singing) and passed 4 exams conducted by Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Summer Internship: HCL Technologies Limited Being a part of the Enterprise Application Services function, Aditya worked on a project that involved comparing Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software IBM Maximo and SAP Plant Maintenanceto assist in product selection. The comparison was done across parameters such as functionality, licensing conditions, software support and maintenance conditions, cost, integration with other software, and usability. He was also exposed to the functionalities of HCL's product 'iMRO' which is used for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) operations in the Aerospace industry. 2013-1

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Alan Bagya Praveen S B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore 25 Years Work Experience: 36 months, Infosys Limited

Alan worked as a senior engineer in the Engineering Services domain and interacted with aerospace and automotive giants. He was pivotal in the design and automation of aircraft/automotive models and components and hence, reduced the manual effort and improved productivity. He innovated key areas of customization in critical projects and saved the life-cycle time by 200% and thus provided cost effective solutions. He played several roles and worked as a Techno-Functional Analyst, spearheading teams of skilled technical developers involved in resource acquisition for the project. Along with grooming new recruits, he mentored interns. He played a vital role in his unit in achieving the CMMI level 5 quality standards. § Certified with Lean Six Sigma(Green Belt) in the year 2014 § Merit of receiving 'Best Rookie' Award for an extra ordinary performance and exceeded the expectations of the business unit through performance and was also awarded the 'Best Innovation Project' at the horizontal business unit level § Microsoft certified programmer in .Net 3.5 framework § Joined hands with the Mysore City Corporation for a 'Keep city clean task' initiative aimed at zero waste management and was a member of Soften(a CSR team) and organized blood donation camps, notebook distribution and tree plantation drives § National Winner in a paper presented on 'Detection of wear in fuel injector nozzles in diesel engines using vibration signature analysis' at NIT, Trichy in the year 2010 Summer Internship: Basket Option Pvt. Ltd. Alan worked in Money Bag Ventures which is an investment banking division of Basket Option Pvt Ltd under the guidance of the CFO. The objective of the internship was to assist and enhance the functionalities and services that Money Bag Ventures offered. Alan's roles and responsibilities included but were not limited to performing valuations and evaluating business proposals of companies for investments by understanding their business models in terms of their financial strength, operational capabilities through past performance, and analyzing their future prospects through projections and the existing economic environment. He analyzed the desirability of deals for investment opportunities and conducted negotiations with both investors as well as business clients. He also recommended suitable and relevant changes in the business and financial models of clients.

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Anbarasu R B.E, Computer science, PSG College of Technology

Georgy K. Joseph B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology

25 Years Work Experience: 36 Months, HP (Hewlett Packard) System Technology and Software division, Bangalore.

Anbarasu is a highly entrepreneurial individual with rich work and real-time business management experience. He has an irresistible passion for innovation and new product development. He is interested in education, real estate and bottom of the pyramid business models. § Co-founded White Tree Resorts Private Limited, a resort and real estate development company § Co-founded Data Crawl Global Services Private Limited, a technology services and products company, and Heuristic Academy for Placements, a placement training institute in Coimbatore § Received 'Outstanding Performer' and 'Best innovator' awards for creating a process innovation at HP Research and development center, Bangalore § Received 'Best Alumni award' and 'The Scroll of Honour' for excellence in the field of Information Technology and contribution to society at the CSE Alumni meet, PSG Tech, Coimbatore § Core member - organizing team, TEDx IIM Trichy 2013 Summer Internship: Data Crawl Global Services Private Limited. Anbarasu initiated the project by getting the first round of funding, setting up office space, and recruiting talents. He understood the process of building a company from the ground up and built an experienced and highly talented team of 12 in a span of 2 months. He created two business verticals namely services and products. Further, he formulated new product development and services strategies across the business verticals. He went on to set up the processes for employee engagement and project management. Also, he expanded the company portfolio and ventured into technology consulting for real estate companies. He signed a 40% JV with a leading real estate company in an upcoming resort building project.

26 Years Work Experience: 34 months, T.I.M.E. (27 months), MindTree (7 months)

Georgy worked with T.I.M.E. Cochin as an Executive-Academics where he was in charge of CAT classes and the on-campus programs. Although he comes from an engineering background, he has a keen interest in finance. Georgy excelled in both curricular and extracurricular activities and his achievements include the following: § Passed CFA Level 1 exam in the first attempt (December 2013) § Finalist in 'Prometheus' - the flagship finance event of Ensemble'13 conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur § Second Prize – Signal Maestro conducted as part of Excel 2k9, a South India level Techno-Managerial Symposium conducted by Model Engineering College, Cochin § Second Prize – Micro Mania in connection with Advay '09 organized by Toc-H Institute of Science and Technology, Aarakkunnam § Certificate of merit from CBSE for being among the top 0.1% of the successful candidates in 'English Core' in AISSCE Examination, 2005 Summer Internship: IIFCL Georgy interned with IIFCL Asset Management Company Ltd. (IAMCL), a subsidiary of IIFCL. He was assigned the job of recommending whether the Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF) floated by IAMCL could invest in the bond of an infrastructure company. For this purpose, he conducted financial due diligence on the infrastructure company and made financial projections for the next 10 years. The project also involved identifying key risk factors that could result in deviations from the projected results and the mitigants to such risks.

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Arvind R B.Tech, Information Technology, Institute of Engineering and Management Kolkata

Govind Sridhar B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, AKGEC, Ghaziabad

26 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Infosys Limited

Arvind worked as a Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys for almost three years in finance and human resource management domains and is skilled in providing enterprise solutions to international clients, leveraging his expertise in Oracle Applications and PL/SQL. He was awarded the 'BRAVO award' in 2013 for exceptional performance and contribution to his business unit's growth. He has proved to be an allrounder with a good mix of academic and extracurricular achievements. § Core Member, Cultural Committee, IIM Trichy (2013) § Founding Member, Photography & Film Making Club, IIM Trichy (2014) § National champion, NEN Entrepreneurship Week India Championship (2009) § Chief Student Coordinator, Cultural Fest of Institute of Engineering and Management (2010) § Founder & Chief Editor, Annual magazine of Institute of Engineering and Management (2009-10) Summer Internship: World Bank, Chennai Arvind worked on generating a detailed process flow of the fair valuation tool (Phoenix) being used by the non-structured products team for IBRD loans and IDA credits in order to identify the areas of optimization. Based on the analysis of input data and results generated by the fair valuation tool, the changes implemented by him resulted in a 20% average decrease in the loading time and a 50% average decrease in the calculation time with a negligible change (-0.14%) in the prepayment option valuation amount. Apart from this, he successfully completed e-learning courses on Classification of Restricted Information, Management of Records, Social media Engagement and Think Security.

27 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Infosys Ltd.

Govind worked as a Senior System Engineer at Infosys in the Financial Services and Enterprise Solution projects of RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) Insurance and Citibank. He holds expertise in development, testing and enterprise solutions tools and undertook roles of logical and performance analysis at various levels. He has internship experience in the field of Programming Logic and Control and Microwave communication at BHEL, Jhansi and Indian Railways, Microwave section, Jhansi. A high school topper and prefect at school, Govind prefers keeping a healthy mix of extra-curricular activities along with having sound technical knowledge and academic performance. § Winner of inter college debate competition organized by MMA at Meerut, during 2011 § Member - Basketball team of Infosys, Chennai, winner at many inter corporate events § Captain - Basketball team, AKGEC, Ghaziabad. § Coordinator of Electronic society - Phoenix in AKGEC, Ghaziabad. § Coordinator and volunteer in multiple events (cultural, technical and sports) at AKGEC, Ghaziabad and IIM, Trichy Summer Internship: Basket Option Pvt. Ltd. Govind did his internship at IDM (Institute of Digital Marketing, a vertical under Basket Options), a rapidly growing Digital Marketing pioneer, involved in spreading digital media awareness and literacy. Govind was involved in various stages of product development in IDM and was actively part of its strategy building and marketing activities. He also worked in identifying potential corporate and non-corporate customers and contributed to activities such as creation of corporate proposals, collaterals and media kit packages, building of website, content development, etc. He conducted marketing research activities and identified key requirements in the field of Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, its current industry trends, and competitor analysis.

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Hemant Soundankar B.E, Information Technology, Pune University

Keshav Prabhash B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, SASTRA University

26 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Tata Consultancy Services

Hemant worked with TCS as a Systems Engineer and provided software services to US based Insurance and banking clients. During his professional tenure, he worked with technical architects to design backend databases. He worked extensively on data warehousing and gave equal importance to both technical and domain knowledge which enabled him to quickly relate technical solutions to business problems. He received numerous appreciations and awards for performing consistently. Apart from his work, he also facilitated SQL training sessions for TCS associates. He takes interest in team-building activities and managing cultural and technical events. He likes to play Tennis and has represented the IIM Trichy Tennis Team in intercollege sports events

§ Oracle Certified Professional (2010), LOMA 280 and 290 (US Insurance certification), Six Sigma Green Belt certified § Finalist – Manthan organized by Citizens for Accountable Governance (CAG) § Organized a fundraising event in TCS for a social cause, Sparsh § Organized 'Solstice', a cultural event Summer Internship: Savegenie E-Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Hemant interned at an eCommerce Startup and played the role of a market researcher and business development executive. He undertook research on the consumer buying behavior of groceries in Gurgaon which was further used in developing sales strategies. He also worked on Business Development by bringing retail partners to the company. He played a key role in integrating retail stores to the online portal, and building and optimizing the database of all product SKUs in the retail FMCG industry.

26 Years Work Experience: 34 months, Tata Consultancy Services

Keshav worked as a Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services for a US-based retail major and has undertaken multiple roles, namely software developer, production support executive and business analyst. His strong analytical and leadership skills helped him play a crucial role in the project, where he was one of the youngest team leads. After his first year at IIM and his summer internship, he has developed a keen interest in finance. § Core Member- Elixir, the CSR club of IIM Trichy § Student Representative- IT Committee of IIM Trichy § Regional qualifier of Philips Blueprint competition, 2013 § Winner of “Bravo Award” and “Star of the Learners Group” award at TCS § Winner of multiple awards during technical and cultural festivals of SASTRA University Summer Internship: Basket Option Pvt Ltd Keshav worked on the development of “Financial and Risk Planner” and “Financial Fitness Card” for insurance and portfolio management clients of the company. These templates are utilized for training the business associates and assessing the level of services to be provided for clients in each vertical. He also worked on process improvement and the upgrading of IT systems for the retail insurance department of the company. He developed business plans and sales presentations for “Liability Insurance” and “Business Network Associates” for expanding the company's business into new products and territories respectively. 2013-1

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Jacob Chacko B.Tech, Information Technology, VIT University

Meenakshy Ramachandran B.E, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Mumbai University,

25 Years Work Experience: 33 Months, Bank of America (28 months), Lister Technologies (5 months)

Jacob led teams in the e-marketing and Health Care projects that he worked on at Lister Technologies, which resulted in increased business with the client. At Bank of America he coordinated critical data migration, and handled the database applications monitoring Bank of America's technology infrastructure. § Core member of Quizzotica, the quiz club at IIM Trichy § Winner in Table Tennis, Runner-up in Badminton at Sangram 2013, Inter-IIM sports meet § Won i-Write 2013, essay writing competition conducted by IIM Indore § Received awards for outstanding contribution to projects at Bank of America § Instrumental in the expansion of a start-up through Technology Business Incubation at VIT, Vellore Summer Internship: Citibank India N.A. Jacob worked in the Global Consumer Banking Division at Citibank. He dealt with front-end channel transactions and declines that occur in the process. Analysis was done from a compliance and profitability impact point of view, with NPCI bank reports used as reference, and measurements done using various metrics. The project work extended to interactions with the senior management on identifying solutions to optimize the current process being used.

25 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai

Meenakshy, a trained carnatic singer, has worked as a Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services for three years. She was responsible for providing end to end solutions to the client which involved requirements-gathering, designing, developing and testing software modules. She also actively participated in inducting new recruits into the team and appraising their performance. § Sponsorship Co-ordinator, Arcturus - School Festival, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Core Member, Swara -the musical club of IIM Trichy § Awarded 'Star of the Learners Group', 2010 and 'Best Team', 2012 at TCS § Chairperson, Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers-Student's Chapter, K.J.Somaiya college of Engineering, 2009-10 § Member, Organizing committee, ABHIYANTRIKI-2009 at K.J.Somaiya college of Engineering Summer Internship: Cognizant Business Consulting- Consumer Goods Meenakshy's work involved understanding the digital transformation that is happening in the Retail and Consumer Goods Companies by leveraging the commercial potential of the ever increasing supply of information about customers' behaviors, needs, and wants. She used these customers' digital footprints to suggest innovative and relevant ways to improve digital customer engagement in Retail and Consumer Goods. She was involved in developing methods of social sensing for forecasting & replenishment, right pricing with social insights, mobility & insights for a hyper-efficient & smart supply chain network, and digital convergence to provide exceptional, personalized, and consistent customer experience.

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Mohit Kumar Jetly B.Tech, Power Engineering, National Power Training Institute, Badarpur, GGSIPU

Pavani Majety B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, J.N.T.U. Kakinada

26 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Hindalco Industries Ltd .Renusagar Power Division

Mohit worked as a Senior Engineer – Boiler Maintenance during his stint at Hindalco Industries. He worked at the Thermal Power Plant at Renusagar Power Division. His major responsibilities included planning, supervision, implementation & control of preventive, predictive and overhauling maintenance of high pressure boilers. He brings with him a different flavour of experience from the heavy industry. He was nominated for Pride Awards at business level for his consistent performance. § Member of the F & B Committee at IIM Tiruchirappalli § Member of Persona - the HR & OB Club at IIM Tiruchirappalli § Worked as a volunteer for “Arcturus” - The Annual B-fest of IIM Tiruchirappalli § Participated in 'CHESS competition' at V Annual Inter College Sports Meet 2008-2009 conducted at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University § Participated in 'FASHION PARADE' at 10th Annual Cultural Festival “ANUGOONJ-2009” conducted at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Summer Internship: Emami Ltd. Mohit worked in the rural marketing and sales segment for Navratna Cool Oil Brand. He was responsible for the monitoring, supervision, co-ordination, measurement and market research of 'Below the Line' marketing campaign of Navratna Oil and Navratna Extra thanda Oil in Patna -Muzaffarpur region where he gained extensive knowledge about the BTL activities. He gained valuable insights about the working of the distribution network of Navratna brand and bottlenecks in its marketing campaign. He also got a chance to study the rural consumer behaviour in the field and made recommendations for overall efficiency improvement.

26 Years Work Experience: 38 Months, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Pavani worked as a Test Application Engineer and specialized in banking and financial services domain in T.C.S for more than 3 years. She closely worked with Business Analysts in understanding critical business requirements and delivered high performance which won her accolades from clients and industry peers. Apart from this, she excelled in academics and won many merit certificates. § Class Representative for PGP 2013-2015 Batch at IIM Tiruchirappalli. § Certified Six Sigma green belt. § Received Certificate of Merit for being topper of Section B in Term II § Received GOLD MEDAL for academic excellence in Mechanical Engineering Department J.N.T.U. Kakinada § Awarded as best outgoing student of 2005-2009 batch in J.N.T.U. Kakinada and received Annual Merit Awards, Proficiency Certificates, and Scholarships during her Bachelors Summer Internship: Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Pavani worked on exploring the technical trainings conducted in L&T and crafted strategic options and initiatives to overcome the existing limitations. Her work included collection, market research, analysis and categorization of more than 200 training programmes conducted in L&T. She also developed new feedback systems for training evaluation.

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Nair Shrijith R B.Tech, Applied Electronics and Instrumentation, Mahatma Gandhi University

Pradeep Kidambi B.Tech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad

26 Years Work Experience: 37 Months, Tata Consultancy Services

Shrijith worked as a Systems Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services, where he designed and developed software applications for a US credit card major. He was part of the team that maintained the code and provided technical support to the client, which had the highest client satisfaction rating to its credit. He is also an active blogger and has been a part of social media marketing campaigns by prominent brands. § Won 3rd place in 'MARCOPOLIS'-A National level Marketing competition at NMIMS, Bangalore § Worked on a live project for 'PikSpeak' to increase the awareness and interest about the product § Awarded 'Certificate of Appreciation' from the Vice President of a large US Payment Cards company for excellence in service delivery § Got published in @TCS magazine, an internal magazine for TCS § Published in Technofirst magazine, which provides placement guidance to engineers Summer Internship: Garuda Vaayu Shakti Ltd Shrijith was assigned a project to segment the Wind Turbine Industry in India, and develop a strategy for the company to adopt to target customers for the turbines, by analysing the strategic fit between a product and the customer. This project involved meeting the current and prospective clients of Garuda Vaayu to understand the requirements of the customer and analyse the secondary data from the Wind Power Directory and other analyst reports pertaining to the wind industry. The segmentation involved analysis based on the power requirements of the various sectors and their profitability and also the desire to implement green power. Shrijith also analysed the competition in each of the product segments of Garuda Vaayu.

25 Years Work Experience: 33 Months, Robert Bosch

Pradeep has a rich domestic and international experience in automotive electronics, having worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Robert Bosch, where he led a team working on software integration for VW. An ardent public speaker and singer, he has performed several times on stage, anchored and organized several events and managed many volunteer organizations. § Member of the Cultural committee, Alumni Cell &Swara(Music club of IIM Trichy) and Organizer of Tedx& HR Conclave at IIM Trichy. § Held the positions of Vice-President of Bosch Speakers club, Core coordinator of Bosch cultural club, Editor of Dept. Newsletter, Member of Bosch CSR and World Vision India. § Re-established and re-branded a dormant speech and debate club of IIM Trichy - Podium. § French Language (A1) and Six sigma Green belt holder § Winner of Sales, Consulting events and Operations article writing contests at Arcturus, IIM Trichy Summer Internship: Emami Ltd Pradeep was responsible for monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of BTL activities undertaken by Emami for Navratna Oil , including the Door to Door sales and Haat van sales, in the rural towns of Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. His operations included extensive travelling to different markets, study of competitor prices and trade schemes, conducting market research across more than 50 households, holding focus group discussions with the promoters and interviewing third party agencies. In his report, he highlighted the loopholes of existing BTL activities and suggested alternatives. He also spotted the market opportunities, tracked the unmet needs of female consumers and recommended new product development.

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Reeti Joshi B.Tech, Information Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Samuel Pradeep C M.Sc (Hons.), Chemistry; B.E (Hons.), Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani

26 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Tata Steel

Reeti was a part of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) development team for the 3 million ton - Thin Slab Caster expansion project. She has also worked on the design, development and integration of IT supply chain solutions for the Flat Products Division, Tata Steel. § Recipient of Director's Merit Award for academic excellence at IIM Trichy § Successfully completed a live project with Reckitt Benckiser for identifying a new distribution channel for OTC products § Finalist,“Brazuca” – Operations simulation and case based event at LIBA, Chennai § Runners-up, Women's Throwball at Sangram - Inter-IIM Sports meet § Runners-up, State Level Junior (Under 19) Basketball Championship Summer Internship: Mahindra & Mahindra Reeti implemented Dynamic Buffer Management (DBM) for improving the raw material inventory mix across multiple manufacturing facilities of the farm division. The implementation included development of inventory classification norms and proposing a model for target inventory calculation. She also conducted a study to identify the future scope of KANBAN implementation and the possibility of extending DBM to suppliers.

26 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Elecon Engineering (6 months, Radicon USA)

Samuel has a rich experience of working in Strategy, Project and Operational roles, both in India and the USA. He handled multiple projects while working in the 'Strategic Business Cell' of Elecon Engineering, reporting directly to the company's Director. During this time, he was also sent to setup the North American distribution operations of Elecon. He is dynamic and multi-faceted with extracurricular interests including song-writing, music, blogging, astronomy, design, amateur radio etc. § Core Member, Consulate (Consulting Club of IIM Trichy) § Team Member, Alumni Relations- IIM Trichy § Member, Swara (Music Club of IIM Trichy) § Events Co-ordinator, Chemistry Association (2007-08) BITS Pilani § Organizing team, International conference on interface of chemistry-biology in biomedical research (2008) Summer Internship: KPMG Samuel interned in the Strategy & Operations division of KPMG Advisory Services Pvt Ltd. As part of the internship, he worked on projects for clients in domains such as Oil & Gas, Automobiles, FMCG, Pharmaceuticals and HSE. The projects spanned the areas of strategy execution, logistics & warehousing and enterprise valuation improvement.

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Saketh G B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, SASTRA University

Santosh K L N B.E, Electronics and Communication Engineering, MVSR Engineering College, Hyderabad

24 Years Work Experience: 34 Months, Infosys Limited

Saketh was a part of the Education & Research department which handles the training and continuous competency building activities cross all the verticals of Infosys. His key responsibilities include session delivery on ERP package, SAP – ABAP batch, management activities, joining formalities, induction program, planning and execution of domain specific trainings and allocation of base locations He was also involved in batch management activities for about 1000 management graduates recruited for the role of Associate Consultant.

§ Awarded with BRAVO award in Infosys Limited for stellar contribution to the Unit. § Secured Distinction in B.Tech ( Electronics and Communication) § Member, Arcturus-Annual Business festival committee at IIM Trichy § Finalist, Last Manager Standing, Marketing Strategy competition by MICA § Finalist, Crusade - Adverb, Marketing case study by NMIMS Mumbai Summer Internship: Emami Limited Saketh worked in the rural marketing and sales segment for Navratna Cool Oil Brand. He was responsible for Retail Market Survey, Customer Surveys in Hyderabad for the launch of a new cool hair oil where he gained extensive knowledge about the Sales and Marketing activities. He had valuable insights into the working of the distribution network of Navratna brand and bottlenecks in the marketing campaign. He also got a chance of studying urban consumer behaviour in the field and made recommendations for new hair oil launch

25 Years Work Experience: 34 months, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Santosh worked as a Software Engineer I in Cognizant Technology Solutions in the Manlog Vertical for Invensys Rail Sentinels and Field Devices. His roles included Software Development, System Analysis and Customer Relationship Management. As a System Analyst, he was accountable to various business operations to achieve cost-effective production with increased quality, efficiency and satisfied customer service. § Lean Six Sigma green belt certified § Won various business competitions- 1st prize in Nokia Odyssey, a national level case study event conducted by Nokia and IIM Calcutta; 2nd prize in Consulting Czars, national level case study event conducted by IIM Trichy § Was awarded Darya-e-Noor award (Delivery Excellence) for 2013 Q1 for his contribution towards the project § Student of the Institute of Actuaries of India § Won First Prize for Paper Presentation on "Image Analysis on Iris Recognition" at an International Technical Fest conducted by BITS Pilani in 2009 Summer Internship: Prequate Consultants Private Ltd. Santosh worked as part of the Strategic Consulting division of the firm .He worked on a project in Investment Banking domain and prepared financial models, investment memorandum for a printer to raise capital for the production and launch of a next generation mobile printer. He was also part of a project on devising Merger and Acquisition strategy of a reputed national HR journal and was involved in valuation of its business. He also played a role in exploring mergers and acquisition opportunities for the HR Journal firm.

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Prakhar Singh B.E, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Pune

Prashant Sai A B.E, Electronics and Communication, Andhra University

26 Years Work Experience: 35 Months, TCS (27 Months), Alpha Engineering and Systems (8 Months)

Prakhar was a QA Analyst for an American Bank at TCS. His role there was that of a Module Lead. He was responsible for eliciting and understanding client requirements by regularly interacting with them. Prakhar was also responsible for the timely implementation of changes in the client application from offshore, some of which resulted in huge cost savings for the customer. Prior to TCS, he worked as an Automation Engineer at Alpha Systems and Engineering. § Member- B School Fest Committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Successfully completed a live project on 'Budget and Financial allocations' for Savegenie E-Marketing Pvt. Ltd § Received 'On the Spot' award for exceptional performance on a client implementation project at TCS in April, 2012 and October, 2012 § Runner up at State Level Circuit Debugging Competition, 2009 § NCC 'A' Level Certificate and State Level Boxing Champion Summer Internship: Explico Consulting Private Limited Prakhar worked as an analyst on various aspects of financial consulting. He analysed the Automotive Component Industry in India and performed business valuation of a subject firm using different valuation methodologies. Prakhar also worked on financial modeling and business valuation for two technology start-ups and a firm from the plastic industry. He was also actively involved in various other live assignments related to different aspects of financial consulting like mergers, private equity and arbitration. During his internship, Prakhar regularly interacted with the clients to develop an understanding of their business model and the industry as a part of his assignments.

25 Years Work Experience: 33 months, Tata Consultancy Services

As a systems engineer at TCS, Prashant worked for Citibank on a Real Estate Lending (REL) project. His role in the project was that of a Module lead where, through regular client interactions; he was responsible for ensuring timely deliveries. He was also the Resource Management Lead where his work included gathering the latest project documents from the client and organising knowledge transfer sessions for the entire team. He was also a member of the quick response team designed for projects having very less delivery time and requiring immediate attention.

§ Awarded the 'TCS GEMS' by TCS for outstanding contribution in project work § Successfully completed the International Software Testing Qualifications Board

(ISTQB) Foundation level certification § Won 1st Prize for paper presentation at QUARK2K9- National Level Technical Festival § Active member of Lions Club International, a voluntary organization, since 2010 Summer Internship: RashtriyaIspat Nigam Limited Prashant worked in the area of Corporate Finance and Strategy. He was involved in the financial analysis of a green energy project that the organization wished to implement as a part of its expansion activities. His activities involved performing data analysis, sensitivity analysis and the application of theoretical frameworks to check the whether the project meets the required criteria for implementation. He was also responsible for suggesting improved means of implementing the project to make the project more financially attractive. 2013-1

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Prasenjit Debnath B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Durgapur

Prem Prasoon Dwivedi B.Tech, Safety and Fire Engineering, Cochin University Kerala

27 Years Work Experience: 38 months, Logica (30 months), Fiserv (8 months)

As a software developer, Prasenjit was involved in developing web application in co-insurance and insurance domain. It involved working closely with clients at onsite location. He has submitted an innovation report at Logica on reducing carbon footprint. An avids sports lover and follower, Prasenjit has taken part in various sports competitions and won accolades in many. He listens to various genres of music and has a diploma in Rabindra Sangeet, a music form pertaining to Bengal. § Member of Placement Committee, IIM Trichy § Co-Founder of an initiative called “Barefeet Revolution” that aims to revive football in India and empower underprivileged youth through football, 2013. He also organized a football tournament in association with Stairs for underprivileged youth at Delhi in April 2013 § Submitted an innovation report at Logica on reducing carbon footprint by altering the way a Xerox machine and printer works, 2011 § Part of the winning team of a Corporate Football Tournament, 2010 § Appreciation mail for the thorough analysis of work done during a short term project on Vodafone Tower Management for Vodafone client Summer Internship: Kshatriya Sports Pvt. Ltd. Prasenjit worked as a business development intern with Kshatriya Sports Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. He developed sponsorship proposals as well as market entry proposals for Inter Milan Football Academy in Bangalore and Inter Milan Cafe&Bars in India. He also pitched for sponsorships to prospective sponsors and helped Kshatriya Sports in getting a suitable sponsorship for their Academy. He also looked after the operational part of undertaking the event on the schedule date by actively participating in organizing and promoting the event across Bangalore.

24 Years Work Experience: 35 Months, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)

Prem has worked at Paradip Refinery Project, IOCL's single largest investment in India, where he handled materials purchase and service contracts. He was responsible for technical evaluation of tenders, was part of price negotiation team and placing final orders on SAP He has experience in project monitoring & control and has coordinated project activities and work progress with. consultants, contractors & IOCL project departments. § Secretary of Cultural committee and Member of Student Council at IIM Trichy § Finalist in "Goal Seek" and "Consultant Czar” inter b-schools competition conducted by Loyola institute of business academy, Chennai and IIM Trichy respectively § Paper Presentation at National Convention of Chemical Engineers on “Quantitative Risk Analysis of Chlorine release in Chloro- Alkali Plant” § Executive member of Cochin University Placement Cell § Secured First Prize in Western Group Dance at University Arts Fest of Cochin University Summer Internship: Basket Options Pvt. Ltd. Prem worked in Investment Banking division of Basket Option Pvt. Ltd. He was responsible for industry and market analysis of client's business proposals, meeting clients and preparing comprehensive business reports. He performed financial valuation of four different firms varying across sectors like e-commerce, education & data analytics. He also prepared the business plan positioning and Go-to-Market Strategy of a new business under Basket Option.

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Sathish Prabahar T B.E, Computer Science, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai

Saurabh Patel B.E, Mechanical, Pune University

25 Years Work Experience: 36 Months, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Sathish possesses 3 years of experience in Software Development as a Programmer Analyst in Cognizant Technology Solutions. Has been a part of three different projects in Insurance domain and played an integral part in the timely development and delivery. Has always been a dedicated and consistent performer. § Scored Centum in Mathematics in Higher secondary board exam § Awarded as "Star Recruit" at Cognizant Technology Solutions § Worked as a module lead in two projects § Certified in AINS 021 – Property and Liability Principles (USA) § Organizing Member and Coordinator of Abacus'10 - Annual Technical symposium conducted by Department of Computer Science, Anna University - Chennai Summer Internship: United Biscuits Pvt. Ltd. Sathish was involved in exploring the opportunities for United Biscuits' McVities in Institutional Channels (CPC, CSD, Railways and Industries). He was responsible for generating a purchase order of 6 lakhs during the 2 month internship period from CPC. He was also involved in exploring new opportunities involving industries which procure biscuits for their factory employees .Sathish was responsible for meeting with the commercial manager for registration of the product in railways and meeting with distributors for sales in southern railways zone. Sathish has studied the consumer behaviour and then given recommendations for the improvement of sales as well as increasing the brand awareness.

26 Years Work Experience: 33 months, L&T-MHI Boilers Pvt. Ltd.

During his stint at L&T, Saurabh Patel was responsible for an end-to-end order management for non-pressure parts for boilers. He was also involved in vendor development and co-ordination with various departments while ensuring proper execution and timely delivery. In recognition of his outstanding performance, he was adjudged the top performer for the year 2011-12. § Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified § Member - Placement Committee of IIM Trichy § Successfully completed ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor Training Program § Black Belt in Karate with 6 years rigorous training from a government recognized body § Member of the 20 member team selected to represent Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune at a National Level Automobile Event, Sae Baja, 2010- A National Level Automobile Event Summer Internship: TVS Srichakra Private Ltd. (TVS Tyres) Saurabh worked to suggest measures inorder to improve the overall equipment effectiveness of the Rudrapur Manufacturing Plant of TVS Srichakra Ltd in order to increase output. He worked closely with various departments in order to identify losses, non-value added activities and bottlenecks at various stages of manufacturing. He also studied the factors responsible for worker fatigue and loss of worker efficiency. Having identified the key issues, he suggested counter measures for the same.

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Satyashil Rangare B.E, Electronics and Communication Engineer, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi

Shashi Bhushan Pandey B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology

27 Years Work Experience: 37 Months, IBM Global Business Services

Satyashil worked as a Senior Systems Engineer in IBM for 37 months. He managed the Taxonomy Project for different business units in IBM GBS and worked on different roles on various technologies during his tenure in IBM. He is also experienced in content management and development, data processing, managing and analyzing data. § Member of Persona - HR and OB Club of IIM Trichy § Top rating in IBM for the year 2012 § Taxonomy Lead – Managed the IBM Global Taxonomy project for business units with 4 team members § Secured 2nd Position in the School with 81% of marks in PCM in SSC Board Exam in 2004 § Secured 1st position in school in class 11th Summer Internship: Simplify360 Satyashil worked with the Marketing and Research team of Simplify360. He created a detailed plan for marketing the product over the social media channels and was successful in generating traffic for simplify360. He also worked on preparing reports on the social media analysis of Indian elections, publishing blogs on topics from a marketing perspective, and created a sales pitch for e- commerce players like Jabong. He worked with the technical team to understand the sentiment analysis done on tweets. During his stint with simplify360, he completed the industry analysis on social media strategies adopted by different players in airlines, e- commerce and automobile industry in USA. The analysis report will be published by the Company. Along with this, he also published reports on the Automobile industry, Indian elections and the Slogan war and also conducted a market research to understand how Youth in India are using Twitter.

26 Years Work Experience: 33 Months, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Shashi has worked as a programmer analyst with Cognizant Technology Solutions in banking and financial services domain with American Express as his client. His responsibilities included understanding business requirement, creating test deliverables and providing quality assurance. He has received rave client review for his outstanding commitment and dedication towards work. § Received 'High Flyer of the month' recognition certificate in Cognizant for outstanding performance and exceptional commitment in project § Received excellent client feedback for outstanding project work § Achieved 25th rank in 10th Uttar Pradesh state board examination § Finalist at 'Goal Seek' a finance event at Chrysalis-Management Fest organised by Loyola Institute of Business Management Summer Internship: DCB Bank During his internship with DCB Bank, Shashi worked on several facets of Retail Banking. This includes conducting market survey, performing competitive analysis to understand banking needs and business proposal creation for educational institution. He carried out brand building campaign and sponsorship value analysis to increase DCB Bank's brand awareness in the health care industry. In addition, He also created a framework for bank operation optimization to increase customer satisfaction level based on customer survey.

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Shristhi Khaitan B.E, Computer Science and Engineering, M.N.M Jain Engineering College

Sunil Kumar M N B.E, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Erode

25 Years Work Experience: 37 months, Infosys Limited.

Shristhi's role in Infosys was that of an offshore coordinator. Her responsibilities included middleware integration development, support and maintenance. Her dedication and quality of work has won her many accolades from the senior management and clients. Her interests include crafting and she is an avid reader. She has completed level 1 (A1 DELF certification) in French language § Women's Secretary, IIM Tiruchirapalli. § Member of Student Council, IIM Tiruchirapalli § Certified six sigma green belt, Trichy, 2014 § Qualified for round 2 in Manthan, a national level contest for innovative ideas for critical challenges in India § Event head and Executive member of the organizing committee, Avalanche '09, Chennai. Summer Internship: Visteon Automotive Systems India (P) Ltd. Shristhi worked in optimizing the supply chain activities at Visteon, thereby reducing the delay in delivery of products to customers. In her project, she restructured the internal supply chain management to help the company leverage their resources optimally. Also, she identified the drawbacks in the rating mechanisms and proposed a new vendor rating mechanism to make the rating system transparent and uniform. She worked on analyzing the root causes for incorrect data entries in the ERP system and suggested improvements. Apart from this, she was involved in the daily planning and procurement activities

24 Years Work Experience: 34 Months, Infosys Limited

Sunil worked as a Senior Systems Engineer in Infosys Limited where he was involved in requirement gathering, coding and testing activities of a development project for Boeing. He held the responsibility of a module lead in his project. § Core Member- Elixir, The CSR club of IIM Trichy. § Core Member- SigmaEta, The operations club of IIM Trichy § Committee member, HR conclave 2013, IIM Trichy § Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified § Secured third place in case study competition conducted by NIT Trichy in association with Suguna chicken Summer Internship: TTK Prestige Sunil interned with TTK Prestige in developing a digital marketing campaign for their brand. His work entailed primary research and competitor analysis in 2 states across a period of two months. As a part of the company's website revamp, he compared all the e- commerce and brand websites of the competitors to study the buying guides, product description and shopping benefits provided by them. Finally, he had to statistically evaluate options and devise a digital media strategy for the brand. His project was very important as the company plans to spend around Rs. 30-40 crore for their digital media campaign.

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Siddhartha Mondal B.E, Information Technology, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur

Sunit Bhaurao Sakharkar B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, NIT Durgapur

25 Years Work Experience: 35 months, Tata Consultancy Services

Siddhartha has been a consistent performer with a good balance of academics and co-curricular activities throughout his career. He has worked for Tata Consultancy Services as an application developer for different business domains such as Banking & Financial Services, Insurance and Capital Investment for reputed international clients namely American Express, Experian, GE and Royal Skandia. § Member, Cultural committee, IIM Trichy § Held important roles in 4 different projects in TCS § Contributed to CSR activities while being in TCS and received gold certificate for the same § Active participant in REBECA, 2010, Cultural fest of Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur § Completed 5000 meters high altitude trek at Roopkund Lake, Uttarakhand Summer Internship: Basket Option Pvt. Ltd. Siddhartha interned with Basket Option Pvt Ltd, which is a fast growing start-up company based in Bangalore. He worked to formulate the strategy for the company to start a pan-India Insurance broking business. His other activities included planning for an IT-enabled platform to improve the work efficiency of the businesses the company ran and formulating a comprehensive strategy for a new business model, which would help Basket Option leverage its customer base for diversifying its business.

27 Years Work Experience: 33 months, Stone India Limited

Sunit worked as Deputy Manager-Sales and Service (West) in Stone India Limited where he was primarily involved in dealing with field related customer issues and handling the sales as well as service issues of Indian Railways in western region. He was also involved in conducting the successful trial and services of new brake system in western region of Indian Railways. § Part of TEDx team at IIM, Trichy § Participated in National level competition NITMUN 2009 Security Council held at NIT, Durgapur § Member of Mechanical Engineering Students Association at NIT, Durgapur § Best Youth Parliamentarian position of the event “6th National Youth Parliament” for session

2001-2002 Summer Internship: TVS Srichakra Ltd. As a part of the marketing department of TVS - Chennai, Sunit worked on the project “Creative concepts for communication” which enhanced the ongoing work of the TVS tyres to create brand awareness in the minds of customers. For this, primary research was conducted by visiting different markets to study how various brands are projecting themselves across the target groups. The secondary research involved quantitative analyst reports and web based research.

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Suryawanshi Harshad B.E, Computer Science, RAIT Nerul - Mumbai University

Thomas Greefin Franco J B.A, English, University of Madras

25 Years Work Experience: 36 months - Inscripts (18 months), ZycusInfotech (18 months)

Harshad worked as a Software Engineer (PHP) at ZycusInfotech where he was an integral part of the engineering team developing B2B solutions in the e-Procurement domain. Prior to this, he worked as a Team Leader at Inscripts India Pvt. Ltd. His interpersonal skills played a major role in carrying out his responsibilities which involved managing a team of 10 software engineers and interacting with international clients. § Member of Students' Council and Secretary of the IT committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Cleared FLIP certification exam of 'Finance and Banking Fundamentals' in Dec 2013 § A1 diploma in French language certified by French National Education Ministry § Worked on making a market entry strategy for a niche e-commerce firm as part of a live project with BizResearchLabs § Was adjudged the “Employee of the Month” at Inscripts India Pvt. Ltd in the month of March 2011 Summer Internship: FCB Ulka Advertising Harshad worked in a Client Servicing and Strategic Planning role. He was a part of the Client Servicing team managing the Tata Motors account. He conducted primary market research in the form of 'Mystery Shopping' across 107 showrooms of 14 car brands across Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai to analyse various factors affecting the consumer's experience at a dealership and provide recommendations to Tata Motors for improving their dealership experience thereby increasing sales. He was involved in planning of promotional activities for launching two new cars of Tata Motors - Zest and Bolt. He also conducted primary research and analysis for the preparation of a sales pitch for a leading whiskey manufacturer, a multinational tyre brand and a tea manufacturing company (Names of these clients' withheld on company's request)

26 Years Work Experience: 38 months, Tata Consultancy Services e-Serve Limited

Franco is a school topper and he was featured in a national and a local daily for securing state rank in the Tamil Nadu Science Talent Search Examination. At T.C.S. e-Serve Ltd., his responsibilities included mentoring and nurturing new Associates as a Subject Matter Expert. § Infrastructure Secretary, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Member - Students' Council, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Best outgoing student academically, 2005 - Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Chennai. § Assistant School Academic Secretary - Don Bosco, Chennai § Topper Gold - Group International General Knowledge Test, 2003 conducted by the International Literary Club, Hyderabad Summer Internship: Lapiz Digital Services Franco's primary role was to identify new business opportunities in the outsourcing space for Lapiz and design a marketing strategy to acquire new clients in the identified segment. He was also instrumental in taking forward Lapiz's foray into the mobile application development market. The company implemented his suggestions for developing apps in the B2B space. He has attained invaluable experience through interaction with the senior management of Lapiz and by meeting clients across various domains.

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Tauseef Salam Bari B.E, Electrical and Electronics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal 28 Years Work Experience: 36 Months, Tata Consultancy Services

Tauseef worked as a Systems Engineer and handled various projects for reputed US firms in Financial Services and Semiconductors domain. His responsibilities included interacting with clients, understanding their business requirements, developing codes to fulfill the business needs and supporting the business functions pertaining to them. § As a member of B-Fest Committee was involved in planning ,coordinating and successfully organizing Arcturus 14 ,The National Level Annual B-Fest of IIM Trichy § Represented IIM Trichy from the south zone at the Philips Annual Challenge - Blueprint, 2013 § Received 'TCS Gems' as an appreciation for outstanding contribution to the organization § Won 2nd prize in paper presentation competition at Promethean 2K8 ,National level tech-fest of BVRIT ,Hyderabad and at Techtatva 07, National Level Tech Fest of MIT, Manipal § Received Appreciation Letter from The Director of Manipal Institute Of Technology for organizing the Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Divas at MIT Manipal in association with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sources, Government of India Summer Internship: Prequate Consultants Private Ltd. As a part of the Strategic Consulting division of the firm, Tauseef worked on a project in Investment Banking domain wherein he prepared financial models and investor memorandum for a printer company to raise capital for the production and launch of a next generation mobile printer. Moreover, he was part of another project which involved devising Merger and Acquisition strategy of a reputed national HR journal and was involved in the valuation of its business. He also played a role in exploring mergers and acquisition opportunities for the HR Journal firm.

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Akshata S Nadagoudar B.E, Electronics and communication, Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum

Emil P Thomas B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, University of Calicut

27 Years Work Experience: 44 months, Infosys Limited

During her stint at Infosys – Education and Research unit, Akshata trained new entrants in IT, scheduled sessions and assessments for the batches, mentored interns and developed course materials. Later, as a part of the manufacturing unit at Infosys she worked for major clients like Apple which demonstrated her proficiency in technical and interpersonal skills. § Member of Placement Committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli. § Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and SCJP § Finalist in National level operations simulation and case based event - “Brazuca” by LIBA,Chennai § Received MFG WOW award for 2 quarters in a year for contribution towards manufacturing unit in Infosys § Final year graduation project titled “Voice Operated Intelligent Wheel Chair” was selected and sponsored by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology Summer Internship: Basket Option Pvt. Ltd. Akshata worked on the New Product Development of a game on stock market trading which included idea generation, concept development and beta-testing. She also conducted market research, collected quotations and samples and worked on other technical implementations. Moreover, she prepared a complete marketing plan for the product as well as development plans for next version of the game.

27 Years Work Experience: 46 Months, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

Emil worked in the Bulk Material Handling Division of engineering major Larsen and Toubro Ltd. He was involved in Procurement, Project planning and Site Execution functions for various thermal power plants for public and private clients across the country. § Director's Merit List, IIM Tiruchirappalli - 2014 § Core member of Quizzotica, The Quiz club of IIM Trichy § Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified § Campus Winner and South Zone Regional Qualifier – Deloitte Maverick 2013 case study business acumen contest § Rated as Top Performer and selected as Management trainee at Larsen & Toubro. Summer Internship: TVS Srichakra Private Ltd. (TVS Tyres) Emil did his summer internship at TVS Srichakra Ltd., in an operations profile. As part of the project, he was able to obtain an overall view of the tyre manufacturing industry including the various processes involved. His project involved suggesting measures to improve the Overall Equipment Effectiveness of the Rudrapur Manufacturing division of TVS tyres. He was able to identify bottlenecks in production and other non value adding activities & suggest counter-measures.

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Anushya R. S B.E, Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University

Eswar Sunil Kumar B B.Tech, Biotechnology, Andhra University

25 Years Work Experience: 48 Months, Infosys Limited

Anushya worked as a Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys Limited and gained exposure in developing web applications. She was primarily involved in Requirements Analysis, Client Interfacing, Developing new modules and enhancing the existing ones. § Won the FSI (Financial Services and Insurance) unit level 'INSTA AWARD' for being an outstanding performer for timely and efficient client delivery in 2013 § Member of Infrastructure Committee at IIM Trichy § Member of Computer Science Department's Editorial Board during under graduation. § Organized a National Level Technical Symposium – Cognition '08 during under graduation. § Secured First Place in a District Level Chess Tournament conducted by the Tirunelveli District Chess Association Summer Internship: Hidesign India Private Limited, Pondicherry. Anushya was involved in understanding the level of commitment among the sales executives of Hidesign's flagship store. She also developed a monthly performance evaluation system which can be used for quarterly reviews. The cumulative scores of the system were used in determining the performance based variable pay for employees and also in identifying the best performer in each administrative department.

25 Years Work Experience: 40 months, The Federal Bank Limited

Eswar has worked with The Federal Bank Limited as an Assistant Manager which helped him develop a very good understanding of retail banking with exposure to both the rural & urban areas. His responsibilities included marketing, strategy planning for timely achievement of targets and ensuring customer satisfaction. Also, Eswar is good at team building and organizing events. § Core Member of 11Megapixels, the photography and film making club of IIM Trichy § Awarded the title "Federal Ambassador" by Federal Bank for the exemplary customer service § Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers – certification by Indian Institute of Banking and Finance § Junior Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers – certification by Indian Institute of Banking and Finance § Student Convener – Biomical'09, a National Level Symposium conducted by Dept of Biotechnology, GITAM Summer Internship: DCB Bank Ltd, Hyderabad Region Eswar worked on a project related to alternate ways of banking which included market research to know customer's satisfaction levels on various alternate channels offered by the bank. As a part of the project, he interacted with approximately 500 customers of the Bank in the Hyderabad region and educated them about the benefits of using alternate channels. He identified the reasons for the low penetration of these services and made recommendations to the bank on the ways to improve the usage of these channels by the customers.

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Gourab Biswas B.E, Electronics and Communications, Techno India

Ila Nivedita B.Tech, Computer Science and Information Technology, MJP Rohilkhand University

26 Years Work Experience: 41 months, Infosys Limited

Gourab worked with the E-banking Team in Finacle, the banking software of Infosys and was involved in the creative designing of GUI components. He has also worked in the mobile platform and developed the GUI for Blackberry. Gourab has a very keen interest in photography. § Core member of Finvest - the Finance & Investment club and Podium - Literary & Debating club of IIM Trichy § Cleared FLIP certification exam of 'Finance and Banking Fundamentals' in Dec 2013 with a Badge of Excellence § Secured 86th rank and A+ grade in All India Mathematics and Science Test 2001-02. § Won the best speaker award in the Inter-College Paricharcha debate organized by BIM Trichy as a part of their flagship event Crescita '14 § Awarded 'Competent Leader' from Toastmasters International Summer Internship: Axis Bank, SME Division, Kolkata The internship involved the study of probable Non-Performing Asset accounts, identifying the reasons of stress and finally suggesting some preventive strategies which can thwart the assets from turning into NPAs. Multiple accounts from Small and Medium enterprise segment of Axis Bank were studied in detail. Their business models were understood and reasons for their deteriorating performance were found out. The problems in the accounts were analyzed and underlying reasons for such behaviour were figured out. Based on this analysis, some recommendations were provided which might help the bank prevent accounts from turning into NPAs and reduce the percentage of bad loans.

26 Years Work Experience: 43 Months, Infosys Limited

During her tenure in Infosys, Ila's responsibilities included auditing, compliance assurance, risk analysis, preparation of security guidelines and induction of new joinees in the team. Along with an excellent academic record, Ila has also organized and participated in various events and social causes in college and at Infosys § Received Director's Merit Award for academic excellence, IIM Trichy, 2014 § Qualified for round 2 in Manthan, a national level contest for innovative ideas for critical challenges in India § As a Core Member of IT committee at IIM Trichy , responsible for facilitating IIM Trichy with IT infrastructure § Member of SAATHI, the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) wing in Infosys Limited. § Received University's First order of merit, Gold medal Summer Internship: Doodleblue Innovations Private Limited Ila worked as a project manager at doodleblue. Her responsibilities included managing 7 external and 2 internal projects along with product reviews and project related research and development. She handled the planning, analysis and client interactions for these projects. The project also involved resource allocation activities as she managed a team of 10 members.

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Harshavardhan Y B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad

Jairaj Ns B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, NIT Surathkal Karnataka

26 Years Work Experience: 48 months, Infosys Limited

Harsha has worked on the design and development of software systems for clients in the energy sector. His responsibilities included architecture design, requirement gathering, defining quality metrics and compliance. He coordinated with multiple teams across geographies, managing requirement conflicts and backward compatibility. His interests include design, quizzing, photography and music. § The On The Spot Award for excellence in Infosys § Winner, Markopolis 2013, a marketing competition at NMIMS Bangalore § A1 DELF certification in French § Runner up at the Open Quiz at the University of Hyderabad Summer Internship: HCL Technologies Ltd. Harsha worked on exploring opportunities for HCL Technologies in the US Health Care insurance markets. This involved profiling companies, analyzing company strategy, financial analysis, IT landscape assessment and identifying opportunities for solution sales. He was also tasked with market research activities and identifying and implementing process improvements for better knowledge management.

27 Years Work Experience: 47 months, Hero MotoCorp

Jairaj worked with Hero MotoCorp(formerly Hero Honda) in their Vendor Development & Strategic Sourcing department of Materialsfunction. Joined as a GET, he was promoted to the post of a Deputy Manager and then as an Assistant Manager at the end of three years. During his tenure he was also appointed as Deputy Project leader and Project leader from Materialsfunction for various new projects (bikes). His major responsibilities included NPD, clean sheet/zero base costing for sheet metal/tubular parts, negotiation and cost settlement, commodity price settlement and price revisions for the vendors. § Qualified for round 2 in Manthan, a national level contest for innovative ideas for critical challenges faced by India, year 2013 § Part of the hockey team which secured second position in PHOENIX-2009, NIT Surathkal § NCC 'B' certificate, 'A' grade conducted by NCC Directorate Karnataka and Goa Bangalore under the Authority of Ministry of Defense, GOI-2005 § Part of School basketball team that won the All India Sainik Schools South Zone Meet and participated in All India Inter-zonal Basketball Championship in 2004 § Selected as NTSE (National Talent Search Examination) Scholar in the year 2002 Summer Internship: HCL Technologies Limited Jairaj interned with HCL in their Enterprise Application Services Line-Of-Business in Bangalore. His major responsibilities were performing an industry analysis of the vertical transport (elevator & escalator) industry following which he had to identify growth factors and future-markets that would drive the industry growth. He then had to analyse the need for future and trending solutions vis-à-vis the ERP solutions currently in use in order to recommend possible opportunities in both IT innovation and IT enablement for the industry.

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Kapil Paniker, 29 Bachelor of Engineering, NIT, Durgapur

Mahender Madikunta B.Tech (Hons), Production Engineering and Management, NIT Jamshedpur

29 Years Work Experience: 61 months, Cisco, Efi, Motorola

Kapil worked as a senior software developer with Cisco systems before joining IIM Trichy. He was the technical expert and lead engineer for the embedded event manager module(EEM). His responsibilities included requirement collection from the clients, design and development of new features and maintaining the profitability matrix for the product. He also interacted with cross functional teams and stakeholders of the product to ensure timely delivery and managed a team of two members directly. § Core member placement committee IIM Trichy § Co-author of technical paper published in IEEE, ISCC conference in Marrakech, 2008 § Represented IIM Trichy in Pool at an inter-IIM sports meet. § Chief coordinator - Transportation and hospitality committee of NIT Durgapur § Taught physics students at Ashwini Charitable Trust, an NGO in Bangalore Summer Internship: KnowledgeFaber, Bangalore Kapil worked as a business consultant at Knowledgefaber. He completed live talent supply mapping consulting project for a US software multinational where he analysed the Management talent supply pool market in Milan and Warsaw and came up with fresh, installed and alternate talent supply pool for the company. He also completed a live consulting project for the world's largest bearings manufacturer and did a benchmark study to identify existing solutions used by transport and logistics providers across the globe to identify and minimize transportation defects. He also wrote 2 commercial reports, one on the emerging trends in the IT paradigm, Internet of Things(IOT) and another one on Payment fraud security market potential in US.

27 Years Work Experience: 57 Months, Tata Consultancy Services

Mahender is hardworking and has actively participated in both Co/Extra Curricular activities in his academic career. He was promoted as an IT Analyst for his continued efforts in the company he worked for. Following are different domains and clients he worked with, in his IT Professional Career with Tata Consultancy Services - CTM (Telecom), Foxtel (Cable and Satellite Services), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (Telecom), and Apollo Bramwell Hospital (Health Care). § Winner of the Slogan Competition conducted as a Special Initiative during Road Safety Week on 20th December 2012 § Member of the Cultural and Dramatics Society club, in the field of Dance for the Session 2006-2007 § Received Pratibha Award for Excellence in SSC Examination -2002 Summer Internship: Eicher Tractors (A subsidiary of TAFE motors and tractors ltd) Mahender worked on developing the competency plan which involved redefining and remodelling the existing competency development plan of the company. His work included identifying, defining and describing different behaviours under the different proficiency levels of competencies identified in varied functions of the company. His work aimed at effective evaluation of employee skills, identifying skill gaps and assigning employees to relevant training programs for improvement.

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Kaushik R M.Sc., Electronic Media, College of Engineering, Guindy

Manjunath C B.E, Information Science and Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering

27 Years Work Experience: 48 months, Sign of Life Production (18 months), Vidhyalok Educational Services(30 months)

Kaushik worked as an Assistant Director in Sign of Life productions coordinating pre-production, film-making and post-production functions. He also worked for 30 months in Vidhyalok Educational Services, an online e-learning startup. He was primarily in charge of business development and sale of educational products across South India. He was also responsible for the web design and web development of www.vidhyalok.com. § Secured the second rank in school in both Accountancy and Economics in Std. XII CBSE Board Exams § Completed the Arena Animation Academy Specialist Program from Arena Multimedia, Aptech Ltd § Conducted design workshops as a core member of the Marketing & Advertising club of IIM Trichy § Awarded S.Viswanathan Silver Trophy for Best Comic Actor in a stage-play by the Mylapore Academy § Recipient of Form III for representing University Cricket team in the South Zone University Tournament Summer Internship: Reliance Broadcast Network Limited. Kaushik implemented a social media marketing campaign on Facebook for the brand “92.7 Big FM” during the Indian Premier League 2014 with a focus on the Chennai Super Kings team which included an online contest called “The BIG match player contest”, substantially increasing the engagement on 92.7 Big FM's Chennai page. He also designed a promotion plan for a new radio programme based on music director A.R.Rahman. The promotion plan included designing a logo, event launch, press release, advertising and publicity. The promotion strategy also included a digital marketing plan to make the show more popular with online audiences. The plan consisted of a live radio concert which was the first of its kind in any radio channel in Chennai.

26 Years Work Experience: 45 months, Fidelity Business Services (39 months), Infosys (6 months)

Manjunath worked as a Software Engineer at Fidelity on Trading, Research and Portfolio Management applications on the Fixed Income side of the house and has a good understanding about the workflow of these systems. He worked as a Systems Engineer Trainee at Infosys; trained on Finacle - a banking product of Infosys for customizing the product as per the client's requirement. § Received 'You Have Earned It 'Team Award for Developing REPO Cash Bricklet, which helps Repo traders to take fast and important investment decisions, in June, 2013 § Received 'You Have Earned It 'Team Award for successfully migrating Research and Portfolio Application to the new environment, in February, 2012 § Received 'On the Spot 'Individual Award for successfully migrating Research and Portfolio Application and for helping other GTE's in technical challenges, in November and February, 2011 § Participated in the 1st State Level Open Karate Championship 2002 § Winner and Runner up in many of the Individual and Team sports event in 10th Std Summer Internship: Prequate Consultants Private Ltd. Manjunath's responsibilities included research, analysis and development of business models and financial models for existing companies and new businesses with respect to Indian operating strategies and the regulatory environment around the same area. He prepared financial models and investor memorandum for a research & development firm in the biotechnology domain. He also played a role in equity restructuring of a research firm along with the valuation of their research project and explored merger and acquisition opportunities. In addition to this, performed the valuation of an IT services company. He also prepared a product portfolio rationalization plan for the IT services company.

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Prajwal N B.E, Electronics and Communication, VTU Belgaum

Raj Kumar A Y B.E, Computer Science, MIT, Anna University

26 Years Work Experience: 46 Months, Infosys (24 months) and Southern Structural Systems (22 months)

Prajwal has gained rich experience in both IT and Manufacturing industries. During his stint in Infosys, apart from developing technical expertise he was a major interface between clients and the offshore development team. Switching to the manufacturing industry he handled more than 10 projects spread across 5 cities in a span of 2 years. § Secured First prize out of 383 teams across 278 B-schools in the International level Mergers & Acquisitions competition in Confluence 2013 – the annual business summit of IIM Ahmedabad § Runners-up of the Operations case study event, pertaining to one of the largest FMCG companies in the country, organized by DoMS-IIT Madras during Samanvay 2013 § Certified with Lean Six Sigma Green Belt awarded by Benchmark Six Sigma § Benchmark Trailblaze Campus Winners (2013), a National case study event organized by Benchmark six sigma § Played cricket up to district level. Lifted several state level tournaments like BTR under his captaincy and was awarded best cricketer in prestigious tournaments Summer Internship: Cognizant Business Consulting Prajwal's role was to build a Value Proposition for Delivery Excellence in IT Services, which is one of Cognizant's internal Strategic Initiatives. It is an 8 quarter journey initiated by Cognizant to make delivery a sustainable competitive differentiator through excellence in people, process and platform capabilities. A Strategic & Non-technical messaging was built based on inputs from Cognizant's top management & through exhaustive competitor analysis. The deliverable would be used by the entire organization (more than 1.5 Lakh employees) and leveraged by BU heads to achieve Best In Class services

26 Years Work Experience: 44 months, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Raj Kumar worked as a Systems Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. His responsibilities included managing and transitioning of different shifts in a production support project and presenting periodical reports to the client on the performance of the team. As an active sportsperson, he has won several medals in team and individual events. § Member – Sports Committee IIM Trichy § Core Member – Matrix, Systems and Technology club of IIM Trichy § Outstanding performance award, On the Spot Award and Best Team award for his contributions at TCS § Completed ITIL Foundation Certification for IT Service Management § Presented a paper on "RFXFreeze - a non-queriable compressor for RFX storage structure" at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008). The paper also got published in the IEEEXPlore § Individual Championship in athletics in Intra-School competition (Higher Secondary) Summer Internship: HCL Technologies Ltd. Raj Kumar interned as Business Analyst in HCL's Health Care domain. During this tenure, he studied trends in mobile health (mHealth) apps and understood how they can be effectively utilized for providing improved care and services. He conceptualized and designed an mHealth app for creating awareness about low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) by simulating the experiences of hypoglycemic patients at different levels. He also conducted research on the new focus areas of Health Care payors to explore opportunities for the 'Payor/Provider Practices' team. 2013-1

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Rahul A B.E, Electronics and Communication, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Rathna Kireeti M B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy

27 Years Work Experience: 42 months, Health Asyst Pvt. Ltd.

Rahul worked as a Senior Developer in HealthAsyst Pvt Ltd, developing an integrated Electronic Health Records Application for one of the largest Health Care technology providers in the US (Allscripts Inc.) where he was responsible for interaction with end users, analyzing, offering total solutions, subsequent implementation and support. § He has represented Karnataka as a player in the 47th and 48th National School Games in cricket held at New Delhi during Dec, 2002 and Murshidabad, West Bengal during Jan, 2002 respectively. § He has also represented his school and colleges in various interstate and inter-collegiate tournaments. § He was a Student Representative in the editorial board of his Pre-University College. Summer Internship: Metis ERC India Pvt. Ltd. Rahul interned with Metis ERC (I) Pvt. Ltd where he was responsible for research, innovation and implementation of an Integrated Talent Management System which would be an End to End Talent Management System of solutions for different organization types and structures. The solution set included Workforce Planning, Assessment Centres, Performance Management, Succession Planning and Career Management. Each of the sections consisted of Process Documents, Workflow within each Solution and for the Overall System, Competency Maps with BARS applicable across the System, PMS Collateral – Critical Incident Forms, PMS Templates, Feedback Forms – 180 / 360 Degree and benchmarks & scorecards for Assessing the Talent

28 Years Work Experience: 59 Months, IOCL

Kireeti worked for IOCL where he was a member of the commissioning team of Residue Up-gradation Project, Vadodara Refinery. His responsibilities also included planning and monitoring the plant operations after commissioning and handling emergencies. He has a very good mix of academic achievements and extra-curricular activities. § Certified Energy Auditor, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power Government of India § Member of Placement Committee, IIM Tiruchirappalli § Campus Placement Coordinator, NITTrichy, for the year 2007-2008 § Placed in Director's Merit List (2013-2014) for academic excellence at IIM Tiruchirappalli § Member of 11 Megapixels, the photography club of IIM Tiruchirappalli Summer Internship: KPMG Kireeti worked with the Strategy & Operations team. He analyzed the Indian e-Commerce industry and developed a pitch-pack for KPMG India. He prepared a proposal for a mix-use land development project of a tourism organisation. He was also involved in preparing a growth strategy for an international hotel group and an Indian telecom firm.

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Rohan Pinge B.E, Computer Engineering, SGSITS, Indore

Vinodkrishnan C B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

26 Years Work Experience: 50 Months, Amdocs Development Center India

Rohan has worked as a Senior Subject Matter Expert at a leading telecom software product company. He has played a crucial role in conception, design and development for several production deployments of North American telecom service providers. His regular meetings with the clients and the Business Analysts have given him greater confidence to interact with customers. He is also an avid traveller and food enthusiast. § Core member of Consulate Club, the consulting club of IIM Trichy § Won silver medal in cricket in inter IIM annual sports meet “Sangram 2013” § Adjudged among the top 15 teams in “Manthan”, a nationwide youth competition § Received Letter of Recognition for his contributions as Quality Trustee at Amdocs towards organization's CMMi objective § Won Global Kaizen Award at Amdocs for innovative idea and its implementation Summer Internship: Prequate Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Rohan has worked in an investment banking and management-consulting firm, primarily focusing on providing world-class consultancy services to startups. During his stint at Prequate, he prepared financial models and investor memorandum for a research & development firm in biotech domain. He also played a role in its equity restructuring, along with the valuation of its research projects. He was also involved in exploring merger and acquisition opportunities for an IT services firm and its valuation.

27 Years Work Experience: 45 months, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Vinodkrishnan started his work as programmer analyst in Cognizant Technology Solutions. As a result of his exemplary efforts, he was soon promoted to an Associate. He has worked in the Health Care domain and his role was that of a developer in C\C++. He also took up roles like module lead and mentor for new joiners. He was among the top performers of the company. § Core member of Consulate- The consulting and strategy club of IIM Trichy § Core member of Quizzotica- The quizzing club of IIM Trichy § Third Prize, Markopolis 2013, a marketing competition at NMIMS Bangalore § House Captain in school § National level participant in ESPN School Sports Quiz Olympiad Summer Internship: Simplify360, Bangalore Vinodkrishnan worked with the Marketing and Sales team of Simplify360 on areas like identifying potential clients through the leads generated and in creating proposals as a part of Pre-sales activity. He also Worked with the Client Engagement Team on gathering product feedback from product users, preparing press releases, publishing blogs on latest product updates by the Tech Team, and also creating a detailed plan for Social Media Marketing and Analytics certification to be conducted by Simplify360. During his stint with simplify360 he completed industry analysis on social media strategies adopted by different players in the airline and retail banking industries in USA. Along with this he also worked with a Research team and Technical team on social media data analytics on topics like the Indian elections and IPL, and also conducted market research to understand how Youth in India are using Twitter. 2013-1

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Roshan Nampeli B.Tech, Computer Science, Kerala University.

Vineeth S Bachelor of Hotel Management, IHM Trivandrum

29 Years Work Experience: 40 months, Huawei India (31 months), Huawei China (9 months)

Roshan worked as a Senior Engineer with Huawei Technologies where he was involved in the development of several mobile telephony products. He had been entrusted with significant responsibilities and was also posted in China for a project takeover. There he was also involved in troubleshooting at various customer sites. He was awarded as the Best New Comer at the company annual awards function. § Part of the Director's merit list at the end of first year at IIM Trichy § Member of the student council and academic committee at IIM Trichy § Member of the football and tennis teams of IIM Trichy for the Inter-IIM sports meet § Campus winner from IIM Trichy and south-zone regional qualifier at 'The Maverick' (a business challenge competition conducted by Deloitte) § Certified from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in the Adventure course of mountaineering Summer Internship: Genpact Ltd Roshan worked in the areas of strategy, analytics and business research at Genpact. He worked on two live projects for global pharmaceutical clients wherein they were advised regarding their strategy in social media. He got an opportunity to work on multiple areas of the project such as data analytics, customer analysis, competitor profiling, insight generation and was also involved in separately developing a ranking system for Genpact, to be used as a part of their strategy.

35 Years Work Experience: 156 months, Hospitality Industry (132 months), i-Nurture Education Solutions (24 months)

During his career, Vineeth has taken up many roles including that of a Restaurant Manager, Content Writer and Chef. His experience in the hospitality sector and the education sector has helped him gain valuable people skills. By arming himself with business knowledge, he intends to use his skills and experience with greater effectiveness in the corporate world. § Student President for the academic year 2014-15, IIM Trichy § General Secretary of Student's Council for the academic year 2013-14, IIM Trichy § Has operational experience of managing a high-end restaurant § Represented college (IHM) for an inter-college cultural competition Summer Internship: Basket Option Pvt Ltd, Bangalore Vineeth worked to help launch a new education vertical - EduBasket for Basket Option. The project involved setting the groundwork of EduBasket by deciding on the policies and processes, marketing EduBasket, and smoothening other operational issues. He also helped set up policies and guidelines for identification, selection and approval of courses and faculty for EduBasket. He developed the lean management structure and job description of various roles for members in the EduBasket team. He also worked along with the web developers and designers to develop the website and marketing collateral for EduBasket. In addition to this, Vineeth was also involved in developing the marketing strategy for EduBasket which included B2B marketing and digital marketing.

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Important Dates

Commencement of Pre-Placement talks

Commencement of Summer Placements

Commencement of Lateral Placements

Commencement of Final Placements

18th August 2014

6th October 2014

3rd December 2014

15th December 2014

Contact Information

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

www.iimtrichy.ac.in