Walk Down Memory Lane

a) Rajesh Panda class of 2000
He has sent us a very sweet and motivational letter , which we are adding to the class notes to share with all our alumni the fact that they are family to us.

Well as of me, I am from the batch of 2000. I am presently with HCL Singapore in a Business Development role for Asia Pacific.

We look after software solution sales in the region. Immediately after graduating from SPJIMR, I started SPJIMRNet egroups, which is our Alumni initiative, and from then on it has really grown in strength to 735 odd SPites today. You guys must really strive hard to build a strong forum and retain it.

When we graduated, Dr. Shrikant had to say 3 things for success:

"Whatever you do...

1. It should be.. Unique
2. You should.... Excel
3. You must be able to sustain ...Sustain

I am simply trying to apply this to the alumni work. I hope you guys can take this initiative forward. All the best!

Life in Singapore is great. I am here with my wife Radhika. Radhika is also from SP Jain (2001) and is with P&G Singapore. There is no one from my batch or Radhika's But there are around 40 alumni here at Singapore.

In fact, we are the youngest couple over here and the youngest parents to be (in December). Have taken a nice flat with a swimming pool, gym and squash court!! - things rare in India. So all in all enjoying life !!

Some facts about Singapore :Its 1degree north of the equator and is 2:30 hrs ahead of India. It is a small place with very good public transport (bus and train). Its airport, Changi Airport is the best in the world (ahead of JFK, US). There are close to 2000 corporate headquartered here. Mostly IT and consulting firms. In fact, HP has 6000 employees in Singapore - one of the mass recruiting companies in Singapore. However the economic and IT slowdown has surely taken a toll of the industry.

b) Riaz M. Raihan, SPJIMR Class of 1998
After 3 years at Accenture, Bombay (1998-2001) I moved to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY), Toronto, Canada in May 2001, as Senior Consultant, E-Business Strategy. In May 2000, I married Arshi, who is a graphic artist and designer. Things have gone great for us in Canada. Within a year at CGEY, I was promoted to Manager, Strategy Consulting (Energy Sector). I am managing a couple of multi-million dollar business transformation projects and 2 teams of 18 and 6 members. CGEY has also given me the opportunity to be Account Manager for a leading North American oil company. My wife runs a successful art design business, and we bought a beautiful house last year. This fall, my younger brother Irshad (IBM, Pittsburgh, PA) is marrying my wife's younger sister, Saba (British Gas, London, UK). The inter-continental couple plans to live in the US.

I'd like to say a big 'thank you' to SPJIMR for the well-grounded education in management and the business of managing people: two vital skills that I draw upon every day in the workplace, and interestingly enough, at home!

c) Rajesh Paradkar class of 1995

I recently moved to Colombo for an eighteen months assignment. Wondering if anyone from SPJIMR is based here or makes routine visits here. Would like to use this, as a forum to get in touch with the alumni gang.

Something About Myself:- I am a 95 batch pass-out working with Citibank as Risk Head for Sri Lanka.Citibank Franchisee in Sri Lanka is more than 20 years old and for the first time we are intending to grow exponentially in next few years. Till now Citibank maintained unusually low profile in Sri Lanka. My job involves five key activities viz. Customer Credit Appraisals, Early warning, Collections, Credit Administration and Risk Management of the portfolio.

My contact nos are :
Mobile 94-77-718464/Office 94-74-796687/Resi 94-1-887921

Contact address is:
Citibank NA, 65C Dharamapala Mawatha, Colombo 7.

d) Jimmy class of 2001

I am in HCL Tech ie. HCL E Serve Technologies, ,in the area of BPO and Call Centers. I am looking after the business development in the European Markets as well as the offshore account manager for BT.

Life is fun as we started with about 50 people and we should be a good 1000 people by June '03 . Therefore, it is a high growth area right now with business comming in thick and quick . In addition, the work responsibility is superb and probably the best I could have got .