Mr.Ajay Mathur is Director General of TERI - The Energy & Resources Institute, and a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change. I got this wonderful opportunity to interact with such an eminent personality through a friend of mine who works at TERI as a mechanical engineer.
A Chartered Accountant (CA) by degree, an innovator at heart, a coder by passion and an author, Mr. Saurabh Jain, Vice President, Paytm has had an unprecedented career path.
I had written an article with the same title before as well. You can read it here.
What the title says are not my words but these are the words said by Mr. Nitin Jain, Co-founder of OfBusiness, which is a technology-driven SME financing platform that adds value to SME’s business beyond financing through its raw material fulfillment engine and new opportunities platform. A post graduate in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and having worked for almost 7 years in RBS, Mr. Jain co-founded OfBusiness in August 2015. An experienced entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the e-commerce industry, he is a strong entrepreneurship professional. He is skilled in Business Development, Fundraising, Investment Banking, Strategy and Credit risk.
A B-schooler’s life in India usually follows a defined pattern since the time they join their dream B-school. Classes, committees, guest lectures, placements and a lot of competitions.
A b-school is a world in itself. You have your average Joe who goes by the day with working his way through lectures and completing his assignments and you also have the lazy dude who can hardly keep track of the time. Amidst the crowd though, if you notice them swiftly passing by, running from lecture to lecture into endless meetings, you'll meet the badshahs of a b-school. They're armoured with titles of honour from competitions they've won across the country and they always look like they're about to crack their next case. In this feature, we meet 4 such students who have gone beyond the regular b-school journey and added more to it by winning across case competitions.
As part of the Industry Interaction Cell, IIM Amritsar, I invited Mr. Vinay Gupta – Global Finance Director, Group CIO, Deutsche Bank to be one of the panelists for our annual Finance Conclave - Pariprekshya. In our initial conversations, he shared, “conclave and all is fine, but Tarun I really want to do something for the students, I want to guide them to make a wise career decision, can we have a casual interaction session before the conclave where I can be of some help to these young aspirational minds, please see if it’s possible, you don’t get a chance to mentor future leaders of the country every day.”
“Problems are an indispensable part of our lives, keep your thinking hats on and be a solver to them, for they cannot be erased completely” says Mr. Vinay Dua, Head(VP) Business Development, IoT and Digital Transformation, CISCO.
