Guest Speakers

Mr. Ashok Swarup currently holds the position as Director at Citibank. An alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad and St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, Mr. Swarup has held several senior positions in several prestigious companies.In additions to his most recent position as Director of Corporate Affairs for Pepsi India; he was Pepsi’s Country Manager for Sri Lanka. Before joining Pepsi in 2000, Mr. Swarup was the president of Seagram India and prior to it held several executive positions with Shaw Wallace India over a 20-year period.

Mr. Swarup began by speaking about some of the various aspects of Citibank and its presence in India. Citibank is one of the largest banks in the U.S., and is a part of the financial services company Citigroup. Citibank had been founded in the year 1812. Continue Reading »

If I start writing the profile of the person whom I had the pleasure to meet today the write up would probably go beyond any word limit and still will not be able to justify the personified persona of Dr. Anand Gupta who bestowed his knowledge on FOSTIIMA Students on. Author of many publications and a distinguished visitor to the United states at the invitation of the U.S. Government. He has worked on several committees including the Government of India’s Steering committee for Administrative Reforms. Recipient of Best Faculty award at the IIM-A Mr. Gupta pursued his M.A (Economics) and Ph.D. (Economics) University of Florida.

We all felt like goliaths in front of the meticulous personality standing in front of us. As the cliché goes “a tree laden with fruits tends to bow down”The topic for discussion was current challenges on the economic front: how to prioritize and meet them? He wanted the event to be interactive and encouraged class participation and in his vast ocean of knowledge we all had a dip. Like a very articulated storyteller he told us about the Summer of 91 only it was not that soothing as the summer of 69 by Bryan Adams. His words did hurt but he was telling us the ugly truth of the Indian economy in the summer of 91 when for a mere borrowing of $400 million India was asked to pledge gold as a security by the bank of Japan and the Bank of England. The same country is now sitting at 324 billion and many single entities can generate 400 million within one hour and are even acquiring foreign companies. TATA BUYING kores & jaguar and are few examples in place. Continue Reading »

FOSTIIMA Business School

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Date: 6th November 2009

Guest Speaker:

Mr. Peter Hunter

Topic:

Releasing Potential

Guest Profile:

Mr. Peter Hunter is one of the leading Change Management thinkers of our generation. Peter studied for his master’s degree at Cranfield Institute of Technology then joined the Royal Navy as an Instructor Office where he began to realize how valuable people really were. After 8 years in The Royal Navy, Peter worked as a Management Consultant before forming his own company on the West Coast of Scotland. Hunter Business Consultancy Ltd Associates are now based all over the United Kingdom and are expanding into Europe and India. Director Kamal Sharma presided over the talk while our Chairman Anil Somani, Dean Dr. Subhash Kakkar, Prof PD Gupta and Mr. Rajeeva Kansal attended the talk as special invitees.

Peter A Hunter learned some time ago how to harness the collective genius of the workforce and how to use that collective genius to the profit of the parent organization. Continue Reading »