Greetings from your Alma mater !!
It's quite a co-incidence that a group of us, 2nd year students pursuing our MBA from VGSoM also have similar plans to kick-start an Alumni-meet tradition in a rich way on lines with what happens at other B-Schools. We are glad that seniors like Kesavan and Tushar have shown great enthusiasm and now are confident of making this event a grand success.
From our preliminary brainstorming sessions, we have come up with the following plan:
- The inaugural edition of this meet will be held at Bangalore (venue thus chosen as the group of us planning this meet are interning in Bangalore and so would be convenient to plan out. Also, Bangalore offers a central location for most of the alumni spread atleast in South-India)
- We have also been offered/have arranged some good infrastructure support in the heart of Bangalore.
- The meet is planned on the 27th of September as this will give us enough time to contact the 700-odd alumnus of VGSoM and try to persuade and get maximum participation for an event of this magnitude. This will also give you'll adequate time to plan for this meet in advance and make your travel arrangements.
- Our Creative team is coming up with a theme for this party and the promotional campaign will be out very soon.
- Our Messenger team will soon start getting in touch with each all VGSoMites either through mail or telephone...its quite an uphill task as many alumnus contact details are missing and all we have are the names of the passouts from alumnicomm. Nevertheless, with the help of you folks who are reading this mail and with searches from yahoo directory and sites like LinkedIn, we hope to track down and cover each and every alumnus.
- We will soon be sending out feelers to the alumnus to gauge if it's possible for you'll to pursue small sponsorships from your companies for this event (as is the case in many leading B-Schools)...however, this is not a binding issue. Of course, any savings from the sponsorships would go into philanthropy by means of "Shraddha", the students' initiative for social service at VGSoM.
We have created a blog for the alumni meet purpose and encourage you'll to use this as a platform to keep the cheerful banter flowing and the mood upbeat by exchanging comments. http://www.vgsomalumnimeet.blogspot.com/
In order to collect as many contact details as possible, we request all those reading this mail to reply back to vgsom.alumni.meet@gmail.com with your contact details and the contact details of other VGSoMites so that we can personally get in touch with everyone. Please consider this as an immediate activity.
We also need atleast one alumnus from each batch to help in touch-basing with the other folks of the batch. Those of you who wish to volunteer for this activity are requested to get in touch with us immediately on the below given phone numbers or by replying back to vgsom.alumni.meet@gmail.com with your contact details.
Just requesting some co-operation and a little bit of your time to "put the VGSoM back in you" :-)
Cheers, Batch 2007 - 2009
Contact details:
Mobile numbers:
Sachin Mehta: 09964679806
Sampreet HR: 09880010794
Pradyummna Mahajani: 09740365400
Manish Sinha: 09739801002
Email id: vgsom.alumni.meet@gmail.com
Blog: http://www.vgsomalumnimeet.blogspot.com/
*********************** VGSOM Rocks!! *******************
6 comments:
Excellent initiative guys.. :)
Way to go !!!
~Mandar (Batch 2007-09)
Dear Friends,
This is a great initiative. I'd suggest that if possible in near future, we should be able to conduct an alumni meet in IIT campus itself ( the way other departments of IIT do it).
Just a suggestion.
But, you have aspired to do aomething big.I wish you all the best.
Regards,
Rajarshi Sengupta
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sounds great....keep the momemntum up. Can you post the existing Alumni data base in adavnce for folks to be ble to connect off-line and plan things ?
Suman, Batch 2001.
Fidelity Investment.
Great job guys!!
keep going...
@Rajarshi, we would love to conduct the event in IIT campus but as a start we wanted to get the alumnus together once before making bigger plans
@Suman, if you could drop in a mail with contact details at vgsom.alumni.meet@gmail.com then we will get back to you at the earliest with the required data
@everyone else, thank you for all comments, please do leave us more contact details so that we can reach out to you'll soon
Excellent Efforts Guys. Keep up the tempo. Hope to see you all at the alumni meet.
-Santhosh, RPG
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