EO Newsletter December 2017

Hello EOersWelcome to a New Year at EO Bangalore. We have just begun the year and already a lot has happened.We have had some great events like the talk by James Lawrence and the visit to ATC at the BangaloreAirport to name a few. We have inducted five new members. We also had our fantastic retreat at ElevateBali which was attended by almost 80 members. Our goal for the year is to Elevate EO Blangalore and weare leaving no stone unturned till we get there. We are also going the digital way and are planning to digitize event feedback and all our newsletters and communication will be digital from now on. Wishing all of you a great EO year! Arun Chittilappilly

ISRO \"India's most SuccessfulStart up\" with R. AravamudanEvent ratings:In Conversation with R. Aravamudanmoderated by Rahul Matthan WhenMangalayan reached Mars, ISRO became justthe fourth space agency in the world tosuccessfully enter Mars orbit and the only oneto do so in its first attempt. In the course of thisyear, ISRO set a world record by launching 104satellites with a single rocket and successfullylaunched its heaviest rocket to date - the GSLVMark III - with 4 ton satellite payload. ISRO istruly India’s most successful organisation.But the early days of the space organizationwere very different. Budgets were meagre,equipment was hard to come by andtechnology was often denied to us due to tradeembargoes. Our first attempts at launching satellites were replete with failures with more rocketscrashing into the Bay of Bengal than reaching outer space.In many ways, the history of ISRO is a story of learning from failure and turning adversity intoadvantage - of making do with what we had, innovating and achieving success even when everyoneelse expected us to fail. Much of its current success is due to the visionary zeal of Vikram Sarabhaiand his small team of pioneering scientists. One of the first people he recruited wasRamabhadranAravamudan, who went on to serve as Director of the Thumba Equatorial RocketLaunching Station, Associate Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Director of SatishDhawan Space Centre, SHAR and Director of the ISRO Satellite Centre.EO Bangalore presented its first event of the year - a discussion with R Aravamudan - pioneer of theIndian Space program and one of the few men alive who has been with ISRO from the very beginning.He spoke to us about those early days when it was still a startup, about the challenges of having toscale, of learning from failures and the need to constantly innovate.July 13th 2017 | 7:30 PMThe Oberoi, Bengaluru

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July 29th , 2017 - \"Making Sense of Data\" workshop held at TajWestend by Shankar VenkatagiriEvent ratings:Shankar Venkatagiri is a faculty member in the Quantitative methods & information systems area atthe Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is a mathematician & computer scientist bytraining, and has worked in IT Consulting around Boston, prior to pursuing an academic career.Shankar has taught courses in statistics to students at the graduate & doctoral levels at IIMBangalore. He frequently interacts with industries in various capacities. Shankar's interests lie inanalytics & cloud computing.Session Overview• Understand how to analyze business data & make predictions• Retail data analysis using spread sheets• Understanding the distribution of Variables• Probabilistic Decision making• Random Sampling and statistical interference



Aug 04th , 2017 - \"Chasing the Brigand\" held at Oberoi by - InConversation with K Vijay KumarEvent ratings:Mr. K . Vijay Kumar is a former IPS officer. He joined the Indian Police service in 1975. From 1998 to2000 he served as the Inspector General, Border Security Force (BSF) Srinagar during the peak ofMilitancy. In December 2001, he was appointed Commissioner of Police for Chennai City. Thehighlight of his career came when he headed the task force operation - Operation Cocoon, that killedthe forest brigand Veerappan in October 2004.In 2008, Mr. K . Vijay Kumar was chosen to head the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National PoliceAcademy in Hyderabad. He served as the Director - General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)from 2010 to 2012. Currently, he is senior security adviser in the Ministry of Home Affairs,Government of India.Session OverviewMr. K. Vijaykumar spoke about the planning and execution of Operation Cocoon, which led to thekilling of one of the most dreaded and notorious fugutives in the annals of Indian History - Veerappan.This is elaborated in great detail in his book - Chasing the Brigand.



\"Redefine Impossible\" withJames Lawrence The Iron CowboyEvent ratings:I am an athlete. I am a husband. I am aproud father of four daughters and a son. Icompete in endurance races and IronmanTriathlons. CurrentlyI hold two world recordin 70.3 and 140.6 triathlon racing.I dominated the 2012 World Record,smashing it by 10 races, winning 2 titlesand placing 2nd in five others. My mind andbody actually got stronger as I progressedthrough the 30 races through 11 countries.I know my limits were not reached in 2012and want to test the true limits of my mindand body with this new 50 - 50- 50challenge. That’s 2.4 miles swimming, 112miles on a bike and a full 26.2 milemarathon every day for 50 days. 50Ironman courses, 50 consecutive days,through all 50 States. They call me the“Iron Cowboy”August 28th 2017 | 7:30 PMThe Windsor Manor, Bangalore

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\"On top of the world\" withRaha MoharrakEvent ratings:aha is the youngest Arab and the first Saudiwoman to conquer Mount Everest. Also theyoungest of three, she was born in Jeddah,Saudi Arabia, which according to the HumanRights Watch, is the world's only nation thatactively discourages girls to participate insporting events in government schools.According to the CNN, she said that\"convincing them [her family] to let her climbwas as great a challenge as the mountainitself!”Raha trained hard in her quest for the Everest.She was joined by 34 other mountaineers and29 guides in reaching the summit on May 18,2013 from the Nepalese side of the mountainafter climbing throughout the night from thelast camp on South Col. Her four-memberexpedition team, Arabs with Altitude, includedthe first Qatari man, Mohammed Al Thanifrom Qatar's royal family and the firstPalestinian man, RaedZidan, to attempt reaching the peak of Mount Everest in a bid to raise amillion dollars for educating people in Nepal. After her achievement, her expedition team tweeted\"The first ever Saudi woman to attempt Everest has reached the top!! Bravo RahaMoharrak. Wesalute you.\"Speaking about her achievement, she said: \"I really don't care about being the first, so long as itinspires someone else to be second.”September 9th 2017 | 7:30 PMITC Gardenia, Bangalore



\"Behind the Scenes\" held at Bangalore International Airport & TajVivanta at the AirportEvent ratings:September 21st 2017 | 9:00 AMBangalore International Airport



New Members Alok Agarwal is the co-founder and partner at Vista Spaces Estates LLP, a real estate firm involved in developing boutique residential and commercial buildings in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. Prior to this he was the proprietor- ASQ International, a commodities trading firm based out of Singapore trading in metals and minerals. He has also worked as Test Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments, Singapore. And earned his Masters degree in International Political Economy from S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He has done his Bachelors in Engineering (Electrical and Electronics) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. An alumnus of Bishop Cotton Boys’ School, Bangalore, Alok, love playing the guitar, football and is a fitness freak.Ms. Nandita Lakshmanan is the founder of Porter Novelli, Inc. and servesas Chief Executive Officer of The Practice, India. Nandita is responsible forchartering the growth map for The PRactice, taking it international throughits alliance with Porter Novelli, and ensuring that The Practice, India retainsits edge in the Industry.She serves as an Executive officer of Porter Novelli, Inc. Under her aegis ThePractice, India steered very clearly in the direction of specialisation. Shebegan her PR career in 1993 with Genesis PR. She was responsible forstarting and spearheading PR's technology vertical division as well as PR'soperations in the South. She is a media trainer and has conducted severalmedia training sessions for companies including Microsoft, AMD, Mercer, Qualcomm among others.She served as President of the Public Relations Consultants Association of India from 2006 to 2008.Nandita is focused on establishing a culture of continuous leadership through mentoring andcoaching, fostering intrapreneurship and exploring collaborations with affiliates to prepare the Firmfor future growth.Nandita has served on various prestigious juries to determine excellence in public relations, includingthe 57th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for the PR category; the Sabre Awards India,among others. She is an alumnus of the Fortune/US State Department Global Mentorship Program,where she won the Exxon Mobil-Vital Voices grant for an idea titled “Integrity Decoded”. In 2014, shewon the Sabre Individual Award for her contribution to the PR Industry in India. The Award called outThe PRactice as \"unquestionably one of the best (PR Firms), showcasing a grown up, ethicalapproach that has served the Firm well in a fast changing marketplace\". She was recognized amongIndia’s top 10 women in Public Relation by Reputation Today in 2016.

New Members Nityn Bulchandani is a science graduate from St. Stephen's College Delhi. Nityn runs Covo, a modern fashion accessory retailer with presence in all major cities. His first career was as a basketball player, he has represented India, Delhi and Karnataka at all levels of the game. Outside of his day job Nityn is passionate about current affairs, grassroots sports and reading. Foodie by birth, Mystery shopper by choice! Best known as the 'mystery' man, Sanjeev is in the business of helping brands benchmark their customer service through an innovative concept of mystery shopping. He is associated with global brands across automotive, retail, hospitality amongst others. To keep his passion for food alive, Sanjeev is working on afood tourism concept 'Trip on Food', a platform for unique local food experiences across the country.As the Ambassador for World Food Travel Association, his endeavour is to promote India as apreferred food tourism destination.Vishnu Ranga is a third-generation entrepreneur and a Managing Partner ofNR Group. Established in 1948, NR Group is a diversified business house andhas interests in Agarbathies, Home fragrances, Botanical Extracts,Electronics manufacturing services, irrigation systems and IoT solutions. Itis the market leader in Indian incense industry led by its flagship brand ofCYCLE pure agarbathies.Vishnu currently is a Director and CFO of N. Ranga Rao & Sons PrivateLimited (Cycle Pure Agarbathies) and heads the corporate finance functionof NR Group. Over the last couple of years, he diversified the NR Groupportfolio through two Joint Ventures that he actively manages. One is a JVwith an Israeli Company that focuses of developing sustainable irrigation systems and the other is aJV that focuses on building full stack enterprise IoT solutions. He was earlier the Managing Directorof Natural & Essential Oils Pvt. Ltd where he led growth initiatives through adjacencies.He has an undergraduate degree in Management from Purdue University. He also has an MBA fromCornell University where he was awarded Johnson Leadership Fellow and graduated top of his class.Vishnu is married to Savitha, who is also an entrepreneur. They are blessed with a three-year-olddaughter Sanvi. He is an active member of Mysore Round Table-21. He is a keen golfer and a wildlifeenthusiast.

New Members Sanjeev Shenoy is a Foodie by birth, Mystery shopper by choice! Best known as the 'mystery' man, Sanjeev is in the business of helping brands benchmark their customer service through an innovative concept of mystery shopping. He is associated with global brands across automotive, retail, hospitality amongst others. To keep his passion for food alive, Sanjeev is working on a food tourism concept 'Trip on Food', a platform for unique local food experiences across the country. As the Ambassador for World Food Travel Association, his endeavour is to promote India as a preferred food tourism destination.Special Interests Group EO GolfThe second session of EO Golf events was held at Prestige Golfshire on Sunday, 3rd December 2017with 16 golfers (including 2 ladies and 1 EO child) participating. The setting and weather were perfectand the camaraderie, laughs and fellowship were tremendous. The winner after all the festivities weredone and dusted was Anuj Jhunjhunwalla.The EO Golf team is looking forward to more people participating in the next edition, which will beorganised on February/ March 2018. EO RunnersThe EO Runners have organised around 12 runs so far since its inception in September this year. Theyhave around 20 of the EOers as part of the EO Runners group. However, usually 5-6 members onlyturn-up for runs and thus the EO Runners invites you all to be a part of EO Runner group. Keep Runningand Stay Healthy!Mostly the running events are organised in Cubbon Park on Weekdays and sometimes on Sundays aswell. The usual distance covered is in between 5Km to 10Km.



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