First Alumni Meet 2019
NISM hosts its first Alumni meet
At NISM Campus, Patalganga on 18th March 2019
The first ever Alumni meet of NISM was held on 18th February 2019 in the Patalganga Campus of the institute. The Alumni association is being formed with the objective of bringing all alumnus onto one platform, through which they can network with past and future batches, to discuss various development in the financial markets, celebrate achievements, and get involved in several activities of the institute like training, industry interaction, providing internships to students, collaborative work in emerging areas in financial markets etc.
The meet began with the lighting of lamp by dignitaries and Saraswati Vandana by students. To welcome all the alumni’s, The Director of NISM, Dr. M. Thenmozhi has given address on the importance of alumni association for an organisation as well as for the alumni. The keynote address was given by the former Director of NISM Dr. Sandip Ghose.
Dr. Ghose has encouraged all the alumnus and all the participants of the meet on the skills required for 21st century and how we can balance ourselves in each and every situation that we face in our life.
The chief guest of the occasion was Mr. Ashwini Bhatia, CEO, SBI Mutual Fund. Mr. Bhatia has given a broad picture of his struggle and how he became a CEO today from a Probationary officer of SBI in 1985. He has emphasised that it is important to imbibe punctuality, commitment and honesty to be successful in one’s career and life.
The institute has created an Alumni portal and the portal has been inaugurated by the chief guest of the function Mr. Bhatia. The alumni magazine named as “Jigyansa” and student magazine “Vridhi” were launched at the meet. The winner of the ALUMNI Logo competition was Mr. Dhananjay Devgadkar (Designer, NISM) was awarded with an appreciation letter and a cash prize of Rs. 25,000 by the Director.
The formal function was over with a vote of thanks by Mr. Sunil Jayawant Kadam, Registrar, NISM.
To motivate the alumni, there was a panel discussion on “Motivational thoughts & secrets to success” by the under 40 young achievers award winners of AIWMI. The panel discussion was moderated by Mr. Aditya Gadge (Founder & CEO, AIWMI) and there were four young achievers in the panel to discuss about their life journey and the secret of success. The panel members for this panel were Ashish Fafadia-Partner Blume Ventures, Sahil Nandu-Partner-Adelmo Advisors, Jay Shah- Founder One Tree Wealth Partners and Ankit Shah, head- the Risk team for Invesco’s Asia Pacific business.
This was followed by a second panel discussion on the theme “Future of Data Science in Securities Markets” organised by the core committee of alumni. There were five panellists and was moderated by Mr. Karan Rathore, Ernset and Young. The other panellists of this sessions are Santhosh Kusuma- State Street Corporation, Sriram Nerkar-ORION Metals Trading LCC, Sonica Phos- Morgan Stanley and Anurag Raj, Think Analytics.
The function was embedded with cultural function by NISM alumni and students. The cultural function was held in the Amphitheatre. There was a DJ night after the dinner in which all students and alumnus has participated with a great enthusiasm.
The Programme was coordinated by Prof. Latha Chari (Dean in charge-SSIR) and Mr. Pradiptarathi Panda (Lecturer SSIR).
