JULY
6
2022
Talk under Leaders Speak series WEDNESDAY, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM MMA MANAGEMENT CENTER
CREATING A WORLD-CLASS HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA
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K V RAMANI SAI UNIVERSITY
V SHANKAR ACSYS INVESTMENTS
PROGRAMME 5:15 PM
Registration & High Tea
6:00 PM
Welcome Address
Mr K Mahalingam Vice President, MMA & Managing Director TS Mahalingam Financial Services P Ltd
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Mr V Shankar Founder CAMS & Director, ACSYS Investments Pvt Ltd
Address by the Speaker
Mr K V Ramani Founder and Chancellor Sai University
Chairman's Closing Remarks
Mr V Shankar
Q&A 7:25 PM
Vote of Thanks
Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association
Speaker
K V Ramani
Mr K V Ramani, founder and chancellor of Sai University, is one of the pioneers who led the efforts to bring India’s information technology sector to global prominence. He co-founded the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) to assist the growth and development of the IT sector in India. He served as its chairman from 1997 to 1998 and was a member of its executive council for the first 10 years, being re-elected by the members five times over. He received the Founder’s Award at NASSCOM’s silver jubilee celebrations in 2015 for ‘putting India on the Global IT Map.’ Mr Ramani is currently the chairman and managing director of Digital Holdings Pvt. Ltd. and the founder and managing trustee of Shirdi Sai Trust. A successful technology entrepreneur, he joined IBM as a graduate engineer in 1970 at a time when very few Indians were a part of the IT sector’s talent pipeline. Anticipating the advent of the age of technology, he founded a premier communications technology firm called Future Software in 1985. He co-founded Hughes Software Systems, a telecommunications software company in India, as a joint venture with the US firm Hughes Software in 1990. He has been the charter president of the TiE (The indUS Entrepreneurs), Chennai Chapter. Additionally, he has worked for the department of electronics as a member of the working group on information technology and as the chairman of the study team on software development and exports for the ninth Five-Year plan during 1996. Between 1988 and 1992, he was the chairman of the software panel, southern region, for the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) under the Ministry of Commerce. He has been honored by Hon. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for creating the brand of a new India as co-founder of NASSCOM and for the Shri Saibaba Sansthan, Shirdi, the inspiration behind his numerous philanthropic initiatives which include educational and medical services for the underprivileged. Mr Ramani is driven by the urgent need to create world-class institutions for higher education in India and now steers his philanthropic efforts towards building a global interdisciplinary university in India. He is currently the Founder and Chancellor of Sai University, India’s first international university, based in Chennai. Sai University is a multi disciplinary and inter disciplinary university providing Liberal Education in Arts, Science. Technology and Law.
Chairman
Mr V Shankar, an IITM, IIMC graduate who worked briefly then went on to found CAMS (Computer Age Management Services Pvt. Ltd.) in 1988 to provide a platform and services to the Indian mutual fund industry. CAMS was recently listed. He is involved with several organisations that promote entrepreneurship, as well with both his alma mater.
V Shankar
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