Get to know how Industry works -Invite an OMPA member for Dinner

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Hi All, We are launching another initiative today which is called “Take out an OMPA Member out for Dinner” for the MBA aspirants! Firstly, what is OMPA? *Old Men PaGaL’s Association * Basically this is the set of people who ha…

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Count me in...

Name - Kunal Nagar
Currently Working at - PwC Consulting (Ops and Tech)
If MBA then Batch and Institute - VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur - 2008
Specialization - Marketing and Finance

Prior experience - B.D. Head at PG; B.D. in Direct Marketing and Technology; Intern at E&Y;
Location - Mumbai

Gyan - Marketing, BD, Sales, Media... Management Consulting gyan.

Palate - Oriental with some good scotch / wine :)
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Others, you keep on rocking..I have invited HarshadK who is into IIM K right now in 2nd year. He is visiting the town on 25th and will be there till 30th. After talking to him, he has given positive signal for the initiative

I will post the dinner details soon on the thread. Till then, start rocking


Ameya

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Name Ashutosh Sahoo
Currently Working at Joining Awaited
If MBA then Batch and Institute NITIE
Specialization Marketing
Location Mumbai
Companies worked with : Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson (Consumer), PM Dimensions, TIME (part time)
Specialised knowledge areas: FMCG Marketing, Business Statistics
Warm Regards,
Billy
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Eveready for gyaan-giving!

Name - Sarang Tatimatla
Currently Working at - Unicon Securities
If MBA then Batch and Institute - IIFT (2009), IIT Roorkee (2005)
Specialization - Finance (heading the wealth management initiative of the broking firm in AP)
Location - Hyderabad.

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Name - Ali
Currently Working at - Amdocs, Infy .. more than 4 years in IT
If MBA then Batch and Institute - No MBA.. but since when did one need MBA for giving gyaan :-P
Specialization - Taking CAT 4 times :-P
Location - Pune

PS: I love Italian food

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Name - Pallavi Puri
Currently Working at - Oracle SSI
If MBA then Batch and Institute - ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
Specialization - Marketing Major
Location - Bangalore

PS: I lovveee good food :biggrin:
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Name - Rohit
Currently Working at - A boutique investment bank in London. We do MnA advisory and corporate finance specifically for the technology sector.
If MBA then Batch and Institute - IIM Bangalore 2008, IIT Bombay 2004
Specialization - NA
Location - London

I will be in Mumbai for a couple of weeks starting August 22nd, so if you don't have swine flu you may grab me then. Otherwise you are always welcome to come over to London

the freak
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Name - Apurv
Currently Working at - PaGaLGuY.com in Editorial department
If MBA then Batch and Institute - No MBA.
Specialization - Media industry, Journalism, Working in startups. Inside info on B-schools, looking beyond b-school marketese, placement
Location - Mumbai

At your service 😁
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Nice initiative.

I too am in. But yeah, do need to know a wee bit well in advance.

Name - Harshal Modi
Currently Working at - Manager - Experience, Global Vipassana Pagoda
If MBA then Batch and Institute - SIBM MBA (Marcom), Batch of 2008
Specialization - Marketing & Communications Management
Location - Mumbai
Experience - Freelance Event Management prior to MBA, Then 4 months in the Telecom industry, now in a Charitable Orgn. Gyaan on all aspects of management WRT Trusts, Charitable Foundations, etc. Of course, about MBA itself, life during & after MBA et al is there...

Regards,
Grondmaster

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Hi All,

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Old and me? Anyways, I'll be glad if I can be of assistance to any of the fellow Puys

Name -Anurag Saxena
Currently Working at - Ernst & Young (Advisory Services)
If MBA then Batch and Institute - IMI Class of 2006
Specialization - Copy-Paste Technology (I had studied Systems subjects BTW)
Location - 28.38 N, 77.12 E (New Delhi)

Cheers!
~XP
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Great initiative and good to be back on PG after a while. :)

Name -Vamsi Krishna
Work Experience - MindTree Ltd. (3 yrs), Summers with Cognizant (Consulting Division)
If MBA then Batch and Institute - IIM-I Batch of 2010
Specialization - IT and a bit of Finance
Location - Indore


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Name - Arun
Currently Working at - Delivery head of a CRM product based company
If MBA then Batch and Institute - None
Specialization - NA
Location - Bangalore

I can give general gyaan on IT sector most of which will found here:
Ask Psychodementia..........: Whats wrong with IT ?

As well as reasons on why you should (or shouldn't) do an MBA:
http://askpsycho.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-mba.html

I can also give you my 2cents on entrepreneurship (which my signature might give you an idea of).

Arun
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Hii seniors,

sorry for intruding the thread meant for you all.....

just had a request to make...

am from lucknow, currently working in mangalore....i have seen many seniors from mangalore and nearby areas who have achieved great heights and are the members of PG community at orkut.......unfortunately, am not able to contact them because their scrapbooks allow only those in their friendlist to scrap them....

i am sure that many of them must be active here too......its a humble request to all the mangalorean / manipal seniors to please come up and guide your juniors out here ...... as per OMPA initiative too, we need to take your suggestions!!!

following is the link to mangalore thread...

welcome seniors

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Name -Allwin Agnel
Currently Working at - PaGaLGuY.com
If MBA then Batch and Institute - Wharton Class of 2008
Specialization - Entrepreneurship
Location - Sion, Mumbai
Currently looking to have good sushi or italian

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Given the # of OMPAs in Mumbai, looks like 8 OMPAs should treat 1 aspirant for the dinner

Name - Anandv
Currently Working as Equity Research Associate at Nomura
If MBA then Batch and Institute - IIML; Class of 2008
Specialization - Finance+Ops
Location - Mumbai
Worked for the following companies : ICICI Prudential, Oracle, DRDO
Gyaan Areas:
1. How to burn money in stock markets And still smile ;)
2. All aspects of CAT, including the philosophical one :)
3. Life in B-school

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Name - Shekhar Malik
Currently working as & at - Manager, Commercial Banking at Yes Bank
Previous work-exp. - 14 months with J.P. Morgan, Mumbai (Andheri)
If MBA, then batch and institute - SJMSOM-IIT Bombay, Class of 2008
Specialisation - Finance
Location - New Delhi
Gyaan areas -
-> Non-technical MBA prep: philosophical, mental
-> Mocks don't matter
-> GMAT prep
-> Life in a B-school
-> Life after B-school
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Nice one Rohit, was a surprise to see your mail!

Feels good to be back on PG!!

Details -
Name - Avantika
Currently Working at - ABN AMRO Bank
If MBA then Batch and Institute - IIM Calcutta ( Class of 2008 )
Specialization - Finance and Strategy
Location - Gurgaon

Gyaan - anything? thats what one does an MBA for??

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Name - Anil
Currently Working at - Cognizant
If MBA then Batch and Institute - XIMB - Class of 08
Specialization - General Management
Location -Chennai

Gyaan - Everything under the sun
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Well not sure if anybody would like to meet me in Shillong. else would be coming to delhi in Sept/october

Name -Tripurari Prasad
If MBA then Batch and Institute - IIM Shillong, Class of 2010
Specialization - Marketing
Location - Shillong/Delhi
Prior Work Ex- Embedded Systems, L