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SIMSREE Placement Brochure 2017 18
SIMSREE Placement Brochure 2017 18
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GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA'S
SYDENHAM
INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, RESEARCH &
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
Index About Us
01 About Us
BOARD OF
02 Director's Address
ADVISORS 04
05
SIMAA
2018-2019 01
In 1983, we embarked on
a journey to become one
of the top management
Director's Director Training
schools in India with the
motto “Samudyogo hi
Vishwajitah” meaning,
Address & Placement's
Diligent Efforts Conquer
the World. Today, we
have the distinction of
Address
being among the best
management schools in As you begin a new year, we too embark on our continued journey
the country, ergo one of of striving to integrate the latest happenings in the real world
with that what is taught in the classroom. This is being done
the most sought after by
through a focused yet evolving process of bringing in the best
aspirants.
from the industry and integrating their practical hands-on
experience with theory – a large part of our faculty comes from
leading industries and are themselves leaders in their respective
subject domain.
Located in the heart of Mumbai, the financial capital of our nation, our college provides
its students with the privilege of unparalleled exposure to corporate India. Eminent
industry professionals visit our institute on a regular basis to deliver lectures and to We take pride in stating, the industry once again has shown the developments while, their feedback and participation
conduct workshops and knowledge sessions. Keeping in mind the nucleus of our success, immense belief in the talent that SIMSREE nurtures and is a regular feature of campus life at Sydenham.
a completely student driven philosophy, I would like to state four characteristics we offers to the corporate world.
As one of the oldest and prestigious institutes located in
embrace and practice. First being, people orientation. It's only through collective efforts
A stellar recruitment season is an honour which reinstates the heart of the city of Mumbai, Sydenham offers five
here at SIMSREE that we achieve new heights. The inculcated ability to work with fellow
the conviction of the industry in the brand, SIMSREE. I streams of specialization – Finance, Marketing,
human beings and to go in a well-coordinated, focused manner is our greatest asset. The
firmly believe that the batch of 2016-18 just like other Operations, Systems and HR, thus, as a recruiter it
second is fairness, equity and integrity. In today's cut throat competitive environment
Sydenham alumni in the industry will contribute immensely becomes a single port of call to meet your requirements
which we find ourselves in, we aspire to be the beacon of change. The third aspect is to
to their organizations and make their campus proud. I am across functions.
have an open mind, for wisdom is power. We encourage as much diversity of views as
sure that Sydenham will scale greater heights in the time to
possible for reaching solutions which are all embracing and richer and sustainable in the Our association with our regular recruiters has been of
come.
long run. And, the fourth we strive to quench our inquisitive and enquiring mind and to paramount significance to SIMSREE and I would reinstate
think of innovative solutions. Our students bring with them an average of 21 months of that they have always had an active role in our Institute's
industry experience and are selected through CAT, MH- standing today. To our new recruiters, all I would say is–
Every industry looks for an individual possessing the required skills and suitability for
CET, CMAT etc, with cut-off being as high as 99.7 percentile. join the rest of the leading corporates in picking the best
their requirements. To this end, we try to understand the strengths and weaknesses of
Students are further encouraged to take up summer talent from an institute that offers students who have
the students after their admission and effort is made to convert their weaknesses into
internships and participate in various sector specific events proved themselves to be at par or even a notch above the
strengths. Many programmes such as Six Sigma, SAP, Digital Marketing, Big Data
organized on campus in collaboration with leading rest in the business.
Analytics and Financial Modelling are conducted apart from the curriculum. In addition,
corporate entities. In addition, the students are being
students undertake Summer Internships and Live Projects along with their coursework to It gives me great pleasure in welcoming you to the
trained on team and leadership skills and soft skills which,
gain exposure and experience in the industry that they will be working in, in the near Sydenham Campus, to participate in the placement season
today, play an extremely critical role in the overall
future. for the batch of 2018-2019 and look forward to meeting
development of the individual and their fitment into the
you on Campus.
Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education corporate work culture. It is not just us saying good about
(SIMSREE), Mumbai, India and San Francisco State University (SF State), California, our students, the track record of our Alumni speaks for
Wisconsin University, Parkside U.S.A., having affirmed their common commitment to the itself. Many of them hold CXO level positions and many Mr. Keyur Thakore
values of intellectual freedom, educational excellence, and international cooperation, and others have set up E-Commerce businesses that are the Director - Training and Placements
having recognized the benefits that may be realized through expanded communication envy of many. Our Alumni committee, headed again by
SIMSREE
and collaborative research on education and cultural matters, the sharing of educational students, ensures that our Alumni are actively engaged with
and cultural resources in higher education, research, and cultural exchange.
We look forward to a long-standing association of trust and synergy with you, and
welcome you to experience the rich culture of SIMSREE.
Sachin Khandelwal
Mr. Ashish Bhasin
Batch of 1991, Ex MD & CEO,
Chairman and CEO, South Asia Dentsu Aegis Network
Magma Housing Finance Outstanding Educational Institute (West),
Mr. G. Dhananjayan ABP NEWS National Education Awards
Founder & Managing Director, BOFTA Film Academy
Predictability and steady state businesses is a rarity in
Mr. Ajit Alexander today's world. For Managers to be able to deliver what is
Chief Executive Officer, VFS TasHeel International & expected of them and to excel, it is important to be able
VASCO to balance theory, practice and be able to think on their
feet and quickly execute. And, as I look back at my
Mrs. Sneha Pathak SIMSREE years, this was one of the key learning. With
Proprietor, SP Consultancy the toggling of Guest speakers changing schedules
coupled with live Case studies and Surveys that we at
Mr. Sachin Khandelwal Business Today
Ex MD & CEO, Magma Housing Finance Ltd.
SIMSREE could pick up from the corporate world, gave
us not just business insights but even whats the next
NHRDN Ranking Times of India Ranking
27 3 21
trend. Entrepreneurship is inculcated with exposure to
Mr. Mahesh Balasubramanian
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Kotak
various activities that involve interaction with the th rd st
corporate world with events, seminars, research
Mahindra General Insurance Co. Ltd assignments on live projects and most importantly, the
chance to hob nob with who's who of the corporate
Dr. Ashish Pawaskar
world. The institutes unique practice of running almost
Independent Media Production Professional
all activities through the student body and its
committees takes students straight to the real world of all over India, 2018 best B-School in Rank in terms of
inter departmental functioning and dynamics of shared
goals. These give a chance to every student to actualize terms of ROI, 2018 Placements, 2017
his inert talent and potential brings out the managers in
them much before they graduate. I strongly feel that I
studied while we were literally working at SIMSREE,
which made it all the more fun
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Courses Offered Curriculum Certifications
• Microsoft Excel
MASTER OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES(MMS)
Post Graduate Diploma in
Business Management
• SIMSREE offers a two year full time Post Graduate
1st Year • Digital Marketing
• KPMG Lean Six Sigma- Green Belt
Semester II
• Analysis of Financial Statements Finance
• Financial Management • Financial Markets and Institutions
Admission
• Operations Research • Corporate Valuation and Mergers & Acquisitions
JAMNALAL BAJAJ 99.92 • Human Resource Management • Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
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Operations
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Analytics
Systems
• Database Management System & Data Warehousing
• Enterprise Management System
Faculty at SIMSREE
• Service Operations Management • Big Data and Business Analytics
• Manufacturing Resource Planning & • Knowledge Management
Core Faculty Visiting Faculty
Control
• Software Engineering Dr. Manoj Bhide Mr. H. P. Ranina Mr. Jayesh Talpade
• Materials Management Supreme Court Advocate and Tax CEO, Acumen Business
• Information System Security and Audit Director, SIMSREE
• Strategic Operations Management Consultant, Board of Directors, RBI Process (India) Pvt Ltd
• Strategic Information Technology Management Dr. R. K. Srivastava
• Strategic Sourcing in Supply Professor, SIMSREE Mr. Sandeep Gokhale Mr. Sameer Pimpale
Management President at JSW Steel Ltd Head- Operations, Acumen Business
Dr. Sangeeta Pandit
Process(India) Pvt Ltd
Associate Professor, SIMSREE Mr. R. Venkatesh
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Illustrious Alumni
Ashish Bhasin Sanjay Chandel Subramaniam Shankar Surekha Poddar Dipali Mahesh Ashish Ambasta
Chairman & CEO CEO&MD Marketing Director MD President Head Employee Engagement Practice
South Asia Dentsu Aegis Network & Indiabulls Mutual Fund Asia Pacific, Axalta Coating Systems Millward Brown Pinnacle Studios (India, Middle East & APAC), People
Chairman, Posterscope and Anand Awasthi Ashish Gumastha Ramesh Mitragotri Vasant Sanzgiri Business Consulting & Founder
psLive Asia Pacific CEO MD – Investments CHRO Group Head- Human Resources SEE (School of Entrepreneurial
Sachin Khandelwal Avhan Technologies Pvt. Ltd. DSP Merrill Lynch Limited Aditya Birla Group- Chemicals Sector Shapoorji Pallonji Group Education)
CEO Sandeep Chawla Ashwin Yardi Ranjivjit Singh Abhijeet Dey Bharat Badhe
Magma Housing Finance Ltd. CEO Coo CMO Vice President Head- Marketing
Sanjay Behl REMO Capgemini Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. Samsung India Electronics Kotak Mahindra Asset Pidilite Industries Limited
CEO Albert Almeida Nitin Nishandar Manish Dutta Management Co. Ltd. Bharat Gothoskar
Raymond Limited COO -Marketing Content & Regional MD Coo Akshay Dasani Head- Sales
Sandeep Zutshi Communications Executive Brand and Communication- Asia Net4barter Pvt. Ltd. VP & Unit Manager - Corporate and Marketing & CRM, Mahindra Lifespace
Co-Founder and Director Hungama Digital Pacific, TNS Singapore Investment Banking Group Developers Ltd.
Mahesh Kalsekar
Ascentaz Consulting Media Entertainment Prashanth Shetty Director Mashreq Bank Parikshit Kurhekar
Ashish Hemrajani Amit Madhan MD Business Operations & Strategy, Takeda Alok Mulye Head- Sales and Marketing
Founder - CEO President and Group Head - IT and IDFC SSKI Ltd. Pharmaceuticals India Vice President Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
Bigtree Entertainment Shared Services Ravindra Datar Rupen Desai Kotak Mahindra Bank Rahul Jayakar
(Bookmyshow.com) Thomas Cook Vice President- Marketing and Global Business Director & Amir Saifi Head - Transaction Banking
Rajesh Balpande Ashish Gumastha Global Marketing Head Operating Director AVP - Commercial Banking Mashreq Bank
Co-Founder MD – Investments Blueocean Market Intelligence Lowe Worldwide Mashreq Bank Ruchi Khare
Bigtree Entertainment DSP Merrill Lynch Limited Rahul Devjani Ashok Kumar Kurup Ananda Natarajan HR Head – EMEA
(Bookmyshow.com) Ashok Soni Regional Director - Asia Pac Head- BASES CR Global VP - International Business/ Business Polaris Software Lab Limited
Shyam Sutaria Business Head & Middle East Operations – India Head - Middle East Sandeep Akolkar
CEO - International Business Tungsten Communication Pratt & Whitney Africa & Middle East, The Nielsen Sharekhan Ltd. President- Finance
Emami Ltd. Ishmeet Singh S. Ghanshyam Company Govind Korekar Global and Offshore Services Limited
Vishal Bali Business Head- Maharashtra and Goa Executive Director and COO - Retail Satya prakash B Chhetry GM Sanjana Thakkar
Ex-CEO Vodafone Financial Services Head – Operations Deloitte Consulting LLP. Head (Consumer & Market Insights)
Fortis Global Healthcare Kartik Ramaswamy Centrum Capital Ltd. T.I.M.E. Vikas Agnihotri Vodafone
Dr. Alkali Mishra Business Head Sameer Anjaria Sapna Shetty Industry Director Shailendra Jadhav
Founder Director Levi Strauss India Coo Head – Operations BFSI and Travel Head- New Markets & Partner –
Hex aware Technologies Nawzer Kerawala Bharti Airtel The Nielsen Company Google Channel Development & Procurement
Neural Roy Founder & CEO Sanjay Apte Manish Sitani Vivek Bhatnagar Avral BNP Paribas
CEO&MD Synergy Public Relations MD - Mortgage Banking Head (India)- Operations & HR GM Tarun Wadhwani
Hungama.com Ninad Takpere JP Morgan Chase eGain Communications Pvt. Ltd. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Head of Talent & Performance
Govan Dhananjayan Business Head Sanjay Dhar Pavan Shetty Anita Bhat Zutshi Management
Chief - South Film Business TimesDeal.com, MD Head Operations – India VP Finance - Home & Personal Care Nestle
UTV Motion Pictures Times Internet Limited Accenture Lamborghini Hindustan Unilever Limited Anup Singh Kalsy
Avinash Kaul Sarita Pereira Ajit Alexander Sameer Patil Anjali Bhole Desai Senior VP & Circle Head - Western
CEO Managing Partner Chief Operating Officer Australia CEO AVP-HR Maharashtra & Goa
IBN18 Network Catalyst Talent Solutions Pvt. Ltd. VFSGlobal Traveltechie.com Mylan Axis Bank
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Anupam Singhal Malcolm Athaide Dinesh Pawar Sachin Dabholkar Swati Nair Satish Patil
VP & ISU Head President and Country Head Head - Commercial (AVP) AVP VP - Corporate Banking Country Head
TCS Business Banking, Retail Banking & (Punjab Himachal & J&K), Polaris Software Lab Limited HSBC Bayer Biosciences
Arun Malkani Inclusive and Social Banking, Yes Bank Idea Cellular Limited Samir Dhamankar Veera Dikshit Neville Bachana
CMO and Senior VP Munawwar Shah Gagan Sikand Vice President Director- Enterprise Business Executive Sales
Birla Sun Life Insurance Asst. VP Director - Process Innovation Deutsche Bank India South Asia, IBM India NSW & ACT
Deutsche Bank Pepsi Honeywell Security
Cavas Dumasia Sanjay Lulla Vijay Kumar Agarwal
VP - Marketing and Sales Neetu Maheshwari Harshad Katkar Senior VP Senior Exec VP & Meghna Damani
Godrej & Boyce Senior VP and Head - Corporate Director Centrum Capital Ltd. Group Head (Procurement & Filmmaker
Mfg Co. Ltd. Treasury & Treasury Finance Investment Banking, Deutsche Bank Contracts) Treasure Tower Films LLC
Sanjay Singh
Charulata Sippy Development Bank of Singapore Kapil Khandelwal Vice President Gammon India Mrunal Potdar
Senior VP Pankaj Modi Director Frost & Sullivan Vivek Nadagouda Finance Technology Partner
DSP Merrill Lynch Limited Partner & Senior Healthcare and Director Facebook
Rajendra Naik
Ganesh Relekar VP - Business Solution Life Sciences - Asia Pacific, Cisco's Executive Director Amdocs Aparna Dubey
Vice President Centre & Head - Investment Banking Global Executive Centrum Capital Ltd. Avinash Kalia Founder
The Nielsen Company Polaris Ltd. Leadership Associate Director Drishya
Rajesh Gosain
Geetika Singh Farag Risbud Kavita Savur Director PwC Srividya Kannan
Vice President Vice President Executive Director PwC Sudhir Kadam Founder and Director
GFK Mode- Market Research Avalon Consulting UBS Chief Manager – HR Avaali Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Samit Bhatta
Girish Arora Parimal Shah Pradyumna Poddar Director & Associate Publisher Nicholas Piramal India Ltd. Ashok Jain
Vice President VP & Market Director Director The Retail Jeweller Magazine Joiel Akilan Founder Director & Strategist
HTC Global Services Axis Private Banking Impact Lead Chief Representative – India & Terracon Ecotech Pvt. Ltd.
Sandeep Mookerjee
Harneet Singh Prashant Rathi Pramod Kasat Director – Business Neighbouring Countries Subodh Salunke
VP and Head- Marketing Senior VP Director Development and Business BBVA (Banco Bilbao General Manager - Operations &
Domino's Pizza India Bank of America Merrill Lynch Credit Suisse Management Vizcaya Argentaria) Regional Head
Pratish Krishnan Kolleri Prashant Murukute Deutsche Bank, Asia Jitendra Mahajan Mumbai, HDFC Ltd.
Hemant Kadam
Senior VP VP - Global research Dy.VP Sharan Sharma Chief Supply Chain Officer Ajay Khanolkar
Citibank Bank of America Merrill Lynch Axis Bank Senior VP Marico Ltd. Human Capital
Rakesh Ghosh Rajat Mehta TAM Media Alroy Lobo Management Strategist
Jason Gonsalves
Vice President Group EVP Country Chief Strategist and Universal Pegasus International
VP - Corporate Planning & IT Shaziya Khan
Genpact Head - Brand & Marketing Global Head Equities Asset (Canadian Operations)
Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd. Vice President
Abhay Lonkar Yes Bank J. Walter Thompson Management Ravi Rao
Jayesh Sansare
Director- Marketing & Sales Rakeshmohan Verma Kotak Mahindra Asset Leader - South Asia
Senior VP & Regional Shridhar Iyer
Abbott Healthcare Solutions Asst. VP [Apparel Management Co. Ltd. Mindshare
Business Manager Senior VP – Risk Management
Kotak Mahindra Bank Anees Basra Export Marketing] Business System Aniruddha Joshi Chetan Sharma
Director & Business Alok Industries Ltd. HSBC Client Partner to Global & National Sales
Jyoti Agarwal
Head- MNC's Ramesh Ramourti Fortune 500 companies Manager- NRI Business
Executive Vice President Siddharth Singh
Citi Malaysia Executive Vice President HCL America Inc. lnduslnd Bank
Kotak Mahindra Bank Executive Vice President- Sales
Ashish Harchekar Aon Global Insurance Brokers Glaxo Smith Kline Prashant Vishnu Pathak Prakash Rane
Kalianiwala Marzdi Adi
Director (Global Business Ravi Savur Commercial Effectiveness Manager Owner
VP-BI Sonali Shahpurwala
Solutions - SAP) VP - Structured Products Colgate Palmolive ABM Knowledgeware Ltd.
Bigtree Entertainment Director- Capital Markets &
(Bookmyshow.com) Esc Citibank Treasury Sales Arvindra Kanwal Deepa Gidwani
Ashwini Kapila Ravinder Singh Deutsche Bank Corporate CEO Poncha
Khusnuma Daruwala
Director AVP Sundaresan Niranjanan Entrepreneur, Arvindraconsulting.com, Senior Advisor-
VP Planning
Barclays Capital Citibank Director Bindassparty.com Private Ltd., Human Resources
Ogilvy & Mather
Standard Chartered Bank ABP Leap Advisory Centrum Capital Ltd.
Mahesh Balasubramaniam Dharmesh Sodah Ritesh Poddar
Sunil Koppar Nandina Ramachandran Manoj Warang
Executive Vice President Director Senior VP and Associate Director
VP- Corporate Credit Group Country General Manager Services Sales Manager
Kotak Mahindra Bank World Gold Council- India Citigroup
Development Bank of Singapore World Kitchen India Pvt. Ltd. Nokia Solutions and Networks
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Student Profile Student
This is the general break up of the work experience,
graduation specialization and the specialization of the batch
Specialization Break Up Body Structure
of 2017-19. The College attracts students from some of the
top graduation colleges across the country and those with
work experience have also worked across some major
6%
5% Sydenham Management Association (SMA)
industry players. This being a two year full time course, the
students select their specialization in the second year The Sydenham Management Association (SMA) stands at the apex of the student committee stands at the apex of the
student committee structure at SIMSREE SMA undertakes the important activity of coordination between the
students and the management. The SMA includes the Joint Chairpersons. General Secretaries and the following
Work Experience Committees.
26% 62%
Mr. Ahmed Rahimtoola Mr. Anup Maheshwari Mr. Arun Thukral Dr. Beverlee Anderson Mr. Harjeet Singh
Head of Marketing EVP & CIO, DSP MD & CEO, Professor Emerita Khanduja
Allied Blenders & Blackrock Axis Securities at CSU San Marcos Vice President,
Distillers HR - Reliance
Jio Infocomm
Mr. Mehernosh Mr. Milind Deora Mr. Naval Sabharwal Mr. Nikhil Taneja Mr. Rajesh Vig
Pithawalla Member of the 15th Global Head - Supply General Manager at Partner at PWC
st Ashutosh Gautam,
1 1
Pratikk Kamble & st Swapnesh Anand
& Darius Balsara
Global Head Marketing
& Sales, Godrej &
Boyce Security
Lok Sabha, Mumbai
South constituency
Chain & Logistics,
Ramco systems
YFilms (Y-Films/
Brands/Talent)
(Corporate Connect
Session)
Anand Parekar
Art of War 2.0 at Mulyankan 2017
IIM Ranchi
Abhijeet Raut,
1 1
st Pradeep Maher & st Swapnesh Sawant &
Ojas Bangal
Yogesh Askar
Mr. Ronnie Screwvala Mr. Shankar Mr. Tariq Ahmed Dr. Velumani Mr. Vinit Sambre
First Generation Garigiparthy Regional Sales CEO & MD, Head of Equities –
Chanakya Case Study Markenova at Nirma Entrepreneur and Country Manager & Manager, LinkedIn Thyrocare DSP BlackRock
CEO, India, Lloyd's Investment Managers
Competition at IIM Indore University Philanthropist
Pvt. Ltd.
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Alumni Guest Lectures Corporate Events
and Sessions
HR Conclave
HR Conclave is the annual HR panel discussion of
SIMSREE that facilitates the sharing of ideas and HR's
best practices between Corporates and Students. It is
attended by CHROs, VP HRs, Director/Head HRs of
various companies.This year, the topic of the panel
discussion was 'Changing Dynamics: Reinventing HR
Practices in the VUCA World'. The Chief Guest for the
conclave was Mr. Kaustubh Dhavse, Officer on Special
Duty to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
The panellists for this year's HR Conclave were:
Mr. Amit Madhan Mr. Anand Kumar Mr. Mahesh Balasubramanian Shrabani Basu , Padmini Misra, Rajesh Hurkat
President & Group Head – Country Director- India CEO, Kotak Mahindra
IT & Shared Services, and South Asia at Printronix General Insurance Co. Ltd. Indrajit Chatterjee
Thomas Cook India
Simergence
SIM'ergence is the annual corporate event of SIMSREE where
eminent personalities present their ideas on a theme relevant to
the corporate world. It consists of 2 panel discussions which are
attended by business leaders & students from all the top b-
schools in Mumbai. SIM'ergence is a word derived by combining
SIMSREE (Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research
& Entrepreneurship Education) & convergence. It symbolizes an
effort of SIMSREE to provide an interactive platform to combine
ideas & thoughts by corporate who are stalwarts in their area of
expertise. The theme for this year's SIM'ergence 18 was
Mr. Maneesh Bhaya Mr Nikhil Jalan Mr. Rajat Mehta 'Changing Realm of the Industries'
Country Head of Operations, AVP at Barclays Senior President & Country Head,
Service and Implementation Brand Digital & Retail The panel 1 was on the sub theme 'Taking a leap from vision to
at Bank of America Merrill Marketing, YES Bank execution’
Lynch (CWA sessions)
Mr. Ashish Chauhan, Mr. Parimal Sheth, Mr. Prashant Pathak,
Mr. Amit Shah
The panel 2 was on the sub-theme 'Fading differences and
bridging the gap between public sector and private sector’
Mr. T.J. Thomas, Dr. Brinda Jagirdar , Mr. Kaustubh Sonalkar
Mr. Jeff Rodrigues, Mr. Kishore Patil
This year, the event was held at the World Trade Centre in
association with BSE IPF (Bombay Stock Exchange Investors'
Protection Fund)
Sustainable Enterprise
Mr. Sanjay Behl Mr. Sudhir Khot Mr. Vikas Agnihotri
Award - India Final
CEO, CEO, Director Sales India, The final round of Sustainable Enterprise Award (SEA) India 2017
Raymond Ltd. Financial Fitness Google India was conducted on SIMSREE's campus with SIMSREE being the
venue partner for the same. Corporate Relations Committee
partnered with Jagriti Yatra to organise the SEA on the campus.
The SEA is a platform for aspiring entrepreneurs across the
country to showcase their ideas in Water, Agriculture and
Recycling fields.
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Fiscus'18
FISCUS is the main flagship event of Finance Club where
esteemed personalities of financial industry interact with
students and discuss the challenges and innovations in
the finance industry. The theme for this year's Fiscus' 18
was 'Advent of Blockchain: The new super power… The placement process at SIMSREE is a structured, student-
revolution that will change our planet’ driven process managed by the Placement Committee (a
Placement
student body) under the guidance and supervision of the
Guests for Panel Discussion:
director. It has been lauded unanimously by our recruiters.
Mr. Vikram Pandya, Mr. Vivek Bhamodkar, Mr. Ameya The process being with a series of pre-placement talks by
Gangal, Mr. Mukesh Jain, Mr. Rajendra Mhaslekar, Mr. recruiting companies, where students gain valuable insight
Joydeep Dutta
Process Pertaining to the nature of work, the work culture and
expectations from them. Recruiters then shortlist the
interested candidates through resume scrutiny, aptitude
Convergence 2017 test, and/or group discussions. The next step involves
personal interviews, after to the selected students. The
process can be conducted on campus or off-campus as per
Sydenham Consulting and Review Club conducted its Pre-Placement Talk the convenience of the recruiting companies.
flagship event Convergence 2017 on 25th November, 2017.
The event was sponsored by the State Bank of India. It was a
national level case study competition, and like every year,
received a huge response. We received a total of 512
Resume Scrutiny /
registrations from the participants of various colleges Aptitude Test
including IIMs, XLRI, FMS, JBIMS and various other premier
B-Schools across the country.
The Placement
The competition was judged by elite leaders from the Group Discussion Committee
industry. The list of judges is as follows:
The Placement Committee at SIMSREE is a team of highly
Mr. Satyarth Priyedarshi, Ms. Jyoti Bharadwaj, Mr. Avnish professional and committed students who ensure a smooth
Tripathi. Personal Interview recruitment experience for the recruiters. It is an officially
constituted student body and plays a pivotal role in the
planning and efficient execution of the campus placement
programme. It works in the interest of the batch by acting as
Final Selection a liaison between them and the industry. The placement
Asia Pacific International Conference (APIC) committee reaches out to the best of organizations and
invites them tor recruitments. It takes care of every stage of
Through this event, SMR Committee aims to provide a platform to researchers, be it from the corporate world or from the the placement process right from pitching the companies to
academic world, to come together and present their studies and research to an experienced panel, over a period of two days. Final Offer slotting the companies and arranging the necessary
infrastructure.
The Mission of the Conference series is to act as a vehicle to help build a global movement dedicated to capturing, spreading
and nurturing good practices in business Conference. Stalwarts from the industry as well as PhD scholars presented their
research at APIC 2018. The theme for APIC 2018 was "Changing Business Practices in Current Environment”. There were a
number of entries from students from different universities across India and a separate student-track was also conducted.
APIC's uniqueness lies in the fact that this event was the result of collaboration between the students and the faculty
members of SIMSREE.
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Summer Placement
Report 2017-18 Others
7%
Overview
Media & Telecom
Operations &
Logistics 4 %
4
%
159
Number of Students Eligible
The Summer Placement Season for the 2017-18 batch of was offered summer projects by companies belonging to
Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research, and varied sectors like BFSI, e-Commerce, FMCG, FMCD, Pharma,
9%
Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE), lived up to the
standards set by the institute for the past three decades.
Summer Internship being an integral part of any B-School
curriculum, sets the base for a management student’s broader
Real Estate, Consulting, IT and so on.
1,50,000
serves as a testament of the outstanding talent pool and quality FMCG & FMCD
year students being offered diverse roles by MNCs and some of
offered by SIMSREE.
the leading Indian business houses. There was also a marked
increase in the stipends being offered. The batch of 2017-18
13%
Consulting & IT
Highest Stipend (INR)
Batch Profile
Like every year, our students had a diverse background in On the other hand, our diversity in terms of educational
terms of work experience. While almost half of them were new background was skewed towards engineering with eight out of The BFSI domain saw an assortment of coveted profiles like DCB Bank, DBS, JLT, NAREDCO, Merck Sharp Dome, PMRDA,
to the corporate world, they came to terms with the industry ten people having come from the technical background. In Analyst-Global Finance, Asset Management, Risk Piramal Group, Raymond, Reliance Jio, Reliance Brands, Zycus,
through live projects and summer internships. The other half addition to our mix, we have students from commerce, Management, Equity Research, Financial Research Analyst, etc. recruited from the SIMSREE talent pool. Amongst the
had experienced work life in different sectors ranging from IT management as well as general science domains. Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Investment regulars Barclays, Bank of America, Capgemini, Citi Corp,
to Pharma, for periods of less than a year to over three years. Research offered by our top recruiters. The profiles offered in Cotton Association of India, CRISIL, GEP, HDFC Bank,
the Marketing and Operations domain included Sales, Hindustan Unilever, India First Life Insurance, J. P. Morgan
5% 3% 2% 6 %
Branding, Analytics, Retail Branch Banking, Market Research,
Product Development, Digital Marketing, Strategic Sourcing,
Operations Strategy, Procurement Consulting and Business
Chase, Lawrence & Mayo, Marsh India Insurance Brokers, SBI,
Tata Capital made their presence felt at our campus. Thus,
cementing the strong belief in the high quality of talent
10%
12 %
46 %
Process Management, Retail Liabilities.
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Executive Placement
Report 2017-18 SIMSREE has always prided itself on the quality of students
that get into the institute year on year. The batch of 2016-2018
Pharma while freshers gained exposure through Live Projects
and Internships.
was no different. The batch had a mix of backgrounds such as
Finance was in vogue again with 55% of the students opting for
management, commerce and engineering with 70% being
Overview engineers. More than half of the student pool had experience
Finance followed by Marketing, with almost 29% of the batch
Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research & witnessed industry leaders from various sectors visiting the opting for it. Systems and Operations specialisations are being
from zero to over three years in sectors ranging from IT to
Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE) concluded the final campus and recruiting for noteworthy profiles. Aditya Birla preferred by more and more students.
placement season for the 2016-18 batch maintaining an Group, Barclays Investment Bank, Citi Group, Deloitte USI,
impressive track record of 100% placements. Consistently Dun & Bradstreet, Gulf Oil, HDFC Life, ICICI Bank, JP Morgan Key Highlights
ranked amongst the top business schools across the nation, Chase & Co, Kansai Nerolac, Mannapuram Finance, Marsh
SIMSREE has become a much sought after destination for an India Insurance Brokers, Nielsen, Saint Gobain, Tata Capital SECTOR WISE BREAK-UP OF COMPANIES
array of prestigious recruiters. Financial Services, Wipro were a few of the esteemed
companies that exhibited complete faith in SIMSREE's talent.
The Executive Placement Season for the batch of 2016-18
Batch Profile 44 % 21 % 8 % 4 % 4 % 19 %
5 % 1%
12 % GENDER RATIO BFSI IT and FMCG, FMCD Textiles, Real Estate Operations Others
Consulting and Pharma & Media & Logistics
Engineering Male Female
5% Management
The placement statistics show that SIMSREE has, yet again, marketing majors witnessed a plethora of profiles such as
EDUCATIONAL Commerce proved to be a campus of choice for recruiters. It is a Brand Manager, Digital Sales, Digital Marketing, Relationship
testimony to the fact that SIMSREE stands for excellence in Manager and Senior Area Sales Manager while the Systems
BACKGROUND business education and the kind of faith recruiters have in its and Operations students were picked up as Business Analyst,
Science
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student quality. Business & System Integration Lead, Consultant, Operations
Others % % A host of new recruiters like Aditya Birla Capital, Blackrock,
Manager, Supply Chain Manager, etc.
Canara Robeco, CBRE, Credit Agricole, Dabur, DBS, Many students were offered Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) and
77% Mannapuram Finance, Reliance Commercial Finance, and Pre-Placement Interviews (PPIs) based on their exemplary
many others, offered lucrative profiles to the talent pool at performance and knowledge as displayed during their
SIMSREE. To top it, the operations batch proved their wit by Summer Internships.
5 13 %
bagging an international placement at Doka.
15 %
SPECIALIZATION
DIVISION
2-3 Years WORK
EXPERIENCE
42 %
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55 %
Freshers
Numbe r of Students Eligible Number of Companies Visited Number of New Recruiters
29 %
Finance
Operations
Marketing
Systems
20 %
1-2 Years
10 %
20 LPA
Highest Domestic CTC (INR)
10.92 LPA
Average CTC (INR)
10.50 LPA
Median CTC (INR)
0-1 Year
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Our Recruiters
Recruiters continued to show faith in our capabilities and many of Sales & Marketing area witnessed students securing offers from
them recruited in double digits. organizations such as Citi Bank , Godrej & Boyce, HDFC Life,
Huhtamaki PPL, ITC Ltd, Kansai Nerolac, Kantar, Welspun to name
BFSI sector included a mix of regular as well as new recruiters such
a few. Manufacturing sector included recruiters like Blue Star,
as Axis Bank, Bank of America Merill Lynch, Barclays, Citi Corp,
Bosch, Dell, D'Décor, Eureka Forbes, Godrej and Boyce, Mercedes-
CRISIL, Darashaw, DCB Bank, Essel Finance, HDFC Bank, ICICI
Benz India Pvt. Ltd, Raymond among others offering different
Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Kotak Bank, Morgan Stanley, Motilal
profiles in the Supply chain & logistics sector.
Oswal, Trafigura, Yes Bank among others offering niche finance
profiles. Consulting firms made their presence felt by offering The Information Technology and Enabled Services sector saw
relevant profiles in the domain. The recruiters included technology giants like Accenture, Atos Worldline, Capgemini,
Bristlecone, Cerebus Consultants, Cognizant, Deloitte USI, GEP, Cognizant, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Syntel coming on campus for
KPMG Global Services. recruitment.
Executive Placement
Committee 2018-19
Director
Dr. Manoj Bhide
Email: director@simsree.net
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GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA'S
SYDENHAM
INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, RESEARCH &
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION