PANIIT USA 2015 ANNUAL REPORT

CELEBRATING TWO YEARS SERVING AS THE PANIIT USA PRESIDENT

Arjun Sen, President PanIIT USA 2014-15 It gives me great pleasure to share with you what the PanIIT USA 2014-15 team has successfully accomplished during the last two years. We started with a clear understanding of the current state of business:

PANIIT MUST ADD VALUE TO EVERY ALUMNUS IN THE COUNTRY ON AN ONGOING BASIS: The Global PanIIT conference happens in the US every two years and approximately 85% of those who attend the conference are local or regional attendees. Hence, if a city hosts a regional conference once every ten years, local alumni feel the passion of the IIT tempo every ten years. For the rest of the country, there is a huge void unless there is a very active PanIIT USA chapter.

PANIIT MUST BE RUN AT PAR WITH SOME OF THE BEST RUN NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTRY: To arrive at that PanIIT USA must have clearly defined goals, updated by-laws, and a Board that is very active and involved. The financial reporting should also have the highest level of transparency and follow all IRS regulations. Each Board member and executive committee member must sign a code of conduct document so that each individual conducts business for PanIIT USA consistent with the charter of PanIIT USA and protects every PanIIT asset.

PANIIT USA MUST REACH OUT TO EVERY ALUMNI IN THE COUNTRY AND BE INCLUSIVE: Historically the PanIIT organization has been dominated by volunteers from the east and west coast. Maintaining that energy in those areas, it is essential that we have volunteers from every part of the country, representing every major chapter, every campus; so that the leadership team is representative of the IIT alumni body in the country.

PANIIT USA MUST HAVE A CLEAR SUCCESSION PLAN TO BE SUCCESSFUL: Any volunteer organization is successful only when it continues to bring in new volunteers, and outgoing volunteers continue to available in an advisory capacity as needed. For PanIIT USA, quite a few volunteers have been doing the heavy lifting incessantly, and it was very important to bring in new faces to the organization to balance the load and move the organization forward.

PANIIT USA ASSETS: As the community of IIT Alumni in the USA crosses 60K it is essential that PanIIT USA protects every asset. Our effort started with trademarking the word PanIIT and after that followed with initiatives to protect other assets.

At the end of two years, we as a team are actually proud of where we have brought the organization. Each of you, IIT alumni, are lifetime members of PanIIT. It is with great pleasure our team presents the 2014-15 annual report to you for your review. As you read the report, you will realize that even though the organization has taken a huge step forward, we still have a lot to do. And that will happen if each of you choose to roll up your sleeves and join the organization. Please share your comments and how you want to contribute to the organization by emailing me and Witty Bindra, your incoming president at support@iit.org. Before I share the details of the 2014-15 team’s contribution, I personally want to thank the following people: Sky (da) Basu, Priyank Saxena, J.V. Maganti, Puneet Agarwal, Witty Bindra and all other volunteers of the Executive team for their dedication and commitment. You all are my PanIIT batchmates and getting to know you was the ultimate reward of this journey. PanIIT USA Board Members: I truly appreciate the support of every Board member. I want to single out Shailesh, Sundi, Sandeep and Manu for their ongoing advice and believing in me. Sid Chowdhary and Gunjan Bagla: Thank you for your vision, hard work, and commitment to start the journey to build the PanIIT USA infrastructure. Today we can dream because of what both of you started. Finally, Monishi (da) Sanyal Suresh Shenoy, Ram Kelkar and Hiten(da) Ghosh: Your passion for PanIIT is very contagious and was the inspiration for me and other volunteers to commit to this role. Again, it was truly my honor to serve you. IITka tempo high forever. Arjun Sen

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SUMMARY OF PANIIT USA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ACCOMPLISHMENTS (2014-2015)

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LEADERSHIP FROM OUR CHAIRMAN PanIIT USA was fortunate to have a chairman of the caliber of Shailesh Mehta for the last two years. Shailesh is the Managing General Partner of Granite Hill Capital Partners and manages a PE Fund. Prior to that Shailesh was General Partner with Invesco funds, Operating General Partner of Sequoia India, a member of the founding team and Chairman and CEO of Providian Financial Corporation, Executive Vice President at the Ohio-based Key Corp. Shailesh has served on major national and international boards. He was appointed by the Governor of California, as a trustee of California State University system which governs 23 CSUs. When I went to meet Shailesh at his home before his term began, I was personally excited to have him engaged with PanIIT. Shailesh is a no-nonsense leader who hit the ground running. From the first meeting itself, he set the vision of making PanIIT a professional organization and got every Board member involved in the journey. Here are few appreciations from Board members about Shailesh’s contribution to PanIIT USA. “A big thank you to Shailesh for bringing focus on good governance, financial transparency and professionalism at PanIIT”, Sandeep Pandya, IIT Bombay President, and PanIIT USA Finance Chair. “Being involved with PanIIT USA over the last ten years, I completely appreciate the progress PanIIT USA made during Shailesh’s term as Chairman,” Kiran Thota, IIT Guwahati Representative to the PanIIT USA Board. “I truly enjoyed working with Shailesh in the Board. His passion and leadership were instrumental in my team developing the new bylaws for PanIIT USA,” Sundi Sundaresh, PanIIT USA Board member and Governance Chair.

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WORDS FROM OUR CHAIRMAN, DR. SHAILESH MEHTA

It has been an honor to serve as Chairman of PanIIT USA. I am both proud and overwhelmed by the energetic and enthusiastic volunteers of our US alumni core. They are our strength and their selfless devotion needs to be saluted. I also want to thank the PanIIT USA board. They have been extremely helpful in moving the organization forward. I always respect the collective wisdom of our board. I must also thank the entire Silicon Valley chapter team and convener for a very successful PanIIT conference. We have made substantial progress. We cleaned up all past issues and set up a transparent financial reporting. Thanks to the board team for handling this. Now we have accountability for every dollar spent. When I joined as chairman, there were lot of scattered disjointed initiatives. With the help of the board we created a very focused organization with a clear mission. We got the entire team aligned to this mission and clearly defined goal. I thought the entire board was energized and several members joined to lead various initiatives from governance to protection of our brand and intellectual properties. Our EC team under the leadership of our President, Arjun Sen, did an excellent job in building infrastructure including the database, upgraded newsletter and other infrastructure related activities. I thank them for their tireless effort. We also opened additional chapters and are starting to build a chapter management system. While we have made great strides, the work is in progress. We need our business model that can have predictable cash flow. We need to have our own full time office and executive director. We need to invest in building the IIT brand. We need to open many more chapters. We need more advanced systems to monitor chapters’ progress and be their resource center. I am sure the next chairman, president and executive team will take the organization forward to a whole new height. Best and happy holidays Shailesh Mehta

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PANIIT GOVERNANCE

Governing boards in the nonprofit contexts share many legal precepts: the oversight role, the decision-making power, their place in the organizational structure, and their members’ fiduciary duties. A big part of this starts with having current by-laws of the organization and clearly defined roles for key office bearers. Without updated by-laws, an organization cannot flourish, and without the clearly defined roles, it is tough to establish continuity and accountability in the organization. As the PanIIT USA Board wanted to update its by-laws and roles of key office bearers, Sundi Sundaresh was nominated as the Governance Chair of the Board. He was meticulous and organized; prioritized the by-law areas, developed recommendations and got buy-in from board members on every by-law before they were formally approved. Sundi demonstrated that it is not good enough to just have current by-laws, but it is essential that there is total awareness and buy-in for the by-laws. Over two years, it was my honor and pleasure to work with Sundi on Governance and other areas. Today when I look at the current by-laws, posted in the iit.org site for all alumni to review, I can fully appreciate the magnitude of accomplishment of the Board in this area, under Sundi’s leadership.

PANIIT USA GOALS Historically PanIIT has been defined more by its leaders and their hearts. That often resulted in spreading us thin or starting initiatives that we did not have the resources to finish. The 2014 PanIIT USA Board defined the two goals of the organization as:

1. Promote and enhance a common “IIT” brand for the IIT’s and all Alumni (Branding) in the USA.

2. Offer common Alumni Services to help alumni achieve their professional and personal (or lifestyle) goals in the USA.

There was a lot of discussion on activities that result in “giving back”. The Board realized that giving back happens at the campus level or when individual alumni or organizations run by individuals passionately give back. PanIIT USA currently does not have the resources to run a “give back” initiative, nor did it want to support one “Giving back” effort. Instead, PanIIT USA will celebrate every give-back effort by every alumnus and promote them using its assets; the newsletters and the conferences. That means if you are passionately running a give-back organization, and want to use the PanIIT assets to promote it, please reach out to support@iit.org. The defining of the goals was the first step and after that, the Board and the Executive Committee had the discipline of staying focused on the goals.

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BY SUNDI SUNDARESH, Prominent Alumni Representative to the PanIIT USA Board.

I was on a beautiful hike with my family, on a volcanic trail on the seashore of the Big Island of Hawaii. The shrill ring of my cell phone broke the sheer joy of that moment. Monishi Sanyal (IITM) and Robert Nathan (IITM) were at the other end of the line inviting me to join the PanIIT USA Board as a Prominent Alumni representative. They assured me that this request had the support of the Board and that there would be no real work. Right! And, of course, I believed them. Being a passionate IITian, I had no hesitation in accepting the role, with no idea about the task ahead of me. Soon, it became clear that, in order to be viewed by IIT alumni nationwide, as a professional, credible alumni services organization, we had to build services, improve execution, be transparent, and hold ourselves accountable to the highest levels of ethics and integrity. We needed to bring the PanIIT organization to the same level of professionalism that we IITians are used to, as leaders in corporate, academic and entrepreneurial settings. IITians love to tackle problems and this Board was no exception. We formed a Governance Committee with me as the Chairperson. Others on the committee included the Chairman (Shailesh Mehta), President (Arjun Sen) and a Campus representative (Kiran Thota). During the course of my tenure, we proceeded to drive a number of initiatives based on the problems we identified. 1. Clarify mission and rules/policies:

Updated bylaws several times to improve Governance in areas around mission, elections, term limits for various members

2. Hold transparent elections for office bearers:

Defined process and led selection of President/VP for 2014-15 in late 2013

Improved process to select President-Elect in a timely manner - led selection for President/VP for 2016-17 in late 2014

3. Hold ourselves to high standards of Ethics and Integrity:

Developed Conflict of Interest Policy, guidelines and document for Board signatures

4. Clarify roles of members serving on the Board:

Defined roles/responsibilities for Chairman, President, VP, Prominent Alumni and Campus Board reps

As part of this team and as one who serves on other corporate and non-profit Boards, I am proud of the progress we have made in the last three years. I am confident that the next group of passionate IITians serving on this Board will take PanIIT USA to even greater heights. Sundi Sundaresh

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PANIIT FINANCES

Getting to 100% compliance and transparency in all financial transactions have been one of the highest priorities of the Board. The Board has achieved these goals based on the leadership of Sai Sandeep Tallam, PanIIT USA CFO & Treasurer and Sandeep Pandya, Chairman of the Finance Committee. As PanIIT USA defined its Goals and Governance, it was important to align the organization and bring all PanIIT funds under one roof. It was also essential to document clearly defined financial rules, regulations, and processes that should be followed by PanIIT. Here is a challenge that we faced because we did not have clearly defined financial rules and guidelines. The Board wanted to make sure that the funds raised by Capital IIT Chapter for Katrina Relief were brought in the PanIIT books. As the Board reviewed the process, it was very clear that the Capital IIT Chapter and PanIIT USA Board had two completely different POV on the issue and how it should be resolved. Thanks to the Governance Chair of PanIIT USA and the leaders of Capital IIT Chapter, the issue was resolved to the satisfaction of everyone. But the bigger realization that came up in the process is that PanIIT must document its code of conduct and how, as an organization it wants to operate. Without documenting this, these kind of differences are bound to happen. Hence, PanIIT USA team documented every element of its working procedures including a code of conduct of its office bearers, financial practices, fund approval and audit processes and continued to operate in full compliance with the law and regulations. This will assist future PanIIT office bearers, who can now focus their efforts on taking PanIIT to the next level. A complete financial status update has been shared with the PanIIT USA Board in every quarterly Board meeting. Once approved by the Board, the minutes (including financials) have been consistently posted on the website for the view of all stakeholders. Each of you, IIT Alumni, can review the updated PanIIT USA financial status as part of the Board meeting minutes.

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A REPORT BY CFO, PANIIT INC: It gives me great pleasure to report to you the following:

1. All historical financial transactions of PanIIT Inc. have been migrated into an industry standard accounting software i.e. QuickBooks. Additional transactions since then are being updated into the same periodically. Having an updated summary of the financial accounts in QuickBooks helps in a smooth generation of P&L and Balance sheets when needed.

2. Instituted the following best practices to

ensure high levels of financial transparency: PanIIT Financial Update to be given at all

Board Meetings including P&L and Balance Sheet. This should also include highlighting high value transactions and a reconciliation against budget.

Appropriate approval process for high value transactions which include two signatories for these transactions.

Debit cards issued to President and Vice-President to perform day to day business transactions eliminating the requirement for frequent reimbursements.

Efficient filing of taxes for the national account using the P&L and balance sheets form QuickBooks.

Disclosure process in place for applicable financial transactions between the EC team or the board members.

3. Additionally, financial guidance has been

provided via a MOU outlining the necessary financial reporting requirements and tax filing.

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WORDS FROM INCOMING PANIIT USA PRESIDENT

Witty Bindra, Vice President, PanIIT USA 2014-15 and President, PanIIT USA 2016-17 I personally would like to say thank you to all the board members being a part of the organization and understanding the importance of branding and alumni services. Many of these accomplishments are, in part, the result of Shailesh’s focused leadership, his relentless attention to detail and his zeal for the PanIIT USA family. It has been a real honor to work alongside with Arjun Sen and help him and the team to achieve the set goals. Arjun’s goals as president were to promote a culture of “alumni helping alumni,” enhance inter-alumni connections, reinforce the diversity of PanIIT and increase engagement in chapter’s services to promote branding in the country. He excelled in achieve all the goals. I would also like to recognize Sundi Sundraesh, Prominent alumni representative who worked diligently to head the governance team. The finances were all streamlined and the credit goes to Sandeep Pandaya for working with Sai Sandeep and the team to make sure we maintain a total transparency and financial information is available for the board to review at any time. I kept meeting impressive alumni who cared, who wanted to do the right thing, who were volunteering because they wanted PanIIT to succeed. This is what it’s all about—building a sense of community so that people can succeed. An active alumni association is vital to create a voice for alumni and this is an exciting time at PanIIT USA and I look forward to working with all of you.

CHAPTER SERVICES UPDATE In 2014-15, the PanIIT USA Executive Team focused its chapter services efforts in the following three areas:

1. SUPPORT CURRENT CHAPTERS AND LAUNCH NEW CHAPTERS: At the end of 2015, PanIIT USA has 23 chapters. The map below shows the current PanIIT USA chapters. (new chapters are marked with a *)

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2. DEVELOPING EVERY TOOL CHAPTERS NEED TO SUCCESSFULLY RUN CHAPTER ACTIVITIES: IIT.org site has the following

information that is for immediate access:

THINKING OF STARTING A NEW CHAPTER? Starting a new chapter is exciting for the alumni in the area. But a good start puts the chapter in a strong position for long-term success. Here is a set of documents that will help you jump start the process. The vision at PanIIT USA chapter support is simple; we want to assist you with all the infrastructure you need so that your chapter team can focus on planning a successful event. Here are the 7 steps to launching a new PanIIT USA chapter. 1. FORM LEADERSHIP TEAM:

Identify 3 to 5 alumni members or spouses who are committed to being active members of the leadership team for the first 2 years. Constitute core Committees: Membership, Sponsorship, Admin & Finance, Events, Mentoring, PR, etc.

2. IDENTIFY ALUMNI BASE: Identify number of alumni in the region and gather as many emails as you can. PanIIT USA recommends at least 25 alumni or alumni spouses in the region to start a chapter.

3. IDENTIFY SUPPORTERS: Identify potential speakers, sponsors, partners (institutions, government agencies and other promotional bodies).

4. DEFINE FIRST YEAR VISION: The leadership team should define the first year vision. PanIIT USA recommends first year vision to include defining by-laws, creating logo, getting website up and hosting, at least, two events.

5. CHAPTER NAME, LOGO & BY-LAWS: Come up with a chapter name and used the templates provided by PanIIT USA to come up with by-laws, logo, and identify key office bearers for the first two years. Submit chapter documentation to PanIIT USA for approval.

6. CREATE WEBSITE & LEVERAGE NESWLETTER, SOCIAL MEDIA: Use the website template provided by PanIIT USA to upload a website on the iit.org site. The site will be hosted by PanIIT USA for the chapter. Use PanIIT USA Newsletter and Social Media

7. FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Submit proposal for financial support; grant and loan to launch the chapter.

HOW TO TAKE YOUR CHAPTER TO THE NEXT LEVEL: Sometimes a chapter needs a little help to make it to the next level. Here are the six steps recommended by successful chapter leaders from around the country. CURRENT STATE:

When was the chapter formed? How many members do you have? How many emails do you have? PanIIT USA will sync with your database every quarter.

DO YOU HAVE BY-LAWS & ARE YOU REGISTERED? If not, use the PanIIT by-laws tool to create chapter’s bylaws and PanIIT registration tool to register.

OUTREACH: DO YOU HAVE A WEBSITE? IS YOUR WEBSITE CONNECTED TO IIT.ORG? If not, use the PanIIT website tool to create your chapter’s website on iit.org and leverage PanIIT outreach tools like the newsletter and social media.

HOSTING EVENTS Use the PanIIT USA event game plans to maximize the success of your events. The event game plan provides best practices, how to promote the event, event insurance (provided free by PanIIT USA) and list of chapters as mentors who have successfully hosted similar events.

CELEBRATE YOUR CHAPTER Use PanIIT USA tools to include your chapter’s activities in the PanIIT USA monthly newsletter, LinkedIn and website to celebrate your chapter.

NATIONAL CONNECTIVITY Attend the monthly PanIIT USA Chapter call on the 3th Wednesday of a month. Share and celebrate your chapter’s events and learn from the best practices of other chapters.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: PanIIT USA recommends chapters to have annual alumni awards and recognition. A list of the awards in alignment with PanIIT USA’s awards has been recommended in the website. After your event, please make sure you share the news of celebration, with pictures, with the PanIIT USA newsletter team.

BEST PRACTICES FOR HOLDING SUCCESSFUL EVENTS:

We interviewed chapter leaders from around the country and had documented some of the best practices. Here is the type of events that have been successful

Leadership Events (Annual Awards Gala, Speaker, Panel Discussion, Networking, Happy Hour, Monthly Business Luncheon)

Give Back Events (Community Services) Social (Holi, Picnic, Diwali) Regional Multicity Event (Mini one evening

conference) PanIIT USA recommends, at least, three

events every calendar year. As you complete a successful event, take a moment to create a road-map for that event and share it with PanIIT USA.

WHAT PANIIT CAN DO FOR YOUR CHAPTER: Here are the value added chapter services: OPERATIONS:

The Chapter Safety Net: PanIIT USA Guarantees to cover the expenses if a pre-approved event runs in a loss.

New Chapter Seed Money/Grant/Loan to support chapter launch activities.

Event Insurance: Offer free event insurance for chapter activities.

Chapter Website: Assist in chapter website page and free hosting on iit.org.

Newsletter: Outreach to alumni using PanIIT USA Newsletter.

Social Media (LinkedIn): Outreach to alumni using PanIIT Social Media solution.

Bylaws guideline, Logo kit, Event Best Practices, Chapter Leadership Awards

FUTURE:

Create a Speakers Bureau of prominent alumni who can visit chapters and help attract an audience for events.

Create Infrastructure with national partners what will enable Chapters to run events with more ease.

Event Registration: Identify an event registration partner and consider providing that service to the Chapters.

Event Management: Identify and recommend national event management partner for larger partners.

Contact Management & Email: Identify national vendor and negotiate multiple licenses for chapters.

Resource on the website: This will include logos and a standard template for speaker introductions, contract.

3. CREATE A GOVERNANCE OF DIRECT CHAPTER REPRESENTATION TO THE PANIIT USA BOARD: Chapter presidents will elect

a Chapter Representative to the Board. The role of the Chapter Representative is brought chapter issues directly to the Board and also share with Chapter presidents the tools developed by PanIIT USA. Here are reports by the first two chapter representatives to the Board.

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UPDATE FROM CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES

PRATISH KANANI: Chapter Representative 2014 Over the last few years, PanIIT has brought a number of existing chapters closer together, supported chapters with core services, and helped stand-up new chapters. The support provided to the chapters includes the ability to host the chapter information on the PanIIT website, services to help host local events, discounted event registration capabilities, a chapter handbook for operations, and increased interaction between the various chapters. All of these together have meant that the chapters can better provide services to the alumni.

PARESH SHAH: Chapter Representative 2015 At the beginning of the year, we had initiated a process to get Chapter Presidents on a monthly call. We had about three calls, and we were able to get some involvement in the Global Conference. The goal for the Board this year was to start two new chapters and assist in reviving others. We are in the process of setting up a Chapter in NJ. We also have the initiative to set up a Chapter in Miami, FL. The Ohio and Michigan Chapter has started gathering a lot of momentum under the leadership of Rajesh Radhakrishnan. The Dallas Chapter ensures that it has one meeting every month at the same location. They have also split the role of the head of the Chapter between a President and Chairman so that there is someone in charge if one person gets busy. The Houston Chapter is successfully working on a give-back initiative by having a Tech Day every quarter to teach school kids coding. Overall, we have tried to get the Chapters to coordinate more with the Board. The process has begun, but a lot more needs to be done. The next year’s conference will be held in Rhode Island under the leadership of IIT AGNE president Raj Laad. The Board has taken initiatives to connect the NY Chapter and the Connecticut Chapter to the Boston Chapter to help. Hemchandra Shertukde of CT and Vinay Karle of NY have taken the initiative to help the AGNE group for the conference.

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CHAPTER ACTIVITY UPDATE

GREATER HOUSTON: Pratish Kanani The IIT Alumni of Greater Houston, a 501c3 organization, is focused on helping our members connect, develop and give back to the community. This organization was instrumental in hosting the IIT 2013 Global Conference and has continued that success by hosting a number of events over the last two years.

Under the connecting pillar, we have two signature events every year, a summer bowling event and a fall picnic event where we provide a platform for the social connection that brings together up to 250 of our members. Other connect events have included a sold-out dinner event hosted with the ex-Captain for the Indian Cricket Team, Ajit Wadekar. On the professional connecting and networking side, we have co-hosted joint networking sessions with the MIT Enterprise Forum in Houston. We have had even more success under the develop pillar. Our Career Insights events hosted jointly with Rice University has allowed us to bring industry experts together to discuss careers in areas such as Exploration & Production, Investment Banking, and Management Consulting. We also mentor students at the University of Houston. Finally, under our give back pillar, we conduct our branded IITAGH /C@deFest// event where we teach middle and high school students how to code a website in a day. The event has been very well received and will now be extended to the 29 campuses of the Houston Community College. These are just some of the events we have hosted.

All of this has been made possible by an amazing group of volunteers who are committed and have a strong sense of service and connection with the community. Photos are available on the IITAGH website at www.iitagh.org/news

SAN DIEGO: Priyank Saxena A group of 25 IIT Alumni and spouses living in the San Diego area gathered in Royal India Miramar on November 6, 2015, to mingle and meet with PanIIT USA President Arjun Sen. Arjun introduced IITConnect to the guests and briefly spoke about all the activities that PanIIT USA is involved. Everyone was given a chance to introduce themselves. It was wonderful to know each other and their love for IIT family and beautiful city of San Diego. There was an even mix of all ages and enjoyable conversations on various topics - spirituality, finance, policy, and technology. The dinner was sponsored by PanIIT USA was a cherry on the cake. IIT Alumni living in the San Diego area are served by the PanIIT SoCal Chapter, and the San Diego alumni regularly attend the events in Los Angeles. Everyone showed the desire to hold the PanIIT SoCal events in San Diego as well. The members are working on forming a local SoCal sub team, who will take responsibility in building the organization in San Diego and support the events.

COLORADO: Abhay Kale On April 12, 2014, PanIIT Colorado chapter hosted members of the PanIIT USA committee. The event attracted about 30 alumni. Given that we estimate about 50 alumni in the Denver area, and the event was organized on short notice, the attendance was quite encouraging. The visiting members, including not so-visiting President Arjun Sen (he is local), shared the initiative taken by this year’s national committee, including the creation of a comprehensive database that will assist the PanIIT members in business as well as personal endeavors. The interaction level between local members and the visitors was intense. Topics of the discussion centered on the database, the Houston meet, future direction and difficulties faced by the smaller PanIIT chapters. The success of the endeavor was evident by the fact

that the meeting went well beyond schedule. We hope to organize many such meetings in future to hear from any other alumni passing by Denver. Hopefully, there will be a channel to track and contact such members.

CAROLINA: Purnima Gupta We celebrated Dr. Narayan's new achievement: Professor Narayan wins 2014 North Carolina award in science, the highest civilian honor of the state of North Carolina. In the news: How B. Jayant Baliga Transformed Power Semiconductors The 2014 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient pioneered the IGBT, now found in cars, lighting, robots, and more. Activities: We have at least 10 more IITians moved to our area. We have been able to involve more alumni to come up with events of their choice. During 2014-15, we had a regular monthly get-together over a glass of beer. We plan to have one social get-together and one speaker event before the end of the year, by new blood in the area.

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NEW ENGLAND: Raj Laad IITSINE, the first IIT alumni chapter, is a 501c6 member organization. IITSINE members, as well as other prominent New England community members, felt that IIT community must play a larger role within the New England community. With that objective, a new organization IITAGNE (IIT Association of Greater New England) was formed in December 2014 and registered as a non-profit 501c3 organization. IITAGNE goals are to:

engage in activities that promote education and research in STEM

provide forums and events that foster exchange of ideas between members and the larger New England community

recognize talent, provide guidance and support career development

assist new members to adjust to local community

IITAGNE has been busy planning for 2016 Leadership Conference to be held on August 12-14, 2016 in Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI. Over 50 volunteers have been meeting earnestly 2-3 times a month in smaller teams to present a great conference. Please mark your calendars. We invite you to participate in the organization; know that it is an event of and for all IITians. Following is a summary of events held during the 2014-2015 term.

Annual Gala Dinner: April 2014

Current state and opportunities in real estate: June 2014

Annual Picnic: August 2014

Fall Social: September 2014

Entrepreneurship Conclave: September 2014

Diwali Celebration: October 2014

Annual Picnic: August 2015

Welcome New Students: November 2015

Entrepreneurship and career opportunities in Healthcare: November 2015

PHOENIX: Karan Syal The Phoenix Chapter kick-started in late 2014 with a bunch of ASU students, who brain-stormed ways to connect more formally to alumni in Arizona. We started with a small informal lunch at a favorite Indian place “Chutneys” and was attended by over 30 alumni who came from far and across in Arizona. The lunch was very well received, and it was great to see alumni sharing stories from “back in the days”! Building on the momentum, the initial team of ASU students reached out to more alumni and the chapter team was setup with the involvement of a few senior alumni and their spouses in the mix. Further, the 8-member team is divided into individual committees from finance, events, networking with 2-3 members each who support each other in these activities. The chapter team has met with Mr. Arjun Sen, PanIIT USA President, on two separate occasions and we have holistically incorporated his kind advice into our day-to-day functioning. The team added another feather to its success when they organized another alumni picnic in the valley over the summer of 2015. This meet was attended by over 50-60 alumni with their spouses making it a grand event with over 80 attendees. As

with the past event, this was received with great success and many more senior alumni offered help to take the chapter forward. The chapter team hopes to build on this foundation and take the chapter forward more comprehensively. Already events such as “Fundae session” in collaboration with ASU student organizations as well as Happy hours are being planned for the fall holiday season.

CONNECTICUT: Hemchandra Shertukde (Sher) CT PANIIT Chapter was formed in December of 2014 with an initial membership of five, which slowly rose to 30 by mid-January of 2015. We were to hold a function end of December 27th of 2014, but it did not materialize since most members were out of town.

NORTHERN TEXAS: Samir Bhargava IIT Alumni Association of North Texas (IITNT) had regrouped earlier in the year with the intent to increase association activities and make it more relevant for the Alumni in the region. In the past 7 months, we have started the regular monthly events for Happy Hour and started Lunch Speaker series. The focus for Lunch Speaker series is to bring speakers for technical or social issues relevant to a large segment of our Alumni in the region. Last month we had our annual picnic which was attended by about 100 people representing all the legacy IITs and graduating batches ranging from 1966 to 2011. The attendance underlined the need for the Alumni association and the work we have started on. We look forward to increasing our activities next year with more participation from the Alumni.

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IITCONNECT - PANIIT USA DATABASE: AN UPDATE BY SKY BASU In 2014, a group of IITians with the new leadership of Arjun Sen started the PanIIT alumni database project. In the past, there were multiple efforts for the same without success. The database team took a two-phase approach with some reasonable goals for each phase. They were: Short Term (6 months to 1 year)

Start Populating Database with Updated Quality Content

Implement Registration and Edit Pages for Alumni Profiles

Implement Basic Search Capability

Implement Communication between Alumni Capability

Long Term (1 to 2 years)

Implement Mass Email Messages Specific for Campus, Chapters Feature

Implement Integration/ Synchronization with social media – LinkedIn

Implement Synchronization with Campus Databases

Based on the past experience the team

decided that a custom development would

not be an option due to the high risk, high

cost and high involvement requirements. The

search for vendors will be limited to those

who have a SaaS solution.

The team developed a detailed requirements

list to identify vendors. With active

participation from various team members, an

initial short list was made and then a final

selection. The winner was

‘Yourmembership.com’. While the team’s

primary criteria were aligned to the Database

requirements, the selected service offered

additional features of mass mailing and

conference registration including payment

processing which allowed PanIIT to

consolidate services to a single vendor and

reduce complexity and cost. That was nice!

After the official inauguration of the

Database in July this year at the PanIIT

conference in Bay area, today the registered membership in

the database grew to 29,387! Though this is the single largest

PanIIT database in the world, we are still

missing many IIT alumni in the USA. The team

hopes eventually this will become the single

definitive global database for all alumni from all

campuses of past, present, and future.

It is easy to say that the success of the database

project was due to the diligence, hard work and

leadership of team members, but there were a

few more factors, which also worked well. They

are:

A very well defined goal at the beginning

and a process to follow. The PanIIT president

Arjun Sen and Vice President (President elect

for 2016) Witty Bindra clearly deserve the

kudos for that.

Some of the young and energetic team

members working hard to make it possible. One

person, I should mention specifically is Clint

McCaskill who helped in the process at every

step.

The support/ service team of

Yourmembership.com, which patiently

implemented all the requirements to make the

service intuitive and useful.

Finally, the support of the Board of PanIIT,

the USA who has shown the trust and faith in

the database team to make decisions and move

forward at various stages.

PANIIT WOMEN’S DATABASE PanIIT USA Executive Team is very proud of this accomplishment. This started as a dream and very quickly went from idea to plan to implementation phase. The passionate leadership of Mandy Pant and Ranjani Saigal blended with effective outreach by the communication team lead by Priyank Saxena resulted in rapid launch of the database. The Bay Area chapter took this to the next level where they hosted the first IIT Alumni Women’s day to launch the 2015 conference. This will be a very powerful leadership group within PanIIT USA and we expect big things from the group in future.

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PANIIT COMMUNICATIONS: AN UPDATE BY PRIYANK SAXENA The PanIIT USA Team: Arjun Sen, Priyank Saxena, Karan Sayal, Clint McCaskill, Mandy Pant, Ranjani Saigal, Ashish Kumar, Ravi Bollina, Anvita Bajpai

The PanIIT Communication team began our term under the leadership of Arjun Sen in January 2014 with the theme of "Building the Bridges". In today's world, communication technology is that bridge that connects the alumni not only in their cities but also across the states and countries. For the Communication Team, the mission was to provide the IIT Alumni as many technology tools as possible to connect with each other. In the last two years, we are proud to say that we provided a brand new iit.org website, vibrant LinkedIn Social Media Group, content rich newsletters, and a user friendly database IITConnect to reach out to fellow alumni. Also, the Communication Team was always ready to assist the alumni at the short notice, whether it was an urgent communication or fund raising or promoting alumni conferences and other chapter events. List of accomplishments:

1. Website: A brand new website that provides a one-stop shop to provide access to PanIIT USA Board members, US alumni chapters, and their representative, Campus organizations, past conferences, newsletter archives and news items and upcoming events. Historically PanIIT had built websites, but the challenge has been keeping it updated. The current website was built with one clear focus; it can be updated by simple “copy, paste and save.” For each chapter, the content was developed after interviewing chapter members. Chapter members simply wanted to find out the following: a. Is there an active chapter near me? Putting current

chapter events on the website makes members realize that there is a chapter nearby.

b. Whom should I contact? A picture of the chapter president and his/her contact information makes it easy for alumni to contact chapter members.

c. When is the next event? This information gives a member a reason to connect with the chapter.

Recently, we have integrated the IITConnect database that facilitates alumni to alumni connections at the individual level. A website design and security policy was developed by the communication team. The website is updated weekly.

2. Social Media: The IIT Alumni LinkedIn Group is the

official social media group of PanIIT USA. It has 28500+ IIT alumni from around the world. The LinkedIn team has put a lot of effort in deleting the non-alumni members and making the group spam free. The joining requests are approved only after a thorough check of individual profiles according to the policy developed by the team. Due to the active management, the traffic on discussion and jobs pages have greatly increased; by 100%.

Per the request of the alumni, several special interest subgroups were created based on geographical region and professional interests. For the first time, IIT Women alumni under the leadership of Ranjani Saigal and Mandy Pant was created. The group is 850+ members strong and it engages the women alumni in providing tools for their professional growth. In addition to LinkedIn, the local chapters and campuses use Facebook and WhatsApp groups to promote their events and establish alumni to alumni connections. A PanIIT Twitter account was used to communicate key PanIIT conference message to IIT alumni.

3. Newsletter: Newsletter team comprising of a creative

cell, published 18 newsletters in the last two years, which are archived at the iit.org website. With the outreach to more than 30K alumni living in the USA, the newsletter provided a platform: a. for the campus organizations to write articles about

the history and accomplishments, b. to fellow alumni to share their wisdom with us on

Guru Funda and Insights columns c. to creative writers to share their memories from

the campus activities on Nostalgia column. d. to authors to speak about their books and articles e. to Alumni Chapters in the USA to showcase their

events and publicize their upcoming events f. and finally, news articles in the media about the IIT

campuses and IIT Alumni accomplishments.

4. IIT Connect: The IIT Connect database was created by the Database Team. Communication Team provided all the tactical support and infrastructure in bringing the product to fruition. The database is hosted on the iit.org website. A lot of hours were spent by the team in writing a security policy to ensure the safety of the database.

In the years 2014 and 2015, this team has done their part in building the infrastructure - the Bridges. The challenge for the next team will be to how to make the alumni take their first steps in crossing those bridges. I am sure once one has taken the first step on these bridges, it is going to be a rewarding experience and life-long relationship with an amazing community - called IIT Alumni. As a volunteer, it was a rewarding experience for me to work with a team of highly energetic volunteers who are 100% dedicated to the cause of IIT Alumni. I want to thank each and every one in my team for their full commitment and can-do attitude, because of which we never doubted our abilities in setting the big goals and accomplishing them. I cherish all the learning and relationships I gained along the way.

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ALUMNI SERVICES VISION BY J.V. MAGANTI

With more than 60 thousand alumni from India in the USA,

PanIIT is one of the most dynamic and active alumni

organizations in the USA, boasting prominent and highly

accomplished luminaries in academia, technology, finance,

and entrepreneurship. Offering Alumni Services, primarily

educational and networking opportunities, is the key to

attracting and retaining membership.

As part of our educational outreach, PanIIT hosts its flagship

“Global Conference” organized biennially in the USA for four

days with a number of presentations on varying topics. In

addition, most chapters organize educational seminars or

day-long conferences for their members.

DIRECTORY SERVICES

The PanIIT Website is the face of the organization, and all of

the alumni services are provided through this interface. The

Directory Service is one of the most useful alumni services

and number one reason that brings alumni to the website.

With a lot of effort on the part of the database team, a robust

database of the backend (clean and verified data for over 30

thousand alumni), and a user-friendly interface on the

frontend has been finally launched this year. We currently

provide directory services with simple search options. We

provided much publicity and promotion of the alumni

database and its value through PanIIT emails over the last few

months as well as through distribution of bookmarks at the

recently held annual conference at Santa Clara. With the

strong database in place now, there are many potential

opportunities to leverage this infrastructure to provide

enhanced directory services. As part of our future

enhancements, we envision the ability to search and locate

alumni based on specific criteria –mentor/mentee,

investor/entrepreneur, collaborators, employer/employee

(job boards), etc.

MERCHANDIZE SERVICES

To create PanIIT pride and a sense of loyalty towards

respective campuses, we realized there is a huge potential for

merchandise sales with IIT-insignia (T-Shirts, Hats, Coffee

Mugs, Water Bottles, Coat Pins, Travel Gear - backpacks and

other smaller items) with either PanIIT exclusive logos or the

PanIIT logo in combination with a specific IIT campus logo,

depending on the volume of interest. We are currently

working on sourcing vendors to undertake this initiative.

BUSINESS SERVICES

There is good potential to provide the following personalized

services to alumni in a cost-effective manner.

Life Insurance plans and products

Financial Planning & Services

Advertisements on the PanIIT website, Newsletters,

Conference Brochures

Funding opportunities: Connecting entrepreneurs

and investors

We have made contacts with several companies

(AnyPerk.com, Beyondwork.com, Passportunlimited.com,

etc.) and have had extensive discussions. However, we still

have not determined any vendors that will suit our needs. As

PanIIT is a not-for-profit and without a membership fee, we

find it difficult to initiate these services as most of the

vendors require upfront and ongoing revenue to provide their

services. We are currently exploring alternatives – providing

advertising space on our website and/or broadcasting their

services to our members.

TRAVEL SERVICES

We plan to create and promote tour packages by travel

agencies exclusively designed for IIT Alumni. This seems to

be one of the most promising revenue-generating services we

can create for alumni.

We plan to create surveys to capture Alumni interest on the

types of tours they are interested in cultural, historical,

archeological, domestic international, duration of tours, price

points, interest in joining other alumni at same age-

group/interests/batch mates/same campus, etc.). We aim to

find vendors to provide these travel services at rates far less

expensively than alumni would be able to find on their own.

We have made contacts with the University of Michigan

Alumni Services Travel department as they have an excellent

and very successful travel program specifically catering to

alumni and their families. The tours are primarily run by

faculty (subject matter experts for each of the tours). We

have gathered their brochures and tour operators’

information. We are in the process of contacting the tour

operators to have detailed discussions on the packages they

offer and hope to soon develop a comprehensive travel

services program for PanIIT USA for 2016.

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PANIIT BRANDING By now you must be wondering, if we forgot to work on Branding. No, we did not. One of the defining moments for PanIIT Branding was the 60 minute episode on IIT. Since then quite a few times we have tried to create 60 minutes part 2. But when we reflected on the branding needs of the day, we came up with the following conclusions:

1. In the last 10 years, the world has changed. The median age of 60 minute viewers is nearly 60 years. Social media has taken over and instead of us trying to tell the news, we need to discover content about us that is content worthy.

2. The 60 minutes episode was based on IIT JEE being the world’s toughest exam. We can go and own that again but the group felt that we want to own instead the accomplishments of IITians in this country.

As we started thinking more about branding IITian’s accomplishments, I personally did three things: 1. Went through the LinkedIn profiles of some of the prominent alumni. IIT campus and IIT news was in quite a few cases hidden

in the profile. 2. Watched media interviews of prominent alumni and again in most cases there was no mention of IIT in their interview. 3. Finally I surveyed a group of 100 alumni of different ages and asked them three questions. How do you celebrate IIT when

you are talking to your buddy from IIT? How would you describe IIT and IITians when your write an article and finally how would you describe IITians when you are answering questions to a group of media. There was a clear consensus among the alumni answers. Here are the answers to the questions.

a. When talking to your buddy from IIT: “We are the best.” “We are the cream of the nation.” b. When writing an article about IITians: “We can do anything.” We have made an impact in every field you can

imagine.” c. When facing a group of live media: “We are the best because we all went through the world’s toughest exam.”

As I reflected on the survey responses, I realized that for any reputed University in USA, the power of networking starts after one graduates from the university. That is the defining factor for an Ivy League school. For us the defining moment is the entry point. Based on this it was very clear that we need to first market to our own alumni first, show them the power of being an alumni in this country. Hence we started the database project where we want to connect every alumni with each other. We strongly believe that each of us can gain significantly from the connection to 60,000 other alumni in the country. Once that is in place, then we can further strengthen the “IITIAN PRIDE” by sharing stories of IITian contributions first to the group. Then we will be ready to launch a national initiative to talk about why we are IITians are the best. It is then the message will be so powerful that the next morning, when you walk into a meeting, your colleagues will say, “Did you not go to that University that everyone is talking about? Truly impressive, the magnitude of contribution from your alumni!” Of course you will then feel the true power of the brand, as a confident smile will break in your lips. So, please join the database, “Get to know” each other, “Help” each other and feel the power of the IITian group in this country. And I assure you that the 2016-17 team has big plans on the branding, building on the internal branding work the 2014-15 team has accomplished. In the next page I will share with you a profile of IITians in the country; that will demonstrate to you the elite group you are part of.

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PANIIT USA PROFILE ATTENDED MORE THAN ONE IIT CAMPUS? Yes 8% No 92%

FIRST IIT CAMPUS ATTENDED? (AMONG THOSE WITH MULTIPLE CAMPUS ATTENDED) Kharagpur 23% Bombay 10% Delhi 13% Kanpur 31% Madras 6% Roorkee 8% Guwahati 8%

IIT CAMPUS ATTEND WHEN YOU RECEIVED YOUR MOST RECENT DEGREE Kharagpur 18% Bombay 19% Delhi 9% Kanpur 32% Chennai 14% Roorkee 6% Guwahati 2%

TOTAL DEGREES FROM IIT DO YOU HOLD 1 91% 2 or More 9%

YOUR FIRST DEGREE FROM IIT B Tech 72% B.Sc. 1% Dual Degree 3% M. Tech 14% M.Sc. 5% PhD 2% Other 3%

YOUR SECOND DEGREE FROM IIT Dual Degree 13% M. Tech 58% M.Sc. 12% PhD 8% Not applicable 10%

GRADUATED FROM IIT IN Before 1970 8% 1970s 16% 1980s 19% 1990s 25% 2000s 31% 2010+ 0%

HAS A DEGREE IN USA AFTER IIT DEGREE Yes 74%

PAPERS, PATENTS & BOOKS Published papers 61% Have patents 24% Authored books 12%

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING AREAS BEST DESCRIBES YOUR CURRENT Engineering & Engineering Management 35% Senior Management 18% Academics 13% Researcher 10% Entrepreneur 9% Government Administration 1% Social Work 1% VC or PE 1% Politics 0% Other 11%

ROLE IIT PLAYED IN MAKING YOU SUCCESSFUL IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS Problem Solving Skills 78% Analytical Skills 77% Competitiveness 75% Commitment 67% Patience and Perseverance 62% Willing to Roll-up Sleeves and Dive-in 60% Scientific & Technological Impact 58% Academic Impact 54% Integrity 53% Execution 51% Leadership Impact 49% Innovation 47% Domain Expertise 43% Teaming Skills 42% Risk Taking Capabilities 40% Economic Impact 39% People Management 30% Social Impact 28% Entrepreneurship 24% Business Development 22% YOUR AGE GROUP 18-24 3% 25-29 16% 30-34 19% 35-39 12% 40-44 10% 45-49 9% 50-54 12% 55 or over 19%

ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME, BEFORE TAXES Under $25K 9% $25k to less than $35k 5% $35k to less than $50k 3% $50k to less than $60k 1% $60k to less than $75k 4% $75k to less than $100k 7% $100k to less than $150k 19% $150k or more 52%

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TOP 5 THINGS OF IIT ALUMNI (USA) HAS RECEIVED FROM IIT: 1. Problem Solving Skills (78%) 2. Analytical Skills (77%) 3. Competitiveness (75%) 4. Commitment (67%) 5. Patience and Perseverance (62%)

TOP 5 AREAS WHERE OF IIT ALUMNI (USA) ARE WORKING ARE: 1. Engineering & Engineering Management (35%) 2. Senior Management (18%) 3. Academics (13%) 4. Researcher (10%)

5. Entrepreneur (9%)

A MEASURE OF IIT ALUMNI (USA) CONTRIBUTION: 2 out of 3 have published papers

1 out of 4 have patents

1 out of 10have authored books

OTHER INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT IIT alumni (USA) 3 out of 4 have B Tech degree from IIT

Only 1 out 10 have more than one degree from IIT

3 out of 4 have a degree from US university

Nearly 1 out 4 live in California

Source: 2011 PanIIT USA Survey

PANIIT CONFERENCE UPDATE 2015 SANTA CLARA GLC CONFERENCE BY SUBHASH TANTRY The recent IIT Global Leadership Conference 2015 from July 23-25 in the San Francisco Bay Area, like other PanIIT USA Conferences in the past, has been a great conference experience that matched its slogan: The Internet of People. The Conference brought together the brightest minds to learn from and collaborate with to help us grow in our own way. We had more than 2000 registrants, with 130+ fascinating and thought provoking speakers and panelists with magnanimous contributions by Sponsors and 8 Distinguished Alumni of the IITs. It also added to the coffers of the PanIIT movement in the US as well! What distinguishes these conferences is the IIT spirit that we exude. IITians are a unique group of people. We are passionate about things we like to do. We try to do better than our best, and in the process, we do well by others. Wherever we go, we seek to create a virtuous circle, representing the theme of this conference by innovating, inspiring, achieving and giving back. The IIT spirit came through from the more than 100 IIT volunteers including their spouses who worked hard, inspired their teams, and innovated along the way (including the creation of a unique location sensitive mobile app for the Conference) thereby achieving a Conference that was much appreciated. It was their way of giving back to their alma mater in kind with a drive to excel that we can all be proud of. All in all, it was a blast being a volunteer cherishing every moment of it! Subhash Tantry, Chair IITGLC 2015

2016 BOSTON LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE BY RAJ LAAD The 21st century is witness to accelerating change across economies and beyond political boundaries. With growing populations, global climatic changes, and resource limitations the challenges seem daunting. In the past human ingenuity has delivered a constant stream of innovations to address such issues. What will tomorrow bring? New England is host to world class thought leaders and game-changing innovations that address these challenges and can

dramatically transform the future. Their ideas and innovations have ranged from technologies that augment life at home to enhancements that address health and lifestyle of changing demographics; from large scale disruptions in established industries to major policy impacts at city, state and national levels. The IIT Association of Greater New England (IIT AGNE) invites you to join us as we bring together this dazzling array of thought leaders across industries and technologies, a gathering to paint a vision of the future. To highlight the opportunities for change and to explore how it will impact you personally, at work and on the larger society. The theme of the 2016 Leadership Conference “Leading transformation for a better tomorrow: Technologies that lift the human spirit” highlights the transformational impact science and technology have on our lives. The 2016 Leadership Conference will be held at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island from August 12 to 14, 2016. Past IIT conferences enjoyed a breadth of attendance from senior business executives to academic and technology decision makers. Your support and the presence of your colleagues will make the difference in increasing understanding worldwide. Raj Laad, Chair, 2016 Leadership Conference, chair@iit-2016.org Mondira (Mandy) Pant, Vice Chair, 2016 Leadership Conference, vicechair@iit-2016.org Conference Executive Team

Raj Laad (IITB), Chair

Mondira Pant (IITKGP), Vice Chair Conference Advisory Committee

Ramesh Advani (IITB)

Puran Dang (IITKGP)

Gururaj Deshpande (IITM)

Kedar Gupta (IITK)

Subu Kota (IITKGP)

Nitin Nohria (IITB)

Girish Pathak (IITR)

Amar Sawhney (IITD)

Jit Saxena (IITB)

Deepak Taneja (IITK)

Triveni Upadhyay (IITK)

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WORDS FROM CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVES TO THE PANIIT USA BOARD

IIT BHU, MANU GOYAL As the tenure of the PANIIT USA Board comes to an end in 2015, it is time for a reflection on the achievements of this Board. The current Board made efforts to establish processes and best practices in terms of governance, define the roles of the Executive Committee members, create the infrastructure to bring the alumni base together, as a platform from which the next level of activities can be launched. Among other things, the efforts to secure the intellectual property by trademarking the name “Indian Institute of Technology”, “PANIIT USA”, and the logo will go a long way to help the incoming leadership in future years. Laying down corporate governance procedures and clarity in the roles and responsibilities of the various members of the executive committee would provide the foundation for the continued efforts in that direction. By creating the database and website for the alumni, now a platform has been provided, to launch activities that are directly related to the organization’s objectives of “Brand Building” and “Alumni Services.” In summary, the work of this board should be viewed as the foundation upon which the organization will be built in the future. Overall, an excellent job by the Executive Committee and the PANIIT USA Board in this term. Best wishes to the incoming team to take the mission of the organization further.

GUWAHATI CHAPTER, KIRAN THOTA PanIIT USA has been a work in progress since its inception. We had a great set of programs and efforts catering the Alumni early on. As IITs grew, so did membership and the officers. However, the efforts didn’t always scale. Mission creep, frequent change of guard, lack of clear role descriptions and accountability have hindered the prospects of PanIIT as a growing organization. After the 2005 overhaul of PanIIT USA (organization structure), this is the first time we have revisited the organization structure and fixed the gaps. The governance team led by Sundi had gathered inputs from all parties and defined the

1. Roles, responsibilities 2. Election procedures 3. Tenure 4. Ethics, compliance and

conflict of interest for various elected members.

The rules of engagement between the various members have been well-addressed for smooth operations and the mission better interpreted. Having served with PanIIT for over 12 years, I consider 2015 as a key milestone in achieving the growth planned for the future. Having built a strong foundation, I am confident PanIIT USA can achieve the set goals effectively.

IIT ROORKEE, ANOOP VERMA PANIIT evolved further as a structured organization under the leadership of the executive committee led by Arjun Sen. Arjun, and his team were instrumental in ensuring that all campuses were engaged and participated to take the movement to the next level. Expanding the volunteer base and involving the local chapters helped the board in broadening the appeal of the engaging in alumni affairs for alumni across the board. It helped in establishing the true national character of the community. Supporting teams in executing difficult initiatives resulted in huge successes with global conference and initiatives such as the global directory. As board members and on behalf of the Roorkee campus alumni, we are proud of being a part of these accomplishments and thank everyone on the board and the executive committee for a productive tenure.

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