Personal Brands I Know

 Personal Brands

Some people that are personal brands for me- reasons for it too, and names of institutes I know them from-

Mir Ali Husain- lyricist of many Nagesh Kukunoor films, and a Prof. in the US. (my junior too, at O.U. and IIMB)

Madhan Rehan- dancer, digital marketer, IIM Indore. Wrote a case for me along with a team headed by Kalaivani, from their Google Online Marketing Challenge-winning entry (Asia Pacific).

Shahida- tireless, enthusiastic, quick learner of many things- research and case teaching at PESIT. (now with ASCI)

Manoharan- gentle, firm, understated in a loud world.(PESIT)

Kritika Gupta, Manjunath- toppers in M.R. at Indore. Kritika was not a marketing student, but her cases figure in my book.

Singers- Shruti Sharma, Shweta Sinha (IMT), Anuja Anand  (IIMI)

Authors- Pavan Tarawade, Sreeram, Khyati Jha, Tanya Shrivastava (IMT)

Homeo doctor and Indore MBA- Arshia Mulla- very unusual..From Bijapur (roots, I found later).

Advertising industry- Anchal Sharma, Adarsh Kamath (IMT), Anu Bhoopathy from KIAMS (in N.Y. now)

Digital Marketers- Divya Singh, Shafique Gajdhar (IMT), Zargar Basharat (KIAMS)

Jogeswari – batch topper, KIAMS. .had a fanbase among her juniors. Golftripz director, Hyderabadi.

Padmapriya – National Award winning actress (Malayalam), worked at GE, worked at Sahapaedia, an NGO. Back in films.

Abhinav Kamal (IMT)- asst. director of Stree (Hindi film), started Ten Motion Arts, directed a  web-series with Renuka Shahane and Parikshit Sahni

Aradhya Vats, Shivangi Goel, Ayushi Agarwal, Satchi Sahay (conference papers-IPM students all)

Bharath Shenoy (M.R. industry, from IFIM B School)

Divya Sisodiya, Tanaya Kar Chaturvedi (PESIT, IFIM, both have great photos across the world)

Neha Adiga, Swathika Selvam- personal connections, accidentally discovered, both very talented.

Book lovers- Anushka Mishra, Nishka Rathi (ghost-writer too!)

Himanshu Manglik- Corporate look, right from our MBA student days, to this day.

Vrinda Khanna -wine lover

Pallavi Sharma- Biryani lover. (fb says we are twins!)

Gadgil- authentic American accent, golfer

Vijayakumar- Stats expert, humble, open to new ideas, great host and gourmet

Dhanapal- serial entrepreneur, ex-faculty (runs a school today), great golfer and holiday companion.

Ph.D.s- Shreyashi Chakraborty (faculty at XLRI, and in UK now, IMT student I met at IIM Calcutta), Manjari (doing Ph.D. at Nirma Univ. , Punyashlok (IIMA), Shripad Kulkarni (finished from IIMI)

Sidhanta Patnaik- cricketer and author (PESIT)

Bhavana Daga- Lady Daga, child-like (don't grow up!)

Harimohan- Author, ex-Ranji cricketer, Selector,

Bhuvneet Raheja (Microsoft), Sapna Patni (Mondelez), Anam Nuhi (IOCL Sales), Ruminder Kaur, Tamros Mondal, Harshad Sachani -kept in touch after Indore MBA.   Nikita Kumar, from IMT too- met in Pune, Hyd. and Delhi

TK Chatterjee/TKC (Karaoke fan, great company, IMT placement chief), Jitendra Sharma (English play),

Navroze Sethna- plantation owner, builder in Ooty (KIAMS)

Meghna Sinha- blogger, book lover, Asian Paints, .. (IMT)

Parul Kashyap Thakur- blogging celebrity. (IMT)

Muthu- Market researcher (MBA, Nielsen, ORG-MARG), golfer and now a golf referee, two-daughters club

Sunil Kataria- entrepreneur in finance, Hindi film music, did another IIMK program after KIAMS

Surbhi Mehta Chadha, Animesh Jain (IMT)-entrepreneurs

Jimmy Jain (IIMK)- Trainer

Siri Adi- works in M.R., fellow-Telugu. Dad was in BPCL..(her Mom and I broke our arms around the same time)

Sheetal Garg - (ex-SBI), Hindi film songs, singer/dancer, ran the retail store on IMT campus

Smita Dabholkar- promoted my autobiography..2 launches, which she managed single-handedly

Aditi Gupta, Garima Shah- student golfers (IMT)

Prerona, Alisha, Tanmeet- Women golfers (faculty, from NMIMS Bangalore)

Abha Kulkarni- HR Manager (one of our students did a summer project with her)-also a unique, curly  hair style, traveller

Smita Mohan (KIAMS) in Dubai is also in HR. Worked for IMT Dubai also. Got an A in my marketing course!

Anshita Maharishi/Chetty, Kedar Muley, Tosha Dubey, Meghana Joshi (IMT) -good managers of my small alum meets

Harshad Lunavat, Pradyumna Mohanty, Vivek Anant, Bugzy, - Photographers

Meha Kapoor (IMT N)- Radio

Sruthi Chandrasenan (IIM I in my Dig. Mktg. class, studied in Calicut earlier, visited Iceland- a video and pics from there)

Kanika Mhendiratta..tea marketer who drinks coffee!

My academic associates- Tripti Shrivastava (ran a conference in Goa for IMT), Saumyaa Sharma (my AA at IIM Indore)..

Sanjana Rao, Jasmine Kaur, Shreya Surana, Prachi Jain, Avik Gugalia, Shrunga Hede- play-actors from IIM Indore and Vaishali Bathla, from IMT (film), Divya Sharma from KIAMS (films, TV)

Savitha- Batch 1 of KIAMS (always special, first batches), one of the nicest people I know.

Arvind Joshi- dance teacher (PESIT)

Murali Mohan (Faculty+Kathak dancer)

Shatakshi Tripathi (NGO, Digital Marketing entrepreneur, Confused Genius is her brand)

Many due to an amazing facebook DP or two- Bhawana Sahay/Raj (Hyderabadi), Harnam Kaur, Shefali Dixit, Sayali Jagdale, Ananya Satle, Komal Nagdavne, Aishani Verma, Twinkle Jain, Tanaya Kar Chaturvedi, Anusha Soni (we met in class after she'd won my DP Award!)