It was an outstanding victory for the youthful Sanmar team consisting of Aarathi Chellammal, Heena Nandani and Piyush Bhandari at this year’s Young Managers Competition for managers below 35, held on 18 January 2005, on the theme of ‘Beyond Creating Value’. The youngsters laid out their written presentation in the form of a tabloid with news and articles. They also made their oral presentation a TV talk show.
The team will represent Chennai in the National Level Young Managers’ competition to be conducted by the All India Management Association (AIMA) in August 2005. Two other Sanmar teams, V Shankar Ganesh (Asco), RM Alagappan (Asco) and Shyam S Kumar (Flowserve), and M Rangarajan (Xomox), N Gnanasekhar (Tyco) and B Ramkumar (Xomox), also acquitted themselves creditably.
The Sanmar team of Aarathi Chellammal, Heena Nandani and Piyush Bhandari (3rd, 5th and 7th from left) with (l to r) C Venkat, B Ramalinga Raju, Chairman, Satyam Computer Services, P K Mohapatra, President, MMA and D P Padmanabhan, Vice President, MMA.
A H Kesari Prasad , Ramkumar Shankar
The Sanmar Group has, over the years, made a mark in Chennai’s corporate quizzing circuit. The formidable reputation that the Sanmar team of Ramkumar Shankar and A H Kesari Prasad has earned in the last couple of years was recently reinforced in a couple of prestigious quiz contests.
Sanmar has dominated the southern regional edition conducted under the aegis of the Madras Management Association (MMA)—of the annual National Management Quiz (NMQ) of the All India Management Association. Regional winners in 2003 and first runners-up in 2004, the Sanmar team won the regional round again in 2005. This year’s win was especially sweet because it came just weeks after a Sanmar team won the Young Managers contest conducted by the MMA. The Sanmar team also finished second in a nailbiting finish in the Chennai round of the Brand Equity Quiz of The Economic Times, arguably India’s biggest corporate quiz, which is eagerly anticipated and hotly contested. Ramkumar Shankar and Kesari Prasad went down fighting to the ultimate winners, Citibank, the contest being decided only on the penultimate question of the quiz.