Dear Alumnus,
As you are aware, the National Executive Committee during their last meeting in August 2017 had nominated me as the Returning Officer for the elections for the position of the President and Vice-President of the National Alumni association, which was falling vacant this year, on the expiry of the tenure of the present incumbents.

Accordingly, we had embarked upon an ambitious drive to get all alumni who had so far not registered in our portal to do so, and then finalized the electoral list from the registered alumni on the portal. The list was checked and scrutinized for errors, if any, and again circulated to the registered alumni body and then nominations for the position of President and Vice-President were invited. There were two nominations for the position of President and one nomination for the position of Vice-President. Time was given for withdrawals of any nominations and then the election was conducted for the post of the President, only.

Mr Debabrata Mishra (Batch of 1991) and Mr Amit Pahuja (Batch of 2004) were the contestants for the position of the President. Mr Chandrasekhar Chitrala (Batch of 1990) was the lone contestant for the position of the Vice-President. Elections for the position of the President was conducted in early January 2018 and the results were tabulated with Mr Debabrata Mishra securing 281 votes and Mr Amit Pahuja securing 145 votes.

Therefore, I have great pleasure in announcing Mr Debabrata Mishra and Mr Chandrasekhar Chitrala as the new President and Vice-President of the national Alumni Association. Their tenure shall be for a period of two years. Hearty congratulations to both of them.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing President, Sri Sudhanshu Sekhar Mishra and the outgoing Vice-President, Sri Pradeep Thacker for their valuable and excellent service to the Alumni association during their tenure as office bearers.

Dr M N Tripathi
Secretary and Faculty Alumni Coordinator

Freedom In The Mind, strength In The Words, Pureness In Our Blood, Pride In Our Souls, Zeal In Our Hearts,
Let’s Salute Our India On Republic Day!!
Let us get Educated, Evolved and Engaged in Hard Work to take our country to greater heights.
XIMB Alumni Committee wishes you all a very Happy Republic Day..!!

Hearty congratulations to our beloved alumnus Lata Varghese (1998-2000 batch) for being honored with the prestigious "Women Consulting Leader of the Year" award by The Consulting Magazine.
ALM's Consulting magazine honors the profound difference women continue to make for their clients and their firms all over the world. Lata Varghese, Assistant Vice President at Cognizant Technology Solutions, has over 20 years of professional experience in consulting and technology service provider. She now leads the blockchain consulting practice for Cognizant.
It is a great moment of pride for the whole community of XIMB and we extend our salutations to Lata Ma’am. You are our inspiration ma’am and we wish you all the best in future endeavours.
http://www.consultingmag.com/sites/cmag/2017/12/14/the-2017-women-leaders-in-consulting-4/?slreturn=20180025012334

We would like to congratulate our alumnus Mr M Yeshwanth Nag (Batch 2010-12), the founder of The Thickshake Factory, for winning TV5BusinessLeaderAwards 2017. We congratulate you Sir for receiving the award from Honourable Governor of Maharashtra Shri Vidya Sagar Rao, Minister Shri T Nageshwar Rao, E4M Business World Chairman Shri Anurag Batra and TV5 Chairman Shri Naidu. We are proud of you sir and wish you very best for your future and your brand..!!

May the divine grace of Godess be with you,
Goddess Saraswati is the Light of hope and Peace,
May Goddess Saraswati Bless you with Knowledge and Wisdom.
The Alumni Committee of XIMB wishes you all a very Happy Vasant Panchami & Saraswati Puja..!!

“Leadership is the ability to see what others don’t see”. XIMB proudly welcomed our beloved alumnus Mr. Satyajit Dwivedi (Batch 1998-2000) for leadership talk on 4th January. Mr. Satyajit is the Director, Global Practice, Process Sensor and IOT at SAS. His career path is enriched by a variety of roles with significant leadership experience in designing content management systems, business / government process re-engineering, perspective planning, ISO audits and software application audits. The talk began by addressing the fundamental question “Who is a leader?” He said that the students should not have the fear of taking opportunities in the corporate world and put more focus on challenges and not on success. He greatly motivated us by showing the struggle of some global icons and said that we should harness the “Never give up” attitude. The talk also touched upon Business and Technology disruption in today’s world and how energy sector is undergoing change at an exponential rate where consumers are becoming producers of tomorrow. He also pointed out that IOT, Algorithmic business and Data Science will be the key drivers of change in the future. Finally, the talk ended with the question “Are you prepared for disruption?”

It gives us immense pleasure to interview Mr. Gaurav Khandelwal (XIMB Batch of 2005-2007), currently working as an HR leader at Honeywell. He has ten years of industry experience and has been associated with renowned brands like Sun Pharma and Deloitte. He has led diverse domains in HR business focused contributions & result oriented deliveries across multiple HR domains for effective business partnering. In his interview, he talks about the importance of understanding the goals and culture of an organization as a budding HR manager. Through personal experience, he stresses how interest in sports forms an essential part of personality and instils a spirit of sportsmanship. He fondly recollects various lectures and cultural activities of the college and leaves the students with a message “Stay curious”. We are very proud of you, sir and we thank you for sharing these insightful thoughts.
For the entire interview, please visit:

We are happy to inform you all that Xavier University Bhubaneshwar has been awarded 4 Palmes of Excellence by Eduniversal, a Global Ranking and Evaluation Agency based in France for its outstanding Academic Excellence in Management Education and Research. We hope that our University keeps on achieving such milestones!

The most awaited spell-bounding ethereal event Xpressions 2017 reached the zenith of exuberance and valour on Day 1 . The day started with many business simulation events., many fun events of respective branches like HR EXPRESS,which induced the spirit of sportsmanship among many aspiring contestants. The day created a benchmark by events conducted by various committees which included SKILL CITY, GLADIATOR, HELIOS,KURUKSETRA GOONJ-singing competition with a blend of western and classical singing, HANDICRAFT SELLING for social purpose- made by people from NGOs and mess workers , PAINT@XIMB-Painting competition,Vaktritwa-extempore competition on social issues, FLIGHT OF FANCY-an event by literary committee. It was followed up an alluring surreal fashion show CARNIVAL DE VOGUE where different colleges were invited for active participation.The day wrapped with EDM night by LOST STORIES which escalated the swinging mood in everyone and made the night a standalone day to remember.

The final day of #Xpressions17 was one of the most awaited days since the last 3 months. This was the day that would keep people on their toes and the icing on the cake was supposed to be Farhan Akhtar’s performance. The day started with an amazingly brilliant beginning of vocal , instrumentation and dancing through VIRASAAT. The day also saw the finals of gaming competitions like Gladiator and Skill City. Day 3 also included the finals of an enthralling RJ Hunt. This day also had events like Maven in which participants presented their best strategic solution , Parikrama an online competition , Tradewars – The trading competition. With the finals of Spardha it concluded with finding a capable social entrepreneur. The third day also included a stellar performance by the home team in Thirkaan where they won the runners up prize by dancing their way to everyone’s heart. The Aghaaz of nukkad natak also kept everyone glued on this day while waiting for the biggest event. The Xpressions’17 finally concluded with a stellar performance by Farhan Akhtar and his band that it simply blew everyone’s mind away. That concluded the day and 3 day fest that is sure to remain in memories of everyone invlolved.

The Alumni Committee of XIMB in association with XQuizzite presents EnigmaX 2k17- an online quiz exclusively for the alumni to be conducted on 11th November during Xpressions'17.
Curiosity, Mental Alertness, Ability to Remember, Connecting the dots... all these qualities will be put to test as you indulge in this challenging yet exciting quiz.
The reward?
Cash Prizes worth Rs 50000!!
Registration is free of cost and starts today! Refer to the rule doc for more details.
Rule Doc- http://bit.ly/2yheeGZ
Registration Link - http://bit.ly/2z2hdQH

We are proud to announce that the latest book of India’s No.1 best selling business author and Mindtree co-founder Mr. Subroto Bagchi, ‘Sell: The Art, the Science, the Witchcraft’ describes an exclusive chapter on the background of Venkat Nandikolla, XIMB alumnus, batch of 1996-98 and on what Mr. Bagchi learnt about selling from Venkat Nandikolla.
We take great pride and delight in this and extend our hearty applause and salutation to Mr. Venkat for his commendable efforts and upholding the legacy of XIMB in the corporate world. You sir are our inspiration and we wish you all the best!