Team Suryopahar

The team Suryopahar consists of the following members:

1. Ashwath Bereke

2. Gautam Jaju

3. Guruprasad Padmanabhan

4. Swapna Mukherjee

5. Jaya Longani

Our profiles:

1. Ashwath Bereke Ashwath is a 2nd year MBA-Marketing student at SIMSR. He belongs to Bangalore and passed out of Engineering in 2006. He has a work experience of 10 months in Perot Systems before joining Oracle, India where he worked for another 26 months as an Applications Engineer. He worked on Data Modeling Group (DMG), Oracle – Siebel CRM. He has also been involved working with many NGOs like School Kit Drive, Sponsor a child, etc. Now he is an active member of Somaiya Social Cell. He is also an avid trekker and a Toastmaster.

2. Gautam Jaju Gautam is a 2nd year MBA-Marketing student at SIMSR. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a brief experience of 6 months in Bharat Forge Ltd in Production Control. His work involved the streamlining of the manufacturing process using MOST (Maynard’s Operating Sequencing Techniques).

3. Guruprasad Padmanabhan Guru is a 2nd year MBA-Marketing student at K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (SIMSR). He has done his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Guru worked with ABB Ltd (a power and automation MNC) for 3 years in various roles like Design, Project Management, Sales, and Estimation mostly in various infrastructure projects.

4. Swapna Mukherjee Swapna is a 2nd year MBA-Finance student at SIMSR. After completing her Bachelors in Science (BSc) from St. Ann’s College for Women, Hyderabad she worked for 3 yrs in Oracle, India as an Associate Application Engineer. She wants to pursue a career in Microfinance in the long term. Among her projects, she heads the Financial Literacy team of the Somaiya Social Cell, undertaking a project in Financial Risk Management with Equinox Financial Services. She also has an experience in conducting a market survey in the slums of Mumbai.

5. Jaya Longani Jaya is a 2nd year MBA-Finance student at SIMSR. She has done her Bachelors in Chemistry from St. Stephens College, New Delhi. Later on she worked in a small health care and beauty business. She was a part of social service league of her college that helped in the blind reading campaign. She was also involved in a program of teaching underprivileged kids of the locality around college and from children belonging to lower income groups.