IIMC Inaugural Feature

18^th MBAEx Inauguration

On April 2024, 80 experienced professionals from diverse industry backgrounds joined the one-year residential MBAEx programme of IIM Calcutta - MBAEx Class of 2025. The inauguration of the new batch was held on April 26, 2024.

The inaugural theme was a quote by MBAEx Batch 4 alumnus – Ramaswamy: "From Job Seekers to Job Creators: Reimagining MBA in Contemporary India." The MBAEx inauguration had a line-up of 6 industry CEO-co-founders, whose work exemplifies the India growth story.

The inaugural theme: "From Job Seekers to Job Creators: Reimagining MBA in Contemporary India."

Name	Designation	Description
Vijay Singh Rathore	Co-Founder & CEO of Soonicorn Ventures	In the opening keynote "How to Raise Funds for Your Startup?" Mr. Vijay generated a template of major startups that Soonicorn has been helping, which went viral with the students.
Alina Alam	Founder and CEO of Mitti Café	Ms. Alam delved into social entrepreneurship with her Ted-X style opening with the picture of Greek Nero, as she highlighted on abilities over disability.
Nishant Sinha	Founder of Roastery Coffee House	Mr. Sinha narrated the differentiating factor of his venture being centred on Indian farms. The audience was in splits, particularly with a VC in the audience itself, when he narrated how a rented bungalow with just the keys served his first pitch to a VC.
Ramaswamy Sankar	Founder of Trayac Entrepreneurs Pvt. Ltd	Our esteemed alumnus from Batch 4 (Class of 2011) emphasized the pivotal role Batch 18 students would play in the national development journey of the Indian GDP. Ramas highlighted how his learnings from the MBAEx programme, including concepts like central limit theorem, continues to develop his different learning curves in his own journey post-MBA.
Prof. Ramendra Singh	Faculty from Marketing Group at IIMC	Prof. Singh delved into the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) context, illustrating with three compelling case studies. He highlighted the staggering statistic of 99% wealth as concentrated in the hands of only 45% of the population, problematizing concepts like prosperity polarization and reverse innovation.
Srinath Ravichandran	Co-Founder & CEO of Agnikul Cosmos	With a growing representation in MBAEx from ISRO, the inclusion of Mr. Srinath Ravichandran, was a nudge to the crowd and MBA schools to think through the managerial potential in space startups.