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NetSAP April Dinner Circle

Peer Networking and Mentoring

Have you been searching for the opportunity to meet and get to know other South Asian professionals in the Boston area?

Are you the type that prefers small dinners with friends over raucous nights out at clubs? Do you want to know more about different career fields, and didn't know who to ask?

Well, then come participate in the Dinner Circle.
These small group dinners are designed to provide comfortable, intimate settings where young professionals with similar interests can have meaningful conversations and expand their social and professional relationships. In addition, they present an opportunity to meet experienced and successful professionals from the industry of your choice, who can guide you, and answer your questions.

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Dinner Circle Mentors: (Click on names for detailed Bios)
  • Venkat Srinivasan, CEO, Creditpointe
       (Area: Finance, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, ECommerce)
  • Indu Isaacs, CEO, Formatech
       (Area:Pharma, Bio-technology, healthcare )

Here is how it works:

If you are interested in participating in our Dinner circle, please register and prepay for the meal through the link below. Once you register, you will be sent a survey form where you can provide us with more information about yourself, which mentor's table you prefer to be at and choose your entree (from the list provided).

Based on this information (professional background, interests and mentor preference) from you, we'll divide you up into groups of 5-7 and assign a mentor for your group (first come first serve). You will then be sent a confirmation email with details of your group and mentor. Show up at the dinner, ready to be social, learn more and enjoy a meal!
Please feel free to mingle with the rest of the groups at the bar after the meal.

Where: Bombay Club
57 JFK Street, Harvard Square,
Cambridge, MA
Directions: click here
 
When: 6:30pm - 9:00pm, Thursday, April 17th
 
Cost: Members - $20
Non-Members - $25
Registration includes cost of dinner. Member prices are subsidized by NetSAP
 
Registration: Advance registration is now closed.

Instructions to Register

  • Click on Register button above
  • You will be taken to NetIP North America Member Connections website.
  • If you are a current NetSAP member or have registered on the North America Members Connections website, Sign In with your username & password. If you do not remember or know your password, retrieve it by clicking on 'Forgot Pasword' and entering your Email ID
  • Once you login, you will be taken to the Registration Page
  • If you are not a Member, Register for free on the North America Member Connections website. Get a username and password.
  • Login and register for the event.


Contact:

Shobhit Chugh or Sonit Seth, Professional Chairs at
 
 
April Dinner Circle Mentor Bios

Dr. Venkat Srinivasan, CEO, Creditpointe

Dr. Venkat Srinivasan brings his rich academic background in credit, working capital management and knowledge-based technology architectures along with his entrepreneurial successes to lead CreditPointe as its CEO.

In 2001, Venkat founded Rage Holdings LLC, CreditPointe's parent, with the idea of creating and leveraging a knowledge-based business process automation platform to incubate capital efficient, process aware businesses. Rage's 1st such effort, Corporate Fundamentals, Inc., which over the past 3 years has become the most efficient producer of structured financial information on public companies in the U.S., was merged with Hemscott, plc, a leading provider of corporate fundamental information solutions, in November 2005.

Prior to Corporate Fundamentals, Venkat was the Chairman and CEO of eCredit.com, the leading provider of credit, financing and receivables management solutions for business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce. Venkat founded eCredit in 1993 and led the company to a sale in 2000. Venkat is a uniquely experienced executive with substantial expertise in many diverse functional areas. Venkat is an internationally renowned expert in credit and working capital management, knowledge-based systems architectures, and financial strategy. Venkat has spent the last 20 years contributing his research and acting as a thought leader to both the business community and the academic world.

Prior to founding eCredit.com in 1993, Venkat served as an Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Business in Boston, MA. Prior to his academic tenure, he worked for Union Carbide, where he was responsible for all aspects of cash management for the company's vast operations in India.

Venkat holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and is a Certified Chartered Accountant [equivalent to a CPA]


Indu Isaacs, CEO and Co-founder, Formatech

Indu J. Isaacs, CEO and Co-founder of Formatech has a Ph.D in Chemistry from University of Oklahoma. Prior to Formatech, Dr. Isaacs has held both scientific and management positions at Genetics Institute in Andover, Abbott Biotech in Needham and Cambridge Neurosciences in Cambridge. Formatech Inc. is an eleven year old Massachusetts corportion which provides quality contract services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Formatech employs a staff of 55 and since its inception, the Company has maintained an aggressive marketing and business development program and serves clients in the US, Japan, Israel, australia, Europe and Canada.
 
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