Sorry... was away from blogging for a little more than a year now... but was busy...

It is been quite sometime since we have been touch and just thought of sharing a quick update with you.

Last week, I have been selected to the Core Team, and will be on the "Future of the CIO Role" Working Committee and also a member of the Working Committee Group on the Special Interest Group "Defining the CIO" at CIO Index (http://www.cioindex.com). CIO Index is the World's Largest Professional Community for Chief Information Officers and Technology Executives with over 60,000 members.

I was invited to and participated on a series of six CIO panel discussions in January 2014 to be webcasted soon to the CIO Community on efficient, future-ready and environmentally friendly data centres in association with the "CIO Magazine" and "Schneider Electric".

In December 2014, I was nominated to be possibly selected amongst the TOP 50 CIOs for the honour of "India's Best CIOs - 2014".

I was invited to be on the selection panel at "Welingakar Institute of Management", Mumbai, India for evaluating aspirants to the fulltime programs at the WeSchool in April 2014. The programs included were : 

• PGDM / PGDM e-biz / PGDM Business Design

• PGDM Retail / PGDM Healthcare / PGDM Rural & Emerging Markets

• PGDM Executive

I have been a member of the "IM Advisory Council" by S P Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, India for the last 2 years running. The IM Advisory Council is responsible to review the course curriculum of one year and two year management courses in Information Management and recommend and suggest changes to the curriculum to align it to industry requirements.

In September 2013, I was nominated to the Expert Committee on Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology (ET&T) at the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). Established in 1836, the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry is one of the oldest Chambers in India with an illustrious history of 178 years. The Chamber has over 4500 members from large, medium and small companies. Members of the Chamber contribute to almost 25% GDP of the country.