Chennai: The Infotech Software Dealers Association (ISODA) recently concluded its Annual General meeting recently at a private resort near Chennai. This was also celebrated as the tenth anniversary of the association. The new leadership team was also named in the event, the first-of-its-kind happening outside Mumbai.
As per the protocol of the association, the existing Vice Chairman and Vice President took over as Chairman and President respectively. N K Mehta, Managing Director, Secure Network Solutions became the Chairman while Gunasegharan Krishnan – Director eCaps Computers became the President.
Amarnath Shetty – Managing Director, LDS Infotech was elected as Vice Chairman and Manasi Saha
– Managing Director, Macaws Infotech was elected as the Vice President unopposed. Vimesh Avlani – Proprietor, Graftronics was elected as Secretary and Ravi Jalan – Proprietor, Sakti Enterprises was elected as Treasurer.
In addition, L Ashok – CEO, Futurenet Technologies , was announced as the TechSummit 9
Chairperson and will be presenting to the community shortly on when and where will the flagship
event is slated to happen. The achievements of the previous team were presented. Some key achievements included a very successful TechSummit 8 at Malaysia, increased acceptance to ISODA
monthly mouthpiece ‘Interconnect’, an addition of about 30 members across the country including newer states and cities and overall governance of working as a team.
Following the internal meetings, the keynote address was delivered by T N Manoharan, Chairman, Canara Bank. Manoharan spoke on ‘Learning from Satyam Fiasco’ took us deep into insights of Satyam fiasco and why we should run our companies with ethics and integrity. There were also presentations
with couple of sponsors who again were the members. M/S Xcellhost presented about managed SOC and Systech presented about Parallel. The second day of the event saw another speaker Kumar Vembu, Founder, ZOHO and CEO of GoFrugal Technologies sharing his entrepreneurial journey and the finer tips of customer support and talent management.
The AGM concluded with senior executives from Canara Bank giving a presentation on SME funding options. Other than the above-said, the other members from the leadership included Ajay Bhayani, AmbiSure Technologies (Regional Secretary for West), Pradeep Daga, SUNTRONIX (Regional Secretary-South), Atul Modi, Modi Infosol ( Regional Secretary-North), Bishwajit Sutradhar, Electro Chavel Technology (Regional Secretary-East), Thomas Jacob, MicroGenesis CadSoft (Jt. Regional Secretary for Bangalore), Jitesh Chauhan, Rubik Infotech (Jt. Regional Secretary-Gujarat) and Bhaskar Kalita, BMG Infomatics (Regional Secretary North-East).
The top priorities for ISODA Management Committee this year will be:
Create 5-year leadership plans with a long-term vision in mind
o Long-term leadership to create a greater focus on Vision of ISODA
o Well known succession plan to maintain the continuity
Create a platform to help members in matters related to their business cycle
o Tax advisory
o Legal advisory
o HR & compliance advisory
o Finance & Funding advisory
Increased Digital adoption for more visibility to ISODA & ISODA members
o Market ISODA website better
o Create more Social Media Buzz
o Create more collaboration opportunities
Increased listening with Government authorities, other Industry and IT Associations
o Every association has their flagship events
o Participate in such events to build more collaboration opportunities
o Build visibility for ISODA as well as help other associations
o Liaison with government authorities and representation for tax-related matters
Continue the focus to increase the membership in more states and having more chapters
o Look at opening 4-5 new chapters
o New Chapters like Jaipur, Bangalore to be encouraged to have more members
Continue to provide a great technology & knowledge exchange platform throughout the
year
o Try and make the most out of ISODA Regional Meets, AGM , Tech Summits &
Business summits
o Promote Indian product start-up companies and give them a platform to launch
themselves
o Promote new start-up ventures and provide members a great investment
opportunity
o Giver OEM a platform to promote their products to a wider audience