9th June, 2025, Bengaluru: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) has announced the names of the recipients of the Institute’s Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2025. The four alumni who are the recipients of the DAA this year are Sandhya Shekhar, Prashant Jain, Mathew Cyriac, and Vineet Saraiwala. This year, the awards will be presented on 15 June, during the reorientation of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) and Post Graduate Programme in Business Analytics (PGPBA).
Sandhya Shekhar, PGP 1984, is an Advisor and Strategy Consultant to several corporate entities in the areas of Business Strategy and Digital Transformation. She serves as an Independent Director on the governing boards of Uno Minda Ltd., MI Torica, Mynda Onkyo, MITIL Polymer Pvt Ltd. and UCAL Ltd.
Prashant Jain, PGP 1991, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of 3P Investment Managers, has previously served as Chief Investment Officer at HDFC Mutual Fund. Across 31 years of investment management experience, Prashant holds the distinction of being the only fund manager in India and one of the few globally, to have continuously managed a scheme for over 28 years (HDFC Balanced Advantage Fund), and the first fund manager in India to have managed 1 lac crore of equity funds.
Mathew Cyriac, PGP 1994, is the Executive Chairman of the PE firm Florintree Advisors and Co-founder at deep tech fund Yali Capital. He earlier served as a founding member and PE Co-head of Blackstone India. He has been recognized for many firsts in his 30-year career spanning investing roles in India and the US.
Vineet Saraiwala, PGP 2015, Founder and CEO of Atypical Advantage, has significantly influenced corporate India’s approach towards disability inclusion as a business imperative. In 2024, Atypical Advantage received both the National Startup Award for Social Impact and the National Award for Best Placement Organisation presented by the President of India.
Instituted in 2007, the Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented to alumni in recognition of their achievements of exceptional merit and excellence in their chosen field of endeavor – be it industry, management, entrepreneurship, research, academia, or social service. Each awardee receives a citation and her/his name is engraved on the Wall of Fame in the Institute.
The reorientation for the second-year students as a preparatory engagement will include a series of faculty-led workshops focused on academic and professional recalibration for the final year.
The closing ceremony of the reorientation will feature PGP ’94 alumnus Ganeshan Ramachandran, MD & Lead – Industry Groups, Accenture; and Raghu Polisetty, Senior Managing Director, Global Lead – Strategy & Consulting Global Network, Accenture, as Chief Guests.
Orientation for the incoming cohorts on 9 June
IIMB will host the orientation for the incoming cohort of its two-year fulltime MBA programmes, PGP and PGPBA, 2025-2027 batch, on 9 June 2025. Ronnie Screwvala, Chairperson and Co-Founder, Entrepreneur & Film Producer, will deliver the Chief Guest’s address during the inauguration ceremony, which will be held at the Open-Air-Theatre (OAT) at the IIMB campus.
Commencing 9 June, the orientation will provide briefings on programme expectations, online learning, administrative matters, activities, centres, committees, facilities, policies, and more. Interactions with alumni groups have also been scheduled.
The programme will feature announcements of the Director’s Merit List, the Director’s Honours List, and key scholarship awards. The President of the Students’ Affairs Council (SAC), Revanth Reddy, will address the gathering on student life at IIMB, followed by a cultural program to mark the conclusion of the ceremony.
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