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WZCC AGM
Section of the Audience at the WZCC AGM
• Dr. Rohinton Karanjia (USA) – Senior Governance Encompassing Law, Safety,
Banking Executive who has worked in Justice and Enabling Infrastructure.
large US Banking institutions, including
JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of
America. He specializes in Credit Risk,
Market Risk and Counter Party Credit
Risk Management. His session was “Risk
Analysis – Its growing importance”.
• Mr. Kanchan Kumar – Executive Director
of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) Mumbai.
He has over two decades of experience
in the software product Industry and
over 10 years as an Entrepreneur – He is
founder and CEO of FLUOUS – Leader The two Awards were then presented by
in Enterprise HR Solution. His session her to:
was “Innovation – Changes over the last
decade”.
Once again there was enthusiastic
interaction between the panel chair, the
panelist and the audience.
Then commenced the most awaited event
of the day – The Outstanding Awards.
The Ball room of the Taj Lands End was
glittering witha largeaudienceof members
and guests. The Chief guest, Mrs. Meera
Sanyal, gave a power-point presentation
which depicted how Indian ingenuity
works in converting opportunities to very
fruitful business entities. With factual
and concrete examples, she showed how
small scale business can develop in far-
flung villages by people who earlier were
simply written off. She stressed the
importance of “Intellectuals in Public Life
– Need of the Hour”. She wanted Good
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She then mentioned about the need of
Leadership, involving Ethical, Progressive Business and President of the University
and Decisive qualities and then
emphasized the need for capacity building
which should include Ideas, technology
and access to markets. However, the
most touching and pertinent point in her
entire talk was when she brought in the
wisdom of Zoroastrian Religion in terms
of the Avesta Prayer. The audience truly
appreciated her talk with thunderous
applause.
Mrs. Meera Sanyal, Chief Guest persenting the WZCC Outstanding Zarathusthi
Professional of the year Award to Dr. Beheruz Sethna
1. Dr. Beheruz Sethna from USA as the
Outstanding Zarathushti Professional of
the year 2013.
2. Mr. Kobad Bhavnagri from Australia
as the Outstanding Young Zarathushti
Professional of the year 2013.
WZCC Award Holders Profiles:
Dr. Sethna
Dr. Sethna is a distinguished Alumni of the
two most higher Education Institutions
in India/Asia : IIT-Mumbai and IIT-
Ahmedabad. It is estimated that no more
than a handful (5 to 10) of the persons
in the World hold both these honours.
Dr. Sethna is the Regents’ Professor of
of West Georgia from 1994 to 2013, the
longest serving University President in
the State. In all of the history of American
Higher Education, Dr. Sethna is the
first known person of Indian origin to
become President of a US University. He
has awarded more than 33,000 degrees
at UWG, than every other President
combined in the institution’s 107-year
history. He had functional responsibility
for approximately 260,000 students and
10,000 faculty members in all 35 Public
Institutions in the State, including 4
Research Universities, 15 Comprehensive
Universities and 16 Two-year and State
Colleges. He has appointed 2 interim
Presidents and led the search to appoint
two permanent Presidents of two Georgia
Universities.
He has been presented the Key to the
City of two cities in Georgia and the