Finance & Investment Cell

Email id: finance.ssc@gmail.com
President: Karan Nagpal +91 98113 92137
Vice President: Joseph Abraham +91 99994 52073
 

Yearbook Report 2008-2009

    Last year, Shrey concluded the write-up by claiming boldly, "We're raring to go into the years ahead, hoping to one day pass the Final Frontier, and finally find a place for an F&I Notice Board!"

    We did find a place for an F&I Notice Board (though an email database proved more effective), but we also found a lot more: twelve brilliant first years, some of whom resisted the temptation of prestige to join our entrepreneurial efforts.

    Let's start with Sanjay, who played a BIG role (I'm sure he always plays BIG roles) in our success. His desire to learn new things and his ability to hold a team together was amazing. On the other end of the size-spectrum, tiny Pallavi laughed and bounced her way through four societies this year, but by the end, she had resigned, one-by-one, from all but the F&I Cell. Passionate about microfinance, she made us realize the difference we can make by promoting financial literacy (even though we didn't do much). 

    Devang was a true "Stalwart:" perhaps the only one (apart from Joseph) to understand Joseph's acquisition-strategy game, he meticulously edited and reedited the journal and proved himself to be one of our most responsible (and intelligent) first years. Besides, Shantanu and Shraddha expanded our technological frontiers by taking us to blogspot and designing a great website right before our Fest. Both of them were full of ideas, ranging from video-taping all our talks to instituting a "Best Politician Award" and then giving it to P. Chidambaram ("That's the best way to get him.") Some ideas, like adapting the game of Taboo to finance, turned out to be successful events during the Fest.

    Another bright star, Shrabana, displayed a great knack for taking on immense responsibility and executing it meticulously, especially when it came to the most important things like publicity. Puneet was the ever-ready sweeper (he had to sweep Room A before one of our talks there), who did everything he could to ensure the smooth functioning of the society (and of our lungs and livers). Following in the tradition of Joseph and Naveen, he contracted jaundice, depriving us of our best manager during the fest. But he more than made up for it by organising the most fun-filled party of the F&I Cell (the only party, to be more precise)

    Naman was the poster-boy of F&I (a title conceived by Nipun in a rare instance of wit). He and his Mac produced the most aesthetic and expressive posters in the college, earning us compliments from everyone, besides creating everything (apart from content) for our first journal, Vega. 

    Shreya and Garima were the most driven first years. Shreya handled the media brilliantly, using her persuasion skills to convince NDTV to cover our events, and during the DreaMerger final, she saved the day by convincing the NDTV journo to stay on despite having been shoved by the security guard. Garima's role was summarised by Adrija when she remarked, "You can give her work and then forget about it, knowing that she will do it much better than your expectations." Garima also has a great knack of questioning (everything), and because of her we have learnt to explore alternatives to the way we work and improve.

    Vivek is our in-house trader. If we have progressed from being a society in which the President raised her eyebrows when you hadn't called the speaker allotted to you, to a society in which you made bets about whether Unitech will fall below 22 by Wednesday, and in which Google group discussions involved comments like, "if u still want to burn your fingers, bears are longing for you more than their wives!," it has all been thanks to him.

    Anish became the first guardian of our Final Frontier: our notice board. He was extremely resourceful in handling the logistics and the infrastructure which ensured that our society ran efficiently this year.

    These first years were responsible for organising our festival Das Capital (we are Capitalists with a Capital C), which is probably one of the very few fests which became national in their very first edition. It was these first years who compelled us to start the Case Club and the Finance Library this year, and to also start investing in the equity markets. And these first years have made F&I Cell one of the most popular societies in College.

    Of course, they were helped by Nipun, our in-house "charismatic" "intellectual," Chhota and Bada Tankies Rajarshi and Joseph (I won't use "respectively," for personal safety), meticulous Urvashi, the only scientist in our batch; Mehtani, whose habit of extending syllables while speaking made us all reflect upon our actions (whenever Mehtani was speaking), and myself (yes, even Nagpal worked this year. Really! J )

    Naveen was the rich uncle who sponsored all our adventures (with Mr Grewal's cautious support), Shrey was the virtuous vice president (McKinsey!), and Apoorva inspired us by getting Cambridge and the highest-paying job offer. Lastly, but most importantly, Adrija was the best president we could have had. She allowed us to do what we wanted, giving us all the credit while taking all the blame (there wasn't any, to tell you the truth). Thank you, Adrija. Do stay in touch.