ICAIs Corporate Forum to be organized from 23rd to 25th Janu

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am pleased to inform you that the Committee for Members in Industry is organizing a Corporate Forum from 23^rd to 25^th January 2009 at Mumbai consisting of three concurrent events:

1. Career Ascentduring 23^rd to 25^th January, 2009 at Hotel JW Marriot, Juhu, Mumbai

2. Corporate Conclaveduring 23^rd to 25^th January, 2009 at Hotel JW Marriot, Juhu, Mumbai

3. ICAI’s Award 2008 on the 25^th January, 2009 at Goregaon Sports Club, Mumbai

Each event is a unique high profile event. Career Ascent provides Chartered Accountants who have 1 year or more of industry experience and passed C.A. final Examination on or before November 2007 with growth and career prospects enabling them to realize their full potential and aspirations and widen their horizon. It also ensures that they are provided with careers that best suit their skill sets. Corporate Conclave is a three-day Conclave on IFRS, Direct Taxes & Raising of Financial Resources. ICAI Awards 2008 have been instituted to honor the best amongst the best in Industry.

These awards are instituted to acknowledge Chartered Accountants in Industry who:

have demonstrated excellence in the way in which they conduct their profession.
are exemplary role models in the industry.
have created value to their company's stakeholders on a sustainable basis.

We may inform you that following are some of the elite members on the Jury Panel:

Sr. No	Name	Designation	Company Name
1	Mr. Venugopal Nandlal Dhoot	Chairman & Managing Director	Videocon Industries Ltd.
2	Mr. T. S. Vijayan	Chairman	LIC
3	Mr. K V Kamath	MD & CEO	ICICI Bank
4	Shri. M. D. Mallya	Chairman & Managing Director	Bank of Baroda
5	Mr. Deepak Parikh	Chairman	HDFC
6	Mr.Yogesh Lohia	Chairman cum Managing Director	GIC
7	Mr. Ravi Narain	Managing Director & CEO	NSE of India Ltd
8	Shri S.K. Roongta	Chairman	Steel Authority of India Limited
9	Mr. Ramesh Chandak	Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director	KEC international Limited
10	Mr. T.V. Mohandas Pai	Member of the Board and Director-Human Resources	Infosys Technologies Ltd
11	Mr. Harsh Goenka	Chairman	RPG Enterprises
12	Mr. Jignesh Shah	Chairman and Group CEO	Financial Technologies India Ltd.
13	Dr. J.J. Irani	Director	Tata Sons Ltd.
14	Naresh Chandra	Former Cabinet Secretary, currently director bajaj	Bajaj Auto Ltd.
15	Shri. Shashi Ruia	Chairman	Essar
16	Mr. Kishore Biyani	Managing Director	Pantaloons
17	CA. M. Ramadoss	The Oriental Insurance Company Limited	Chairman-cum-Managing Director
18	Mr. R Ramaseshan	MD & CEO	National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd.
19	Shri Arun Balakrishnan	Chairman and Managing Director	Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd

The awards shall be given in the following categories viz.

I CA Business Achiever

This Category is for CEO’s/Directors (or individuals holding equivalent positions in their organization) in the following subcategories:

A) Financial Services

All Enterprises in Financial Sector (including NBFC’s, Capital Market, etc..) are covered under this category.

B) Corporate

All Large enterprises (including Manufacturing, Trading, Other Service Sector, etc..) are covered under this category. Enterprise with annual turnover in excess of Rs.500 crores or more than 200 employees will be considered as a Large Enterprise.

C) SME

All Medium/Small enterprises (including Manufacturing, Trading, Other Service Sector, etc..) are covered under this category Companies not covered in category of “Corporate” above are covered under this category.

D) OTHERS

All enterprises in any area other than the above listed categories are covered under this category.

II CFO

This category is for professionals in Senior Management capacity. This includes positions such as CFO’s, Business Vertical Heads, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Treasury Officer and such other equivalent positions.

III CA Professional Achiever

This category is for Managers, who have achieved excellence in their careers and are not covered in the categories stated above and is intended to honour the achievements of CAs in the early or middle part of their careers.

Subcategories:

Each of the Outstanding CFO and CA Professional Achiever awards will be given separately in various subcategories. These subcategories will include the following:

i. Manufacturing(including Processing, Mining, Plantations, Oil and Gas enterprises, etc..).

ii. Financial Sector(including Banking, Financial Institutions, Insurance, NBFC’s, Mutual Funds, etc..)

iii. Service Sector(including Hotels, Consultancy, Transport, Stock Exchanges, R & D, Private Hospitals, etc..)

iv. Information technology, Media, Communication and Entertainment Enterprises(including IT enabled Companies, KPO’s, Media, etc..)

v. Infrastructure and Construction(including Power Generation and Supply, Port Trusts, Metro, Roads, Real Estates, etc..)

vi. Public Sector(including Government Organisations, Regulators, etc..)

vii. Others (Section 25 companies, Educational Institutions, NGO’s, Charitable Hospitals, etc..)

viii. Woman(This is an additional category for woman open for all the sectors given above. A woman CFO / Professional Achiever can also apply / be considered in any of the above categories.)

I request you to nominate members of the Institute whom you deem fit for grant of any award of the abovesaid categories.

It is requested that the requisite nominations may be sent to us latest by 31^st of December 2008 positively to enable us to consider the same at our end.

The form for nominations alongwith nomination requirements and guidelines is available at https://www.cmii.icai.org/imgs/Nomination_Form.pdf.

For complete details, regarding all above events, you may kindly visit https://www.cmii.icai.org/imgs/matter%20for%20journal_20oct.pdf.

In case youneed any assistance you may feel free to contact,Dr. Surinder Pal, Secretary, CMII, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, 'ICAI Bhawan', Indraprastha Marg, Post Box 7100, New Delhi – 110002 at 011-30110442/450 and Email: spal @ icai.org .

With kind regards,

CA. Sanjeev Maheshwari

Chairman

Committee for Members in Industry

Mobile No. 98211 19043