EEMA announces new leadership team, Sabbas Joseph to relinquish presidency
“For the past three years, we created a formation like geese or migrating seagulls. When the ones in the front were tired, fresh seagulls moved to the front of the formation to take the pressure of the winds that we were flying against. There’s never a need for one set of leaders to remain on the frontline permanently”, said EEMA president Sabbas Joseph in his note to EEMA members announcing the new leadership.
He added, “While forming the new National Leadership Team, we’ve looked at new faces, new energies and new leaders from across the organisation as much as possible. We’ve broad-based ourselves to bring in fresh leaders knowing fully well that the old guard will support the new team as their own. The new team has young leaders and we have several of our women leaders taking pole position. And both of these aspects make me especially proud. I am particularly delighted to welcome Anjali Pasricha, Meenu Varma and Avik Menezes as first-time members of the NEC. There are multiple new faces in the National Working Committee and I’m delighted that we have so many wonderful people as leaders of EEMA companies. However, at the same time I’ve retained some of the best performers of the previous NEC in order to ensure continuity.”
There are separate National Councils being constituted for youth empowerment, women empowerment, health & safety, education & talent development and the first-ever CFOs Council, said Joseph.
Also extending his gratitude to EEMA treasurer Rajeev Jain, who remains among the few founder members of the association, Joseph expressed, “On behalf of the members I’d like to place on record our thanks to Rajeev Jain who requested to be relieved of his responsibilities at the AGM. Rajeev has served in various positions across the NEC over the last 10 years. In the last three years, he has worked tirelessly alongside me on some of the most important initiatives and has also guarded our finances like he would do his own. Thanks Rajeev.” Rajeev Jain has been requested to stay on for a few more weeks while financial administration is put into place along with new EEMA treasurer Ankur Kalra.
At the EEMA Annual General Meeting held on 8 September Joseph had expressed his desire to relinquish the Presidency. However, keeping in mind the requests from the members the transition is being delayed as much as possible in order to ensure smooth handover. The new president shall be instated within six months.
National Leadership Team 2017- 18
National Executive Committee
Designations Name
President Sabbas Joseph
Executive Vice President Mandeep Singh
General Secretary Anjali Pasricha
Treasurer Ankur Kalra
Senior Vice President Vijay Nair
VP- North Meenu Varma
VP- South Oum Pradutt
VP- West Tabassum Modi
VP- East Vijay Bokadia
VP- Gender Equality, Brand & Communication Poonam Lal
VP- Youth Empowerment Avik Menezes
VP- Education & Talent Development Sushma Gaikwad
VP- Health & Safety Sid Ganeriwalla
VP- Regional Association engagement Harjinder Singh
VP- FICCI / CII engagement Rakhi Kankaria
VP- Ecosystem Engagement Vijay Arora
Mentor- East Gautam Jain
National Advisory Council
Michael Menezes
Roshan Abbas
Brian Tellis
Viraf Sarkari
Sameer Tobaccowalla
Sanjoy Roy
Vivek Singh
Mohomed Morani
Harindra Singh
Deepak Gattani
National Working Committee
Secretary- Technology & Social Media Sachin Talwar
Secretary- Youth Empowerment Chetan Vohra
Secretary- Membership Engagement Amit Gupta
Secretary- North Manika Garg
Secretary- Rajasthan Siddharth Chaturvedi
Secretary- NCR Vipul Pandhi
Secretary- South Arun Kumar
Secretary- Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Sapna Subramanium
Secretary- Karnataka Jacob Santosh
Secretary- Tamil Nadu Jai Mundra
Secretary- Kerala Rajesh
Secretary- West Aarti Mattoo
Secretary- Gujarat Raj Batra
Secretary- Maharashtra Vinod Janardhan
Secretary- Pune, Nagpur, Nashik Raghav Roy Kapur
Secretary- East Rishabh Bapna
Secretary- West Bengal Nidhi Poddar
Secretary- Bihar Khurshid Ahmed
Secretary- Jharkhand Taranbir Sahni
Secretary- Orissa Sonu Nanda
National Council on Youth Empowerment
Chairperson Avik Menezes
Atul Nath
Vijay Nair
Aparajita Choudhary
Sapna Subramanium
Ratika Bhatnagar
Sumit Chandoke
Niyati Vora
Harshal Kothari
National Council on Education & Talent development
Chairperson Sushma Gaikwad
Ankur Kalra
Anushree Aggarwal
Rishabh Bapna
Arpita Gandhi
Vivek Singh
Sameer Tobaccowalla
National Council on Finance & Legal
Chairperson Sandeep Bhandari
Dinesh Kummar
Mitesh Kurani
Ajay Makker
Sanjay Shegal
Nitin Agrawal
Isha Sekhri
Neeraj Agarwal
National Council on Women's Empowerment
Chairperson Poonam Lal
Sushma Gaikwad
Manika Garg
Geetika Ganju Dhar
Nidhi Poddar
Sabbas Joseph
Mandeep Singh
Chetan Vohra
Rajesh Varma
Sanjeev Pasricha
Sanjoy Roy
National Council on Health & Safety
Chairperson Siddharth Ganeriwalla
Sanjeev Pasricha
Vijay Nair
Viraf Sarkari
Harjinder Singh
Deepak Gattani
Pramod Gaikwad
Mohomed Morani
Gautam Jain
Convenors: EEMAgine 2018
Sanjeev Pasricha
Siddharth Chaturvedi
Convenor: EEMA Leadership Retreat
Rajeev Jain
