Nimesh Sharma

Current

Evangelist at IIFM
Volunteer at Art of Living Foundation
Joint Secy at Modern Public School Alumni Association

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Past

Nimesh at VC Circle
Advisory Member (Students Team) at CBSAA (CBS Alumni Association)
Promoter at Entrepreneurship Cell (CBS)

Freelancer at HR Strategy
Mentee at IIFM (Jaypee Capital)
Faculty, Center Mgr, Content Developer, Marketeer at IMS Learning Resources
Trainee at Bank of America
Management trainee at Indiabulls Securities Ltd.

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Education

SS College of Business Studies (University of Delhi)
Delhi University
NSE

Modern Public School, Shalimar Bagh

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Nimesh Sharma’s Summary

+ I joined IIFM (Jaypee Capital's subsidiary) in Nov '08 in the role of strategising and New Initiatives.
Website (to be revamped): www.iifm.co.in

+ I joined VC Circle as my first job after graduation. VC Circle is a fast growing and renowned news website tracking India’s deal economy - venture capital, private equity, investment banking, mergers, acquisitions, corporate law, and entrepreneurship. It’s owned by Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt Ltd, a Delhi-based company. See the website: www.vccircle.com .
I was in this organisation to learn about PE/ VC industry and also establish contacts in the industry (so that they can find me easily to fund my business!! :-) )

+I am also an HR guy with entrepreneurial plans in life. HRM is a great way to entrepreneurship. as in, say, I don't know Finance, but I can mobilise and manage the people who know Finance. I love dealing with people & managing them.

+ Founded Entrepreneurship Cell at my college, and have been a major contributor to its Council Board & industry associations.

+ Consolidation & establishment of CBSAA (College of Business Studies Alumni Association)

+ Founder Member & Joint Secretary of Modern Public School Alumni Association

+ I aim to be an entrepreneur of class ultimately in my life. No big talks here, before they aren't achieved.

Nimesh Sharma’s Specialties:

Good strategist, planner, executionist and team builder.
Coordinator for various functions & departments to ensure Synergy & Resource Optimisation
From Experience, I'll say - "You can accomplish anything, if you are desperate enough to have it"
Other specialities- HR, Strategy, Business Networking, Resource Mobilising, Systems formulation & integration, Research (incldg Internet), Crisis Management, High Motivation, Marketing, Social Work

Nimesh Sharma’s Experience

Evangelist

IIFM

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Working with Pratham (www.prathamonline.com), a brand of IIFM (International Institute of Financial Markets) for providing coaching to students for After-Class-12 Non-Science Competitive Exams .

Pratham is a new venture by IIFM (which in turn is a venture by Jaypee Capital) launched in 2009 itself.
The role included
- Planning for the new venture in the initial stages
- Heading the Academic Research for development of all the study material for the students in a number of disciplines.
- Getting a large number of qualified faculty to associate with us for the course development research and in-classroom teaching.
- Getting efficient Center Managers to manage the different centers all across New Delhi.
- Other tasks requiring different kinds of coordinations, say in conducting examinations of students etc.

* I call myself evangelist, just because I like the word (though i know its meaning as well), and I dont have any other designation.
Volunteer

Art of Living Foundation

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Worked for UTSAV: The Mega-Gala-Giga Event that has officially been registered as a Guinness Book World Record.
www.utsavdelhi.blogspot.com

UTSAV = A fun-filled course for youth + a 1200 Sitarist symphony + A Pranayam Dhyan Shivir by Sri Sri

The Art of Living (AOL) Foundation was estbd by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in 1981. Being the world's largest volunteer-based NGO, the foundation¹s work has touched more than 300 mn ppl in over 150 countries.

AOL is in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of UN participating in various committees & activities relating to health, education, sustainable development & conflict resolution.
I got interested in AOL after recently (Aug 1 to 3, 2008) witnessing a heavenly experience in the YES+ DSN, a Leadership Development course.
The work they are doing for world community is just so amazing. See this video: http://srisri.org/latest_news.html
Joint Secy

Modern Public School Alumni Association

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

- As co-founder, established the Alumni Association & organized the first ever Alumni Reunion of school, with good success rate. Organised the second reunion the next year, actively.

- Organized workshops for students, community Blood Donations camps, and the second Reunion.
Nimesh

VC Circle

(Internet industry)

August 2008 — November 2008 (4 months)

VC Circle is a news website tracking India’s deal economy - venture capital, private equity, investment banking, mergers, acquisitions, corporate law, and entrepreneurship.

My job involved compiling the upcoming VC /PE Fund Directory, and assisting in website transition. Also tried my hand at writing news stories for the website as a journalist. It came out good. Some stories that were picked by Reuters India can be viewed here:
http://search.in.reuters.com/rsearch/rcomSearch.do?blob=%22nimesh%20sharma%22
Advisory Member (Students Team)

CBSAA (CBS Alumni Association)

(Think Tanks industry)

April 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 1 month)

- (As student), Evolvement & strengthening of CBS Alumni Association, setting long term vision & strategy, including its registration under law and election of Alumni Executive Council.

- Promoting Alumni involvement in college in form of workshops & through various annual events, like Convergence (Annual Business seminar), Crescendo (Annual Festival), and Finwiz (Stock Simulation game), and in collaboration with other college bodies, like CDC (Placement Cell).

- Organized Reminiscence’07, the annual alumni reunion of college, with major contribution to its Venue.
Promoter

Entrepreneurship Cell (CBS)

(Think Tanks industry)

October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

Promoting industry collaborations, Team consolidation, Events’ planning & execution and Resource Mobilizing in terms of guest speakers, entrepreneurs, VCs, and sponsors.
The Cell invites Industry leaders, Visionaries, Veterans, SMEs, Entrepreneurs, VCs, Mentors, Sponsors, Faculties and all other people relevent to entrepreneurship in anywhich way to associate with the Entrepreneurship Cell of the college.

The aim is to promote entrepreneurship among students who are getting attracted to higher packages, so that more jobs can be created.

As of now, the ecell is associated with NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network), and others will come soon.
Freelancer

HR Strategy

(Insurance industry)

January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)

Worked as a freelancer, designed a Graduate Trainee Program for a UK based prominent life insurance company in India, as part of my Graduation project. It includes:
- Formulating Hiring standards & strategies to tap the best talent from Fresh graduate market
- Designing a Smart compensation package, based on Economic Models of compensation
- Identifying talent pool
- Employer Branding
- Hiring most fit people, induction & training
- Giving training and experience
- Giving them a good execution education program

- Formulating Retention Strategies
- Career Planning & growth of employees (Personal & Professional)
- Identifying Best practices followed for all of above all over India & the world, and inculcating them here
Mentee

IIFM (Jaypee Capital)

(Capital Markets industry)

May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)

Assisted in entrepreneurial venture in Education Industry viz., IIFM, by Jaypee Capital, a 3-lakh crore turnover co. in Broking, with a team of 6.
Faculty, Center Mgr, Content Developer, Marketeer

IMS Learning Resources

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

February 2007 — May 2007 (4 months)

Performed the Role of a Faculty (Business Awareness), a Center Manager, a Marketeer and a Content Developer, at IMS, India's leading MBA/BBA coaching institute, for their undergraduate division (erstwhile Temple of Learning).
Trainee

Bank of America

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)

June 2006 — July 2006 (2 months)

Did my Summers at Bank of America, New Delhi as part of BBS curriculum requiring compulsory Industry internship, wherein I undertook Project on "Current scenario of Private Equity in India" for Bank of America.
Management trainee

Indiabulls Securities Ltd.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Capital Markets industry)

May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)

Summer training at Indiabulls
Learnt the job of a broker
Learnt the In's and Out's of stock market and Indiabulls.

Nimesh Sharma’s Education

SS College of Business Studies (University of Delhi)

BBS , Management , 2004 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

Active participation in Music, Dance, Streetplays
Organised annual festival -Crescendo 2006, Helped in organising FinWiz (Annual Stock Simulation Game). annual seminar - Convergence (erstwhile Drishtikon)
Very active in promoting alumni relations & entrepreneurship culture
Delhi University

Certificate Course in Spanish , Spanish Language , 2005 — 2006

Know Spanish of beginner's level.
NSE

NCFM , Capital Mkt , 2005 — 2005
Modern Public School, Shalimar Bagh

Intermediate , Commerce , 2001 — 2004

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Nimesh Sharma’s Websites:

Nimesh Sharma’s Interests:

- Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Private Equity, Public Relations, Advertising, Consultancy, Event Management, Saxophone (Still to start learning), Adventure Trips (Initiated in college, now will try going frequently ), Media, etc. - I am greatly interested in Social work also, and want to make a mark in this field. But before giving, I think I need to become someone who has the hands full to donate, and whom people would like to follow blindly in pursuit of social work. This world is in dire need to become a better place to live. We cant live on edge any more. "We need to ensure survival of the weakest as well. " - Singing, Dancing, Acting.

Nimesh Sharma’s Groups:

Joint Secretary, MPS Alumni Association
Advisory Member, CBS Alumni Association
Friend of FRNV (www.valuefoundation.in)
Founder, Entrepreneurship Cell, CBS
National Entrepreneurship Network (www.nenonline.org)
PassionHR@YahooGroups.com
Youth Hostels Association of India
Art of Living Foundation
www.CouchSurfing.com