ISODA organizes Regional Meet

The ISODA Regional Meet 2014 was held on 26th June, with a large number of members in attendance. As the tenure of the current Regional committee was approaching to an end, the Regional Secretary, Jiten Mehta thanked the members and expressed his gratitude for supporting ISODA through the year, in spite of their busy schedules and invited members to come forward with just as much enthusiasm to take up posts for RS and committee posts for West Region in the forthcoming year.
The Chairman, Nityanand Shetty gave the members an insight in brief of the different activities done by the task force like TDAI/Tax Committee. He then called on the President, Devesh Aggarwal and the General Secretary, Manish Tandon, to give more details to the members on the progress of engagement with TDAI and forthcoming AGM which would be conducted in a two day format unlike the previous AGMs, which was a one day affair.
The President spoke about the discussions the Distributor committee had with TDAI on regular issues faced by the members. Rajesh Kothari then gave a brief about the Pre budget meeting which was held in Delhi with the Revenue Secretary, Finance Ministry. The General Secretary then briefed the members on the work in progress for the AGM and asked for some volunteers to assist the MC for the 2 day event.
The chairman thanked the West Region, introduced the guest speaker and the thought process behind inviting him. The members always look forward to the regional meet because of the unique choice of speakers and careful selection of subjects which is relevant to the industry and today’s market scenario.
The guest speaker Arun Gupta (CIO-Cipla) enthralled the audience with his presentation on “How to sell to a CIO”, talking about the various aspects of sales & marketing. In spite of the vast experience of the audience, they were intrigued by his perspective and had many audience questions after the presentation which he answered enthusiastically.
The Meeting ended with a vote of thanks followed by cocktail, dinner and recharged audience looking forward to contributing to ISODA in the following year.