HPMF Hosted 8th Annual Convention in Varanasi
The two days were spent in insightful debates, discussions, meetings and fun, according to a programme put together by Nitin Nagrale, General Secretary & Founder of HPMF and other core committee members.
HOSPITALITY PURCHASING Managers Forum (HPMF) hosted their eighth annual convention in Varanasi which was a two day long event. HPMF was initiated with a vision of developing procurement professionals through exchange of procurement knowledge and networking at different avenues. The forum is solely a non-profit organisation with more than 1500 members.
The gathering saw more tan 400 hospitality veterans and especially purchasing managers who came from Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Chennai, Goa, Guwahati, Jaipur, Indore, Nagpur, Vadodara, Bhubaneswar and Puri. The two days were spent in insightful debates, discussions, meetings and fun, according to a programme put together by Nitin Nagrale, General Secretary & Founder of HPMF and other core committee members.
Eight war veterans, who have made sacrifices for the country, were felicitated and among the veterans honoured was Deepchand Kayyat Nashik, who lost his legs and his right wrist during a war.
Apart from Nashik, the veterans who were honoured were Major General Dilawar Singh, JW Nalin Talwar, Subedar Uday Ram, Brigadier Sushil Bhasin, Lt Colonel Ramesh Kumar Chhetri, Commander Keshav and Major Aval Sethi. Each of the veterans selected for the honour now work for the development of the society.
Among these, Major General Singh works in the area of youth development. JW Talwar, who was in the Air Force and served during the Kargil war, had, in addition to that, been present during 26/11 attacks in Mumbai as well as during the Parliament attack of 2001. During 26/11, he killed two terrorists and now works to help people achieve sobriety.
Subedar Uday Ram works with farmers, while Col Chhetri works with liver donors. Aval Sethi, a decorated officer, who is known to have killed many terrorists, works with PROTEGA and supports the third gender.
The second day of the event witnessed HPMF 2018 PROCUREMENT EXCELLENCE AWARDS fow which the winners were as follows:
LIVING LEGEND - MANI RATNA AWARD
Kaushik Jhingan (Director - A1 Avighna Associates, Delhi)
Subramanyam Natarajan (Director Procurement - Oterra, Bengaluru)
Man Singh Rathore (Chief Procurement and Materials Officer - Berggruen Hotels Pvt.Ltd, Mumbai)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - KOHINOOR AWARDS
Mohan Deshpande (Director Procurement - Aspa Watermelon Hospitality Infrastructure, Pune)
V. T. Alexander (Purchase Manager - Crowne Plaza, Kochi)
ARJAN SHREE AWARD
MOST IMPACTFUL PROCUREMENT PERSON OF THE YEAR
Amit Aggarwal (Materials Manager - Radisson Blue, Greater Noida)
GUNASHRESTHA SHREE AWARD
BEST CROSS FUNCTIONAL PROCUREMENT LEADER OF THE YEAR
Aniruddha Parlikar (General Manager - White Copper Hospitality, Pune)
JYOTIPURUSH AWARD
PROCUREMENT PERSON OF THE YEAR (MALE)
Rayan Rodrigues (Purchase Manager - Irish House , Mumbai)
PRAJNA AWARD
PROCUREMENT PERSON OF THE YEAR (FEMALE)
Priya Malhotra (Agm Resources And Planning - CSD Group, Delhi)
DHRUVATARA AWARD
EMERGING STAR OF THE YEAR
Ganesh Sangle (Executive SCM - Tata Starbucks, Mumbai)
UJJWAL SHREE AWARD
MOST PROMISING FUTURE LEADER OF THE YEAR
Krushna Behera (Asst. Manager Purchase And Stores - The Vedic Village, Kolkata)
ARYABHATTA AWARD
BEST USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY
Jwala Srinivas (Asso.Dir Purchase - The Park, Hyderabad)
NAVRATNA AWARD
VENDOR RELATIONSHIP
Team Procurement (Rafiq Mansuri) - Novotel, Ahmedabad
PARYAVARAN SANRAKSHAK AWARD
GREEN INITIATIVES
Team Procurement (Harvey Rodrigues) - Meluha The Fern, Mumbai
CHAIRMAN'S AWARD
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
Mohan Nawade (Sr. Purchase Manager - Foodlink Services (I)Pvt Ltd, Mumbai)
Rajesh Nair (Materials Manager - Grand Hyatt, Kochi)
Amit Pandey (Chief Operating Officer - Exi-Com Telesystems Limited, Gurgaon)
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
Tarun Chaturvedi (Purchase Head - Fraser Suites Ifci, Delhi)
Ravindra Thakkar (Manager Purchase - Shree Naman Developers Pvt Ltd, Mumbai)
Varala Satheesh Kumar (Dy. Purchase Manager - Westin Mindspace, Hyderabad)
Rupen Goswami (Purchase Manager - The Lalit Great Eastern, Kolkata)
Mejar Sonar (Sr. Manager SCM - Lite Bite Foods, Delhi)
Vidhu Sharma (Procurement Consultant, Ahmedabad)
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