Vibrant Gujarat Golf Cup 27: CEOs, guests set to tee off on January 12

The same evening will converge in an official event supported by iNDEXTb and Gujarat Tourism which entails prize distribution, a gala ‘curated dinner’ for guests and a piano performance by renowned pianist Toshiki Usui at a city-based hotel, which will see the Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel attending it.

With 60 corporate officials having confirmed their intention to indulge in golf till now, among some of the names expected to tee off include Atul Malhotra (Director of Sophos Banking Solutions Ltd), Piyush Shah (MD of Hitachi Hi-Rel Power Electronics Pvt Ltd), Rob Van Nes (CEO of International Business Development Academy- Netherlands), Marcel Mock (CEO of Mock Interim), Ranjan Bhattacharya (MD of Country Development & Management Services Pvt Ltd) and foster son-in-law of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Keyur Joshi and Co-Founder of Makemytrip, Simon President (Lord’s Cricket, Anglo Indian Company UK), Lalit K Pawar (Union tourism secretary).

Invitations have gone out to both government officials and city-based industrialists, including Adani Wilmar’s MD Pranav Adani, Jaxay Shah (MD, Savvy Infrastructure), Vipul Mittra, Director General of Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA), P Swaroop, state Additional Industries Commissioner among others, say sources.

“The tournament is a venue for Gujarati businessmen, CEO conclave guests and state guests to come together on one platform. Top company heads will be looking to get a platform to strike a joint venture or a partnership for doing business in Gujarat will be facilitated. While the VGGIS portal has begun featuring the event, the government has also written about the tournament to global CEOs and business heads in November. Many of the CEOs taking part in the CEO Conclave on January 11 are also expected to attend it. Around 70 to 80 non-golfers which will include the business fraternity of the state who want to interact with CEOs are also on cards for close group interactions. Women professional golfers are also said to be part of the event,” said Abhimanyu Singh, a professional golfer and the MD of Club Golf 27 which is hosting the event with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Gujarat Tourism and iNDEXTb — the industrial arm of the state government.

Even as CEOs will be greeted by free golf kits which will have tournament T-shirts, caps and merchandise with Vibrant Gujarat logo, many can register in the wee hours of the morning post or online, while a power brunch later in the day will provide a B2B platform for them to network and strike deals.

A source close to the development said, “Top officials from the Chief Minister’s Office will be present at the gala dinner and the CM has confirmed that she would either tee off the tournament or be at the gala event which will have at least 170 guests.

This is also the only dinner officially hosted by the government on January 12, so this will have all the trappings of policymakers and corporates coming together to network.”

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