BANGALORE, INDIA: There has been a revolutionary change in the use of IT in Indian enterprises across all verticals, moving from the traditional EDP setup to today’s role of a strategic business partner/unit.

The challenges CIOs face today have created a need for a platform to have a stronger relationship among IT vendors, IT trade publications and the CIO community, which will also benefit the CXO community and the Indian enterprise as a whole.

The motto of the CIO KLUB is to “Share Experience, Enhance Knowledge, Explore Business Solutions” by leveraging the collective wisdom.

The primary objective is to drive the business benefits to the organizations of the member CIOs and also help CIOs in their professional growth. The CIO KLUB will also represent the IT user community to governmental bodies, support government’s E-governance initiative, interact directly with vendors and the media for delivering CIO needs from time to time.

The CIO KLUB will be unique in the sense that it will be an interactive platform where the vendors, media and the CIOs, together, will use this platform for exchanging best practice ideas and derive strategy to address common IT issues. For the benefit of CIOs, the CIO KLUB will in future, create a test lab environment for new IT products and solutions with industry participation and will create a vendor neutral environment.

The KLUB will encourage the entrepreneur spirit by providing platform for sharing innovative ideas in the larger interest of the community.

Today, business heads have recognized that IT, and thereby, the CIO is critical for the success of any business. To have a closer interaction between the CIO and the CEO/business heads, the CIO KLUB will organize a “Face2Face” interaction section with CEOs and business heads.

The CIO KLUB will be governed by a governing body of the founder members. Shortly, it will also have very focused group committees to handle different KLUB initiatives.

The following members have been appointed as the officers bearers for the CIO KLUB Governing Body as the first step. They are:

Ashish Chauhan, Reliance Industries Ltd (President), Vikas Gadre, Tata Chemicals Ltd (Vice President), Shirish Gariba, Elbee Express (Secretary), Vilas Pujari, ACG Worldwide (Joint Secretary), and Radhakrishna Pillai, SRL Ranbaxy (Treasurer), while Zoeb Adenwala, Essel Propack, Anwer Bagdadi, CFC International, Prakash Pawar, Intrex India, and Satish Pendse, HCC, are the committee members.

The following sub committees have already been announced to make it more market/business focused. They are:

* Sponsorship & marketing – Anwer Bagdadi, Chairman
* Knowledge to insights – Subramanian, Chairman
* Membership (CIO) – Prakash Pawar, Chairman
* Infrastructure Committee – Zoeb
* Membership (Corporate) 
* Content Management
* Event Management
* Investments
* Innovation & New Technology
* Vendor Management
* Knowledge / Education
* Governance
* Women leadership