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AKKA WKC-2008 Conference Committees
Last Updated: August 28, 2008
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AKKA World Kannada Conference - 2008
Title Name Contact Details Roles & Responsibilities
Conveners Vasanthi Gowda vgowda2@comcast.net
630 963-0923(H)
630 915-6070(C)
  • Assures to conduct the conference along the lines of AKKA objectives and AKK-VKK MOU
  • Meet convention committees on a regular basis and provide directions and resources
  • Work with the AKKA President to resolve any issues or conflicts before, during and after the conference
  • Communicate with the AKKA Executive Committee (EC) and Board of Directors (BOD) on a regular basis with the progress of the convention activities.
  • Submit final audited accounts to AKKA BOD and VKK GB.
Mokshagundam Jayaram
mjayaram@gmail.com
630 690-6162(H)
630 640-2671(C)
Shivamurthy Keelara
keelara@gmail.com
847 658-8967(H)
847 571-6063(C)
Secretary Vijaya Bhat pediaam@aol.com
630 986-5427
Jt. Secretary Renu Nagaraj hemavathi@aol.com
630 455-1972
Treasurer Kajekar Ramachandra kripamaya@mail.com
847 438-3550
Jt. Treasurer Shrishail Virupannavar shri_virup@yahoo.com
630 527-1271
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1. Finance
Title Name Contact Details Roles & Responsibilities
Chair Samanth Laxman
Lsamanth@yahoo.com
630 355-2429
  • Liaison with Fund raising committee to appraise of the projected budget Gap
  • Preparation and publishing of Financial Statements to Conference Committee and AKKA President. Management reports to include Actual, projected Fixed and projected flexible range
  • Periodically prepare Cash flow statements that include future cash flows by chronological buckets. Include Flexible range statements to match with Financial statements
  • Communicate with the individual Committee chairs the drill –down portions of the income statement and cash flows when it is critical.
  • Provide Budget Consulting services to various Committee chairs as needed. Including review of Budget submissions of all Committees prior to presentation to Conference Committee
  • Provide Risk Identification and Mitigation services to Conveners and AKKA President (see the separate committee at Baltimore
  • Develop Flexible Budgets for “major” expenditure and Income categories, Identify red flag deadline markers for implementing expansion or contraction of individual Major expense items.
  • Provide the services equivalent of Internal Audit for the benefit of Conference Committee. (benefits the coordination of the work of external auditors)
  • Provide expert specialist services to Registration Committee and Hospitality committee to convert their activities to proper accounting transactions. Ascertain that agreement clauses in Hotel contracts were executed and settled fairly and equitably.
Co-Chair Surendra Phadnis rsphadnis@msn.com
Member(Ex Officio) Kajekar Ramachandra kripamaya@mail.com
847 438-3550
Member(Ex Officio) Shrishail Virupannavar
shri_virup@yahoo.com
630 527-1271
Member Deepak Bangalore
847 344-6002
Member Shreenidhi Bharadwaj
630 842-5502
Member Harish Hiremath
301 524-5101
Member Narayana Kamath
847 549-9648
Member Godavari Patil
 
Member Bhima Rao
815 230-2901