UK Karnataka Business Meet 2013 by British South India Council of Commerce

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UK Karnataka Business Meet 2013
POST MEET REPORT
Thursday, November 7th
, 2013
Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, UK

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On November 7th, 2013 all roads lead to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London. This
was the venue for the UK Karnataka Business Meet 2013 which was organised by BSICC, with
Sivaleen Inc as the delivery partner, at the Committee rooms of Houses of Parliament,
Westminster, London. The event was meant to herald innovative avenues to foster stronger UK-
Karnataka bilateral trade relations. The attendees included government representative from
Karnataka, Members of House of Commons, representatives from UK companies and Indian
companies who are interested in South India and businessmen from South India who are
successful in UK.
The event was chaired by Mr.Virendra Sharma MP who is the Chairperson of BSICC
THE MEET
PROGRAMME SUMMARY
Mr.Virendra Sharma MP, the Chair of BSICC
welcomed the delegates attending the business
meet. Sujit S Nair, FRSA. Director/ Chief Co
Ordinator of BSICC played the role of anchor
during the business meet.
After the welcome from Mr.Sharma, Sri
D.H.Shankaramurthy, Chairman of, Karnataka
Legislative Council spoke about the advantages
which Karnataka provides to businesses which
invest in the state. Mr.Mike Nithavrianakis, who
until recently was British Deputy High
Commissioner , South India provided an overview
of doing business in Karnataka which was based on
his experience of being one of top British.
Mr.Sujit.S.Nair, Director/ Chief Co Ordinator of
BSICC read out the message from Mr.S.R.Patil,
Minister for Planning and Statistics, Information
Technology, Biotechnology and Science &
Technology, Government of Karnataka, India who
was not able to travel to the event due to
unavoidable reasons. Mr.Satish Chandra, Chairman
of Global Tech Park, outlined the reason which
make Karnataka an ideal IT Destination.

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Mr.Robert Holland/ Mr.Peter Whalley , partners at James
Cowper LLP, a leading independent firm of accountants
and business advisers based in UK, shared some of their
secrets through which they are helping businesses to
succeed in India and UK. As part of BSICC initiative to
showcase a collaboration between a UK Bangalore based
company and a UK based company, Mr.Paul Richard from
Tracc films spoke about his experience of collaborating
with a company in Bangalore to offer video Production
Services For Every Kind Of Audience. Jason Thorne,
Managing Director or Enorth Group, spoke outlined his
reasons of expanding his business into India.
Mr.K.C.Janardhan, BSICC Vice Chair for Karnataka
proposed the vote of thanks