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    MIT CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN

    Meeting Minutes – Tuesday, 11 September 2007 at 6.30 pm

    Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE

    Attendees:

    Clive Norris

    Linda E. Morecroft       

    Christopher Voisey

    Juliet E. Lord-Haughton

    Ben Maron

    Henry M. Goldstein

    Marek Banasiak

    Vicky Athanasiou

        1. Valerie Wong


    Philip Van Overberghe

    Apologies for absence from:
        1. Florence Eid

        2. Michael Colao


    Scott Warner

    Michael A. Talalay

    Indy Neogy

    Andrew Rhomberg

    Paul Tanner

    Konstantina Drakouli

    George Berkowski

    Rodrigo Madanes

    Roderick M Logan

    Abdeldjalil Chaib

    Fehmi Sami

    Marc Bartel   

    Babu Bangaru

    Simon Stokes

    Eileen Tanghal

    Riccardo Merello

    Carol Mancke

    Ien Cheng

    Leon H. Liebman

    ___________________________________________________________________________

    Welcome

    1. Meeting Opened

    Linda Morecroft opened the meeting, and thanked those present for agreeing to move the meeting from the previous week.



    2. Minutes of the meetings on 17 May, 2007

    Juliet proposed, and Clive seconded a resolution that the minutes of the meeting be accepted with one correction - the addition to the list of board members and volunteers of Scott Warner.

    The minutes of the meeting of the 17 May, as amended, were unanimously accepted.

    The revised list is attached



    3. Board Members' Updates

    Treasurer

    Marek reported that the accounts are in a good state, and that no further spurious debits have occurred. He agreed to, and did, email the secretary with the precise balances:

    current account - £4,154.62

    saver account - £26,621.00



    Membership

    Juliet reported that, after considerable work, she has reconciled cheques received from MIT with membership payments reported by SmarTrans. Linda thanked her for her work in doing this.

    Juliet proposed, and Clive seconded a resolution to revise the dollar-denominated membership fees in view of the current dollar-sterling exchange rates to:

    regular membership $45.00

    sustaining membership $110.00

    The resolution was unanimously agreed. Juliet agreed to modify the SmarTrans pages, and Henry the webpages to reflect this change.

    Juliet reported that the club had 5 new members since July, 1 membership renewal, and 49 standing orders. A membership drive will be implemented in September.

    It was also agreed that personal emails will be sent in October / November to encourage 'lapsed' paying members to subscribe.

    Linda noted that often alumni who were leaving the UK would email her to that effect, and that she would reply to them, informing them how to change their Infinite Connection details. She agreed to copy Juliet on her replies so that Juliet could update her membership information more easily.

    Programme

    Speaker Series

    Chris reported on his activities in trying to get information from MIT about visiting professors as possible speakers - in particular, those writing or publishing new books. He noted that many professors travel in connection with paying work, and that local alumni clubs are not 'on their agenda'.

    Philip suggested that it might be worthwhile contacting heads of departments, in a 'top-down' approach, as well as trying to find relevant individual professors to contact.

    Chris agreed to try to arrange to meet Florence and Philip to work our a strategy for targeting and contacting potential speakers.



    Events

    Vicky presented the results of a survey that she had organised. The aims of the survey were to: identify the areas of interest of members; get an idea about partipation intention; and determine price sensitivity for different event categories.

    She was encouraged by the response to the survey questionnaire. She concluded that the club should:

    Focus mainly on social events and speaker series and less on outings and volunteer activities;

    Price event at £20-£50 for social activities (the higher prices for 'prestige' activities, such as Opera / Theatre) and £20 for other activities;

    Hold at least one activity outside London.

    Vicky said that she was hoping for one event per month.

    Linda said that she was looking to arrange for another 'meet the MIT students at Cambridge' event.



    Book Club

    Clive reported that he planned to issue two newsletters in the next few months – one with book reviews and the other with Christmas gift book recommendations. They will appear on the Club's website.



    Sloan Club

    There was no report. Philip asked to be added to the list of Sloan Club volunteers as deputy to Marc Bartel.



    Enterprise Forum

    Linda reported that neither she nor Paul had received further input from MIT. No further action is planned at this time.



    MIT - 10

    Ben reported that the MIT-10 activity planning group had reached an impasse in finding venues that were central and offered acceptably-priced private facilities.

    Members of the board advised that perhaps private space was not a key factor at this time.

    Clive suggested, and after enthusiastic input from a number of those present, Valerie took on board the idea of a get-together at a different part of the London area each month. A number of area / pub / restaurant suggestions were given to Valerie.



    Webpage

    Nothing to report.



    Counsel

    Simon, with apologies for his absence, had informed Linda that there was nothing to report.



    Educational Council

    Having offered apologies for his absence, Fehmi emailed the following information for inclusion in the minutes.

    College day details are:

    Date: Saturday September 29, 2007

    Venue: The New Connaught Rooms, 61-65. Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5DA
    Linda noted that it would be good if recent graduates attended, as they are most familiar with MIT today.

    Last year's statistics:

    Referrals: 286 (initial interest universe)
    Interviewed: 54
    Finals: 86
    Admitted: 6 (6.97% admittance rate)
    Not Admitted: 79
    Incomplete: 200

    Also we have 21 educational counsellors registered.



    Senior Advisory Group

    No report was received



    Newsletter

    No report was received



    5. Alumni Leadership Conference

    Linda will be attending (most of) the meeting this year on 28/29 September.

    Chris proposed, and Juliet seconded a resolution that Linda's travel costs be borne by the club. The resolution was unanimously agreed, with Linda abstaining.

    Chris suggested that the club should sponsor two people to go to the ALC each year. This suggestion met with general approval, but was not put to the vote.



    6. Any other business

    Linda reminded the meeting of the MIT Externship Program and asked anyone who might wish to offer a place to contact the program organisers; details are on the website.



    7. Date of the next board meeting

    The next meeting will be held at the same place – Clive Norris' office, on Thursday 29 November 2007 - 6:30pm.


    1. MIT Club of Great Britain


    Board Member Positions and Volunteers

    1st July 2007 - 30th June 2008
    12th September 2007

    President

    Ms Linda E. Morecroft lem@alum.mit.edu


    Treasurer

    Marek Banasiak marek_banasiak@yahoo.com


    Membership

    Juliet E. Lord-Haughton jlohaughton@alum.mit.edu


    Programs

    • Speaker Series

    Florence Eid feid@alum.mit.edu

    Philip Van Overberghe


    philip_vanoverberghe@alum.mit.edu

    Christopher Voisey cvoisey@mit.edu



    • Events


    Vicky Athanasiou
    vathanasiou.mba2007@london.edu

    Babu Bangaru bangaru@alum.mit.edu

    Abdeldjalil Chaib djalil@mit.edu 

    Konstantina Drakouli


    Konstantina.Drakouli@ubs.com
    kdrakoul@alum.mit.edu

    Rahul Kamath rahul.kamath@sloan.mit.edu

    Riccardo Merello  riccardo.merello@arup.com

    Eileen Tanghal tanghal@alum.mit.edu



    • Book Group


    Clive Norris clive_norris@alum.mit.edu

    Indranath Neogy indy@alum.mit.edu


    Webmaster and Secretary

    Henry M. Goldstein henryg@alum.mit.edu



    Sloan Club

    Marc Bartel mbartel@alum.mit.edu

    Philip Van Overberghe
    philip_vanoverberghe@alum.mit.edu

    Counsel

    Simon Stokes Simon.Stokes@bllaw.co.uk


    Educational Council

    Fehmi Sami fehmi_sami@hotmail.com

    Michael Colao mikali@alum.mit.edu

        1. MIT10


    Ien Cheng ien.cheng@ft.com

    Rodrigo Madanes rodrigo@alum.mit.edu

    Ben Maron maron@alum.mit.edu

    Valerie Wong wong.val@gmail.com


    Senior Advisory Group

    Leon H. Liebman vcinvestor@msn.com

    Clive Norris clive_norris@alum.mit.edu
    MIT Enterprise Forum

    George Berkowski gberko@gmail.com

    Paul Tanner paul_tanner@alum.mit.edu

        1. Newsletter


    Paul Tanner paul_tanner@alum.mit.edu

    Volunteers

    Roderick M. Logan Rodlogan@btinternet.com

    Carol Mancke cjmancke@hotmail.com

    Andrew Rhomberg arhom@alum.mit.edu

    Michael A.Talalay mike_talalay@alum.mit.edu

    Scott Warner scottdwarner@yahoo.com





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