Hello TiE DC Members – Happy New Year! Hope you were able to spend quality time with family and friends over the holidays! It has been great seeing so many friendly faces during our recent events – the (once again) Annual Gala in December and TiE GovCon in November. You have already heard from Pallabi about the incredible year we’ve had under her leadership and the 2022 Board’s contributions. The 2023 Board is now working actively on our plans for this year.

As we continue the momentum of the last few years, there are a couple of areas we will put some intensity of focus for 2023. I’ve summarized our 6 main areas below – and note that many of them come from the feedback you, our members, have been giving us – thank you for that!

IMPORTANT and ACTION: As you read these, please think about how your passions and interest intersect with these areas – a key element of our future organizational strategy will be to execute through our committees that focus on these initiatives, which will have a Board member assigned as Chair – but will be heavily driven by You – a bit of a “for the people, by the people” approach!

Initiative 1 – Organizational Efficiency and Efficacy – led by Sri Vasireddy – as we’ve continued to scale our programs and organization, it has become critical that we “eat our own dog food”. Many of us deliver these types of services to our clients – and all the heavy lifting of the past Boards has put us in a great position to document what we do, how we do it, how to “rinse and repeat” easily with the resources we have and our intent to move our Board to one with staggered terms – a continuous refresh strategy.

Initiative 2 – Membership Engagement – led by Raji Bezawada – we continue to grow our membership and the different categories of members we are engaging – from Charter Members, Emerging Entrepreneurs, Service Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, general membership, etc.

Initiative 3 – Scaling Education Programs – led by Srini Bayireddy – the incredible work done by our Board over the years for TYE and more recently TiE University has put us in a great position.

Initiative 4 – Angels/Investor Expansion – led by Rajesh Rai – as many of you know, we have been very active in our Angels program and partnered with numerous local organizations as well as other TiE chapters.

Initiative 5 – Reimagining TiE GovCon – led by Sumeet Luthra – our focus on GovCon in the past few years has helped us gain tremendous exposure as a chapter.

Initiative 6 – Expansion of Partnerships and Collaborations – led by Nicole Washington – the main goal will focus on building relationships in the entrepreneurship & innovation ecosystem for the purposes of impacting growth.

I encourage you to reach out to the Committee Chairs directly for any areas you wish to help us drive.

Again, hope everyone had an amazing Holiday season and the Happiest of New Years!!!

Sumeet Shrivastava TiE DC President