Message-ID: <30325920.1075856609066.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 02:37:00 -0800 (PST) From: vince.kaminski@enron.com To: bryan.seyfried@enron.com Subject: Re: Amitava's visit Cc: vince.kaminski@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: vince.kaminski@enron.com X-From: Vince J Kaminski X-To: Bryan Seyfried X-cc: Vince J Kaminski X-bcc: X-Folder: \Vincent_Kaminski_Jun2001_5\Notes Folders\London X-Origin: Kaminski-V X-FileName: vkamins.nsf Bryan, I am glad we could help. Let me talk to Vasant about Amitava's support for you. Vince Bryan Seyfried 11/05/2000 05:26 AM To: Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT, Vasant Shanbhogue/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Steven Leppard/LON/ECT@ECT, Markus Fiala/LON/ECT@ECT Subject: Amitava's visit Really appreciate your freeing amitava up to provide critical input into the quantitative work we have undertaken. As you are aware much of the work requires exploring uncharted territory and the team has confirmed the significant contribution that Amitava's experience and expertise has provided in a very short timeframe. As you might expect, this quickly confirms that we really need more dedicated support from someone with Amitava's background. It is imperative that we leverage his experience to speed up the process and apply critical insights into our project. This will not only speed up the work considerably but also ensure that we have put our best team on the difficult issues in front of us. I would like to discuss an arrangement where we can ensure Amitava is more integrated into our efforts. I realize it will be difficult to free him up but maybe we can put something together which works for everybody. some early ideas: have amitava and family come over for 6 weeks of dedicated support. this should allow us to develop the communication processes to run a global quant effort for the project and then continue with Amitava a full time EC.com resource working from Houston. This is likely my preference. or agree a schedule of regular trips which allows Amitava to provide critical insights and oversight of the project and give our team a resource to extract his experience on an ongoing basis. Let's discuss before I talk to john about the practicalities Thanks for your assistance.