SET-IT
Startup____________________________________________________________________________
The community to which I belong ,and was born and brought
up was predominantly into business. Trading to be specific.
Entrepreneur drive according to me is something inherent.
A trait that is passed on through generations. It comes
from within to realize your own potential and I realized
very early in my life - the drive about being and becoming
an entrepreneur.
Sooner than expected, I found myself managing an offshoot
of a construction company who wanted to set up an IT wing
as services arm. I was one of the three members involved
in setting up the wing in Malaysia.
To start something of my own is where my inherent strength
lies. – Providing Solution was my drive since long.
And I chose to bridge business with technology by starting
a company C-Design system in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley
of India, catering solutions of how to wisely invest in
technology and get the best returns.
C-Design concentrated on solutions for mid-sized manufacturing
companies. Also developed a product “prospect management
system” to tap the local market which soon made
way for global market.
Soon after this, another venture. Another Start-up. Again
incubated a start-up by joining Questech as their 1st
senior member in the delivery side and being instrumental
for the growth of the organization by actively participating
in conceptualization of the product, relationship management,
incubation of frameworks and directly responsible for
the engagement to all the stakeholders for the success
of the initiatives.
That’s where I got introduced to angel investors
and venture capital funders for evaluation. This was the
season when my personal profile was screened on a popular
technology channel in their news hour under the section
“Rising Star”.
Once you get what you want, interest excites and dies
hard. And then came the opportunity to develop internal
application division for Digital Globalsoft (now merged
with Hewlett Packard) to cater to all the automation for
the highly growing and scaling organization. I became
the owner of enterprise class to conceptualize, build
and integrate systems catering to HR Systems. The portfolio
was further enhanced by becoming the liaison for many
powerful departments like sales to automate the Sales
Force Activities and System Security Department to build
their portal branded ‘Defense Against Real Threat
(DART) to ensure the best return on investment and increase
the effectiveness of the organization.
And next on the list but certainly not the least, I started
Karna India, an entity for an American company specialized
in enterprise information management, enterprise portals
and business intelligence solution provider - I set up
their offshore development center by playing a key role
of not only building technically strong delivery team
but also pitched in a conscious effort on process to ensure
predictability and repeatability. Instituted the school
of thought on ‘first time innovation, second time
process’ to build an excellence pursuant work culture.
As time went by I helped consolidate the company’s
position in leveraging the rising waves of offshore by
playing the pivotal role of off-shoring global engagements.
There is still a lot of entrepreneurial drive. Realizing
the kind of energy not everyone possess as the pre-requisite
for entrepreneurs and the aspect of risk taking. And finally
now it has culminated in Compassites, with me leading
from the front.
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