The 30 most admired tech leaders to watch in 2018

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Amoolya Vassa Founder & Managing Director

Amoolya Vassa:

An innovative Leader who introduced a smart & cost-effective Payment Solution

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eaders! Some are born, some are made! A good leader is one who is influential enough to get others to follow him willingly. He has a vision, he has a dream, and the passion to pursue it. He has analytical skills, a decision-making ability, and a go-getter attitude. He has the grit to bring it into reality.

Successful businesses are usually led by great business leaders that are also usually admired by their team. These leaders are admired because they possess certain traits or characteristics that motivate everyone to always give their best. Below are seven of the more common characteristics of leaders that always have their team's support.

True leaders are those who dare to dream and live to lead!

Leadership is not a quality but it is an individual’s behavior. A leader showcases a positive attitude and high self-esteem. He assertively works towards the goal but never gets pushy for it. A continuous self-study, training, evaluation and imbibing positive things in life develop the characteristics of a leader. It has also been noticed that only those persons are considered as good leaders who have gained the trust and confidence of their subordinates.

Communication plays a vital role in this regard. The other thing that people respect is knowledge.

Leadership is both a gift and a privilege. You can erode the cohesion of your team if you fail to value them. Everyone on the team deserves to be valued. Each one of them performs an essential part to keep the engine of your company running. When you can put your people’s needs and interests before your own, you will be a more successful leader.

In sum, admired tech leaders believe in the purpose of their company, and they can impart it with the team in clear goals and objectives. They are genuinely concerned and supportive of their team and their growth. They can show that they are aware of the business’s performance and status, and are eager and prepared to continue leading it.

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Amoolya Vassa:

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Five Tips that can Secure Your Digital Accounts

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Impact of designing sector in Indian manufacturing business

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An innovative Leader who introduced a smart & cost-effective Payment Solution

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NILADRI DUTTA: An Ingenious Leader who Introduces the Predictive Maintenance Solution to Help Heavy Machine Industries

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Tech Talk

Business buzz

Impact of Technology on Business Leaders

Content Modiď€ cation can be the New Business Trend to Drive Success

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26 ANKIT JAIN:

JAY:

A Determined Leader Driving Business towards Success

A Far-sighted Entrepreneur Honing Technology and Product Development

KARAN PAL SINGH CHAUHAN & VIVEK PARMAR: Two Ingenious Leaders who Bring New Insights in the Arena of Outsourcing

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38 MOHAN RANBAORE: An Inspiring Leader with a Robust Vision for the Future

NIKHIL TANEJA: A Zealous Leader Pursuing the Dream of Success

NITESH KUMAR: A Leading Entrepreneur Driving Businesses towards Success

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RAHUL KURKURE:

RAKESH DADHICH

Simplifying your Journey through Cloud

A Promising Leader who Transforms the Digital Marketing through Innovation

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SANDEEP JANGALA: A Strategist in a Quest for Innovation

56 SIVA REDDY AV: Got a Zeal to Make the Best of IoT for the Clients

VIJAY VAIDYANATHAN: An Ardent Serial Entrepreneur cum Technophile

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eadership plays an important part in the success of any organization. In the absence of effective leadership no organization can work efficiently. An organization is created with the purpose of achieving certain objectives through a human group; it becomes essential to control this group.

Nowadays the business environment is changing rapidly. In order to face the changing environment, many changes have got to be introduced in the organization.

Since the people already happen to be under the influence of the leader, he readily makes them agree to implement these changes. In this way, the possible opposition to the change is eliminated with the strength of leadership ability.

Herein we take an opportunity to feature such prudent and competent leaders in our special issue of The 30 Most Admired Tech Leaders to Watch in 2018, we have signified 30 effective qualities and the prominence of leaders in the different business sectors. They all have accomplished sign of guidance and motivation. Their ideas and actions boost the spirit of other employees.

The journey of our magazine begins with Cover story; Amoolya Vassa, Founder of the TRANSACTWORLD GROUP. Under the guidance of Amoolya, the company reached a point where the past years strategy to massively upgrade the system and investing in new products is picking up and the group is ready for an international mass scale of the business.

In this issue we also have interviewed, Niladri Dutta, CEO of TARDID has given some insightful views highlighting the influence of predictive maintenance solution trends which help their clients to explore the diverse ways of autonomous structural and machine health management.

We have also encompassed some insightful CXO’s of “Five Tips that can Secure Your Digital Accounts” by Zakir Hussain Rangwala, Director in BD Software Distribution PVT LTD. “Impact of designing sector in Indian manufacturing business” by Rajesh Garg, MD of Graebert India Software Pvt Ltd. Do flip every single page to unveil the secret of the success of these inspiration leaders.

COVER STORY

Amoolya Vassa: An innovative Leader who introduced a smart & cost-effective Payment Solution

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otivation is a goal-oriented characteristic that helps a person to achieve his objectives. An executive must have the right leadership traits to induce motivation. As a leader, one should keep an open perspective on human nature. An effective trailblazer must understand the needs of employees, peers and his business environment.

Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and guide followers or other members of an organization. One of these individuals is Amoolya Vassa, Founder of the TRANSACTWORLD GROUP. Before starting his business in the online payment industry he managed a family owned import/export trading business.

When starting the new venture the business naturally had to survive on a tight budget environment. As the business started to flourish and client base grew, the company managed to become a decent niche player acting on international lines. Year by year regulatory requirements, international payment standards and a growing merchant base continuously instigated the young company to upgrade their system. Over the years they were settled very comfortably being a known partner in their space. Now, the company reached a point where the past years strategy to massively upgrade the system and investing in new products is picking up and the group is ready for an international mass scale of the business.

“We work in a fast paced industry that is evolving every day. As a business owner and leader, you have to stay on top of things, do your own research and make sure you have the latest information of available technologies and what competitors are doing. I am very happy and proud that we have invested so much in talents and technology over the past years.

My role is to provide the best possible environment for our staff to work so they can make sure our systems are up to date, development work is in full swing, our customers and partners are satisfied and the atmosphere is happy and positive.” says Amoolya .

E -commerce Growth is the Inspiration of Amoolya The e-commerce market is growing so fast that figures are out of date almost as soon as they are released. His organization has a strong presence in Europe while their software hub is in Mumbai. Now that the Indian government is pushing for digitalization the growth is even exceeding the

Amoolya Vassa Founder & Managing Director

My responsibility is to make sure our systems are up to date, development work is in full swing, our customers and partners ori ginal are satisfied plans. The and atmosphere demand is twofold – a lot of is happy European businesses and positive want to expand to India and electronic payments has become a well promoted topic in India itself.

Amoolya believes that their innovative payment acceptance products, developed over the decade of experience in the payments industry and best-in-class-talent will surely enter Indian Acquiring, and issuing the space. Amoolya considers that everyone has their own unique goals and objective. When people start believing and focusing on their own action, they can easily taste the cherry of success.

Company Overview with Amoolya As globalization of e-commerce is creating new opportunities, merchants want to take advantage of these opportunities and secure new business; whereas online customers want to enhance their shopping experience.

However, while performing online transactions, customers are sometimes overcharged or the gateway does not provide confirmation. In addition, sometimes there is the unavailability of support information to customers or the account details are given to one website is being used by multiple websites. Hence, customers expect secured, quick and well-informed Transaction Process by requesting minimum input from the End Customer. This is why Paymentz comes as a preferred choice for many vendors across the globe.

TRANSACTWORLD GROUP has deployed an end-to-end solution for the online payment industry providing a single entry hub for global markets combining such lean front-end APIs with a strong backend making payments truly seamless throughout the processing chain. Today, the company enables global transaction processing in a SIMPLE, SECURE, SWIFT and SCALABLE environment.

Their in-house developed technology acts like a backbone where they can plug-in all relevant services and user interface along with the payment value chain.

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Paymentz: Provides state-of-the-art, white Label Payment Gateway Solution Paymentz offers innovative, unique & cost effective Payment Industry related software Products for leveraging the underlying businesses for their clients. Few of their primary products are, White labelled Payment Acceptance System, White labelled Wallet System, In-flight Payment Acceptance System, Merchant Onboarding System, Risk Tracker (Merchant Monitoring Tool), and Invoizer ( Invoicing solution).

Amoolya defines the essence of Paymentz, which make this payment system most prominent or leading than their competitors.

Paymentz’s innovative, unique & cost effective software Products customized to address end to end requirements of the Payment Industry specialists with 15+ years of Domain Expertize Team. The range of its own server farm backed by highly secured Tier 4 Data Centre facility Redundant Infrastructure at Disaster recovery site to ensure business continuity & 24X7X365 days system availability.

Moreover, the Company owned, Front Office, Back Office Premises, Software, Servers & Infrastructure, delivers the cost effective & sustainable solution, Advance technology, and Global presence & affiliate networks.

Most Eminent Projects The organization has designed some unique projects to match with client’s desires. These exceptional projects help them to bringing greater focus on integration and improvement of their work processes. · PAYMENTZ WHITE LABEL PAYMENT GATEWAY PLATFORM PAYMENTZ Platform is a robust and Global White Label Payment Gateway to enable fast and Easy Processing for Banks, Acquirers, Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs). The Platform includes merchant API, documentation and merchant login Sites, Which can be fully rebranded to match your Brand. · M-transact – WHITE LABEL WALLET Paymentz Wallet, a smartphone application that replaces the need to carry physical credit cards, debit cards, gift cards and loyalty cards. Paymentz Wallet generates a protected online space for retaining payment information that can be retrieved by a registered user whenever required. Individual account information does not need to be entered when using

TRANSACTWORLD GROUP Paymentz Wallet to make Payment. · RISK TRAKER – The Risk Engine Tool Paymentz Risk Traker detects, analyzes and manages transactions, behavior and habits of the merchants and cardholders. The risk engine collects and analyzes the vast number of transaction data and enables you to manage and fully control merchants and their activities based on analysis and alerts you can actively consult merchants and if needed suspend their transactions and prevent any possible issue. · BOARDING MANAGER – THE BOARDING SOLUTION It is a Paymentz Platform Module, is a solution for merchants onboarding with the banks. By selecting a specific bank you can get a tailor-made query for the selected acquirer. All merchant data can be secured for sending application packages to multiple acquirers/banks.

Information needs to be filled only once. The boarding manager ensures a smooth onboarding process allowing you to apply to multiple banks within minutes. · INVOIZER – THE INVOICING APP A Smartphone Application for creating online invoices which replaces a need to buy expensive POS machine, Invoizr enables the merchant to share invoices with their customers using mediums like Whatsapp, SMS, Email, etc. and to get paid online. Using Invoizr Merchants can generate, Share, Cancel and Regenerate the invoices and can also send reminders to their customers. Using Invoizr,

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Solutions that works globally clients can also split invoices among friends. It is fully integrated with Paymentz platform invoicing solution which can be accessed using web interface also. This simple and easy yet powerful tool saves time and money for both merchant and their customers. · IFE PAY – IN FLIGHT PAYMENT APP IFE Pay is a fully PCI Compliant, State of art in-flight payment module supporting both online and offline orders.

It is integrated with on-ground Paymentz Platform to support both online and offline transactions. It supports a fully configurable in-flight risk engine and on-ground processing capabilities. IFE Pay can be easily integrated with any in-flight marketplace and entertainment module.

Various Protagonist Roles Technology Plays in Day-to-Day Life Technology is a core for the organization that deals with the Payments. Each and every activity is getting executed through the use of one or another technology in the various functional areas of the Organizations. Anupam highlights some important roles that technology plays for their organization, such as Technology in place to process Payments at the realtime, Analytics & Decision Making, the area of Digital Marketing, Business Growth, Lead Management, Customer Support and Satisfaction, Resource Management and Globalization.

Ongoing Projects Worldwide Amoolya explains that the company has recently entered into a joint venture with an Investment Group, through which Paymentz would identify companies in payments business to further have joint venture or alliance with them or buy them to create one-stop International payments solutions. With presence and projects in Europe, this would help Paymentz gain new business opportunities in India.

Paymentz aims to seed its own business in supporting start-ups around the globe and envisions introducing its Payment Gateway, Wallet, Risk Traker Tool, Merchant Onboarding Tool App., Inflight Payments (IFEPAY), Invoizr – Invoicing App. and other related mobile payment options in the future.

Paymentz Is offering all its products in White Label Format making it easy for all to kickstart the payment project immediately.

“We will continue offering our partners flexible and secure payment solutions with sophisticated real-time fraud prevention and reporting across all channels which are easy and safe to integrate, Safe, Secure, Swift & Scalable Solution is our mantra.” says Amoolya.

Reason behind the Success TRANSACTWORLD GROUP is continuing to develop market-leading payment solutions supporting a frictionless integration throughout the whole payment chain. The group is spending a lot of time to analyze and implement their client's needs. They feel gratified that their White label payment gateway, eWallet and in-flight payment module is accepted worldwide and is currently being used in LATAM, Saudi, South Africa, USA, Canada, UK, Israel and The EU. Moreover, the organization has fervent experience about delivering high-quality services and continuously develops its system and tools to benchmark the industry. They offer a complete White label solution for Payment provider with state of art APIs for online and mobile device integration, including an authorized e-money licensed entity allowing issuing payment instruments and acquiring payment transactions.

My responsibility is to make sure our systems are up to date, development work is in full swing, our customers and partners are satisfied and atmosphere is happy and positive

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31 Parallel 31Parallel.com

Vivek Parmar & Karan Pal Singh Chauhan Co-founder

31 Parallel Provides High Quality and Low-Cost Business Process Outsourcing Services and Solutions.

AATH Info Solutions aathinfosolutions.com

Nitesh Kumar Director

AATH Info Solutions Pvt. Ltd. offers software development, website development, search engine optimization, social media optimization and mobile applications development services to different companies and organizations.

Analytic Edge analytic-edge.com

Santosh Nair Managing Partner

ANALYTIC EDGE provides technology-enabled analytics solutions in marketing & sales effectiveness. We integrate technology, industry knowledge and cutting-edge statistical techniques to deliver “fast, cost-efficient and actionable business insights”

Appoids appoids.in

Sandeep Jangala CEO

Using IOT and AI, Appoids work extensively on mobile-web technologies such as apps, e-commerce and dashboards.

Aviconnn aviconn.in

Manish Gupta Co-founder

Aviconn’ is built on the philosophy of “A Vision to Connect”.

Connectivity that is not just bringing enhanced lifestyle solutions but also to achieve meaningful change in the lives of many.

AXS Solutions & Consulting Pvt Ltd axs-solutions.com

Nachiket Deshpande Founder & MD

With latest technology and innovative approach, AXS strives to provide world class solutions in the domain of Digital Payments, E Commerce, Mobility and Information Security.

Black Pepper Technologies Pvt Ltd blackpeppertech.com

Hari Krishnan Puravankara Founder & CEO

Black Paper Technology creates an organisation that is fundamentally rooted in hardware and recognized as the gold standard in product realization.

Piyush Kanti CEO

Cloudstar is a national provider of virtual desktop hosting, hosted software and applications, custom tailored IT infrastructure design, email encryption, managed services, IT security, and consulting to Regulated Industries across the United States, Canada, and South America.

Cohesive Technologies cohesivetechnologies.com

Ashdhir Kinra Founder & CEO

Cohesive Technologies is a Global Telecom Solution Provider on VolP and IP Platform As well a leading Integrator and Solution Provider with the Best Innovative IP Solutions which adds value to Customers through a combination of different high end technologies for a true Converged Solution.

D M Systems dmsystems.in

DK Bajaj MD

D M Systems Assure clients Critical Application Recovery and Meet RTO/RPO

Clodstrats Ltd cloudstarts.com

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Dmacq Software Pvt Ltd dmacq.com

Srikant Krishnan Director

Dmacq Software’s main goal has always been to find ideas that can improve the world, even if that means making someone’s life a little bit easier, or making a complicated process a bit more convenient.

Welcome to dMACQ Software Pvt. Ltd and our groundbreaking Digitization Solutions that’s changing lives, one user at a time.

enixta innovations enixta.com

Giri Devanathan FOUNDER & CEO

Enixta innovations reveals break-through in aspect based sentiment analysis.

Fin Mechanics finmechanics.com

Sanjeev Dumir Director

FinMechanics provides solutions and services to the Capital Markets, Commodity Markets, Treasury and Risk departments of financial institutions, commoditiy houses and corporations.

Futurenet Technologies futurenet.in

Ashok Lakshmichandran Founder & CEO

Future Technologie’s task-force approach helps companies uncover hidden synergies by capturing and analyzing data from scattered source

GND Solutions gndsolutions.in

Siva Reddy Founder & Managing Director

The fundamental driving force of GND Solutions is bringing innovative and transformative concepts to products in the areas of IOT and M2M for Industrial sectors, Smart Cities & Smart Energy segments.

Hostin Services Private Limited hostinservices.com

Rahul S Kurkure Director

Managed Services and Hosting Company, Cloud.in is an AWS Consulting Partner and AWS Channel Reseller Partner. They combine their expertise in both to give you the best of both worlds for Cloud Hosting.

i2space Web Technologies i2space.com

Bhargava Vangapally Founder & MD

i2Space Web Technologies Private Limited is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified leading software solution provider specializing in Travel & Hospitality Domain Solutions.

Indglobal indglobal.in

Rakesh Dadhich Founder & CEO

Indglobal delivers astonishing performance and excellent digital marketing solutions for their treasured clients.

Launchship Technology Solutions launchship.com

Jay Founder

Launchship is a product lifecycle management and servicebased software development company, which believes in engineering software products with superior quality and high customer satisfaction.

MAHINDRA SUSTEN PVT. LTD. mahindrasusten.com

Basant Jain CEO

Mahindra Susten’s team is dedicated to build an efficient world by implementing energy efficient solutions into the routine of the common man.

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Maxil Technology Solutions maxiltechnology.com

Kal Reddy President & Founder

Maxil Technology is a leading provider of innovative Information Technology solutions and services. Backed by a strong and dedicated team of technology professionals with extensive domain knowledge in many verticals.

Nascent Info Technologies nascentinfo.com

Maulik Bhagat Founder& MD

Nascent Info Technology’s aim to create meaningful fresh digital experiences that inspire the decision makers and users alike & which can have a positive impact on the world and people around us.

Npedia Technologies npediatech.com

Vijay Vaidyanathan Founder

Npedia Technologies is a technology business transformation company, with primary focus on providing value services for technology and digital transformational journey.

Radware India radware.com

Nikhil Taneja Managing Director-India, SAARC & Middle East

Radware is a global leader of application delivery and cyber security solutions for virtual, cloud and software defined data centers delivering service level assurance for business-critical applications, while maximizing IT efficiency.

Robolab Technologies robolab.in

Amol Gulhane Co-founder & CEO

Every Institution needs RoboLab which is a perfect platfrom to explore, learn & build ideas.

Gaurav Chauhan Founder & CEO

StatsMetrika welcomes you to a new world of creativity to improve your business with unique enterprise solutions. Experienced IITians have founded the company with the principle to build as well as execute great pioneering ideas showing path to our clients to grow and better their business prospects.

TRANSACTWORLD GROUP transactworld.com

Amoolya Vassa Founder

TRANSACTWORLD GROUP has deployed an end-to- end solution for the online payment industry providing a single entry hub for global markets combining such lean front end APIs with a strong backend making payments truly seamless throughout the processing chain.

Waterlife India waterlifeindia.com

Mohan Ranbaore Co-founder & Joint Managing Director

Waterlife provides access to clean water meeting WHO and IS10500 standards at an affordable rate to underserved communities through innovative and sustainable programs.

Waypals waypals.com

Sukhvinder Lamba CEO

Waypals is the most advanced and comprehensive Connected Vehicle Service which primarily falls under the domain of Automotive/Insurance IOT

Aditya Ahluwalia Founder & Chairman

World Phone Internet Services Private Limited has ushered in a new era in communications for India. One of the most significant players in Internet Services, we provide a clear edge in services ranging from Internet bandwidth, Internet Telephony (VoIP) and related services for corporate as well as domestic users.

Statsmetrika Services statsmetrika.com

World Phone Internet Services worldphone.in

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ruly effective maintenance is proactive. It stops failure modes from arising by preventing the causes of failure. Instead of fixing a failing plant, the focus becomes plant wellness: ensuring life-long machinery health and well-being.

This is the future of the heavy industries – an advancement that can detect equipment problems and failures before they occur. Tardid’s augmented intelligence platform Brainbox delivers this by integrating the knowledge based decision support for predictive maintenance.

Understanding such machine essentials, the fascinating leader, Niladri Dutta, CEO of TARDID has given some insightful views highlighting the influence of predictive maintenance solution trends which help their clients to explore the diverse ways of autonomous structural and machine health management. · How did your company’s journey as a preeminent brand begin? What was the underlying bedrock idea behind incorporating the company?

Most successful entrepreneurs have one thing in common, it is the place they begin. Apple started out from a garage, Facebook was the work of college students. TARDID started its journey from CCD. The idea was simple: to solve an age-old problem with the help of modern technology, a technology which just doesn’t give insights but also decision support with root cause analysis at the right time to ensure sustainability of the assets. · What are the key aspects that demonstrate the uniqueness of the company?

The idea itself is unique, including the name. TARDID is just not a name but an acronym for “Time And Relative Dimension in Data”. From the very first day, we were certain that we would build a “Technology Product”, which will resolve the age old problem of machine related uncertainities. We have strived hard to build Brainbox, the platform which combines the power of machine learning and cognitive computing. The platform makes the machines intelligent enough so that they can cry for help when in need. And finally an Indian product which provides subjective to objective expert system. · Tell us about yourself as a person, your educational background and as an entrepreneur. How do you use your skills to run your company above and beyond your competitors?

To keep it simple, I prefer to take lead only when my team needs me but rest of the time I empower them to make decisions and run the show. It is all about empowering and entrusting the team as no great company is built by a single person, it requires teamwork, it needs people to take ownership and consider it as its own. TARDID, even with its first employee, always could bring the sense of ownership in each one of them, which made working fun, and success a combined goal to achieve.

An engineer by education, I have learnt through the process of life, experimenting and learning what to do and what not to do.

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At TARDID, we are one big family, who fight, argue and finally agree on a consensus after hearing all parties and choosing to keep only “TARDID’s” interest as that of the utmost importance. In true sense, it’s about TARDID being an individual entity and everyone, including the founders, are just its employees working towards a common dream of excellence. · How do you see your entrepreneurial journey till date? Could you name a person/mentor/book/ who has had a tremendous impact on your entrepreneurial journey?

Inspiration is always within, you just need to ignite your internal fire and be ready to work hard. Elon Musk inspires me, because of his persistence in achieving success. His relentless efforts help me visualize how we can always perform better than what we did yesterday simply by continuously trying to achieve perfection.

The most significant inspiration for me is the Murphy’s Law, as it continuiously pushes me to look beyond the predictable and plan my technology for the unpredictable. · What is the biggest risk you have ever taken? What have been some of your failures, and what have you learned from them?

Life is all about taking risks, in my case I have taken many, some small and irrelevant and others, life-altering. The biggest risk was quitting a comfortable job and starting the entrepreneurial journey with TARDID when my finances were not in the

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best shape. My decision not to take help from family for raising the funds for the longest time. To put everything at stake to ensure we drive TARDID independently without being questioned. Accepting that failures would happen and we would have to overcome and yes, we did.

Failure is a very subjective thing, for some success and failures are measured by report cards or salary or designation, etc.

For me, failure is when I quit trying and thankfully, that day hasn’t come till now. However, there have been ups and down which have taught me great lessons of life, like financial planning for self and the family, so that when you choose to take the biggest risk, money would not be a concern. I am grateful for a strong family relationship which ensures no matter what I do, they stick with me through my decisions and support me. · To what do you attribute your success? What motivates you at difficult/down times?

My family, hard work, and belief in my team and technology. When we are down, we all hustle together and start working harder. When the downtime comes, that's the most crucial time to identify who is there for the long run to work hard with you. We take this time to stand up and take actions to ensure we succeed. · How would you describe your entrepreneurial skill in a sentence? What is your favourite aspect of being an entrepreneur?

Bad experiences teach us about good ones. The daily challenges which an entrepreneur faces are the most exciting part. Be it a simple issue which is out of our control, or a complex situation, it keeps us striving to overcome the barrier and move forward towards success. · What would you advice to your fellow peers to successfully carry their work functionalities? How do you encourage creative thinking in your organization?

Be honest with whatever you do and most importantly, with oneself. If you commit, then deliver or else if there is a delay, inform in advance, as once the time is gone even the right reason becomes an excuse and you appear as an escapist.

To encourage creative thinking, we empower the people to think and commit mistakes, because nothing teaches like mistakes. Learn from the mistakes, but don’t repeat the same mistake twice. Make new mistakes every time. At TARDID, we believe each one, irrespective of their qualification and experience, can contribute effectively at all levels, the management teams believe in being good listeners and helping the all teams effectively carry out their ideas and improvise the ideas only when required. · Is there any book or movie you would like to recommend to the budding entrepreneurs? What advice would you like to give them?

I don’t read a lot of books but I do follow the quote, “Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass… it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vi Greene One would never know unless one tries, don't be afraid to fail, just don’t quit till you succeed. If you believe in your idea then stick by it, till you make it successful. · What measures do you take to ensure to grow and develop as an entrepreneur every day? How do you see yourself growing in the next five years?

Read every day, know about what affects me, my business and my eco-system. As an entrepreneur, it’s extremely important to be aware of everything that surrounds the success of my company.

Five years down the line, all I see is working harder to keep the customers of TARDID happy and being happier for TARDID being recognized as a Technology Product Company globally.

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Ankit Jain: A Determined Leader Driving Business towards Success

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successful leader’s vision guides his actions, inspires and motivates colleagues and gives purpose to the organisation. An important person behind a company’s success is its leader. It is necessary to understand that missions are intended to clarify what the company wants to do now while a successful leader with vision outlines how to do it.

One such determined leader is Ankit Jain, Director and Country Head of FinMechanics India, who understands financial technology industry, market needs and is creating an organization with deep knowledge and delivering high-quality service. He plays the role of a catalyst, in order to help FinMechanics become a global fintech leader. Driven, amazingly gifted and kind-hearted team members are his biggest source of motivation.

Some Valuable Insights from Ankit's Desk FinMechanics has flourished under the leadership of Ankit Jain with the Company prioritizing strategic goals over tactical goals.

According to Ankit, the company's vision is to be a preferred partner in the Markets/Risk Consulting and Platform space. This drives the company's day to day activities towards long-term strategic targets. FinMechanics is fully committed to walk the extra mile to delight their customer by innovating and providing unparalleled service quality along with building hundreds of highly successful careers.

Ankit considers that his organization and customers are his biggest source of inspiration. Creating an organization with deep knowledge, delivering high-quality service, embracing technological changes to solve practical problems of clients and to make the organization an enjoyable place to work are the elements which always drive him.

For Ankit, the two most important factors in the financial technology industry are keeping ahead of what the market needs

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Emerging as a Leading Business and Cutting-edge Platform Provider Technology is becoming more important than ever before by replacing all routine activities as well as decision making. Voice-activated trade execution at the best price and algorithms executing trades is becoming the norm.

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FM Physicals is a Commodities front to back platform that improves efficiency in every step of the physical trading business of commodities such as precious/base metals and Wholesale Banknotes. The platform caters for both Physicals and Paper Trading (Proprietary desk and Hedging). The platform is cross-functional catering to front office, operations/planning, accounting, logistics/shipping, inventory and risk management.

edge Platforms to Markets and Risk Departments of financial institutions. FinMechanics also has extensive implementation experience on multiple Treasury and Risk packages along with bespoke Application Development capabilities.

The platforms from FM are as follows: FM Converge provides financial institutions a highly responsive platform to price, structure and manage risk on a very wide variety of financial instruments. The platform also enables straight-through processing of vanilla and exotic trades along with an integrated accounting module. The Risk module of FM Converge gears up their clients with tools to face regulatory changes - both current and upcoming.

FM Connect provides a Single Dealer Platform for customers and branches of a financial institution to view streaming tradable quotes negotiate the price for vanilla and exotic financial instruments and transact a wide

Some Valuable Words for the Budding Entrepreneur Ankit’s advice to budding entrepreneurs, “Being at the crossroads of Finance and Technology, this is an exciting area where there is tremendous evolution in both. To be successful, one needs to continuously invest in both. The market is always changing and so is computing. Young people are likely to be successful if acquiring and applying knowledge continuously is their primary driver”.

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variety of products across Foreign Exchange, FX Options, Interest Rate Products, Fixed Income, Money Market and Structured Products. A highly customizable solution that can be deeply white-labeled to the financial institution’s needs, FM Connect can be the engine that

Moving Towards a Bright Future In addition to being a renowned firm, FinMechanics is working hard to position itself as a strong brand in all major financial centers. The company is increasing their global footprint to London this year and is also planning to expand to New York and Toronto by end of 2019. The company’s long-term goal is to be the first port of call for banks and financial institutions for both Consulting services and Platforms in the markets and risk space.

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Jay: A Far-sighted Entrepreneur Honing Technology and Product Development

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certain charisma surrounds you if you are an influential leader. Part of it — but only part — is position or title. The bigger portion is self-confidence, energy level, interest in other people and comfort with the challenges at hand. You may not want to believe these things matter, but they do. At a high-level, Jay who Founded Launchship Technology Solutions’ roles and responsibilities are to set strategy and direction for the long term sustainable growth of the organization. On the technology and product development front, he provides his vision and strategy on evolving technologies to adopt which are going to embrace the future products that company need to build and markets they need to target for. His focus is to ensure that everyone understands their “Team First” culture, values and behavior, while building a senior executive team.

He also ensures proper allocation of capital for various business needs.

As Launchship believes Team First Approach. Jay is keen in nurturing the culture, values and same transforms to his senior executives more aggressively for the stronger foundation of the company.

Luminary Behind Launchship Jay Shetty, founded Launchship Technology Solutions in the year 2011 with a vision to provide IT and IT enabled services to customers worldwide. He has started off his career as a Developer in the United states and eventually scaled up to the positions of Consultant, Software Development Manager, and Sr. Project Manager to the current position of CEO. His expertise expands into wide range of Technological, Technical, Operational, Functional, Business and People Management verticals.

Jay has over 17 years of experience in various aspects of Software development, Vendor management, People management, Strategic and Operational planning. His extensive expertise combined with positive attitude, excellent problem solving skills and unparalleled understanding of clients’ requirements have been the driving force for his team as well as the company.The mission of the company is to develop customized and advanced solutions using partnership approach with high maintenance standards that are cost effective. He has been responsible for taking care of the company’s mission, being the driving force of the company’s vision and also building company’s overall strategy.

Systematized Services by Launchship Launchship Divisions, launchship group of companies has dedicated

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Launchship Technology Division Takes care of IT and ITES Services, focuses providing solutions based on client’s business needs from software product development to back office management.

Launchship IT &Media: Division takes care of Game development focusing on casual and puzzle games and on multiplayer games with VR and AR capabilities and Building products based Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

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Ever evolving technology and Launchship’s highly motivated and overarching team inspires to explore for more opportunities. Launchship as mentioned earlier has a strong, motivated and overarching team, who understand the concept of taking the idea to market-space vision, work as solution providers rather than mere instruction followers.

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Checklist from Jay to be a Successful Leader For Jay, with the experience gained while supervising different teams, leadership got enhanced and he has described a perfect leader who needs to posses mentioned qualities: Believe in self, Having a clear vision, Be a good listener, Knowing, respecting and motivating their team, Willing to embrace change, Knowing when and what to delegate, Make tough decisions, Knowing the difference between leading versus pushing the team.

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Market-Space Vision Launchship is taking a proactive approach to take care of day to day challenges to reach their goals, incase of identifying any unforeseen challenges, based on the criticality they consult the appropriate team members to provide and apply a solution and update the respective stake holders.

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Technology on a day to day life is on the raise not just from using smartphones but Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with advancement in robotics is impacting our life is various ways, early adopter do see the benefits from these advances, driverless automobiles, robots in warehouses to missions in outer space are just few examples in these areas.

Future Plans for the Launchship Focusing on building products based on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and using these products internally for the games and solutions they offer. This ensure Launchship has its IP on products focused on these areas.

They are building games, videos and apps based on VR and AR technologies targeting for both entertainment and educational purposes.

Be Ready to Take Up Challenges -Advice to the Young Ones Keep your eyes open for evolving technologies, choosing a career in IT to make a difference means understanding the phrase “change is the only constant thing”, be ready to take up any challenge.

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hether you use your social media accounts for business or to connect with friends and family, getting your account hacked is a painful invasion. From vacation photos to personal conversations or check-ins to places you visited, social networks know everything about us. Keeping intruders out is difficult and confusing, so we have put up the ultimate guide to securing your accounts and making sure you are in control. · Create a unique, difficult-to-guess password for each social account We know that finding a solid, easy-to-remember password is difficult, as it must be complex enough to resist dictionary attacks. Avoid using personal information such as birthdays, family or pet names, numbers in a pattern, and especially the word “password”. Go for a mixture of lower case and capital letters, numbers and punctuation. If this is too complex to remember, store it in a password manager. Once you’ve got your password, we know you’d like to re-use it everywhere, but don’t. · 2. Add two-factor authentication to every social account that supports it Major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube or Google+ support two-step authentication. Besides your username and password, you have to enter a one-time password that gets sent as a short message to your mobile device paired with your account. Even if your username and password leaks out, they won’t open the door to anybody without the one-time password.

Adding your phone to the account can not only prevent illicit log-in attempts, but it also comes in handy if you need to recover your account if you ever get locked out. · Constantly review your account activity Many social networks send notifications when your account is logged into from a new device, when account information is changed or when multiple failed logins are detected. These notifications are sent via e-mail or text, depending on your preferences. Keep an eye on account activities, as any modifications are the first telltale signs that somebody is attempting to get in. · Be aware of what you click Sometimes, it’s you who lends a helping hand to cyber-criminals attempting to hijack your account. Under various pretexts, hackers attempt to scare you into following a link (usually sent in a phishing message) and take “immediate action” to avoid account suspension or paying for the service. If you heed the call, you end up on a login page that is the exact replica of the social network’s login form. When you fill in the required information, though, it’s hackers who get it, not the social network. Never follow ultimative requests under any circumstance; if the network wants to communicate with you, they would do it through the app’s notification system rather than via e-mail. · Review your connected apps and browser add-ons At some point, you might have granted third-party applications such as online games access to your feed so they can update your friends on your achievements. Some of these applications can read your profile and post on your behalf. Revoke access to applications that you longer use, by going to the dedicated section for apps in your social network’s control panel.

The same holds true for browser extensions. A rogue browser extension has unfettered access to your browser content and can modify it in real time. That browser extension you installed to turn Facebook from blue to red can also post messages and malicious links to your friends without you even knowing it.

While our list is not exhaustive, the five tips in this article should be enough to keep your account safe from intruders. Since the threat landscape is continuously changing and hackers always find new ways of getting around defences, make sure you bookmark this blog to get updates on new developments.

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he scope of leadership is not confined within management and administration. It involves the ability to motivate others and to inspire collective effectiveness. Today’s business market is evolving at a brisk pace and nothing is constant. Majority of these changes has been spurred by the advent of technology, and business leadership hasn’t been spared either. From entrepreneurs to big business conglomerates and massive corporations, technology is driving business leaders to a new paradigm.

Thanks to the evolving technology, leadership is not about power anymore. It’s about influence – leadership talks about the purpose of a job and how it impacts the business. To be so effective, leaders need to secure the trust and respect within the organization. A collaborative leader focuses on creativity, team bonding and participation across all levels.

Technology-based leadership allows freedom of work and encourages employees to perform remotely. It allows more fluidity at the micro-level. The best leaders in today’s business environment have a vibrant vision which allows them to communicate with the stakeholders in the best possible manner.

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Leadership is not only about embracing technology and its potential; rather it’s about embracing the change itself. In this era of globalization and technological innovations, business leaders must possess the skill of taking quick decisions, especially in demanding situations. Leaders have to act fast or they tend to miss out an important window of opportunity. Every leader has a unique approach while dealing with competition. An insightful leader finds competition as an untapped opportunity for collaboration and innovation. Majority of successful business leaders transform their organizations by collaborating with third parties. Independent researchers suggest that about forty-nine percent organization form alliances and partnership which impacts the industry at a large scale.

The way success is perceived has changed over the years – effectively sharing and highlighting results has become a key attribute of top leaders. Emotional intelligence also plays a pivotal role in creating a good leader. In this digital, collaborative business landscape, being agile and flexible helps a leader to manage things swiftly. Today’s business leaders perform multi-faceted tasks – managing projects, acquiring new business, motivating employees, being the face of the organization and many more. It’s quite clear that leadership is an invaluable resource and every organization should nurture their employees to transform them into an influential leader for the future.

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Karan Pal Singh Chauhan & Vivek Parmar: Two Ingenious Leaders who Bring New Insights in the Arena of Outsourcing

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n business, a vision is a realistic, convincing and attractive depiction of where you want to be in the future. Vision gives direction, sets priorities, and provides an indicator so that you can tell that you’ve achieved what you wanted to achieve.

Leadership is proactive – problem-solving, looking ahead, and not being satisfied with things as they are. Once they have developed their visions, leaders must make them compelling and convincing.

A compelling vision is one that people can see, feel, understand, and embrace. Effective leaders provide a rich picture of what the future will look like when their visions have been realized. They tell inspiring stories and explain their visions in ways that everyone can relate to.

The dynamic and visionary duo; Vivek Parmar and Karan Pal Singh Chauhan, Co-founders of 31 Parallel, accomplishes the company’s success by empowering stupendous knowledge through all departments and functions. Karan and Vivek jointly engage for all client interactions and lead the company’s marketing, sales and business development initiatives.

Being a corporate lawyer, Karan has worked with India’s premier law firms for over a decade. He completed his bachelor’s degree from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and did his Bachelor’s in Law from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi and Master’s in Law in the UK. Karan heads the company’s IT, Recruitment and Finance divisions.

With the same pro-activeness, Vivek Parmar, Co-founder of 31 Parallel is also responsible for the company’ Operations, Training and Quality division. He provides thought leadership and drives knowledge management. Vivek is a Six Sigma Black Belt and was with EXL Service from 2001 till 2012. In this duration, he has operated in myriad roles like Operations, Processes Excellence, Transformation, Migrations, and Special Projects. He has spent seven years in a client facing role in the USA and the UK for EXL’s transformation business. In 2013, he served as a Principal Consultant with People Trust and was involved in training and recruitments. He has a Masters in Business Administration from ICFAI.

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Redefining Excellence by Delivering Superior Services The organization provides end-to-end Business Process Outsourcing services and solutions with expertise across various domains. Their notable top services are – BPM/outsourcing – Tier II/Tier III BPO • Sales: Voice (inbound and outbound calling) and chat-based services • Customer Care & Post Sales: Voice (inbound March-April 2018

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Inspirational Elements which Drives the Organization Ahead While articulating about the company, Karan and Vivek highlight two factors that drove them to expand their business horizons: Creation of Job Opportunities: 31 Parallel is presently trying to solve the problem of unemployment. They want to provide education towards youth and women in the (Tier II and Tier III) towns (encompassing the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and neighboring Uttarakhand and stretching up to Punjab) through the use of technology.

Despite having an excellent educational infrastructure, very high literacy rate, and a huge talent pool, Himachal Pradesh lacks industries and opportunities. With the help of its business partners, 31 Parallel is slowly trying to turn the tide.

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Developing itself can rule the Market: The management team of 31 Parallel strives to be a market leader. Their core intention is to make 31 Parallel a force to be reckoned with in the north India BPO landscape and disrupt the entire Tier II/III cities/Rural Outsourcing space.

“Positive Action and Positive Thinking is the Secret of Success,” says Karan. He believes that self-motivated persons can easily touch the cherry of success because they never feel afraid to test the failure. He also says, “success comes with Competency and experience in the services the organization offers, vision and long-term plans, experienced supervisors and support staff along with a

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dedicated workforce, Strong orientation and ongoing training programs.”

Awards & Achievements 31 Parallel was also recently awarded the STPI Award 2018 for ‘Best Performer in Incubation’ at TiECon-2018 in Mohali. The event was organized by the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), a society set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India along with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), which was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region.

Words for Upcoming Entrepreneur “There is no substitute for experience and hard work. It is also important to understand that an organization’s growth and success cannot (and should not) be due to the efforts of one person or a small group of people. Effort and hard work has to be acknowledged and rewarded at all levels. A dedicated workforce that embodies the vision of the organization is integral to the success of that enterprise. You cannot succeed alone.” states Vivek.

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and outbound calling), chat and e-mail based services • Finance & Accounting: Back office • Mortgage: Voice (inbound and outbound calling) and email based services and back office • Data Management and Sanitization: Back office

Elucidating the Future

The evolution of the entire Tier II/Tier III ecosystem is crucial for India’s growth. As employment and spending power in India increases, domestic demand will also proportionally grow. 31 Parallel is poised to meet this demand. 31 Parallel anticipate becoming a 600+ member organization in next two years dealing with more complex and high-end work with a niche in the Financial and Legal outsourcing space They are intending to lead the entire Tier II/Tier III BPO space in India with their quality of work and competitive pricing.

In 2019, they would like to spread to other district headquarters in Himachal like Solan and Nahan, and going to be partner with the Government on certain projects. They are developing some technology products for the benefits of their clients as well.

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Mohan Ranbaore: An Inspiring Leader with a Robust Vision for the Future “

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n many developing countries, governments struggle to reach people living in extreme poverty and bring them into the formal economy. But even in the toughest places, a special kind of entrepreneur is doing what governments often can’t.

Waterlife, a for-profit social enterprise, uses technology to provide affordable drinking water to underserved populations in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Through a small grant and capacity building support from the World Bank, Waterlife scaled its model in the poorest states of India.” states Mr. Jim Kim, President – World Bank.

Waterlife India Pvt. Ltd. is changing the lives of millions of people across India through its Clean Drinking water interventions.

Waterlife collaborates with corporates, state government agencies and local communities to set up community-level water treatment programs.

Mohan Ranbaore, Co-founder and Joint Managing Director set up Waterlife India back in the year 2008 along with co-founders Mr. Sudesh Menon and Mr. Indranil Das. As a business leader, he is responsible for developing & driving innovative solutions to achieve the vision of providing safe drinking water to all.

Previously, he was heading the national sales function at Xerox.

Mohan states, “Alongwith my co-founders we discovered that we had a common passion for doing something good for the society and we built a business around it. We realized that there was a critical need to address the drinking water problem in India. We set up Waterlife in 2008 with a vision to providing affordable and sustainable safe water solutions to the underserved communities in rural and urban areas.”

Access to safe water is a critical issue. Safe water not just impacts the health parameters but given that it is so fundamental a need, it also impacts multiple other parameters like household expenses, productivity, educational outcomes, gender parity and many more.

Clean water and sanitation has been defined as one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Hence, building corporate, government and community partnerships for overall community progress is in itself a great inspiration for Waterlife to keep moving forward towards its vision.

Waterlife provides innovative and sustainable clean water solutions. Their services and programs are designed to meet any water quality issue, be it in India or even in other quality affected

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regions globally.

Their most prominent service is the Smart Flagship Community Clean Drinking Water Program where they set up community level water purification plants. These plants can process upto 1000-3000 litres per hour and are typically set up as long term 10 year programs which can serve needs of an entire village or urban slum on a long term basis. The corporate/government funding helps set up the program while Waterlife charges an affordable user fee to take care of the long term management of the program and keep it selfsustaining.

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Technology at the Forefront of the Program The Waterlife Community water plants are implemented using the top-of-the-line technology suited to local water conditions. They are technology agnostic so we have the flexibility to adapt the best technology for the required conditions.

Technology plays a significant role not just in the water treatment but also in water dispensing. Waterlife has a smart, automated swipe card based dispensing mechanism, which brings in immense convenience for the end user beneficiaries as well as provides them with the convenience of handling the revenue collections.

Waterlife also uses technology for monitoring to their plants. They have implemented a Fully Automated & Digitalized Treatment System & ATW control box feeding a

deliver high quality and build deep community engagement” says Mohan.

All the Waterlife treatment plants are made using green, sustainable technology. The program also incorporates many features that help them to build community trust and transparency around the program such as displaying monthly certified water test reports at the plant.

Other program value adds include rainwater harvesting incorporation and setting up community welfare funds to fuel holistic community development.

“We were mindful that we needed to develop a program which was replicable and scalable across all geographies.

However, at the same time, it is also important to ensure the program builds in adaptability, flexibility and innovation. In India, while the issue of drinking water exists across the country, the local conditions, geography, water quality, cultural and political constraints differ from place to place.

You have to be able to get around roadblocks and be flexible to adapt the program to local needs and conditions.” says Mohan.

Awards & Achievements “We have won global recognition for our pioneering work we were one of only 10 companies globally and three companies from India, to win the G-20 award for Inclusive Business Innovation and have been recognized at various international events like The World Bank and USAID awards.”

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“Many corporates are working towards empowering communities through better health via their CSR agenda.

We have partnered with many corporates from both the Public and Private sector such as Cairn India, Maruti Suzuki, BASF, GE, HPCL, HDFC Bank, to name a few.

They have partnered with us not only because they believe in the vision of safe water, but also because they understand the value of our innovative and sustainable model.” says Mohan.

With access to safe, clean drinking at all doorsteps, we will see a healthier India emerge leading to social change at many level.

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central server wherein data of all plants is uploaded. This Remote Monitoring system allows them to digitally monitor the plant on a continual basis. Data related to key parameters are regularly sent to the central processing teams. This ensures that they are able to address issues, if any, in real time and also conduct high quality analysis of the impact of an intervention.

Some Innovative Elements Makes Waterlife Unique Waterlife has incorporated many unique and innovative elements, which make their programs and plans better.

“Ours is a comprehensive, holistic program which goes beyond the primary promise of safe and affordable water.

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“It also gives us immense satisfaction when we see that many of our projects done in partnership with corporates have been recognized at important forums - Cairn India was the recipient of the Petrotech Award and Maruti Suzuki, the CII-ITC Sustainability Award in December 2016”” says Mohan.

Future Aspects Waterlife started their journey with a vision to provide access to safe water to all underserved communities across India. To work towards this vision, they are focusing on partnering with likeminded corporate partners to collaborate with and help rapidly increase the coverage of underserved communities.

Starting from one state in 2008, today Waterlife has its presence across 15 states in India with over 4500 solutions.

“Now, we are in the growth phase so while we are thinking of bigger impact, we want to at the same time remain agile enough as we were at start-up phase to continuously adapt and deliver value to all our stakeholders.” says Mohan.

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Nikhil Taneja: A Zealous Leader Pursuing the Dream of Success

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uccessful leaders lead by example because they possess the ability to inspire and drive the team in such a way that each member bring their best to the table. Setting clear goals and persevering to achieve them alongside the team goes a long way in building a great company. They give freedom to their team to explore, experiment, and achieve greater heights.

One such outstanding leader is Nikhil Taneja, the Managing Director of Radware India, SAARC and Middle East. He started his remarkable journey with Radware at the young age of 28 on April 2002 as Country Head - India & SAARC Operations.

A Passionate and Enthusiastic Leader Being one of the first persons in the company, it was his job to build it from ground zero. This entailed developing local business, and setting up units across India with the objective to add to the global numbers.

During its early days, when the Indian market was working with Layer 3 technology, Radware was way ahead offering Layer 4 to Layer 7 technologies. Nikhil led the team to crack two of the biggest deals in data security business in the history of Radware globally at that time - IDRBT and Indian Air Force.

Over the years, Nikhil’s responsibilities extended to the growth and expansion of Radware’s market presence across the entire Asian subcontinent. A significant contribution to the remarkable growth of Radware in the region led Nikhil to take over the position of MD, India, SAARC and Middle East recently. His great journey at Radware will turn 16 years with 64 successful quarters on 31st March, 2018.

The past 16 years brought rapid business growth along with HR challenges, compliance challenges and expansion challenges.

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Dealing with all these provided great exposure and experience, and helped him grow as a team player, leader and a guide.

Growth of India as a region year-on-year increased the management’s confidence in Nikhil and he has been given additional responsibilities of managing other

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geographies. He has been provided additional manpower to grow business, add more portfolios and most recently handle GSI (global system integrator) business out of India and address global business out of the region. He was one of the top 4 people historically who mattered for numbers to Radware globally during the 20th anniversary celebration at Israel recently.

Nikhil feels that when the work is driven by company goals and objectives, no challenge feels big enough. One can always find solutions to counter them in some form or the other. His journey so far in the company has only strengthened his resolve to always find solutions that sync with the overall goals of the company. He is inspired by the thought that if one sets their mind to succeed, everything they do will help, guide and motivate them to succeed. He feels lucky to get the opportunity to build a team that possesses entrepreneurial spirit; this has led to a very healthy working environment thus contributing further to Radware India’s growth.

Nikhil advises young professionals to become masters at their work, and to become domain experts. While personal advancement is important, one should be a team player to be able to grow in an organization.

Commitment to an organization is a good way to strengthen oneself both at a professional and personal level.

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interoperate seamlessly and offers most comprehensive on-premise and cloud protection against volumetric attacks. Radware India has won many awards under his leadership, including ‘Best DDoS Attack Mitigation Solution’ in 2017 and ‘Best DDoS Vendor’ in 2016 by VAR India apart from ‘Application Delivery Controller Vendor of the year’ from SME Channels in 2016 to mention a few.

Under Nikhil’s astute leadership, Radware has delivered a record year in 2017, and is confident that 2018 will be an encore. He has great plans to expand the company within India, SAARC and Middle East in the coming years. He also intends to leverage Radware’s global partnership with Cisco and Check Point in the coming months. He will lead the company towards focusing more on the telecom sector while increasing investments in the same. He aims to aggressively pursue business from other SAARC countries going forward.

Innovation is in the company’s DNA and it will continue to strengthen its cyber and application security offerings in the coming years.

Under Nikhil’s guidance and leadership, Radware India leads the industry with its unified management and orchestrated framework for ADC and Security Technologies. It is one of the industry’s first vendors to launch virtualized solutions or specialized DDoS solutions.

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Impact of designing sector in Indian manufacturing business

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India is land of world’s largest young population, 47% of India's population is below 29 years and it is increasing to 49% by 2021. We are growing younger, while China and others are ageing. This is the advantage for the Indian manufacturing Industry.

CAE- Computer Aided Engineering is uses of computer software to aid engineering analysis task. CAE helps to improve product design or assist in the resolution of engineering problems for a wide range of industries.

Below design technologies are going to have huge impact on Indian manufacturing market.

Impact of design on manufacturing

As Make in India initiative launched by The Government of India takes off on a large scale. The country is expected to rank amongst the world's top three growth economies and amongst the top three manufacturing destinations by 2020.

Manufacturing industries must think of rapid, efficient and flexible product development and which can be achieved by CAD, CAM, and CAE which insure complete part manufacturing solutions for designing, analysis, tooling, machining and quality inspection.

However, the challenge remains in manufacturing industry as it has to beat the global competitors like China, Japan, Germany, USA , as they are best in manufacturing technology. To overcome this problem Indian manufacturing business need to acclimatize with new emerging design technologies which will ensure that Indian enterprises remain globally competitive based on the growth trends of various industrial segments and enable them to avail new manufacturing opportunities.

The most obvious advantage of these technologies is its speed. The manufacturing process has been shortened considerably, making design, simulation, and testing is possible with amazing speed. With the ability to send a design directly to production, manufacturers are capable of doing the changes in the design as per customer input in real time.

Significance of Design Designing of the product using advance technologies like CAD, CAM, CAE can help to reduce the cost as well as to manufacture the high quality product. While designing the product manufacturers need to actively think how the product can be made before manufacturing. Rework of the manufactured product doubles the cost of the product as it involves reuse of man, machine, money and time.

CAD- Computer Aided Design plays important role in conceptual design using 2D drawings and 3D modelling.

CAM –Computer Aided Manufacturing means using machine that are controlled by computers

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Reverse Engineering- Reverse engineering is going to have huge impact on manufacturing industry it can be used for many purposes; as a learning tool to understand the existing designs, way to make a new products that are cheaper than what’s currently available in the market. In reverse engineering, designer doesn’t needs to design the parts from the scratch. Now a days, manufacturers can buy the scanners which scans the existing parts, collect the scanned data either in mesh format or in a point cloud format. Later using scanned data user can create 3D model.

Small and medium scale manufacturers can adapt this technology to enhance their design and production.

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impacting a company’s pricing model, manufacturing of parts will be cheaper and cheaper. The costs associated with 3D printing are dropping and will likely continue to drop as more printers are available as per production requirement, and industries are adopting 3D printers on a large scale. Now a day’s 3D printing is not limited to the plastic products, mechanical components or parts which used to be cast or forged can be manufactured using 3D printing with better quality and zero defects.

Internet of Things (IoT) - The IoT has massive bang in the world of technology, and manufacturing industry is first one who has accepted the IoT’s capabilities. IoT is nothing but the networking of objects which have the connectivity, and these objects are communicated with each other independently using the internet. Sensors are not new to manufacturing industry, and they know how to track the record of each movement and keep an eye when there is disruption. IOT can be used in inventory tracking, production data for optimizing production sequences, machine status data for predictive maintenance of the machine and so on. In short, IoT would be all about making it easier to trace all these things and eventually will help manufactures to save money, time and keep their organization ahead of the competition.

Rajesh Garg Indian manufacturers should decide how to alter a business model to better fit into available options. Combination of CAD, CAM, CAE technologies along with reverse engineering, 3D printing and IOT will keep them to stay ahead of the global market.

Design Future Insights Rajesh believes that Graebert’s unique concept of CAD trinity – a collaboration of design on Desktop, Mobile and Cloud will help design industry to collaborate with manufacturing industry. The manufacturer can easily communicate with partners,vendors via mobile and cloud.

MD Graebert India Software Pvt Ltd

About the Author: Rajesh Garg is MD of Graebert India Software Pvt Ltd. He heads the CAD Research and Development in INDIA - Noida. The company is involved in CAD Software Development for Desktop-Mobile-Cloud and have centres in Germany and Russia.

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Nitesh Kumar:

A Leading Entrepreneur Driving Businesses towards Success

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s technology continues to evolve at the speed of light and getting smarter, the businesses are also getting the potential to become more efficient, and competition is getting harder day by day. To succeed in this stiff competition, business must have to move with a greater speed. One such influential entrepreneur, Nitesh Kumar, Director of AATH Info Solutions, which is headquartered in Delhi, India, is moving ahead with his team, towards capturing opportunities.

Nitesh has completed his education –B-Tech in computer science and engineering. Nitesh is having over seven years of vast experience in business development and project management. He has successfully managed various projects like Search Engine Optimization Services and Web Development Application’s, Develop strategic project approaches, detailed project plans and formulates strategies for its focus and positioning.

Nitesh proudly shares that, Adv. Vinod Bidhuri (MD) and Mr. Manish Gupta (Director) are the source of inspiration for him, who have a very rich experience in the Law and IT field respectively and have assisted to enhance the growth of AATH Info Solutions.

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Journey with the Team “Where there is a will, there’s a way”, believing on one of the popular saying, Nitesh started with a very small team size; committing to serve the needs of the clients, as much better as he can. Despite of having a small team size, with the hard work and passion, Nitesh led his team to gradually increase the performance and deliver extraordinary solution.

Five Elements that Makes the Difference Nitesh mentioned five elements, which are—readiness for the risks, loyalty, worship, passion, & delivering extraordinary services, that make AATH Info Solutions unique from other

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leading competitors in the market.

Stepping forward, Nitesh & his team strongly believes in working with enthusiasm, for becoming successful one, where client’s knowledge is more than the service. Nitesh shared his basic inspirational element of driving business ahead is “Addition to Success”. Further, he added —“Not only I but all my staff members are addicted to success, by giving excellent work to the customers and getting repeated work orders”.

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Challenges driven by Nitesh

President of US). Quoting his spirit, Nitesh stated—“Collecting and Interpreting Clients requirements appropriately, Formulating Strategies, Managing the project, Communicating with the Clients, Meeting with key corporate clients, Responsible for one point services to the clients, Market research and analysis, Handling our team members, Asking Our Clients for Feedbacks, are the few roles and responsibilities as they are never ending”.

Nitesh shared, “Every employees of our company knows and understands the best way to make the company leading in the market, is to make the clients happy with their services, hence when customers will get exactly what they were looking for and so they use to give repeat businesses to the company”. He also elaborates proudly that this is the best thing associated with his company, & hence, with this small mantra, he’s been able to incorporate into the day to day challenges and company goals.

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AATH Info Solutions offers software development, website development, search engine optimization, social media optimization, and mobile applications development. The company is also specializing in web application design, programming, database design, SEO, SMO, link building, content writing, ERP Software, and CRM.

Golden words for the Budding Entrepreneurs Nitesh felt glad while sharing the piece of advices for his budding entrepreneurs. While he mentioned key points which a successful leader must accomplish, along with faith, choice, admiration, facilitating the team, & a clear vision. He also shared that passion, honesty and giving best performance are the pivotal points, where one should improve more, because those are the points where one may lack or one may neglect. Well, Nitesh firmly believes in the statement—“Leaders are not made, they are born, and thus becoming a successful leader is not the coffee of everyone’s cup!”

Nitesh is an efcient leader who helps his team to achieve success in the eld of web development, digital marketing, and E-commerce

Future Panorama Nitesh is planning expand his company in different cities in the coming years. In today's world, technology has become a chief portion of daily life in the business feature and in our private lives as well.

Security has become one of the major factors which Keeps the financial and private business data safe.

AATH Info Solutions is one of the pioneers in India which is achieving enormous growth in the area of information technology. The solutions offered by the company are completely unique, private labeled, and trust worthy which are aimed to offer quality and technology filled solutions to the clients.

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Rahul S Kurkure: Simplifying your Journey through Cloud

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loud computing is the latest megatrend that is empowering organizations to evolve in a rapidly transforming technology landscape. In the last few years, the cloud computing market has witnessed an incredible growth driven by commodity public clouds that deliver extremely low cost computing and storage services appropriate for web-scale application. In this paradigm, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has emerged as a dominant force.

AWS is empowering organizations that wish to harness the power of cloud and propel their applications development.

Being a piece of infrastructure that is supporting the current tech boom, AWS allows companies to handle traffic, store videos, power a database, and run analytical operations.

Fulfilling this burning need for cost-effective and flexible solutions that will add to the AWS landscape, Cloud.in was established.

Headquartered in Pune, Cloud.in, a business unit of Hostin Services Private Limited, is one such partner with an experience of more than 17 years in providing Hosting and Managed Services. It is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and an AWS Channel Reseller Partner. Cloud.in aids businesses to realize AWS cloud hosting benefits through a portfolio of managed services which incorporates Cloud Strategy and Roadmap, Cloud Architecture Design, Cloud Migration, Managed AWS Cloud and Bespoke Management Solutions.

Additionally, it yields value added services like Cloud Billing, Cloud automation and DevOps, and Cloud Application Development.

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Services, AWS and Cloud Solutions. Strong professional with a M.S. in Telecom and B.E. in Computers, Rahul aims to be a market leader in providing Cloud solutions across the globe. Valuing honesty, integrity and ethics, he has an innate passion towards customers, partners, community and technology.

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Their hosting and managed services experience across different verticals has helped Rahul to understand what their clients need and what their customers want. “We offer Security, Reliability and Faster Turnaround. By offering an “all-in-one” managed AWS service, we bring out best Cloud services and tailor-made solutions to help them gain maximum ROI out of their IT investment,” affirms Rahul.

Cloud.in Meets Clients’ Business Requirements and Goals “We define a cloud strategy as per customer’s business requirements and goals. We assess clients’ cloud readiness, develop a business case, find right solutions and guide them in business transformation,” says Rahul.

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managers and is able to demonstrate business benefits and outcomes to them. Besides, Cloud.in has certified AWS Experts to design architecture according to AWS best practices and business requirements. The company has rich experience in designing high performance, scalable, cost-effective and highly available solutions.

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and perform post-migration validation. They offer endto-end project management.

Rahul’s Advice for Young Entrepreneur Learn to be realistic and don’t try entrepreneurship just because you want to be your own boss. Once you have decided to take the plunge and are ready with a plan to fulfill your dream, be prepared to face the real test of your character. Frustrations come thick and fast, threatening to cloud your vision and push you towards the easy path. Hang in there with insurmountable Grit.

Grit is the feeling that ought you to develop in abundance if you want to make your dream come true.

Don’t just dare to dream; Dare to change. Your plans stand for nothing; your dreams mean zilch to anyone unless you can show them how it benefits them. You are guaranteed success as soon as you start viewing a problem from your user’s or client’s perspective. Make that transition rapidly.

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reliable and high performance cloud solutions with the utmost customer satisfaction and personalized service.

He deems the employees as a family and is unrelenting in giving them an opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Finally, remember that you need to master man management skills than anything else.

Future Roadmap

Every business is unique and needs bespoke solutions to fulfill its requirements.

Cloud.in offers customized management solutions and acts as a replacement or extension of the existing IT, NOC and SysOps team. “We provide enterprise-grade managed services for clients’ AWS infrastructure and applications. We deliver 24/7 live tech support, SLA driven operations and issue resolution, proactive monitoring, predictive and reactive service assurance, and end-toend security,” says Rahul.

Identifying the reasons that impede the adoption of cloud technology by enterprises, Cloud.in endeavors to be one step ahead to improve efficiency and offer better cloud services. While aiming to expand its reach to India’s popular e-commerce and digital companies, Hostin Services plans to outspread Cloud.in in India and Middle-East.

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umans are evolving every day. With every passing moment, there is an advancement taking place in the world of science and technology. People are changing and so are their minds. It is becoming difficult to convince people and the task is also getting easier at the same time. Trends are evolving every day and every year there is something new. As businessmen come to know about the trend and its application process, their companies can easily foresee the ever-changing psyche of the general public.This is how all the major corporations in the world strive to thrive. Some of the known business trends which can drive success are as follows.

Generate Convincing Content and Integrate Sales and Content Marketing Team Customers and their buying patterns have changed over years. Everyone believes profoundly on online research today. Each and every customer does a high level of online research to find out the product they require and desire.

The most popular business organizations in the world follow the trends much before they arrive or, in other words, they bring in the trend. They integrate their sales and content marketing team so that whenever any potential customer search for risk factors, challenges and implementation strategies associated with any product or service, they will get answers to all their queries from the content provided by the company itself. In every purchase that happen today, the content and the content marketing plays the most important role. And nothing can be better if a convincing content is effectively used by the sales professionals in their sales process.

Add Multimedia Content to the Company’s Website People are not much inclined to reading these days and they admire visual interactive content over traditional marketing content. The demand for audio-video content has increased a lot and websites with greater amount of seeable objects are much more attractive than the websites with less or no visual content. Color attracts children as well as adults.

Scientifically, watching a video utilizes more human senses than reading, hence, it creates more impact on the human mind. For any individual, it is difficult to remember the best advertisement they have read, but almost everyone remembers the last best advertisement they have watched on their television set or multimedia devices.

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they watch more videos now than a year before and interestingly, 75% of them informed that they watch much more work related videos now than before. The survey also suggested that more than half of the people surveyed have visited the vendor's website after watching its video.

The video uploaded on the website should answer the questions which a potential buyer might ask. The video should be short, simple yet catchy. A hook factor must be there in the video to keep the viewer active on the site.

Precise the segments to gain more attraction Every customer wants to get something new and different from other customers. Everyone wants to be special. The trend is to generate unique content for each and every user or at least to avoid the generalized concept.

Experts suggest that the content managers must design the content specifically for each one of its customers. But this does not mean to insert the brand name before designing a message for a particular customer. Instead, the managers must know about the interests and choices of their clients or customers and tailor the perfect message for them.

A classic example of this trend could be the way popular ecommerce site like Amazon, the popular music app Gaana or video streaming website Netflix suggests the products which the customer might want. The most successful companies are focusing extensively on delivering content and communication designed according to client's or customer's preferences.

Use Collaborative Tools to save time Email is a major communication tool for communicating both internally and externally for a company. But it is a fact that the whole mailing process consumes a lot of time.

Experts informed that collaborative tools like Slack have already entered into the industry and is soon going to replace email for communications happening inside a company. It has been seen that Slack, which started their journey on 2013, has already exceeded four million users daily. They also mentioned that the organizations which use Slack for internal communications can save a lot of time. It clearly indicates that using less time over emails might bring positive impact on the professionals.

Time is the most valuable entity for executives today. While reading a company message or watching a video content on the company's website, the client or the customer must not feel that they have wasted their time in doing so, rather the content must be put forward in such a way that the viewer or reader must feel like “Thank God I watched this video.

This opened my eyes. This is the product/service I was looking for.”

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Rakesh Dadhich:

A Promising Leader who Transforms the Digital Marketing through Innovation

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famous author, Robin S. Sharma once said that “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.” In the current times of dynamic and challenging business climate, leadership is one of the most important traits that should an entrepreneur must possess. As a leader, his/her abilities to innovate, execute and be a strong role model for the team will always be essential. One such leader is the dynamic and visionary entrepreneur Rakesh Dadhich, who established Indglobal in 2010, with a mission to deliver astonishing performance and excellent digital marketing solutions for their treasured clients. Their prolific eight years of vast experience helps them in serving better solutions to their customers in a cost-effective way.

Indglobal is a decade old, award winning, full service – digital transformation agency with cutting-edge capabilities and comprehensive expertise to deliver business transformations with immense success worldwide. They leverage their knowledge base to deliver solutions that meet customers’ needs, business and budget expectations.

Rakesh Dadhich started the journey of entrepreneurship with two developers and in one year he crossed the team size of 20 members. Under the supervision of Rakesh, the organization slowly started growing to become a pioneer professional IT company and today it has moved to become the most popular brand in E-Commerce, Android app and Digital transformation company. His MBA background helps him to understand the current trend in digital marketing and it gave him the courage to start an organization like Indglobal, which delivers a state-ofthe-art solution in the digital arena.

Their Game Changing Services which Make the Company Innovative Indglobal’s main services include Premium Web services i.e.

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Web design, Development, UI/UX, ECommerce, Mobile apps, Digital Marketing, Video, Content development, which aids the company to solve all digital hazard of their clients. Additionally, the creative design team garnishes websites with a colourful tincture, superior navigation, and extraordinary website design to make an ideal mix of creativity and functionalism.

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Rakesh Highlights Some Inspirational Element which Driving them Ahead “Indians are born genius with very high IQ and if this skill can be guided in a proper way India can lead the world. Once we have the best-skilled manpower why can't we lead the world!!! We groom our employees to be the best assets of the industry and they contribute to the best projects. We believe Indians are the best in IT and we are proving that to our global clientele base with our quality.” states Rakesh.

“Technology Plays an Important Role in day-to-day Life” says Rakesh Rakesh strongly believes that digital transformation of an organization determines its capacity to be successful.

According to him, technology empowers the business in all the aspects required in this ever-changing world.

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organization achieved awards such “Most Promising Web Design Company in Bangalore, 2011”, “International Arch of Europe Award, 2015 Frankfurt”, “Best ECommerce & Digital Marketing Company in India, 2015”, “Best E-Commerce Service Provider in Bengaluru, 2015”, “Best Startups In Mobile Application Development Services,2016”, “Best SME of the year in Web Designing & Mobile Apps Development”, and “Best Startups the year, 2017”.

Words for Entrepreneur Rakesh mentions some significant values for the budding entrepreneurs; Domain expertise, Keen interest, Never compromise on quality, Ready to take risks, Unique ideas and Ingenious thinking. He believes, these core values will help the upcoming entrepreneurs and lead them towards success.

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motivated employees, latest technology skills and zeal to be the best in industry, which helps them to make difference from the other competitors.

Dept. of Commerce, USA invited Indglobal to set up their branches in this country. The coming year, the organization shall be having full placed branches in GCC, US and Australia.

Moreover, Indglobal has a plan to start their independent Blockchain development department, which independently handles bigger projects globally. E-Commerce and Mobility will also have separate departments where they will arrange superior and more experienced teams that will handle and complete IT consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies.

Machine Learning, and Big Data, the role of technology has grown with leaps and bounds.

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The ingenious leader Rakesh has always brought up innovative ideas and introduces new strategies in the digital arena. His motivation, determination and guidance help the organization to achieve more success.

As a leading organization, Indglobal received many prestigious awards which boosted their enthusiasm towards better work. Under his leadership, the

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Sandeep Jangala: A Strategist in a Quest for Innovation

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ndian talent is woven into the core of the software technologies that most people use every day. With each passing day, as technology becomes a more intrinsic part of our day to day activity, it is very interesting to note that, a number of young Indian Entreprenuers are making an indelible mark for themselves, in their quest to further integrate technology into our lives through their out of the box thinking. Appoids is one such firm that’s making its mark in the field of technology with a key focus on IoT and AI. The company is headed by Sandeep Jangala, who is the CEO. He primarily takes care of strategy, new innovations and exploration of new markets, while Snehal Jangala, who is the COO, is responsible for opeartions and implementation strategy of the company’s various products.

Troubleshooting a Problem Intrigues Sandeep For Sandeep, solving a problem has always been a thing of interest.

It is this interest that drives him to explore new areas and new technologies. For him, the key aspect of an entrepreneur is the ability to connect the dots across varied fields and new technologies, thereby innovating unique and interesting solutions.

He has always been willing to go the extra mile to attain the position that he is at present.

Level of Detailing and Customization Differentiates Appoids from Others The key differentiation is Appoids’ ability to solve problems by developing customized solutions for clients which is incomparable in the market as other players products are very generalistic in nature. Their solutions are built right from scratch based on client specific requirements. The entire solution concept and design is engineered by Appoids based on client problem statement.

Effective and Innovative Services of Appoids Using IoT and AI, combined with some innovating thinking, Appoids has come up with some unique solutions that cater to both the government as well as the private sector which are described below: A Company’s Success comes with Happy Employees and Innovation Appoids has been able to device a very good working culture where everyday is enjoyable and collaboration across teams purely exist. Another key factor to company’s success is Innovation. If you can't differentiate your product in the market, you will be just

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another “me too” product which makes sale of that product very difficult. · SHIKSHAN: A mobile and web based solution that helps government education departments manage schools effectively, thereby driving greater operational efficiency. It is presently deployed in 4 states in India. The solution has been able to address may key issues such as teacher absenteeism, siphoning of funds for schools and addressing many teacher related problems. · STREAMLINE: Their patented product that provides “On Demand Entertainment” content to March-April 2018

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is connected to the could thereby enabling authorities to get real time status of public washrooms.

Resource Management is the Key to be a Successful Leader Most important is your ability to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your employees and see how you solve the puzzle and reach your final objectives. There is no point in criticizing employees when you know they don’t have the skill to execute a certain task.

A leader should be able to motivate his/her employees to work hard, learn new skills and encourage them to speak their thoughts out. When more people start talking, there are

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more perspectives to think about, and your product is better ready even before you go to the field.

The final factor would be confidence in taking tougher decisions and sticking to them. It’s very key that a leader sticks by his/her decisions with a lot of self-belief and ensures that others believe in the product as well.

A Strong Workforce Remains the Cornerstone for Appoids Being a small company with only four years behind them, it’s a huge challenge in many aspects such as client acquisition, multiple projects and limited work force.

However, Appoids has effectively been able to overcome these challenges with the unique work culture and talented workforce.

They follow a very strict hiring policy to ensure a lean and effective work force. Teams are trained across technologies to ensure that they are able to handle multiple projects without resource dependency. And, to ensure there is optimum utilization of time, daily and weekly targets are revisited.

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any user with a smart phone or a laptop. The user can stream the content onto their devices without the need of Internet or a mobile application. Interestingly it also works on any operating system on a basic browser. · WHAM: An AI driven, Retail IoT platform that helps physical stores drive footfalls. It users our Patented AI based Customer-Targeting System that understands customer behavior and their purchase patterns and helps stores pull customers through customerized targeting. The app has got over 15 lakh downloads in just 9 months and recorded sales worth more than 8 crores till date. · ELEKTRON: An Industrial IoT product, that is deployed in manufacturing plants and large establisments to monitor the energy consuptions patterns to drive efficient usage of power. It helps plant managers to identify any anomalies in consumption patterns and triggers automatic alerts with cloud connected interfaces. The system is used by many big names in the industry including Swaraj Tractors at their manufacturing plants. · FEEDO: Retail cloud-connected feedback management system, that provides an easy to use feedback system at the store level. The system is installed at the store POS, where the customer can easily give their feedback with the touch of a few buttons. · SWACHH: Designed to help achieve the objectives of PM’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the system automatically monitors washrooms cleanliness using sensors. The system

Appoids Plans to Spread their Base Inside and Outside India The future plan of Appoids is to drive existing products into newer markets and spread their base. They are already exploring the northern markets of the country and also seek to explore markets outside India.

Considering the last year award as one of the top 20 IoT companies in India, the company is looking forward to make a big impact in the field of IoT.

Seek for Challenges in Every Job If you are seeking a job, remember to become a valuable asset to the company before seeking out better pay packages. Once you are valuable sky is the limit in terms of pay. Also, look for a job that’s challenging. If it doesn’t post a challenge where you need to learn new technology or new processes, it doesn’t add anything to your portfolio.

Well, if you are seeking to be an entrepreneur, make sure you have the right team, have done good background research into the product domain and have worked out the business model well. Get ready to sacrifice a lot especially a lot of your personal life and get ready to put in the hours because, it’s not going to be easy even with a great product and market size.

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Siva Reddy AV: Got a Zeal to Make the Best of IoT for the Clients

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reat leadership requires an understanding of oneself before you can effectively comprehend, appreciate and leverage the unique skill-sets and competencies of others.

Annareddy Venkata Siva Reddy, as a leader incorporates responsibilities of Founder and Managing Director at GND Solutions. Siva fine-tunes every role he handles with great attentiveness, be it to provide Thought Leadership, Business Strategy and Deal Origination, etc. His area of responsibilities is diversified to each sphere including devising diversification Strategy/Product and Service Expansion Strategy/Growth and International Market Strategy/Technology strategy, Team Building, Leadership, Mentoring and Business Development.

Under Siva’s supervision, GND Solutions got enough potential to be recognized as Top 20 Growing IOT Companies in India. With his technology leadership, the company enabled their client in achieving CES 2017 award for smart home segment by delivering world-class Smart home hub with AI. Services Offered By GND GND Solutions offers end-to-end solution for IoT & M2M segment for global market. Some of its products are addressing market needs for various applications like Cold Chain Management, Location Tracking, Asset Monitoring and tracking, Agriculture, Security and Alert systems. GND Solutions offers products on various technologies based on need like BLE, LoRaWAN, NBIoT, CAT-M1, and other IOT Networks with GND’s IOT cloud platform etc.

GND Solutions’s design & development service offerings include: Proficient in transforming concepts to solutions ranging from miniature to complex system designs. Their proven design practices ensure superior quality and on-time delivery first-time and every-time. Embedded H/W Design Services, Firmware Design Services, IC Packaging & Sip Design Services, Mobile Apps & Custom Rom, Desktop Applications & Tools, Front End Framework & Dash Boards, Backend With Mean Stack & Cloud, Testing & Certifications are also various offerings of GND Solutions.

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Important Checks that Helped Company to be Successful The key here is Alignment. Siva says he work with employees at all levels to be aligned on their companies’ larger goals, and those goals are broken down to a smaller scale to ensuring that they remain engaged in day-to-day operations.

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Differentiating Elements of GND

Consistent Feedback: Consistent feedback helping keep employees to focus on their performance. Feedback acts as a reminder. Without it, employees get too caught up in their daily tasks and lose sight of the bigger picture.

Allocation of Tasks properly: Ensuring their employees aware of their role in each of their projects. Few tips that are following are using visuals to explain the company’s overall strategy and how each role advances toward its goals, assigning the right tasks to the right people etc.

Technology is Centre of Attention Today

Everyone getting recognized: Engagement is essential to keep a company growing and reaching for its vision. Siva follows a simple expression of gratitude, such as a thankyou note or gift, and showing employees that management is paying attention and notices that they are consistently working hard and succeeding at their individual goals.

First and foremost, right and updated technology is important for an organization to provide best and cost effective solutions to solve industrial, consumer or any other market segments across globe.

In addition, technology affects a firm’s ability to communicate with customers. In today’s busy business environment, it is necessary for employees to interact with clients quickly and clearly. Technology has both tangible and intangible benefits that will help them make money and produce the results customers demand. For Siva, the latest technology trends are fascinating.

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GND Solutions focused for global market needs having very versatile development center in proving concepts across technologies for industrial/ consumer space and addressing global products with very quick time to market.

The way Siva drive his core team is with help of his strong industry expertise to develop products and services offerings which would have strong differentiators in the market place.

Guidance for Younger Ones when Starting a Venture What makes an organization extraordinary, is having clear goals in professional and personal life, work towards your goals with dedication. Some of the checklist which one leader and its company needs most importantly right at all time and every time is Attitude, Behavior, Commitment, Dedication, and Transparency.

Qualities, a Leader Should Have

Future Plans of GND Solutions

As advances in technology and addressing the clients’ challenges inspire Siva to steer ahead, with this zeal, he takes the GND forward with hard/smart work which has made them to attain success. He, being an enthusiast tries to impart all the qualities which make a strong team: motivation, mentoring and empowering all the colleagues which derive him as the successful leader.

The company, GND dreams is to be a world class organization with global presence.

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Vijay Vaidyanathan: An Ardent Serial Entrepreneur cum Technophile

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f you own a business and want it to function smoothly then you have to mandatorily possess good decision making skills. Just a single wrong decision and everything will come down to turmoil in a jiffy. It is crucial for every business owner to understand the weight behind each decision they make, and to continually improve their decision-making skills. But here arises a question; do we need advance technological tools to streamline our decision making process? Do the CXOs need to adopt these tools to revamp their business models? The answer is Yes! And it’s high time now for businesses to adopt these tools if they want to retain their position in this rapidly growing tech savvy world. To provide answers to this entire dilemma comes Npedia Technologies – a leading technology business transformation company which works with the primary focus to provide value services for technology and digital transformational journey. The driving force behind Npedia Technologies is Vijay Vaidyanathan; who is an ardent serial entrepreneur with over 25+ years of worldwide experiences with product & services companies such as Oracle, Yahoo!, eBay, PwC and Cognizant. He has also founded and exited two product startups with diverse technology and business expertise.

Meet the Forerunner of Npedia Technologies Being the Founder and CEO of a rapidly growing company is not at all an easy task to accomplish. But, a person like Vijay Vaidyanathan has not only seamlessly worked on his role of being a founder, but also pushed himself to take Npedia Technologies to new heights.

Starting from the time of inception, Vijay’s roles were focused on being the vision holder, providing direction, encouragement, and making sure their solutions and services are in-line with world-class expectations. Elaborating his diversified roles, Vijay says, “Our Customers and their goals need constant alignment and my responsibilities were also to make sure that we are there to provide the requirements to enable our growth. We provide Business digital transformation, and so I work constantly with the CXO of other companies to help them take better decisions and adopt technology.”

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Vijay Vaidyanathan Founder

Leaving No Stones Unturned For Vijay ‘Inspiration’ is a multi-directional aspect which comes from many sources to help his team to keep chugging along their digital transformative journey maps, which they pass on to their customers. Also at Npedia Technologies, under Vijay’s guidance his team works very closely with universities and prestigious professional organizations to create new models to engage students to leverage their enthusiasm and provide an opportunity to nurture them.

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Vijay says he gets inspired by looking up to the people who achieve great success in spite of all their difficulties, or their limitations, and by only focusing on training their minds to succeed and make a mark for themselves as well as for the future generations to come.

Despite running a leading company in a competitive market, Vijay had always been crystal clear with his goals.

Vijay with his team aims to provide the best solutions and technology directions to their customers in the areas of Business Digital transformations, Machine Learning and AI. Vijay believes in constantly monitoring and measuring their successes by aligning themselves with their customer’s goals, while ensuring that they are on top of the best technology solutions that can be offered to solve business problems.

Npedia Technologies: Taking care of Client’s Technologies and Helping them to Focus on their Products Npedia Technologies provides ML and AI driven strategies to facilitate digital transformations by understanding the

Machine Translation technologies. To stand apart and outshine its competitors, Npedia uses natural language processing to create a seamless and interactive interface between humans and machines that are a top priority in increasingly cognitive applications. Its services involve CIO/CTO expertise on demand, without the price-tag of full-time CXOs. Through leadership, innovative thinking, early adoption techniques, new business models (like “gig hub for enterprise”) and incorporating digitization, Npedia helps in building a better and wider decision-making authority. Npedia also caters to diverse set of domains in market, with Machine learning (ML) usage in healthcare and life science being their major focus area.

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Npedia provide Business Digital transformative solutions to their customers. Technology has become the front-runner for all types of businesses today, and so it is a core component for most organizations. Their CXO service roles helps non-technology driven organizations, to embrace and adopt them, and be transformational in their future. Today, technology is embedded in all our day-to-day lives, that the sooner we embrace it gracefully, the better our lives is likely to be.

Closing the Digital Gap with NLP based Voice Integration of Npedia As speech-understanding technology and voice-input applications improve, the need for NLP is increasing steadily. Question-Answering (QA) is becoming vital for successful customer traction with applications such as OK Google, Amazon Alexa, chat boxes and virtual assistants.

NLP based Voice integration of Npedia – is pushing the application delivery to Zero Graphical UI, thereby closing the digital gap.

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I tend to focus on the core aspects of life for daily motivation, and not be in a fault-nding situation every day

Technology is the Major Element to Success

Use Technology Wisely and Be Updated, Message for Youth

Young millennials are mostly born digital.

Unlike some of us who have come up from the non-core technology days, the younger workforce must align themselves with the disruptions coming their way, keep themselves updated, use technology wisely, learn coding, math and some data sciences, to transform themselves and fit into the future data-centric world of decisions we are all entering in the near future. If you have entrepreneurial dreams, explore it with passion, and start early. There are no eligibility criteria – the technology business at this point is democratized.

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