Vish’s Birthday Wish Comes True

ENGINEER’S DAY SPECIAL VISH’S BIRTHDAY WISH COMES TRUE!

During February this year, several of our colleagues were working day and night to win a breakthrough project from a tier-1 automotive major DRiV. Three of them, Vishwanath M.S., Head of Validation & Verification for Transportation, Girish T.G., Sr. Delivery Manager, Automotive and Muralidhar G.N. our Group Manager handling the Legal department had to travel to Brussels to present a winning pitch to the customer.

DRiV is one of the leading global suppliers of innovative automotive products and services and is a division of Tenneco Inc.

Everything so far sounds like work as usual, doesn’t it? But this was not going to be any ordinary journey for our fellow LTTSites. Here’s the twist – COVID-19! In the past few months, the whole world and business travel has come to a standstill. Also, Brussels is recognized as a gastronomic destination and is famous for its non-vegetarian exquisite cuisine.

Our colleagues had to consequently undertake the herculean task of travelling to Europe, maintaining travel norms and closing the deal while looking for restaurants offering vegetarian food in Brussels! The last activity proved to be the most challenging of all. But all’s well that ends well. For all the toiling and hardship, our talented trio were rewarded by eventually closing the deal successfully. (They also managed to find a couple of rare ‘vegetarian only’ eateries in Brussels).

Coincidentally, the day Vishwanath, Murali and Girish closed the discussions with DRiV, it was Vishwanath’s birthday. The cherry on the metaphorical birthday cake for Vish was winning the deal and securing the important project from DRiV!

Congratulations to the Winning Team!

We couldn’t have asked for more from our dear colleagues, as they made the journey of a lifetime. Three Cheers for Vish, Girish and Murali!