The 10 Most Admired CEOs to Follow in India, 2022

Editor‛s Note

Redefining LEADERSHIP

Over the years, innovation has played a crucial role in enhancing the quality of businesses, and in return, it has become one of the most critical factors for the growth of an organization. A true leader should always ensure that the urge to innovate new things and spread its significance among the employees should not die down. The term "Transformational Leadership" was coined to put such words into practice.

The first thing that strikes my mind after hearing the term is a growing urge of a team or an individual to make a difference. If explained, it is a particular leadership style that portrays a leader's ability to motivate, inspire, and encourage employees and team members to innovate and shape the business's future. Such a management structure often helps employees to be decisive, self-aware, and creative about any volatile disruption. This also helps to create strong corporate culture, employee ownership, and much-needed independence in a workplace.

As innovation describes an organization's authenticity, a leader should work on delivering unique cooperative ideologies, which can also encourage his/her other employees. Business leaders like Satya Nadella, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk have successfully gained the stature of their leadership style and are influencing the planet through their revolutionary work. These leaders have a keen eye over their products, services, and processes.

PrimeView magazine appreciates the immense efforts put forth by admired CEOs and takes pride in featuring such leaders in its latest "The 10 Most Admired CEOs to Follow in India, 2022" edition.

Featuring our Cover Story is Nikhil Ramanlal, the MD and CEO of Atandra Energy Pvt. Ltd., a Chennai-based organization built on a platform for more than 35 years of experience in the Power and Energy Management Sector. The organization offer solutions to various industrial and commercial establishments under its famous brand name KRYKARD. The organization's product portfolio includes Servo Voltage Stabilizers, UPS, Portable and Panel Load Managers, and Energy Management Software.

With over 350 employees and a network of more than 75branches all over India, the organization has installed over 400,000 Power Conditioners and 150,000 Portable and Panel Load Managers, which has helped KRYKARD become a leading brand in the area of Energy Management. With its CE-certified Power conditioners, Atandra Energy ensures that its products conform to global health, safety, and environmental protection standards.

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Nikhil Ramanlal

Atandra Energy Private Limited MD and CEO

Helping with ENERGY MANAGEMENT

Numerous years of living abroad and the intuitive need to return to India was the birth of an Idea, and idea that would today be Atandra Energy.

A passion to make a difference in the energy management sector followed by a chance meeting with Mr Sreenivas Koganti resulted in the birth of the company.

Nikhil, an undergraduate from Boston University and an MBA from Instituto Empresa, Spain dived headlong into starting and building Atandra brick by brick.

His military training at the Singapore Army and Years of working at Ingram Micro added to his portfolio, and helped him plan and execute better.

Path Breaking Products

Founded on 12th April 2005, Atandra Energy Pvt. Ltd. is a Chennai-based organization built on a platform for more than 35 years of experience in the Power and Energy Management Sector. The organization offer solutions to various industrial and commercial establishments under its famous brand named KRYKARD. The organization's product portfolio .

"The Quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves - Ray Kroc

includes Servo Voltage Stabilizers, UPS, Portable and Panel Load Managers, and Energy Management Software.

It has developed Alensoft, an Energy Management System on the premise that advises users on electrical load balancing, machine side losses, specific energy consumption, productivity analysis, and overall process/plant Industry. And its Alencloud is a Cloud-Based Energy Management System that provides a quick energy consumption analysis and enables users to take an action using the user-friendly KPI dashboard. Additionally, Atandra's Lighting Energy Saver saves energy by maintaining the power delivered to the lighting loads at an optimum voltage without compromising lighting quality and comfort.

With over 350 employees and a network of more than 75 branches all over India, the organization has installed over 400,000 Power Conditioners and 150,000 Portable and Panel Load Managers, which has helped KRYKARD become a leading brand in the area of Energy Management.

With its CE-certified Servo Stabilisers and Transformers, Power conditioners, Atandra Energy ensures that its products conform to global health, safety, and environmental protection standards.

Tackling Challenges

Nikhil believes India's diversity often brings a challenging set of professional and personal situations across a widely diverse demographic of employees and clients. He feels victorious when he is able to emphasize and address every roadblock with the same level of concern, understanding, and compassion.

He believes , "Leaders need to constantly evolve as people while also keeping the business abreast with advances in technology. Keeping a keen eye on the competition whilst motivating his own team is something he feels always necessary.”

Mission and Vision

Atandra Energy's mission is to become a global leader in the energy space and create various new software and energy management verticals.

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Change is the only constant. "

Additionally, the organization aspires to create employment opportunities for people and always looks out for the best of its employees.

As the organization's leader, Nikhil frequently calls for an external set of professional eyes to evaluate, audit, and upgrade the work environment, business culture, and customers' perception of Atandra Energy. He also keeps the mid-management on their toes by frequently and directly seeking inputs on brand and customer satisfaction levels from the entire employee pool to ensure the company and its employees are operating according to his mission and vision.

Imad Syed

PiLog Group | CEO

Helping Organizations to Achieve Better Results

Established in 1996, PiLog Group is a global group of independent companies, specializing in Quality Data and Digital Governance & Analytical solutions supporting multiple data domains in a variety of industries all over the globe. The PiLog solutions are state of the art, focused on creating a common business language and manag ing the rules for the creation of high quality, multilingual terminology using Machine Learning, Artificial Intelli gence technologies & human-augment ed algorithms for our customers who are eager to transform their businesses digitally. PiLog provides exclusive technical dictionaries, industrial librar ies with content repositories that is the culmination of research, development, and execution over the past twenty years embedded into the platform of PiLog –Data Quality HUB or PiLog Cloud. All our methodologies, processes, solutions are compliant with interna tional standards for delivering seamless systematic integration of content into various platforms, operational systems and ERPs such as SAP, S4 HANA, Oracle ERP Cloud, Maximo & MS Dynamics etc

Dr. Imad A Syed, Board Member, Group CIO, and CEO of Middle East & APAC is currently at the helm of PiLog Group. He joined the organization in 2002 as a Systems Engineer and soon rose up to the ranks of Group CIO, CEO, and Board member. Dr. Imad Syed possesses a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. With the zeal to grow the organization, he has dedicated more than 100% by making many sacrifices in his professional and personal life. Dr. Imad Syed comes from a healthy knowledgeable and educational family who had supported him all these years. Due to his outstanding contributions in the area of Data & Analytics, the National American University, USA has honored him with Doctorate in Data Analytics.

Offering Diversified Solutions

According to Dr. Imad Syed, during the last two and half decades, PiLog has grown both organically and inor ganically mostly with modular solutions and services around master data management. However, the organiza tion has grown leaps and bounds with all the odds in order to build sustainable Business Technology HUB enabling master, meta, and transactional data modelling and quality complying with ISO 8000, ISO 22745, ISO 29001, ISO 14224, ISO 55000, etc.

Dr. Imad Syed also believes, today’s solutions are much more modular, flexible, scalable, interoperable and offer diversified solutions, processes, methodolo gies, a framework to provide value and optimize business processes in End-to-End Supply Chain, Business Partner Collaboration, Asset Life Cycle Management, Data Quality Management, Data Migration.

Making Solutions Efficient and Sustainable

When it comes to incorporating new innovations to make solutions much more efficient and sustainable, PiLog Group under the leadership of Dr. Imad Syed is planning to be a customer-centric organization with the best user experience. It is also planning to deliver agility and OOB solutions that cater to the majority of the demand, Seamless integration with all major ERPs and COTS products, informed analytics and decision making, Quality and Quantified data solu tions.

Lastly, Dr. Imad Syed is also eyeing the evolution of the unified platform (PiLog Business Technology Platform), which is modular, scalable, flexible, and adaptable for master, metadata, and analytics process ing.

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“Success and failure are very relative, but truth of the world; sadly, you are measured against it… Innovators & Thought leaders are always challenged… Rest assured, day dreamers like us will be eventually successful with our dedication, thoughts, and courage… MOVE ON, Bring in the Change all the time to be relevant in this world!!!”

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Keeping Employees Happy

Motivating a large team of employees to be innova tive and productive at work is not an easy task. So, Dr. Imad Syed believes in continual knowledge improvement, up-skilling & cross-skilling to conquer success. Also as an organization, PiLog promotes its employees on continual evaluation on a half-yearly

basis, and its cross-functional role and responsi bilities with a rotational policy make the employ ees innovative and productive while creating healthy competition amongst them.

Additionally, the exposure to various market demands and progression to new challenges and growth, alongside the long-term association plans and benefits PiLog makes sure that its employees are on their toes with great levels of innovation and productivity.

The Go-To Partner

Under the leadership of Dr. Imad Syed and the organization touched new heights, which improved the top-line and bottom-line multi-fold.

It conceptualized and architected data and analyt ics products and services, developed and enabled delivery models that are best in the industry.

During this time, PiLog also established, enabled, driven, and delivered KPIs and KRAs according to the organizational aspirations.

Tackling Challenges and Success

Dr. Imad Syed believes with a constant price war, the ability to convince the customers on quality vs. cost, and with multiple new players entering the market, things are getting a bit more challenging for the organization.

However, PiLog’s main motivator is to be grounded on its toes, and go that extra mile for clients to meet the dynamic demands and beat the competition with the agility and teamwork of PiLog. The teams of PiLog have exhibited a ‘never say die attitude’ all the time, which alongside technology, partnership, and confidence boost the organization’s journey.

When it comes to success, although the top-line and bottom-line are very pivotal for any business, at PiLog business value lies in; customer experience and longevity, employee progression and empowerment, market recognition as leaders.

Advice for Young Entrepreneurs and Future

When it comes to advising young and upcoming entrepreneurs, Dr. Imad Syed says,

PiLog is currently eyeing a revenue of $50 million by the end of 2023, along with a 10% improvement in stakeholder’s value, 20% improvement in employee value and partnership, and lastly 20% improvement in customer value.

Simple success mantra for budding and aspiring entrepreneurs is being honest, transparent, dedicated, self-motivated, believe in ‘knowledge is power & ‘Always strive for excellence… success will follow.

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Merit Holdings has always had a reputation for engineering solutions to suit the most complex of buildings or locations. In 2002, Merit’s CEO, Tony Wells, took over Merit, a £2m turnover piping company, based in the North East of England. At that time, the business was near insolvency, and Tony repurposed the business to focus on self-delivery of mechanical pipework and cleanrooms, a decision which has led to the company’s success today.

In 2004, Merit opened its first offsite factory, where projects such as Diamond Light Synchrotron and Halley VI were manufactured offsite and shipped to Oxford and Antarctica respectively.

For the next decade, Merit continued to design and build complex facilities using a range of traditional methods and offsite construction methods for clients such as GSK, Francis Crick Institute, Rolls-Royce and Harrods.

In 2018, working with innovator Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Merit used it Pre-Assembled Modules (PAM) technology to offsite manufacture 60% of the facility in just over 9 months, a year faster than traditional methods.

This led to a new approach to delivering complex facilities. Using the modular ‘Pre-Assembled Modules’ (PAMs) system that proved so successful for Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s facility expansion, Merit invested heavily in developing this system to increase its design platform and offsite manufactured products.

The product range now includes patent pending systems such as FLEXI POD and UltraPOD, which are chosen depending on the customer’s requirements for speed of construction, cost, site constraints and process/product manufacturing flow.

These products are pre-designed based on a regulatory approved MEP/architectural design platform, which is adapted to customer specific applications and is deeply integrated into the validation process in order that a more productive, consistent and successful outcome is achieved. The design period is significantly reduced by using these standardised designs, allowing for PODs and PAMs to go into manufacture quickly. Project delivery times for a project from inception to time to use can be cut by up to 70% to deliver whatever process and building layout is needed.

Using the platform, we can achieve 97% offsite manufacturing of MEP systems with zero scope 1 carbon emission design whilst providing >50% plant space reduction and improved services distribution. Designs offer lower energy consumption and high quality environmental conditions required for healthcare and biopharma manufacturing with HEPA filtration used to minimise airborne infection risk. All these provide consequential benefit to overall costs both in terms of capital investment and ongoing revenue including maintenance and energy.

Improving productivity

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything” [Paul Krugman; 2021].

Improving construction productivity is something of a personal crusade for Merit CEO, Tony Wells who has led the re-invention of the way Merit delivers projects with a radically different ‘clean sheet of paper’ re-think of the complete construction value chain. This is for the most part the complete opposite to traditional Tier 1 / fragmented design delivery since Productivity in construction has hardly improved in decades and is now a major road block to UK growth as a whole.

Highlighting the problem is not new. As long ago as The Egan Report in 1998 identified the issues and proposed radical change; ‘What we are proposing is a radical change in the way we build. We wish to see, within five years, the construction industry deliver its products to its customers in the same way as the best consumer-lead manufacturing and service industries’. [Egan:1998].

Unfortunately, the construction industry, both contractors, designer and clients largely ignored these wise words of advice however, Merit has embraced the opportunity to drive its productivity

Tony Wells

Merit Holdings Limited | CEO

through digital design, automated manufacturing, product based delivery and project management integration using Revit, Assemble Systems and Viewpoint a Common Data Environment platform for all projects.

The significant advantage utilising this approach is that adaptable, standardised designs can be digitally engineered in real time during design workshops to produce outputs there and then. Output focused workshops, where all stakeholders can actively collaborate in real time, are incredibly productive and significantly reduce the time taken to deliver a finalised approved design.

This product based approach that can be customised to exact customer needs has dramatically reduced the time it takes Merit and its customers to finalise their optimum design without compromise and is one of the improvements that enables Merit to deliver its projects quicker.

Tony quoted, “Merit's primary focus in the last 5 years has been a complete rethink of all of our business processes to provide a complete digital integration. We are not yet finished but we are well on the way and current projects are seeing these benefits. Vertically integrated Product based factory manufacturing is needed to take Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) to the next level of manufacturing maturity and where they can be applied successfully, in particularly, in heavily regulated environments such as healthcare and Biopharmaceuticals, where exponential growth in new projects is expected. Our solution for complex buildings incorporates zero scope 1 carbon emission / aggressive total life cycle carbon reduction and factory-manufactured solutions that deliver affordable costs in significantly shorter timescales compared to traditional construction.”

Tackling Challenges

The road to developing these products has not gone without its challenges.

Tony says, "The impact from BREXIT, COVID, and the war in Ukraine, coupled with a sharp rise in construction activity, is having a significant adverse

impact on the construction industry in the U.K., increasing prices and causing material and labour shortages."

However, Merit has mitigated for many of these issues by using several key methodologies;

Utilising an adaptable and customisable standardised design allows the organization to pre-specify components and engage with its material supply chain on deliveries so that appropriate stock can be maintained and available as needed to maintain a programme.

Chain: Embedded partners working on Merit projects are engaged in a project from start to end. This collaborative way of working often makes sure that these partners work with the company repeatedly, enabling it to plan for the manufacturing slots. Merit prioritises its embedded suppliers so that material supply issues can be mitigated through guaranteed supply.

Employees: Merit has not experienced the same shortfall of construction workers experienced by Traditional UK Construction due to it’s extensive training, apprentice and graduate training programmes rather than short term, reliance on EU workers who are no longer freely available after Brexit.

Wells comments: “the UK needs to invest in R&D and home grown skills and Merit is focused on in-house training and recruitment programmes for long term. High paid, productive, directly employed staff based in the UK and manufacturing in Northumberland”.

Working with innovators who recognise the benefits of MMC

The UK government is fixated on paying millions of pounds on consultants’ fees to develop designs that are not fit for purpose or manufactured. This traditional ‘groundhog day reinvent the wheel’ prototyping has dogged the industry over decades and is one of the fundamental road blocks to improving productivity. Merit’s transformational business strategy is to move away from this type of behavior and is a key part of our intellectual property and value-based product solution.

We have seen significant uptake in our product offering in the last year, working with some of the most prolific innovators in the UK, including Autolus, Piramal, CPI and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, all of whom recognize the benefits of MMC and Merit’s platform.

In 2021, Merit was awarded the prestigious, £66m, Autolus’ new CAR-T Cell Therapy manufacturing facility, the 1st of its kind in the UK. A facility that

will manufacture 2000 therapies annually, bringing this advanced therapy to the UK for the first time from the US. Autolus will be designed and built including planning approval in just 22 months using the FLEXI POD® platform compared to a traditional approach of 4½ years.

Shortly after the Autolus contract was announced, Merit won a £30m project with Piramal to build a new cancer drug manufacturing facility in Grangemouth, Scotland. Again, using Merit’s patent pending FLEXI POD® product will save considerable time to enable manufacturing of ADC’s quicker than constructing it in a traditional manner. The project will take 16 months to complete, a stark contrast to the 3 years it would take to design and build the new facility traditionally.

In the next month, Merit expects a number of new contracts will be awarded, including a community hospital, as well as further projects in advanced therapies and biopharma.

The Steadfast Leader

Tony Wells took over Merit, a £2m turnover piping company in the N.E., in August 2002. Since then, he organically grew the company's cleanroom and pipework business, emphasizing offsite manufacturing and delivering many iconic projects like Diamond Light Synchrotron and Halley VI. In 2017, Tony re-invented the organization's delivery to product-based digitally engineering factory manufacturing to deliver CGT Catapult Biotech and UK BIC Dry-room projects.

Tony's first role after Newcastle University was Electrical/ Control Engineering at British Steel Teesside. It was a fantastic IEE Chartered Engineering Training Program with various

assignments, from project design and delivery to shift-based operations and fault findings on plants, including steel plants, plate mills, and coke ovens.

Then in 1990, he joined Fujitsu's new construction semi-conductor cleanroom manufacturing facility. After spending considerable time in Japan, with roles in both management and engineering, Tony revamped the entire facility MEP controls to a PLC and DCS system, self-delivering the design, software, and commissioning, providing a detailed understanding of each system functionality.

In 1996, he joined the seniors team at Siemens new DRAM wafer Fab and oversaw project construction and facility operations. He headed Siemens' Semiconductor worldwide benchmarking program of optimized water fab design and construction, generating 4,000 pages of analysis and writing published articles and an unfinished Ph.D. thesis. Later in 1999, he moved from manufacturing to construction as M.D. of two M+W Zander start-ups in the U.K. and New York State.

Driving Factors

Merit’s people are at the core of the company's offering. In the last year, the workforce has gone from 110 staff to over 250, demonstrating the growth of the company and interest in its product based solution. At the current rate of growth, a further 100 staff are expected to join in 2022 alone.

By switching to a vertically integrated factory-based solution centred around standardised digital engineering and 4D BIM, Merit has been able to address the skill shortage with flexible working, significant new graduate and apprenticeship programmes which have improved demographics and construction’s mental health crisis by minimising site teams and working from home.

We have invested heavily in standardisation and automation, embedding the leanest of manufacturing processes into our own, purchasing equipment to improve productivity, including a UR Welding Robot, which will arrive at the Merit factory in July.

Picture of the Future

Tony says, "Merit is known in the last 20 years for designing and building complex facilities, but we have re-invented the whole company into a technology and productivity driven manufacturing start-up, which does very little the same now as it did even 4 years ago."

Merit's solution for complex buildings incorporates zero carbon emission and factory-manufactured solutions, which deliver affordable costs in a significantly reduced timeframe compared to traditional construction.

The organization is currently expecting a 200% increase in sales compared to last year. With the number set to triple by the end of next year, Merit is increasing its offsite manufacturing capacity to 300,000 square feet this year, with further expansion planned for 2023.

Donna Hamlin

Helping Clients with

Meet Dr. Donna Hamlin, the CEO of BoardWise, who had a goal and followed a path to reach it. The oldest amongst seven children, she became a ‘little mom’ at the tender age of 11 when her mother fell ill for five years. Someone had to take care of the home and children, while Donna’s father worked two jobs to pay for all of them and hospital and medical costs. After coming back from school, Donna used to clean, wash clothes, prepare dinner and made sure her siblings did their homework.

After she turned 16, Donna’s father explained to her that he had dreams for her to go to college but had no way to pay for school. So, she worked three jobs in the last two years of high school, saved some money for college, and secured a student loan to cover her education. She completed her B.A, M.S. and Ph.D. before she turned 26, all while working full-time.

Soon, she developed her interest in business and organizations and built a career in human resources and marketing. With the benefit of two special men tors, opportunities opened to build her competencies. Spanning time, working in more than 50 countries with executives, teams, and boards of companies across industries and cultures continues to teach Donna every day. She is grateful for the amazing adventures, experiences, learning, and friends made over time.

Before her role at BoardWise, Donna founded Hamlin Harkins, Ltd., where she developed a successful track record in strategic change management, and human performance management, serving clients from Fortune 500 global enterprises to start-up companies in more than 30 countries.

Unique Offerings

BoardWise serves both board directors and manage ment teams. Donna’s management consulting firm, Hamlin Harkins, Ltd., started in 1982 and will be 40 years old on April 30, 2022. The organization expanded with governance services in 2010 by creating Boardwise as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Donna recognized many clients were struggling with governance issues and many regulatory changes happening all across the planet. Helping both man agement and boards, the brand promise is; “Fresh Solutions to manage and govern well.”

Currently, the organization aims to look at the immi nent challenges with creativity and wisdom to find uniquely better ways to resolve issues or take advantage of opportunities for long-term value. The com pany has received awards for its proprietary tool, Cascade®, which determines the most powerful message strategy for company brands and product positioning.

It has never failed a client in the last 40 years. Board Wise also received an award for its psychometric tool - Board Bona Fide® - which determines both one’s orientation to problem-solving and board

readiness. This helps improve board group dynamics, which is the key variable for board effectiveness.

Leadership Principles

Donna has four leadership principles:

Creativity: Donna believes creativity is all about combining unrelated ideas to create a useful solu tion or direction. The word useful is key. If the combination is not useful, it is just original.

She says, “While building creative capability in organizations, leaders need to understand and institute practices that increase it.”

Wisdom: It is the ability to know what is true or right based on the collection of one’s knowledge. According to Donna, intelligence and wisdom are two sides of a similar coin, namely our mental ability to succeed and live in the world. Intelli gence is an individual's capacity to store informa tion while wisdom is more practical knowledge gained through experience and knowledge beyond one’s personal experience. Wisdom helps one to exercise good judgment, based on a deep ability to discern the inner qualities and relationships among factors.

Encouragement: One of the most vital parts of leadership is to encourage others. It takes two qualities; believing in yourself and showing your belief in others. When people are sure about your intentions and confidence in them, you inspire them to do their best.

We before I: Donna believes, thinking from “We” is more potent than “I”. Leaders who think with and about “Us” create inclusion, engagement, and more high-quality ideation and solutions to challenges. The world is complex and needs many “We” teams to take on the challenges we face. Lead team with a vow: Together, we will be undaunted by the challenge and solve it.”

nation-states to adjudicate when governance practic es differ across countries. If your business has operations in multiple regions, there is no one “right answer” for setting a governance standard for a company.

While there is talk of bringing parties together on this topic, the pace is slow. BoardWise advocates to build a think tank coalition to research, evaluate and share global results to truly make informed improve ments in governance.

Picture of the Future

Under Donna’s leadership, BoardWise’s work includes global research on best practices in gover nance and leadership, providing independent evalua tions of boards with recommendations for improve ment. Lastly, the organization also works to educate and certify candidates for board roles to arm them for success.

Donna believes that Boardwise’s future outlook is tied to;

Director Pipeline Development: According to Donna, more talent is needed for board roles shortly. The organization is expanding its board certification offerings to help increase the pipe line of board-ready professionals.

Best Practices: Governance practices across the planet differ considerably. BoardWise aims to offer more board evaluations to expand the value of its research insights with more boards.

Transformation: Inventing breakthroughs by staying current on changes happening daily while seeing well into the future at the same time.

Tackling Challenges

The challenge for governance is how to evolve and improve at a global level. Nothing sits above the

HELPING ORGANIZATIONS SUCCEED

and processes and increase efficiencies. This includes higher education, government agencies, and commercial clients.

Stephen Roche, the CEO of the organization often says, “We sat in your seat. We are former Directors, CIOs, CHROs at global Fortune 500 companies. We understand the frustrations; blown budgets, project-stalls, understaffed and overworked.”

Under Stephen’s leadership, the organization’s goal is to remove all the guesswork within ERP Cloud Systems by providing an ecosystem that improves all aspects of any business organization. Stephen and his colleagues ultimately cut down on the time involved in the investigation, selection, and implementation process by dealing only with vendors that fit their clients’ needs. In addition, the firm advocates for its clients, through vendor sales and negotiations allowing them to save thousands of dollars.

Providing Cloud ERP for Every Need

Stephen and his team provide Cloud ERP for essentially every area of need including financials, human capital, implementation and/or upgrade, and management and planning. From start to finish, Stephen’s company handles the selection of vendors, the facilitation and implementation of clients’ ecosystem, and any necessary training to ensure they understand the ins and outs of the new Cloud ERP.

wmode,

Cloud Services Solutions, Inc.’s mission is to help companies manage the ERP purchasing process from cradle to grave. Cloud Services Solutions provides global advisory services for clients to measurably improve the performance & efficiency of their ERP ecosystem. It serves the global market with offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Utilizing cost-effective ERP application solutions, and strategic consulting services, Cloud Services Solutions, Inc.’s clients improve their performance

With the Vendor Assessment Matrix, the firm successfully removes emotions from the vendor selection process. Its experience has taught it that when selections are made based on facts, not emotions, clients save both time and money. The company's product-agnostic approach enables it to help its clients select the correct products for their unique needs.

After 20+ years of experience on ERP projects costing $5M+, Cloud Services Solutions’ trusted experts have developed 10-steps that companies need to follow to have a successful ERP rollout. The company’s proven system for integration of

your needed ERP cloud solution is timetested and optimized to save you time and money.

Serving Clients Proactively

Cloud Services Solutions serves a variety of clients across the globe including the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The firm’s international team of ERP experts enables it to meet the needs of the clients in both a proactive and comprehensive manner.

Stephen believes clients choose to work with Cloud Services Solutions because it takes a holistic approach to human capital management. Stephen and his colleagues help their clients walk through the entire process, from choosing the right software to selecting the best implementation partner. This level of service and expertise translates into cost and time savings for the clients of Cloud Services Solutions.

When the Pandemic Happened

One of the biggest challenges Stephen, and his team have faced, over the last few years, has been the worldwide pandemic, which has touched almost every aspect of not only their business but commerce on a global scale. While it’s been challenging to navigate the restrictions, Stephen has found, that Cloud Services Solutions’ business; and its team, are very resilient, and has adapted to the changes well.

Another unforeseen challenge the firm is closely monitoring is what people are calling the “mass resignation”. For what many find to be a complete mystery, people are resigning from their positions in high numbers. And it’s not just a select group of people. It’s people from many different industries with different levels of seniority. While Cloud Services Solutions has not faced this challenge internally yet, the company leadership is proactively keeping their eyes on the phenomenon.

A Good Team is Key

Cloud Services Solutions’ team is essential to the success, of itself and the client outcomes. When Stephen looks for new candidates to join his team, he requires at least 10 years of global experience. And with offices across the world, Stephen’s international team can serve a variety of cultures. While competitors might find this challenging, Cloud Services Solutions find that its international presence and attention to detail from a cultural perspective give the company a competitive advantage.

Daily, the firm utilizes the talents of its staff to be the best possible advisory experts and client advocates possible. Stephen likes to think of Cloud Services Solutions as an insurance policy for its clients and when recruiting, he desires to build his team with the best and brightest individuals who bring experience and excitement to the fast-paced company.

Future Roadmap

Looking forward, one of Stephen’s primary points of focus this year is expansion into the European and APAC regions. As the pandemic is slowly receding, he and his team have seen many projects that were put on hold, start to resurface. So, they have begun re-engaging with clients and talking about resuming their projects.

Jessica Dawson

Addressing Economic Damages

Nationwide

Addressing Economic Damages Nationwide

Meet Jessica Dawson, the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Majority Owner of TD&P Consulting, Inc., a DC Metropolitan Area-based URAC-Certified litigation support firm specializing in high exposure catastrophic personal injury cases. Ms. Dawson was promoted from Operations Administrator to Chief Executive Officer in 2019 for her visionary and strategic leadership.

As the leader of TD&P, Ms. Dawson has successfully established the firm as a leader

amongst healthcare consulting firms offering expert services and litigation support. The firm’s expertise lies in its deep knowledge of the intersection between healthcare regulation, market pricing, reimbursement, evidence-based medicine, and medical causation. TD&P Consulting has been involved in several ground-breaking personal injury cases changing the discussion on the admissibility of paid rates and insurance coverage.

The Steadfast Leader

Ms. Dawson is highly regarded among her peers in the business community for successfully increasing TD&P’s national and international profile. Peers describe her as an insightful entrepreneur with a clear understanding of business and the tools needed for success.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

- Neale Donald Walsch

In her role, Ms. Dawson has developed new strategies for sales management, new business development, product development, distribution channel management, and customer service. She has focused the company’s growth strategy on business partnerships, online marketing, customer service and the application of emerging technologies such as AI to the company’s growing list business tools.

Helping Clients with Great Services

In Ms. Dawson’s word, “TD&P’s focus is always on the client’s needs and case objectives.… It takes the time to dissect the case facts whether they involve evidence questions about medical causation or pricing, and we work with our clients to get those facts right.”

TD&P’s services cover, but are not limited to:

• Regulatory and compliance assessments, • Market pricing and reimbursement analyses,

• Evidence-based medical causation analysis, and

• Physician life care plan critiques.

Check out her latest podcast interview with Marketing for Justice with Founder, Dan Brian, on the topic of referrals Controlling the Situation

For Ms. Dawson, being TD&P’s key person was initially challenging. But studying the business and recognizing the utility of creating an environment where physicians, regulatory and compliance professionals, and economists can successfully work with one another coupled with an understanding of the client’s needs has enabled Ms. Dawson to move smoothly through many of those early challenges and kept TD&P’s clients coming back.

Failures and Accomplishments

Ms. Dawson always says, ‘Trust but verify.” She believes, trusting without verification was a mistake she made early in her career. As a more seasoned professional, she understands that having verifiable processes in place create the results clients trust and is a vital element to success.

Ms. Dawson’s greatest accomplishment has been her ability to build a strong team capable of carrying TD&P forward during its nearly 14-year journey.

Mission, Vision & Future Roadmap

Ms. Dawson’s ability to maintain a “Grounded Flo” through every season in her life has propelled her success. It is that ability, which pushes her to continue achieving her professional and personal goals. Ms. Dawson maintains that “As you go through life, your experiences turn into lessons and you must harness those lessons into actionable goals” She also adds, “Doing so, builds your character, prevents repetitive mistakes, and forces you to continue challenging yourself.”

When it comes to the future of TD&P, Ms. Dawson says, “We plan to expand our brand as an elite consulting firm offering top tier expert witness services in medical causation and pricing analysis in the litigation support arena. More to come in the next couple of months.”

Jessica Dawson

Helping Organizations to Manage Confidential Data and Optimize their ROI

softhread was founded with the intent to provide a unique technology platform that mitigates the operational, financial, ethical, and reputational risks organizations are facing due to the exponential growth of networks. It is an information technology company providing indus try-agnostic, environment-agnostic, and platform-agnostic software that enables organiza tions to manage highly confidential data within their networks, environments, and devices more securely and efficiently.

Currently, Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes is serving as the CEO of Softhread Inc. In addition to her medical and business degrees, she holds several certifications, such as Bioethics from Harvard, Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy from MIT Sloan, Blockchain Technology and Business Innovation from MIT Sloan, Finance from University of Miami Herbert Business School, Negotiation from Harvard Law School , Innovation and Entre preneurship from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Patient Safety Officer by the International Board Federation of Safety Managers, and Master Black Belt in Lean and Six Sigma Management. She is a Faculty Member of the WBAF Business School-Division of Entrepreneurship and teaches the Executive MBA Business Technology Course at the University of Miami Herbert Business School.

Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes has extensive leadership experience, such as being a Founder and CEO of The Science, Entrepreneurship, and Investments Institute, Founder & CEO of Revexpo Consulting,

and currently serving as a Country Director for WBAF USA, Senator of WBAF. Additionally, she is an active member of the EU Blockchain Observa tory Forum, acting as the Chief Innovation Officer for Government Blockchain Association and a board advisor for Partners in Digital Health Insti tute. Most recently she served as President of Detect Genomix, Chief Quality and Safety Officer Chief and Innovation Officer for MEDNAX, Chief Quali ty and Safety Officer, and Chief of Compliance for the University of Miami UHealth System.

Preserving Confidentiality

Softhread uses Chios™, which is a patent-pending blockchain and AI-enabled platform that preserves confidentiality and optimizes network security while enhancing operational efficiency. Through its decentralized system that empowers state-of-the-art interoperability, Softhread builds scalable enterprise solutions that are highly customizable, industry-ag nostic, cloud-enabled, and cloud-independent, and optimize the ROI of data management.

Chios™ has been specifically designed for the confidential computing and compliance require ments of highly regulated industries, such as health care, life sciences, insurance, and government technology domains. Our existing projects and ongoing relationships with several technology companies have demonstrated our capabilities within life sciences and healthcare, space industry, web 3.0, and smart cities cybersecurity.

The Globally Recognized Leader

When asked about the key factors that influenced Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes’ decision to be an author, she said, “The decision to publish was suggested to me by several colleagues after I received numerous global awards and being named a global thought leader for a variety of technol ogy-related topics.”

Multiple publishers also recognized the value of sharing her broad expertise in a variety of domains includ ing digital ethics, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and smart cities deployment with a much wider audience. Most of her articles or books target key decision-makers, legisla tors, business leaders, and academicians. She hopes that they serve as a call to action and contribute to a change in paradigm for the global business ecosystem.

Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes

Softhread | CEO

“Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Helping Clients with Enterprise Solutions

According to Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes, Softhread is offer ing Chios™, which is an industry-agnostic platform offering a full portfolio of enterprise solutions that enhance privacy, confidentiality, and security of data management across IoT networks. Softhread’s completed pilots span across life-sciences, health care, gov tech, supply chain, and its upcoming projects will revolve around smart cities, precision health, space tech, and insurance industries.

Also, as the Founder of Institute SEI-a Think Tank with a vision to be the main catalyst for scientific and digitally driven entrepreneurship, as well as to promote sustainable economic growth, she has collaborated with other global, not-for-profit organizations that are aligned with the UN SDG 2030 Agenda and promotion of social entrepreneur ship.

Adapting to the Changing Market is Key

Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes believes global business leaders who wish to gain a competitive advantage in this digital era must be prepared to engage in a continu ous digital and business transformation journey. Additionally, being able to dynamically adapt to various economic demands and offer solutions that cover multiple industries will be a coveted feature in this highly globalized and hyper-connected world.

She also says, “I have always emphasized the need for integrity, life-long learning, aiming for excel lence, demonstrating resilience, embracing an abundance mindset, and designing a customized pathway to success that uniquely suits each individu al’s passion, expertise, or skill sets.”

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UnfoldLabs: Revolutionary Product Development Company

nfoldLabs is a revolutionary products and services company based in San Diego, California that promotes innovation and creativity, thus helping the company find easy solutions in solving daily life issues with technology. Our exclusive and innovative products, work culture, and enthusiastic team makes our customers crave to work with us. The organization was set up in 2015 by entrepreneurial and innovation leadership experts to bring creative solutions to the world.

For us, the future of technology means designing solutions that consider the wants and needs of customers and the market. Our team is focused on design, innovation, and strategic products and solutions to ensure a high level of success. With a clear grasp of what our clients want and a willingness to push the boundaries even further, we aim to provide a fantastic and proactive experience for them.

For our product development process, customer issues are the most important design factor for innovation. We've got a great group of people who bring out the best in each other and work together to provide high-quality solutions. Many satisfied customers have helped us expand over the years by providing excellent solutions that match their needs.

Futuristic Plans & Developments

UnfoldLabs is there for you with its leading-edge state-of-the-art products. The company was founded with a mindset of strategic product development in the areas of mobile, cloud, and software platform technologies that are cutting edge. We focus on creating top products and solutions that are innovative with futuristic technologies, such as optimizing mobile devices, having your data protected, or printing precious moments.

Today, UnfoldLabs has become one of the leading technology companies in America and has receivedquite a few prestigious awards, as well as developed many creative products. We strive to deliver a proactive and amazing experience by understanding whatour customers exactly want. Our team focuses on providing positive customer experiences and excellent

communication to make product users and our customers happy.

Employees, Products & Services are Real Assets

UnfoldLabs’ employees and customers play an important role in every step of our journey. Our team is outstanding with creative ideas and takes a crucial role in the company’s long-standing success. We have an open culture where employees are free to express their innovative ideas.

MySecureME (innovative mobile device management solution), MyFamily (digital parenting platform), and SecureME (Android kiosk-mode launcher) are a few of the amazing and strategic products from UnfoldLabs that was implemented collaboratively by team and customers. Our solutions have received great and positive responses from customers at launch. One of our apps, unfoldQuotes (quotes app), surprised us by receiving a large number of downloads - nearly 10K within a month after launch.

Asokan Ashok: Leadership Towards Success

CEO Asokan Ashok strongly believes in “Great Learning Culture Always Builds a Great Company.” With that background and aspiration, the team is built for innovation, success, technology, strategic thinking, and empowerment. UnfoldLabs focuses on real-world user problems and then creates solutions that are simple, easy to access, and user-friendly. Continuous learning keeps the team updated with trends that helps in developing innovative products and solutions. The company culture comes into actuality when teams in the organization actively engage and collaborate.