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Five Entrepreneurs Who Started Small And Created A Benchmark For Others
We share five success stories of people who made it big by starting from scratch
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1. Akshay Daftary, Director, SIRO Clinpharm
Akshay serves as a Director in SIRO Clinpharm and is in charge of Global Business Development Activities and Client Management. Akshay is responsible for providing oversight, leadership, and guidance in the company's management. He started his career at Bharat Serums and Vaccines in the business development department in 2014 and moved on to SIRO in 2018 to look after the Business Development, Biometrics, and Clinical Operations verticals. Akshay has an undergraduate degree from Emory University in Economics and Mathematics. SIRO Clinpharm is a global healthcare company that provides end-to-end drug development services. SIRO Clinpharm has a 20-year track record of working with the world's leading biopharmaceutical and medical device businesses. Oncology, diabetes, cardiology, infectious disorders, and the respiratory system are among the many therapeutic areas in which they have worked. Depending on the demands of our clients, we offer adaptable business models across service verticals. The Healthcare and Fitness Leadership Awards 2016, organized by CMO Asia and Stars of the Industry Group, named it the 'Best Clinical Research Company' of the year. SIRO has also won Frost & Sullivan's 'Indian Clinical Research Organization of the Year' award two times (2020 and 2022).
2. Rishabh Goel | Co-founder & CEO, Credgenics
Rishabh Goel is the Co-founder and CEO of Credgenics, a leading technology solutions provider for loan collections and debt recoveries to banks and other financial services companies worldwide. Rishabh holds a B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from IIT Delhi, and has completed certifications in Financial Risk Management (FRM) and Chartered Financial Analysis (CFA). While he was working with Deutsche Bank and Blackrock, he recognized the prevailing challenges in debt recoveries and the detrimental impact caused to the economies by the rising burden of bad loans. This motivated him to create Credgenics, a unique data-driven SaaS based technology platform, which aims to not only address these issues but also disrupt the loan collections segment. As the CEO, Rishabh drives the strategic business direction and growth agenda for Credgenics. He is an inspiring young leader with sharp business acumen, deep expertise in the banking domain, and a passion to innovate with smart use of technology. Rishabh interacts and works closely with the banking industry leaders worldwide to help them address their business challenges, serve their end customers better and realize business value from technology.
3. Harini Ramachandran, Co-founder of Antano & Harini Legacy Accelerators and Co-Creator of Excellence Installation Technology
Legacy Accelerator, Harini Ramachandran is the Co-creator of the trillion-dollar Excellence Installation Industry, which is the most advanced technology to design and fast-track personal evolution. She has created over 50,000 instant breakthroughs for people over the last 10 years, for people from 13 different countries. She has built the World’s largest mentoring platform and has been honored with the Award of Honour from the Government. of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment for her extraordinary work in uplifting women and men from various backgrounds. Antano & Harini Legacy Accelerators is an organization dedicated to researching and advancing their proprietary Excellence Installation Technology, with a vision to impact and evolve the lives of 7 billion people worldwide. Antano & Harini, the world's largest one-on-one mentoring platform, has facilitated over 50,000 breakthroughs. In key industries such as healthcare, mental health, wellness, career advancement, and business acceleration, the organization has empirically demonstrated personal evolution solutions that are 10 to 50 times more effective than current solutions. Their service offerings include, among other things, turning around impossible situations in business and families, academic excellence, psychosomatic health, fertility, and cancer pain.
4. Satyam Shastri, Co-Founder of the social media giant “No One Cares”
Satyam Shastri is the Co-founder of the biggest social media giants "No One cares" with a followership of 33 million people. He is from a small town in Madhya Pradesh, Seoni Malwa Near Bhopal. He is a Bachelor of commerce dropout and was very weak in his studies, so he decided to focus on what he loved doing instead of studying and used his creative skills on his social media page. He formed a team with Nikhil Kale and Joined together to form the fastest-growing page and company Psifiako Media where they together work as content aggregator, digital brands/movie promotion. The brainchild of two young people in their early 20s, No One Cares (NOC) is a social media platform that aims to bring a much-needed positive change in society through its motivational and inspiring content. They decided to make something that people would relate to and will get that too many people are loving or agreeing with the post and that's where they can make people's inner self satisfy as you know a smile can hide thousand of pain but if the inner self is satisfied no more Indegriant is needed. Today Satyam has surpassed all the odds of life and has reached a height of success at just the age of 24 where youngsters look at him as their ideal.
5. Ayesha Singh Bhatia, Co-founder, Chief Synergy Officer, Endorphins Entertainment Private Limited
Ayesha is the Co-founder and Chief Synergy Officer at Endorphins Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. She has more than 15 years of work experience in marketing and one thing she specializes is people management. She has been associated with Shobiz, Mail Today and India Today Events. In her career, she has won many awards – Best Client Servicing Member at Shobiz, Outstanding contribution Award at India Today group and Best Emerging Digital Marketing Agency at the Great Visioners Influencer Award. Established in the year 2017, Endorphins Entertainment is the one of its kinds creatively led Digital Marketing organization which caters to 360 degree marketing and amplification of some Fortune 500 companies worldwide with presence in India, Canada and Dubai. They have more than 50,000+ Influencers on board from different industries like Fashion, Lifestyle, Home Decor, Food,Technology, Automobile and many more. They do Social Media Amplification on Social Media Channels like Facebook Conversation, Twitter Conversation, Twitter Trending (Global), Facebook Live, Social Conversation on Instagram, Video Posting in Youtube Channels.