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Dr.Pawan Agrawal, PhD in Mumbai Dabbawallas – Part 1

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Dr.Pawan Agrawal has completed his Ph.D thesis on the title, ‘A study of Logistics and Supply Chain Management of Dabbawala in Mumbai’. He has traveled worldwide spreading awareness about the Mumbai Dabbawalas. He has delivered lectures in Paris, Netherlands, US, UK and at management institutions all over India.

The Mumbai Dabbawallas are international figures now thanks to Forbes Global. The Forbes story details the efficiency which with they deliver the tiffins of their customers. Around 5000 dabbawallas deliver 175,000 lunches everyday and take the empty tiffin back. They make one mistake in 2 months. This means there is one error on every 16 million transactions. This is thus a six sigma performance (a term used in quality assurance if the percentage of correctness is 99.999999) – the performance which has made companies like Motorola and GE world famous for their quality.

Lets listen to him more about this esteemed organization. Here’s Part 1. If you want to watch Part 2, click here .

Prabakaran Murugaiah, Founder & CEO, Corp-Corp.com – Part 2

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Mr.Prabakaran started a crop to crop web Portal (corp-corp.com) for reducing the unemployment. This website bridges the gap between the ITES/IT and job seekers. This Web portal was started in year 2007, at present he is receiving 40000 applications per month. More than 10000 companies in the United States use this portal for hiring people.
He was interested in working with online web ventures that are focusing on technology based solutions
Before starting this web portal he was IT consultant at IT consulting company, Sr. Ecommerce Architect at AOL, Sr. SAS Consultant at ZS Associates

Prabakaran Murugaiah, Founder & CEO, Corp-Corp.com – Part 1

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Prabakaran is Founder & CEO of Corp-Corp.com, an exclusive portal for IT consulting and Temporary staffing industry. He is the inventor of QFETCH, a resume analysis algorithm that matches the relevant jobs with qualified candidates within 30 seconds of posting a resume.

In less than 3 years his company Corp-Corp.com has reached over 6,000 US companies and generates 40,000 job postings every month.

Before founding Corp-Corp.com, Prabakaran worked extensively in leading online portal, financial services, healthcare and telecommunication industries building mission-critical data mining applications.

Praba hails from a small village near Tirunelveli in Tamilnadu, India. Through sheer hardwork, he has climbed to the position of CEO of a leading IT recruitment firm. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington DC, USA.

Akshaya Patra : Feeding 1.2 Million Kids

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Akshaya Patra’s mission is eradicate poverty through education.

Close to 13.5 million underprivileged children in India are out of school and into child labour in order to earn a single meal in a day. (Source:www.worldbank.org.in)

The surest way to break out of the cycle of poverty is through education. Education can significantly improve the quality of life of a family for generations to come. When the basic needs of a child, such as food are not met, education often becomes the last priority.

Akshaya Patra is helping underprivileged children by providing them with a healthy, balanced meal that they would otherwise have to work for. The meal is an incentive for them to continue their education. It helps reduce the dropout rate to an enormous extent and increases classroom attendance.

Their mission is to reach out to 5 million children by 2020.

Suhas Gopinath, CEO & MD, Globals Inc

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Mr. Suhas Gopinath, now aged 24, a resident of Bangalore and hails from a middle class family, where his father was a defense scientist. At the age of 14 he was recognized as the worlds youngest certified Professional Web-developer through his project coolhindustan.com. Mr. Gopinath was very assertive to be an entrepreneur and wanted to encourage the youth, he setup Globals Inc, in the year 2000 at San Jose, California as the laws in India did not allow him to setup a company in the country as he was still minor. From then Globals has drastically grown as a Multi-national IT consulting company focussed on Web, e-Commerce and Mobile Solutions.

Mr. Suhas Gopinath at the age of 16 was recognized as the world’s youngest entrepreneur in by CNBC and e-Business, Canada. With this at the age of 17 he was recognized as the World’s Youngest CEO by leading Medias across the globe including BBC, Washington Times, The Age, etc., including Limca Book of Records. He is also designated as the resource person for Entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmadabad, and Advisory Board member at IIT Bombay Entrepreneurship Cell.

In the year 2005, he became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Rajyotsava Award conferred on him by the State Government of Karnataka. Along with his professional activities, he has also volunteered as the Brand ambassador of PeTA and also the Youth Ambassador for Indo-Pak Leadership Program organized by School of Leadership, Pakistan.

On December 2, 2007, The European Parliament and International Association for Human Values conferred “Young Achiever Award” to Mr. Suhas Gopinath at the EU Parliament, Brussels, and he was also invited to address the European Parliament and other Business dignitaries assembled in the EU Parliament. Mr. Suhas Gopinath was recently announced as one of the “Young Global Leaders” for 2008-2009 by the prestigious World Economic Forum and he became the youngest member ever in the World Economic Forum’s history. His co-members include US Governor Bobby Jindal, Hollywood Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Musician A.R.Rahman, Prince of Brunei, etc. As the Young Global Leader from India, he will be involved in development programs across the world including leadership program at the Harvard University. In July 2008, his detailed biography was featured in the renowned Current- Biography Book published in New York along with Hollywood Actor George Clooney, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Governor of New York David Paterson, and other eminent personalities.