Anil Goyal: An Employee turned entrepreneur, Leading the ultimate financial business partner, Capsavvy

Founder & MD of CapSavvy Consultants Pvt Ltd., Anil Goyal is the living example of classic entrepreneurial spirit that pivoted an employee to become an entrepreneur. It was back in 2019 when he started the journey towards greater heights of achievements after working for 25 years for different companies.

Mr Anil is a certified Business Strategist and a rank holder Chartered Accountant and has expertise across
diverse industries and sectors towards ROI focused services to businesses. His areas of specialization include Debt fundraising from banks and institutions, Equity fundraising from PE Funds, Strategies for ROI improvement, Insolvency and Bank Settlement matters, Project Development advisory, Start-ups advisory, Education advisory and many more.

Anil had been associated as Director/ CEO with Mexus Education, Meril Life Sciences, Mangalore SEZ, SAIL SEZ, IL&FS and advisor to many large corporates, small & medium enterprises, state governments and central government on matters related to financing and implementation of greenfield and expansion projects, city developments, joint ventures projects etc.

Anil has successfully competed for fundraising for more than 180 corporates and greenfield projects with an aggregate Project Cost of USD 5 Billion (INR 35000 crore) involving funding to the tune of USD 2 Billion (INR 13000 Crore) through various Banks, Institutions and Private Equity Funds.

Anil has participated as a speaker across various business platforms such as CII, Assocham, CRISIL and ILFS. His articles have been published across various leading newspapers viz Hindustan Times, Business Line, Indian Express, Deccan Herald etc. Anil had been a panellist in a live TV Show.

CapSavvy & Service Portfolio

CapSavvy, an award-winning ISO 9001:2015 company, is an expert financial and business advisor that focuses on providing multifaceted advisory to cater for the growing demands of modern businesses to compete globally and thrive in a fast-paced & challenging economy. CapSavvy’s range of services are designed to upgrade businesses and fast forward their growth through a bouquet of services such as-

Business Strategy

Start-up Advisory and Funding
Financial Restructuring
Equity Fundraising
Debt Syndication
CFO Services
SEZ Services

Backed by an experienced advisory panel of chartered accountants, bankers, technocrats and management professionals, CapSavvy becomes a partner for the growth and progress of the business in today’s fast moving digital world and lets the promoters focus on their core business activities.

The Turning Point in the Journey

After passing the Chartered Accountancy final exam with national rank in 1995, through campus placement, Anil could get an opportunity to work with IDBI in the credit division, where his role was to evaluate project funding cases and keeping track of their business progress through various check-points. Working with IDBI and especially under Mr Debasish Mallick gave a rock-solid platform for Anil’s career growth.

Post IDBI, Anil had worked at leadership positions with SKIL Group, IL&FS, Mangalore SEZ, Mexus Education and Meril Life Sciences. While managing Mexus Education as Managing Director & CEO for more than 10 years and leading a cross-functional team of more than 1500 people, Anil gained the rich qualities of an Entrepreneur while dealing with various organisational challenges.

Having born in the Agarwal family and with the deep understanding gained during leadership positions at various organisations, Anil decided to become an entrepreneur with the support of his family.

Clientele & Corporate Ethos

CapSavvy has been providing business and financial advisory to various type of organisations from SMEs and large corporations and covering new-age sectors such as E-commerce and start-up to well-established sectors such as Real-estate and infrastructure. Currently, CapSavvy is serving clients in E-commerce, Home Appliances, Health Products, Sports Equipments, Aircraft Maintenance, Shipyard, Real Estate, Food sector, Plastic Industry, Logistic and so on.

CapSavvy’s approach is modern and unique while serving the clients. They work with their client through
the “Business Partner Approach”. Under this unique approach, the CapSavvy team gets into the shoes of
their client and understands their business needs through their eye, so as to ensure personalised and effective advice.

Hurdles on the Way

During the initial period of CapSavvy, a major challenge was to look for the right candidates, who are like-minded and believe in CapSavvy vision and objectives. Being a new entrant in the already crowded advisory space, it was difficult for CapSavvy to hire good candidates. However, because of the past reputation of its founders, CapSavvy could get associated with a good mix of teams.

Another challenge at CapSavvy during the initial phase was to tie up with the right ERP agency to manage clients’ projects and internal service team. After a lot of research, CapSavvy tied up with Zoho Suite, which is currently the best among all available options in ERP.

“The one-stop financial and business advisor for
managing the challenges of the modern
fast-changing business world.”

The Success Mantra

Anil reflects on his past journey and his achievements and says that his success journey is a mix of the outcome of two factors, One, it is because of the professional traits that he followed while working in leadership positions and secondly, because of continuous guidance and support from his mentors, his superiors, friends and family members. Anil’s mantras of success are:

Always be punctual
Always be eager to learn
Share your knowledge with others
Be polite in your talks/ discussions
Listen very carefully and understand another person’s viewpoint
Always deliver more than what is expected from you

Creating a More Balanced and Equal Industry

Anil shares a few common suggestions and strategies that can be adopted by companies to stay connected and afloat and create a balanced and equal industrial economy:

The focus of core competency and quality enhancement
Outsourcing non-core products/ work to vendors
Maintaining a healthy relationship with stakeholders
Managing employees & related optimization

A Day in Visionary’s Life

Anil’s average day comprises an early start, with mostly a planned routine in the middle for a jam-packed day. After morning walk and routine exercise early morning, Anil does his prayer and meditation for about 1 hour, which is followed by breakfast with family members. Average daily tasks include; a) Managing team for client servicing/ mandate execution, b) Client meetings, c) Meeting with associates/ service providers, d) Meetings with Banks, Investors and Funds, f) Webinars/ Newspapers for knowledge gain g) Media Interactions and h) Networking Meetings.

Favourite Book – “The Secret”

Road Head

CapSavvy foresees to become the best financial and business advisor in managing challenges of the modern
business world and to achieve this, CapSavvy dedicatedly provides genuine & customized services that lead to high ROI.

Feathers in the Cap

CapSavvy has received many awards and accolades in a short span since its inception. A few of the prominent awards and milestones include;

Shri Debasish Mallick, former Dy Managing Director of EXIM Bank joined CapSavvy Board as non-executive Vice-Chairman.
CapSavvy featured on Cover Story of Silicon India and being awarded as Best Financial Services Startup in Mumbai.
CapSavvy brand nominated as Best Service Brand for quality excellence jointly by CNBC Awaz, Benchmark Trust and BSE
CapSavvy is an internationally acclaimed Quality Management Certified Company with ISO 9001:2015 Certification.
DIPP, MoCI, Govt of India has recognised the initiatives of CapSavvy and issued Certificate of Recognition.
CapSavvy gained recognition from Central Vigilance Commission, GoI for its efforts in following good governance & ethical practices.

A Piece of Advice be for Female Entrepreneurs

Although they are traditionally underrepresented in the business world, women have always been entrepreneurs. Women have been driven to start and maintain businesses of their own throughout history. Women are now starting businesses at a rate 1.5 times higher than the average.

Women entrepreneurs often underestimate their own potential and fail to dream big enough. It is important
to tap into the inner reason behind your business and really think about the legacy you want to leave behind.

Rishika Lulla Singh: The Young, Dynamic and ever so Charming Entrepreneur, Taking Eros STX to New Heights

The team at Eros STX is always focused on mapping opportunities and diversifying itself by delivering several industry firsts as it continues to grow in the global entertainment market

Filled with vigour, creativity, and intentions to serve the world, Rishika Lulla Singh, the Co-President of Eros STX Global Corp is setting a new parameter in the entertainment industry. She is a high achiever and multi-talented, second-generation business leader with a highly evolved knowledge content.

An alumnus of the University of California, where she completed her post-graduation and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in South Asian Studies and Management from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her passion for creative content along with the entrepreneurial skills led Ms. Lulla to become an integral part of Eros’ growth story.

Journey to Becoming a Global Leader

Eros STX Global Corporation is a leading global company in the entertainment industry, which co-produces, acquires and distributes films in multiple formats worldwide. We are one of the oldest companies in the Indian film industry to focus on international markets and we believe we are pioneers in our business.

Eros’s legacy of entertaining the masses is a well-trod territory and since inception, Eros Now, South Asia’s leading streaming entertainment service owned by Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE: EROS), a Global Entertainment Company, developed deeper relations with the audience through its captivating content. One of their initial originals titled ‘Smoke’ was even handpicked to be premiered at the prestigious platform of MIPCOM at Cannes. The series received a stand ovation by the audience combining the global entertainment fraternity including distributors, broadcasters as well as executives from the global entertainment industry. This whole experience was a huge motivating factor.

Creative Offerings that Diversify the Organization

Eros’ wide-ranging slate of movies appeals to Indians as well as a global audience. Indian movies, especially Bollywood, have a massive fan base across countries and Eros has been one of the biggest entertainment studios in the country. Bollywood movies like Vicky Donor, Ra.One, Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Love Aaj Kal, to name a few, have been entertaining movie buffs worldwide.

Eros Now, the premium OTT platform of Eros STX Global Corporation is a global video-on-demand service catering to more than 205.8 million registered users and 33.8 million monthly paying subscribers worldwide with the promise of offering endless entertainment through its varied product features – video in HD, multi-language subtitles, movie downloads, and high-quality original drama series. The OTT platform is well-known for its massive Bollywood and Indian movie library consisting of 12,000+ titles, originals, short-format content Quickie, music and more. Eros Now also caters to all key markets by offering content in 9 languages (Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali). They recently announced the launch of Eros Now Prime, a category which will showcase international content in partnership with leading studios like NBC Universal. Also, our merger with STX further enables the brand to deliver Indian content in 150+ countries while also catering to the massive audience for Hollywood content in India. The merger between the leading entertainment entities brings the best of Hollywood content to India and also offers the best of Indian entertainment to the global audience.

Greatest Accomplishments

Following the launch of Eros Now in 2015, there have been various accomplishments that the platform underwent, and in the process – it entered new markets, achieved millions of users, and offered pioneering services. The journey has been overwhelming.

Some of the mega achievements include – Eros Now garnering over 205.8 million registered users and 33.8 million monthly paying subscribers worldwide. Eros Now is the first Indian OTT platform available on Apple TV. The partnership with Microsoft in September 2019 led them to offer the audience next-generation online video platform. In November 2019, Eros Now entered a strategic alliance with YouTube Music & Google to provide consumers with a massive music library in conjunction with their premium film and other programming.

Eros’s Journey so Far and Future

In July 2020, the parent company of Eros Now, Eros International Plc, merged with the international studio – STX Entertainment. STX Entertainment is Hollywood’s fastest-growing independent entertainment powerhouse with presence in over 150 countries. With this merger, their aim to deliver star-driven premium feature films and episodic content across a multitude of platforms to the world’s most dynamic and fastest-growing global markets, including the United States, India and the Middle East. The objective of the company has always been to consistently strengthen their reach in significant markets and deliver content that will connect with the increasing audience base for online video streaming which is diversified across genres and taps consumers through various demographics and geographies.

Leadership Principles

Rishika believes, as a leader, it is crucial to connect with your team and be relatable also at the same time build trust within your team and the organization. She says, “Trust flows both ways – you trust and empower your team, and at the same time, your team builds confidence in your leadership to achieve the goal.”

Another essential thing as a leader is always to listen – you learn more and can have a remarkable impact with an open mind and ear.

Collaboration is another significant aspect, as a leader to join forces inside and outside the organization. Always be curious, it never killed the cat, just took the cat to a different dimension! The ability to prioritize.

Build a team around you that is smarter than you – if you are the most intelligent person in the room, there is a problem!

New Ideas

The pandemic has disrupted the way the entertainment industry operates. Technology will be the key to deliver quality. Eros has always been a frontrunner in adopting new technologies to offer the best consumer experience. They recently also announced an alliance with Epic Games to use its Unreal Engine across production slate, paving the way for real-time technology throughout Indian entertainment.

Success Look Like

Success is measured in impact – how much of an influencer and disruptor can you are in your space. Further, Rishika usually analyzes how much this impact will drive positive social change and create a revolution.

The “Secret Sauce”

Success comes from the ability to drive the desired outcome in any circumstance which can only happen if the leader is inspiring while providing clarity.

Leadership Style

Rishika Lulla is empathetic, a good listener. She learns from people, and that is because she keeps an open mind and ears to new ideas, and that makes him curious as well.

One Characteristic of Leader

The ability to inspire. An inspired team births impossible dreams into a reality.

Best Advice Received

Know where you are going so you can learn and enjoy the journey.

The Driving Force

“Sheer love and passion for entertainment! We at Eros represent the massive global audience that truly loves entertainment and believe in delivering the best consistently to existing and potential consumers worldwide.”- Rishika Lulla Singh

Nancy Zeffman: Musings of a Co-Founder of a fashion start-up

My background is in advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi; Eileen, my Co-Founder, has a background in fashion working for Nicole Fahri. We have been firm friends for a long time, having met at the school gate when our children where little. We felt that our complementary backgrounds, skill sets and characters were perfect to start a business together.

We launched Cucumber Clothing almost three years ago, in September 2017 and it has been a roller coaster ride ever since! Sometimes, you can get so bogged down in the day-to-day that you forget to pat yourself on the back and acknowledge what you have actually achieved. We hope that Cucumber will go from strength to strength, but either way, we have launched a label that is a recognised brand and has customers all over the world.

I think that to launch a brand takes three main characteristics; determination – if you want to go for something, you have to give it your all and see it through; organisation – there is always so much to do and not all of it can be done at once; which leads me on to…prioritising – and this means in a personal capacity too. You have to learn to prioritise yourself sometimes so that the business can be supported by two mentally and physically fit happy co-founders.

The foundation of Cucumber happened organically. I love to work out, as does my co-founder Eileen. We also love to wear our gym kits and found ourselves hardly changing out of them as the materials used are so comfortable, crease-free and easy to care for. They keep us cool and dry as we go about our busy lives, whether that’s trail running, downward dogging in hot yoga, jumping for the ball in basketball, walking the dog or popping to the local shops.

Our light bulb moment came when we realised there must be a way to reproduce this, but with a material that looked as gorgeous as it felt. We wanted to replicate all the qualities of anti-crush, cooling, stay fresh and comfortable clothing, but in more stylish, everyday luxury pieces that we would want to reach for time and time again.

We are both mums who have seen our children flee the nest; we had some more time on our hands and thought that Cucumber could fit neatly into our lives. Looking back, we were so naïve. We both gave up our other work commitments and it has been full steam ahead with Cucumber taking up every waking hour – an action packed journey of shifting priorities, meeting some incredible people and a huge learning curve; but mostly it has been lots of hard work and fun.

We launched with a very small collection of just six pieces of nightwear in two colours. We were truly overwhelmed by the response we had to our products and quickly realised that there was a real gap in the market for performance, luxury fabrics that work with your body. This led us to develop ourselves into a fabric-led fashion brand, for use 24/7 not just for sleeping in. We provide women with solutions for their super busy lives, whether day or night, at home, at work, or globetrotting.

Being a tiny start-up on a shoe-string budget, we have learnt to look at things differently and find innovative ways to achieve our goals. Unconventionality is what we stand for, both in terms of how we get things done and in what we are doing. We see ourselves as educators – teaching women that technical fabrics that keep you cool and fresh can also be sustainable and fabulous to wear. So many women initially feel that human-made fibres by their very nature cannot be sustainable and cannot feel luxurious. We are here to bust that myth! We are not the scratchy nylons of the 70s; we are beautiful, luxuriously soft fabrics with all the added benefits of modern technology.

Of course, our latest challenge is the challenge that now faces the whole world. We have some amazingly loyal customers and we hope that the world can get back to normal soon. These are uncertain and difficult times for everyone.

We have had to learn some hard lessons along the way. For example, quite early on, we decided to try and outsource our fulfilment (picking, packing and shipping to the customer). We pride ourselves on brilliant customer service – we personally answer every email and actively encourage feedback. Fielding out this part of our business was nerve-wracking as this was the first time we had no control over part of our customer’s experience with us. We were horrified when we began to receive complaints of wrong garments received, double orders sent out and boxes marked ‘shoes’ (we only do clothing)! It was a month-long, very expensive experiment with endless firefighting, but it underlined to us the value we place on customer service.

The ‘team’ is just the two of us (although we are excited to be hiring our first extra pair of part time hands soon) and we try to make our work mantra ‘kindness’. Everything we have created with Cucumber has been helped along with large doses of kindness from others and our interest in sustainability and circularity stems from trying to ensure that we leave the world a better place.

From the very start, we wanted to be mindful of the world around us. We realise that producing anything leaves a carbon footprint, but we are trying to make ours as light as possible, whilst supporting the local economy. We are not perfect, but with every new collection, we are getting that little bit better – no small feat for a tiny start-up fashion brand.

mYngle: Going Beyond The Realm Of Traditional Education With Digital Learning

mYngle is a globally established, unique platform offering online language education with personalized course plans. It is focused on innovating the traditional world of education by delivering a truly customer oriented solution. mYngle, under the leadership of Marina Tognetti- founder, has been offering Effective learning process incorporating industry topics & building employees’ skills since inception.

When mYngle was started, it was a pioneer in live online language education, amongst the first to provide one-to-one teaching of all languages over the internet. The platform offers customized language training programs through video conferencing in 45 different languages anytime, anywhere. Here, lessons are one-on-one, with highly qualified native coaches and related to the job-position of the learner. The virtual classrooms enable learners to take classes 24/7.

mYngle is the perfect solution for busy professionals who need language training to be successful in their international business, and for Companies that want great learning results and a transparent and controllable learning process to make their investment a success.

More About the Leading Lady

Marina Tognetti is a tech entrepreneur, founder of mYngle.com. She like challenges, in everything she does. She also believes that entrepreneurship, especially in tech, allows us to look far ahead, innovate, change traditional business models, and disrupt industries.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world. This probably best summarizes my vision of leadership as well as of my outlook in life. That is also why I choose entrepreneurship, even if later in my career, as it allows me to really make a difference,” asserted Marina.

The passion for entrepreneurship came later on in Marina’s career. She built first a successful career by large multinationals, Procter & Gamble, Philips, Sara Lee, The Boston Consulting Group, and eBay; living and working in different countries, and got an MBA from INSEAD.

It was when working as a consultant on a project on internet strategy that she first saw the potential of the internet to disrupt entire industries and change forever the way people buy/sell/interact. She had to be part of that! That was the driver to start an innovative company as mYngle.

Hurdles On The Way

Marina said, “The main challenges were not at the beginning, but were when we had to ‘pivot’ from the initial business model to a completely different one. We had launched mYngle as a marketplace, something I knew very well from my previous eBay experience. We thought we got it all: funding, lots of Awards and PR, a very motivated team. But something in the business model was not functioning as we expected. We listened to our customers and they gave us the new direction, and they gave us the new direction, from an open marketplace to a quality global online school, from B2C to B2B. That is the mYngle that you see now.”

Marina’s biggest lesson here was that “Change is an essential part of being an entrepreneur.” That was the key to the success of mYngle. Success as an entrepreneur in fact is not a straight line. The truth is that in most cases, what you start out to do will not be what you’re doing when you are ultimately successful. You’ll discover that things you expected to work well don’t work at all. You’ll stumble into things that you didn’t expect to work that will. You’ll have to be able to adapt. It is how you deal with uncertainty and change that sets you apart.

“Entrepreneurship is jumping from a cliff and learning how to fly at the same time.”

Achievements and Rewards

Building a business from scratch is always challenging, building a tech start-up disrupting an industry as traditional as that of education, is exponentially more challenging. There are all sorts of resistances of an immature market you have to bypass: from the stereotypes consumers have in their minds to the (conservative) opinions of people. Now, online language education is setting the standards in terms of quality and flexibility. And mYngle has been part of that.

For these reasons, mYngle has also won numerous awards as recognition for its contributions to online education. Immediately at the start (2008): Accenture Innovation Award, European Ventures Summit Award, Benelux Venture Summit Award, and more later on. Besides, Marina Tognetti received numerous awards as founder and CEO of Myngle, such as 50 most inspiring women tech leaders in Europe, 50 most inspiring women in the Dutch technology sector, Iconic Women Creating a Better World for All, and many others.

Leadership and Innovation

This is an era of fast and drastic changes- technology, the volatility of the market, talent development. This affects the role of a modern leader, which must be able not only to adapt but also to anticipate and ride the positive trends.

The characteristics of a good leader nowadays are therefore similar to that of an innovative entrepreneur. A leader must have a strong Vision, to set the direction and anticipate and navigate challenges. This also means being able to ‘Think out of the box’, adapt and change to keep the business successful. A leader must not be afraid of taking (calculated) risks in order to anticipate trends and steer the company also in turbulent waters. Last, but not least, must be able to build an organization that is also agile. That requires developing people that think and not only do ‘’jobs’’, employees that are entrepreneurs, fostering a culture of experimentation.

The future ahead, professionally and personally

“It is in my nature to want to constantly improve, and it is in the nature of an entrepreneur to always seek new opportunities or areas of development. The future for mYngle will surely hold new challenges, as we keep on innovating and being ahead of the market,” Marina proudly shared.

“I also have a strong idealistic part. I believe each of us can make a difference. So, for me personally, it will also be time to let the idealistic voice inside speak. I walked this path and learned a lot. That brought me in a privileged position, where I can implement new ideas that can make a difference. I can now use my skills to make the world just a little bit better,” she further added.

ELLEN VOIE: EMPOWERING WOMEN IN TRUCKING INDUSTRY THROUGH HER VENTURE

An internationally recognized speaker and a businesswoman with a sustained passion for woman empowerment, Ellen Voie is one such dynamic lady in the business world who has been encouraging and supporting women in the trucking industry.

The Women In Trucking Association, under the capable supervision of Ellen, has established its position as an industry leader to promote the employment of women in the trucking industry, to remove obstacles that might keep them from succeeding, and to celebrate the successes of its members. After forming in 2007 with the support of a passionate leadership team, highly engaged members, and committed sponsors and partners, this non-profit organization has made an impact globally.

In 2012 Ellen was recognized by the White House for being a “Transportation Innovator Champion of Change.” This distinction gave the organization a higher level of both credibility and visibility in the trucking industry.

THE INSPIRING JOURNEY

Ellen started her career in 1978 when she was hired at a steel fabricating plant in central Wisconsin. She worked in the drafting department, designing material handling equipment, such as steel pallets, bins, and racking. In 1979 she was transferred into the Traffic Department. She earned a diploma in “Traffic and Transportation Management,” and later became the Traffic Manager.

In her personal life, Ellen married a professional driver, and they started their own trucking company. Besides, she did free-lance work as a transportation consultant, ran a small carrier, raised two children, and attended college to earn her bachelor’s and then master’s degree in communication.

After twenty years, her marriage ended. Ellen accepted the position of Executive Director of Trucker Buddy International, where she led the program for six years. Then, she was recruited by Schneider National to lead their retention efforts. Her job was to initiate corporate-level programs designed to attract and retain non-traditional groups, which included female professional drivers.

At the time, she was completing her pilot’s license, and she belonged to an organization for female pilots. It struck her that there wasn’t a similar group for women in the trucking industry, so she started one.

That was in 2007 when the Women In Trucking Association was formed!

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

As a member-based organization, their goal is to listen and provide the needed resources. For an association, this typically means information such as best practices, research, and as much data as possible. In 2007, there was very little data in the trucking industry related to gender. In fact, many trucking companies didn’t even track the percentage of female drivers or managers hired. The organization’s focus is to listen and learn and then provide the resources their members need to create a more diverse culture.

COMPANY’S FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

In thirteen years, the Women In Trucking Association has grown to about 5,200 members in ten countries. One of their goals is to expand into more international economies, to have a greater understanding of how to attract and retain women in other nations. Not all challenges are the same. For some, such as India, it might be cultural, and for others, such as in Western Australia, it might be due to the nature of the challenging terrain. They are also working to create more local and regional groups by forming chapters.

HURDLES IN THE PATH & THE BIGGEST FAILURE

“The goal during turbulent times is to be adaptable. We need to make decisions in an agile way so we can be proactive instead of reactive. For example, we decided to cancel our annual conference and to change it to a virtual event. This created a challenge to deliver the needed and desired content without compromising the interaction. We are all getting better at virtual meetings. However, it still removes the personal connections we make at an event, and our goal is to ensure our attendees feel included, educated, and entertained enough to want to come back next year”, stated Ellen.

She doesn’t look at any actions as failures; she views them as learning opportunities. There are decisions she has made that have turned her in a different direction, but that’s part of the journey. She can’t think of anything she could have or would have done differently.

THE “SECRET SAUCE” and “VISION” IN LIFE

Ellen proudly said, “As a leader, my approach is to lead by example. I work hard and expect our team members to work hard, as well. Since we are a virtual organization with remote staff, it makes it more challenging to motivate and support, but we do that through consistent interaction. More importantly, we hire people who can work independently and who are self-motivated. We don’t count hours, and we don’t over manage. Instead, we treat each individual as an adult and measure outcomes instead of hours. This makes work-life balance easier when our team members choose their workdays and establish their own schedules. Outcomes are the goal, not timesheets or check-ins.”

Ellen’s vision, or perhaps her superpower, is that she looks ahead to the future. She sees the opportunities to create change and grabs them. She does not let anyone tell her she can’t succeed! Ellen is driven when it comes to looking forward and making the industry a better place.

NEW IDEAS

New ideas as a CEO include creating more opportunities for various demographic or professional groups to learn from our expertise. For example, female professional drivers could be segregated by whether they work in teams or solo, owner-operators or company drivers, or by the type of freight they haul, such as flatbed, automotive, dry van or refrigerated. Ellen loves to see more of an individualized approach to these connections.

BEST ADVICE RECEIVED

Ellen Voie shared, “The best advice I ever received was to move out of my comfort zone. Each one of us needs to test our limits to see what we are capable of accomplishing. Without pushing ourselves, we’ll never experience the sense of accomplishment that comes from the challenge. I have sky-dived, Bungee jumped, and learned to drive an 18 wheeler, fly a plane and ride a motorcycle.”

JEFF LOCASTRO, A PROACTIVE BUSINESS LEADER, GOING BEYOND THE REALM OF TRANSACTIONAL APPROACH

In the digitalised world, the power of data from managing internal resources to connecting customers has amplified significantly. While most of the businesses have curated a lot of data, they are still lacking the ability to capitalise it. Here comes the role of Neener Analytics that analyzes online social footprints to help lenders maximize revenue, improve margins, and deliver better customers by identifying the manifest financial risk character of their customers through an array of next-generation analytics. What Neener Analytics is doing is amazing; it fundamentally alters the analytics paradigm forever.

While many brands are following the old transactional approach, Jeff LoCastro, the visionary behind Neener Analytics initiated his endeavors and is playing the role of a game-changer. This is not Jeff’s first rodeo. He was a member of the initial executive team of the inventors of an online social network: Classmates.com and was one of the first to extract innovative insights from social network data; innovation beyond simple demographics and advertising and became a pioneer in the monetization of social network ‘membership.’ While the marketplace focused on ‘transactional” features, Jeff was one of the first to connect affinity and behavior to understand non-linear correlations. Based on his ability to extract unique insights, Jeff pioneered the first-ever effective CPA (cost-per-action) model which became the basis of all future social analytics models, as well as the foundation for all social media monetization.

Among his many awards, including 2 Best of Show @ Finovate, and Rising Star Award @ India Fintech Forum, Jeff was most recently selected Top 10 Inspiring CEO to Watch 2020 by Enterprise World and by MirrorReview Magazine as Top10 Most Disruptive Tech Entrepreneurs 2019.

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

Neener Analytics has come up with a solution for 1-click AI-based financial risk decisioning technology using Human Data; a regulatory compliant AI-based financial risk decisioning technology using social media or any media used socially to help lenders, insurance companies, and all risk-based businesses better decision and understand specific, individual, risk outcomes for thin-file, no-file and credit-challenged consumers.

Besides, the company is building a Delivery Platform around its Decisioning Platform core. The Platform will engage the potential borrower at multiple points of contact including POS using Web, Postal, Email, Chat, QR, Mobile, App, or Text/SMS and include all the KYC including facial recognition, income verification, and employment validation.

THE INSPIRING STORY

“I’ve built a number of companies. Each one seems different but, there was always a through-line. And that through-line is really my story. I’m a serial entrepreneur. I don’t know how else to be. I’m addicted to creating and building things. I don’t know where the “addiction” came. Maybe I was just born with it. But I have always been surrounded by people who were doing that: building and creating,” Jeff LoCastro shared.

“My grandfather was a serial entrepreneur, my father was a serial entrepreneur, and his friends were serial entrepreneurs. I often joke that I never knew anyone who had a “real” job. My first job was with an entrepreneur. And I’ve just always asked “why?” and “how?’ I’ve never understood the idea of “you can’t do that.” As you can imagine that notion got me into a lot of trouble as I was growing up but I am supremely attracted to ideas where I’ve been told it can’t be done,“ he further added.

GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT

“I always answer that question by saying, “besides my son?” As a Founder, I think my greatest achievements are always the Ideation and the Creation of the Dream, and seeing Others Buying Into my Dream, believing in my dream and working alongside me to make it real, and then Customer’s Buying Into my Dream as well… and then paying for it. Imagine: someone paying you money for your dream. It’s pretty cool,” Jeff proudly said.

THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE

“Indeed. I am the first one to say that I don’t know what work-life balance looks like. And I’m not joking when I say that. There’s seemingly 12-million moving parts at any given moment that all need precise attention. The skill I think is being able to switch gears quickly and mentally setting aside the previous “gear.” Challenges are overcome with focus. If you are only halfway in, things spin out of control pretty fast,” asserted Jeff.

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES OF JEFF LOCASTRO

Share the Vision: Great leaders have a way of getting great people excited about the future; the ability to inspire.
Create a Mirror: Always make sure the team sees that you are willing to give as much as you demand from them.
Chart the Path: Great leaders can see the path before them and can show their team that it’s real. Pretty important: A vision with no path is just a fantasy.
Empower Execution: Great leaders allow great people to get things done. Sounds simple to say, but bad leaders are control freaks. Great leaders question, and course-correct.

THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THIS SUCCESSFUL JOURNEY

As mentioned above, Jeff LoCastro is addicted to building things. And, he gets tremendous satisfaction from doing that which they said could not be done. Before he launched Neener Analytics, he asked 10 people that he believed to be smart if what he wanted to do was doable. Each said “No.” Then Jeff knew it was doable. So, the thing is that if everyone knew it was doable, it would have already been done. It is doing the undoable that gets Jeff out of bed every morning. Doing big things!

ONE MAJOR CHARACTERISTIC OF A LEADER

The ability to Inspire! If you don’t have that, then the rest is just meaningless. People don’t follow good ideas, but they will follow inspiration. Inspired people can move mountains . . . sometimes literally.

COMPANY’S FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Jeff said, “We’ve suddenly had a lot of interest from global companies and lenders. That is very exciting in that each can scale us overnight in their respective verticals and we are fortunate in that our solution is both cyclical and counter-cyclical. For risk-focused businesses to understand engagement risk is critical whether the economy is good, or the economy is bad.”

WORD OF WISDOM

You don’t always get what you want, but you get what you need. It’s the truly lucky ones who find that they are one-in-the-same.

JIGNA SHAH: The Young, Promising, Dedicated Business Woman Spearheading Reve’ Fashions & Reve’ Organika to New Heights

Long before the trend of buying organic products came into existence; REVE’ Organika was incepted by Jigna Shah when the visionary unveiled a revolutionary plan. It was a plan to provide natural products that are proven to keep skin healthy, naturally healed and the senses rejuvenated through an essential oil.

REVE’ Organika was founded with a mission of “Beauty that touches your Soul”. It all began with a question, “What skincare products do you use”. This simple question spiralled into a thought process about skincare and beauty. The moment of revelation was, “Beauty is but Skin Deep, but the feeling of beautiful touches your soul”.

They are one of the largest vertically integrated oil-based skincare companies, manufacturing and supplying the best quality products in the world. This brand is supervised by an accomplished businesswoman, Jigna Shah the CEO of the REVE’ Fashions & REVE’ Organika.

More About The Leading Lady

An inspiration for not only women but men also, Jigna Shah is a fashion enthusiastic and proficient business leader. She was born in a Gujarati family as a younger 2nd child. Her father was highly-educated professional C.A, C.S, and I.C.W.A with a progressive mind for a girl child, obviously the emphasis was academics. She did her master’s in commerce and started her career as a profession in economics.

But, she didn’t enjoy it much as her nature was ambitious, she wanted to travel the world, see beautiful destinations, and meet new people, ear different cuisines. While Jigna was speeding her wings to fly higher, her father passed away at the age of 49, and her purpose of pursuing a teaching job was lost.

Jigna went to her faculties for guidance and their suggestion was to join any creative field after seeing her active participation in extra-curriculum activities as a student committee member. With his faculties’ suggestions, she joined NIFT with no financial support of anyone since her father had gone recently. And from here, Jigna’s struggling journey started.

Jigna struggled a lot and won all the battles on her way. Today, she is among the successful businesswomen of India. Jigna’s relentless zeal, incessant quench for success and willingness to walk the extra mile has broken all myths about her inborn limitations that were supposed to be major roadblocks on her success path.

And, she sets a new parameter for leadership in the Indian business which could be a benchmark for every person.

Diversifications & Company’s Future Perspective

Diversifications in terms of New Product range after constant research, Improvising Quality Standards & best services along with imparting knowledge to clients is their USP.

“Our company has been identified as one of the top brands in the market with 25year’s existence & loyal clients. We are diversifying to Eco-friendly, Sustainable Fashion, and Organic wellness range under the brand REVE’ Organika & Organic Farm-fresh too which is very environment-friendly”, Jigna proudly shared.

Jewels in the Crown

Global Award from Google & World federation of Hillary Clinton as one of the Top 50 Most influential Youth Leaders
“ICONIC WOMAN” Award from the only International chamber with Most Dynamic women leaders from the world
100 Women Entrepreneurs of India for 2016 by World Bank Training Leadership Program
“Udgam Women’s Achievers AWARD” in Business Category, for 2014
“Business Standard” Award as Entrepreneur of the year in 2004
Jigna Shah got associated with Mrs.Meneka Gandhi for the most prestigious project-“Ahimsa Peace Silk”(Non-Violence Silk)
She is selected as “Super Woman” by most acclaimed Hindi film Super star Vidya Balan’s “Super Woman” Contest by Radio fm 95.
She is honoured to be in Advisory Board of Ahmedabad Literature Festival…
Jigna Shah is privileged as a jury member of “Udgam Awards”.
She is the India Committee Chair Person for ALL Ladies League.
She has been declared “Pride of Gujarat”,”Pride of Maharashtra” & “Pride of India”.
Jigna Shah is declared as one of the top 5 most popular Designers of Gujarat.

The Secret Sauce

Client relations with the assurance of Quality
Don’t give up when the organization faces Crises
Constant innovations

Biggest Failures & The Definition Of Success

Jigna shared, “When my factory labour left the huge order incomplete and it took me 5 years to compensate for massive financial loss & credibility in the market.”

She believes that success is all about Humbleness & Giving back to society in the form of betterment, Knowledge, Employment or any form of contribution.

New Ideas to Implement & Vision in Life

Connecting Experts/ Mentors to guide students in their journey & to help them in marketing their concepts too. To create Human Libraries to build better youth of India with a lot of values.

Enjoy every phase of life with enriching oneself through Experiences.

Leadership Style

“Leadership comes with Futuristic Vision, Actions, Risk-Taking ability & Strategy to work with a team. I have my factories & offices in Ahmedabad & Mumbai with a team of 100 people & Top Clients from Stars to Politicians to High-end Professionals,” stated Jigna.

The Characteristic Every Leader Should Possess

Burning Fire with Enthusiasm

Words of Wisdom

Life is a mixed bundle…

You can’t build a castle on the basis of Wrongs..!

MAVCOMM CONSULTING: Offering a Complete Suite of Branding Solution By Synchronizing Public Relation With Digital Marketing

We understand that change is inevitable if you want to win the game, better accept it and if you really want to win the game – always be future-ready. – Anand Mahesh Talari

A growth-oriented, digitally-driven company renowned for its comprehensive services with a strategic and integrated approach to marketing and communications, Mavcomm Consulting Pvt. Ltd. is not just a brand that claims to rule the market space but believes that in the last several decades it has crossed that horizon too.

The foundation stone of Mavcomm was taken in 2006 with a goal to bridge the gap between what clients needed and what consulting companies offered. The ascending growth and stature of this brand is not an overnight miracle, but a tedious process of toiling over activities and processes set in the past that prepare the brand for the future today. Siddhartha Upadhyay and Anand Mahesh Talari envisioned this brand to work closely with clients to provide them with strategic counsel to craft compelling stories and help deliver them through the most relevant channels.

Initially, it was started as a pure-play Public Relations and Communications consulting firm and has evolved over time to integrate advisory, digital, specialized crisis communications and comprehensive brand communications to the bouquet of services. Mavcomm’s areas of expertise include shipping, media, transport, mining, and manufacturing. It has been a trusted communications adviser to many Fortune 500 and leading companies and individuals across their growth stages for over 14 years.

As a leading full-service communications company designed for modern marketing milieu, Movcomm provides a personalized approach and senior-level engagement to create comprehensive and effective communications programs for all clients with in – over 20 members in the team.

Headquartered in New Delhi, Mavcomm has a network of offices and affiliates located in strategically important locations such as Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Kochi, Patna, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Indore, and Lucknow.

The Visionaries

Mavcomm group was established by two industry thought leaders – Siddhartha Upadhyay and Anand Mahesh Talari. Siddhartha is an experienced management leader with expertise in strategic business growth who is leading the Advisory and advocacy business for the group. Mavcomm advisory Private Limited Is led by him. Anand brings with him the experience of working with India’s top PR firms and is leading the groups PR and Crisis Management business. Anand leads to Mavcomm Consulting. The third partner Chhavi is leading the digital PR and marketing business within Mavcomm Consulting.

Service Portfolio

The Mavcomm group has three companies within its portfolio. Mavcomm Advisory Private Limited, Mavcomm Consulting Private Limited and Camas Media Private Limited. Mavcomm Advisory is into Business consulting which primarily encompasses hand holding international companies and organizations to understand the dynamics of Indian polity and business environment to help them establish themselves in a prescribed time-frame.

Mavcomm Consulting is a full-fledged PR and Communications Consulting company. Camas Media was a full-fledged digital marketing and online reputation Management Company started 13 years back but they realized the importance of the fusion between digital media and communications a few years back and merged, making it an integral part of Public Relations Campaigns. PR Consulting and Digital Media are combined in one entity as Mavcomm consulting now.

In line with this vision, they have segregated their services into four areas:

Public Relations & Communications
Advocacy
Crisis Management & Communications
Digital PR and Marketing

Hiccups on the Way and Progress

The challenges that Mavcomm Consulting faced are the same that any bootstrapped young companies face. Internally it has been about attracting and retaining the right talent. This is an industry with a very high churn rate and they have also faced the same. Externally the company has gone through two periods of recession and slowdown which has been a challenge in its growth phase.

With a track record of successful delivery for clients over thirteen years, Mavcomm group is currently poised to achieve fast growth and be amongst the top companies in the sector. With its current portfolio of services, the company has gained a very strong understanding of messaging and how it is the most critical component of communications across not only reputation management but also brand image.

Secret Behind the Success

Mavcomm is a unique and specialized group that aligns sales and marketing together and that has been the key delivery factor since inception. The founders realized the tactical importance of public relations and realized early on prospective changes in the form of emergence of digital media and the emergence of social media and today they sit victorious with their assessments and continue to study in which direction the industry is moving.

“Public relations follow after the innovation and product development takes place at least in the minds of the owners of the brand and the principles of the brand. Our job is to be future-ready with the relevant communication which gives us a lot of insight into what and what not of the product communications, media habits of the readers and the ongoing trends”, states Anand Mahesh.

Motivating Creativity and Innovation in the Workspace

Mavcomm Consulting follows a Boundary-less Approach combining the old with the new, flanking traditional PR with the new age digital and social media platforms taking into account that the lines between PR and traditional marketing are now blurring. With an early realization that to be able to service businesses effectively a convergent approach spanning across multiple platforms and communication channels, Mavcomm has tried to stay ahead of the curve.

“We have a flat structure of reporting and with a small team, the bonding is great. We believe in empowering people to achieve their full potential and upskill them in areas where they can improve,” Anand Mahesh states.

Building Long Term Customer Relationships

Mavcomm enjoys a long-term relationship with its clients. Most of their clients have worked with them over a period of 6 to 7 years and some of them have enjoyed a decade long association with the team.

The strategies which have been successful for the company are:
Proactive efforts for clients rather than following a reactive approach
Focus on planned communications
Emphasis on research-driven communications to create a pull factor
Continuous involvement of Senior team members
An extremely strong network of affiliates
Strategic alliances with partners

Road Ahead

The PR Industry itself is expected to grow at 15% to reach Rs 2,270 Crs. by FY 21 as per a PRCAI report. Mavcomm Consulting is focused on gaining a significant portion of that.

Established in 2006 under the hegemony of Siddhartha Upadhyay and Anand Mahesh Talari, Mavcomm holds the distinction of being one of the few PR consultancies in India set up in the Mid-2000s to grow and thrive in an industry becoming increasingly competitive. The vision of the company is to realize the enormous potential benefits to clients through access to native specialists in countries around the world.

Goldstein Market Intelligence : Delivering Innovative and Technology-Oriented Research Solutions to Companies

With a vision to support Businesses Grow And Adapt To The Ever-increasing Complexity of the Global Market, the unique seed of Goldstein Research (Brand of Goldstein Market Intelligence Private Limited) was sown in the year 2017 and founded by two young founders.

In this present modern era, when consumers change and adopt new technologies, marketers also have to use different methods to access consumers’ inputs and hence, market research faces a time of great challenges as well as opportunities. Goldstein Market Intelligence is a flexible and collaborative business organization that focuses on market research & consulting for business growth and for discovering new market opportunities.

A Young Business Consulting and Market Research Firm, Goldstein Market Intelligence is focused on developing Insightful Business Solutions, Help Clients and Make Powerful Future Decisions. Goldstein Market Intelligence is looking forward to introduce new and effective research solutions by the mid of 2020 and expanding drastically.

Headquartered in Wall Street, New York, the firm has vast reach across America, Asia and parts of Europe and the Middle East. With 50+ Domain Experts And 200+ Employees Working Day And Night To Follow The Minutes Of Changes In The Market Every Moment, Goldstein Market Intelligence Strives To Provide The Best Consulting Solutions And Accurate Forecasts That Would Enable Clients To Make Lucrative Business Decisions.

“Backed Up By Reliable Research And Impactful Statistics, Our Business Solutions Empower Our Clients To Grow At A Fast Pace Despite Unsettling Fluctuations In The Market. We Believe In Vigorous Examination Of The Current Market Scenario And Build Around Creative Ideas And Approaches That Are Most Suitable To Our Clients’ Needs And Business Agenda,” further Shivam Gupta added, the man behind the brand.

Dynamic Leadership

Goldstein Market Intelligence is flourishing under the excellent guidance of two young guns, Shivam Gupta and Tanya Gupta. While Shivam handles the development & marketing and client management end of the business, Tanya Gupta is the game player in the Research Department – the heart of the business. From the development of research strategy and planning to addition of research solutions to our portfolio and handling of different research teams, Ms. Tanya handles one of the most important operations of the company: research & consulting. With her on the research end and Shivam at the end of the development and client management, they have managed to form a great team that has worked very favourably for the growth of the company in the last two and a half years.

Journey Since the Inception of the Company

“Our company had very humble beginnings with only 3 people working for us. We had a small budget to set up our business and on top of that no prior knowledge or experience of business. So, in the beginning, all we could think of was to come up with an effective research solution and a well-defined research strategy. After that an aggressive marketing campaign-and it paid off eventually. After a long string of unsuccessful leads and queries, we finally completed our first assignment with the help of our talented team of 3. We haven’t stopped since,” stated Shivam.

“Currently, we have around 200+ full time employees working for us round the clock and we have catered to research requests from the likes of Samsung, Amazon, Electrolux, and MRF, to name just a few and we have received various positive feedbacks from our global clients so far,” he further added.

Exclusive Service Portfolio

Goldstein Market Intelligence strives to keep people well ahead of the game which is the market and leave a mark across businesses and communities through its well-defined ideas and clear cut forecasts. Here is the list of major services offered by the firm:

Competitive Intelligence and Benchmarking
Strategy Consulting
Market Opportunity Assessment
Forecasting and Growth Analysis
Market Scanning and Monitoring
Market Entry Advisory : THE GUIDING FORCE

Besides, Goldstein Market Intelligence is specialized in Primary Research, Secondary Research, Quantitative Analysis, Cost Analysis, Market Scanning & Monitoring, Data Mining, Questionnaire Designing, Market Research Reports, Industry Outlook, Competitive Outlook, Market Intelligence Analysis, Management Consulting, Business Intelligence, Business Advisory, Company Profiling, Product Mapping, and Data Analytics.

Opportunities on the Way

“The biggest opportunity that we received recently was to work on a consulting project from Amazon and Apple. The fact that two of the Big Four tech companies showed trust in us and allowed to work for them had all of us as an organization on cloud nine. These two opportunities gave us a lot of confidence as a research-based company and brought our people closer as a team and as a unit, as we had to get a lot of different teams to complete these two projects within the set time frame,” Shivam proudly said.

The Secret Sauce Behind the Company’s Success

While talking about the major driving force behind Goldstein’s success, Shivam Gupta shared, “Our diligence, hard work and ‘never back down’ attitude has really helped us in getting to where we are today. We have grown exponentially in terms of resources and strategy since the inception of the organization. We have built extremely talented marketing and research teams with many people ready to work at every beck and call. Our company’s success is the direct result of the efforts and hard work of each and every employee that we’ve ever had.”

Motivating Creativity and Innovation in the Workspace

It is vital to instill a sense of passion and pride among the employees in order to maintain a healthy and creative work environment. Regular encouragement and incentivization of good work make people take pride in the work they do for the company and drive them to be passionate about it. Flexible working hours and a healthy sense of competition are also what drive creativity and a healthy atmosphere in the workspace.

D M Legal Ventures: A Multidisciplinary law firm providing services in major areas of law to its clients

The legal industry has faced a significant change in recent years, which has impacted the delivery of legal services and market practice all against a backdrop of unprecedented political uncertainty. Lawyers no longer have a monopoly on the law. The legal market place is changing, and patrons can seek legal assistance from a growing number of non-lawyer professionals including paralegal technicians, legal document preparers, legal self-help sites, virtual assistants and offshore legal vendors. These new options enable bringing affordable legal services to disadvantaged population and empower citizens to address their own legal matters. As the cost of legal services continues to rise, new legal firms will continue to emerge and gain momentum in the coming years. D M Legal Ventures is one of the leading full service law firms in Mumbai, dealing with litigation and non-litigation matters in various Courts and Tribunals of Maharashtra, Delhi, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

D M Legal Ventures was incorporated as a sole proprietorship concern in the year 2015 by Advocate Deepa Mani being the sole Proprietor with the strength of only two junior Associates and a clerk with very few case files in hand. Within a couple of years, the firm has reached a level where various number of cases are in hand. In a short span of time, D M Legal Ventures has gained it’s reputation due to its professional commitments, pro-activeness, transparency and quality work. D M Legal Ventures primarily handle litigation matters, having expertise in Civil, Corporate, Consumer, Labour, Family, Trademark and Copyright, Banking and Finance, Arbitration and Conciliation as well as Criminal matters (cases relating to forgery, cheating, cheque bouncing, domestic violence, bail applications, amongst others). Further, the firm also handles documentation work/non-litigation matters.

The factor that differentiates the firm from that of its counterparts in the market is the strictly followed ethics, sincerity, hard work and commitments. “What makes my firm different is how we offer services to our clients. The guidelines and the confidence given by my former seniors gave me the courage to think about setting up my own firm. While we saw a rough start, as do most startups, I took it up as a challenge, learnt from tough experiences, and kept going. A challenge I face is the long working hours which this field demands. However, having continuous support from my family, I am able to remain motivated and give undivided attention to my work. My family really understand my professional commitments and co-operate as per my schedule, which I am eternally grateful for; without their support, I would not have achieved so much in a short span of time,” pinpoints Deepa.

Expert in the Field

Founder and master pillar of D M Legal Ventures, Deepa Mani has worked with various reputed law firms in Kerala and Mumbai. Her enriched knowledge and expertise have added value to achieve her vision of setting up D M Legal Ventures and further build it into the firm it is today. Deepa Mani has also been appointed as a Notary by the Central Govt., Ministry of Law and Justice. A Certified POSH Trainer (The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013), who facilitates and educates organizations on prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace. Deepa has also conducted various awareness programmes along with other experts in the field on Self Defense for girls in various schools in Mumbai and also conducts awareness programmes on Protection of Children from Sexual Offences. She is also a regular speaker for Women Empowerment.

The Legal firm has served various clients from both individual and corporate sectors over the years such as Manufacturing Industries, Real Estate and Infrastructure Companies, Chemical Companies, Consultants, Insurance Companies, Banks and Financial Institutions, Logistics Companies are to name a few. “Sincerity is a rare virtue, and it’s truly overwhelming that we’re most appreciated for that one quality, apart from others. The most common feedback or I may say it as a compliment that we get from our clients is about how committed and dedicated we are towards our work. That is the biggest award and recognition we have received from our clients so far and we value the same.” says Deepa Mani, Founder, D M Legal Ventures.

“Additionally, D M Legal Ventures also started dealing with top level corporate clients of the country. This is because of the continuous hard work, commitment, dedication and professionalism which the firm has towards each and every client, may it be individual or corporate. Clients always need promptness and accuracy in work. Adding to that, the % of commitment and the bond or rapport with clients & good results in the matters can build a long term client attorney relationship. A deadline is a deadline and I try to balance both family life and professional life. It’s extremely important to draw a line between the two. Professionally, one has to be dedicated and need to know what he/she wants and how much he/she can deliver.”

The firm has a very conducive and friendly work culture helping the Associates to grow personally and professionally. “We discuss the latest amendments and updates and do mock trials in the office before the court hearings. We also encourage the Associates to do research work that makes them gain knowledge as the motto of the firm is the growth of the Associates as well along with the growth of the firm. The firm allows them to think outside the box each time when a new matter is assigned to them. D M Legal Ventures encourages the junior Associates who are scared to appear before the court and being besides them in court while they appear, gives them confidence and interest to do the matter in a better way. When we win in major matters, it’s party time for all at D M Legal Ventures. Giving tools to the Associates, having faith in them and training and moulding them is really a practical approach to bring a positive environment in the office. I strongly encourage my team of Associates to pursue their passions & hobbies outside of work as it is important for one’s holistic development. I also take time out from my busy schedules for my passion for performing arts – Classical dance & Violin; they energize me. Me and my teen daughter began our dance classes together about few years back & today when we both perform together it’s bliss and fulfilling not only as a mother but also as an individual”, adds Deepa.

“The factors that has contributed towards the growth of the firm is the professional commitments, promptness, sincerity, bonding with clients and following ethics strictly. My goal is to achieve a prominent place in the legal fraternity, which will hopefully be carried forward by my children. Apart from my routine work, I try to focus more on helping women who are facing domestic violence, rape victims and children who are victims of issues like sexual abuse. I also have a plan to set up a NGO for helping senior citizens or abandoned children or rape victims. The client’s feedback encourages us to work without any limitations. The dedication and the professional commitments made them join hands together with us since inception till date. The firm with a positive attitude aspires to increase its clients and revenue in the years to come,” concludes Deepa.