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Pedro Barboglio: Strengthening the Workforce & Making the Process Effectual through Virtual Staffing

Remote Team Solutions, a “Virtual Team Search Firm”, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been successfully offering offshore staffing solutions under the dynamic leadership of Pedro Barboglio, CEO of the company. They work with organizations to empower their growth. Here, companies don’t have to deal with any binding contracts, up-front commitments, or recruiting fees. Through just one monthly payment, they can get all of the benefits of virtual staffing.

At Remote Team Solutions, the team believe in people and contributes to their lives. That’s why they build a great place to work where they make sure all the talented staff is motivated, happy, doing a great job, and well remunerated.

The Man behind the Brand 

International entrepreneur and chief executive officer, Pedro Barboglio is taking the Remote Team Solutions to the higher latitude with his strategic thought and expertise. He has an impeccable track record of professional success in different industries, including the service industry, IT, and food manufacturing.

Pedro Barboglio’s passion is building and expanding businesses, seeing how it touches and changes so many people’s lives as well as families. He nurtures his passion to scale new heights of success through helping businesses find the right talent.

“Been able to help our clients and to exceed their expectations while helping our community by providing excellent opportunities is what drives us.”- Pedro Barboglio

Manifested the Idea of Remote Team Solutions

Pedro Barboglio has always believed that people are the most essential part of any business; the key to success is having the right team and having them motivated. When he was CEO of one of his family businesses (ready to eat meals), he went to live in Austin to expand his business in the USA. Seeing how their USA clients from that food company and some other business person needed to hire big teams for their growing companies, but didn’t have the budget, time, or talent, they got together to try to see the way to help them.

They wanted to offshore their teams, but they demanded the same time zone, same culture, and high-quality motivated talent with low turnover rate, and didn’t want to have to fly for more than 15 hours in case they needed to see their team or bring a team member to their offices. They wanted a company that would treat their staff like they would do. After several meetings and research, they decided that Mexico was the place to have their teams, and they went on to try to find a company that could do this for them. After a long search for the right company, they discover that none meet the demands; so, they decided to help them and start their own company, Remote Team Solutions in 2015. Initially, they started the journey with just a few customers from their other businesses and quickly started growing.

What Makes Remote Team Solutions Unique?

Remote Team Solutions does not specialize only in a niche market; they specialize in getting the best talent depending on clients’ needs; therefore, they can offer them the best talent for any position they require as well as many extra services with their affiliated companies.

Greatest Accomplishment     

More than all the awards the company has won, Pedro believes that their biggest accomplishment comes by having almost a 0% turnover rate with their employees and their customers’ teams, as this means that they are getting the right talent for their customers.

The “Secret Sauce” and Leadership Principles 

  • Do all the things correctly, don’t skimp.
  • Get the best team, only A-players.
  • The company has to be an employee and customer-focused. If you have motivated and happy employees, you would have satisfied clients.
  • Know your clients; you have to know all your clients and give them the best possible service.
  • Be patient, and keep learning new things.

Biggest Professional Failure and Learning

“We did a project to open offices in Honk Kong for the ready to eat meals business, and we sent people to start the process and start selling. We had to close the offices as it wasn’t the best move and we were growing in other countries,” Pedro Barboglio stated.

“I learned that we could have done more research. Next time I would be doing more research and at least spending one month myself in the country we want to open new offices,” he added.

New Ideas 

For the company, Pedro Barboglio is looking to implement more perks for employees, and for customers, they want to implement a Network so that they can join and know each other to see if they can benefit from their services.

Pedro’s Leadership Style

People find it friendly as he always teaches with the example that he is here to help his team and that if there is something he does know; he would start investigating and reading about it.

 The Success Drive 

“For me, knowing that I was able to do something to contribute to our employees, seeing how they are happy and knowing that because of that, their family is happy. As well as with our clients, knowing that we have done something to help our clients is the major drive for success,” shared Pedro Barboglio.

Best Advice Received

While sharing the best advice he received, Pedro Barboglio said “If you are going to fail, fail in first class. With this, they meant that if I was going to try something new, to do my best, don’t skimp, and try everything I can to make it work. If it fails, then I know I failed in first-class doing everything I could without regrets.”

Success looks like for you

Keep growing the company with happy employees and happy clients

Company’s future perspectives

Add more services to the portfolio that can help clients

Main Leadership Characteristic

Be human and be there for your people. Empower your team.

Learning from the businesses that go wrong

Most entrepreneurs have failed in at least one business. Many people have the idea that entrepreneurs don’t fail; that’s the wrong idea.

Brilliant, a Hyderabad-Based Pharmaceutical Company Harnessing Lives Through Certified Vaccines & Medicines

Brilliant Bio Pharma Pvt Ltd (Brilliant) started its journey by manufacturing and marketing Veterinary Biological & Medicines.

From its inception in 1998 to today, it has witnessed a glorifying trajectory and has emerged as a globally renowned firm serving livestock farmers in India with high quality and affordable health products. Since there were just a handful of vaccine manufacturers at that time, Brilliant focused on vaccines for livestock, developed appropriate technologies, and set up modern manufacturing facilities.

Under the capable leadership of Mourya Boda, Chairman, Brilliant has created a portfolio of vaccines and animal health formulations for the treatment of animal diseases. Moreover, the company has explored export markets and made good headway in the export of it’s products.

MEETING THE FOUNDER

Mourya Boda joined the TGV Group after completing her basic Degree in Law and Master’s Degree in Business Administration. She worked her way up the hierarchy in the group under the able guidance of her father, Industrialist, Philanthropist Shri T G Venkatesh, Chairman of TGV Group.

Mourya Boda has built and steered Brilliant Bio Pharma to its present strong position. She has spearheaded several innovative approaches in the management of a biopharmaceutical company which has enabled Brilliant Bio Pharma to become a cost-effective and quality producer of direly needed vaccines for the livestock sector.

“The journey from 2 lakh doses a decade back to 1500 million cattle immunization against FMD till now speaks about the strenght of Brilliant.”

SERVICE PORTFOLIO 

While they have a range of animal health products – prophylactic, therapeutic, and nutrition products, their focus has been more on prophylactic products i.e vaccines where there are just a handful of players. The company makes viral and bacterial vaccines for cattle, goats, sheep, and dogs.

Further Mourya Boda added, “Our flagship products are Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) and Rabies vaccines. We will soon make vaccines for canines, a segment where there is just one other domestic manufacturer and where most products are imported.”

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS  

Brilliant is one of the largest manufacturers of FMD vaccines in the world. The state-of-art facility is BSL3 (Bio Safety Level 3) and has 10 KL fermenters, which makes it different from others.

“We are one of the most cost-effective manufacturers of veterinary vaccines. As a result, we have been able to meet the requirements of India’s large Animal Disease Control Programs (NADCP) for livestock diseases, chiefly FMD vaccine, shared Mourya Boda.

POINT OF VIEW ON THE CURRENT SCENARIO

The current Covid-19 pandemic situation is unprecedented and has caused a huge setback to the animal health industry in India. The industry depends to a considerable extent on government initiatives and spending, which is critical for the marginal farmers in India, and on rural private spending which has also been impacted. The loss of business for Brilliant is significant.

MAJOR CHALLENGES

As a result, the liquidity position has been hugely impacted, the working capital position is stressed and capital funding for new projects delayed. Companies have no option but to tighten their belts, postpone discretionary spending and conserve capital.

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HURDLES ON THE WAY

Among the major challenges that Brilliant has faced in the past is to scale up the manufacturing of the FMD vaccine, which is undoubtedly one of the most difficult vaccines to manufacture. To Brilliant’s credit, it must be stated that it has not only successfully faced this challenge but also has been able to build scales of operations which is the highest in the global animal vaccine industry. Brilliant has also been able to automate much of its unit operations to ensure better productivity and realize reliable, quality output.

Among other challenges have been to build Brilliant’s credibility and company image as a serious, research-based animal vaccine manufacturer in which farmers can depend on the protection of their livestock from animal diseases.

THE SECRET SAUCE

Brilliant’s success can be attributed to the competencies of its loyal band of people, their creative and innovative approaches to problem-solving, and their collective capabilities to give the company sustained competitive advantage. Manpower is the driving force taking the company ahead and is the assets.

Mourya Boda has been mainly responsible for steering Brilliant from the front to its present strong position, thanks to her exemplary vision, strong leadership, hands-on and participative management style, and the customer-centric policies pursued by the company.

MOTIVATING CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN THE WORKSPACE

Brilliant believes that the creative spirit of its people can be harnessed by providing challenging work opportunities, fostering an open working environment, allowing freedom for employees to operate, by being patient with people to let them learn from their mistakes, and by providing sufficient rewards for exemplary performance.

BUILDING LONG TERM CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS

“The customer must be at the center of everything that we do. We operate with this motto. In Brilliant’s case, it is the small and marginal farmer to whom affordability and accessibility of quality products are paramount. All decisions and plans at the company are centered on this expectation of customers”, Mourya Boda asserted.

“We serve our customers through the medical community. We need to build credibility with them. We must assess, understand, and be responsive to their expectations. We believe in building long-lasting relationships with the medical community and interact with them not merely for building our business but also in various other ways to build their professional calibre,” she further added.

Road Ahead

The animal health industry is at the threshold of important changes taking place concerning increasing emphasis on food safety and the need to do away with the use of antimicrobials, hormones, and chemicals. Besides, it is also seized with improving public health aspects related to the impact of zoonotic diseases. The ‘One Health’ initiative of WHO, FAO, and OIE is an approach to achieving better public health outcomes for not just zoonotic diseases but also achieve better food safety and antimicrobial resistance.

Brilliant Bio Pharma is committed to this cause. It not only has a current portfolio of products supporting this initiative but is also working on new products, particularly vaccines to meet this challenge of zoonotic diseases. It is also on the threshold of several nutritional products which can progressively reduce dependency on antimicrobials and hormones for better food safety.

JEWELS IN THE CROWN

Brilliant has been the recipient of the Best Pharma Company Award 2019 at the HMTV Business Excellence Awards

Mourya Boda is the recipient of:

  • Pharma Leaders Innovative Women Biotech Leader of the Year 2018
  • IWEC (International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge) Award 2015 at Istanbul

CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMUNITY

Brilliant discharges its CSR responsibilities both on its own accord and by association with the TGV Group. Among the initiatives are free marriages for the less privileged, free water supply to poor households and the ‘Gowri’ initiative which is unique extends incentives to the wives of employees who meet the non-smoking/non-alcohol stipulations in the company. For the livestock sector, Brilliant conducts pan-India rabies vaccination camps in association with leading organizations and NGOs, an initiative to attain Rabies Free India.

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