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The Business Tycoons - Top Business Magazine Suman Sharma - Business Excellence Award Winner COVER PAGE STORY Suman Mahendra Prasad Sharma started her career as Portfolio Manager in Kotak Mahindra Bank just after finishing his Masters In Finance from Bangalore. This job gave her a rich experience in Banking and Non-Banking, having had a stint with Barclays and Kotak Mahindra Bank. She is an astute strategic planner, her expertise comes to fore in the areas of budgeting, taxation, investment and wealth management. She is extremely good at crisis management and resolving complex financial issues. She believes in the culture of treating the staff as his family and works on the philosophy that there is no hierarchy, all the staff, and the company members are on the same level. Her mantra for success is passion, dedication, and involvement. Her favourite quote is "No matter how good is your intention, the world judges you on your presentation, no matter how good is your presentation God judges you on your intention". She follows Shri Ratan Tata and very much agrees with his quote- "I don?t believe in making the right decision I believe in making my decision right". She believes that balancing the work and personal-life is like a roller-coaster ride but is full of fun. In 2011 she started Phoenix Wealth Managers and went for a joint venture with his Professor of MBA. After starting Phoenix Wealth Managers, she took consultancy of the RB group. Later on in September 2012, she got appointed as Director Finance of the group and just after that, she quit the Kotak Bank`s job of portfolio manager. In March 2017, the company incorporated RSI with recruitment & staffing services and on June 19 the company started a new wing of IT, where the company gives services and is also involved in developing software. RS signature was founded with the sole purpose of transforming the way businesses across multiple verticals are operating in terms of finances, HR, and IT. The motto is to integrate traditional business operations with IT advancement. RS Signature is an organization built on virtues like expertise, honesty, integrity, and dedication. It believes in a flexible approach towards every client and its requirements. RS signature offers and provides end-to-end IT support to its clients. The company has teams of excellent IT professionals who are creative in their respective areas and always strive to provide the best. Being an IT company, RS signature always motivates businesses to patronize technology advancement and get it used for the company?s betterment. Web/App Development, Software Development, Artificial intelligence, Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Machine Learning and Internet of Things are some IT solutions provided by RS signatures to its clients. The company works 24*7 to deliver the best IT support and services, Quality with commitment, Integrity & transparency and Dedicated Client Success Team are the USPs of the RS Signature?s business. When it comes to IT solutions for business, it starts from web/app development and can go as far as AI & AR/VR technologies. All these new-age services would help businesses to create a space in the digital world and stay connected to their customers. RS signature services and products help companies in staying connected with their customers and cater to them with the best possible services. It is one of the few IT companies with assured expertise and reliable, consistent results. It?s dedicated Client Success team ensures that the Clients are provided with world-class customer experience throughout the Project lifecycle which adds another feather in the cap for RS signature. The Business Tycoons - Top Business Magazine Sanjay Ghodawat - Business Excellence Award Winner The Sanjay Ghodawat Group The Sanjay Ghodawat Group is India?s No.1 group in floriculture and manufacturing of oxalic acid, has a strong presence in renewable energy, FMCG, textiles, mining, real estate and growing substantially in education. Headquartered in Kolhapur in Maharashtra ? India, the Sanjay Ghodawat Group has turned conventional understanding upside down by leveraging the lower cost of land and the availability of dedicated manpower to more than offset the increased cost of logistics resultant from being located away from the industrial concentrations. Early Life and Academics The Sanjay Ghodawat Group has identified areas that will be greenfield in the future. Developing infrastructure and resources locally has been a key thrust area. By creating employment and opportunities locally, the Group has earned immense respect and loyalty from the local population. The Group is now poised to go places by replicating its successful model in the remaining parts of India and also plans to look globally for further opportunities. Career Highlights Today, with over 6,000 employees and innumerable retail outlets, the Group?s reach spreads far corners of the country and beyond. With exports growing by leaps and bounds, the Group will soon span across continents. The Group is a strategically diversified conglomerate today with an ever-growing presence in high-value sectors relevant to the country?s economic development and preservation of depleting resources. Stoked by the ambition to become ?the biggest, the best and the most valuable? conglomerate, the Group is on the right path of unparallel growth, expansion, and consolidation. The Group operates Sanjay Ghodawat Institute. The Instituteis spread across 150 Acres, Sou. Sushila Danchand Ghodawat Charitable Trust`s Sanjay Ghodawat Group of Institutions (SGI)`s is situated in a serene atmosphere amidst idyllic hills and lush green meadows. Study in harmony with Nature. The Institution aspires to run along the lines of best-in-the-world education and become a world-class institution where the teaching-learning process gets a far deeper meaning. Mr. Sanjay Ghodawat has laid the foundation of this integrated campus where SGI will promote paperless education with a motto of imparting quality education to students. The Institution shall be streamlined into Engineering, Management, and an International School. The group runs on a simple philosophy, "Grow to be the biggest, the best and the most valuable." This simple and strong philosophy has let the Group to treat each success, each achievement as a milestone and has pushed it to strengthen its efforts to go from toughness to energy by raising the bar to the next level. The Sanjay Godawat Group believes in Treating people, Employees, Associates, Channel partners, Peers, etc. ? as part of the group`s extended family and work incessantly towards their welfare. The group likes to follows fair trade practices and at utmost transparency in all business dealings. Being a socially responsible corporate citizen by paying back to the society what the group earn from it by contributing generously to social, medical and educational causes to help the down-trodden, Contribute to the development of the Country, Work ceaselessly for protection of the environment, with such strong and meaningful values proves that the Group has its heart and soul in the right place. Mr Sanjay Ghodawat is the one who predicted the importance of investing in technology to upgrade quality to international standards and won several accreditations on the way. He is the man with vision and leadership.

Inside Success Stories Kaustubh Phadtare Mr. Kaustubh Phadtare, Managing Director of Kavitsu Robotronix has had an interesting and inspiring business trajectory. Since he was a child, he saw his father work with machines. Big machines and cars always fascinated him. He was always intrigued by how they worked. As he grew older, the dream to work with these became his passion. He pursued Engineering in Instrumentation and Control and completed his B.Tech from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, which is one of the finest colleges in Pune. Further, he went ahead and did his Masters in Robotics from Newcastle University. Where his project with ABB robotics which included giving a vision to a robotic manipulator was very well received. He always dreamt of working with automated systems and robots and Newcastle University provided him with everything he wanted. Those were the years that pushed towards realizing his dreams and making breakthroughs in this field. Kavitsu as a brand was previously well known in the Gearbox industry. Slew bearings was a relatively new field. Their journey with slew bearings began when his father saw a rotating gear in Voltas. At that time, slew bearings were a niche market and everything was either imported from Germany or China. They discussed this and decided to Make it in India. That`s how Kavitsu Robotronix was incepted. They did numerous tests and RnD and launched it in the Indian market. It was well received by the businesses as they were extremely competent and delivery times were relatively on the lower side as compared with other counterparts. They can proudly say that they are counted amongst India?s leading manufacturer and exporter of slew bearings. USP of Kavitsu is Faster delivery periods, extremely competitive pricing and quick turnaround time for services. The main USP is that they provide high-quality repair and refurbishment services for damaged slew bearings, which currently no one in India provides. That is the reason why they have regular clientele from the construction and material handling industry. Their mission is to cater to the domestic market while reducing the burden of imports. They focus mainly on Make in India concept which is the brainchild of our honorary Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Vaijayanta Chougule Vaijayanta Chaugule completed her Chartered Accountancy course in May 2008. Her decision to become a Chartered Accountant was made in childhood itself and the motive was then limited only to be a helping hand to her father. But as she grew up watching her Father Late. Rameshchandra T Chaugule as a professional she realized what and how much it takes to be a successful and renowned Chartered Accountant. She completed her schooling and subsequent education thereafter in Kolhapur. She stood 4th in the HSC exams in Kolhapur Board in 2002 by securing 89.5%. She did her CA Articleship under her father who was one of the most respected CAs in Kolhapur with clients from varied backgrounds giving her exposures to multiple Industries and their financials. In 2013, she completed a certificate course on IFRS conducted by The Institute of Chartered Accountant Of India. Vaijayanta Chaugule got selected as a campus recruit in Credit Suisse India Limited- A Switzerland based Investment Bank and got a good exposure. She worked there till May 2011 in Financial Accounting Department. During her tenure along with rich experience in global financial accounting and SOX compliance, she also did a short stint at London for professional assignments. She participated as a group leader and presented a presentation before CAs working in Credit Suisse relating to SOX which qualified for CPE hours training and exceptionally stood 2nd in the competition, Achieved Individual Excellence Award in 2010 for the principle, ?Collaborate and share your knowledge and networks? in supporting ?The Exchange Trade Derivative Project?, Actively participated in various competitions and philanthropic activities of the Company are some highlights of her career at Credit Suisse. Her firm was established in 1980 in Kolhapur, the southern region of Maharashtra state. The firm has legacy passed on from a well known CA Mr. P. D. Kunte from Mumbai, who was on board of many prominent Corporates. Her expertise lies in Audits, GST and Tax Consultation, besides, professional services for setting up new Companies, Mergers, and Acquisitions. She also mentors start-ups on operations planning and financial planning keeping in line with the present rise of the start-up economy. Her firm has four decades of experience but is in tune with advanced and recent practices in the business. Thus delivering the customers the dual advantage of experience and new-age research. She likes to do start to end customized hand-holding for any business process, be it as basic as Income Tax Return filing to complete Project consultancy. Mr. Vijay-Sharma The boy named Vijay Shekhar Sharma who belonged from a small village in Aligarh was born to a man who was a highly principled school teacher. He finished his secondary schooling at the age of 14. However, his entire education being in Hindi, he did not know to read and write English and soon found that it was necessary to learn the subject to get into a good college. Two words that come to almost every Indian?s mind while Shopping, Post demonetization, are ?Paytm karo.? Paytm has brought a paradigm shift in the retail industry by completely transforming the payment methodology. Initially, this online wallet cum e-commerce website was used to make payments for limited utilities like mobile and DTH recharge and shopping bills. Over the years, this portal has expanded its scope and has brought about anything and everything under the ambit of its operations. Customers now can recharge their metro card, pay bills for utilities like electricity and water, transfer funds to other bank accounts, book flight/train/bus tickets, make hotel reservations, etc. Paytm is an acronym for ?Pay Through Mobile? which was founded in 2010 by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, who is the Founder & CEO of Paytm. Paytm is an Indian e-commerce website as well as an app that offers its user to pay online for many services like prepaid and postpaid mobile recharge, book the flight, bus and train tickets, pay hotel bills, broadband or electricity bill with many cashback offers and gift vouchers etc., using your mobile number. Paytm today stands as a huge company in India. However, there are very few of us who know about the struggle behind the success of the man who found Paytm. The man who owns a $3 billion company today had started with just Rs 10 in his pocket. He took the challenge positively and started learning the language by borrowing books from his friends and reaching out to old magazines. He took two books at the same time where the first would be a Hindi version and the second one an English one. The first bencher boy when admitted to an engineering college in Delhi soon became a part of the back benchers. Soon, his good grades turned into bad, and he completely stopped attending his college.