KE, Bangalore Invites Budding Entrepreneurs, Professionals to Taste Success
From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Oct 19: How to be successful in life? Perhaps by starting off as an entrepreneur or a businessman - facing all trials, tribulations and challenges - and thereby become one’s own boss and even employing many starry-eyed youngsters or by working for somebody else subject to the normal grind of a workman’s life as an ordinary employee or in a white-collar job holding a fancy designation, enjoying the perks and responsibilities that go with it?
These questions must have engaged our attention in most of our lives, especially during our younger days. This is more so in the case of majority of the younger lot, who do not have the luxury of joining family-owned companies or trade and business enterprises.
Top Row: Mark D'Souza, Claudius Pereira, Clarence Pereira
Bottom Row: Anil Rego, Charles Golmes, Robinson D'Souza
While good education, necessary qualifications, aptitude and desire to learn as well as the ability to adapt to new challenges and situations are among some of the essentials to land a good job and climb up the ladder, who will guide anybody to become a good and successful entrepreneur or even a profitable businessman?
Well, now the budding, aspiring and not so well-established entrepreneurs, businessmen or corporate executives and professionals – almost everybody who want to do better and excel themselves – from the Kanara region have a forum in Kanara Entrepreneurs (KE), Bangalore, to guide, advise and mentor them by networking, improving marketing and business plans and learning from those who have already made a mark.
KE, Bangalore is a non-profit and mutual benefit outfit founded in 2008. It is aimed at sharing knowledge, entrepreneurial skills and best practices to help nurture budding and aspiring entrepreneurs to excel in their endeavours in association with Kanara Entrepreneurs Ltd (KEL), Dubai.
Incidentally, KE, Bangalore is a chapter of KE Global, which was formed last year. Thus, the members of KE, Bangalore, can reap the benefits of the financially well-entrenched KEL, Dubai as well as KE Global with access to all network events and workshops world-wide.
KE, Bangalore and KEL, Dubai presently having a combined membership of 150, comprising 35 lead and 115 other members, have embarked on a spirited drive to enroll new members so as to spread the network and thereby provide wider access to a larger pool of potential entrepreneurs, businessmen and corporate executives as well as professionals for mutual benefit.
''There is no short-cut to the top. One cannot miss the opportunity of networking with a group that might propel you to the top faster. Networking has been a great advantage for business and personal reasons since the dawn of civilization. The advantages from the beginning have been in sharing knowledge and information for mutual benefit,” explained KE, Bangalore President Charles Gomes, who himself has a rich experience in the pharmaceutical field.
Said Anil Rego, Director-Events of KE Bangalore, who heads a successful and most modern printing establishment in South India: ''Opportunities do not knock everyday. Most of the times, it just passes by. One has to seize the opportunities and make a determined bid to move forward. Developing solid inter-personal relationships are essential for a successful entrepreneur, the lack of which can lead to failure.”
''Experience gives a person the test first and the lesson later. One has to learn and understand to be able to discover the difference,” explained Claudius Pereira, who is also Director-Mentoring.
KE, Bangalore, has organized the first of its kind event with talks by experts on the highly challenging topics of, ''Wealth Creation Opportunities” and ''Embracing Success through KE” on October 22 at 6 pm at the Hotel Grand Magarath in Bangalore. The event is an invitation only programme open to members and potential or prospective members, who will be handpicked and extended the invitation.
Those interested in attending and benefitting from the event, which is the second in the series of the programmes chalked out by KE, Bangalore, are requested to contact Robinson D’Souza on todsouza@hotmail.com or Clarence Pereira on pereira@deccangroup.com.
Incidentally, Clarence Pereira, who has a diverse experience of over three decades in different fields and is the Director of Deccan Group of Companies with an annual turnover of Rs 125 crore, will be a part of the panel.
The other eminent speakers in the panel are: Mark D’Souza, co-founder and promoter of Maxma Systems (India) Pvt Ltd, which specializes in management consulting and recruitment services, and an eminent chartered accountant, who will be talking on ''Wealth Creation Opportunities” and Claudius Pereira, founder and managing director of System Tech Pvt Ltd, System Tech Enterprises and associated in several other companies in key managerial positions, will be addressing on ''Embracing Success through KE.”
While Mark D’Souza has over 5,000 hours of training experience, including in the complex field of financial planning, accounting, direct taxation, banking, FCRA besides over 20,000 hours of business consulting experience, Claudius Pereira has over 12,000 hours of training experience, including business consulting, and has addressed various organisations in Dubai, UK and USA.
KE, Bangalore has a large and diverse range of members engaged in pharma and biotech industry, IT-space technology, software developers, printing and publishing, supply chain management and logistics, real estate and property developers, exporters of leather garments, manufacturers of power and distribution transformers, PVC, steel doors and windows, speciality chemicals, electrical and electronics, bankers, educationists and many other sectors besides hoteliers, financial planners, top bureaucrats, architects, chartered accounts, insurance and legal consultants.