Mr. Srinivas Ramamurthy has had a career that has now marked its 25th year. He has vast experience in heading operations for many different industries. He owes most of his success simply to the amount of hard work, his compassion, IQ greatly combined with EQ. A very realistic person and equally adept in business development, he has evolved into an individual who has gained respect through his diligent character. His ‘keep it real’ nature makes one relive the words of the ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle – “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”.
Mr. Srinivas graduated in Engineering from The Coimbatore Institute of Technology in the year 1985 and from IIPM in 1988. He then moved to Mumbai for joining the Instrumentation Company, Taylor Instruments as a Sales Engineer. After a spell of 1.5 years, he went on to join FMC Sanmar as Executive Manager for branch sales. He had a long run of 8 years over there after which he was inclined towards moving in the IT sector. He accepted an offer from Infiniti Infotech and worked as a manager of corporate training and business development from Bengaluru, which he later made his home town. Then again after three years, he shifted to Atman Business Solutions in Hyderabad. Mr. Srinivas adds, “I was responsible for customer accounts and structuring of back end operations – I set about improving the processes to earn our operations for a Telecom Major, a “Talk of the Town”. In 2005, he went ahead to join Cnergies in Bengaluru. “Cnergies was in the business of payroll management and I was responsible for business development and operations”, he says.
Since 2007, Mr. Srinivas has been with Mentorware which is a USA based software company into product development. Mentorware is not a large set up yet they have been operational in India since 1999. It is one of the first movers of ‘SaaS’ and ‘Cloud’ architecture long before ‘Cloud’ became a buzz word. He is the delivery manager and head of operations for their major customers in USA. With the collaborative content platform that Mentorware offers, he says that one of their products, Learningcube.net is well likely to be a game changer in the Learning Industry. With Social Media being the order of the day, the paradigm of marketing and branding is changing drastically. LearningCube.net is being developed as a platform to fuel this growth and bring easy access of material to the discerning people.
Mr. Srinivas is someone who follows a collaborative style of leadership. He adds, “I believe in making my people understand the roles and directing the job on to them”. To the young aspirants, his suggestion is to immerse deeply with passion into whatever they want to learn or are learning. He opines, “By doing so, you will start enjoying what you are doing and this will definitely take you towards your goals ”.
He credits his success to the amount of sincere hard work that he has put in all the works he has done till date. “I like to take the work load in a light fashion so that it becomes easier and enhances the thought process in you to create joy”, he says – “look at it as something that you could relate to, not as something that has to be done”. Mr. Srinivas indicates that he is not someone who likes to dream but has a rather realistic approach towards life. In life, the prime idea must be set targets, achieve them, and then keep advancing the targets.
On the business nuances, Mr. Srinivas adds that one cannot single out an industry because everything is inter linked. The growth of one is dependent on the other. He states that the growth in India is being fuelled by a bunch of the newage Entrepreneurs – those people who are no longer tied up with the baggage of the past like the previous generations – The New Entrepreneurs Believe and So They Do. “We have the capacity and the brain power to achieve more than any so called advanced countries – We need to believe in ourselves”
Mr. Srinivas likes to be with his family during his spare time. His family includes his wife – Ms. Sandhya Srinivas and daughter Nirupama. He likes reading humor fiction books, enjoys being with family and close friends, loves nature trips and relishes mind games. Cult wishes that his idea of ‘waking up and realising the dreams rather than just dreaming’ remains everlasting.
