Ivanka Trump Founder Ivanka Trump Collection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="col-md-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 655.875px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" m="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a3211f; text-align: justify;"><img alt="Ivanka Trump" height="181" src="https://www.wisdomimg.com/india/s/socphotos/ivanka-trump.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="171" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> First daughter, a close advisor to President Donald J Trump, a strong businesswoman, a successful entrepreneur, an ex-American television personality, fashion designer, a best selling author, real estate scion, lifestyle entrepreneur, a former model – Ivanka Trump is multidimensional. From a very young age, she wanted to be a businesswoman. Along with genuine interest and ability in business, she was very passionate about being in real estate sector. A thorough and excellent negotiator, she has inherited her father's love for building, his deal making skills and is an entrepreneurial savvy.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> As a person beautifully juggling a lot of roles, her working days spanned across diverse professional responsibilities from construction meetings on the development to design meetings for apparels to acquisition meetings on future acquisitions and so on. After her dad, Donald Trump won the presidency, this strong, efficient, fearless and sharp woman relinquished control of her business ventures to avoid conflict of interests and moved to Washington DC with her husband Jared Kushner who is a senior adviser of the President. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> She draws a lot of inspiration from her parents. She admires her mom who was as a hands on parent and highly successful professional pursuing a demanding career working long hours with great energy and enthusiasm. Working closely with her dad, she has learned a lot about business and leadership from him who had the clear vision of what he wants to accomplish for each of his businesses.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Early career as a model...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> Being born to celebrity parents, Ivanka was thrust into the spotlight since childhood. Following her mom's footsteps, she took up a career in modelling when she was 14. By 16, she travelled a long way. She was featured in Elle magazine and co-hosted Miss Teen USA 1997, showed up in advertisements for Tommy Hilfiger and performed in fashion shows for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Into the real estate industry... </span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> When she got admission to The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, and this successful model just gave up modelling and pursued Masters in business administration with a major in finance and real estate and a minor in history and art history. After college, instead of directly moving to an office at Trump Tower to join her family's business empire, Ivanka spent some time working at Forest City Enterprises, Forest City, one of New York’s largest development companies. Working in a firm outside Trump Organisation gave her a sense of confidence about her own abilities.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> She joined the Trump Organisation in 2005 working alongside with his dad and brothers and has been a powerful voice behind the family empire since then. In 2007, she with her brothers founded the Trump Hotel Collections, a successful luxury hotel management company. She was the lead negotiator for the $200-million conversion of the historic Old Post Office in Washington, DC into a luxury hotel and the $250-million renovation of the iconic Doral Golf Resort in Miami, some of her landmark deals. Before taking leave of absence in 2017, she was the executive VP of acquisitions and development, working on high profile buildings and resorts. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> The Ivanka Trump Collection...</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> Even when she had her hands full with the Trump Organisation, she wanted to do something just for herself, on her own. She felt a hole in the market for “affordable luxury” lifestyle products as nobody was really focusing on the young professionals and wanted to offer what the professional millennial woman lacks.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> In 2007, Ivanka partnered with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a diamond vendor and launched a fine jewellery brand under her own name. She subsequently expanded the Ivanka Trump brand to create her own fashion and lifestyle brand including clothing, shoes, handbags, kids' shoes, glasses etc and spread the wings to Canada, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The brand targets young, modern, professional women with workwear being a major staple of her collection. The brand has been creating solution oriented products for the women who handle many roles in life - mother, girlfriend, professional and so on. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> In 2014, she started the #WomenWhoWork initiative on her site promoting a mercantile brand that is designed to redefine a stereotypical image of working women. She also posted inspiring articles about career, fashion, and life advice specifically aimed at working women looking to climb the corporate ladder. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> Following customer calls for a boycott against retailers that carry Trump products and weak sales many stores like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Gilt, Burlington etc stopped carrying her fashion line. The brand later pushed up the sales by setting up brick and mortar stores.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Writer life...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> Ivanka observed that the self help books available in market for a successful business career are written post retirement often reflecting their experiences which is of less relevance today for the young professionals. Just five years out of college, Ivanka published her first book, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, in 2009, which was a New Yorks bestseller. The book walks us through her experiences as a business executive and inspires women on how to get ahead in business. Her second book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success hit the market in 2017, the proceeds of which went to National Urban League and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The book has tips for women to succeed in the workplace quoting anecdotes from her own career.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">The leadership style...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> Ivanka sets very bold goals for herself and her team and expects very high performance. She doesn't micromanage people and give them immense space to bring onboard their best version. Her job is more of a cheerleader to support her team members to achieve the collective goals set out for them and to be a resource to them as they seek to do those things. She takes great effort to set the table for the personal growth of her employees by bringing in guest speakers her people request on a monthly basis, teaching them how to meditate, educating them on proper nutrition, and offering seminars about professional growth, how to engage with colleagues, and how to hone their leadership styles.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She tries to go to sleep with a cleared mailbox so that she can start on a clear slate the next day. An early riser, this mom of three who clocks 16 hour days spends Saturday at home with phones switched off.  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Other initiatives...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> An avid runner, Ivanka is a passionate advocate for the education and empowerment of women and girls. She has ties with various charitable causes, including the New York City Police Foundation and Cookies for Kids' Cancer. She also supports ventures like Chai Lifeline,  United Hatzalah etc. During her speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2017, Ivanka highlighted on the need for the creation of a workforce apprentice programs and stressed human trafficking as a key issue.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> She has been a judge on the American TV show "The Apprentice,"Celebrity Apprentice from 2006 until her father announced to run for president in 2015. She was a supportive, dutiful daughter on the campaign trail for her father. In her father's administration, she is targeting policy areas such as paid family leave, promotion of women in science and female entrepreneurship.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Awards and accolades...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>Named as #19 in Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women In 2017</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>Was a guest speaker at a government sponsored conference on women’s empowerment in Tokyo, Japan in November 2017</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>Named as #33 on Fortune magazine's '40 Under 40' list in 2014</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>Honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>Received the Joseph Wharton Award for Young Leadership in 2012</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>Elected as the board member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Quotes...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>I learned a long time ago that I can’t control the opinions of others or what they project on me. All I can do is live my life, and I’ve tried to do that.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>I'm deeply grateful for all the opportunities afforded to me, but they alone didn't guarantee my success. Curiosity, passion, hard work, and perseverance have enabled me to prove my value to myself and others beyond my surname.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals. Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>The way in which you carry yourself, even when seated at a desk, matters.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"> •<span style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre;"></span>Prioritization is the key to juggling multiple roles</div> </div> </div>

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Syed Basharat Ali President and CEO Cavium Networks

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="col-md-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 655.875px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" m="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a3211f; text-align: justify;"><img alt="Syed Basharat Ali" height="181" src="https://www.wisdomimg.com/india/s/socphotos/ali-syed.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="171" /></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Cavium, Inc. participates in the arrangement of coordinated semiconductor processors which empowers keen handling for wired and remote foundation and cloud for systems administration, correspondences, stockpiling, and security applications. Its items is comprise of multi-center processors for implanted and date focus applications, organize network for server and switches, stockpiling availability, and security processors for offload and apparatus. The organization was established by Syed Basharat Ali and Muhammad Raghib Hussain in November 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Syed Basharat Ali, for the most part alluded to as Syed Ali, is the establishing director, president, and CEO of Cavium Networks, a San Jose, California-based organization spend significant time in MIPS-based system and security processors. Cavium Networks creates and fabricates processor models and centers for computerized purchaser, organizing, individual amusement, interchanges and business applications.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Education</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;"></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> He got a BE (Electrical Engineering) from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and a MSE from the University of Michigan. Understudy instruction takes top need at Michigan. Notwithstanding their classroom learning, understudies are dealing with extracurricular research ventures, taking part in group tasks and associations, and serving the community. To bolster their endeavors, and to help guarantee that EECS stays one of the best level divisions on the planet, Mr. Ali set up the Syed Ali ECE Education Fund. "I needed to give back," says Syed B. Ali (MSE EE '81) about the reserve. "If not for Michigan I wouldn't be the place I am today." And where he is today is Chairman, President, and CEO of the organization he established in 2000, Cavium. Syed Ali is focused on helping and empowering understudies in their guidance.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">The spark..</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Mr. Ali worked at Samsung Electronics, SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computers, and American Microsystems Inc. (presently part of ON Semiconductor) before ending up some portion of the establishing administration group at Malleable Technologies, which was gained by PMC Sierra in 2000.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">About Cavium …</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> In 2000, Mr. Ali established Cavium Networks. On May 1, 2007 Cavium had its IPO, and developed to have a market capitalization of 1.3 billion US dollars [1] in the principal seven day stretch of October 2007. In 2011, Cavium, openly recorded on NASDAQ, was named one of the 25 quickest developing innovation organizations in the United States by Forbes Magazine; truth be told, they were #5.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> He saw that the Internet was growing increasingly into business correspondences and online business, both of which required high security correspondence. Trusting that security could be fundamentally upgraded by silicon innovation, his organization effectively offloaded all the overwhelming computational work onto silicon, which had not been done some time recently.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Cavium, Inc. takes part in giving coordinated semiconductor processors that empower handling for systems administration, correspondences, stockpiling, remote, security, video and associated home and office applications. It offers an arrangement of coordinated, programming perfect processors running in execution from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that empower secure, astute usefulness in big business, server farm, broadband and customer, and access and specialist co-op hardware. The organization's processors are bolstered by biological system accomplices that give working frameworks, devices and application bolster, equipment reference outlines and different administrations. Cavium was established by Syed Basharat Ali and Muhammad Raghib Hussain in November 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Today, the organization gives exceptionally coordinated semiconductor processors that empower shrewd systems administration, interchanges, stockpiling, video and security applications to overall markets.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> To be fruitful, Syed and his group must figure out what will be required three to four years later on. "The most fulfilling part," he says, "is the point at which the items really turn out, the business sectors create, and you have the best item. That is a major high."</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Guidance for Student Entrepreneurs…</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;"></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Beginning your own organization can seem like an overwhelming road to seek after, yet Syed needs understudies to realize that, as he would like to think, being a business visionary isn't that difficult. "From the outside it looks exceptionally troublesome. Be that as it may, in the event that you have the heart, on the off chance that you have the want, and in case you're willing to go for broke and a few drawbacks, you can do it."</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Syed did not venture into the part of business visionary appropriate out of school. At the time that he established Cavium, he conveyed almost 20 years of experience to the organization. He initially worked at a few littler organizations in item outline and improvement, trailed by four key a long time as Executive Director at Samsung Electronics in Korea where he assumed a noteworthy part in beginning and developing Samsung's Flash memory and CPU organizations, and afterward he helped to establish his first new business, Malleable Technologies (obtained by PMC-Sierra in 2000). At present around half of Cavium's business is abroad.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Other Affiliations…</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;"></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee trusts that Mr. Ali's broad involvement in various senior administrative positions in the semiconductor business, and also his experience as an organizer of Cavium and his long residency as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cavium, brings important industry encounter, noteworthy Cavium learning and experience and in addition congruity to the Board of Directors. Moreover, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee trusts that having Mr. Ali serve on the Board of Directors guarantees that the Board of Directors and administration act with a typical reason to execute Cavium's vital activities and strategies for success, and that Mr. Ali, as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, can go about as a scaffold amongst administration and the Board of Directors, encouraging the standard stream of data.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> She has done her MBA in entrepreneurial studies from Athabasca University.</div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Memberships and associations...</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Syed B. Ali, age 58, is one of authors of Cavium and has filled in as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since the commencement of Cavium in 2000.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a correspondence chip organization of which he was an establishing administration colleague.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Moldable Technologies was procured by PMC-Sierra, Inc., a correspondence coordinated circuit organization, in 2000.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Preceding that, he had different positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thomson, Tandem Computers, Inc., and American Microsystems, Ltd.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Awards and accolades...</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Syed B. Ali received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">National finalist for the award in 2011.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 award is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, spanning more than 140 cities and 50 countries worldwide.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Quotes</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">"I received excellent exposure to semiconductor design and technology. At Michigan, you could implement an entire design cycle for a product, including manufacturing it in the lab, and then testing it. This was very unusual for a University, especially at that time.”</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">“Michigan is still doing a great job according to Ali.”</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">"Michigan grads are always among our top performers at Cavium."</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">"Increasingly, if you're coming from an engineering background, being able to understand and work with different cultures is very important. Having the viewpoint of both the U.S. and Asia will help you to be successful in your business. This is true whether you are starting a company, or working in an international organization."</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">“We continue to develop additional silicon and software products in the Xpliant family and we're now opening the programmable technology to a wider group of customers. We expect additional customers to announce products throughout 2017.”</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">“ ThunderX deployment continue to make steady progress. Two large mega-cell data centers in Asia continue to deploy production workloads on ThunderX servers, one continuing to evaluate ThunderX for additional workloads.”</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div>

Syed Basharat Ali President and CEO Cavium Networks

Cavium, Inc. participates in the arrangement of coordinated semiconductor processors which empowers keen handling for wired and remote ...

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Bobbi Leach CEO FuturePay

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="col-md-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 655.875px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" m="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a3211f; text-align: justify;"><img alt="Bobbi Leach" height="181" src="https://www.wisdomimg.com/india/s/socphotos/Bobbi-Leach.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="171" /></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Right from her childhood, e-commerce veteran and senior global business leader, Bobbi Leach had always dreamt of being a businesswoman. By grade 10 she had made the decision to go to business school. At 25, she was a partner in a startup firm and therefrom, there was no looking back. She worked her way up to be the CEO of FuturePay and RevenueWire. She was always interested in taking the road less travelled rather than walking down the well-worn paths. She never followed the crowd or the trends. But the crowd followed her and she set the trend.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> In her vast twenty five years of experience in tech world, she has a history of feats of e-business ventures – be it start-ups, software or e-commerce firms - as staff, management and advisor / consultant. Her entrepreneurial and leadership skills has attracted many awards and recognitions even at the international level. She has always been actively in the forefront for developing the tech sector of Victoria, the city she grew up in. Having found three tech startups, she is an expert in building companies from early stage ventures to profitable businesses on a global scale. She loves growing businesses, getting involved with all facets of the business and keeps looking at the next milestone to achieve.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">What started off as a business developer...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Revenue Wire, a then start up which is into processing of online payments and performance marketing services serving 120 countries hired Bobbi to do business development initially in April 2009 as its eighteenth employee. But Elton Pereira, the co-founder soon discovered the leadership and managerial skills of Bobbi and did not think twice when it was time to appoint a CEO for the company. As the CEO, she aims at building a global brand of services that help businesses grow revenue online. Since she took over the position in 2014, the revenue at the company has grown nearly 500%, $200 million a year with the number of employees increasing from 12 when she started to over 75 now. Under her leadership, the company took off to new global markets with great developments in e-commerce space. It also grew its verticals from affiliate marketing to multiple verticals. Bobbi is working on her latest challenge of adding new verticals. Today she heads the group with RevenueWire Commerce, AffiliateWire, CallStream and Constant Content under her. In 2015, for three consecutive years in a row, RevenueWire was listed as one of Canada’s fastest growing companies by PROFIT magazine. While she gives the credit to her team, all business units led by Bobbi were a huge success.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Co-founding FuturePay...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Bobbi Leach is a co-founder of the FuturePay, a business arm which RevenueWire served as the incubator. Bobbi and her team immediately dived in when they saw an opportunity in the growing industry of alternative payment options. They wanted to build something to enable online transactions without a credit card. That was something which was not in the market then. FuturePay provides buy now pay later non credit card option to allow shoppers to buy online. FuturePay has won a gold Innovator Award as the best credit innovation at Innovation Project 2016, Gold for Milestone of the Year, Silver for Company Growth, and Bronze for Company of the Year in 2017.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Early career...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> After graduating from Laurentian University in commerce with a major in sport marketing, the Victoria raised young grad joined as an associate in a sports marketing start-up firm in Ottawa, when her counterparts chose big corporate cubicles. In a decade she stayed with the firm, she rose through the ranks from a marketing associate to a partner to the Vice President. While there, she became a certified consultant from Institute of Certified Management Consultants. As she left the company in later 90s, she had a feeling that rest of her career will be internet related.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> In 1997, she took up the offer from The Education International as their founding employee and moved back to Victoria. She was initially responsible to grow the start up to a profitable venture, including launching new products and increasing market penetration. The management was impressed with her drive and she was moved from the role of marketing associate to the position of Executive Vice President and shareholder.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> By March of 2005, Bobbi co-founded and took charge as the as Vice President of Network Development for PortoLynx, where she helped empower small businesses across North America to sell their products online. Along with leading the global market development of the network, she was instrumental in launching new vertical networks, increasing membership, driving adoption of the platform and attracting end user customers.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> She then worked for the local government for a while to develop and implement the software that helps the government to automate their business processes. During her short stint as the advisor to TeamPages, she shared her expertise to this SaaS service for recreation and sports leagues. Post TeamPages days, Bobbi led the marketing division of GenoLogics Life Sciences Software as it's Marketing Director for a year before moving to RevenueWire. At GenoLogics she played a key role in development and implementation of the company's closed loop lead generation system and doubled the volume of qualified leads.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">An exceptional role model and natural leader...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Bobbi never forgets to give credit to her passionate team for all that she is. She says success has been about employees. She is not into micromanagement. As a leader, she sets the table for her teams to succeed by providing direction, the resources and parameters within which they can work. Her leadership style was evolved over time as she advanced in her career. She gives a lot of space for her team and is committed to develop a second line of management with executives being able to drive their own teams independently. She is a motivational leader, valuable coach and mentor for everybody around her. She always likes to be with people who constantly challenge themselves, who aren't happy with the status quo. She is very communicative and keeps moving forward. Working in a male dominated industry, she smashes gender stereotyping and suggests parents to talk to their girls about this at home. She just thinks about running a successful company and about being the best CEO she can be.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Bobbi never shy away from sharing her failures openly. Being part of early days of startup, she has made several mistakes in management. When she falls, she gets up, dusts off and carries the lessons learnt from failures for the rest of her career.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> When asked about the most satisfying part of being a CEO she said it is seeing how happy people get when they have success.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Personal life...</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;"></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Bobbi loves baseball, hiking and has dreams of someday retiring in Costa Del Sol. Competitive spirit and teamwork are the lessons she brought to her career from the baseball court. Growing up, her mom is the one who influenced her the most. She draws inspiration from her working mom who instilled the notion that Bobbi can excel in her career. She was Bobbi's biggest supporter too. She is always awestruck by the entrepreneurs who cross over to massive divergent industries. Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Martine Rothblatt had inspired her in this regard.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> She has done her MBA in entrepreneurial studies from Athabasca University.</div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Awards and accolades...</span></div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Named as 2015 Executive of the Year by the Victoria Advanced Technology Council</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Awarded the Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year in Canada in 2016</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Female Executive of the Year by the 2016 Golden Bridge Awards</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Memberships and associations...</span></div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Board member of Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Quotes</span></div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">The most important characteristic to a successful career in tech is your natural curiosity. Technology and markets are constantly changing, so you need to embrace the reality of continuous learning and adapting in order to survive and prosper.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Whether it’s a career in tech or starting your own tech company, you need to be passionate about what you’re pursuing. There are going to be challenges and setbacks, so you need to believe in your vision and your abilities in order to persevere.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Success in business is never achieved on your own, which is why I'd like to share this recognition with my amazing team. - On receiving Stevie Award</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">I love things that aren’t entirely figured out yet. I think if something becomes a bit more routine then I’m put off.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Even if something didn't work, it's still better to try new things, share the learnings and figure out the next steps.</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div>

Bobbi Leach CEO FuturePay

Right from her childhood, e-commerce veteran and senior global business leader, Bobbi Leach had always dreamt of being a businesswoman....

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V Prem Watsa Founder, Chairman and CEO, Fairfax Financial Holdings

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="col-md-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 655.875px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" m="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a3211f; text-align: justify;"><img alt="V Prem Watsa" height="181" src="https://www.wisdomimg.com/india/s/socphotos/PremWatsa.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="171" /></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> The journey of this immigrant who landed in Canada with $8 in his pockets to being celebrated as the Warren Buffet of Canada, the Indo Canadian investment guru, the Oracle of Ontario is quite fascinating. The Canadian businessman, Prem Watsa, the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Toronto based financial services firm Fairfax Financial Holdings invests billions of dollars across the world not just in insurance ventures, but also in restaurants, sporting goods stores, newspapers, smartphone makers etc. This global finance stalwart has a track record of 40 years in investment management.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Education and migration...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Following his passion for maths and chemistry and his father's advice, he did his bachelor's in chemical engineering from IIT Madras. Apart from studies, he also excelled in sports and games. He soon figured out that his heart lies in business and not engineering. After the graduation, he wanted to study further on management and wanted to get into IIM-Ahmedabad as it's graduates are placed in good positions. However, he could not make it to the IIM in the first chance. He worked for a pharma company in Hyderabad for an year, studied harder simultaneously, re-applied the next year and got in. Aspiring to join a good international graduate school, Prem quit IIM in a month and moved to Canada to join his brother. He then enrolled himself for MBA in University of Western Ontario. He met the college fees through selling air conditioners and furnaces door to door. He says that being an immigrant helps you to polish the qualities you never knew you had. Being at the very bottom, the only way to go is up and considers his children less fortunate for not having had the immigrant experience. He does not shy away from sharing his initial struggle as an immigrant in Canada and the difficulty he had in finding his first job.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">First job...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> He met the love of his life, Nalini Loganadhan, during his IIT days. An year after moving to Canada, he brought her onboard and got married. As he was still a student then, they survived on his door to door sales job. Post his masters, though he continuously applied for jobs, this immigrant was left behind by the established Canadian counterparts. He and three others were called for the second round of interview in a company. With no other applicants showing up, he finally got himself placed as an investment analyst in Confederation Life Insurance Company in Toronto. He was mentored by his manager John Watson who gave him a copy of “Securities Analysis” by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, the “Bible of Value Investing.” He admired Benjamin Graham, a Columbia business school professor and investment manager, to a stage where he named his son Benjamin. Coincidently, Ben Watsa is also into value investing. He rose through various positions including that of the Vice President of the company.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> After working close to a decade in Confederation Life Insurance Company, in 1984, he and his former boss Tony Hamblin along with a few others from Confed founded an asset management company called Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel Ltd. Prem serves as the Vice President of the company.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Founding Fairfax...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> In 1985, he arranged a group of investors and took control of a small, almost bankrupt Canadian trucking insurance company with $10 million in premiums called Markel Financial. He quickly identified that all it needs was capital injection and revived the company by infusing fresh capital. This eventually became the base for Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. Two years later he changed the name and re organised to what we see today. Apparently, Fairfax stands for fair, friendly acquisitions. How thoughtful a title! Since then, he has managed to grow the company’s book value by approximately 20% annually which is a terrific record. Call it his conservative upbringing or a function of his personality, this disciple of Ben Graham built his empire through relatively safe and steady approach of value investing. He has been the Chairman and CEO of Fairfax since its inception. This deal maker and value investor is known for his excellent reading of market, for his exceptional investing skills and business acumen. The India born billionaire is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">A great business leader...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Prem is not just an excellent value investor, but also a great business leader. It is very interesting to note that most of the core people he started with in 1985 are still with the company. From the very beginning, he made it a point to treat his employees well. This speaks volumes about him as a business leader.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">A selfless philanthropist...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Prem and Nalini lives by the saying “To whom much is given, much is expected”. For them, philanthropy or giving it back to the community, as they like to call it, is close to their hearts. While setting up Fairfax, one thing they both were very clear was to invest in the community that helped them grow, if they become successful. Eventually they did. They stuck by their decision and a percent or two of their pre-tax profits goes to charity every year, which comes to a few millions. Prem has contributed millions of dollars to organisations like The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Royal St. George's College and The Lyford Cay Foundation towards providing quality education to underprivileged children and for healthcare causes. He has helped Horatio Alger Association, an association that raises money to fund hundreds of university scholarships for students in need, to raise $2.6 plus millions to fund scholarships for students who are struggling with adversity.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">How a book can change you...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> In his early twenties, during a casual conversation with a fellow passenger on a train journey, Prem was asked if he had read the book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, which was a study of people who had become financially successful and was gifted the book. The author talked to 500 successful Americans and summed it up as, ‘what the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve.’ Prem found the book highly motivational and learned that success is in your head. He was convinced that if you really want to be successful – in any field you might choose – then you surely will be. He considers having introduced to that book at such a young age as a life changing moment. He quotes the book as “the single best book that I have read and it changed my life forever”. He doesn't forget to give copies of this book to young people he meets.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Personal life...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Prem Watsa likes to keep a low profile. He is a soft spoken, low ego, humble person. He draws a salary that is modest for the field. He is a part of many philanthropic organisations. A committed Christian, he deeply involves with the Church.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Prem was an active sportsman during his college days. He was the Institute Sports secretary of IIT Madras and loved playing hockey and table tennis. He still finds some time to play golf, tennis and occasionally, table tennis.</div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Awards and recognitions...</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Western Ontario, an Honorary Doctorate of Sacred Letters from Wycliff College of the University of Toronto, an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Tyndale College</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Won the Global Indian Award for Corporate Excellence in 2017</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Won the International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award in 2016</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> A word to the future generations..</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Act upon the experiences and turning points of your life.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Have faith in God and practice it. It will give you a guideline on how to live your life, and will help you make all the right choices for a wonderful future.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Once you are successful you should always remember to pay it back and help others who are less fortunate. You will find that personally rewarding.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Memberships and associations...</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, the Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, the Investment Committee of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Serves on the Advisory Board of the Richard Ivey School of Business</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Former Chancellor of the University of Waterloo.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Quotes</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">As long as you are willing to work hard and do something about which you are passionate, then there is unlimited opportunity.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">I believe education is the way to rise above adverse circumstances. With an education, there are no limits to what can be accomplished.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Welcome instances when you’re out of sync or out of favor because that’s where opportunities come from.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Keep the fascination with business going as it’s constantly changing and that there’s always something to do.</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div>

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Patrick P. Gelsinger CEO VMware

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="col-md-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 655.875px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" m="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a3211f; text-align: justify;"><img alt="Patrick P. Gelsinger" height="181" src="https://www.wisdomimg.com/india/s/socphotos/gelsinger.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="171" /></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> A teenager who grew up in the countryside of Pennsylvania, working in their family farm skipped his last year of high school and took a trade school test on an impulse which turned out to be a life changing incident for him. Little did he knew then that it was the first step towards building an amazing career. Having befriended hard work quite early in his life, he has reached up to being the CEO of VMware, a billion dollar Silicon Valley Technology Company now.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Patrick P Gelsinger, popularly known as Pat Gelsinger was with Intel Corp for three decades. He then worked for EMC as its President before becoming the CEO of Palo Alto-based VMware. One of the top paid CEOs of the tech industry, this passionate technologist has received numerous Intel and industry recognition awards. Being the part of executive management teams for global information technology companies, he comes with extensive experience in general management, technical and product development positions. This IT veteran holds seven patents in the areas of VLSI design, computer architecture and communications has almost two dozens of publications in his name.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Education and early career...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Intel caught him young, when he was all of 18, while interviewing the top grads from this technical college. He was doing his associate degree course from Lincoln Technical Institute in Pennsylvania when Intel hired him as their technician in quality assurance. Well.. Not everybody gets recruited to a Silicon Valley company even without an under grad degree. He did not stop there. It was just the beginning. Pat wanted to be “the engineer who decided what to do, not the technician who did the grunt work." He loved the idea of working in a clean office without having to worry about being kicked by cows and horses. He worked substantially overtime that HR division had to raise a complain. With a full time job in hand, he used Intel’s college tuition reimbursement program and completed his under graduation in Electrical engineering from Santa Clara University simultaneously in flying colours. He then joined Stanford and pursued his masters in electrical engineering and computer science, all the while holding on to his job. Though he wanted to do Ph.D, life happened. In the initial ten years of his career, he was so fond of his work that he found rest and relaxation a waste of time and hardly took any vacations. Later, he re-prioritised and made it a point to take vacations and spend time with family too.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Taking giant leaps with Intel...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> By the late 1980s, he had risen to the position of chief architect of Intel's 486 processor, the globally dominant chip in personal computers and laptops and led Intel to be the dominant supplier of the microprocessor. Prior to that, Pat led Intel's Desktop Products Group and was responsible for desktop processors, chipsets and motherboards for consumer and commercial customers. When he was appointed as the Vice President of Intel at the age of 31, he was the youngest Vice President of the company. In 2000, he also became the first ever Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corp. As CTO of Intel he invented the conference "Intel Developer Forum" as "WinHEC" is to Microsoft and led the creation of key industry technologies including USB and Wi-Fi. Pat advanced quickly through various technical, management and senior executive positions such as Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Enterprise Group, as Intel's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Pat spent 30 years of his career with Intel. He made generous contributions to the growth of the company while working on the 8088, the 80186, and 80286 processors, by being one of the critical engineers on the 80386 and being the architect and design manager on the 80486 which provided the processing power needed for the personal computer revolution through the 1980s into the 1990s. Since then, he spearheaded almost every Intel processor, say, 486DX2, Pentium, PentiumPro, Pentium II, III, IV, Nehalem, etc. He has been in the forefront for many research initiatives of the company.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> In September 2009, Pat Gelsinger left Intel to join EMC.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">As President and COO of EMC...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Pat joined the computer storage giant, EMC in September 2009 as its President and COO of EMC’s Information Infrastructure Products business, and moved to Boston overseeing engineering and operations for information storage, data computing, backup and recovery, RSA security and enterprise solutions.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Back to Silicon Valley with VMware...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Exactly three years after moving to Boston, he left his job with EMC and joined one of the top five software companies in the world, VMware as it's CEO. He led the company to seize opportunities created by new computing paradigms. He shepherded the company in its expansion from its core strength in virtualization to become a recognized global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise mobility and cyber security. VMware has accelerated his revenue to two times during his tenure by helping customers accelerate their digital transformation journeys. VMware has over 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners worldwide.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> The company continues to receive recognition as a great place to work. For the third year in a row, it was recognised as one of the 2017 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work and for the fourth year in a row, as one among the 100 Best Places to Work in IT.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">When not in CEO's shoes...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> A strong follower of Christ, Pat has authored two books on having a great family, a successful career and staying close to God - Balancing your Family, Faith & Work and The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Faith, Family, and Work published in 2003 and 2008 respectively. He has also co-authored the book Programming the 80386 with John H. Crawford. He speaks frequently on faith, work, technology trends and philanthropy. He developed this habit of reading Bible first before picking his newspaper, which is the businessman's Bible, when he was working in Intel and has stuck to it ever since.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Pat is married to Linda and has four grown children. He balances the priorities of the tech world, his relationship with the Lord and his family running his life strictly by his faith and leads a contented life.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Philanthropy and faith...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Pat gives away fifty percentages of his earnings to charity. As a committed Christian, most of them involve the church such as establishing a Christian university in Sacramento area, setting up churches across the globe, supporting Christian oriented medical teams, educational work and an orphanage the he and Linda helped build in Nairobi etc. He is an active member of the Christian community serving organisation called Transforming the Bay with Christ. Driven by utmost faith, he led a weekly home Bible study for 16 years and served as a Sunday school teacher. There was time when he even thought of being a minister, but later realised that workplace is the ministry.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">A word to the new entrepreneurs...</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> • Innovate like a start up, deliver like an enterprise</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> • Taking risks = lowering risks</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> • Knock it out of the park and be distinguished in what you do</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> • Prepare yourself for the next job you want</div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Awards and recognitions...</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Named as a fellow of IEEE in 2008</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2008 from William Jessup University.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Quotes</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">If you asked ten people if they want to improve themselves, eight will say yes. But only two will follow through. Which means a majority of people--60% of us--lack the know-how, energy or discipline to move forward. If you really want to move forward, the answer seems obvious: Find a purpose, set goals, stay healthy and seek mentors who will hold you accountable.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">When you become the CEO you're managing all disciplines, whether it's legal, whether it's finance, whether it's operations, whether it's sales. So you almost always show up with inadequacies in your vitae of the areas that you don't have firsthand experience in.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">The career advice I've given to people is number one, do a great job in whatever role you're in, and number two prepare yourself for the next role you want to be in.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">You have to do things to keep broadening you beyond where you are. Keep refreshing you. Because it’s a consuming job. In the CEO job, you should say I want to be in this role for a decade. And are you living at a pace where you can do it for a decade or beyond as well? Some people really need relaxation and beach time.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">I recommend you do a detailed time study for yourself to see where you spend your time.</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div>

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Pete Leu CEO and Co-founder OnePlus

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="col-md-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 655.875px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" m="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a3211f; text-align: justify;"><img alt="Pete Leu" height="181" src="https://www.wisdomimg.com/india/s/socphotos/Pete-Leu.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="171" /></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Not long ago, a Chinese smartphone start up was all over the internet with glowing reviews for its first product which could be bought without breaking your bank, with comparable features and quality with smartphones that costs double or more. Pete Lau, CEO of smartphone start-up OnePlus came up with a smartphone better, cheaper and custom made to what customers want than anything offered by competitors.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> And if you think handling English effortlessly is a must for being a successful global entrepreneur, you have one more reason to admire the CEO of this hottest smartphone of the town which is making giant ripples in the industry - Pete Leu doesn't speak English. What is important is believing in yourself, sustaining and taking the path you’ve set for yourself and focusing on your vision.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Technology always fascinated Pete. He did not throw party with his first salary; rather he got himself a pager. He followed the developments in tech world since young. He couldn't stop himself when the first generation iPhone was launched. He immediately got one even though it couldn't be used in China. He wanted to play around with it.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">A decade and a half with Oppo...</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;"></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Pete Lau began his career in 1998 as a hardware engineer in Oppo Electronics, where he developed the passion for electronic products, especially the design side of it. Over the years, Pete rose through various positions and became the director of Oppo's Blu-ray division. This hardware engineer later turned out to be the head of marketing team and then got elevated as the Vice President of the company. During his reign as the VP, he spearheaded to bring Cyanogen Mod in the android operating system on Oppo N1 smartphone.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">The turning point...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> It was 2013 and the smartphone market was emerging and was slowing moving into everyday life from being a luxury gadget. Peter Lau and his then fellow Oppo-er, Carl Pei were never satisfied with the mobile phone industry. The flaws made them look deeper and wanted to work towards the same. One of the main issues they found was the higher price of the premium smartphones. They eventually quit their jobs at Oppo to start something on their own and cofounded OnePlus in December 2013.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">The OnePlus journey..</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Sitting in a cafe on an evening, the OnePlus team, which was five in number then, poured out their ideas and experiences about smartphones and brainstormed on building an efficient Android phone. It was quite striking that most of them were using an iPhone though. It made them think why and listed out the reasons. They instantly realised what was missing in the market and saw an opportunity to build a great Android device with good built quality, attention to detail and a beautiful design. Thus was born their first product, OnePlus One.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> With his knowledge in hardware and love for design, he dug deeper and it pointed that a Flagship Killer device can be created at a much affordable price than what the competitors charged. Unlike the rest in the market, they focussed on the product and on giving positive long term user experiences. In April 2014, OnePlus made its debut in the smartphone market breaking the duopoly of Apple and Samsung by launching OnePlus One internationally, which was a huge hit.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> After the success of OnePlus One, this company which thinks outside the box grew exponentially world wide launching high quality smartphones OnePlus 2, OnePlus X, OnePlus 3, OnePlus 3T and OnePlus 5 with simplistic, user-friendly designs at an affordable price, which were all well received. Time and again, OnePlus proves that there is no reason that a smartphone should come with exorbitant price tags.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> In a matter of four years, Pete Leu took the start up with five employees in a tiny space to a global brand with a talented and diverse young team of six hundred employees from different parts of the world serving 42 countries with its headquarters in Shenzhen, the electronics manufacturing hub of China. However, he takes customer feedback very seriously. He says it is only by listening and tuning in to their real needs that the best smartphone experience can be provided. The team is always active on the user forums with eyes and ears wide open to provide phones with high end specs without high end price tags. On asked if the company would expand to other products like tablets or smartwatches, Pete replied with confidence that, if you have a OnePlus smartphone, you wouldn't need anything else!</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Notes from marketing...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Instead of selling the smartphone through the retail stores, OnePlus initially took the online invite only route, which was eventually discarded. They went by the logic that if you find a good phone, you will definitely recommend it to your family and friends. Though the critics called the approach as “maddening” and the phone as “the best smartphone that you can't buy”, the smart brains behind the smartphone proved them all wrong by selling 1.5 million phones globally by end of the year. It went ahead to become the most talked about phone of the year disrupting the smartphone industry. What's even more surprising is that the company did not shell much on marketing. The company grew through word of mouth publicity converting customers to brand advocates, avoiding middlemen and by providing high value for the money paid by its customers. Taking the e-commerce route, they could offer the first product at a price half of the like from Samsung and a third of that from Apple. The attention to detail and the design made the phone unique and stand out. With hardly any marketing budget, it turned to it's customers spread the word. Well, a great product will sell itself without any individual marketing, they say!</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Obsession to detailing and perfection...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Pete is known for his obsession to design detail. True to the company's philosophy, Never Settle, Pete settles for nothing less than the best. "Our release date of OnePlus One was postponed for more than 20 days because the screen was bigger by 0.1 millimetres than originally designed. Most users wouldn't feel it, but I felt uncomfortable with it so we decided to change it and delay the release", he says. OnePlus One has gone through 36 revisions in a month's time. He has also spent over three months getting the curvature of OnePlus 3’s back just right to make it feel good in the hands.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">Hiccups in the Indian market...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Not unlike any other successful business, OnePlus had to go through a lot of controversies globally. Indian market was no different. On his visit to India, Pete was surprised to find that many Indians had already laid their hands on OnePlus One even before it was launched in India. The concept certainly attracted many. But before the company could celebrate it's success in its second biggest market outside China, it had to start its legal battle as Delhi High Court banned the sale in the country as Micromax, an Indian competitor litigated the same claiming themselves to have the exclusivity to sell phones with cyanogen mod software in India. However, the ban was lifted later and OnePlus then came up with custom Rom called Oxygen OS, a version of the Android operating system for its future devices.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600 !important;">A word to the future entrepreneurs...</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> His two cents to the upcoming entrepreneurs is - If you are an entrepreneur, it is expected that you will be lonely at the top. In a company no matter what position you are at, there is always somebody holding up the sky for you. But when you are the only one holding up the sky, there is a lot of pressure.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> Like many new generation CEOs, Pete Leu who does not have his own office cabinet office sits at a desk with his employees and insists that they address him by his first name. Pete is never actually off the CEO's shoes. When not at work, he is hooked to Pinterest, browsing through the designs.</div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" height="35" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 20px;"> Quotes</div> </td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">Decide if your product should be just good enough or of top quality.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">When you start a company, it’s not only about yourself, but the people around you, your family, your friends. I didn’t want to let them down and that’s what kept me striving.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">It is very easy to be famous but very hard to be respected.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">We will never be different just for the sake of being different. Everything done has to improve the actual user experience in day-to-day use.</td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://wisdomjobs.com/images/spark_images/nai_img2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" valign="middle">We want our users to be part of this company, to grow with us as a company, to share experiences with us. It's not 'my' brand -- it's 'our' brand. They're more than customers -- we're growing up together. We create together.</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div>

Pete Leu CEO and Co-founder OnePlus

Not long ago, a Chinese smartphone start up was all over the internet with glowing reviews for its first product which could be bought ...

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