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Success
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Who
doesn't like to hear about Indians who have made it big in
life due to sheer grit, determination and hard work on their
part? Since our main focus is on Indians in the US, we are
presenting a special feature on Indian Success Stories in
the US from February 2000 onwards. We hope that these stories
would inspire many of you to climb higher mountains
in life. If you would like to contribute to this section,
please e-mail to us at webmaster@garamchai.com
Kanan
Bhatt - Author, Business Evangelist
CorporateDramas.com,
an innovative genre in business publishing and movie media,
is the brainchild of the young, charismatic and vivacious
Ms. Kanan Bhatt. Kanan alternates her stay between Washington
DC and Mumbai. Kanan's romance with the corporate world dates
back to her childhood. With her gorgeous looks, Kanan could
have opted for a glamorous career as a model or an actress
but she wanted to pursue a more cerebral profession that would
add value to the industry and the society. Instead of Hollywood
or Bollywood, she headed for the Corporate Woods.
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For
Kanan Bhatt corporate world is the most fascinating
of all places
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According
to Kanan, "The corporate world is the most fascinating
of all places - the largest structured congregation
in society where people from different backgrounds,
upbringing, nationalities, cultures, races, religions,
genders, habits & temperaments come together to
seemingly fulfill a common corporate mission; each with
his or her own individual agenda, at times harmonious
and at other times disjoint. While we try to term the
time we spend here as the professional work life and
many of us try to keep it separate from our personal
lives, little do we realize that this is just a myth
to fool our own minds. It is humanly impossible to compartmentalize
the two. Majority of us carry forward our personal idiosyncrasies
into our professional worlds and our professional baggage
into our personal space, making each more challenging
than the other, sometimes exhilarating and exasperating
at other times. CorporateDramas.com is a realty and
fiction series that gives a voice to this plethora of
emotions."
After
Bachelors in Engineering and an MBA from premier institutes,
Kanan went on to manage complex technology businesses
across the globe. For someone so young and spirited,
she displays a much versatile and wiser disposition
on life, achievement and values.
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Kanan attributes her strength and confidence to a higher power
that she says has always lighted her path. Her faith in the
good old values of Karma combined with qualities of integrity
and intelligence provide her with clarity in thought and action
that is sometimes hard to find even in veterans. However,
she does not take full credit for her success and is quick
to add how fortunate she has been to have wonderful parents
who have motivated her and given her the freedom to pursue
her dreams.
Raised
in the vibrant city of Mumbai, in a family of professionals
and industrialists, Kanan nurtured a desire to create value
through conviction and perseverance. Kanan struck out as a
sharp, focused and witty kid. She believed in working smart,
not just hard and was an aviator at school and college without
being categorized as a nerd.
Despite
her successful and illustrious career and her global exposure
across Europe, the US and India, Kanan seems to exude a down
to earth personality with an ebullient and bright charm.
Being single on the personal front, Kanan finds time to catch
up with creative and entrepreneurial endeavors. She also likes
chess, tennis, music, movies, networking and keeping fit.
"As an active and passive participant of the corporate
world, it has been interesting to observe, analyze, experience
and understand the vagaries of this world that make and mar
destinies, where companies bloom and wither; icons are built
and busted and products are taken from cradle to grave,"
says Kanan
Kanan's
book "The Mist" drives home the age old theory of
the power of purpose. Amidst sensational success and glittering
glory, it awakens the corporate conscience to create heroes
with social responsibility and emphasizes the importance of
ethics in business and in life.
Her other
fictional masterpiece "The Power of Weakness" exposes
us to the negative powers lurking in corporate corridors that
if left unchecked, can shake the very foundations of Business
and the fabric of society.
The CorporateDramas.com series of books will appeal to all
stakeholders and spectators of this corporate world -Senior
management, operational managers, functional specialists,
legal counselors, auditors and financiers, stock market analysts,
vendors and the engineering, management and other graduating
student population who will be spending majority of their
adult life in the concrete, corporate jungle.
Visit:
www.corporatedramas.com
for more information or contact Email:
contact@corporatedramas.com
Shashi Seth Lead Product Manager, Google Search
Shashi
Seth grew up in the small town of Kanpur. While in school,
he was more passionate about tennis than studies. After his
Bachelors, Shashi enrolled himself for the new emerging Computer
Sciences at the University of Poona for his Masters. As Shashi
says, "This was a life changing experience for me: learning
from the fathers of computer science in India -- Dr Sahasrabudhe,
and Dr Sankar, but also getting an education in Life -- lessons
that have stayed with me through the years." In 1988, after
his Masters, Shashi worked for a few months at CMC in Mumbai,
but soon took the opportunity to go for further studies at
the University of Miami, Florida.
In 1999,
he took a job with a contractor for NASA and worked on various
projects at NASA for the next six years, building futuristic
avionics and flight simulation software.
"The Internet
boom had just started with the IPO of Netscape, and I took
the plunge providing consulting in e-commerce and internet
technology," says Shashi. First, he helped Gap launch their
online stores. Then, from 2002 to April 2005, he created the
hugely successful eBay Platform.
In May
2005, he got an opportunity to play the role of Lead Product
Manager for Google Search. While describing his experience
at Google he says, "To manage a product that touches millions
of people everyday, all over the world, is very rewarding,
and come with a huge amount of responsibility."
Some
of the biographies of successful Indian-Americans featured
on GaramChai.com in the past include:
Other
Websites featuring Successful Indian-Americans include:
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