Category: Exclusive Interview

Mobiliz Information and Communication Technology Inc.: Revolutionizing Fleet Management

With a massive experience of more than 15 years in providing advanced telematics solutions to the construction, energy, transportation, logistics, FMCG, and other industries, Mobiliz Information and Communication Technology Inc. is Turkey’s leading tracking and telematics fleet management service provider.

The firm was founded back in times when customers with a vehicle fleet were worried about tracking them in real-time and monitoring fuel levels to control expenses. The industry matured very fast as there are relatively low barriers to entry and as a result margins started to erode. 5 – 7 years ago many industry analysts predicted consolidation waves with little room for transformation.

At this point, the company was already aggregating and processing a huge amount of real-time data generated from customer vehicles. It became clear that Mobiliz may play a key role as an innovator in the world of mobility. In essence, the company was among the biggest operator of real-time data, i.e. a true IoT player. So, the key milestone was to deploy a modern IoT backend as a platform for efficient data aggregation and processing engines. In 2021, Mobiliz became a part of the Fleet Management Services Group of Companies, which is the largest fleet management service provider in Southeast Europe. Both organizations have implemented an IoT platform in line with the vision of further development of data analytics services and IoT applications.

The Steadfast Leader Nikolay Kichev is the Chairman of the Board at Mobiliz Information and Communication Technology Inc. He graduated in Economics at the American University of Paris and made a career at a European Telekom group, where he learned by practice the importance of technology in the modern world.

Nikolay is a seasoned ICT manager, who is skilled in business administration, finance, regulatory, public relations affairs, and corporate governance. Nikolay is persistent and tenacious in pursuing results, comfortable with decision-making, demanding targets, and multiple concurrent projects. His empathic, ambitious personality, helps to identify self-fulfillment through the development of teams and people.

Nikolay is also a strong negotiator, who is looking for opportunities to gain mutually satisfying results by building long-standing relationships based on respect and trust.

Helping Clients with Path Breaking Solutions

As an organization, Mobiliz believes, the value chain is rather complex, and it comprises the design of advanced hardware, service installation and activation, state-of-the-art software application, and uncompromised aftersales support. Service excellence and constant innovation have been naturally developed as key values of the company which leads to above-market level growth. For the last 2 years. Mobiliz practically doubled its customer base.

  • New business lines. As part of the digitalization process across various business segments, Mobiliz is moving ahead toward IoT applications, data analytics, asset tracking as well as workflow management, and process optimization.
  • Turkish market size. Mobiliz has a strong presence in 81 provinces in Turkey for its sales and after-sales services. The size of the Turkish market provides, the right scale of operation. It drives the deployment of the newest technologies and requires agility in innovation. The firm tries to stay competitive by quickly responding to customer demands.
  • Turkish market – people. The availability of young well-educated talents is another advantage that the company enjoys compared to its international peers. The start-up environment is booked with more than 150 R&D centers in the mobility segment only.
  • International expansion. Mobiliz performs major projects abroad and continues to grow in international markets with its partners in countries such as Azerbaijan, Germany, Austria, Qatar, and Nigeria. The firm plans to foster further expansion to adjacent countries, Europe, Asia, and Africa with Mobiliz operations being a core part of the expansion process.

“Technology should be used for good. It is a bit provocative statement, but advanced, sometimes disruptive technologies should be used to enhance sustainable, transparent, value accretive relations between all – businesses, partners and people.”

The Pandemic

During the last two years of the pandemic, Mobiliz made record sales. Even the usage of the company’s software platform was doubled very quickly. The pandemic made many businesses reconsider their models of operation, seeking efficiency and process optimization gains. The pandemic has helped to accelerate the digitalization process in many areas.

Awards and Accolades

The firm ranked 2nd for two consecutive years in the Turkey-based Manufacturer IoT and M2M category. It has also ranked 3rd in the IoT and M2M category with Turkey Centered Software Mobile Applications in 2020.

Mobiliz has also rightfully entered the list of the most important companies in Turkey providing systems and solutions on the international level regarding mobility in the transportation sector.

Tackling Challenges

For Mobiliz, the biggest challenge is to be agile in the deployment of the new technologies. The world is global, i.e., very fast. The technology stack is changed (enhanced) every 3-5 years, maybe faster in the future. As a company, we recognize that constant learning and agility should be key capabilities going forward. Therefore, the company plans to further invest in R&D and technology education.

Picture of the Future

As an organization, Mobiliz knows the road ahead is clear and challenging. It would like to play a major role in delivering advanced data analytics services based on IoT applications. This requires the employment of machine learning and AI algorithms to make the data business meaningful for its customers. Further, the business ecosystem between suppliers, dealers, and customers become more sustainable and long-term oriented. It calls for new applications based on blockchain technologies providing real-time data processing and transparency. Last, but most important, Mobiliz is planning to establish an IT academy to provide education in the most advanced technologies, as the established educational framework lags in content and intensity.

Antonella Rubicco: Transforming Servers into Super Computers

To provide computing power at an affordable cost, so small researchers with limited budgets could have a supercomputer, A3Cube Inc was Co-founded, by its CEO, Antonella Rubicco. It all started as a game for Antonella, an experiment to build a Cray-like supercomputer, using standard hardware. To do this Antonella and her team studied a lot and every single progress was so exciting that soon it became their mission.

Antonella was born in Italy, where she completed her scientific studies. During her University days in 1996, Antonella and Emilio Billi, who is also the CTO of A3Cube, Inc started to work on the possibility to build a supercomputer using standard hardware, it started as an experiment of two students. Antonella says, “We realized the first “personal-supercomputer” SC-12 in 2005 and during these 10 years our knowledge grow a lot, I studied business, management, law in order to complete my education and to be able to manage and drive a company.”

Path Breaking Services

A3Cube was founded back in 2012. Thanks to the unconventional and crazy vision of the firm’s co-founder and CTO Emilio Billi, the company was and is a pioneer in several fields with its technologies and solutions. The firm currently develops and realizes supercomputers for Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, solutions for data acceleration.

At present A3Cube have 3 product families:

  • DB-Turbo accelerates data access while reducing TCO and energy costs.
  • KIRA Supercomputer large-scale data processor for ML, Analytics, and AI problems.
  • GRIFO massively scalable GPU array for large deep neural network training.

Awards and Accolades

A3Cube is amongst the very few companies that, understood the key role of data in transforming every aspect of modern society, years ago. This vision has led A3Cube to become the game-changing enterprise of today, pioneering the transition from High-Performance Computing systems to High-Performance Data systems.

A3Cube has received several awards over the years, which proves the means the organization is going in the right direction, and it is working well. However, Antonella feels there’s still a long way to go. Antonella was honored and happy to be selected as a member of Dell’s 50 Founders cohort 2016, it was the first time she felt like a good CEO who was doing a good job. From a personal perspective, the best accomplishment is her family, which is the best place to live.

“There are no shortcuts to a stable and strong outcome, determination, knowledge hard work and optimism are key.”

Picture of the Bright Future

Antonella sees her company as a small jewel, well organized, with a happy, committed and knowledgeable team. A3Cube is the benchmark for innovation and new technological challenges. In the future, Antonella Rubicco would like to have a good group of collaborators with whom she can discuss market changes, and new business opportunities and delegate some responsibilities so that she has a little more time for family.

Mission and Vision

A3Cube was founded by passion and is driven by the mission to lead the revolution of the new data age. The organization’s goal is to enable the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, High-Performance Data, and High-Performance Computing revolution. Only through new system architectures can new challenges be overcome. The firm designs the future “elastic” computation by combining its innovative use of AI, new algorithms, and applications to realize the next step in the human revolution.

The organization’s mission is to be the premier provider of supercomputing solutions specifically tailored for machine learning, data analytics, and high-performance computing. A3Cube’s products solves the most challenging problems by providing hardware, software, and strong expertise to its customers. The firm strongly believes that the data center of the future is a supercomputer like a data center, and it wants to lead this transformation.

The firm fosters an environment that motivates its employees, empowering them to work as one integrated team where the efficiency of business organization is combined with human dignity, and values such as creativity, harmony, and a sense of beauty.

Advice for Younger Self

Antonella Rubicco explains that building a company is not easy and there is a lot of work to do, there are no shortcuts. An entrepreneur must never stop studying, must know the evolution of technologies, the evolution of customers, and the market, to be one step ahead of the competition and be able to execute the best possible strategy. And another important thing is never stop dreaming. Everything is possible, it’s not easy, it’s hard, but knowledge and determination make the difference. Never stop studying and never stop dreaming.

Quintel Sumrall: Solving People’s Credit Problems

With the intent of helping people to solve their credit problems, Quintel Sumrall founded, My Credit Approve, LLC in 2020. Quintel was a credit repair specialist for more than seven years and has enough experience in how credit score works and how to manage them. To date, Quintel has helped many people to reach their credit goals. He started his firm, My Credit Approve to educate people and help all American to improve their financial stability.

Quintel believes each one of us can get behind our bills or loan installments. Being aware of what impacts the credit score is an added advantage when it comes to planning the expenses accordingly. Repairing and maintaining a good credit score can be done with self-research and studying and My Credit Approve can help its customers get their much easily. Thanks to Quintel Sumrall and his team, users will not get any surprises like getting unapproved of their mortgage, finance, or insurance. According to the Federal Trade Commission, 1 out of 5 people has at least one issue on their credit report. Having bad credit leads users to get their loans at higher rates and usually they pay more than usual.

Why Credit Score is Important

The credit score is often the most trusted source of the lender if an individual has the potential to pay back a loan. In other words, the credit report is the trusted source between the lender and the borrower. At the moment when users apply for a loan, credit card, or mortgage, the first thing checked by the credit issuer is the credit score. If the users’ credit score is lower than expected, then they have to improve it and show their reliability in paying off the loan on time. If a user doesn’t meet the required credit score standards, it may be in result disapproval. Some lenders are ready to provide money for people who have bad credit reports. But they have a lot of conditions and higher interest rates than the regular money lenders. This will make the borrower pay more than the loan’s worth and fall into deeper financial issues at the same time.

A good credit score can help you as a user to get the loans without any hassle and with a lower risk. The most important thing is, that users can find lenders who are ready to lend money at a lower interest rate. Therefore, My Credit Approve can save its users from trouble and help them maintain good credit.

Helping People with Credit Score

Quintel Sumrall explains, that My Credit Approve is cloud-based software, which checks its users’ credit scores. It has a user-friendly interface and can be set up quickly. The process has four steps and begins at only $29.99. The process eventually teaches its users, how to obtain the FICO credit score and credit report and monitor it just for $1. There are more than 100 customized dispute letters available in My Credit Approve, and they are created by experienced attorneys in the field.

Users can now monitor, repair, and maintain their credit score with the new approach of My Credit Approve. With the firm, there’s no need of spending hard-earned money or depending on a third party.

My Credit Approve helps its users to practice good financial habits and makes them aware even of simple financial matters.

My Credit Approve also educates its users about the financial situations that can negatively affect their credit score and the way to get rid of them.

“The best scenario is when someone takes care of their credit score on their own and tries to educate themselves about repairing and maintaining it.”

Path Breaking Service

The firm provides three customized options according to the clients’ requirements. My Credit Approve understands that the financial situation is different from person to person and the software should be appealing to everyone. All the details submitted by users are protected as My Credit Approve respects the privacy of its users. With a few steps, users can check their credit and find out the short comes in it.

My Credit Approve is the new approach to leading people to take care of their credit status themselves. It is also affordable software for credit advice and credit management. The affordability and user-friendliness have made the software popular among users.

Katarina Maloney: Solving Complexities of Minds by Using Hemp Based Products

Meet Katarina Maloney, the CEO of MCNB Holding Corporation. Her story began in her youth, during which she had spent growing up in continental Europe. When the time came for Katarina to attend the university, she decided to pursue a degree in Political Science at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.

At the age of 20, a friend from college asked Katarina to go to the United States, an opportunity she decided not to pass up. Without any knowledge of the English language and only $300 in her pocket, she found her way to Los Angeles, California.

From the moment she stepped foot in California, Katarina knew she was right where she was meant to be. She continued working her way up the ladder-climbing from a position as a bartender up to working as the right-hand woman to a successful entrepreneur by the time she was 25.

Shortly after, Katarina worked as the CEO of Livecustomer Inc., a company specializing in SEM Consultancy marketing. While there, she gained valuable insight that would one day help her build a company that aligns with her mission in life- a mission she found after becoming diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

During this challenging journey, Katarina learned about the many benefits CBD offers. The more she learned, the stronger desire she felt to create more access to it for everyone. That is why she invented one of the first CBD retail vape product and worked her way to becoming the industry frontrunner. As she watched customer after customer find a better quality of life from having greater access to CBD, I worked to continue growing my product’s reach.

After a traumatic accident in 2018, Katarina found herself fighting for her life once again. As she recovered, her company and herself have continued to push toward their mission to help those suffering from brain injuries and mental health issues.

Today, Katarina is a biotech executive who is currently the founder of MCNB Holding Corporation and COO of Labyrinth Sphere Inc. As the CEO, she oversees how the organization works toward the vision, mission, and direction she has dreamt it would follow. She works every day to develop and implement both MCNB Holding Corporation’s and Labyrinth Sphere Inc.’s business strategies and act as a guide for these company’s executives to run a high-quality, unique business with the best customer service.

Katarina also spends her days working closely with scientists and doctors, running clinical trials to learn more about the effects of CBD, THC, Psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT. As she pushes to learn more about the advantages these substances offer, Katarina has created a team that fights for making progressive treatments that have been found to provide quicker, more effective, and more natural pathways to recovery mainstream.

“Live a life worth writing a book about”

Inception Story

Katrina discovered the healing properties of CBD when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. As she experienced the symptoms, she found herself quickly losing weight and being unable to digest anything. After giving CBD a try, she found it completely healed her digestive problem and wanted to spread the word to everyone she knew.

That desire to spread the benefits of this natural, very simple, and yet widely unknown substance led Katarina work hard to ensure the benefits of CBD be widely available to customers worldwide using the business knowledge she gained throughout her career.

This only pushed her to continue to build her CBD business as she dreamt of making the medical benefits of CBD accessible to those who genuinely need it. In pursuing this dream, she and her colleagues introduced many oral, topical, and even rectal application products to the market, supplying options that can work for everybody.

In 2018, Katarina faced one of the most difficult challenges in her life, an accident that caused a traumatic brain injury. Just as she was taking some of the biggest steps in her career as an entrepreneur, Katarina found herself on bed rest and unable to move for three months. Understandably, she hit rock bottom.

Through those months, Katarina found traditional Western medicine ineffective in her recovery. As she grew tired of waiting to feel better, she decided to create her own healing plan using innovative healing practices like CBD, neurofeedback, self-care, micro-dosing supplements, etc.

“Ask yourself what you would like to accomplish workwise if money was no object. That is what you need to do. Once you find your calling, pursue it with all you might. Becoming a frontrunner in any industry will never be easy. You must be willing to put in the work if that is truly your dream.”

A few years later, she found herself fully recovered and full of motivation to support those who suffer from brain injuries or mental health issues themselves. She now works closely with scientists and doctors to run clinical trials to learn more about CBD, THC, Psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT. As they learn more about the benefits these substances have to offer the world, Katarina Maloney and her team continue to fight to allow more people to have access to these progressive treatments.

Transforming Lives

To Katarina Maloney, success currently lies in creating a greater world in which everyone has access to the healing powers of hemp and psychedelics. She wants to witness more transformative stories and see more people experiencing a better-quality life. She knew what her life mission was from the moment she experienced life-changing healing from this natural medicine. And that mission is to help others reap those benefits.

Note to Younger self

When we requested Katarina Maloney for some suggestions for upcoming entrepreneurs, she said, “Setting out to do something impossible, against the odds- not something that society pushed you to do, but something you are doing because the universe has called you to it- is what I consider success. It does not matter whether you ever reach that destination. What makes it a success is the fact that you are choosing to be your own destiny.”

Future Roadmap

Katarina Maloney sees herself and her company playing a significant role in creating more accessibility to the medical benefits of CBD, cannabis, and psychedelics. As they continue running clinical trials, she hopes that the world can see just how effective and fast-acting these compounds can be for recovery from many different mental ailments.

The primary mission of MCNB is to improve the quality of life for those who are interested in overall wellness and who have been unable to find safe, affordable, and effective alternative treatments.

MCNB’s vision is to create physician-backed, reliable products, provide completely transparent clinical trials, and educate society further on caring for their mental health and well-being.

Aaron Bare: Helping Organizations to Create new Leaders

Aaron Bare is a strategist, entrepreneur, and the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of Exponential Theory. Aaron has held multiple global leadership roles in strategy, innovation, technology, marketing, and sales. As a leader, Aaron is results-focused and conscious and understands how to create a high-performance culture.

He is also the creator of the XMBA (eXponential Mindsets, Beliefs, and Attitudes Group Coaching Program), #1mXL a movement to build one million exponential leaders, and the “XX Podcast; Two Exponentials in a Flat World.” Beyond traveling to more than 90 countries and all 50 States, Aaron has facilitated innovation and strategy at over 500 companies and appeared on 20 of the top 250 podcasts. He is highlighted as 10 Leaders to Watch in 2022, listed on 50 under 50 Leaders, 40 under 40 Leaders, 35 under 35 Entrepreneurs, and one of his companies have been awarded “Most Innovative Company in the U.S.” His award-winning digital strategy firm had clients such as Google, Council for Foreign Relations, Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, Dannon, Emerson, Comedy Central, Telemundo & Dell, where he built over 100 software projects focused on growth hacking leveraging the viral loop.

An Exciting Career

Aaron started his career with Accenture as a programmer, leading him to develop more than 400 websites, various software projects, and apps at his award-winning digital agency, which was sold in 2016. He has also built the largest Sales Association on the planet earth; he has built a career site for 10 million monthly visitors. Additionally, he is known for building and marketing the number one food app in the Apple Store holding the top spot for more than 20 weeks.

Later he went ahead and built a Bitcoin-powered auction site, helped a Drone Management Platform to increase sales and customer base. He also holds a 3D printing patent along with his daughter. He has been an EIR at ASU WP Carey School of Business, ASU Fulton School of Engineering, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation, and Arizona Commerce Authority. Aaron is currently working with an X‑Prize winning mask. He has launched a private equity/venture capital firm to accelerate ideas. Finally, he advises C‑Suite, start-up founders, private equity, venture capital, and family offices on the future of business and exponential theory.

Aaron is also a Certified Historian, Certified Professional Philosopher. He was the creator of the Oxford Leadership Online Certified Coach, which is closing in on over One-Million participants. As a former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, (Ranked #1 in Innovation, 7 years in a Row) and Singularity University at NASA Ames campus in Mountainview, California, Aaron has been exposed to some of the most repeatable, predictable, scalable, and sustainable business models. He currently focuses on helping individuals explore Ancient Wisdom, Repeating Histories, and Modern Science through his XMBA program that focuses on Unlearning, Reprogramming, and creating the Growth Mindset to ultimately create, an Exponential Mindset, Beliefs, and Attitude. He also helps companies through customized solutions to scale their Exponential Leadership and Business Models.

“There’s only one rule in life, have fun!”

Helping People with Scholarships

Aaron Bare and Exponential Theory are providing scholarships to those who are unable to afford the XMBA program. Currently, Aaron Bare and is offering the Exponential Theory ebook to many organizations in order to discuss and get access to the digital Exponential Theory course. Exponential Theory’s goal is to democratize the Exponential Mindset. The desire to create 1,000,000 exponential leaders is real and ambitiously exponential.

Biggest Failures

When it comes to the biggest professional failures Aaron says, “We win or learn – failure is not part of my journey.” He adds, “With no failure, we have no problems, fear, doubts, worries, anxiety, stress, regrets, or limits. Only opportunities to win or learn. The faster we learn, the faster we grow. Make mistakes, learn, iterate.”

The Greatest Accomplishments

When we asked Aaron about his greatest accomplishments, he said, “I summarized my findings in my professional facilitation career in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling book, Exponential Theory: The Power of Thinking Big. In this book, I outline ten unique ways companies can build themselves to grow exponentially and disrupt themselves before they get disrupted.”

Also included in this bestselling book is an outline for future leaders to grow themselves personally, professionally, and organizationally. When leaders embrace the traits and concepts of Exponential Theory themselves, they increase their vision, understanding, clarity, and agility of the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world we live in.

Future Roadmap

The vision for Exponential Theory is to help the world think bigger. Aaron believes Exponential Theory will help develop leadership academies within some clients’ corporate training infrastructure, ensuring that not only executives get personal, professional, and organizational development.

Exponential Theory’s client portfolio will have a global reputation of tackling wicked problems; problems that impact more than a billion people and are compounding in both their complexity and unpredictability. Ultimately, the success of the clients and the leaders Aaron works with will be the greatest testimonial of all, and he looks forward to creating an army of optimistic, mindful, conscious future exponential leaders.

Company Name: Exponential Theory

Management: Aaron Bare, Strategist, Entrepreneur, and Author

URL: aaronbare.com

Ekta Ahuja: Transforming Homes with Innovative Services

With more than 19 years of experience at the forefront of the interior design industry, Ar. Ekta Ahuja is one of the most well-known interior designers in Pune. Ekta received her architecture degree from Dr. B.N College of Architecture, Pune, and soon she worked with Ar. Hafeez Contractor, who is an icon in the field.

Later Ekta founded her own Architecture & Interior Designing house named; Tejomaya Architects & Interior Designers, which is a true reflection of effulgence, brilliance, and splendour that echoes through every architectural and interior design it creates with finesse. Ekta and her team’s relentless passion for contemporary art and design inspires them to create a stunning vision of luxury, style, and grandeur like never before.  

The ever-evolving style from Ekta is often best defined as ‘classic contemporary’ creating a stylish and nonchalant dialogue. Ekta’s use of neutral tone in furniture and adding colours with artifacts, artworks, and soft furnishings creates unique, memorable, and inspired spaces.

Transforming Homes

Thanks to an experienced, highly qualified, and dynamic team of interior designers, technicians, architects, and project managers specializing in various aspects of design, Tejomaya Architects & Interior Designers’ employees allow it to offer the best experience for its clients.

Ekta and her team manage the entire process starting from the conception stage through the completion stage. The team is equally happy to work on both residential and commercial projects, both in Pune and outstation.

Tejomaya offers multiple services for its clients, which include;

  • Interior Architecture & Space Planning: Tejomaya Architects & Interior Designers are one of the best residential interior designers in Pune. As the founder of the firm, Ekta takes a complete overview of every project, so that every aspect of the scheme is completely integrated and is in line with the clients’ brief. The architectural design team is very much well versed, when it comes to providing various internal services like state-of-the-art AV, Automation, HVAC, Lighting Systems, and MEP.
  • Interior Space Planning: Sometimes, a small change can bring a huge difference to a troublesome area. Interior Space Planning is Ekta’s specialty, and this service helps to bring out the best of any space without having to make any major changes.
  • Furniture Design: Rather than following a distinct house, Ekta and her team ensure that every project Tejomaya undertakes is perfectly tailored to its clients’ needs, tastes, and style.
  • Lighting Design: Just like every human, all rooms and buildings have their personality, and most of the time few touch-ups and proper lighting design consultation, one can make it stand out. So, Ekta and her team work with their clients throughout the whole process to get the best out of it.
  • Landscape: Tejomaya Architects and Ekta is best known for their pre-construction consultations. Ekta feels an impressive space or structure that often leaves a long-lasting memory and impression that can be bought to light by natural lights and landscapes. Ekta and her team use these features extensively indoors and outdoors.
  • Interior Styling Consultation: As every room or building has its personality and stories to tell, Ekta uses many materials, textures, and colors to make each place comfortable, and welcoming.
  • Old Property Renovation–Restoration-Remodel: Under Ekta’s leadership, Tejomaya architects identifies the proper methods to transform old properties for the new intended usage.

Tackling Challenges

During the initial days of Tejomaya architects, it was more of a one-woman show, with Ekta only. However, with time, the company grew and hired new architects, supervisors, and other team members.

Although, the main challenge for Ekta was always recruiting the right talent because Tejomaya architect does bespoke designs. So, the organization needs to have a good amount of talent, who can follow Ekta’s design sensibilities, and show clients’ personalities in their designs.

Inspiring Employees

The pandemic was a tough time for everyone, but the planning and organizational skills of Ekta and her team helped them to sail through. Since everybody moved to a work from home concept, it increased Ekta’s horizon to hire new talents across the country.

Ekta Ahuja also witnessed that people understood the value of a good home, so her industry and business has flourished post-Covid. So, once work starts flowing, the team automatically gets motivated. Also, being in the office after a long time has motivated people to a large extent. Additionally, when a bunch of creative minds works together it’s a different outcome. She says, “Learning is a continuous process and it can happen only when you are exchanging ideas in our field, so that’s the biggest motivation for them to work in a team and see their project come up and site getting done.”

Future Roadmap

For the future, Ekta Ahuja and her team at Tejomaya are venturing into a lot of architectural work, so Ekta wants to increase the horizon of her firm and is looking to expand her team pan India. She also has an architectural department, which is doing more and more architectural work.

Advice for Young Entrepreneurs

When we requested Ekta to provide some suggestions for the young entrepreneurs. She says, “The most valuable advice I have always received, and I would like to pass it on that you should always stand by your values and beliefs as if you don’t stand by something, you’ll fall for anything.”

Company Name: Tejomaya Architects & Interior Designers

Management: Ar. Ekta Ahuja, Founder

URL: tejomayadesigns.com

Yossi Abadi: Selected Among 10 Most Innovative Business Leaders Revamping The Future, 2022

Abadi, rated by FORBES as the most recognized Israeli in LATAM, has been selected for his social vision, entrepreneurial spirit and technological development in both America and Africa. 

Meet Yossi Abadi, the CEO, and Co-founder of Tenlot Group. Yossi was born and raised in the Holy Land, he is 100% Israeli, but with a Latin spirit. He lived several years in Mexico and the Dominican Republic and speaks fluent Spanish. Yossi is married and the father of two wonderful children.

A person with a clear vision, Yossi is motivated by an abundance of passion. He thinks what best characterizes him is his motivation to create new initiatives, and ideas to start projects from scratch. Yossi felt, he has fulfilled his mission when the other members of his team are as passionate and motivated as he is to lead a project. Yossi is also passionate about diplomacy, social responsibility, business, and entrepreneurship.

Yossi earned his Law (LLB) and International Relations (BA) degrees from Reichman University (IDC) in Israel, specializing in Homeland Security and Terrorism, graduating summa cum laude.

From 2012 to 2015, he was the Chief of Staff of the Minister of Energy and Mines of the Dominican Republic, responsible for international negotiations and alliances with other countries. Yossi had previously served as an International Advisor to the National Authority for Maritime Affairs of the Dominican Republic. He was also appointed as the Honorary Consul of El Salvador in Israel.

The Steadfast Leader

Throughout his life, Yossi has had many people who have left their mark on his vision and career. Above all, Yossi feels blessed to have had the unconditional support of his family.
He has also been privileged to work with a phenomenally successful mentor: Jacob Engel, Chairman, and Founder of Elenilto Group and EngelInvest, as well as Chairman and Co-founder of Tenlot Group. His work in developing markets and philosophy of giving back to communities in which a company works have truly inspired Yossi.

Leading Projects in Various Sectors

Tenlot Group is a high-tech corporation, active in the gaming industry. In addition to providing B2B and B2G services, based on the firm’s advanced, proprietary gaming platform, the firm specializes in private investment in lottery operations in cooperation with various governments worldwide. Its investment group also leads projects in the mining, renewable energy, and infrastructure sectors, with private investments and government alliances on several continents.

Most of the time, Yossi and his colleagues work with governments, and charity organizations, operating under license on their behalf. This requires a lot of responsibility, much more than a simple private project, because there is no room for failure.

Yossi says, “When your team grasps the scope of the responsibilities that come with working on behalf of mega-institutions, you have taken the first step towards a successful operation.” He also adds, “When the client sees the commitment and dedication of the team, they understand that ours is a company that truly looks out for their interests. That is the key.”

A Child who Dreamt of Being a Lawyer

As a child, Yossi always dreamt of becoming a lawyer– a passionate litigator, who fights for justice, as we see in the movies. He prepared himself from a very young age for a career in law, well before university. But once Yossi achieved his goal, he felt that his passion for business, investment, and being able to contribute to the social development of communities was stronger than his love for litigation in court.

Losing fear of taking risks was the first lesson Yossi learned and the first real decision he made. It is what led him to leave what he was doing, change course and embark on new paths. Since then, Yossi always remembers that to reach new heights, you sometimes have to break paradigms.

Yossi decided to leave something solid and promising, in his own country, Israel, and fly abroad to chase a dream that was not even clear. This completely changed the course of my life.

Tackling Primary Challenges

Being an Israeli who works mainly in Latin America and Africa, Yossi Abadi thinks what most caught his attention is the need to adapt to the local culture. Many multinationals come to global markets wanting to impose their style, and they are destined to fail.

He says, “You cannot expect to visit a country and ask whoever invites you to enter their house to have the same style you have. There are so many cultural differences. It’s the biggest challenge in any operation we’ve had.”

Yossi Abadi believes it takes patience, respect, and a willingness to adapt. He adds, “What had surprised me is the patience and confidence my entire executive team has had in the countries in which we operate when faced with significant challenges.”

Picture of the Future

What excites Yossi Abadi most about the future is knowing that anything is possible. To know that there is nothing, that is too out of reach or too difficult – if you only believe it. His personal goal is to continue generating businesses that impact people’s lives and help them change for the better – to make a difference. Knowing that as a company, and as a businessman, Yossi not only generates wealth but also hope.

Martin Wachter: Leading the World of Virtual Sports and Betting Solutions

With the intent of offering the first real sportsbook with a virtual outcome, Martin Wachter, the CEO of GoldenRace founded the company. GoldenRace is a world-leading developer and provider of award-winning virtual sports and betting solutions for land-based and online operators. Based on its target of offering a real sportsbook, Martin and his team created realistic odds, and their virtual sports engage players constantly, generating more than 25 million bets per day through the firm’s partners around the globe. 

 

The company’s bestseller is its virtual football league. Apart from virtual football GoldenRace is also one of the global market leaders in pre-recorded video sports, and its games have been licensed and certified in the most demanding jurisdictions. They are currently available in over 50,000 shops and on more than 400 websites.

 

The Man Behind the Company

 

Martin was born and raised in a small village in the Austrian mountains, and since childhood, he has dreamed of creating something big. Martin is comfortable adjusting to any situation and doesn’t get flustered easily when faced with unexpected challenges.

 

After finishing school Martin began working in sales for an insurance company and from day one, he loved to sell; he considers it one of his strongest talents. Martin started to learn about this business and what he does today in another company but bringing his idea was proving to be difficult. So, becoming an entrepreneur gave him the chance to achieve all his dreams and share his experience with others.

 

Martin also feels that to be successful in business, and in private it is important to not only be financially healthy, but people should also keep themselves fit mentally and physically. For those reasons, Martin does several different sports and studies a lot about food and diets.

 

Ensuring Client Satisfaction

 

Martin feels, one of the good things about Golden Race, is the company has clients in all areas of the world – those small businesses with dreams of becoming big, like Martin himself in the past, and also larger clients who are leaders in the market. Martin and his team at GoldenRace don’t differentiate or make decisions about where they are now – they look at their potential, their future, and where they want to go.

 

In terms of unbreakable faith, GoldenRace’s clients know that the firm takes responsibility for mistakes related to its products and that the firm keeps its word through the good and the bad. An agreement is an agreement and this is how Martin and his colleagues work.

 

Tackling Primary Challenges

 

During the early days, Martin and his partner decided to fund the business without any external funds, which posed a lot of challenges for the firm. It was a very challenging time to be able to employ new people as the business wasn’t big enough. Martin and his partner had to do jobs on the side to finance their dream and pay the employees on time.

The first 8 years were very difficult for both of them, as they worked every day and the outcomes were not as expected, but they never gave up, and then things changed for the good and now they have built something big.

 

Martin says, “The challenges grow, the team grows and it’s a big responsibility when you know that your 300 employees are counting on their jobs to support themselves and their families and children.” He also adds, “We’ve worked hard to be in a good position and have an amazing business – even the pandemic didn’t stop us from having so many employees.”

 

A Balanced and Equal Industry

 

When it comes to creating a balanced and equal industry, Martin’s first suggestion is to reinforce that companies are successful thanks to the people that work in them – the boss is just one person. Happy employees are the cause of a successful business. In his view, one should never ask people to do something he/she is not willing to do, and leading by example is essential. He feels, it’s important to find ways for your teams to have a good work-life balance, which is one of the reasons Martin Wachter has implemented a 4-day working week. 

Martin says, “To be more balanced as a company, you should try to be clear where you want to be and what you want to achieve. You should have your own goals and not be driven by what your competition does.” He further adds, “Customers are also what makes the company grow. At GoldenRace one of our main targets is to help our customers grow as it will help us to grow as well.”

 

Future Goals

 

Martin feels it’s important that GoldenRace always remember where it came from and what made it what it is today so, the firm can continue growing and remain the global market leader. Martin and his colleagues want to expand the business in new markets, especially in North America, with new partnerships already signed in the US and Canada. Martin Wachter is excited about everything that has happened so far and will in the future.

GoldenRace still has a lot to do and markets to access, which motivates Martin to carry on pursuing his work and his story of success.

 

One of the things which makes him most excited and proud is that GoldenRace doesn’t follow the market – the market follows it and its creativity, and Martin Wachter will do all that needs to be done to remain on this level.

Jeremy Denisty – Nurturing The Business Growth With Comprehensive Consulting Solutions at Scopernia.

Founded in 2011, Scopernia has been connecting with big and small enterprises, offering them a sneak peek of what’s next and help them flourish in an evolving world under the guidance of Jeremy Denisty. Scopernia is the brainchild of two visionaries, Dado van Peteghem and Jo Caudron. They founded this company 11 years ago and Jeremy took the helm in 2020 as the Managing Director.

Personifying an amazing, hardworking, organized, inspiring, optimistic, and self-motivated individual who diligently transverses the path to achieving, Jeremy holds great expertise and extensive knowledge because of his continuous dedication.

The 30-year-old business leader was born and raised in Belgium, and he grew up walking on the path of artistic life. Jeremy started acting lessons when he was 4, was a child actor as main characters in French feature films from 2005 up until 2019, worked as a radio host, and in some TV programs.

Besides his involvement in the media, Jeremy continued his studies and ended up getting a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences and 2 MSc in International Management and Management Sciences. His first business professional experience was at Procter & Gamble in France, working on Pampers.

At the end of his studies, Jeremy decided to put his artistic life aside and had the opportunity to join Henkel, P&G, or Unilever. He chose Unilever and spent 5 amazing years at Unilever as a Sales & Marketing Manager in France, Belgium, and The Netherlands.

Jeremy and his wife always wanted to move abroad, so when she had the opportunity to transfer to Dubai at the end of 2019, he quit his beloved Unilever job and they moved to Dubai. The day Mr Denisty landed in Dubai he met Scopernia’s Founding Partner, Dado Van Peteghem. One week later he started working as an Engagement Manager. 5 months later, in the heart of the COVID crisis, Jeremy took the lead of the office with a clear strategic plan in mind for the Firm’s future. And, the plan was successful, they tripled their revenues in one year.

Scopernia, Making Organizations Future-fit and a Force for Good

At the core, Scopernia helps people transform and grow faster & better in a complex and fast-changing world. Concretely, they help public and private organisations solve complex problems to:

  • Optimize their core business to accelerate growth
  • Transform their business ideas into a reality
  • Find new revenue streams
  • (Re)Define their Organization of the Future
  • Target Gen Z through Gaming with Scopernia Gaming

A lot of consulting companies claim they do all of that What really sets Scopernia apart is how they do it:

  • By focusing on: involving employees, stakeholders, customers in the process
  • Through innovative methodologies
  • By co-creating the solution with the client
  • By making it fun and engaging for all involved, creating faster buy-in and ownership
  • By focusing on the implemented impact

“Our vision is to change the way strategy & management consulting is being done, and help clients across industries grow, whether they are not sure how, don’t have the people, or don’t have the time”, said Mr Denisty.

What Inspired Jeremy to be an Author?

Communication and playing with words have always been something Jeremy enjoyed and felt comfortable with, from his early days in his acting career.” When he understood the force for good it could be in business, it pushed him into writing.

Clients & Unbreakable Faith

Scopernia serves every organization with more than 100 employees. By design in the region, since the company got here through a massive transformation project with the Chalhoub Group, they tend to have more clients in Luxury, Retail, and Consumer Goods.

List of 10 current and past clients:

  • Chalhoub Group, the organization itself as well as many of their portfolio brands individually: Faces, Lacoste, Tumi, Level Shoes, etc.
  • Trafalgar Luxury Group (distributors of Patek Philippe, Tag Heuer, Chopard, and many other luxury brands in the Middle East)
  • Mapyr (leading distributors of baby gear brands in the Middle East)
  • Sprecher Berrier Group of Companies (distributor of perfume brands)
  • Unilever Middle East
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • HSBC MENA
  • BNP Paribas
  • Engie Mescat
  • Aliaxis (global leader in water and energy solutions)
  • Cartamundi Group (worldwide leader in card and board games)

While discussing how he assures the faith of the clients, Jeremy apprised, “We have 0 compromises on delivery quality and our clients know it. We are 100% reliable, strive to deliver above expectations, always, and consider ourselves as advisors rather than contractors. That mindset is a standard in our organization. On top of that, we don’t price based on hours spent but fixed on the value created.”

Hurdles on the Way

When asked about his initial challenges, Jeremy Denisty said, “The primary challenge was to re-think who we were going to serve, helping them solve which problems. We re-focused our organization on business growth and transformation (what it was initially founded on) and managed the pivot with success.”

The Driving Force

Here are the 10 things that so far worked out for Jeremy Denisty and led him to where he is today.

  1. Having focus: single-minded focus will put you closer to your goal(s)
  2. Be curious: be open-minded and learn new things every day
  3. See the world through others’ eyes: search for new perspectives, whether it is to innovate or to empathize
  4. Strive for perfection: never settle for average, details matter and will make a difference
  5. Be loyal and operate with integrity: great leaders will want you at their side, trust unlocks everything
  6. Hard work is easy: be disciplined, commit to yourself and what you can accomplish.
  7. Live multiple lives: be open to new opportunities, pivot, change, add, and subtract
  8. Don’t let failures take you down: they are part of the process, they exist to make us better, smarter, and more mature.
  9. Leverage every skill you have: what do you do better than 99% of the people you know?Figure it out, leverage it.
  10. Love, and be loved: nurture relationships, listen more than you talk, be truthful, thankful, and genuinely happy for the success of others

“On top of that, I’ve had the chance to be trusted by amazing mentors. Dado Van Peteghem in particular, our Founding Partner, has put his trust in me to lead this office, and I am very thankful for that”, shared Mr Jeremy Denisty.

Favorite Book

Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath

Future Roadmap

Jeremy Denisty is focused on building a niche boutique consulting firm with exceptional people, delivering unparalleled quality of work. He believes in changing the way consulting has been done for the last 50 years.

Besides, in the coming 3 years, he would also like to open a pro-bono vertical with a dedicated team, helping social and purposeful entrepreneurs & businesses to grow in the region.

Awards & Milestones

Jeremy proudly shared, The first book, Written and published by our Founding Partners, “Digital Transformation: A model to master digital disruption” (2012) is an international bestseller sold in more than 55 countries.

And, Scopernia’s Founding Partner, Jo Caudron’s last book “The World is Round: An optimistic master plan for the transformation of business and society” (2020) has won a Management Book of the Year award.

It was published the day the lockdown started, and it appeared most transformations that he had thought of for the next 10 years happened in 10 days because of COVID.

A Piece of Advice for Female Entrepreneurs

Reach out and get in touch with female entrepreneurs that are a bit further in the journey. Don’t go at it alone, there are many brilliant entrepreneurs out there, reach out, get support, share your ideas, listen to others that have done it, don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Favourite Quote 

“A plan without execution is the slowest route to victory. Execution without a plan is the noise before defeat.”– Sun Tzu

Mosaic Smart Data: Delivering Next Generation Data Analytics

With a vision to provide financial market professionals with data-driven tools to optimize their trading operations, Mosaic Smart Data was founded in 2014 by its CEO, Matthew Hodgson. The organization’s technology enables participants to harness their market and transaction data and see in real-time what happened, why it happened, and what is likely to happen next.

Before founding Mosaic, Matthew worked extensively in the fixed income markets for multiple prestigious global financial institutions. He saw first-hand the potential for trading firms to extract the value from their largely untapped transaction data assets. Being able to refine this raw data and distill it into meaningful smart data, where value can be extracted in the form of actionable insights, is a significant challenge that all market participants face. Matthew founded Mosaic Smart Data to enable firms to gain a significant competitive advantage through a better understanding of their transaction data.

Dependable Platform for Clients

By leveraging the latest AI and machine learning capabilities, Mosaic Smart Data technology enriches and personalizes the analytic insights its users receive. The company delivers this in real-time through the MSX® platform and its best-in-class smart data analytics platform MSX360®. Imagine having the world’s best digital quant sitting beside you guiding you to opportunity and action – this is precisely what Mosaic delivers.

A Transformative Industry

Matthew has always believed AI would be transformative in the financial services space because of its ability to deliver the kind of hyper-personalization usually only offered by consumer technology platforms. Today, the idea of walking into a video shop and trawling through shelves feels completely antiquated – everyone is used to a service like Netflix doing the legwork for them and suggesting options they will want to watch from a database of thousands.

Similarly, MSX360 allows Mosaic’s clients to see patterns of client behavior which could be seasonal, monthly, or weekly. This allows a bank to predict the best time of day for a trade and the most suitable instrument to use. The model learns from individual users’ activities and interests over time to constantly improve recommendations. This means banks become more efficient because they can target the right resources to the right opportunity and the right time.

The Shift to Digital Working

Matthew believes, during the era of Covid-19 and the subsequent shift towards a digital working environment, banks have to be smarter than ever when it comes to gaining a comprehensive view of their data and extracting value from it. Matthew says, “While people are speculating that the end of the ‘new normal’ might be on the horizon, the impact it has on the way we work and where we work is undoubtedly set to remain, with efficiency being the key. AI can deliver a huge range of efficiency benefits.”

According to Matthew, during the stressed market conditions of the past two years, the ability to wring every actionable insight from data is becoming vital to a firm’s survival and success. AI-powered data analytics is a perfect solution for this challenge.

Awards and Accolades

Mosaic Smart Data’s biggest accolade is its client base, which includes the biggest financial institutions across the world – including the US, Europe, Asia, South America, and South Africa. The organization has won several prestigious industry accolades, including the Banking Tech Awards, the FS Tech Awards, the InvestHK UK Fintech Awards, and being named Fintech Company of the Year by City AM.

The Changing Demographics of the Industry

Matthew believes forward-thinking banks of all sizes are now starting to deploy AI to enable predictive and prescriptive analytics, as well as connecting systems to prompt them as to the next best action for their clients. By absorbing information that might otherwise be missed, AI delivers the analysis to drive new sales engagement with clients and by delivering those insights at the optimum time.

According to a recent survey, 75% of banks with more than $100 billion in assets are currently implementing AI strategies, and investment and adoption at scale are expected to increase significantly over the coming years. This comes as no surprise when you consider it has been estimated by McKinsey that AI can potentially unlock $1 trillion of incremental value for banks. These tools can be thought of like a GPS for the sales desk – those banks without it will struggle to compete against more forward-leaning firms who are empowering their employees with the most advanced digital tools.

Matthew thinks, banks that fail to make AI central to their core strategy and operations—often referred to as becoming “AI-first”—will risk being overtaken by competition and deserted by their customers in the coming years.

The current operating environment is both uncertain and challenging for investment banks, but a carefully planned program that builds on cutting-edge data analytics and AI technology holds the key to driving growth and delivering the modern, information-driven trading experience that clients demand.

Matthew also says, “After all, it’s typically during periods of stress where relationships are forged. As a bank, if you’re able to guide a client through the fog of confusion, you will likely have a relationship for life – and AI and machine learning can assist in facilitating this.”

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