URL: http://www.theceoinsights.com/ Date 11 June 2013
Mr. Sudheer Nair, CEO, Eresource Infotech Pvt Ltd. Interviewed By: Sandeep Kshatriya, Facilitator, The CEO Insights The CEO Insights:From doing odd jobs to starting your company “Eresource Infotech Pvt Ltd”, would you mind share your journey? Sudheer Nair: I was born in a middle class family with no business background. I lost my father when I was schooling. Life ahead was difficult for us. Responsibility of supporting my family fell on my shoulder at an early age. Although my mother has helped me and my two sisters to complete schooling and pursue further studies, I could not complete my graduation due to financial conditions. I have started looking for jobs. And after doing many odd jobs, I landed working with a computer consultant, typing Software Programs. Gradually I started generating software codes independently for my company. Thereafter, understanding the user’s requirement started designing their software requirements. Creating tables and databases, coding, compiling the codes, testing the application, training and implementation all have become my routine job. It was then that I developed bunch of software applications, including accounting package called “Quick Accounts” and some others. My second major job was with Afternoon Despatch and Courier, then a leading evening daily in Mumbai, edited by late Mr. Behram Contractor popularly known as Busybee. It was a tabloid publication. I was the only programmer and when I joined the company had only one computer, an IBM PC AT XT. As non-air-conditioned area was considered to be unavoidable for computers and the only air-conditioned place in the whole office was CEO Mrs. Farzana Contractor’s cabin, I was forced to use a corner of her cabin as my work place. The company had all manual working system, Advertisement scheduler used to schedule advertisement in a manual register. After the ad was released, billing department used to create manual handwritten bill, bill was submitted to the accounts, accounts was maintaining more than 20 different registers, chief accountant used to make manual entries in the respective ledgers of the invoices, expenses. Generating Balance sheet, Balance sheet and P&L used to take at least 30 days. Circulation billing was done manually. Since nobody there knew programming concept, I had the full freedom to start from wherever I wish to. I started with Advertisement Scheduling System. It took about 3 months for me to complete. The Advertisement scheduler was trained and since then the scheduling was computerized. Immediately upon completion of Scheduling System, I took Billing department project. Within a month I have completed Billing and went live. I think, among all the publications then, ADC was the first one to come up with computerized billing. Billing was integrated with Advertisement schedule. Third project was the Circulation department and integrated Circulation with Billing Module. My fourth mission was to code on Accounts department, I knew accounting because I was a main programmer while developing Quick Accounts accounting software for the Computer Consultant (my first IT job). Accounting was integrated with Billing module. After completion of Accounts Department project, the only department left out was HR and Payroll, I