Another meeting was held on 12th July 2008 at the El Dorado office in Gurgaon where an external speaker, Mr. Ajit Sirohi was invited to speak.

An IT entrepreneur. In his first venture (http://www.radix-infotech.com), he created an original technology called RCT, was venture funded twice and successfully sold the business in 2006.Currently, he is the President and CEO of his newly launched venture in the financial services space. www.numeriskanalytics.com. It creates software for pricing, valuation and risk measurement of derivative instruments.

Mr. Sirohi spoke on "creating value within your business" including brand value, growth of companies and building a prefect team. He discussed this topic with many interesting examples & experiences.

Some issues of interest were:

* What is the differentiating factor in your business?
* How to fight competition from big companies?
* How to get the customer hooked to you?
* How to make people innovate?
* How to get senior experienced people on board without paying huge salaries?


Our session with Mr. Sirohi started at 2.30 pm and finished by 4:30 PM and the general consensus was it was a very interesting/useful session and we would do a follow up later in the year. Mr. Sirohi also kindly consented to talk to each of the members present personally, to guide them.