BANGALORE, INDIA: He started from a networking company (Nortel Networks), went on to co-found a couple of companies (Bangalore Labs and Quintant Services), made greener plans with his Cicada eco-tourism venture, and dreamt of a bright 'LED' (Vignani Technologies) future for India.

Meet T G Ramesh, more famously known as Tiger Ramesh.

After a 11-year stint in the entrepreneurial arena, Tiger is now set to try his hands in the corporate world.

Appointed the CEO of CSS Corp in July 2011, Tiger Ramesh in an interview with Srinivas Rasoor and Deepa Damodaran of CIOL, opens up about his first experience in the corporate world and his plans for the company. Excerpts:

CIOL: What made you to join CSS?

T G Ramesh: It is a nice sized company. Last year we were roughly about $125 million and this year we will be about $165-$170 million company.

The first reason is that it is growing pretty well and operates in a very niche space. A bulk of our business comes from technology BPOs.

The second reason is that a lot of action is happening in the market. Today, companies that are selling technology products, who are our customers, are growing in non-English speaking markets.

Look at the way smartphones are evolving from Asia Pacific market and companies such as Samsung, HTC, Huawei are taking on the likes of iPhones and others.

Products that are developed in non-English market are sold in English-speaking markets. From our customer perspective, market sizes are becoming very big and so from a technology support perspective we see a large opportunity, globally.

We already have a critical mass and see the next step of growth clearly happening before us. Therefore,  it is an interesting time to join a company like CSS and take it to the next stage.

CIOL: So which are these newer markets that you are looking into?

Ramesh: Today large telecom and networking companies are expanding into non-English speaking markets. So, we are also looking to go forward and give technology support in languages other than English.

Chinese, Japanese and Korean form one sector of the market that we are looking into.

The other area which is growing is the Arabic speaking Middle East – UAE, Saudi Arabia – and North Africa - Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Istanbul. We see a lot of companies investing in infrastructure in these countries.

The third important market is Northern Europe, the Nordic belt, including Denmark and Sweden.

The fourth is the Spanish speaking market, including Central America, Latin America, South America, Spain and Portugal and also the Spanish-speaking communities within the US.

We are trying to align ourselves where our customers are seeing growth, as delivery partner to provide services.