He’s 17, single and a CEO!

CyberMedia News Service

NEW DELHI: Picture this, a seventeen-year old lad being a CEO of a 60-member team with projects in hand worth approximately Rs 2 crore and two offices in the US and one in UK. Handling the ancestral business- No, Suhas Gopinath formed Globals Inc.–a sweat funded organization on his own at the age of 14 from a cyber cafe. Though he wanted to be a vet, he holds no formal degree in IT and is just a class XII pass out.

"My class fellows used to make fun of me that I am a nerd and spent my time in a cyber cafe, but I knew I was chasing a big dream. An organization that will give chance to younger generations, which will not ask for years of work experience but the knowledge," he said.

Globals, designs and develops B2B portals, B2C portals and corporate websites. "We aim to bring out robust services within a mouse click and we believe in teamwork. Projects are undertaken by Globals to build the skills of the team members. Most of the members work from cyber cafes," Gopinath added.

At present, there are 60 team members at Globals Inc. who are all aged under 20 years and have build up their skills in various fields of IT, like Web-development, animation, networking, portals, WAP, artificial intelligence (AI), etc.

It all happened in the year 2000, when Gopinath applied for a domain–CoolHindustan.com, which is a horizontal portal mainly focused on NRIs to get them updated with the latest happenings in India. Highly impressed with the way Gopinath has made the portal, Network Solutions certified him as the youngest web-developer of the world and the rest as they say is history.

"Network Solutions had given me a scholarship to study further in the US, but I saw future of my organization. Right now we are doing projects for various organizations and one of our biggest project will be for SingT Inc. We will be creating an e-Library for them for the medical books," said Gopinath. He had to wait for his 18th birthday on November 4, to sign this project, denied earlier due to his young age.

Talking about the future of the organization, he said that it is growing stronger day-by-day and he has plans to increase its international presence. Plans also include expanding work in future technologies such as AI, M-Commerce, WAP services, SMS applications, etc. For Gopinath, it is education that is in store. He is studying for a degree in AI from Stanford University.

(CNS)