With over 20 years of experience in companies like Microsoft, Lotus and Unisys, Pradeep Rathinam, joined Aditi Technologies as its CEO in 2008 "to take his entrepreneurial learnings at Microsoft to a new level".
And he seems to have taken his learnings to a new level at Aditi. In the five years under his leadership Aditi's revenues have rocketed from $30 million to $90 million while transforming the company from a pure play services provider to IP-based solutions provider.
Speaking with Prasanna D Zore, Pradeep discusses his career lessons, the challenges, his success mantras and advice to India's youth.
Why did you leave Microsoft after 13 years?
When I joined Microsoft there were 6,000 people with the company and when I left, they were 88,000 strong. Microsoft had an extremely entrepreneurial culture -- it was like you almost ran your own independent businesses -- where I got great learnings and grew fast. But then I wanted to take those learnings and go to a place which felt lot more entrepreneurial.
Aditi in those days was roughly a 30 million dollar company in revenues where I came to look after sales and marketing and in two years I took up the responsibilities of CEO. We have had a fantastic run and this year we have 90 plus million dollars in revenues.
