Profile of H D Gupta-Founder
Business
History
Summary
By the Grace and Mercy of Almighty God:
-Covered a journey from $300 loan to $50+ Million asset base.
-Done a sales of over half a billion dollars in over 20 countries (IT
products, mobiles & hospitality services).
-Never done any job but created jobs for 20-100 people continuously for
over 20 years.
-Seldom reads newspaper but has been more times in media/tvnews
coverage.
see
some of media coverage on www.goldkist.sg/news.html
-Made many brands from unknown to TOP 3 positions in the region he
worked for those brands.
-Have
business
experience
of 20+ years but yet learning new dimensions
of business.
-Largest owner in World famous IT complex SIM LIM SQUARE owning 40
shops.
-Operating
a
8
acre beachfront resort in Singapore with 195 Villa and other
supporting facilties serving
about 200,000 guests annualy
-Never
eats meat but owns and operates restaurant which serve NON
Vegetarian(even chinese/malay/western food).
-Never drinks alcohol but owns and operates a beach bar.
-Never smokes but has outlets selling cigarettes.
-Never
done
a
single dollar investment in share, forex, units, bonds
throughout life.
-Seldom buys
anything in retail but owns and operates retail store.
-Said to be Engineer but still trying to learn life and relations
everyday in school of life.
-Don’t know what credit debit is but guides even chartered accountants
-Has even made policies of state changed at times in few countries.
-Has served products/services from gangsters upto ministers ,clerks to
CEO, normal people to celebrities. some of prestigious clients
including ministers, MPs, Governors, celebrities and high level CEO's
in region and corporate accounts are listed on
www.goldkist.net/vip.htm
-Somehow ended up in places,
project, business or countries with no experience or where people
don’t dare or has failed already but still able to revive them
around.
Educational Qualification
He is a GRADUATE ENGINEER in
Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Computers and management.
He
has also completed following Post Graduate Diploma Computers and
Management from reputed Government Institutes.
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Post
Graduate
Diploma
in
Computers Application
(Board of Technical
Education, Delhi, India),First batch of 1.5 Year Govt Course in
Delhi -1987
-
Diploma
in
CNC
Machines
Programming
& operations (TRTC-an Indo German
Institute, Delhi, India)
-
Diploma
in
Management
(IGNOU,
Delhi,
India)
He
is always been a topper and meritorious student throughout his career.
He has been always an ACHIEVER and AN ASSET
TO THE SOCIETY AND COUNTRY.
Work Experience
He started his business activities even while he was
studying in the College and has substantial business experience of over
20 years in the same field.
Marketing Capability
He has in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of the
Business/Computers /Mobiles/Hospitality industry. Also he
is well capable of Management aspects of the co-ordination and managing
entire team of the firm in all fields, whether it be purchase, sale,
administration, finance. He has performed duties very successfully as a
key person who was responsible for entire growth of the company. He is
creative and very much innovative.
Major Achievements
- All across the career got covered in
various media in various regions positively for the brand &
products we launched. .Media coverage is listed on www.goldkist.sg/news.html
Has been news headlines many times & even documentaries about
company has been aired on National TVs
- Many high class VVIPs like Prime
Ministers, Ministers, Governers, CEO, high officials has patron us
& some of them are listed on www.goldkist.net/vip.htm
- Company & brand is very well
trusted all across end users, dealers & principals
- Many times has
raised the voice over policy related issues & has been successful
in convincing authorities to change policy where whole of industry has
failed n agreed to follow. He was alone fighting the battle n
surprisingly most of cases he was able to get it changed.
- Has taken an
approach to follow a different path than common thinking, like starting
work on places which were closed for many years due to various factors
like wrong feng shui kind of place or not popular working locations but
has been able to turn them into very prominent business place
subsequently. Say for example:
- He came
to Singapore in 1993 when hardly anyone was coming. He went china
(1995) than usual Taiwan for sourcing when hardly anyone was doing. he
went Hongkong ,Bangladesh, Nepal when hardly anyone could think of.
- when
everyone focused on India in 2005-2006, he changed focus to Singapore.
- He
quitted the PC biz gracefully when it was doing very well exiting on
peak.
- Entering
into mobile biz was not accepted by his own team but worked well later.
- Investing
in low traffic -6th floor -Simlim was questionable but worked well over
a period of time.
- He worked
n developed brands which no one was willing to do at start and make
them success for them n for himself like Sony Ericssion in 2002 n O2 in
2004 n LG in 2006 showing that he can spot potential earlier than
general biz sense. He never sells Nokia -most popular seller. He sells
lexmark as compared to HP, Canon, Epson. Most of the brands he took has
done significant biz improvements in market share subsequently.
- In 1993
Set up business in Singapore when it was too difficult for an Indian to
do and run it successfully despite all odds. Today owns a substantial
portion of this worldwide reputed IT Complex Sim Lim Square & is a
key decision maker in broad policies of complex.
In summary, he has extensive 20+ Years
of experience in the following areas: -
-
Branding
-
High
Level
negotiations
with
Manufacturers/Suppliers
-
Business
Strategy-planning,
controlling,
implementing
(local
&
international)
-
Setting
up
business
in
new
countries without any past links
-
Setting
up
factories
-
Setting
up
Retail
Show
Rooms
-
Purchase
-
Sales
-
Advertising
-
Administration
-
Taxation
-
Finance
-
Production
-
Organizing
Liaison
Work
-
Technical
Expertise
of
Product
Range
Frequently Traveled countries
-
China,
Hong
Kong,
Malaysia ,Taiwan,
Thailand
-
India,
Nepal,
Bangladesh,
Sri
Lanka,
Cambodia
-
USA,
Canada,
Germany,
UAE
-
Indonesia,
Australia,
Korea,
South
Africa,
Pakistan, Philippines, Macau,
Vietnam
Press conferences headed as Main
Speaker
-
India-Product
launch
-Sub
Rs10000
PC,
first color mouse & technical collaboration
with vatek USA
-
India-Goldkist-Launch
of
"beyond
2000"
series of computers (1998)
-
SriLanka-
Launched
Goldkist
products
-
India-Launched
O2-2
new
models
-Dec
2004
-
Nepal-lanuched-"7
technology
wonder"-Jan
2005
-
Invited
external
speaker
(only
other
speaker was M1-CEO) on O2 summit in
Singapore-customer experience
Conferences attended:
-
IPO
Conference,
Singapore
-
How
to get Public Listed (April 2000)
-
World
Franchisee
Conference,
Singapore
(2001)
-
Sony
Ericsson
distributor's
conference
2003
-Kunming, China
-
Lexmark
distributor's
conference
2003
-Cebu
,Philippines
-
Sony
Ericsson
distributor's
conference
2004
-Sanya, China
-
Lexmark
Distributors
conference
2005-China
-
Sony
Ericsson
Distributors
conference
2005-Shanghai,China
-
Six
Sigma(2004),Singapore
-
Global
wireless
Venturing
conference(2004)
Singapore
-
Microsoft
Mobile
devices
n
embedded
developer conference(2004) as exhibitor
-
Conference-Intellectual
property,
trade
mark
& patents (2004)
-
Conference-How
to
set
up
business
in china(2005),shanghai,china
-
Conference-Listing
in
Malaysia-pros
and
cons(2005)
-
Round
table
discussion-in
EDB
on
problems faced by inventors-represented
SIDA(2005)
-
Singapore
India
CECA
(July
2005)
-
Numerous
other
international
conferences
related
to computing & Mobile
communications & Management.
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INVENTOR :-
-
Filed a Patent worldwide under PCT –on
saving calls cost substantially during roaming –an invention which will
save billions of dollars per year to mobile users.
-
Member of Singapore Inventor
Association
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Appointed as Consultant Singapore
Inventor Association.
-
Appointed as Consel member &
Treasurer Sim Lim Square Management committee, Singapore & made
significant developments in IT Complex
Managed
International
Exhibitions
as
successful exhibitor
- India-IT Asia
1997
- India-IT Asia
1998
- Bangladesh-BCS
show 1998
- Bangladesh-BCS
show 1999
- Bangladesh-BCS
show 2000
- Nepal-Can
Infotech 1999
- Nepal-Can
Infotech 2002
- Sri Lanka-
Infotel 2002
- Nepal-CAN
Infotech 2003
- Nepal-CAN
Infotech 2004
- Nepal-CAN
Infotech 2005
- Computex,
Taiwan 2004
- Vietnam,
computerworld 2004
- India-Microsoft
Mobile devices n embedded developer conference(2004),India
- Nepal-CAN
Infotech 2005
- India-Mobiletek
2005
- Visitors to
major international trade shows like computex- Taiwan,
communicasia-singapore, Gitex-Dubai, Comdex-USA, Cebit-Germany
regularly.
Thinks
Differently & Act differently
- BUSINESS
FRONT-
RIGHT
OR
WRONG-STILL
NOT SURE
- Negotiated for
ASIAN VILLAGE in Singapore (21 acre site with shopping, dining n
amusement facilties) IN SENTOSA n was almost about to finalise .Somehow
could not gather strength & resources at last minute. 10 years
later Absolutely same site was allocated for INTEGRATED RESORT. The
place which we were getting for few Millions
turned into few Billions.
- Starting First
of its kind-Goldkist Mobile Academy in India www.goldkist.net/gma.htm to
train required skills of this industry & provide job opportunities
to many. Many students are orphans & are given scholarship. somehow
has to close down as could not get enough students. Strange - given free study ,training & job even n
people dont want it.
- After being
pushed by banker friend n some financial friends ,thought to go IPO but
after doing ground work, attended a high world level conference
presented by top executives of industry-How to go IPO-after attended
that decided -NOT TO GO IPO due to too many complexities. despite our
website alone was valued for $30 Million. If gone, today perhaps story
would be different.
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- Technology Innovations:
- Developed an
DOS based unique accounting SW which can be operated by people who
don't know credit n debit. The SW worked well but development team cud
not fully finalize it n market it as development team quitted. However
still most of our branches are successfully running on this.
- Developed
online Matrimonial, job n classified n extensive web portal containing
airline and hotels inform on web in 1998 when it was too early for IT
industry to realize but again development team misfired. That time our
site was rated NO #1
by Dataquest in 1998.
- Our website was
a reference website for many years for IT products prices n was read
like a morning newspaper by traders n reference site by custom
officials in case of price disputes. It was valued $30 Million (over 3
million B2B hits with a value of $10/hit) in DOT COM days n were
asked by banks n many others to go IPO.
- Developed SQL
based mini ERP SW extensively for IT industry but again team misfired.
- Started an SW
IT Park in India but quitted due to lack of team sustainenance.
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- Marketing
Innovations
- Use ellipse first time in Goldkist logo in 1997
and after that many successful brand copied it in different forms .
Used Green color in logo which was very
rare then. Both of these became quite common afterwards
- GOLD become
common add on in many consumer products.
-
MOBILE2 Logo Used
tilted Square
yellow color in 2004
.Now similar to it is used by Zee TV n many others. Even using a 2 becoming common now n seen
in many leading brands.
- The many
taglines created by us are now used by many MNC companies in various
forms:-
- A step ahead
- Beyond 2000 (1998)
- The FUTURE IS HERE (1998)
- Goldkist Sweepstake Bonanza
- O2 Bash (2004)
- Reducing the digital divide (2003)
- 7 Technology wonder (2004)
- Square IT UP (2005)
- Discovering Peace & happiness (2007)
- Used innovative
launching of new mobile models in O2 bash
using stage models dancing on music which become a defacto standard now
in all brands later-was rated best ever launch by any mobile phone
company n got huge coverage in news ,TV n newspapers.
- First time in
trade exhibition in Nepal used fashion show kind of ramp & used
local celebrities (Mr & Miss Nepal 2063(their FY is different than
English FY) contestants -Miss 2063, runner up ,1st runner up, little
lady, Best Catwalk man, Nepal's First POP singer & tallest man of
Nepal displayed latest phone models on ramp) & features.
Despite lot of controversy n protest-response was-even competitors came
out to watch it. Nepal channel aired it 3.5 minutes in 5 minute
national news. during our shows-all other halls were empty even the
gatekeepers use to come to see it n enjoy it.
- Visited Cambodia ,Angkorwat (one of 7 wonders) as
tourist n end up in doing extensive research on it n derived fantastic facts about Hindu culture ,
its supremacy & level of perfection in a combination of
architecture ,cosmology, numerology and religion -findings listed on
www.goldkist.net/angkorwat.htm
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