Member Talk Series 1

In a worId where the business landscape is changing constantly and more so in the last few years, it is important to talk to successful entrepreneurs to understand their journey, ingredients of success and moments of failures for giving a complete understanding to new entrepreneurs. Further, Mauritius and Africa offer unique cultural, business and market challenges. Africa being the market of the 21st century, we in the IBC Mauritius understand the that the bridge we can create between India and Mauritius/Africa is important to understand the challenges and opportunities and therefore our new series of discussion with select business leaders/entrepreneurs with business focus in Mauritius as also in Africa. IBC initiated the talk series in its second year to understand from the members about their professional journey, challenges and how the members faced these challenges both as an entrepreneur as also intrapreneur.

In the first talk series, Mr. Sanjeev Gupta detailed about the fascinating story of setting up the metro railway in Mauritius and changing its landscape as also developing the local supplier. Mr. Jayasankar shared his journey of being an entrepreneur in a foreign country with an intense desire to succeed and how the journey unfolded over the years and building the brand of Campus Abroad. Mr. Sudhir Sharma shared the interesting story of transformation and energizing SBI Mauritius within a short span of time and also inculcating a customer centric work culture and focus on profitability.