Event: Subroto Bagchi – SMU IIE Distinguished Speaker 8 Apr 09

Much has been written about entrepreneurship and of successful entrepreneurs. Is there a DIY manual to success? Subroto believes much of success can be designed. Subroto talks through his personal experience of starting up MindTree and leading it from the front with 9 others to a very successful IPO in 2007. He talks about the many designs that lead to success and many pitfalls to avoid.

Subroto weaves his talk with anecdotes, quotes interesting people, celebrates the wins and learns from the challenges while carving out lessons for the audience to take home.

It’s a ‘must hear’ for entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs and people who celebrate and propagate the spirit of entrepreneurship.

Distinguished Speaker: Mr. Subroto Bagchi, Co-Founder & Gardener of MindTree

Event details:
Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm
Venue: Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Level 2, (Schools of Accountancy & Law), SMU

Register here.

About the Speaker
Subroto Bagchi is best known for co-founding MindTree in 1999 where he started as the Chief Operating Officer. MindTree is among India’s most admired companies across industries.

In 2008, Bagchi took on the role of Gardener at MindTree. In this new role, Bagchi spends one-on-one time with the Top-100 leaders at MindTree on their ‘personal-professional’ issues to expand leadership capacity and build readiness for taking MindTree into the billion-dollar league. In addition, Bagchi works at the grassroots by making himself available to its 45 Communities of Practice that foster organizational learning, innovation and volunteerism within the organization.

Bagchi has written extensively in leading newspapers and magazines, and spoken at industry platforms and educational institutions the world over. His Businessworld column – Arbor Mentis – and Times of India column – Times of Mind – were widely read and discussed. Many of these are archived at www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi.

His first book, The High Performance Entrepreneur was released in 2006 as a Penguin Portfolio publication to great critical acclaim. His second book, Go Kiss the World was released in 2008 as a Penguin Portfolio. Mark Tully hailed it as “a remarkable story of courage, integrity and enterprise”.