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Ms Indu Navar

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Serus Corporation

Building Startups the Old Fashioned Way

Serus Corporation, set up in 2001 in Silicon Valley, has pioneered a new software category, helping companies manage the operational challenges of Global Outsourcing. A bootstrapping operation, Serus is a majority employee-owned company, with a successful record of growth and cash flow break-even for over 4 years.

Today, Serus Corporation is an industry leader in the emerging category of Intelligent Operations Management. Serus provides a web-based intelligent operations management solution that helps companies address distributed manufacturing. With customers like Cisco Systems, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Solectron, Avnet to name a few, Serus has been able to validate the solution in the most demanding environments.

Indu Navar, a native of Bangalore, will be speaking about these exciting 4? years at Serus and how the company bucked the trend of raising VC money and built the startup the old-fashioned way - with hard work, commitment and above all, by providing fundamental value to customers in an underserved market. Ms. Navar has worked with companies such as Healtheon (acquired by WebMD), Silicon Graphics, Black and White Software (acquired by Segue) and NASA, among others.

The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Ms Indu Navar and Vijaya Verma, founder of Alopa Networks, on different approaches to building a startup. The panel will be moderated by Revathi Kasturi, President, Tarang Software Technologies.

Date : Monday 9th Jan 2006
Time : 6.45 P.M
Place : Trinity Hall @ Taj Residency, Bangalore
Event Sponsors : Serus Corporation
Non Member Fee : Rs. 350/-

Participation through registration: Contact Alfio Aquien at [email protected] or call 22120009 Xtn-185.

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