Here's a special series on India's best innovators and entrepreneurs, winners of the latest Nasscom Innovation Award 2008.

'Great fun to build a company'

"The entrepreneurial journey is driven by an individual bug, it's the pursuit to make a dream come true," says Aparup Sengupta, CEO, Aegis BPO Services.

A serial entrepreneur (he built three successful start-ups -- 24/7 Customer; IonIdea, an IT Services company based out of Fairfax Virginia; and Think Harbor, a BPO consulting company -- before joining the Essar Group to head Aegis.

For this ambitious entrepreneur, work has always been exciting. "It has been great fun to build this start up. With the blessings of the Essar Group, we have established ourselves as a very profitable BPO," Sengupta says with pride.

Aegis has already acquired 11 companies during last four years. It plans to acquire a company every quarter. "The company has grown ten-fold in the last four years. We have had 100 per cent success in all the 11 acquisitions," he says. In 2008, Aegis bought Time Warner's AOL call centre in India and PeopleSupport.

Aegis now has an employee strength of 32,000. And the company is expanding and hiring 1,000 people every month. Aegis also became the first company to start its BPO operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

With an innovative and enterprising approach, the company helps clients manage their resources and expenses during these tough times. "Simple ideas can lead to big innovations," says Sengupta. And it is the power of these ideas and its execution that has helped Aegis race ahead. Read on to know more about the amazing Aegis story

Also read:
Part 1: India's pride: world's first six-core microchip!
Part 2: A college startup's success story

Image: Aparup Sengupta receives the Nasscom Innovation Award from Union Minister of State for IT, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of State for telecom and IT. | Photograph, courtesy: Aegis