Grow Or Perish

Growth is necessary for everyone, be it employer or employee. If you do not
find any growth in your work area, you should quit the business and find a new
job. This is what Girish Madhavan, Director, Quadsel Systems believes and
practices. Today, Quadsel is a leading system integrator in Chennai just because
it likes to work in high growth area and keep moving up in business. "We
started as a Compaq reseller in 1996 and today, we provide complete system and
network integration services selling hardware and software products," says
Girish.

EXPLORING AVENUES

Girish and a couple of his friends floated Quadsel Systems in 1996. Running the
show together for three years, Girish completely took over the business in 1999.
Soon, the company witnessed an exponential growth under his dynamic leadership.
The company crossed 1-crore mark in turnover and had a significant growth year
after year. "First, we tied-up with Cisco to provide wide area network
(WAN) and local area network (LAN) solutions. During this time, we had to learn
many new things technologically as we entered new area. However, we were
determined to take up challenges to see a profitable growth. In the next stage,
we got into facility management service managing routers, LAN, servers,
desktops, laptops, cabling, software and other hardware products," he
elaborates.

EYE-CATCHING ACTION

Moved completely from reselling to providing solutions Took up challenges of new technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Expanded operations to Hyderabad and Cochin

Thereafter, every year the company looked at new avenues for growth and in
2002, it was mainly concentrating on software solution based on Windows, Novell,
Oracle etc. Last year, Quadsel focused mainly on application software such as
ERP and storage solutions based on HP and Veritas. "I wish to dedicate my
success to my team which stood strong by my side during the time of
difficulties. I have a bright team which is quick in learning new things and I
believe in growing only with the team," commits Girish.

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