New Delhi Sunil Goyal, COO, Sopra India Pvt. Ltd. started his career as a telecom support professional at Unitel and then in sales at Wipro. He soon branched out to start on his own and co-founded Momentum India with almost no seed capital in 1993. Not only did he lead the company along with his founder and become the largest channel partner for Wipro InfoTech for their IT products in India but they were also instrumental in raising USD 1.5 million funding from Citibank when they diversified into software in the year 2000.
Sunil believes that the journey of a leader is not only about successes and strategies that work, but it is equally about the learning’s from the failures.
Ten News Exclusively caught up with Sunil Goyal, COO, Sopra India Pvt. Ltd. At NHRDN 6th Human Capital Conclave 2018 in New Delhi.
Speaking about his experience at the Conclave, Sunil Goyal said, “This Conclave is very apt. As i was mentioning today, Even many technology companies are not thinking of adapting the technologies like block chain, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics etc. And here in HR seminar we are talking about everything. If HR becomes the part of the strategy driving the organisation it will be great. So its a excellent topic to have debating and discussing.”
Talking about the technology playing part in Hiring fresh talent, he Said, “I think hiring is the one way where massive disruption technology going to create because first it’s an assessment peace second in terms of the selection of the candidates because lot of work is donw by the recruiters that can be done by bots which have artificial intelligence etc.”
When asked about his Success Mantra, Goyal said, “I have been an entrepreneur and I become entrepreneur in 1993 when entrepreneurship was not known in india we did not have support system or eco system etc. Today I’m extremely happy to see that the way ecosystem is got created for entrepreneurs i believe India’s future lies in entrepreneurship. Now i see lot more technology guys with excellent technology background, business background becoming entrepreneurs so they have a great future only thing is they have to think long term not just short term.”
