Entrepreneur, marketer and open source solutions provider.
Sachin is the founder, director of Ashnik, based in Singapore. Ashnik provides open source IT solutions around infrastructure, cloud and social media for enterprises.
Sachin brings rich experience in building businesses. Has worked in IT industry for over 25 years and has provided solutions to Banking, Telecom and Government sectors. Has played a major role in establishing Red Hat and open source business in India. Has been invited to speak on open source and its growth in many public fora such as Linux Asia, Dataquest, NASSCOM, CNBC etc. Has worked closely with Central and local Governments to help them adopt opensource.
Sachin has deep interest in understanding human minds. He is always looking for ways to harness human potential and becoming better person.
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Hi Chris, as usual it is wonderful to read your thoughts.
Building brand along with the community is very exciting thing which I am experimenting a bit. One important learning has been that, we need to acknowledge the fact that what we want the brand to know, is not the same as what the marketplace perceives it as. We need to be humbly accept it. If you turn it into a question to the marketplace 'what can I do to deliver the brand message that I want it to be', you get very good inputs, they market becomes stakeholder into helping you build the brand. It is so exciting. Rather than going out and selling your brand values now you have more people helping you extend your message.
Would certainly like to read your insights in your book.
Wish you best luck
Would love to talk about what can be done.
Right now we are focussing on few activities through OSSIC to bring about the change.
The key message that we want to give to the businesses is : "Using open source software is safe and smart decision"