Innovation is the secret of their success. They believe a simple idea can transform lives. They dream big and are passionate about their goals… Meet the young, ambitious, intelligent and enterprising architects of India. Here’s a special series on India’s best innovators and entrepreneurs, winners of the latest Nasscom Innovation Award 2008.

“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. (more…)