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“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.

He believes that if one chooses a conventional job fearing risks, he is a loser. If one is willing to take the risk, nothing can stop him. His mission is to make Aegis a huge Indian multinational company (MNC).

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. Source

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