Mr. Girish Ramdas, CEO and Co-founder of Magzter emerged as “Person of the Year 2012” by competing with 10 top names who were a rare combination of success and supreme intelligence from different spheres of work like Aamir Khan, Francisco D'Souza, Ratan Tata, N Chandrasekaran, etc. The participants were shortlisted for their contribution to the usage, propagation and contribution to technology and the contest ran for over three weeks through an online vote. Mr. Girish Ramdas bagged the prestigious award with over 12,000 votes and emerged as a clear winner.
The young and dynamic Indian entrepreneur poised to be a global leader, Ramdas has scripted his success through sheer hard work and passion. Magzter is the result of his digital vision. His revolutionary idea coupled with the willingness to tread the rare path has earned Ramdas the esteemed “Person of the Year 2012” award by CIOL making him the thought and knowledge leader in the technology sphere.
Expressing his pleasure on this recognition, Mr. Girish Ramdas, CEO & Co-founder of Magzter said, “I am extremely delighted to receive “Person of the Year 2012” award. I was lucky to have a supportive family and friends who encouraged me to live my dream of being an entrepreneur and believed in my digital vision. In 2008, when the iPhone App Store was launched, my co-founder, Vijay Radhakrishnan came up with the idea of “creating apps”. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was an inspiration for us to start our own digital magazine store. We had the expertise of App creation as well as magazine publishing and so Magzter came very naturally to us.”As of now, Magzter has more than 1,000 magazines on its virtual shelves, with a strong subscriber base of about 5 million subscribers and readers globally, which is growing by leaps and bounds every passing month.
Mr. Girish Ramdas is a firm believer of “nothing comes easy in life”. He says that the key to his success has been focus and perseverance. As a gold medalist in rifle shooting, he knows where to aim it right in his life.
