ZOFT SOLUTIONS

'E spirit de Corps' is the principle of cohesion Dilip Ramachandran, the CEO and managing director of Zoft Solutions, live by.

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The French word means a sense of common interests and responsibilities that keeps an organization and its employees loyal to each other and work together for a shared objective.

Dilip believes that it can only happen if the leader is clear about his purpose. "It is the clarity of the entrepreneur that eventually percolates down to the team and brings in a sense of purpose of working together," he says without batting an eyelid.

As someone who is at the helm of the affairs of one of the fastest growing product and service-based company in Kochi, Dilip brings a lot of experience to the table. Before co-founding Zoft Solutions, he was working in the top IT companies for 12 years. A decade of experience in corporate life has helped him set certain principles that paved the way to the success of Zoftsolutions.

Zoft Solutions was conceived in Kochi's startup village in 2014 with two other friends Shine Saseendran and Siji Mathew. With further support & guidance of our friend and Businessman K J Paul we later revamped the company in 2015 for full-fledged operations. The first two years had many teething issues. The struggles of not being recognised in the market had its own disadvantages. More than domain expertise, it was meeting the pre-qualifications that brought hurdles to us," remembers Dilip as he explained how much time he invested assembling the blocks required to build recognition in the market.

With persistent hard work, the team secured a digitization project from GCC for a Defence Ministry. This gave the necessary confidence to further invest in Business Development which paid off quite well. The company went on to secure clients from Europe, HongKong, Kuwait and Canada. Even in the domestic circuit it was win-win, with the opportunity to work as an IT partner with Kochi Metro Rail Limited.