Ajay Harinath Singh Greatest Brand Leader 2018-2019

Dr. Christopher Richard
On Cloud Nine with
Stunning Growth
Transforming businesses and disrupting the way of doing business in the technology sector – to do
and achieve more – while creating greater value, more rewarding solutions and extraordinary success
for all concerned, Dr. Christopher Richard, MD, Founder and Chief Software Architect of G7CR
Technologies India, is today renowned as one of the best cloud experts in India
Merely a decade-old company, G7CR
Technologies has steadily emerged
as a trusted global partner for
information technology, consulting and
cloud services, providing high-end and
premium technology consulting for top
enterprises in India and overseas. Chris
shares, “The cloud division is relatively
new, about 3 years old and we started this
division with our continued focus to drive
value for our customers, partner and our
people.”
Prodigy of IT Industry
Chris started young as an entrepreneur,
and invariably determined to shape and
implement his vision, kept on moving up
the ladder of success. “My professional
life has been a long journey of various
learnings, as I started working when I was
in 7th standard in school”, he shares.
Today, he has become a brand in
himself, as he is considered one of the
most renowned technology experts in the
country. Passionate and committed to the
growth of his clients and that of the SME
sector in India, Chris has created many
innovative solutions that will boost the
bottom line of any business.
Chris knew when he started that as
the market is already captured by giant
corporate players, he would be able to
seize a chunk of the market share and then
survive till he has established his feet firmly
on the ground only through ingenuity, hard
work and value creation. He didn’t lack
any of these, so he confidently entered the
market and announced his arrival.
The biggest differentiating factor he
created in the industry was disruption in
the partner space. He understood that in
the market, partners acted as resellers
who took the margins as a transactional
deal and did not offer any other value as a
partner except for billing/transacting, and
also charged for every other service. The
existing model was that OEMs would sell to
the partners and would offer them a minor
part of the revenue, while they would make
a lot more by charging the customer for the
services.
This is where he disrupted, as he created
a new system and did not charge anything
from a business for services to manage
them if they hosted on Cloud. He quickly
created winning points by extending his
high-quality services, premium technical
skill sets and by ensuring that these costs
were a part of the margins they earned
from the OEM and there was no additional
burden on the OEM.
Bringing Positive Disruptions
Chris could achieve extraordinary success
quickly because he disrupted not only the
Cloud market in technology, but also the
“We do not work with targets or number
goals, still we have a growth of almost
100% for the last 3 years. When we sit
with a client, we only look at how we may
create value for them”
way of doing business.
Thus, carefully building and growing the
company on his tried & tested principles
and experiences, Chris transformed G7CR
Technologies India into an Expert Azure
Managed Services Partner driving cloud
transformation for over 800+ businesses
across India. G7CR provides cloud hosting
services on Microsoft Azure packaged
with all related support services for free.
The services include managing cloud
servers, monitoring cloud deployments,
cloud architectural design, cloud security
services, cloud governance services, 24×7
telephonic support and implementing
advance technologies like power BI,
analysis services, artificial intelligence,
bots and machine learning.
Chris has dedicatedly focused on
creating the best-in-class technical
capabilities driving cloud success journeys
for businesses from industry verticals such
as Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing,
Healthcare, PSUs, Education, Retail and IT.
He believes that the Indian market is still
not mature and only a small percentage
has reached its true potential. He asserts,
“The true potential of Cloud should be
firing at 300% growth per annum. We are
exploring overseas market also.”
Stunning Growth
Chris’ vision, ideas and determination
transformed into extraordinary growth of
G7CR, as it has been growing at a rate of
almost 100% year-on-year since the last
three years. However, contrary to popular
belief that only extreme discipline, lofty
targets and overworking could lead to
huge success in a small period of time,
Chris doesn’t believe in setting targets
at all. He explains, “We do not work with
targets. Yes, we have a growth of almost
100% for the last three years without
setting a number goal. When we sit with
a partner or a client, we only look at how
we may create value for them. We focus on
value-creation and the revenue and other
figures take care of themselves. This is the
core factor of our success, and has built a
lot of trust with our clients.”
Strategies for Growth
Headquartered in Bangalore, India G7CR
serves across the globe with over 700+
employee strength and has a proven
record of achieving customer success in
various industry verticals such as telecom,
healthcare, education, IT, consulting, etc.
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