World’s youngest CEO to shift office to Bangalore from California

Nineteen-year-old Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Global Inc Suhas Gopinath has decided to shift his office headquarters from California to his home city of Bangalore after Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy assured him of office space.

Suhas Gopinath, who is also recognized by various media as the world’s youngest CEO, met Kumaraswamy and requested him to use his good offices to locate a suitable office space in Bangalore. The Chief Minister responded to Suhas Gopinath’s request positively and assured him to provide office space in a week’s time.

Speaking to reporters after meeting the Chief Minister, Suhas Gopinath said he had to set up his firm in the US during 2000 when he was just 14 years old as it was not possible for him to float a company in India before he attained the age of 18 years.

His IT firm Global Inc, which has branches in 13 different countries including US, UK, Canada and India, provides jobs to more than 600 people across the world. The company will recruit another 150 people for the Bangalore office, he said.

Suhas Gopinath’s Global Inc has recently bagged a contract from Federal Ministry for Human Resources in India for interlinking 947 Kendriya Vidyalaya schools.

Also, his company had recently been allotted office space in Karachi by the Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukath Aziz. The young entrepreneur has proposed to organize a conference of young leaders in Bangalore from September 1 to 3, 2006 in which 200 young leaders – 100 each from India and Pakistan – will participate.

Suhas Gopinath, who has been trying to get Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the conference, said Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukath Aziz will be prevailed upon to deliver an address through video-conferencing.

The nineteen-year-old CEO has also been invited by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to set up an entrepreneurial cell in Britain to promote entrepreneurial skills among prospective investors in his country. Suhas Gopinath is scheduled to meet Tony Blair on July 16 in the regard.