A quick introduction to MentorSquare.

1. An Introduction to
MentorSquare

2. What does Mentoring mean?
Mentoring is the process of enabling, empowering
and energizing an entrepreneur and his/her team
to take their enterprise to the next level.

3. Why are we here?

4. What we understand?
Challenges
Typically, we find that Business Owners
and Entrepreneurs face challenges like
Lack of Growth
Lack of adequate Funds
Lack of Business Strategy and Direction
Lack of Structure and Organisation

5. What we understand?
Barriers
Most often, the barriers that slowdown
the process of rapid growth is
Lack of Management Bandwidth
Short-term focused decisions
Entangled in day to day operations inevitably
compromising on the bigger picture
Lack of discipline and rigor in execution of plans

6. Very Different but Much the Same
When it comes to business issues, the
patterns, the symptoms and solutions
are very similar!
Most solutions are developed through
experience.

7. What is MentorSquare?
has created a global pool of
experienced professionals and business
leaders committed to guiding
entrepreneurs on their journey to greater
business success

8. The Mentor Network
 Mentors are people who have built their own
companies as Entrepreneurs or as Professionals.
 Mentors have the ability to guide entrepreneurs
and help his thought process.
 Mentor network provides the Mentee, business
advice and a network.
 A Global Network, with local presence!

9. What have we done so far?

10. What have done so far?
 Approximately 5000 SMEs have experienced
MentorSquare through our various programs
 Through our programs we have helped SMEs :
o Increase their revenues by 35% to 65%
o Increase their profitability by more than 25%
o Raise funds to the tune of INR 100 Crores
o Provide global market access to markets like
Singapore, USA, Malaysia, UAE, South Africa
o Help professionalise the team

11. Its not what we say that counts,
its what our Members say –
A Few of our
Success Stories

12. A Few of our Success Stories
 An 8 year old Telecom Equipment vendor
 Facing a problem of revenue decline despite market growing
 Expecting 40% growth.
 Declining market and dropping sales and revenues.
 The trends were confirmed
 Internal gaps in Planning, Marketing, Sales processes and Market
Coverage were clearly identified.
Our Mentors helped the company develop a clear road map, Strategy
and a Review process to ensure growth.
He has met targets ever since…

13. A Few of our Success Stories
 An 18 year old surgical dressings and medi-packing Manufacture
 Aspiring to look beyond the day-to-day operations
 Wanting to concentrate on expanding the business and grow faster.
 Caught up in day-to-day operations
 Lack of focus on business expansion
 The operational specifics were studied
 Internal changes in delegation of work, planning and strategy were
identified
 Actions plans were made and implemented
Our Mentors helped the company in distributing responsibilities to the
HR and a clear plan was set for the Mentee to achieve expansion
and ensure growth.
He has expanded to two more cities and has begun exporting abroad…

14. A Few of our Success Stories
 An INR 20 Crore Manufacturing Company
 Fire-fighting an on-going Crisis
 Aspiring to concentrate on growth
 The Growth slowing down
 Major Attrition in his enterprise
 The Entrepreneur was taken through a process which helped him
recognize AND OWN his own planning errors
 Move on to a more robust business model.
Our Mentors helped the company to create a business strategy,
institutionalise a Review process to drive performance and provide a
sustainable value for his customers, partners and employees.

15. A Few of our Success Stories
“I would look at our current engagement with Mentor square
as the initial phase in which we have addressed many critical
aspects like three year business plan with specific focus on
the current year business and new opportunities.
I have also seen visible changes in our sales organization on
forecasting & reporting system , the 4Q reporting review which
started as trial with our customer service is yielding desired
results.
I would like Mentor square to spend more time on fine tuning
the review process. We have immensely gained in the last six
months interacting with our you and the other Mentors.”

16. A Few of our Success Stories
An INR 100+ Crore company with a suite of offerings under trading and dealership of 3 & 4 wheeler
plus construction equipment.
The company aspired to grow its top-line by 200% in 5 years. But faced issues like stagnating growth &
declining profitability.
Over a period of 12 months, MentorSquare has been able to deep dive into the root causes of the
problems and :
1. Articulate a plan to improve sustainability of current business in terms of both top-line & bottom-
line improvements
2. Define appropriate KRAs for all executive and managerial positions, that are aligned with top
management goals
3. Strengthen the second-line (next to the MD) to enable focus on more strategic issues as opposed
to the operational aspects of the company
4. Study and enhance current business processes/practices
5. Identify and analyzed diversification options for the business
With the above measures, this firm is on the path to retain its market share and sustain its
profitability despite intense competition, choppy market and political situations.

17. A Few of our Mentors

18. MentorSquare Mentors
Ravi Narayan: CEO & Co- Founder
Ravi is a serial entrepreneur having started American Systems International (ASI) providing
IT solutions for the US federal market, Nextone Communications (sold to Genband), a global
leader in the VoIP space and Astuto Networks (sold to Ismart International), an India based
company specializing in network infrastructure products for the emerging markets. He has
also worked at various technical and management levels for IBM and Hughes Network
Systems.
Cherian Kuruvila: Partner Mentor
Cherian comes with a career that has spanned 28 plus years in 4 Industries. He has
worked in senior management levels in the consumer durable sector for 3 years, in office
automation sector for 16 years, in the Telecom sector for 7 years and has also had a share
of HR recruitment/ HR consulting for 2 years.
His biggest assignment has been as a Senior Vice President (for Retail) in Reliance
Communications Ltd.

19. MentorSquare Mentors
Renukaprasad Belgur: Partner Mentor
A result oriented senior management professional with manufacturing experience spanning
over 30 years.
He is currently, spear heading the AVASARALA’s. Prior to joining AVASARALA, he joined
Bharat Electronics and served in the Projects & Automation Systems division working on
high technology areas in system design and controls for critical component production
machinery.
Prabhakar Valivati: Managing Director & Co-founder
He co-founded RelQ Software which he built from scratch and eventually sold it to EDS. He
had also served in key roles at TVS Suzuki and Wipro prior to co-founding RelQ Software.
He is a seasoned entrepreneur, has successfully established large enterprises,
internationalized businesses and has in-depth experience in Marketing, Strategy and
Finance.

20. MentorSquare Mentors
Nagendra Satyan: COO & Co- Founder
He brings over twenty years of experience in IT and Management Consulting and another
eight years in industry. In his latest assignment at EMC India, where he led the engineering
organization as Vice President and GM, he built it from a 20 to a 1000-member strong team
in a span of 36 months, covering all the product lines. Prior to joining EMC, Nagendra was
the MD at Sanware Storage Solutions; Country Manager at Accelerated Networks India;
COO at Princeton Consulting, India and Head of Management Consulting, Tata
Consultancy Services.
Balaji Pasumarthy: Co-founder
He is the owner of GoldenSquare Serviced and Virtual office which has provided smart
and ready to use offices for more than 500 companies in Bangalore.
As the Executive Director of BNI Bangalore he helps businessmen connect with
customers through trusted recommendations.
He is passionate about Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy and writes on these topics
on www.businessgyan.com the destination for useful business knowledge that he
founded.

21. MentorSquare Mentors
Sachi R. Sachidanand: Partner Mentor
Sachi R. Sachidananda is a veteran in international techno-marketing with 3 decades of
working with Fortune 50 companies. He is a partner mentor at MentorSquare and also
Senior consultant to an MNC. He drove both the technical and customer-centric aspects of
marketing to acquire major clients for high value capital equipment across industries. He
was one of the core leadership team who built up a leadership position for Wipro GE in
India in the '90s.
Avinash Agrawal: Lead Mentor
Avinash Agrawal has over 35 years of rich management experience in diversified
industries, with over last twenty years at the top level in the Global IT industry covering
software services, product development, BPO and IT support. He has been responsible for
setting up software companies from scratch and built them successfully into efficient
organizations. Earlier, he held management positions in multinational organizations in
engineering, manufacturing, liquor and beer, food processing and several other segments
of the industry.

22. MentorSquare Mentors
Vikram Amaranath: Lead Mentor
Vikram Amaranath, comes with a combined experience of 30 plus years in working for
premier Indian MNC’s like TCS & MindTree and Navaratna like BEML. The 30 year career
includes 17 years of consulting experience where he headed the Business Consulting
Group of the Manufacturing Industry Practice for India’s premier IT Services company, Tata
Consulting Services. He served as the Vice-President and Head of Manufacturing Industry
Group and the Energy Industry Group for MindTree Limited.
Mathew Isac: Lead Mentor
For the last eighteen years, he has worked in multiple global roles in enhancing financial
and operational expertise with a variety of organizations in the technology, consumer
services, foods, BPO and other diversified sectors. He has managed large global functional
teams & projects / programs across India, Americas, Europe, APAC. Mathew has worked
with corporates like BILT, Agrotech Foods and Apollo Tyres earlier, with experiences in
Business revamp across acquired units, business planning and corporate finance.

23. MentorSquare Mentors
Hari Rao: Senior Mentor
Over four decades of global experience in precision engineering, manufacturing
technology, quality, supply chain, equipment planning and procurement, and people
management. He worked as the Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Advisor of Titan
Industries Ltd and has played a crucial role in bringing the wrist watch industry to India. He
is also the Director of Vantage Agora Marketing Pvt. Ltd.
Ramesh Kumar: Senior Mentor
He has been the MD of Premium Transmissions where he was responsible for formation of
the company from a division of Greaves. He has also started Perkasa Engineering - an
automotive company in Indonesia to manufacture trucks, buses and tractors. He has also
been the Executive Director of Jaya Hind, turning the company around in 11 months, after
7 years of red ink. He has also been the head of a large construction machinery plant at
BOMAG. He has also been responsible for the turnaround of three different companies of
the Thapar and Tata groups.

24. Thank you!