‘Be Unreasonable to be successful’ – Shamit Khemka, CEO of SynapseIndia

Swearing by the motto “Be Unreasonable”, Shamit Khemka is a determined entrepreneur who strives for excellence through innovation. Success is the only word that motivates Shamit Khemka. It was the unremitting craving for success and to achieve something beyond the capacity and thought of his peers that he came up with one after another entrepreneurial venture at such a young age.

Pharos Infotech – his first venture, came soon after he graduated from St. Xavier’s College. Pharos was the first ever BBS in India with email servicing. Since then, there’s been no looking back. His second venture Sampatti.com was the first to launch the innovative real estate directory and database to Indian market.

SynapseIndia is the most recent venture of Shamit Khemka. One of the leading offshoring service providers in India, SynapseIndia has been growing tremendously since its inception in 2000.

Today, Synapse India is a CMMI level 3 accredited company, a Microsoft Gold partner and NASSCOM and FICCI certified outsourcing firm.

Synapse India – One of the most preferred outsourcing destinations in India

Launched in 2000, Synapse India is one of the leading offshoring service providers in India. Brainchild of Shamit Khemka – the Founder and CEO of Synapse India, the company has been successfully catering to the needs of a wide range of clients worldwide.

Shamit Khemka started Synapse India with a miniscule investment and a countable few employees.

The company has now grown to a fully-fledged outsourcing firm with over 300 employees and a modern infrastructure. The reason why the company is fast becoming the most preferred outsourcing destination for overseas clients lies in the consistency in quality and ability to meet the deadlines.

Shamit Khemka is a commerce graduate form St. Xavier’s College. He aspires for excellence through innovation and thus keeps on looking out for newer dimensions of growth. His other two ventures include Pharos Infotech launched in 1994 and Sampatti.com launched in 1998.

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What Drives a Young entrepreneur like Shamit Khemka?

What is it that makes men like Khemka want to go that extra mile even after reaching the heights of success at such an early age?

Only 34 and already on his third successful business venture, one is forced to wonder what is it that makes men like Shamit Khemka want to go that extra mile even after reaching the heights of success at such an early age. “For me, it’s the will to succeed, combined with my drive and lust for learning, as well as my passion to scale newer heights every time,” beams Khemka matter-of-factly.

At 19, when most are still confused about which career to pursue, Shamit Khemka, CEO and founder of Synapse India, had already decided to realize his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Hailing from a business family, Khemka deciding against joining his family’s flour mill business as he was passionate about technology and wanted to make a mark in the IT world.

Shamit Khemka – showing how planning and commitment can pave ones way to success

Failure after a tenacious attempt comes only the minute you give up. You do not analyze how closer you were to success. You give up and all your attempts go in vain. This is a common occurrence. People from all the walks of life fall prey to it. If you ask how to counter it, I will suggest you to have a look at young Indian entrepreneur Shamit Khemka, the founder and owner of IT outsourcing company Synapse Communications.

He is, as always was, focused to his objectives. Evidently, Synapse, his brain child, registered an envious annual growth rate of more than 100 percent. In the while, it bagged prestigious CMMI level-3 accreditation and several other national and international recognitions.

Now what? Shamit knows if he continues to stress on the points of quality services and customer satisfaction, level-5 accreditation by 2011 is a sure proposition.

And with the sight of a supremely dedicated leader, his entire team has also set themselves in motion on a path towards making a dream that’s soon waiting to be a reality.

Shamit knows that it now requires only few cautious and persistent steps to reach the next goal. All the budding entrepreneurs should follow the enthusiasm of Shamit to realize a fact that every dream has one thing in common.

To achieve any of them it requires planning and commitment.

Shamit Khemka – fostering talent while ingraining professional ethos

Accountability and transparency – the two keys to corporate success are just a way of life at Synapse Communications – an IT outsourcing venture led by young Indian entrepreneur Shamit Khemka.

Synapse not only hires the best but also helps the best to be accountable for the job done by him/her. Shamit trusts his talent pool, gives them free hand, and lays reasons to grow.

The same spreads a sense of belongingness among the employees towards the responsibilities and the organization as a whole.

Next to the line in Synapse’s excellent work culture comes the role of transparency. Being a process-driven company, every work at Synapse follows a distinct defined path – resulting in a transparent and controlled work mechanism.

Free flow of communication within the team and suggestions from all concerned departments results in smoother and error-free operations. These steps not only help a skilled professional to benefit from a healthy work environment but also magnify Synapse’s credibility among clients.

For all budding entrepreneurs, in the form of Synapse, Shamit gifts a model of work culture that proves beneficial for both the employees as well as organization.

Shamit Khemka Biography

A short read in to the life of Shamit Khemka – the owner of Synapse Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Business is in the heart and blood of Shamit Khemka - the founder of Synapse communications. The milestones in a journey till this phase of his life leaves very little to doubt about this man’s abilities.

He started it with Pharos Infotech at Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) in the year 1994. Right after completing his graduation from the prestigious Scindia School.

Shamit took the gallop by implementing BBS with Email services for the first time in India.

In the year 1998, he started his second venture Sampatti.com. Again an extremely popular investment amongst real-estate and allied service providers. This online real estate platform was the first of its kind in India to offer an all-integrated online database of real estate specialists in the country.

Then came Synapse communications – the biggest of his all ventures and soon to prove to be the leader amongst the IT outsourcing specialists in India. It is Shamit’s leadership and entrepreneurial skills that lead to the manifestation of several better ways that IT and offshore software development service industry in India was to follow suit.

As it was to be, recognitions poured in lots. Incepted in 2000, today Synapse is a member of Software technology park of India and is a 100% export oriented unit. It is a CMMI level 3 company; recognized world over by several business and third-party certification authorities.

In all and many more to come in the future, the one thing that echoes is Shamit’s farsighted ingeniousness. It is this special characteristic of this man that makes the ground for the dream of excelling and touching a newer height.

And all after this, Shamit thinks he’s just made the flight. The heights are yet to be reached!

Shamit – Vision and commitment in Synapse’s success

Vision has the potential to open many doors for success, but it is one’s commitment that keeps them open always.

Once you are blessed with the capability to envision and possess the attitude to work towards it to make it fall under reach, success remains only a road trip. Take the example of Shamit Khemka, the young entrepreneur whose vision and commitment has made Synapse communications a CMMI Level 3 company, recognized by hundreds worldwide today.

Shamit’s IT Outsourcing service venture Synapse became operational in the year 2000. He knew that the profits will only be continuous till the customers are satisfied. First he made it possible by setting a list of right principles and putting them into practice. The next was to integrate right manpower to do the right thing.

Today, a group of more than 250 dedicated and talented employees ensure quality solutions at affordable prices. While Elance, world’s one of the most reputed third-party vendor, recognizes Synapse with an astounding 99% dependability ratio, the growth curve of the company points towards an excellent 100% growth every year since inception.

Vision + Commitment = Sustainable growth.  Is this what some say as the formula of success? Shamit Khemka has proved it best.

Shamit Khemka: the entrepreneur, leader and achiever

They say, “You must first be a believer, if you want to be an achiever.”

Here we speak of a staunch believer of hard work and integrity; who scaled new heights of achievements without a flicker of any pompous demonstration. He performs silently and continues to let his works talk for them. He owns one of India’s leading software and web development outsourcing companies and has already bagged numerous national and international recognitions for being an emerging young entrepreneur. Let me introduce you to Mr. Shamit Khemka – the founder of Synapse Communications Pvt. Ltd. and Sampatti.com, the much popular online real estate service.

He is a man who has proud credentials of being the one to gift India its first Bulletin Board System with e-mail services. He is also the one to establish country’s first online real estate database that allows every property buyer and seeker to enroll their needs and specialties – all for free.

The flight… towards a goal set high

From a computer whiz-kid to become a CEO of a tremendously progressive MNC, the journey Shamit took was interspersed with challenges. Just as it is always in ready abundance for the one who has set to move ahead. Shamit faced every challenge that tried to hinder his progress with inerrant determination. If foresightedness and hard work are two mandatory requirements to be known as a successful individual, Shamit has both the pre-requisites aplenty.

He adds up his excellent managerial skills to become a complete package that embodies the perfect prescription for success – both individually and for all who contribute to his team. In the process, while Synapse Communications has grown 10 times (both revenue and manpower-wise) since its inception in 2002, Sampatti.com, Shamit’s another creation, has garnered rave reviews from real estate industry specialists and allied service providers alike for its techno-innovative and effective service delivery model.

From a standard 30-men company, today, Synapse boasts of over 300 employees – spread in different specialty areas. It ably caters to diversified business specialties via the arms by the names of SynapseIndia, Synapse websolutions, Synapse interactive etc. While its Noida office exemplifies the best of a state of-the-art infrastructural facility, an upcoming specialty centre at NEPZ, Greater Noida, is expected to feature futuristic readiness towards taming every challenge from emerging technological needs.

Shamit – the man of his men

Shamit Khemka, the entrepreneur, like all of his successful counterparts, knows the role of employees in an organization. Talk to any of his employees. You would immediately get to know hundreds of pro-employee rules and regulations that they enjoy being in Synapse. Understandably, a job opportunity in Synapse attracts more applicants in comparison to what a similar offer from others in the same business promises of.

On course to more…

In a scenario when in the name of better profits, private sector companies implement innovative rules to sap employees to the extent of no return, Mr. Shamit Khemka too implements innovativeness.

He applies it to install a prized balance between business growth and employee satisfaction.

Be it with SynapseIndia, Synapseco, or any other extensions of Shamit Khemka’s services to an increasing list of global clients, he marches on ahead while setting newest standard of professional commitment. Like a true leader, he keeps his team aware of any impending challenge and motivates them to achieve the newer height by conquering the limits.

On the course of scaling newer heights with his people, Shamit proves his taste for integrity by practicing a professional culture where individual growth complements to organizational growth.

A thing that in itself is no less than an achievement!

 

Shamit Khemka – the man, and the owner of Synapse Communication Pvt. Ltd

Shamit Khemka owns one of India’s leading IT venture, Synapse Communications Pvt. Ltd. Started with a few countable competent people, the company has now grown into a CMMI-Level 3 company that employees more than 300 people and caters to a global list of clients with advanced and cost-efficient IT solution and services.

A born leader
Someone said, ‘A leader is born, not made.’ Shamit Khemka has a knack of playing the lead role in every activity that he indulges himself in. May be it is his business background that has helped him to develop essentials for leading a team of people and motivate them to work for a common cause.

Smart thinker
Shamit’s ability of identifying futuristic opportunities helps him to move ahead of the time. If his love for information technology and internet inspired him to venture in the world of IT services at a meagre age of twenty, his ability to smartly handle a situation is largely responsible for his success today. 

Call for Knowledge – his unending quest
Even after achieving so much in so less time, Shamit’s quest for knowledge has not subsided yet. To walk with the pace of time, and stay ahead of it, he garners information by reading books and browsing through the net. He keeps his eye on latest trends and styles and encourages every member of his team to enhance their knowledge base.

Up close – private and religious
After a hectic day at work, Shamit is a happy family man at home. He leads a simple personal life wherein he is just an ordinary god fearing person who loves to spend quality time with the loved ones.

If a strong value system works as the fundamental of this man, it results into his committed determination that gets reflected in the form of several successful endeavors.

About Synapse Owner: Shamit Khemka

CMMI-Level 5 – the Next Target

Shamit Khemka, Synapse’s 34 year-old founder and CEO, believes in moving ahead with the time and offering only the best to his people and clients. He has led Synapse from its inception in 2000 to a world-class software company that comprises an envious credential of being ‘CMMI – Level 3 Certified’ and recognitions from numerous national and internal third-party organizations. Today, with a tag line ‘IT outsourcing @ peace of mind’, Synapse Communications Pvt. Ltd. comes across as a leader in offshore custom software solutions to list clients spread across the globe. It employees more than 300 people dedicated towards creating best IT solutions for clients representing diverse business verticals.

However, Shamit isn’t content yet. He is in constant endeavor to take Synapse to newer heights. After achieving the prestigious CMMI-Level 3, his next aim is to get CMMI-Level 5 certification by 2010.

Shamit sets it high to be seen better. Synapse has already made its mark towards pinnacle of Indian software industry. With its excellent people and practices, one can safely assume to see the company achieving newer heights – much earlier than its contemporaries.