Amit Gadhia

Current

• Founder at www.Artyllect.com

Past

• Founder at Bacfo Research Labs - WorldofAyurveda.com
• Business Development at Staples, Inc.
• Market Research at Inventors Publishing & Research

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Education

• Kennesaw State University - Michael J. Coles College of Business
• Georgia Southwestern State University

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Artyllect Web2.0 Consulting
• Entrepreneur Meetup Organizer

Amit Gadhia’s Summary

As Shakespeare says...

"All the world's a stage & all the men & women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances; & one man in his time plays many parts"

While circling life on this stage; below is a summary of my parts, my exits and entrances:

Started my career with Merrill in Atlanta, GA. I was selling term loans & lines of credit to farmers, home builders & food processing plants. Soon I find myself wrapped around an irresistible offer from a client of Merrill's: an investment banking M&A boutique. I started consulting with SME (10m-100m) business owners on exit strategy implementation and an eventual merger or acquisition.

Summer of 2003, I moved to California. Shortly, I picked up a project with Inventors Publishing and Research powering their sales team with all thats Market Research. Soon, I was selling pens, pencils n paper clips for Staples: a $13.2 billion dollar company, fortune 165 and also the largest office supply distributor in the world.

In late 2004, the entrepreneurial bug bit me & I started my first company - import & distribution of plant-based pharmaceutical products. After 2 short years, I sold it to my partner. Shortly, I find myself working on a project in the web2.0 software/application development and technology consulting industry; fall in love with this industry, never looked back & decided to start my own company in this space.

Thus, www.Artyllect.com was born.
Even today, there is an acute shortage of not so great software developers; forget about great engineering. Why are software engineers right brain deficient? Why is it so difficult to find great engineers, engineers who can simply communicate? I've decided to stop asking why and start answering how. The dna of Artyllect speaks for itself i.e. a mind of the artistic & the intellect. We're a bunch of geeky & passionate software engineers, focusing in 3 areas: web2.0, open source and mobile/wireless application development.

Amit Gadhia’s Specialties:

Web2.0 Website and Application (frontend + backend) Development, Custom Software & Technology Development, Web2.0 Idea Development and Consulting, Web 2.0 Project Management and Support, Business Analyst, Scope/Requirement Gathering and Documentation, Staff Augmentation/Human Capital Acquisition, M&A/Exit Strategy Consulting, StartUp Addiction, Open Source Consulting, LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, Php, CMS: Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Pligg, Typo3, Xoops, more on artyllect dot com

Amit Gadhia’s Experience

• Founder

  www.Artyllect.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Artyllect = a mind of the artistic and the intellect. Artyllect is an entrepreneurship fostering web2.0 technology consulting company. We power pregnant entrepreneurs with fruit bearing ideas on our web2.0 specific technology development infrastructure. We work with some of the worlds best engineers, some of the worlds best brains you can possibly imagine.
  
  Technology focus: WEB2.0 -:- OPEN SOURCE -:- WIRELESS/MOBILE APPS
  
  1) WEB 2.0:
  Social Networking, Facebook Apps, OpenSocial, Community Building, TikiWikis, Collaborative Tools, Forums, Podcasting, Wordpress, Web Services, Weblog Publishing, Folknomies, Tagclouds
  
  2) OPEN SOURCE - (WAMP/LAMP Windows/Linux, Apache, MySQL, Php/Perl/Python, Ruby), .net, java, ajax
  -CMS: Drupal, Mambo/Joomla, Plone, Typo3
  -Markups like xhtml, xml, html
  
  3) WIRELESS/MOBILE APPS
  
  J2ME/WAP

• Founder

  Bacfo Research Labs - WorldofAyurveda.com

  (Privately Held; Alternative Medicine industry)

  November 2004 — August 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  World of Ayurveda, a US-INDIA joint venture/pharmaceutical trade initiative of Bacfo Research Labs, subsidiary of BACFO Pharmaceuticals (INDIA) Limited, an ISO 9001:2000, GMP, cGMP and HACCP IS:15000 certified. BACFO is a plant-based scientific research and development pharmaceutical company based in the heart of the Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area; manufacturing in New Delhi, India. Solely in charge and primary decision maker on deploynig Bacfo Research Labs at World of Ayurveda.
  
  Article Authored: http://www.pr.com/press-release/3106

• Business Development

  Staples, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SPLS; Retail industry)

  2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

  Identified, pursued and closed large deals penetrating dozens of B2B accounts. Interface directly with top-level executives (CEO, CFO, Controller), negotiate high-dollar contracts and coordinate implementation. Manage accounts and orchestrate post-sale professional services and resources.
  
  Plan, coordinate, manage and develop cost effective strategies for acquiring new clients and retaining/growing existing client base. Implement Sales strategy to ensure company meets revenue and profit objectives Proven ability to meet and exceed quota projections.

• Market Research

  Inventors Publishing & Research

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  January 2003 — December 2003 (1 year)

Amit Gadhia’s Education

• Kennesaw State University - Michael J. Coles College of Business

  Bachelor of Business Administration, Professional Sales

  Full Scholarship Recipient = Zero Student Loan

  Activities and Societies:

  -> President, Indian Student Association.
  -> Assistant Tennis Coach, KSU Lady Owls
  -> Member, Students in Free Enterprise

• Georgia Southwestern State University

  Computer Science

Additional Information

Amit Gadhia’s Websites:

• Artyllect Web2.0 Consulting
• Entrepreneur Meetup Organizer

Amit Gadhia’s Interests:

open source activist, free software preacher, social entrepreneurship disciple

Amit Gadhia’s Groups:

San Francisco Bay Area Entrepreneur Meetup
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/976

San Francisco Bay Area Open Source Meetup
http://opensource.meetup.com/65/

The San Francisco NetSquared Meetup Group
http://netsquared.meetup.com/1/

•    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
•    Jamnabai Narsee School (Bombay) Alumni
•    India Leadership Network

Amit Gadhia’s Contact Settings

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