Meet Amit Sharma: The supply chain visionary
An alumnus of NITIE, Mumbai, Amit Sharma is the Cofounder of Trinamix Inc., a global leader in strategy, consulting, digital technology, and operations within the global supply chain transformation domain
Amit graduated from Indore and completed his post-graduation from NITIE, Mumbai, which is a prestigious educational institution in the area of Supply Chain, founded by the International Labor Organization (ILO). During his study, he and his colleagues founded Lakshya - On the Job Achievers Contest for achieving outstanding work in the area of the supply chain. It is now India's most prominent on-the-job competition of its kind under the chairmanship of Anand Mahindra.
Amit is one of the leading practitioners of progressive supply chain transformation in the world. He has demonstrated experience in expanding operations to include solutions for complex supply chain problems globally. Even before he founded Trinamix along with his fellow co-founders, Amit proved himself to be an entrepreneur at heart.
He established his first company when he was graduating from NITIE, Mumbai. He created a portal that allowed freelancers to earn money solving "day-in-the-life" problems. The project picked up well before it became an unfortunate victim of the 2000 dot-com burst.
“The failure of my first venture taught me several lessons that have helped me throughout my career. In fact, it was a blessing in disguise as today I understand that I was destined for bigger things in life and that one failure was to be my catalyst,” says Amit.
Not one to be deterred by a short lived first business, Amit played a critical role in another startup called eZdia, which allowed freelancers to promote themselves and as a result, be hired to perform independent remote assignments. eZdia gained a lot of attention and a significant number of users. Soon, the platform was more or less running on auto-pilot.
“After the earlier debacle, the success of this venture helped me a lot in regaining my confidence. It was also immensely satisfying to see our crowdsourcing based solution helping tens of thousands of freelancers from countries like India, Bangladesh, Srilanka, etc., to showcase their skills and pick up assignments online. At the same time we were also helping a lot of small to medium sized businesses in the developing countries to get quality services at much affordable cost from quality freelancers through our platform,” elaborates Amit.
