Dr. Sharlene Thiagarajah believes that behind every great company are its people. For TM Research & Development (TM R&D) to achieve this success, she made sure to take in employees with a purpose – a will to try new things, a will to learn new things, someone who comes to work with a sparkle in their eye, and spring to their every step.

Dr. Sharlene’s journey at TM R&D started in 1995, as a fresh graduate filled with a passion for research and development. For more than two decades, she has served in different roles in Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM). “Today, we are offering R&D as a service – which means ’problem-solving’ as a business. For TM R&D, our goal is to make life and business easier with smarter ecosystems to enrich humanity and bring progress to nations,” she says. “We strive to stay relevant with our new innovative solutions that the market cannot do without and take on projects that provide multifold benefits to businesses and the global market.”

She holds a PhD in Computer Systems Engineering, a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia, and a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering (1st Class Hons) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Her educational qualifications and career journey add to her immense experience, in which she guides and mentors her team members and those around her. She spearheaded numerous programmes that have helped younger employees reach greater heights. “I believe that my role is to create a conducive environment to spark creativity and innovation. Making TM R&D a place where people can dream big and see how their ideas can be turned into reality,” adds Dr. Sharlene. “Aside from that, I do enjoy throwing challenges to my team and working on solving them together. Building a culture of ‘individual contributors and no passengers is important’ as this would shape them into becoming a great leader someday.”

Armed with this brilliant mindset, Dr. Sharlene has been taking TM R&D to the next level. Since she took up the role as CEO in 2016, TM R&D has been credited with successfully transforming the culture and mindset of the organisation from a traditional research facility to an innovation powerhouse that focuses on creation and commercialisation. To date, the company has commercialised 18 products with a 29% CAGR revenue growth since 2019. Seven products have been deployed within TM’s operations, and four have been exported to at least six countries, the farthest being South Africa.

TM R&D started as a division in the early ’80s and was later incorporated as a company in 2000. They are a Malaysian government-approved R&D company; and an innovation hub for TM Group. Today, they are positioned as a critical enabler to drive TM’s digital aspiration with innovations that move beyond connectivity to create new value-added digital and smart services, covering customer experience, process optimisation, as well as new business opportunities.

TM R&D owns more than 2,800 Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) with 100 percent adoption of all their products since 2018. They have also received many local and international awards, which include the Malaysia Technology Excellence Awards, World Communication Awards, TM Forum Excellence Awards, and WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards, among others, all thanks to the dedicated team under Dr. Sharlene’s leadership, who has been a significant influence on not only the company but also the employees. The last two awards received by the company were the technology equivalent of the Grammy Awards received in the music industry.

For the days to come, Dr. Sharlene aims to establish the next Unicorn for Malaysia. “We see a very bright future for TM R&D as every Fortune 500 company in the world has its roots in R&D, because if you do not innovate, you cannot stay ahead of the competition,” she says. “. One of our main aspirations is to create and deliver the next Unicorn for TM, and ultimately for Malaysia. I am very proud of my team – our work will help propel Malaysia to be a nation of producers, instead of consumers. The ability to produce will lead to greater sustainability of our beloved country.” WL

Fashion for Patrizia Lazzaro, Vice President Global E-commerce, Guess, is a way of being and expressing personality. “If we look at Guess, the Brand is the expression of being sexy, young and adventurous. If we look at Marciano, the Brand is the expression of elegance and sophistication. Fashion is such a fascinating world, with the capability to externalize and show how we feel inside to anyone around us.”

Guess?, Inc. designs, markets, distributes, and licenses a lifestyle collection of contemporary apparel, denim, handbags, watches, eyewear, footwear, and other related consumer products. Guess? products are distributed through branded Guess? stores as well as better department and specialty stores around the world. As of January 29, 2022, the Company directly operated 1,068 retail stores in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The Company’s partners and distributors operated 563 additional retail stores worldwide. As of January 29, 2022, the Company and its partners and distributors operated in approximately 100 countries worldwide.

Guess’s main strength and creative force are definitely the people, the Guess Family. All the people working in Guess are the engine of the Brand and the Company, starting from Guess’ founders, Paul and Maurice Marciano.

Being in Guess since 2008, Patrizia had the chance and the fortune to be part of several phases of the Company’s transformation, the most visionary one starting in 2019 when Paul Marciano, together with the Global CEO Carlos Alberini, set the strategy for a combination of Brand elevation, product innovation and redesign, digitalization, online boost, and operational flows improvements, investing a lot of time and energy to make all this happen very quickly. Their vision was embraced by the Company as a whole, supporting them with strong commitment and dedication. GUESS was able, under their direction, to elevate the Guess and Marciano brands, develop collections with excellent and fashionable products, redefine the Company’s global e-commerce strategy, and drive efficiencies across the business, delivering meaningful results.

“We can say that the strategy identified and set at the beginning of 2019 was really an extraordinary vision which helped the Company to navigate through Covid-19 during 2020,” says Patrizia. “Even during the pandemic, while many companies decided to reduce or stop investments, Guess continued investing in digital and online, strongly believing in the potential of the Brand and the capability of the Guess team to be able to navigate through this together with success.”

All the above reflects some of the Guess Rules that Paul Marciano has been stating since the Company was founded: Courage, Get Things Done, Be a good teammate; combined with some of his Personal Values, which Patrizia strongly believes in: Belief, Hope, Never Give up and Trust.

According to Patrizia being a woman is a strength: creativity, imagination, organization, empathy, the capacity of thinking outside the box and being multitasking are excellent. “We must have courage, as Paul Marciano always says, trust in ourselves, hope and never give up until we see our dreams coming true,” she adds. “The key is always looking for a place where women are put at the same level of men, where people are evaluated based on soft, hard skills and results, nothing else.”

For the steadfast leader, the best way to empower team members into becoming great leaders of tomorrow is by projecting self-confidence in them, allowing them to appreciate and develop all their strengths, and work on improving their weaknesses, never forgetting their roots (another Paul Marciano’s Personal Value) keeping a level of humility that engender trust.

“I was entrusted by Paul Marciano to run the e-commerce business and his trust gave me the confidence and strength to do my best. This is the kind of environment I want to recreate in my team.” Good leaders are the ones who work with the team and are not on top of the team. Consequently, a leader must be a good teammate, respect and evaluate everybody’s opinion and contribution, and be open to discussion and explanations. She/He has to be assertive yet flexible, with great communications skills. “Last, but not least, our teams are learning by example, so if we are good leaders, they will learn from us.”

For Patrizia, the future holds limitless possibilities, and she wants to keep on developing e-commerce and omnichannel business and scaling it more and more, being always on top of the best-in-class technology and processes; deeply customer-centric, consistently performing the function of a customer champion and fully understanding their motivations and behaviors. WL

April Radford is the COO of Ochsner Health’s Hospital Based Service Lines. She began her healthcare career as a medical receptionist in a small community hospital’s outpatient Radiology department, working her way through college while pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Ophthalmic Medical Technology. She began working at Ochsner in the Ophthalmology department in 1999 after completing her schooling, and she rapidly learned to appreciate the organization’s commitment to the community, patients, and workers.

Her journey into leadership, and most likely the turning point in her career, began 22 years ago with a supervisory role, which led to her earning an MBA and putting her on the management track. She had the privilege of working with main and specialty practices to improve the health of local communities, patients across the country, and patients around the world. She has built medical and surgical services and access to treatment with some of the best leaders and healthcare experts in the country. Some of her best and most memorable days were spent volunteering in communities after major weather catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 Pandemic, rebuilding homes, delivering food, and providing tests and vaccinations. Together, Ochsner Health has developed telemedicine outreach programs to reach out to rural communities and help community hospitals. She is excited about the potential to establish cost-effective and high-quality services in her new COO position, which will allow for seamless patient care across hospital-based service lines. Her personal satisfaction comes from witnessing how people’s daily contributions save and transform lives.

Serving, healing, leading, educating, and innovating are all aspects of Ochsner’s mission. It’s straightforward, but it’s based on more than 80 years of dedication to Louisiana’s and the Gulf South’s total health and well-being. The five Ochsner founders taught the crew what they needed to know about caring for people, rather than diseases. They instilled in Ochsner’s personnel the conviction that providing high-quality patient care is their number one priority. Instead of treating diseases, Ochsner focuses on people. So it always puts patients – and people – first.

“Patients First” is actually the first of Ochsner’s 6 core values. The others are Integrity, Compassion, Inclusivity, Excellence, and Teamwork. April Radford and the team have learned that one thing they can count on is change during the last two years. And, over the last few years, they’ve evolved from a healthcare provider to a health provider. That implies they are concerned with keeping individuals healthy throughout their lives, not only physically but also financially, mentally, socially, and educationally. Ochsner is dedicated to serving the full person at every stage of life so that everyone can live in a healthy environment with healthy individuals, families, and communities. Ochsner’s new vision articulates that very simply: “We inspire healthier lives and stronger communities.”

Investing time in continuing education, researching, and developing industry best practices, and networking with other professionals in healthcare, information technology, and consumer-centric industries allows Ochsner’s team to keep challenging the status quo as they strive for excellence and high-quality care. Ochsner developed and implemented a COVID-19 symptom tracker for patients who test positive for COVID and it can help monitor their symptoms remotely. Ochsner developed “Safe to Return” plans for businesses to help them reopen safely for both their employees and customers. Ochsner Employer Solutions provided on-site assessments and recommendations from infectious disease specialists on how to create a safe work environment, such as on-site screening stations, access to education, signage, and resources, and an on-site virtual employer clinic.

April Vanek Radford says “I think successful leadership starts with empathy and a genuine desire to serve. I’ve found success and personal satisfaction investing in others’ ability to succeed whether they be our patients or my colleagues. I’ve embraced opportunities to grow my knowledge and experience, accepting challenging roles and stretching beyond my comfort zone. I practice gratitude for the work I get to do every day.” April Radford’s innovative situational approach and passion for helping others made her a leading woman leader. IEWL

Ochsner Health

Management

April Vanek Radford
COO of Ochsner Health

Description

Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate. Ochsner Health is a not-for-profit committed to giving back to the communities it serves through preventive screenings, health and wellness resources and partnerships with innovative organizations that share our vision.

Renée Dobos is an outspoken advocate for affordable housing. She has extensive experience in the creation of affordable housing, property management, and resident services. She also brings to the organization a number of community connections that assist in the stabilization and support of families. She leads Connecticut Housing Partners (CHP) to develop and maintain innovative housing, revitalize communities, and improve the quality of life for low and moderate-income families. For more than three decades, CHP has been advancing this mission.

Connecticut Housing Partners Formerly Mutual Housing Association of Southwestern Connecticut, Inc is a diversified nonprofit housing development corporation serving Fairfield County, Connecticut. Founded in 1990, our mission is to create and sustain housing, revitalize neighborhoods, and improve the quality of life for low- and moderate-income families in Fairfield County. CHP has offices in Bridgeport, Stamford, Trumbull and Wilton. Our affordable housing communities are located in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Norwalk, Stamford, Trumbull and Wilton. We are a community-based organization. Our Board of Directors is comprised of neighborhood residents, corporate leaders, representatives of non-profit agencies and members of the public sector. All Directors share a common objective—to provide affordable housing to those most in need in Fairfield County, one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.

Renée is a visionary who feels that technology is a crucial strategic tool for keeping the company current and adaptable. She identified the vulnerability of the families CHP serves to the effects of income loss years before the pandemic struck. She established a Rent Bank as a tool to help CHP residents cope with the effects of job loss, financial hardship and avoid homelessness. When Covid struck, many individuals lost their employment, and the low and moderate-income community was the hardest hit, resulting in significant rent revenue losses for affordable housing providers. Renée instantly shifted gears and began raising funds for the CHP Rent Bank, ensuring the financial security of many CHP households. The organization raised over $200,000 which helped stabilize over 70 families during COVID while also offering free budget training as well. This was a key step in maintaining CHP’s financial health and preventing further evictions because the government stimulus monies for rental assistance didn’t arrive for another year.

Enhanced Living

As a champion of technology, Renée placed kiosks in each development to solve the social distancing issue caused by the pandemic. Residents use the kiosks to communicate with CHP employees in a secure manner, access recertification documentation, complete rental applications, pay rent, generate, and manage maintenance work orders, and many other functions.

Renée is also installing LED lighting, light sensors, and low-flow aerators in all CHP properties to help minimize the company’s carbon footprint. While these are important first steps, CHP will be the first affordable housing developer in the area to consolidate the solar energy production of all CHP developments and households on a portfolio basis. The goal is for CHP to pay for the electricity in the homes, increase cash flow for the families, and subsequently use solar energy production and portfolio net metering to lower overall electrical expenses for the properties.

Renée is a strong advocator, often reaching out to local financing authorities and state legislators. She travels to Capitol Hill in Washington, DC annually to lobby Senators and Congressman to continue funding the congressional appropriations for NeighborWorks America and other needs related to affordable housing. In addition, she is a chartered member of the National NeighborWorks Association which is an advocacy group for early lobby efforts related to pending bills and advising lawmakers on ways to be innovative when it comes to housing solutions for rental and first-time homebuyers. She also writes white papers to respond to public comments at the Federal and State level to ensure affordable housing is preserved.

Renée is laser focused on advancing the mission to develop affordable housing, operate with efficiency, reduce the organizations carbon footprint, build the rent bank, work with volunteers, enhance the resident services program and much more! She is a leader, and community builder. She is committed to being an exceptional steward of these important community assets, fostering strong partnerships, and broadening the organization’s impact throughout Connecticut.

A Strong Leader

“I am an advocate for all individuals, including women,” Renée explains. “Empowerment and education, in my opinion, are foundation tools needed for achieving individual economic stability and growth.” Renée is a strong, self-assured leader who believes in empowering and educating others to create opportunities. She leads by example, and she has been known to hire women with little to no experience and provide them with training and coaching because she sees the potential in them. As an example, the Director of Operations is a Hispanic woman who came to Renée from another organization with no prior expertise in affordable housing. “I hired her as a certification specialist, and through support, empowerment, training, and hard work she is now a director, overseeing 15 employees and 500 units of housing. She also completed her associate’s degree and has started working on her bachelor’s degree,” says Renée. Renée has personal experience with the power of education, having attended night school for ten years to achieve her bachelor’s degree and subsequently her MBA.

Renée has given talks at local high schools, Rotary Clubs, and is currently a member of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Because of her efforts during her career, Mayor Toni Harp of New Haven acknowledged her and awarded her the Public Service Award in 2015. Connecticut Housing Partners has won the “Best Of” award in 2019, 2020, and 2021 under Renee’s leadership.

Building Homes & Future

CHP was founded in Stamford, CT, more than 30 years ago, in response to a growing need for affordable housing. The Connecticut Department of Housing was their initial partner, and together they developed a 69-unit affordable housing development that is still thriving today. CHP has invested over 100 million dollars in Fairfield County to create affordable housing since its inception, and it has plans for many more projects. CHP has been able to leverage the annual funds received by 47 to 1, resulting in an annual community impact of $7 million, thanks to its connection with NeighborWorks America.

CHP is continually sourcing funds to create more affordable housing. As a non-profit, CHP relies on federal and state funding and tax credit programs to keep development expenses low. In affordable housing, rental revenue is often reduced significantly because residents earn less than 60% of Area Medium Income, and only 30% of that income can be spent on rent.

In 2021, to provide an additional revenue stream, CHP opened a Real Estate Agency with a Mission to End Homelessness. Wise Choice Realtors isn’t like any other real estate firm in that 100% of the net proceeds flow through to CHP to support the development of affordable housing. Wise Choice Realtors is a firm with a social mission supporting quality affordable housing and working to end homelessness. You can learn more at www.WiseChoiceRealtors.com.

Everyone benefits from affordable housing because it strengthens the economy and the middle class. Housing options that work for people from all walks of life are essential in Connecticut to establish a healthy middle class and, as a result, a flourishing economy. Connecticut Housing Partners has successfully addressed the concept of NIMBY in Fairfield County, Connecticut, where there is a lot of income inequality.

NIMBY, an acronym for “Not In My Backyard,” which describes the phenomenon in which residents of a neighborhood designate a new development (e.g., shelter, affordable housing, group home) or change in occupancy of an existing development as inappropriate or unwanted in their community. CHP has been able to partner with local leaders to change this perception and help the local community see affordable housing as a positive and much needed resource for the community. We have built properties in affluent areas that no other affordable developer has been able to access.

In 2022, CHP plans to start construction on a new development in Monroe, Connecticut, with 49 affordable senior housing units. The Monroe Project will be the first of its sort, aimed at assisting senior residents to stay in Monroe, a community where they have lived for years but are being forced out due to rising housing costs. In addition, CHP will preserve 113 units of affordable housing in Bridgeport and Stamford, Connecticut, over the following few years.

Renée says, “During my lifetime, the person who I feel has done so much for gender equality is Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I started my career at a time when there was a glass ceiling for women. Through the leadership example and efforts of Justice Ginsburg and many others, I knew with hard work, commitment, and dedication the glass ceiling could be shattered.” Renée adds, “I find that women are naturally more adaptive at forming partnerships. Over my long career, I have seen many changes in the workplace. Traits that I see that hold individuals back are large egos and stubbornness. Your career is a constant journey of learning and constantly improving. Trust your instincts and don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone.” IEWL

Focus, commitment and determination are the three things that Jose Oliveira has adopted to lead an organization with a strong growth year after year, and to achieve the established goals. BI4ALL was incorporated from the need to create, not just any company, but a true leader in the industry. Oliveira, the CEO has always managed BI4ALL with effort, commitment and enthusiasm, in order to offer its customers with the most appropriate solutions to make their business grow. The establishment of partnerships and the creation of close relations with its clients, as well as its partners, have enabled BI4ALL, over time, to consolidate its notoriety and recognition. Together with the experience of his partners, Andro Moreira and Hugo Pinto to form this company, Oliveira has taken BI4ALL to new heights.

BI4ALL positions itself as a driver of change in organizations. Thus, business knowledge and the constant improvement of information technologies, allows them to offer a highly specialized service in the implementation of Business Intelligence solutions that let organizations to have a competitive advantage by consolidating data from different sources of information in a single vision, providing precious indicators by turning data into insights.The dedication of the teams, combined with the audacity that makes the company look for the best solutions for its clients, is the foundation that allows affirming BI4ALL as a reference in the area of Business Intelligence and Analytics.

The main goal of BI4ALL is to support organizations in linking the strategy to execution, thus facilitating the management cycle, with the inherent benefits of reliability and transparency of information for all Stakeholders – Shareholders, Managers, Employees and Clients, among others. In a scenario where details can make the difference between success and failure, finding tools that make managers capable of finding the best way to guide their organizations growth is a key asset. BI4ALL brings together all the tools to create complete and structured solutions, appropriate to each business sector and to each business reality.

” We aim at easing our customer’s pains and enhance their productivity through our relentless services “

BI4ALL has a very people-oriented culture, promoting the family environment and proximity, but also giving them the knowledge and the best tools to do their job. The concern with our Employees and knowing that they are happy to work with us is one of the main strategic pillars of BI4ALL.

Since 2004 BI4ALL has been working with a growing number of firms to implement Business Intelligence and Analytics systems that enable to track goals daily, find new business opportunities, reduce risks, reorganize resources, and improve operational efficiency. Their first Client-Grupo Azevedos has marked them a lot, because BI4ALL has managed to surpass all the Client’s initial expectations. “I am reminded of Nuno Santos (CFO) telling us that the deployment of our solution allowed the group to reduce the team responsible for budgets and financial control of the group, as well as optimize the whole process of production planning in a more timely manner,” says Oliveira. “The implementation of the project in the Group Azevedos began at the end of 2004 and continues working very well without any iteration of ours.”

According to Oliveira managing and leading people has always been the most difficult part of an organization. It is important to enable professionals to collaborate with the growth of the organization, motivate them and make them feel as a fundamental part of the company’s development. It is necessary listen and bet on employees, create training opportunities that allow them to constantly update their skills, and to manage the environment in order to create a collaborative spirit and a culture of trust that allows growth and development at the same time they feel recognised.

It is also very important that decision makers understand that with the growth of the business they must also grow their structure of resources necessary to always comply with the final clients. “One of the methods that I usually advise my clients when they have a specific need is to make an array of needs vs software, and give an evaluation scale for each specific need,” adds Oliveira. At the end of completing the matrix, the software chosen should be the one with the most points. In this way, there are no external influences. There is no emotional side. “We aim at easing our customer’s pains and enhance their productivity through our relentless services,” concludes Oliveira.

bi4all

Management

Jose Oliveira
CEO

Description

BI4ALL provides wide experience in the capacity to respond to the specific set of challenges and business requirements of different sectors.

Emerging trends in the next phase of manufacturing’s evolution have already begun to alter the competitive landscape. The digital transformation of manufacturing, ongoing convergence of IT and OT and the usage of IoT, in combination with other technologies, are changing the face of manufacturing technology landscape and manufacturing itself, with this global pressure is driving the manufacturing arena to work towards reducing production cost and enhance itself all at the same time. 3i Infotech is a global Information Technology company committed to Empowering Business Transformation. A comprehensive set of IP based software solutions (20+), coupled with a wide range of IT services, uniquely positions the company to address the dynamic requirements of a variety of industry verticals.

The company’s ORION 11j is a multi-user enterprise solution that delivers all the powerful functionalities that manufacturing arena needs to gain a sustainable and competitive advantage—be it financials, procurement, manufacturing, contracting, project management and sales, ORION 11j has them all covered. ORION 11j is a fully integrated solution that fulfills the core business needs of growing and mid-sized organizations across all industries and market sectors. With its compelling and powerful features ORION 11j provides a foundation for growth, innovation, and end-to-end business process excellence. Taking Customer Experience to a next level, ORION11j has been designed and architected with customer centric design philosophies to support business dynamics, the advanced solution benefits enterprises to reap greater operational efficiency by deploying ORION 11j.

The solution offers advanced tools for financial planning, enterprise asset management, cash management, and cash flow analysis increase financial data accuracy and strengthen organizational budgeting and forecasting capabilities. Alongside, ORION 11j provides integrated automation tools for all production requirements streamlining intensive processes—from sales forecasting to production planning. With a 360° view of the entire business, ORION’s solution provides realtime access to customer, product, and performance information and supports multichannel and multi-departmental sales processes. Integrated procurement and warehousing tools and an advanced payment tracking system help shorten the Order-to-Cash cycle time and give companies complete control over the entire SCM process. A touch screen interface and efficient electronic systems for bar coding, point-of-sale management, multi-pricing levels, enable flawless management of all retail functions

ORION 11j shifts the productive by moving from generating ‘Information Alerts’ to Real time actions through Workflow, Schedulers, Automated Task management. ORION 11j’s advanced forecasting and demand planning tools enhances planning by linking product life cycle data with demand data resulting more accurate available to promise targets to the customers. ORION 11j is capable of deeper integration through collaborative supply chain through CRM, B2B, B2C integrations with customers, supplier and partners.

In an instance, a client, Mega Life sciences, one of the world-class pharmaceutical and FMCG manufacturer headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand needed ORION 11j’s assistance to redefine themselves and their functions. Prior to the implementation of ORION ERP software, the client was using an in-house legacy ERP system which needed to be consistently improved to meet organizational requirements. The ORION team understood the magnitude and scope of the client’s requirements and created a solution which included several modules under a single ERP suite including, Finance, Sales, Distribution and CRM. The ORION team used a step by step phased approach for the ERP implementation. This is just one of the many examples that can be associated with the company and its solution which has been addressing client needs for numerous years.

As the manufacturing sector enters the digital era to create newer connections and data streams, responsiveness could not be more vital. 3i Infotech has culminated into a market leader who has been spearheading the revolution of offering manufacturing arena with unique solutions and services, and aim at continuing the approach.

3i Infotech

Management

Suryanarayan Kasichainula
EVP & Business Head

Description

3i Infotech provides services such as Business Intelligence & Analytics, Infrastructure Management, Testing & Compliance, Application Development & Maintenance, Consulting and its BPO offerings.

Having more than two decades of experience, Samir Bhatia is the figure head who has influenced the lives of millions. Samir has always been a go-getter and believes in giving his maximum to a task he has in hand. Hence, through his hardwork and dedication he has taken Brightleaf Solutions to new heights. The company is now a pioneer in offering a technology powered service to extract information from customer’s contracts using a proprietary semantic intelligence/natural language processing technology.

Samir caught the rope of the chariot when put together a vision and a strategy, collated and mentored the core team, built it up and guided the development of Artificial Intelligence/Natural language-based extraction engine, which is Brightleaf’s proprietary software. Brightleaf’s technology concentrates on extraction of data, with its state-of-the art NLP/AI/ML technology coupled with its laser trained team of lawyers provides highly accurate results from varied types of contracts, including third party paper contracts. This is wrapped around by a Six-Sigma process – the extreme focus of the company enables Brightleaf to deliver their extracted results with extremely high precision and accuracy.

” Our solution maximizes the clients’ investment in their CLM system, while enabling them to find missing revenues and mitigating risk by tracking their contractual obligations. “

According to Samir, corporations struggle to know what is in their current contracts. The first solution that comes to their mind is to put in a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system. Now, faced with the daunting task of migrating their legacy contracts with the “meta-data” into the CLM, they often times make the decision to install the CLM from “This day forward”, only to find that no one is using the system as there is no information within it. With Brightleaf, the CLM vendors now have a perfect solution for their clients. “Our solution maximizes the clients’ investment in their CLM system, while enabling them to find missing revenues and mitigating risk by tracking their contractual obligations,” says Samir.

In an instance, a class 1 railroad company having railroad tracks in North America always intended to digitize their legacy contracts to better manage their contractual obligations hidden in thousands of contracts. Before approaching Brightleaf, the client had no idea how much revenue was hidden in these legacy contracts. Their track – maintenance agreements outlined obligations regarding the maintenance responsibility of the mileage of track in concern. Brightleaf extracted these obligations and the railroad company found millions of dollars in yearly billing that they had not done to the counter party. One can say with Samir’s diverse experience in technology, sales and marketing, finance, HR and off-shore companies, he was successfully able to build the company into a powerhouse to be known as experts in Legacy Contract Migration/Extraction of information and related data points.

Samir’s mantra for success is leaving no stone unturned and if something does not work, he looks back and sees if he and his team have done everything possible, and if there could be something that could have been done differently to achieve the targets. He truly believes, practice and preaches transparency in his work and continuous communication with his employees, clients and partners. Samir strongly believes that people make the company, and trains and nurtures his people to “think outside the box”.

At present Brightleaf concentrates primarily on legal documents and is now also working on expanding into non-legal space, offering wider extraction services to its clients. Brightleaf within the industry is famous for its prompt response and attention to each of its client. For Brightleaf every project is a standalone project and is carefully tailored to the client’s needs. “We are proud to say that each and every client of Brightleaf has only good things to say about Brightleaf and happily provides references to the next potential client!” adds Samir.

The Role Of CIO

The much-discussed transformation of the hospital CIO from the technically focused, to a role that now encompasses those functions as well as vendor and project management, biomedical/clinical…

Margo is the Managing Partner of MC Law Group—an Immigration Law practice where she and her team have an “all for one, one for all” attitude in the tireless pursuit of assisting clients with their business and immigration needs. It is as a direct result of Margo’s extensive experience in her professional and personal career that all concoct her to the epitome of a successful practice in Immigration Law.

Margo’s insurmountable expertise in immigration law comes from not only her professional and educational experience but also her personal experience as an immigrant herself. In 1992, after leaving a deteriorating Soviet Union with just two suitcases, Margo immigrated to the US to seek a brighter future.

After arriving to the United States and experiencing all the hardship new immigrants must experience, Margo learned English, went to school to earn a university degree in International Business and Economics and rose through the ranks with Pfizer Pharmaceutical—eventually serving as a senior procurement chain manager in just the first 10 years after immigrating.

Later, Margo decided to go to law school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law.

As a finance and sourcing manager as well as an immigrant, Margo’s legal passion naturally led her to immigration law practice with business and investment visa concentration. Since 2009, she has been helping businesses and people from all over the globe with their family and corporate immigration law needs. From Business Plans to reviewing I-9 audits to H1B worker visas and E-2/EB-5 investor visas and fiancée/family petitions, Margo and her team have been helping companies big and small as well as individual investors and families to achieve their American Dream.

In her years of legal experience, Margo has developed her skills in a niche market. According to IBIS World, there are around 450,000 (443,558) law firms in the US, of which only 11,000 (10,573) practice immigration law. This means that only 2% of law firms in the US have expertise in immigration law specifically. Even rarer, Attorney Margo specializes in business immigration, which puts her in a category of less than 1% of all specialists in the legal profession. She is licensed by the California State Bar as an Immigration Law Specialist and is one of a very small group of legal professionals to achieve an AV rating.

Even though Margo’s expertise had been constantly developing over the years, none was a larger task than tackling immigration in the post COVID era. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, Margo’s expertise has truly been put to the test with the stringent travel restrictions put in place. She has had to strategically finetune her expertise even further to rise to the challenge—helping numerous clients return to the United States or return home during this global pandemic.

While the legal forecast may not always be consistent, one fundamental truth remains: Margo’s commitment to life-long learning and love for American Democratic Process, which keeps her enthusiastic about her passion for helping people.  Her commitment to assisting others achieve their American Dream is her life-long mission. Margo considers it her contribution to the U.S. society to bring happiness by uniting separated families and allowing U.S. employers to gain a competitive market advantage through tapping into the global labor market by utilizing her extensive knowledge and experience in immigration law. IEWL

MC Law Group

Management

Margo Chernysheva
Founder of MC Law Group

Description

Immigration laws are constantly changing, which makes it difficult for anyone to handle their immigration issues on their own. Fortunately, the skilled lawyers at MC Law Group are here to help. We assist both individuals and businesses with E-1 and E-2 investor visas, employment immigration law, EB-5 investor visas, fiancé visas, and more.