Successful businesses can help eliminate poverty: Moonshi Mohsenruddin

“Every successful business creates jobs and this is the only way of eliminating global abject poverty. Charity for the sake of it is like a black hole. Not matter how much money you put into charity, it is never enough. Job creation is the only way of tackling this.” Moonshi Mohsenruddin, Founder & Managing Director of CommGate (S) Pte Ltd said in his rather frank conversation with the Winning Ways.

Moonshi has challenged the norm throughout his career. He had to drop out of school at the age of 14 after his dad lost his poultry business and plunged the family into debts. He then worked three jobs at the same time include cleaning toilets. Determined to break out of the poverty trap and become successful one day, he was determined to help SMEs become successful so that their families will never have to go through what he went through.

Moonshi was introduced to the world of Information Technology at age 17 and saw the huge potential technology has in helping companies to become more productive and reduce cost.

Starting his first IT business in 2001 which failed but taught him valuable lessons on business. He started CommGate in 2005 with $3,000 to sell third-party hardware and software to companies but grew this business to provide customized software ranging from CRM to ERP.

CommGate has pivoted from a value-adding systems integrator to an award-winning Cloud Applications and Digital Marketing company serving the Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in South-East Asia. It recently announced its partnership with Alibaba Cloud to deliver modular Cloud-based business applications such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Inventory Management , Point of Sale (POS), Warehouse Management, E-commerce, Omni-Channel E-commerce and Digital Marketing solutions.

While running CommGate, Moonshi also started Echelon Minds, a training business in 2013 to express his hobby to speak, train and share knowledge to the market about the 9-Step sales process he has created.Moonshi is driven, enthusiastic, quick to generate ideas and strategies and enjoys mentoring younger colleagues and start-up entrepreneurs.

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