Ryhan Ebad's Page

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Organization

Global Wedge, Inc. USA

Job Title

Principal Consultant

About Me (biography and organization description)

I am originally based out of Canada. My professional career started as a management trainee while pursuing studies in the US. I was later on offered a full time employment as an assistant manager. I have worked across North America in various capacities and associated with some top 100 companies.

With my present work assignment in India I am deeply involved in e-Governance project that has been undertaken by Government of India towards delivering range of government's products and services to rural India. It is indeed a massive initiative undertaken by the government.

The project is very interesting, exciting, and equally challenging one that involves dealing with people living in rural sector. Learning about villages in India and interacting with people with variety of cultures is an incredible and amazing experience. I believe it is once in a life time opportunity.

I am currently associated with an American Firm, Global Wedge, Inc., which is supposed to be the fasted growing companies in America. The enterprise who is focusing on expanding up in India, though it already has presence in India. The company specializes in solar industry.

I was previously working for Zoom Developers Pvt. Ltd. Zoom Enterprises is 14 years-old and is one of the fastest growing Business Groups in India, with a well established foothold in diverse business areas. As Project developers, Zoom undertakes Business and Project Development work, involving Process Plants, Industrial & Engineering Projects and Energy, Environment and Infrastructure Projects. Zoom has similar presence in IT, ITES, Telecom, Embedded-Cards, ERP and BPO Service Sectors.

The company has extensive industry exposure in eGovernance and ICT implementation in rural sector. We are closely working with Govt. of India and local State Governments under PPP model focusing primarily on rural entrepreneurship and market mechanism. We have been selected for setting up 12000+ Common Service Centres (CSC) targeting a rural population of over 70 million.


My educational background ranges from Masters degrees in following areas
1. Operations Research
2. Computer Science & Applications
3. Management Information Systems (USA)
4. Business Administration (Marketing Major)
to Bachelors in Mathematics.
I am further looking forward to pursuing Ph.D in Strategic Management.

Areas of interest/expertise and types of services provided:

*E-Governance
*Social Governance
*Delivering B2C services, developing models specifically targeting *rural population
*Strategic planning and program management skills
*Excellent negotiation skills with stakeholders, implementing partners and vendors
*Promoting good governance practices via efficient and effective use of ICTs in public-sector
*Capacity building, team building
*Developing models for e-agriculture

Chat ID (MSN, Skype, AIM, etc.)

MSN: ryhanebad
Skype: ryhanebad

Phone

+91-0995-880-2614 or 001-647-868-7974

Street Address

64 Brickstone Circle

City (or closest town or municipality)

Thornhill

Country

Canada

Region

North America

Languages (in order of preference):

English, Hindi/Urdu

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