Interview with Sailesh Vaidhya: “Chroma Systems”

1993 was the year, when two youth’s icons join their hands together to start an enterprise named “Chroma Systems”. It is a story of two young minds Mr. Shailesh Vaidya and Mr. Kiran Shah, where former is a graduate from Pune Institute of Computer Technology and B.E in Computers while later is BE Mechanical, a graduate from Bharti Vidhyalaye. “We never wanted to do a job”- a statement given by them with a firm determination was an inspiring force to do something beyond the obvious. However they were always independent and had learnt to deal life on their own. Mr. Shailesh while his college study was doing a part time job with a consultancy while Mr. Kiran was involve in making telescope.

The brains showed their innovations in the final year project of college where the subject, research and study taken by Mr. Shailesh was “Image Analysis Software” a topic which was never given a thought in India while the research study of Mr. Kiran was Micro hardness testers, which was again the first innovation of their time. The root of the organization where establish when both friends realize that the end consumers of their final products were the same. Thus with a mere sum of 50,000Rs, the foundation of Chroma Industries were laid down on partnership basis between two friends.

It was 1995 when a partnership firm was converted in to “Chroma Industries Private Ltd”. As of the evolution phase of 14 years, the firm has extended its branches to Bangalore and Delhi while the head office remains in Pune. With the continuous efforts of team of 20 people working in the organization, it has successfully evolved itself from 50000 start to a company having clients in Asia , Europe and USA with 4 crore turnover.

Chroma Industries Private Ltd deals with clients who are the leaders of two wheelers and four wheelers. The clients include from Hero Honda to Eicher Tractor to Mahindra and Mahindra and also Arcelor Mittal Steel. The firm is award winner of best product design in 2005 and best innovative product in 2007. The future is expansion and extension plans of business in Mumbai and Gujarat.

Thus with evolving over success Mr. Shailesh is also actively involved in taking session at Pune Institute of Computer Technology and Spicer. Some of the business projects of different college are also sponsored to encourage young minds to grow up and explore.

It is easy to walk on the path already build by someone, however equally difficult to create path of one’s own. They dared to create path of their own…………..