Founder of business continuity start-up wins prestigious technology award

Founder of business continuity start-up wins prestigious technology award

The founder of a start-up company responsible for developing a pioneering business continuity mobile application has just won the prestigious Asian Professional of the Year Award 2015 for IT and Technology. Rickie Sehgal, Chairman of Crises Control, received the award at a glittering ceremony held at the 5-star Grange City Hotel near Tower Bridge.

As eager to innovate and find new markets now as when he first launched in business, back in 1984, Rickie has just established his latest start-up venture, Crises Control. This cloud based crisis management platform provides a mobile application that offers a mass communication, easy-to-use, and customizable crisis response solution.

After two years in development, the Crises Control app is now being brought to market and Rickie and his team will be demonstrating it at the BCI World 2015 Exhibition at the Hilton London Metropole on 10/11 November. The pioneering app has a number of unique features, including responsive gap analysis and an incident SOP service.

Rickie has been a true pioneer within the IT industry for over 30 years, having founded his first company, Transputec, in 1984 and still going just as strong today. Each of his business ventures has been based on technical or market innovation. Transputec was one of the first companies in the world to develop and promote cloud computing, taken as standard today. Likewise, ITDealer provided a platform for IT users to source hardware products in real time from major manufacturers and distributors at a time when this type of source data aggregation was unheard of.

Although Rickie is the public face of Crises Control, he is eager that the credit for his award is properly shared around. On receiving the award he said:

“This award might have my name on it, but the true credit for it must be shared equally with my brother and long-time business partner Sonny Sehgal. Sonny and I have been in business together since the very start, when we were still students in London in the mid-1980’s. It is remarkable that 30 years later we are still together and still innovating, just like we did way back then.”

“The key to success in this, and any, business is never to stand still and stop innovating. Once you do that you are dead and many companies much bigger than ours have died that way. I am very proud of our traditional of constant innovation and Crises Control is just the latest, and I hope biggest, expression of that.”

Not content with running several successful companies, Rickie has always believed in giving back into the community and he has consistently pursued this belief through a number of different avenues. He is the founder of Global Reach, a joint venture of companies with partners across the UK, Europe, Asia and the US who benefit from multi-national collaboration. As a result, in 2005 received the Non-Resident Indian Institute’s prestigious Pride of India Award for business excellence – in recognition for his achievements in building economic and technology ties with India.

The Asian Professional Awards is designed to celebrate and honour the very best of Asian achievement across a range of professional sectors. It provides a platform to recognise and honour Asians who excel in their professional careers and contribute to the success of businesses big and small on a daily basis.