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AEQUOR’S Executive Vice President Receives
Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award
Kamalpreet S. Virdi, the founding
Partner and Executive Vice President of AEQUOR Group was
announced today as the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding 50
Asian Americans in Business Award, presented by the Asian
American Business Development Center (AABDC).
The awards honor Asian American entrepreneurs and executives
with great achievements in business nationwide. In honor of the
recipients, an awards dinner will be held May 28 at The Waldof-Astoria
in New York City. The 2008 awards recognize achievements from
2007 and is the first and largest business award program for the
Asian American business community. |
Kamalpreet Virdi
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"All this year's award recipients have faced the challenges of running a
business head-on with outstanding success. Asian Americans are a
successful group of individuals and this is why our organization wants
to recognize the talent among the community," says John Wang, president
of AABDC.
Kamalpreet S. Virdi, a 31 year old Asian American is a partner, Board
member and Sr. Exec Vice President for Aequor Group of Companies. Aequor
Group is a privately owned group by Virdi brothers. Aequor Group has
Aequor Technologies, Inc, Aequor Healthcare Services, Inc, Aequor Homes,
Inc, Aequor Funding, Inc and CPLC Education Center, Inc under its
umbrella. Aequor Group is celebrating their Ten Years of Success this
year.
Kamalpreet Virdi’s story began when he came with his family to United
States on Dec 12, 1992 in the middle of a winter storm. Their ride
arrived to the airport after almost 4hrs. The bitter cold made him and
his family realize very quickly that if they want to survive in this
country they will have to work very hard and the only thing they had
with them was hope. Kamalpreet was born in New Delhi, India and belonged
to a business class family. Kamalpreet’s father Kuldip Virdi had two
sons and he wanted his sons to be highly educated and felt success would
come to his sons through education only. Kamalpreet’s father had chosen
the path of making his elder son an engineer and his younger son (Kamalpreet)
a doctor. Kamalpreet did a lot of volunteer work in the hospitals during
his high school year to serve the elderly. After his High School from
Old Bridge High School in New Jersey, he went to Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ to pursue medicine. During his college years, Kamalpreet
realized that medicine was the not his passion and his mind was always
into business as he had seen his father as a successful businessman
growing up. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry,
instead of pursuing Medicine, Kamalpreet went after his passion to have
his own business. He worked in the corporate environment in a technical
field for few years with companies like Embassy CES & Home Box Office
(HBO), at the start of his career. To enhance his Technical skills, he
pursued and graduated with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from
New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey.
Even while working fulltime, Kamalpreet’s entrepreneur spirit always
kept pushing him towards having his own business. With the Technical
skills that Kamal had acquired at NJIT and the demand in IT Industry,
Kamal went ahead to pursue the passion of owning his own company. He
started his first venture as Aequor Technologies, Inc in 1998 with his
brother Manmeet Virdi. This was the start of Aequor and from that point
on Kamalpreet S. Virdi and his brother ventured into various areas
including starting a training division franchise as CPLC Education
Center. Kamal and his brother also ventured into other areas like
providing services in Healthcare arena with Aequor Healthcare Services
and in Real-estate with Aequor Homes & Aequor Funding. All these
ventures helped Aequor leverage various market conditions and
strategically diversifying their company into various areas so that they
would continue to grow in any market condition.
Kamalpreet believes in Harry Truman’s statement that “you can accomplish
anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.”
Kamalpreet feels he can transform his company into a great company as
long as we don’t worry about who gets the credit for it. How you work
with people is as important as the work you do. Respect, purpose,
goodness is required in addition to achieving results on time and within
budget.
Aequor attributes its Ten (10) years of Success not only to its founding
principles of openness and interoperability, but also to its commitment
to innovate new technologies. Aequor is proud of their diversity, the
culture, work environment, integrity and great teams just to name a few
of their good differentiators. Kamalpreet S. Virdi said, “Overall, the
last decade had been full of challenges and changes and some were
anticipated and others had taken Aequor by surprise. All in all most
changes had been extremely positive. Aequor was fortunate that we were
not only able to tackle these challenges but were able to learn from
mistakes. Aequor is proud of all that we have accomplished over the past
decade, but none of it would have been possible without the support of
every staff member. We look forward to a similar continuous growth and
success in the coming years.”
For more information on Aequor Group, please visit our website at
http://www.aequor.com or call
866-523-7867. For more information about the Outstanding 50 Asian
Americans in Business Awards go to their website at
http://www.outstanding50.com/.
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