Dedicated CEOs inspire others to achieve their best. They lead by example and attain success by implementing innovative ways. They never give up during challenging times and always come up with a solution to every problem. These leaders are driven by hard work, agility, smartness, and innovation.
One such inspiring CEO who is changing the face of the business arena is Kali Rath, the Founder and CEO of ezTruck Logistics. With over 13 years of professional experience in business consulting, business development, branding, and marketing, he has always strived to achieve the impossible through his hard work and perseverance. Taking risks and looking for new ideas have always been his cup of tea.
In 2019, the mining industry was struggling with various challenges that included poor technology penetration and weak system management. As a forward-thinking business leader, Mr. Kali decided to barge in and propel the mining industry in the right direction with the help of technology-enabled logistics.
He states, “Despite the huge market, I was shocked to realize there was not a single player in the market that was providing required solutions to the mining industry”.
Accordingly, he decided to team up with Mr. Abhijeet Arun Netake, another prominent business leader. Together, they established ezTruck in Bangalore, India, where Mr. Kali leads and inspires others with utmost dedication.
Driven by Purpose
Mr. Kali is inspired by those successful businesspersons, who undergo difficult situations, but can establish their business successfully.
What really excites him to get up early between 4 am and 5 am in the morning is the strong purpose of what I have in my life. He believes that he is on a mission to make planet earth a better place to live.
He wants to make a thing or a person who comes to his contact better than how he found them. Mr. Kali wants to help at least 1 million people live a life filled with joy, happiness, and fulfilment.
Facing the Pandemic Judiciously
Under Mr. Kali’s astute stewardship ezTruck did not face too many difficulties. The business was not affected severely during the pandemic as the company enforced the work from home model immediately. Mr Kali made smooth executions, which avoided slowing down or complete shutdown of the process.
Ensuring Employee Empowerment
Mr Kali makes certain that ezTruck maintains a smooth and friendly working environment ensuring employee’s safety and their overall growth. He states, “We believe in maintaining a positive work environment as it encourages the employees to perform at their highest level, thereby increasing the overall output of the company”.
Furthermore, the company has a multi-cultural work environment. This allows individuals from all religions, caste, and of different colors to work together, leading to successful collaborative work.
A Polymathic Innovator
Mr Kali has a proven track record of productivity and achievement with lean resources and headcount.
Some of his core competencies include:
– Change Management
– Project Management
– Business Analysis
– M&A
– Operational Efficiency
– Data Governance
– Revenue Recognition
– GTM Strategies
– Business Intelligence
– Agile & Waterfall
– Forecasting
– Board/Exec Reporting
About ezTruck
EzTruck caters to the mining industry with a dedicated marketplace. The company’s services help clients in finding instant booking of trucks as per their requirements. It allows mining companies to manage and track the movement of the trucks efficiently. EzTruck provides various facilities to the mining companies, which include driver management, instant vehicle allocation, live vehicle tracking, vehicle diagnostics management, vehicle optimization, access to dealers of various spare parts, and insurance for drivers, vehicles, and assets.
It offers proper loading services such as loading, unloading, and return loading. These facilities are made available to fleet owners that helps their trucks in having minimum wait time, driver convenience services and route optimization, leading to highly optimized trip with better output.
EzTruck focuses on serving the nation-wide mining industry. The company incorporates all the important functions on a single platform and app. It adopts latest technology such as data analytics, GPS technology, and intelligent auction engines to support the functionality of the platform.
Words for the Future Leaders
Mr Kali advises the emerging entrepreneurs to be prepared to fail. He says, “In my 13 years of professional career, I made mistakes and learned a great deal of knowledge about the importance of failing”. However, that did not stop him from achieving what he dreamt of.
Mr. Kali invested in analyzing true entrepreneurship by learning from his previous failures and initiated reorganizing things the right way. He believes that to do it all in a more precise way, one needs a special set of entrepreneurial traits.
Mr Kali states that leaders should never hesitate to take risks and implement new ideas. Because, if they do not take risks then they will not be able to know what the possible outcomes might be. Hence, he always encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to take risks and invest in new ideas.
He advises, “Have a clear vision and take action. A true entrepreneur always has the vision to create something that adds value to the world”. He believes that to achieve their vision, one needs to put in appropriate action. Without proper action, their ideas will not become a reality.
According to Mr. Kali, another important thing that makes a strong entrepreneur succeed is having a bunch of good and dedicated people who believe in the company’s goal. Like-minded people are an added bonus for any business as they bring about necessary changes in the business in a faster way.
Last but not the least, he advises the leaders of tomorrow to always challenge themselves. By challenging themselves, they will get to know what they are capable of. “You will accomplish wonders that you never even thought of achieving”, adds Mr. Kali.
Marching Ahead
Under the fervent guidance of Mr. Kali, EzTruck aims to modernize transactions by introducing mobile payments and replacing cash-based methods. It also focuses on establishing itself as one of the leading logistics start-ups in India. To have a wider reach, the company is planning to launch its services in Jharkhand in the coming months. While concluding, Mr. Kali states, “The ultimate goal is to expand the services across the nation in order to achieve a PAN India presence”.
