Mumbai Street Food Turns Me On- Rajiv Bhalla, Barco Electronic Systems

Rapid Fire with Rajiv Bhalla, Managing Director, Barco Electronic Systems Pvt Ltd

Native Place - Mumbai

Currently located in - New Delhi

School/College - Jaihind College , Mumbai/IMI, New Delhi

Family - Super Parents, Awesome Sister & Bro-in-Law, Multi tasker, super human Wife and an Out of Box thinking 15 year old son.

My most beautiful memory - The pleasure of holding my just born son in my hands

In my next life what won't like to do- Given an opportunity, I’d love to live life just as I did
My first job - Audioplus; a startup company belonging to the Ahuja Radios Group

My motto in life - “Stay Hungry—stay foolish enough to ask questions, Challenge status quo, unlearn and re-learn”

My role model - Pradeep Ahuja, Partner Audioplus who tought me that there is no job too small and that change is the only constant in life

My favorite food - Chinese cuisine. Though I love Mumbai street food too 

My favorite pastime - Music & Reading

My favorite place - Goa….actually just love the beach

Most impressive book I read - Drive by Daniel H Pink

One weakness I have - Love food and often binge eat

One compliment I would like to give myself - You’ve reached here, because you’re a tough trooper

I give the credit of my success to - I still believe there is a lot more in life to be achieved to be truly successful. However for me success thus far has been an outcome of hard work, perseverance, building the right team, stakeholder management and never say die attitude

Social cause I engage in -  There are several, however this is not something I like talking in a public domain. For me actions are driven out of working towards being a good

human being and good global citizen that “cares”.

I aspire to be in future - A lifelong learning professional with an established Consulting & Training firm. I would also like to start a venture in future to help the not so privileged.

If I were not doing this work, I would be - Motivational speaker

Work for me is – Passion

My idea of happiness - Being with Family & friends

Message for the youngsters - Keep learning, work hard, stay grounded & believe in yourself. As Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam famously said “If you want to shine like the sun….first “burn” like the sun”