Lift up people around you

— LIM WING HOOI/TheStar

Kumaran Singaram, who founded his own cloud infrastructure firm, Cloud IOT, after spending umpteen years as a company man, believes success is something meant to be shared. One must empower others to succeed too, he tells LIM WING HOOI.

I spent over 11 years with Cisco Systems before becoming the managing director of Cisco Systems Malaysia between 2005 and 2009. Upon leaving Cisco, I was hired to be the chief executive officer of an Indonesian telecommunications services company.