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Kishore Degwekar is an Indian SME serial entrepreneur who has shown a remarkable grit and tenacity to overcome a bunch of challenges and become very successful.

Kishore Degwekar's story could be an inspiration to other budding entrepreneurs.

Kishore Degwekar was born in Central India in highly challenged socio-economic conditions. He went to a municipal school for his primary education and to a private-aided vernacular school for his secondary education.

He graduated from a state Engineering college in India's backward state of Madhya Pradesh. But his determination to improve his lot inspired him to work hard and secure an admission in one of India's top business schools, the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

He and his brother Pradeep set up Detection Instruments (India) P. Ltd. (DI-India) as a joint-venture with Detection Instruments Group Ltd. (DIGL) of England in 1988. DIGL was subsequently acquired by Halma plc and merged with Crowcon Instruments Ltd., one of the Halma group companies. The merged entity then became Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd.

DI-India is a highly successful and a very fast growing SME in the Process Industries Plant Safety space.

DI-India was selected as one of the top 10 medium enterprises in India by McKinsey and co. together with a panel of eminent jury out of the 15000 entries received in Vodafone Ready for the Big League contest.

DI-India also won the Business of the Year award in 2015 in medium business category.

Earlier DI-India won the Best presentation and Best stall awards by the Instrumentation Experts Club and Automation 2013 respectively.

He founded Acroseas Global Solutions(previously Beta Software P. Ltd.) and made a strategic exit from the business.

His latest venture is an internet start up http://www.takemyshipment.com (TMS) which is an online auction site for freight rates. TMS has been shortlisted by The Economic Times "Power of Ideas contest".

Kishore Degwekar has been chosen among 101 entrepreneurs by the Ascent Foundation, an initiative of Mr. Harsh Mariwala of Marico Industries Ltd.

Kishore Degwekar is also an avid Golfer (with a hole-in-one to his credit), a certified SCUBA diver and a socialite.

He serves on the boards of a number of social and industry-centric organizations. He is also a philanthropist and a 6-times Paul Harris Fellow. He plans to be a major donor of Rotary International.

Kishore Degwekar's wife Dr. Varsha Degwekar is a consulting gynaecologist who runs her own boutique hospital in the Powai area of Mumbai.

Kishore Degwekar would be happy to mentor Indian start ups in the Oil and Gas and internet space.