Avinash Reddy: Mechanical, Bleave Hospitality Pvt. Ltd.

Avinash Reddy is a mechanical engineering student from CMRIT and graduated in 2016. He is from first generation entrepreneurial family and during the 2016 Cultura, he has managed a beverage shop stand also raised significant amount of money during Cultura, Kannada Rajyosthava and Srishti events held 2016. He is the “go to man” for society oriented and community interactive activities and this is when his entrepreneurial skills were pruned by Mechanical department faculty and Avinash entered the restaurant and hospitality segment. His first venture was “Plaintain Leaf” at Indiranagar, Bangalore, an multicuisine restaurant.

Avinash also started a Dubai venture called Krishna restaurant and both ventures have been profit making. He also ventured in to fire safety equipment in Middle east (Dubai). Avinash is a thinking entrepreneur and has realized that the success of restaurant business is directly dependent on the trained manpower. For example, he paid to get a group of people to get trained in “Hyderabad Biriyani” and the same have left his organization with in 2 months of post training. Hospitality and restaurant has significant attrition rate often above 80% and Avinash is signing an MOU with CMRIT where in he will fund certain amount to CMRIT to make his business “Expertise Independent” or increase the productivity of his personnel by 3-5 fold. He is funding R&D in exploring the slimming powder of natural origin, to venture into delivering value to customer through packaged products. Avinash has under went turbulence in business and learned to survive in the same through hard work, innovation and 'out of box thinking'. Avinash is a model for CMRIT students because of his ability to stand his ground where the business segment is known to run with razor thin margins and fierce competition. The slimming market that he is venturing into has about 80% manufacturing margins and Avinash has proven that a student entrepreneur can differentiate himself where innovation and patenting is non-existent. His story is also inspiring that engineering is a 'skill learning' course and the learned knowledge can be used in any branch of business.