Acquiring 41 Industry awards including Top 50, Hall of fame, Top 200, ET awards, and honorary Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam award by Government of India for Digital transformation, his success as he believes is a trust of his parents and their teaching “Hard work of my parents, which I carry on and got it. My parents were my great supporter,” he said.
Despite his achievements, he stays focused on keeping humanity as a priority before any designation “Professionalism comes later, humanity comes first, this is what I have learned from my mentors and parents”. In the span of professional and personal life, his father sayings helped him to be optimistic “In the Middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity kept me boosted to overcome the difficulties in life. “That’s how I function and see the opportunity in every difficulty of life,” Peerzade said.
His vision for inculcating new technology is fixed with quantified risk-taking perspectives. “I plan and move forward. I am a firm ROI believer and provides the numbers for any projects”, he is not scared of challenges and loves them for the better innovations.
“It’s not about designation but it’s about the work you get”
Being a significant part of some of the giant’s company at their establishing stage, Peerzade learned the fundamentals of networking, fiber, and cabling by heading and successfully implementing the projects. He created multiple milestones from installing the first cable modem at Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd to building UTV’s first full-fledged 1000 Seated animation/VFX studio from scratch. The most astonishing factor which he found was a link between his learnings and the start-ups.
“The best part of all the jobs was, I was always part of a start-up’s teams, all these businesses started from scratch, including reliance, and reliance was starting when I joined. Whatever I am today is because of those leanings. I am fortunate, not a lot of people for these opportunities, be it NETEX, Hathway, and more, I got the opportunity to do experiments” said Peerzade.
Recalling his initial days at Reliance Entertainment, his interest to dig about new technologies helped him to instill the thought of utilizing the servers at full capacities enabling him to consolidate the entire digital business into a cloud system.
“I virtualize the entire set up and that’s the first cloud project, with NextGen, a data start-ups that time. So, we mutually decided on an agreement between us to create and see how it works. I thought of bringing virtualization. It was challenging and risky. But it worked for us. We saved a humongous amount of money from that project. I would say that around 70% cost we have saved and that money was put up into new entities. Then we went global and done changes in technology from private to hybrid cloud” he says.
Mr. Sayeed derived profits from the available resources which helped him to multiply the organization’s benefits, as he believes technology needs to be bought with revenue goals “Don’t bring the Digitalization for the sake of it, it should be aligned to your business goals” he adds.
The Balance of My Life 
Not only thinking out of the box, but Peerzade is also a movie buff “I won’t miss most of the movies”, he says. Like any other Indian, he loves playing and watching cricket. He is also an advert reader, history, fiction, language, and knowledge. With a stronghold on languages, he is drawn towards them naturally “I have a special attraction to the Indian major language” Peerzade said.
Technology has always energized him. But he also balances his time on sharing knowledge as he doesn’t want to keep anything that he has learned and wishes to transfer it out to the world. The best part he has learned from his leadership lessons and leaders is to trust and guide the team “You should not mentor the team to keep them with you but should be happy when they good in their life. I feel happy as my mentors have done the same things to me” he said.
He believes “The organization will go up, its team and the people who take the organization above. You should not mentor the team to keep them with you but should be happy when they good in their life. I feel happy as my mentors have done the same things to me,” Peerzade added.
“I keep interacting with people. If you find the opportunities, you will also receive them, but if you think that things will come to you it will not happen, its efforts all matters” To keep the hands-on technology he tries to learn various domains and keep evolving.
Coming Up Next
Eagerly looking forward to the future, Peerzade sees cloud adoption as a rising trend “Adoption of cloud, although we say adopted cloud businesses have not done it 100%, so, the importance of cloud has been understood by the people now. Also, businesses are moving towards more contact-less business, digital business, organization are thinking how we can liver the current business for more reach. Digital transformation as a whole is going to take shape” he averred.
As being the digital abled company, he seeks more improvement, “The task in 2021 is how to make entire organization data-driven. How to bring data-driven decision-making into the organization, for that base is there but automation of the products, collaboration platforms, HR, intranet as well as internet and we are working on that. My studies say most of the businesses who are digitally enhanced are working on automation of their products through AIML, RPA, Chabot’s, which helps to reach people without any contacts” Peerzade said.
By opting and implementing digital OTT, educational platforms, AIML into action, he wants to make India self-independent in technical and educational aspects. “I want to create India’s AWS cloud ecosystem, the complete cloud, I want one Indian entity to be the India cloud provider which cater all aspect of being it IAAS, SAAS across industries, through making it India platform, as we are talking about digital India and those kinds of projects make India a truly digital India,I want to join hands with the biggest DC players in India and use the knowledge gathered. I want to create a public cloud ecosystem in India” he said.
For his personal goal, he aims to start a prejudice-free school “I want to start an educational trust in my father’s name and help needy study. For the student who cannot go to school, they without any caste or religion and can study there with just an Indian entity and both the things I am working on, let’s see how it goes” Peerzade said.
