Hotelier, mentor, dad
Indian-born entrepreneur Kuldeep Sharma has always relied on his instincts in business. “I had no mentor backing me — my parents didn’t know anything about business,” he says. But Sharma was a keen observer, and learned by watching the examples of others and by asking lots of questions. “When you learn to push yourself, you develop confidence,” he says.
That drive led Sharma to found one of India’s largest security companies, with more than 10,000 employees at its peak. But, like many other immigrants, he and his wife decided to move to Canada in 2002 (he was 44 at the time) to give their two children more educational opportunities and a better quality of life.
