Fourteen year old Chennai girl becomes World's youngest CEO
Sindhuja Rajaraman, 14 year old girl has given
a surprise to the entire world. The young kid who is a like a normal girl until
few months ago, now holds a Guinness World Record by becoming the
youngest CEO for a Chennai based animation company called Seppan.
The ninth standard student became the head of Seppan Company, an animation firm,
in October 2010, set up by her father.
The history of Sindhuja Rajaraman is that, her father was a cartoonist in very low
developed district town Ramanathapuram and now she is the modern age cartoonist.
She was adjudged the fastest 2D and 3D animator by software lobby
National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) at
the Gaming and Animation Conclave 2010 held in Hyderabad.
According to Sindhuja, She is proud to be an animator. The CEO is just a post given
in the company. She is learning animation for this CEO post to make herself worthy
for the CEO post.
There is no age bar or age limit for animation. Everybody can do animation. The
scope for animation in India is growing everyday. This is going to be a big boom
in India and all industries are into the animation, they need animation and multimedia.
Sindhuja Rajaraman is not like some other girls of her age are busy with studying
and playing. Also the child Sindhuja Rajaraman genius is the youngest digital caricaturist
certified by Corel Corporation, India certified by NASSCOM Animation and Gaming
Conclave 2010.
Sindhuja also attempted a Guinness Book record for her achievement as the fastest
animation film NGO ‘Exnora’. "I created a three-minute animation film in 10 hours.
It has gone to the Guinness team and I am still waiting for them to announce the
final results," she says proudly.
She started animation profession 5years back and she said, "It all started five
years back when I wanted to take my mind off studies and do something new. My father,
who is a cartoonist, introduced me the passion to do animation and taught me the
entire process. I have tried my luck with animation even before started to learn
it professionally. My first mini animation project was on ‘Do Not Disturb Animals’.
I did project when i was in 6th Standard."
The CEO Sindhuja Rajaraman is handling three projects Virtual Street, First Planet
and Garbo.in. Initially she was a little uncomfortable being a CEO in Seppan. But
now she has learnt the tricks of the trade. The company has 160 employees. She is
only the CEO is paid less than her employees.
Courtesy: Manas Informatics Pvt. Ltd.