G7 CR Technologies - how Christopher Richard built it from a scratch

Christopher Richard, MD and Chief Cloud Architect, G7 CR Technologies was once a young school boy who delivered newspapers early in the morning to several Bengaluru households. He ended up earning Rs 120 a month. Richard lost his father when he was a child. His mother, a primary school teacher, made Rs 1,500 per month. The boy supplemented her income with earnings from his delivery job.

By Class X, Richard distributed newspapers in the morning, and work at an ice cream parlour after school. After Class X, Christopher stopped doing paper delivery, and sold milk instead.

He also worked as a security guard for a building in Diamond District on Old Airport Road in Bengaluru.

Christopher then chanced upon a three-month course on computers at a local skills training academy. After completing it, he was recruited by Zed Career Academy, which was trying to set up computer institutes around the country. He went into contract employment at various locations, including a stint in business intelligence for Domino’s Pizza in Singapore.

He started freelancing and put his skills to use as an IT consultant. From earning Rs 3,000 a day as a consultant, Christopher moved up the ladder up to the point where he earned a maximum of Rs 75,000 per day consulting for large tech companies. For almost 12 years he did this, and built a business relationship with Microsoft.

Christopher had worked as a consultant for G7 Tech Solutions. Then he bought out the company, and merged it with his company, CR BI. The merger gave birth to G7 CR Technologies, and Christopher started its cloud division in 2016. G7 CR became Microsoft’s number one Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP), and saw most of its growth coming from its cloud services. As a Microsoft partner, Christopher started working with cloud customers across manufacturing and service verticals.

G7 CR also won the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for 2019. Its other clients include Alibaba, Amazon, DigiCert, SoftLayer, and more. It helps them drive digital transformation among various organisations through new technologies and proven methodologies for optimising costs and creating value-added growth.