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| There are possibly two things Arvind Swami, 33, former movie star and now chairman and managing director of ProLease India, finds difficult to avoid.
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| One, looking directly into your eyes when he is talking to you, and blushing at mention of his former film career.
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| A movie career that spanned less than three years and nine movies, the biggest grosser being 'Roja', a film on terrorism in Kashmir, Arvind Swami today has re-invented himself as a BPO entrepreneur.
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| Not many know that Arvind's BPO venture is one of the biggest players in its segment in the US.
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| Having quit movies five years back, he has not looked back since. Arvind today is part of the Washington -based InterPro Holding, the holding company of ProLease and InterPro India, and a $ 670 million business process outsourcing venture.
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| Worldwide InterPro and ProLease have about 3000 seats and employ about 5000 people in their operations across the US, Europe, Australia, the Philippines, China and India.
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| After a brief tenure in movies in 1991, Arvind moved to the US for his masters in business administration.
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| Personal reasons brought him back to India before he could complete his MBA. The brief honeymoon with the arc lights continued for a couple of years more, but by 1994, he chucked it all up for the formation and development of InterPro in the US.
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| By the time the Indian operations began to take shape in 2001, Prolease was already a name to reckon with in the BPO space in the US. Elsewhere in the world ,the company operates through InterPro.
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Hear it straight from the horse's mouth,
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