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Bangalore, Jun 17: The world’s youngest CEO, Suhas Gopinath, will shift his office headquarters from California to his home city of Bangalore, with Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday assuring him office space within a week.
 
Speaking to reporters after meeting the Chief Minister at his home office Krishna, 19-year-old Suhas said he had to set up his firm in the US in the year 2000 when he was 14, as it was not possible to float a company in India before one attained the age of 18.

He said he would attend college in the morning and concentrate on the company affairs in the night, after shifting to Bangalore. His firm Global Inc has branches in 13 countries and has already provided jobs to 600 persons. It will recruit another 150 people for the Bangalore office, he said. Suhas’s company has bagged the contract for interlinking 947 Kendriya Vidyalaya schools from the Union Human Resource Development ministry.  

It has also been allotted office space in Karachi by the Pakistani prime minister to set up his firm. But he has been receiving threatening e-mails from some groups in Pakistan, who have been demanding he should not be allowed to start a branch there, Suhas said.

His company website had been hacked by them, he added.

In a bid to remove apprehensions, Global Inc will organise a conference of young leaders in Bangalore from September 1 to 3 in which 200 young leaders —100 each from India and Pakistan — would take part.

According to Suhas, Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has agreed to deliver his address through a video-conference.

He would request Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the proposed conference.

Suhas has also been invited by Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair to set up an entrepreneurial cell in his country to promote entrepreneurial skills among prospective investors of his country. Suhas said he would meet Blair on July 16 in this regard.

Hailing the achievement of Suhas, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy described him as a model for youth.