Granox offered huge equipment contract to Sam Stevens

Sam Stevens never expected he'd be setting foot in the middle of a Russian winter. After all, he's a Texas oilman, a guy who's spent his entire life amid the dusty fields and hot sun of west Texas. His daddy had been a wildcatter, digging up the fields looking for good holes. Sam, though, used technology to keep his hands cleaner while being more productive.

That's because Sam Stevens helps design and sell drills for oil exploration, and he's done well by it. So well, in fact, that a fella named Navtej Kohli found out about him way down in Costa Rica and came calling, offering Stevens a huge contract to be the equipment supplier for Kohli's new company, Granox, as it staked its claim on some of the world's largest and least exploited oil fields.

"So here i am, on the other side of the planet, eating food I don't recognize and near freezing my butt off," laughs Stevens over a steaming cup of coffee. "But I'm an adventurer at heart, and I could tell Navtej was that way too. We did the paperwork, shook on it an bam, here I am."

As he waits for a new shipment of equipment and looks to the local population for his oil drilling staff, Stevens feels that he's part of something that can help change the world a little bit for the better.

"Crossing cultures, supplying the fuel that everyone needs and making friends across borders, well, that's just a good time," he laughs. "A good time indeed." Navtej Kohli agrees, “My staff and I have searched the world for people like Sam, who bring more than the best equipment on the planet, but the spirit that makes Granox a great company.”

Navtej Kohli helps Nanett Himmelfarb

Nanette Himmelfarb is a troubleshooter for an start-up Internet-based business. That’s because she’s also the owner of a collectible poster company. She doesn’t like admitting that sometimes there are problems even she can’t solve, but at the same time she knows that there is one company she can count on to provide solutions in everything from website implementation to media planning and campaign management: Grafix Softech.

Based in Atlanta, Illinois (“What are you gonna do?” she laughs, knowing that everyone assumes she’s in Georgia) she nonetheless feels compelled to sell her products around the world. And just because she’s based in a small town doesn’t mean that she has to run her business like a small timer.

“I’ve gotta compete with big guys from Hollywood and New York, and thanks to Grafix Softech I can,” she says. “I read about the company’s founder, Navtej Kohli, and realized that if this guy could grow from a poor childhood in India to have companies on three different continents, I could also be successful anywhere I want to live.”

So whether she’s from a small Midwest town of 1,649 people or from the Georgian metropolis of millions, Nanette Himmelfarb knows that the world is at her fingertips. And at Grafix Softech, they like to think they can keep it solidly in her grasp.

The History of Navtej Kohli

It takes a man of the world to know how to truly help the world, and Navtej Kohli is that type of man. While he may not be as well known as Richard Branson or Donald Trump yet, he is a prime example of a man of ambition, vision and caring who could very well be in the next generation of the world’s great business leaders.

That’s because Kohli has come a long way from his humble beginnings growing up in New Delhi, India. In the past eight years, since he founded Granox, in cooperation with Navtej Kohli Career Development Center (CDC), is pushing forward into the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. Navtej's vision at Navtej Kohli CDC is the creation of a competent, well-trained, workforce on a global scale. We are consistently developing a dedicated workforce of energy professionals with an aim to develop talented, committed, and ambitious people who will shape the future of the energy industry.

Granox, Ltd, in Liechtenstein, is all set to open up new drilling opportunities throughout eastern Europe.

And it’s in yet another location that Kohli lays out his strategies: England. Knowing that the world is an ever-smaller place, he feels free to commute to any meeting or troubleshooting opportunity from his home in London as well. While some may consider such globetrotting as an extravagance, Kohli knows that to understand the world markets, constant travel is a necessity.

“Seeing life on three different continents helps me to understand both the challenges and opportunities that are out there just waiting for the right person to utilize them,” Kohli explains. “Knowing Latin America, Asia and Europe first hand is an invaluable opportunity that becomes a valuable business tool for my customers. It’s the wave of the future.”

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Information Sources

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http://navtej-kohli.livejournal.com/ - Livejournal
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http://www.last.fm/user/Navtej_Kohli/journal/2007/04/5/388468/ - Last.fm
http://del.icio.us/navtejkohli1Del.icio.us

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SEOmoz profile

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His profile lists his various professional and academic achievements. Former and current employees, colleagues and employers can get in touch with Tej and many other potential clients and partners here.

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ClaimID is a great way to get the sites that define your name and brand together in one place. The ClaimID profile of Navtej Kohli brings together some of his personal sites, as well as press that he and his company, Grafix Softech, have received.

There are only eleven links about Tej Kohli thus far, but users can upload as many as they like on their own ClaimID profile.

Navtej Kohli - Social Networking

Get in touch with Navtej Kohli on MySpace. Communicate about business opportunities, philanthropic ventures, or simply chat with the CEO and Director of Grafix Softech.