After more than two decades of service to the country’s Info Tech industry as a reliable supplier to customers across the spectrum, and by enhancing the visibility and use of information technology in Guyana, Starr Computers is ‘shifting gears’ in response to what it sees as further investor interests in the country’s expanding investment profile.
Speaking with the Stabroek Business from the company’s multistoried complex on Tuesday, Starr President, Mike Mohan. unveiled plans that are now in train to retain the company’s long-term interest in directly serving the local tech industry, whilst directing its attention to other entrepreneurial opportunities to fit in with what he sees as the direction in which the local economy is heading. Starr’s new focus is centered on providing various forms of support, including accommodation in the Starr Complex and access to the conveniences that it offers, according to Mohan.
While a visit by Stabroek Business on Wednesday to the company’s Brickdam business premises revealed that Starr has retained and even extended the extent of the range of goods and services which it provides to the information technology sector, an interview with Mohan revealed that the company’s Brickdam complex is undergoing physical adjustments in line with the management’s decision to expand its suite of services in order to render the company adaptable to the interests of would-be investors.
During last Thursday’s interview, Mohan named a highly visible US technology company which he is seeking to ‘entice’ into utilizing the physical space and operating conveniences currently being offered at the Brickdam complex. During the interview Mohan told the Stabroek Business that while Star remains committed to the growth of the information technology sector in Guyana, and particularly to the development of IT as a discipline in the school system, the company was seeking to accomplish this goal whilst seeking to respond to the transformations which Guyana is now experiencing, including those that offered new opportunities and new income streams to investors.
Mohan told the Stabroek Business that from his vantage point in the United States, he had been “monitoring closely” some of the responses of would-be investors and has decided that both Starr and its multi—storied Brick-dam complex can help ‘fit in’ with Guyana’s investment objectives. The move, according to Mohan, is designed to allow Starr Computers to remain aligned to its original business model whilst following what he sees as the direction in which the company is heading.
From the Guyanese businessman’s vantage point in the United States, he has been monitoring the flood on investor interest in Guyana and has decided that a complex that currently houses his own company can become a focal point for expatriate businesses wishing to pay an interest in the investment opportunities that exist here.
