help wanted: high-skilled immigrants needed to fill open positions

This consulting firm, owned by an immigrant, is specializing in finding and placing highly skilled immigrants to fill jobs that are begging to be filled. It helps them through all the visa paperwork.    - - Donna Poisl

by LEE CHILCOTE

Twenty years ago, Radhika Reddy traversed the globe to attend Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University packing little more than a visa. Today, the Indian-born Clevelander is cofounder and partner of Ariel Ventures, a thriving consulting firm with nearly $2 million in annual sales.

Reddy came here to learn the language of business, but decided to stay when she realized that she’d found a kindred spirit in the American entrepreneurial way of life. It hasn’t always been easy, of course. Some American norms remain bewilderingly foreign to her, like refraining from asking coworkers about their families, which is commonplace in India but less so here.

Yet Reddy still gets starry-eyed when talking about America’s wide-open highways, and she wouldn’t live anywhere else. Now that she’s earned her success, she wants to help others enjoy the same. She recently opened the Ariel International Center, a regional hub for international businesses, in the former Leff Electric Company building on E. 40th Street.
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