Fouad Fares spent 18 years with PC Group, where he worked his way up the corporate ladder, learning a thing or two along the way. ‘The new millennium is the era of services,” he says. In January he established Mindsmaster, a consultancy firm that focuses on IT auditing and consulting, management training and quality assurance. Fares audits companies’ IT environments and designs solutions for them. “But I don’t sell programs,” he says. “I tell them what’s available for their needs.” Management training involves auditing companies and presenting in-house workshops on topics like management techniques and customer care. Mindsmaster also prepares companies for ISO 9000 and 14000. Fares, who is a certified lead auditor for both, says he has a unique offer – the option to buy Quality Mapping Solution software, which sells for $2,889. The charge for IT and management consulting is generally $600 a day. For ISO it’s ·$400
