Baldev duggal biography wikipedia

So far in this series, all of the individuals we have profiled worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard when it was still a naval shipyard. But Baldev Duggal was an individual who played an instrumental role in the long process of transforming the Yard from a dilapidated naval facility into a thriving industrial business center.

Duggal was born in in Jalandhar, India, and he turned a childhood passion for photography into a lifelong business pursuit. He received his first camera, a Kodak Brownie model, from his grandfather, and at age 15, he won a photo contest, placing his shot on the cover of the Illustrated Weekly of India. He took Color Theory, as he told Chaker Khazaal in a Huffington Post interview, and after working anywhere he could to make ends meet, he landed a job at a printing company that allowed him to use space on his side business processing and developing film.

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While he started off developing film in his bathtub, Duggal was always an innovator, and he soon came up with a mechanized system for processing negatives. As his business grew — and was renamed Duggal Visual Solutions — he was always on the lookout for the next big thing in the photo businesses. He developed new processes for large-format printing, allowing his company to make amazingly high-quality billboards and building wraps.

And though his roots were in film, he wholly embraced the digital revolution.

Duggal was an inventor as well as an entrepreneur.

Duggal began his association with the Brooklyn Navy Yard in , when he rented a few small spaces, and then moved large-scale operations there in This was really the beginning of a new era in the history of the Yard, which had suffered through neglect, mismanagement, and major plant closures over three decades as a city-owned industrial park. The company has occupied several different buildings on the campus, but today their main operations are in Building 25 , a LEED-Gold-certified structure that houses facilities for printing, fabrication, installation, and their Innovation Lab.

He also developed the Duggal Greenhouse , a World War II-era ship assembly plant that has been transformed into an event space that hosts many clients in the advertising and fashion world, as well as major events, such as the Democratic Party primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. His commitment to green building and environmental causes was evident in his business practices.

Ignore the naysayers.