Harsh Binani - Smartworks Co-Founder
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Harsh Binani is an Indian entrepreneur and cofounder of Smartworks India's biggest Managed space provider. Harsh Binani started with a small business but always believed in achieving big.
Harsh is an alumni of Northwestern University -Kellogg School of Management, Illinois with an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship studies. He's also an Economics graduate of Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
Healso holds the CFP (Centre for Financial Planning) designation in financial management, risk management, and retirement planning.
Harsh Binani started his career by taking advantage of opportunities he received to build experience for his future plans. He has more than 7 years expertise in real estate and management consulting, Harsh Binani previously worked for "Mckinsey" one of the leading consulting firms in the world in Chicago.
During his five years at Mckinsey during his time at Mckinsey, he focused on strategy and operational topics across infrastructure, insurance and healthcare.
The former Chief of Staff also served as a Chief of Staff at Medanta Medicity, spearheading key strategic initiatives for the CEO.
Harsh Binani had the opportunity to experience modern-day workspaces during his time overseas, which made it evident to him of any future goals.
He made the decision in the direction of joining Neetish Sarda, who was developing with enthusiasm his new venture, Smartworks.
Harsh Binani joined Smartworks in 2017, bringing in more passion, ideas and a dazzling people skills to Smartworks' table.
With the addition of Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda, Smartworks witnessed an exponential increase that led to innovative ways of making the work environment a more enjoyable experience.
At first Smartworks was initially conceived as a co working space, but Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda soon discovered that was an extremely crowded market, which little to no innovation in terms of the offerings or technology or target customers.
After narrowing down their target market, the group that wanted serve Harsh Binani in the hopes of breaking into the larger companies which was a task in itself.
Large companies were already settled in traditional workplaces with limited choices.
Initial setbacks, as well as feedback, Harsh Binani returned time and time and time again to the drawing boards developing a new strategy on his ideas for what can be the most effective way to shift the mindset of the big enterprises.
After many hours of research, changing methods, and Harsh Binani pitching ideas it happened! Smartworks was able to secure their first customer and it's always been a high path.
Smartworks saw an incredible growth in the five years following this adventure, thanks to the outstanding support by the entire Smartworks team.
Harsh Binani believes that it is important to make sure that you are a believer in the concept that you are pitching your idea first before making any other client believe in the concept.
As the life of Harsh Binani clearly points out that settling in on what everyone is doing will just lead you to where everyone else is taking you.
Success stories are born from those who stayed in the direction they believed in no matter what. Harsh Binani Harsh Binani is one of them.
Today, Smartworks is India's largest provider of flexible workspaces with a total area of. 5 million square. ft. covering 32 sites in 9 cities across Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune) and caters to more than 400 organisations across Fortune 500 companies.
The plethora of clients in new centres, the numerous clients and the presence of a footmark in all the prime cities is the proof of the determination and hard work performed in by Harsh Binani as well as Neetish Sarda in their quest to achieve their goals.
Harsh Binani is one of the most influential leaders of our time, setting the for entrepreneurs who believe in their vision and desire for their work to be remembered and are looking to create their own legacy.