Harsh Binani is an Indian entrepreneur and co-founder for Smartworks, India's largest Managed Space provider. Harsh Binani's beginnings were modest, but he always believed in reaching for the top.
Harsh is an alumni of Northwestern University -Kellogg School of Management, Illinois with an MBA degree in entrepreneurial studies. He is also an Economics graduate of Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
He also holds a CFP (Centre for Financial Planning) designation in investing, risk management, and retirement planning.
Harsh Binani started off his professional career with occasions that were offered to him in order to learn about the future. With over seven years' work experience in management and real estate consulting, Harsh Binani has worked with "Mckinsey" the world's premier consulting firm in Chicago.
During his time at Mckinsey where he worked, he specialized in the strategic and operational aspects of the areas of infrastructure, insurance, and healthcare.
He was also the Chief of Staff for Medanta Medicity, spearheading key strategic initiatives for the CEO.
Harsh Binani was exposed high-tech workplaces during his stay overseas, and this made it obvious to him what possible future strategies.
He made the decision in the direction of joining Neetish Sarda, who was at the forefront of his latest business, Smartworks.
Harsh Binani joined Smartworks in 2017, bringing in more ideas, passion and exceptional people skills to the team.
After the introduction of Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda, Smartworks saw exponential growth which opened the way to greater creativity to make the workplaces more enjoyable experience.
Initially Smartworks started as a co working space, however Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda soon realized it to be a highly crowded marketplace with little to no innovation in terms of offerings and technology, nor the targeted audience.
After narrowing the clients, they decided to serve Harsh Binani determined to break into big companies which was a challenge in itself.
Enterprises of Harsh Binani all sizes were already in the traditional office spaces with specific patterns and offerings.
With initial setbacks in the process and feedback, Harsh Binani returned time and time back to the drawing board coming up with a fresh idea on What can be the deciding factor to change the mind of the big enterprises.
After lots of study, changes to methods, and pitching ideas it was done! Smartworks secured their first client in the beginning, and since then it's always been an high climb.
Smartworks saw an incredible growth in the course of this process, and it was supported with great care by the entire Smartworks team.
Harsh Binani believes that it is important to make sure that you are a believer in the idea that you are pitching before you make any other clients believe in the idea.
In the course of Harsh Binani demonstrates, it is important to point out that in the end, settling in with what everyone is doing will only take you to where everyone else is going.
Success stories are born out of those who stuck in the direction of their faith in no matter what and Harsh Binani is one of them.
Presently, Smartworks is India's largest provider of flexible workspaces, having a footprint of around. 5 million square. ft. over 32 different locations in 9 cities across Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai along with Pune) and caters to hundreds of organizations across Fortune 500 companies.
The massive number of customers new centers, clients, and the footprint in every city is an evidence of the determination and hard work done in by Harsh Binani as well as Neetish Sarda in their vision.
Harsh Binani is Harsh Binani one of the most influential leaders today, making way for the entrepreneurs who believe in their ideas and want to leave their mark on the world and want to leave their mark.