Harsh Binani - Smartworks Co-Founder
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Harsh Binani is an Indian businessman and co-founder of Smartworks the largest managed space provider. Harsh Binani began small, but always believed in getting big.
Harsh is an alumnus of Northwestern University -Kellogg School of Management, Illinois with an MBA degree in business studies. He is an Economics graduate of Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
He also holds the CFP (Centre for Financial Planning) designation in insurance, risk management and retirement planning.
Harsh Binani started off his professional career with chances he was given to experience the world before he could pursue his future plans. He has more than 7 years expertise in real estate and management consulting, Harsh Binani previously worked with "Mckinsey", the world's premier consulting firm in Chicago.
Over the course of his five years with Mckinsey the firm, he was focused on tactical and operational matters in insurance, infrastructure, as well as healthcare.
He also worked as an Assistant Chief of Staff at Medanta Medicity, spearheading key strategic initiatives for the CEO.
Harsh Binani got exposure to high-tech workspaces during his time abroad, which helped make it crystal-clear to him about the future of his career.
He chose that he wanted to work with Neetish Sarda who himself was working with passion on his new venture at the time, Smartworks.
Harsh Binani came to Smartworks in 2017 and brought in more energy, ideas as well as a superb people-skill to the table.
After the joining of Harsh Binani along with Neetish Sarda, Smartworks witnessed an exponential increase which paved the way towards more creative approaches to make the workspaces a more delightful experience.
At first Smartworks began as a cooperative working space, however Harsh Binani as well as Neetish Sarda soon realised that to be a very crowded market Harsh Binani which had no innovation in terms of products and technology, or even the intended audience.
Once they had narrowed down their people who provide services to Harsh Binani and decided to break into large companies which was a major challenge in itself.
Many large companies had been set in the traditional workplaces, with the same pattern and limited choices.
Following initial setbacks as well as feedback, Harsh Binani returned time and time again to the drawing board developing a new strategy on his ideas for what can be the most effective way to changing the perspective of the large enterprises.
After a lot of research, changing strategies, and pitching concepts, it happened! Smartworks was able to secure their first customer and it's always been a high path.
Smartworks had an exponential growth in the past 5 years of this journey. It was aided by unfailing support from the entire team.
Harsh Binani believes that it is vital to ensure that you believe in the idea that you are first pitching, before letting any other clients believe in it.
As the journey of Harsh Binani demonstrates, it is important to point out that to settle in to what everyone else is doing will only lead you to where everyone is heading.
Success stories are result from those that remained in which direction they had faith in no matter what and Harsh Binani is one Harsh Binani of them.
Today, Smartworks is India's largest provider of flexible workspaces, that covers a space of approximately. 5 million sq. feet. spread across 32 locations in 9 cities in Delhi-NCR (including, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai as well as Pune) and serves over 400 companies across Fortune 500 companies.
The extensive client base with new centers and the presence of a footmark in all the prime cities is testimony to the determination and arduous work made in by Harsh Binani, and Neetish Sarda in their dream.
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 longing to be remembered as their own.