Harsh Binani is an Indian Entrepreneur and co-founder of Smartworks the largest Managed space provider. Harsh Binani's beginnings were modest, but he always believed in the possibility of achieving great things.
Harsh is an alumni of Northwestern University -Kellogg School of Management, Illinois with an MBA degree in entrepreneurial studies, and an Economics graduate of Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
Healso holds an CFP (Centre for Financial Planning) designation in insurance, risk management, and retirement planning.
Harsh Binani started his career by taking advantage of opportunities offered to him to experience the world before he could pursue his larger plans. With more than 7 years of work experience in the field of real estate and management consultancy, he's worked with "Mckinsey", the world's most respected consulting firm in Chicago.
In his 5 years with Mckinsey as a consultant, he concentrated on strategy and operational issues across insurance, infrastructure, and healthcare.
He has also been the Chief of Staff for Medanta Medicity, spearheading key strategic initiatives for the CEO.
Harsh Binani experienced modern workspaces while he was overseas, and this made it easy for him to think about potential future career plans.
He took the decision on joining Neetish Sarda, a man who was producing with enthusiasm his latest venture at the time: 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 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 co working space, however Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda soon realised that there was a Harsh Binani huge market that had little to no innovation in terms of products and technology, nor the targeted audience.
After narrowing the customers, the team wanted to serve Harsh Binani decided to crack into the major companies, which was a major challenge in itself.
Large enterprises had already been settled in the traditional offices with established patterns and minimal choices.
In the beginning, there were setbacks and feedback, Harsh Binani returned time and time and time again to the drawing boards developing a new Harsh Binani strategy on which can be the most effective way for changing the mind of large companies.
After much research, changed methods and pitching ideas, it happened! Smartworks found their first client in the beginning, and since then it's always been an high route.
Smartworks was able to grow exponentially in the 5 years of this journey, with unbeatable support from the whole team.
Harsh Binani believes it is crucial to ensure that you are a believer in the concept that you are pitching the first, before making any other client believe in it.
As the life of Harsh Binani clearly points out that settling in to what everyone is doing will just lead you to where everyone else is moving.
Success stories are created from those who kept going in an direction which they believed in no whatever. Harsh Binani is one of them.
Presently, Smartworks is India's largest supplier of flexible workspaces with an area of approximately. 5 million square. feet. over 32 locations in 9 cities in Delhi-NCR (including, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, in addition to Pune) and serves over 400 organizations from Fortune 500 companies.
The huge number of customers along with the opening of new centers and the footmark in all of the major cities is the testimony of the perseverance and hard work completed in by Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda in their mission.
Harsh Binani is one of the most influencer leaders today, paving ways for entrepreneurs who are convinced in their concept and wish to leave their mark and seek to make their own mark.