Harsh Binani is an Indian businessman, entrepreneur, and co-founder with Smartworks India's biggest Managed Space provider. Harsh Binani started off small but always believed in becoming a big success.
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 a CFP (Centre for Financial Planning) designation in investment management, risk management and retirement planning.
Harsh Binani began his career through the opportunities presented to him to get experience in order to help him with his greater plans. With more than 7 years of working experience in property and management consulting, Binani has been a part of "Mckinsey", the world's premier consulting firm in Chicago.
Over the course of his five years with Mckinsey as a consultant, he concentrated on operations and strategy across infrastructure, insurance, and healthcare.
Additionally, he was Chief of Staff at Medanta Medicity, spearheading key strategic initiatives for the CEO.
Harsh Binani was exposed to cutting-edge workspaces throughout his time abroad, which made it obvious to him what where he's going in his next career.
He made the decision on joining Neetish Sarda who himself was working with passion on his latest company, Smartworks.
Harsh Binani came to Smartworks in 2017 and brought in additional enthusiasm, ideas as well as a superb people-skill to the table.
Following the union 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 was initially designed as a collaborative working space, but Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda quickly realised it to be an overcrowded market with little to no innovation in terms of offerings and technology, nor the targeted audience.
After narrowing the target market, the group that wanted provide services to Harsh Binani but decided to break into large corporations which was a challenge in itself.
Large enterprises had already been settled in traditional workplaces with a set pattern and limited offerings.
With initial setbacks in the process and feedback, Harsh Binani returned time and time again to the drawing board to develop a new idea of his ideas for what can be the key to change the mindset of the large enterprises.
After lots of study, changes to strategies, and pitching concepts, it happened! Smartworks got their first client in the beginning, and since then it's always been an high track.
Smartworks was able to grow exponentially in the 5 years preceding this journey, with unbeatable support from all of the team.
Harsh Binani believes it is crucial to ensure that you are a believer Harsh Binani in the concept that you are pitching the first, before making any other client believe in it.
The story of Harsh Binani clearly points out that settling in on what everyone is doing will just lead you to where everyone else is moving.
Success stories are built from those who stayed in the direction they believed in no matter what. 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. in more than 32 locations in 9 cities in Delhi-NCR (including, Harsh Binani Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, in addition to Pune) and caters to more than 400 organizations in Fortune 500 companies.
The vast number of clients, new centers, and the footprint in all of the major cities is the testimony of the perseverance and hard work of in by Harsh Binani and Neetish Sarda in their goal.
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.