Harsh Binani is an Indian businessman, entrepreneur, and co-founder with Smartworks India's biggest managed space provider. Harsh Binani began small, but always believed in his ability to reach the heights of success.
Harsh is an alumnus from Northwestern University -Kellogg School of Management, Illinois with an MBA degree in research and development, as well as an Economics graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
He also has an CFP (Centre for Financial Planning) designation in investments, risk management, and retirement planning.
Harsh Binani began his career by pursuing the opportunities he received to learn about his greater plans. With over 7 years ' experience in business and real estate consulting, Harsh Binani has been a part of "Mckinsey" one of the best consulting firms 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 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 overseas, which made clear to him about how he would like to proceed in the near future.
He was inspired for a join Neetish Sarda who himself was creating with passion for his new business at the time, Smartworks.
Harsh Binani came to Smartworks in 2017. He brought in an abundance of ideas, enthusiasm and the best people skills to the table.
After the joining of Harsh Binani with Neetish Sarda, Smartworks gained exponential momentum which opened the way to the most innovative strategies to make the work spaces a more enjoyable experience.
Initially Smartworks was initially started as a 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 the group of customers, they wanted to serve Harsh Binani they decided to break into large corporations which was a task in itself.
Big enterprises were already settled in the traditional workspaces, with fixed patterns and limited options.
After initial setbacks and feedback, Harsh Binani returned time and Harsh Binani time over to the drawing room in search of a new approach to the things that can be the key to transform the minds of big companies.
After a lot of investigation, rethinking ways of thinking and pitching ideas it came to pass! Smartworks landed their first client and since then, it's always been an 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 are a believer in the idea that you are pitching first before making any other clients believe in the idea.
The journey of Harsh Binani demonstrates, it is important to point out that finding a way to fit in to what everyone else is doing will only lead you to where everyone is heading.
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.
Today, Smartworks is India's largest provider of flexible workspaces, that covers a space of approximately. 5 million sq. ft. across over 32 locations in 9 cities in Delhi-NCR (including, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune) and caters to more than 400 organizations across Fortune 500 companies.
The number of clients with new centers and the presence of a footmark in all the Harsh Binani prime cities is testimony to the determination and arduous 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.