Ajay Hiraskar

Ajay is passionate about helping entrepreneurs succeed. As the first certified Scaling Up Coach in India, he brings a wealth of 37 years of experience starting, building & growing businesses in India & globally. He has been an intrapreneur as well as an entrepreneur in telecom, IT services, publishing & industrial products. He has managed complex projects, large global teams & business growth even under challenging situations. As a Scaling Up Coach, he has worked with companies in Technology, Recruitment, Manufacturing, B2C & Industrial services, helping implement the various tools in the Scaling Up methodologies. For the last 10 years, he has been a Charter Member & then subsequently Governing Council Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Pune chapter. TiE is a global non-profit organization that supports start-ups through Mentoring, Education, and networking programs. He has been involved with their Mentoring initiative ‘Nurture’ for the past 9 years which has seen many companies from Pune succeed in Indian & International Markets as well as get multiple rounds of funding. He has also helped organize the biggest start-up conference in Pune – TiECon which has been held annually for the past 9 years.