Mr. Anay Mashruwala is an Entrepreneur by profession and an Academician by passion.

He is the Director and Promotor of M/s. Venus Engineering Works, a company in the field of manufacturing and marketing of industrial valves. Mr. Mashruwala has over 11 years of entrepreneurial experience and played a versatile role in taking his organisation to an international level.

He also Director at Krishna Interiors, a home furnishing and interior designing company. Along with his entrepreneurial journey, Mr. Mashruwala is also involved in startup ecosystem and is closely working and mentoring startups from last 5 years. He is a Startup Coach at Incubation & Innovation Centre, the Incubation centre of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) and has been deeply involved with the startups and the entire incubation process. At IIC, he is working to build an Agile Incubation Centre, which is disruptive in every sense and aims to genuinely create value for the incubatees rather than trying to build another profit centre for a University run managed and operated by Students of PDPU. The idea is to make the incubation centre self-sufficient but not at the cost of the incubatees.

Anay is also currently associated with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad Incubator as a Design Clinic Expert engaging with grow stage and mature stage start-ups to solve their pressing strategy related problems.

Apart from Start-up eco system he is a part of an international Body of Facilitation Experts called “THE VALUE WEB”-India Chapter and as a part of this team has already facilitated Action Seminars,and Design Shops for Various Government and semi-government Bodies and Universities for visioning and policy setting at various prestigious forums including VIBRANT GUJARAT 2017.

Earlier, he was a Professor in the field of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Ahmedabad University for 6 years and also served as Coach at Venture Studio, the incubation centre at Ahmedabad University. During this sting he was pivotal in establishing and enhancing Ahmedabad University’s association with KEIO University Japan, Centre For Design Research Sanford University, Judge Business School Cambridge University, Olin College Of Engineering.

Anay has a vast experience in the field of entrepreneurship training and has been one of the Master Trainer for National Entrepreneurship Network – Wadhwani Foundation. Anay has been awarded Best Entrepreneurship Faculty Award by National Entrepreneurship Network in 2016. Anay has also conducted Startup Weekends, a 54 hours hackathon by Techstars and Google. He is also serving as adjunct faculty at premier institutes such as IIM A, Nirma University, Ahmedabad University, CEPT, PDPU, ICFAI, to name a few.

Anay has an MBA from Nirma University, BE in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University and a Degree in Law from Gujarat University apart from various National and International Certifications in areas of quality, Management and Inspections.

1) Education - BEngg (Mechanical) + MBA (Focused on Oil & Gas) + 26 certifications
2) Innovation Ecosystem - more than a "decade" into the glocal innovation ecosystem
3) Entrepreneur - Serial & GloCal Entrepreneur: 9 bootstrapped ventures, on board with 10+ ventures

4) Early Adopter - 1st paid customer of 91 ventures
5) Process Inventor - Core Specialty
6) Reinvention Expert - Certified specialist & practitioner

7) Strategist - GloCally known as Strategist
8) Thinker - System & Design Thinker
9) Trainer - 300,000+ globally
10) Speaker - Local, National & Global platforms, 100+ times

11) Connector - Network in 100+ countries, worked with 33+ countries
12) Mentor - startups, coworking space(s), Incubation center(s)
13) Advisor - Global Think-Tanks, Startups, communities, global summits
14) Global Facilitator - Techstars Startup Weekend, Pvt organisations

15) Screening Committee - Govt. funds & Pvt. funds
16) Global Jury - GoI programs, GoG programs, global think tanks, competitions & awards glocally

17) Writer - Published many articles & writing 3 books
18) Change Maker - Always focused on impactful change for everything we do

19) Management Consultant - Strategic, Process, Business Development, Re-Invention Consulting + Open, Enterprise & Corporate Innovation
20) Modern Game - Modern ways of doing business & investment expert

21) TED platform licensee - TEDxKotechaChowk, KIDS TEDed, TED Circles

22) Awards - received 10+ awards globally
23) UN Awardee - Multiple times

+ Global awardee to convert UN Development Goals into action
+ x-program manager of multi-country Youth in Action project
+ x-solutions generator with Strategic initiative of European Union
+ x-global VP (Strategy) for Challenge Future Chapters network,
+ x-award-winning President of CF India.

+ CFsummitsAlumni
+ 100SouthAsianYouthLeaders
+ WYSAwinner
+ KarmaveerChakra
+ RMACouncil
+ StartupGrindChapterDirector

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