Ajay Kela is the president and CEO of Wadhwani Foundation, a nonprofit using technology to accelerate ‘dignified jobs’ growth in India and other emerging economies.
Founded in 2001, Wadhwani Foundation is the brainchild of Romesh Wadhwani, a billionaire entrepreneur, technologist, and philanthropist, known for building successful tech companies in the US.
Ajay was formerly the managing director of Symphony Services, a software services company, and has also worked with Autodesk, where he scaled their AutoCAD business. He was also a research scientist at GE working on Computer Aided Design (CAD) products and has published research papers in reputed journals.
Ajay is a graduate in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering and computational geometry from the University of Rochester.
Ajay spoke to indianexpress.com on the roadmap for energising the entrepreneur ecosystem in India, the necessity to keep the focus on ‘dignified job’ creation, and on working with academic institutions to make their research relevant to a larger social cause.
Online Source: The Indian Express
