Sharad Heda
Business Advisor
Sharad Heda specializes in being a Business Advisor to companies desirous of achieving and managing industry leading growth. He brings a unique combination of managing high tech organizations for over three decades and being a certified CEO Coach - focusing on developing leaders and building organizations in tandem - thereby creating a double barrel impact.
In his Corporate career, he played a pivotal role in Microland’s (www.microland.com) growth and transformation journey since its formative days(1992-2022), by building the company brick by brick and adorning multiple hats including that of CFO, CHRO, COO, Chief Automation Officer, CEO- Global Tech Support and President – India and Middle East
In his last stint as Chief of Staff at Microland, he led strategic projects of high importance, mentored senior leaders, and co-owned achieving the midterm and long-term goals with the CEO – thus readying the organization to achieve its $1 Billion ambition.
Before Microland, Sharad worked with Wipro (www.wipro.com) for nine years (1983-1992), where he set up India’s first and most successful partner channel for computers and built its “Little Genius” line of highly successful PCs.
He has been an Assessor for CII’s prestigious “Excellence in Business Management” program (1996-1999) and Vice-Chair, NASSCOM’s IT services council (2016-18) and umpteen.
Currently, he serves as a Business Coach to multiple growth stage companies, engages as a Leadership Coach to CXOs of large corporates, serves as an Independent Director of listed and unlisted companies and is a visiting faculty at prestigious Higher Education Institutions.
Sharad is a Trustee at Microland Foundation and Advisor at Indian School of Development Management (www.isdm.org.in) , doing his bit in giving back to the society and finding ways of deploying wealth for social good.
Sharad is a Gold Medalist in Electronics Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur (1977-1981) and rank holder in M.M.S. from JBIMS, Mumbai (1981-83).
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