Neeraj Saxena

Neeraj Saxena is the Founding & Managing Partner, Xscale Accelerator. Neeraj Saxena spearheads Xscale Accelerator with extensive experience in designing the business strategy for companies to set the direction of the business. With more than two decades of experience, he is recognized as an industry veteran who has led $1 Billion+ Global Business Operations covering all Regions - USA, APAC, EMEA, and LATAM. In addition, he has also led Strategy, Sales, and Operations for Fortune-500 companies. Being a marquee investor and Board Advisor in the Indian start-up ecosystem, Neeraj creates Sales Transformation Strategy and Go-To-Market plans for Global Businesses as well as early revenue stage start-ups. He believes in conducting lean operations and focuses on business automation to drive simplification and scalability. Neeraj is an IIM postgraduate in MBA (Strategy and Marketing) from IIM – Lucknow. He has also completed Business Strategy from Wharton School of Business and Technology Entrepreneurship from Harvard Business School. He has worked as the Vice President – Global Strategy & Sales Operations at FIS; Director - Strategy & Operations at SAP and Manager - Global Business Management Group at HCL Tech. He has also been invited as a key speaker at the industry’s leading conferences and summits. Neeraj is an avid traveller who has travelled around 30 countries in a span of 10 years. He carries interests in adventure sports like skydiving, scuba-diving, paragliding, reading and spirituality. To make India a better country for underprivileged children, he is also associated with an NGO that works in the area of child education. Neeraj is working aggressively to achieve his mission to impact 5 million lives through Xscale and create new job opportunities for the underprivileged. In the near future, he also plans to launch a program to encourage start-ups from the underprivileged sections of society.