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Jay Desai
Founder & Chief Executive Officer |
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Jay Desai is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Consulting India Pvt Ltd, as well as an international Partner in global strategy consulting firm, L.E.K. Consulting LLP, London. |
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Jay has almost 19 years of consulting experience and since 1994, has built Universal Consulting into one of the larger strategy consulting firms in India, covering South Asia and the Middle East regions. The Firm has a team of 60+ people, with offices in Mumbai and New Delhi. Jay has overseen more than 540 cases across more than 230 clients in the areas of strategy and transaction services consulting. Jay also leads Universal Consulting’s life sciences and healthcare practices. In 2007, L.E.K. Consulting LLP, took a 20% equity stake in Universal Consulting. |
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Prior to founding Universal Consulting with seed capital of just US$ 1,000, Jay worked with Accenture in Mumbai, from 1989 to 1994. He holds a BSc in life sciences from the University of Bombay, an MS in molecular biology from Purdue University and an MBA from Willamette University. He has also attended a number of executive education programs at The Wharton School, INSEAD and the Harvard Business School.
Jay has also lectured on the Indian Healthcare system, at
The Wharton School in November 2008. |
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Jay is an active student of Indian Classical Music, and has been playing the Sarod, for the last 20 years. Jay is also the first sarod player to have re-engineered this ancient and traditional Indian classical instrument, to allow it to be played while standing, and not sitting cross-legged on the ground, in the traditional pose. This new method, allows for greatest sonic resonance, more freedom of movement, flexibility and higher speed. He also has an interest in evolutionary biology, natural history and evolutionary psychology. Jay lives in Mumbai with his wife Madhavi and son Arjun. |
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