Ajaay Raj Rajan

CEO

Surat, Gujarat, India24 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of leadership across diverse industries.
  • Expert in scaling organizations and driving innovation.
  • Proven track record in customer service and operations management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in the Telecom and Healthcare sectors with a strong focus on operations and customer experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementStrategic ThinkingBusiness ConsultancyStrategic PlanningCustomer Service ManagementOperations ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementSales ManagementCustomer RetentionLoyalty Management

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsBandwidthBillingBusiness CoachingBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningBusiness Relationship ManagementCRMCall CenterCall CentersChagptChannel PartnersCompetitive AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Experience

About

With over two decades of leadership across telecom, manufacturing, healthcare, and diagnostics, I’ve built a career at the intersection of business growth, people leadership, and organizational transformation. Since 2021, I’ve been serving in Business Head and COO roles, combining corporate scale with strategic innovation.Corporate LeadershipTelecom (Airtel, Idea, Aircel-Maxis): Led regional operations and service delivery, scaling businesses in highly competitive markets and building strong teams.Manufacturing & Healthcare (Indofil, 2022–23): Head of Projects & CHRO, driving culture, talent strategy, and organizational transformation, while also incubating a diagnostic venture from inception.Current RoleSoulera (COO, Present): Leading strategy, growth, and people leadership while building AI-powered Emotional Intelligence solutions that enable individuals and organizations to understand themselves better, grow stronger, and achieve measurable impact.Explored entrepreneurial and consulting initiatives across diagnostics, fitness, social media, and defense tech — experiences that strengthened my ability to spot opportunities, connect stakeholders, and test new business models.What drives me: Scaling organizations and building ventures where strategy, leadership, and innovation converge to create lasting value.

Experience

Soulera

Building Business

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Surat, Gujarat, India · On-site

  • Building business of a tech company which has created a fusion of AI and Graphology for EQ evaluation and development

Hygge homes hospitality

Entrepreneur

Mar 2024Sep 2024 · 6 mos · Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India · On-site

  • Strategy & BDM - building and growing homestay & food and beverages business which includes cloud kitchen, cafe and frozen food distribution in Mumbai & Dehradun.

Terum

Chief Executive Officer

Sep 2023Mar 2024 · 6 mos · India · Remote

  • Raise funds, collaborations, tie ups, networking, grow community.

Indofil industries limited

Business Head Diagnostics

Sep 2022Aug 2023 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Chief Executive Officer of diagnostics venture of Modi Enterprise mapped to Indofil Industries Limited
  • Double headed Indofil as People strategy Head and Project Diagnostics head / CEO (diagnostic unit).
Project ManagementBandwidthBusiness PlanningProject CoordinationPresentationsStrategic Thinking

Watchful eye

Chief Business Officer

Jul 2020Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

  • This company is a Healthtech Startup. My role here was to-
  • 📌Perform business modelling, strategy, planning, and execution of a Health-tech project with a long-term plan and budget of 8 crores to maximise the ROI and improve business development.
  • 📌Design and execute marketing, acquisition and distribution. Develop technology and device strategies.
  • 📌Establish tie-ups and collaborations with healthcare institutions and launch promotional campaigns for a unique healthcare at doorstep initiative for elders in 4 RWAs in New Delhi.
Project ManagementBandwidthBusiness PlanningProject CoordinationPresentationsStrategic Thinking

Starwalk solutions

Business Consultant

Aug 2019Jul 2020 · 11 mos · India · On-site

  • Starwalk Services carries out business process outsourcing for clients to optimise their business's dynamic requirements. As a COO I-
  • 📌 Provide business and strategic consultancy covering all revenue, marketing, acquisition, expansion, and collaboration-related aspects of business for clients like A3 Charge, Forensic Investigations, and consultancy services, dynamic world education community.
  • 📌 Appointed 30 + channel partners across India in just 3 months.
  • 📌 Enrollment of 3 education institutions for collaboration.
  • 📌 5 schools in pipeline for appointment at time of leaving organ.
  • 📌 Plan growth strategies for Broadi-fi, which later got selected for the IIM-B accelerator program.
  • 📌 Act as a business partner of Hindustan Wellness Pathology Pvt Ltd for customer acquisition in Noida and Meerut.
Project ManagementMentoringBandwidthBusiness PlanningProject CoordinationPresentations+3

Aircel

Head Of Customer Service

Sep 2008Aug 2019 · 10 yrs 11 mos · North Region CS Head · On-site

  • Aircel provides telecommunication services. My role here was to-
  • 📌 Roll out operations, stores, agencies, and call centres in HR, RJ, UPW, PB, JK, DL.
  • 📌 Elevate from State CS head to Region CS head.
  • 📌 Responsible for customer experience pre & post-sale in the prepaid and postpaid domain, managing call centres, and retail service delivery in the region/circle.
  • 📌 Design and deploy segmented approach for differential service strategy, consistently achieving high scores on regulatory parameters.
  • 📌 Run a profitable chain of COCO & FOFO stores - sales & service.
  • 📌 Establish and manage one of the best service delivery models in the industry at the best value for money.
Project ManagementBandwidthBusiness PlanningBusiness CoachingProject CoordinationPresentations+3

Reliance communications

Head Retail Ops and Billing, Collection

Jan 2007Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Reliance Communications provides telecommunication services. My role here was to-
  • 📌 Manage customer service including acquisition, retention, channel care, and collection at 10 Reliance web worlds, 45 web world express, and 55 mini Web worlds across UPW & Uttranchal.
  • 📌 Manage cost of collection and bad debt.
BandwidthBusiness PlanningBusiness CoachingProject CoordinationPresentationsCustomer Service Management+1

Idea cellular ltd

Head Postpaid

Jan 2003Jan 2007 · 4 yrs · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Idea Cellular Ltd is a telecommunications company. My role here was to-
  • 📌 Handle a portfolio of 15 crores, 2.75 lac postpaid base, and 22000 gross adds per month.
  • 📌 Improve collection from 75% to 95% of a monthly revenue portfolio of 140 millions.
  • 📌 Reduce bad debt from 7% to under 3% in 3 quarters.
  • 📌 Retain large Corporate Accounts from aggressive competition and maintain churn rate under 2%.
  • 📌 Successfully obtain 15% new business orders from existing serviced clients.
Project ManagementBandwidthProject CoordinationPresentationsStrategic ThinkingCustomer Relationship Management+1

Bharti airtel limited

Retention and Outbound communications manager

Jan 2002Jan 2003 · 1 yr · Chandigarh Area, India · On-site

  • Bharti Mobile provides telecommunication services. My role here was to-
  • 📌 Manage customer retention operations for effective Customer Care/Retention in Punjab, Haryana, and HP Postpaid Subscribers.
  • 📌 Manage channel/dealer helpdesk.
  • 📌 Effectively manage and handle a 40-seat Inbound Call Center in Punjab, a 10-seat Retention Call Center, a 115-seat Outbound Call Centre in Punjab, Haryana, and HP.
Project ManagementBandwidthProject CoordinationPresentationsCustomer RetentionOperations Management

Escotel communications ltd.

Loyalty and Retention Management

May 2000Jan 2002 · 1 yr 8 mos · Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Escotel provides mobile solution services. My role here was to-
  • 📌 Manage loyalty management of postpaid subscribers with an annual budget of 10 Million.
  • 📌 Personally manage op 100 HNI of UPW ensuring 3X revenue growth & 100% retention.
  • 📌 Got the “Best Call centre officer” consistently for 1 year.
  • 📌 Create CVM index for segmenting consumers basis there vintage, usage of services, revenue and potential. This was adopted across the industry later.
Project ManagementBandwidthBusiness CoachingProject CoordinationPresentationsStrategic Thinking+2

Education

Institute of productivity and management

PGDBM — Marketing

Aug 1997Aug 1999

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