Role Players 2023

Rajat attended school at the St. Columba's School, Delhi, and secured his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi. He started using computers in 1984 while attending school; he learnt programming, made an accounting program, and won an award from his school for that. A first-generation Entrepreneur, he has garnered more than 32 years of experience in setting up, expanding, and running multiple family-owned businesses and 35 years' experience in the computer industry.

In his professional career, Rajat has created a b2b network of more than 300 sale points in the infrastructure vertical generating revenue of more than $20 million per year over the last 15 years giving him extensive experience in managing a retail network of people at the ground level who may not be very educated. He has managed a team of more than 55 professionals, providing outsourced remote office services like medical / legal and general transcription services to various clients in the United States, Canada, and Australia saving valuable time and money. Lastly, he has also managed a team of coders and developers to create customized software solutions and mobile apps for his clients in the United States and India. In his latest business venture, he has launched his own mobile app "HyLyt" by SocioRAC - a US patented, Secured b2b SAAS, Unified Digital Workspace to help users save time and money, take faster decisions for business growth with reduced stress. HyLyt helps field teams working across multiple apps and data silos by giving them a 360 view of the information that matters and preventing its leakage to unwanted people.

On the personal front, Rajat is fond of technology, photography, music, and travelling. He enjoys seeing nature in all its natural beauty and finding solutions to everyday problems using technology with out-ofthe-box thinking. He has given motivational and mentorship talks for IIT Mumbai at Parul University, for a joint program of Nasscom and Devang Mehta Foundation at MS University, Vadodara, for TiE Ahmedabad at Parul university, for BMA (Baroda Management Association) and multiple talks on technology related topics and mentoring for students. He likes to meet and network with people and is associated with various business and service organizations. He is an integral part of the SRCC alumni, Business Network International (BNI), Vadodara Marathon (VM), Federation of Gujarat Industries (FGI), Gujarat Electronics & Software Industries Association (GESIA), NASSCOM, Corporate Connections (CC) and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Silicon Valley, Vadodara, Delhi and Ahmedabad.

Articles written by him have been published in various leading journals like Economic Times, Financial Express, Hindustan Times, Inc42, etc. He has been interviewed by IT Voice, Digital First, CXO Herald, CIOL, Voice n Data, TechGraph, Dynamic CIO, YourStory, etc. and was featured on the cover of CIO Review India. He has been felicitated with Rashtriya Udyog Ratna in 2021, Top 21 technopreneurs to watch in 2021 and as a Global Indian in 2022.