Operator.
Moderator.
Operating leader.
25+ years building companies, holding rooms, and scaling ecosystems. The operator background is what makes both offers work.
IBM · Thomson Reuters · Esri · Bloomreach · ASAN · The INDUStry Show. 14 acquisitions later, still building.
Dr. Nitin Bajaj has spent 25+ years doing the work, not advising on it. He has helped build businesses generating $400M+ in revenue, co-led 14 acquisitions worth $1B+, and operated across 10 countries spanning the U.S., Europe, South Asia, and the UAE.
He has worked with and inside organizations including IBM, Thomson Reuters, Esri, and Bloomreach, leading product, growth, and go-to-market functions at scale. That experience is the foundation for everything else: why his moderation lands differently, why founders trust him with their businesses, and why the people in his rooms walk out with something they can actually use.
The operator instinct doesn't turn off. It shows up in the follow-up question that breaks the polished answer open. It shows up in the ability to rebuild a growth engine in a business that's been stuck for three years. It's the same judgment, applied in different rooms.
- IBM
- Thomson Reuters
- Esri
- Bloomreach
- Community
- ASAN - Co-Founder
- The INDUStry Show - Founder
- Pratham USA - Marketing & Strategy
- Akshaya Patra USA
- SAHARA
The operator background is exactly why his conversations land differently. They push toward decisions, tradeoffs, and what actually works.
Writing and speaking grounded in operating reality.
Nitin writes and speaks on South Asian leadership, immigrant ambition, entrepreneurship, corporate power, and the infrastructure needed to turn individual success into collective progress.
His perspective is grounded in operating experience, national platform-building, and years of formal research into how South Asian immigrant entrepreneurs build companies, networks, and economic mobility in the U.S.
Indians are taking over corporate America
Commentary on Indian leadership, immigration, corporate America, and Indian-origin CEOs.
Read article →Social Impact Heroes: How Nitin Bajaj of ASAN Is Helping To Change Our World
Profile on ASAN, social impact, and community-building.
Read article →From success to coordinated power: Nitin Bajaj
Profile on coordinated South Asian power in America.
Read article →Building power, pride: Dr. Nitin Bajaj on South Asians in America
Interview on ASAN, identity, leadership, and South Asian community infrastructure.
Read article →Two ways to work with me.
Speaking & Moderation and Operating Leadership are the offers. Product, growth, systems, acquisitions, and platform-building are the operating experience behind them.
Speaking & Moderation
For conferences, universities, founder summits, investor rooms, and leadership forums that need a sharper room, better pacing, and stronger questions.
Operating Leadership
For cash-flowing founder-led businesses typically generating $1–5M in annual revenue where the owner is ready to step back and hand over execution.
Nitin holds a doctorate focused on South Asian immigrant entrepreneurship, examining how founders build companies, networks, and economic mobility across the U.S.
The INDUStry Show
500+ conversations with founders, operators, and community leaders. Built to surface the real decisions, real tradeoffs, and what actually works beyond the polished narrative.
Building infrastructure for the South Asian community in the US.
In June 2024, Nitin co-founded the American South Asian Network (ASAN) — scaling it to 150+ in-person events across the U.S., reaching 40,000+ people, and building 300+ institutional and community partnerships across corporate, government, nonprofits, and universities in under two years.
He has also contributed to Pratham USA (marketing and strategy), helped launch Akshaya Patra in Southern California, and serves as a board member at SAHARA.
10 countries. U.S., Canada, Europe, India, and the UAE. Product, growth, operations.
United States, Canada, India, the UAE, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Cross-border operations, distributed teams, and execution across very different environments.
I've spent most of my career in rooms where the stakes were real, boards, boardrooms, conference stages, and the messy middle of running a business that matters to the person who built it. The work has taken me across 10 countries, through 14 acquisitions, and into hundreds of conversations with people doing something worth talking about. I'm based in Southern California. I co-founded ASAN in 2024 because I believe the South Asian community in the U.S. is an underutilized force, and building it has been one of the most meaningful things I've done. I'm most useful when the problem is real and the person on the other side is ready to move.
Two ways to work together.
Whether you're booking a moderator for a room that matters or exploring what an operating partnership looks like for your business.