GrowSafe Partners
(A Unit of GrowSafe Partners & Consultants)
Our Team

Sanjiv Tripathy-Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Sanjiv Tripathy is a Senior Executive Leader trained in Strategy, Global business & Service Excellence from Harvard Business School with ~10 years in CXO capacity as Senior Director and Regional Head (overall ~26 years) for MNCs’ such as Credit Suisse, RBS, CSC & Tata Steel, a practicing Executive Coach and aspiring Independent Director. He is a BE (EEE) and MBA.
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He brings ~18 years Global experience in managing Cyber, Technology Risk & Security, Resilience and BCM, Audit, IT Transformation, setting up and leading off-shore development centres, Business & Service excellence, Change management, TQM, Organisation development and People.
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Sanjiv has experience of building highly skilled CoEs at global scale with optimised cost in specialist areas - Risk, Security, BCM, Third party management, Testing & IT Infrastructure, leading cross functional teams (~300 members, $~60+ Mn budgets).
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Sanjiv has set up and Lead pan India Resilience and BCM capability for global banks with extensive experience in BCM including defining BC strategy, BC planning at organisation and Business level, Disaster Recovery & IT Continuity, end to end BC testing, setting up and managing Crisis and Incident management, Chief Building officer role, presenting BC to global regulators, training and awareness and Resilience & BCM improvements.
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He has proven skill of trusted advisor and trainer to Board members, has led company’s engagements with global/ regional regulators, enhanced Compliance, Customer satisfaction and Risk culture. He has presented in industry forums and institutes of repute.
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His leadership style focuses on engaging clients and teams to communicate, solve problems, Coach/ Mentor leaders and deliver the highest quality solutions using hand-on approach while building empowered talented teams.

Sunder Rao Swarana – Director
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Sundar has 20 years of global experience in managing business operations, quality assurance, organization and people development. He has played Leadership role for the last 8 years, operating an offshore development center. He has experience in MNCs’ such as Amdocs, Unisys, TATA business support services and WNS.
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He specializes in leading organizational transformation and process improvement initiatives in cross functional environments (~250 team members, ~ $ 4 Mn budgets)
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He has established performing organizations in Industry such as Banking, travel & hospitality, public sector and telecom
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His key strengths are analytical and problem-solving, continuous improvement and ability to work in multi-cultural environment. His Management style is focussed on mentoring individuals and teams

Ajay Bakshi – Director
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Ajay Bakshi, PCC is a Senior Business Transformation Leader who has held several Operational and HR thought Leadership roles in India and UK. He is a BE (Mechanical) and MBA
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He has held Board Level positions in leading organizations like Vodafone Global Service as a CHRO and member of the Board of Directors. He has been the CHRO of Prudential Global Services and Sterlite Technologies and Sterlite Power
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He has experience of delivering HR Risk and policy framework assessment, delivering projects in Govt domains and areas such as design & restructuring, succession planning, change management, leadership team integration.
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He is an Executive coach to CEO’s, CXO and identified leaders for C suite level positions across MNC’s, large Indian Corporates across IT, ITes, BFSI, Automotive, FMCG, Pharma.
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He is currently a Board level Advisor for Various MNC and large Global Indian Corporate. He has received various awards on his contribution as a CHRO.

Tejas Wagh Senior Consultant Finance
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Tejas Wagh is the Finance face of the organisation.
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He has 7+ years of experience in the filed of Secretarial & Corporate Finance Matters. He is CS LLB.
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He comes from a Corporate Finance and Investment Banking background;
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His expertise is in helping SME Companies to raise finance and enter into strategic JV partnerships.