Gitanj Sheth
CAT National Topper • MBA, XLRI
M.S., Computer Science
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
Specialists each see one slice.
The technologist sees the technology. The engineer sees the systems. The MBA sees the spreadsheet. Each of them is right, and each of them is partial.
The hardest problems aren't hard because they're complicated. They're hard because each part of the business is telling a different version of the truth.
The software works. Operations won't use it. Finance can't see the return. Leadership wants it scrapped.
Cracking that needs someone who has sat in every one of those seats.
Engineer. Programmer. MBA. Founder. Operator. Client.
Gitanj has been all of them. Not as titles on a résumé, but as roles he has lived. He taught himself to program, trained as an engineer, took an MBA at XLRI, built and ran businesses, was both the employee and the employer, advised other founders, and sat on the client's side of the table, hiring specialists and living with the results.
So he reads a problem through every one of those lenses at once, watching how the pieces fit together, and where they don't.
Two kinds of problem reach him.
Something is broken: money, time or quality is leaking, and what you've tried hasn't fixed it. Or nothing is broken, but it isn't growing: the business runs, yet the next move isn't obvious and the usual playbooks have stopped working.
In both, the real problem sits between disciplines, which is exactly why no single specialist has owned it. That's the shape of it. Here is the record.
What he's actually done.
A few, out of many; most stays behind closed doors.
- Brought in on a government subsidy scheme leaking to fraud, he left behind a tamper-proof system that cleared 22,000+ subsidies across 5 lakh+ acres in two years.
- Handed the PM Gati Shakti mission's need for centimetre-accurate land maps, he orchestrated the survey that delivered 50 lakh+ sq m in six weeks.
- Across 20+ businesses in real estate, manufacturing, exports, education, IT and finance, he has been handed the cross-domain problems no single specialist could own.
Why he does this.
Gitanj comes from a family business group worth over ₹100 crore. He doesn't take on outside problems for the fee.
Years of untangling the hard problems inside his own family's businesses, and then for the people around him, taught him that an unsolved, cross-boundary problem is the one thing he can't leave alone. So he took it outside.
That changes the relationship. He isn't chasing the engagement. He takes the ones worth his time, says so plainly when he can't help, and has no incentive but getting the answer right.
Can you think of a problem Gitanj should look at?
Bring us the problem you can't pin down.
Let's see if you find what you're looking for.