CEO, Anand and Anand

Rajiv Maheshwari

Rajiv has around 20 years of experience across several knowledge industries including Management Consulting, Intellectual Property Rights and Legal Services, Information Technology, Finance and Accounting and Outsourcing.
He is currently the CEO of Anand and Anand, a firm that primarily helps develop, protect and leverage all forms of intellectual property and thrives on innovation and creativity. The firm’s clients include Fortune 100 companies as also aspiring unicorns.
While being widely recognized as India’s top IP firm, Rajiv’s leadership has helped the law firm earn recognition in the fields of Technology, Innovation (Financial Times 2015), Client Service and Satisfaction (highest rated law firm in India by RSG Consulting in 2015) and as an “Employer of Choice” (by ALB in 2014 and 2015).
He was earlier working as Senior Vice President heading Global Transformation Solutions at WNS (NYSE listed with market cap of over a billion $), designing and implementing solutions for several Fortune 500 clients and helping build new revenue streams and achieving sustainable growth.
Prior to this, Rajiv worked with Accenture in diverse areas across strategy, process consulting and technology solutions before building and managing Accenture’s domestic BPO business from scratch.
Rajiv is a Chartered Accountant and management professional from IIM Bangalore, where he was part of the Director’s Merit List. More importantly, he is passionate about learning and education and lives the belief that only autodidacts will thrive in this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world!