Ajay has 25 years’ start-up venture experience, building disruptive new digital businesses in a wide range of industries. He has particular expertise in mobile, e-commerce, digital media, data analytics, digital retail and government. He also has strong functional expertise in sales, strategy development, product development and fund raising. Selected to be part of the Asian Power 100 – the 100 most influential and powerful Asians in the UK – Ajay won Dealmaker of the Year 2015 award from M&A Magazine, is one of the Top 100 Asian tech stars and was selected as one of 2016’s Sunday Times top 100 BAME business leaders in the UK.

Ajay recently retired as a Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group where he ran their global deep tech business. Prior to this, he was CEO of Seatwave, a European online ticketing marketplace (sold to Ticketmaster). Before that, he was CEO of ComQi, a global omni-channel retail technology company (sold to AU Optronics) before which he co-founded IDG Ventures Europe (IDGVE), a $100m European venture capital fund. At IDGVE he was the founder investor and Chairman of Shazam, the world’s leading music recognition service, (sold to Apple) and also invested in and served on the board of Lionhead, a games developer, (sold to Microsoft). Prior to IDGVE, he was CEO of LineOne – a joint venture between United News and Media and British Telecom – which he grew into one of the UK’s largest portals and ISP’s (sold to Tiscali). At UNM Ajay was founder and Managing Director of its internet division, before which he was a manager at Bain & Company. Ajay has an MBA from Wharton and serves on the board of the Octopus Future Generation Fund as well as several not for profits.

He is also a theatre director and author and has published five books in his award-winning Kamil Rahman detective series.

Significant Roles

• Senior Partner and Managing Director, BCG
• Board member, Department of Culture, Media and Sport
• Board member, Historic Royal Palaces
• Board member, Arts Council, London
• Council member, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
• CEO, Seatwave
• CEO, ComQi, a global omni-channel retail technology company. Ran a JV in China putting digital media into 100 CapitaL and Malls
• Co-founded IDG Ventures Europe
• CEO, LineOne
• European President and CEO, NBC internet
• MD New Media, United Business media
• Manager, Bain & Co
• Non-Executive Director, Equals PLC
• Non-executive Director, Virtual Internet PLC