AKSHAY BALWANI

AKSHAY BALWANI

Director, Upper Crust Foods Private Limited (Sbarro Pizza India)

Akshay Balwani is an experienced F&B business leader with 8 years of experience heading Growth, Strategy and Operations as a Director at Upper Crust Foods Pvt Ltd (Master Franchise – Sbarro Pizza). Akshay completed his dual Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from University of California Berkeley in 2016.

After graduating from UC Berkeley, Akshay joined Microsoft Corporation as a Product Marketing Manager at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. At Microsoft, Akshay was in charge of Product Marketing for the Advanced Analytics product category in the Cloud & Enterprise division of the company.

Having completed a year at Microsoft, Akshay returned to India and joined Upper Crust Foods. Over the last 7 years at Upper Crust Foods, Akshay has helped the company grow to 5 operational cities, strengthen the business model, & develop a India specific product and market strategy.

Akshay was instrumental to helping the company navigate the COVID19 pandemic and the resulting financial stress. His people centric approach and commitment to being Customer obsessed instead of being Competition obsessed has allowed him to build a strong profitable business, poised for pan India growth.

Akshay’s focus remains on business fundamental with a commitment to ensuring high quality standards, integrity to the product, data driven decision making and strong growth numbers.

Akshay has also simultaneously been involved in other business associated to RD Group of companies. His eagerness to continue learning and expanding his horizons drives him forward.