Scribble Talk - Episode 25 Ajay Patel (President and CEO, SMA Inc)

Send us Fan MailWith Scribble Talk reaching the 20k downloads' mile stone, we are excited to kick-off the hunt for our Super Fan through our latest campaign and shower our biggest fan with amazing prizes.You are invited to take the SCRIBBLE TALK SUPER FAN QUIZ and win a chance to get life time access to all podcast seasons and grab amazing Amazon Voucher Cards.Take the quiz now: https://baachuscribble.com/scribble-talk-super-fan-contest-2022/Ajay leads SMA, Inc. as President and CEO. SMA, Inc. is the world’s largest advisory firm dedicated to improving its client’s competitiveness across their entire program lifecycle from market and competitive strategy to capture strategy and bid/proposal development to profitable program execution for public sector markets.Mr. Patel has over 35 years of consulting, business development, operations, program management and systems engineering experience. Prior to coming to SMA, Ajay was a Director at Deloitte consulting in the Aerospace and Defense practice. He was a Senior Partner at the Monitor Group for twelve years, and created and led it’s global National Security practice. During the 1990s, Ajay served in various roles at SMA including Vice President of Business Development, Executive Vice President of SMA’s Proposal Management group and as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Ajay was at TRW serving in technology development, systems engineering, program management and business development roles. Ajay enjoys travelling and is an avid reader. His has a particular fascination with typography—the latest fun addition to his library is Simon Garfield’s book “Just My Type: A Book About Fonts.” His favorite bookstore on the planet is Daunt Books in London, United Kingdom.In this laughter filled deeply insightful episode, Ajay shares His early life and educationSMA career Monitor and Deloitte StintReturn to SMA Entrepreneurship and leadership tips Covid-19 support at his company3 things that not many people know about himInfluential people in his life and career His love of readingTips to study american dictionary The fonts Steve Jobs created A masterclass on Typography Book about butter... Detective in Caribbean island Few fun Qs What is your favorite font? Least favorite?Do you like your handwriting? Where is the most interesting place that you’ve travelled?What is the first thing you do when you get home from a business trip?If you could only eat three things for the rest of your life, what would you choose?What is your all-time favorite book or author?Have you ever sent a message to a wrong person? Would you rather lose the ability to read or the ability to speak?If you could be a cartoon character for a week, who would you be? Whats the most courageous thing you ever done? If you could be an Olympic athlete, in what sport would you compete? When you are having bad day, what do you do to make yourself feel better? What do you cook better than anyone? If you had to choose a completely new profession, what would you pick?What are your favourite pizza toppings? If you could be anywhere else right now, Where would it be? What’s the most interesting thing that you’ve read or seen this week?If you were arrested with no explanation, what would your friends and family assume thatyou had done?If your five year old suddenly found himself inhabiting your current body, what would your five year old self will do first? What would you if you are the last person on this earth? Listen in to know more about Ajay Patel, the leader behind SMA Inc. Support the show