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title: "Neelesh A. - Associate Director - Strategy & Operations in Gurugram | Tal"
description: "Meet Neelesh A., Battery Smart | Ex-TAS, Bain | IIMK based in Gurugram. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/neelesh-arora/share-image"
---

# Neelesh A\. on Tal

## Headline

Battery Smart \| Ex\-TAS, Bain \| IIMK

## About

Building, scaling and creating long term impact at Battery Smart

## Location

Gurugram

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

notebooklm

openai

## Work experience

Associate Director \- Strategy & Operations at Battery Smart, Apr 2026 \- Present · 6 mos, Scaling EV Financing & Leasing

General Manager \- Founder’s Office at Battery Smart, Apr 2025 \- Mar 2026 · 1 yr

TAS Manager at Tata Group, Jun 2023 \- Apr 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Tata Administrative Services

Investment Team at Prath Ventures, Apr 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Summer Intern at J\.P\. Morgan, Apr 2022 \- Jun 2022 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Associate at Bain & Company, Apr 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 3 mos, Gurgaon

Analyst at Bain & Company, Jul 2019 \- Apr 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Exchange Programme \- MBA, Finance, Strategy, ESCP

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