Girish Godbolé
Founder and Partner
Girish is a successful serial entrepreneur and a seasoned business executive with a proven track record of delivering growth, profitability, organizational efficiency and business turn arounds. Prior to founding CEO Ally, Inc. in 2006, he has been responsible for founding and leading 3 high-tech companies in engineering and IT industries.
At CEO ally, Girish has been instrumental in advising over 30 technology clients by helping them with M&A transactions and strategic growth initiatives. In addition, from 2013 through 2019, at the request of one of CEO ally’s clients, Technosoft Engineering Projects Limited, Girish assumed a hands-on executive leadership role as the CEO of this global engineering services company. He successfully spearheaded Technosoft’s growth and profitability through organic and inorganic strategies – geographic expansion within N. America and Europe organically, and entry into new verticals such as oil and gas, electronics and IoT through acquisitions.
Prior to CEO ally, Girish founded Integral Strategies, Inc. (ISI) in 1996, a Pittsburgh-based software services company. Under his executive leadership, ISI received several accolades, including the prestigious standing as “Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America”, while Girish was recognized as a finalist in the “Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award”. Simultaneously, in 2000, Girish also co-founded Ventive, LLC, a software product company, and served as its President. In 2004, both companies were merged with UBICS, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based publicly traded company that was affiliated with the $2 Billion UB Group, a diversified Indian business conglomerate. From 2004 to 2006, Girish led UBICS, Inc. as its President, successfully executing the merger and leading the combined company to greater profitability and growth.
In 1994-95, Girish led a successful business turn-around of ailing Salem Automation, a Division of Salem Corporation. Prior to that, he founded Adaptive Software Technologies, Inc., an engineering software services company, and served as its President from 1992 to 1994.
Girish grew up in India and made Pittsburgh his home since 1984. Girish holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay, an MS in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Girish has always been actively involved on the boards of several professional and charitable organizations. Girish is an active Charter Member and a former president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of TiE, a global network of entrepreneurs and professionals that fosters entrepreneurship.
Jay Joshi
Managing Partner
Jay has deep knowledge, skills and experience in the areas of strategy development, financial analysis, valuations and transaction management. He has a Master’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Pune.
In his work at CEO ally since 2007, he has worked on and closed more than 30 transactions in the IT services, software, engineering services and BPO sectors. He also acts as an adviser to a number of small and medium-sized technology businesses to help them realize their strategic goals, and recognizes that client’s qualitative motivations are as critical as quantitative goals to successful M&A transactions.
Prior to joining CEO ally, Jay worked with PA Consulting Group, a global management consultancy.
During his time with PA, Jay worked with clients in sectors as diverse as high-tech, financial services, government, health care, and media & entertainment. He led clients to realize value through the development of new product and service initiatives, and the alignment of operations to support these initiatives. His work included the definition of a new diagnostic product for a bio-medical device manufacturer with revenues in excess of $300M, delivery of a $250M vendor realignment strategy for a pharmaceuticals company, and the fair market valuation and TCO estimation of an operational division with a $50M+ asset base for a government entity.
Prior to joining PA Consulting Group, Jay was an entrepreneur at Aajrekar Battery Plates (ABP), India, a firm manufacturing industrial batteries. Under his leadership, ABP grew at an annualized rate of more than 50% through introduction of new product lines and key government contracts. This also resulted in ABP’s products being installed across most of India’s power grid, one of the key drivers for the company’s long-term success.
Jay’s skills and experience spanning small businesses and large corporations, strategy and operations, and business environments in the US and India position him uniquely to deliver advice that enables executives to realize their goals.