About Mayur
Engineer, entrepreneur and PhD scholar who has spent more time on factory floors than in boardrooms, and prefers it that way.
I'm Mayur Makwana. I graduated as an information technology engineer in 2008, and a year later co-founded Safal Infosoft to build ERP for Indian manufacturers. Seventeen years on, that work has taken me into more than 2,500 factories in 21 countries, from small fabrication units in Gujarat to plants across Malaysia, East and West Africa, and North America.
Why manufacturing
My family are Luhars, ironsmiths, children of Vishwakarma. Making things is in the bloodline. I didn't pick up the hammer, but I've spent my career around people who still do, and I think that is why plant owners and shopfloor supervisors talk to me differently than they talk to software vendors. I speak their language because I grew up with it.
That shows up in the software. An ERP that works for manufacturing has to survive the shopfloor: patchy connectivity, operators who don't want another screen, job cards that change mid-shift, and owners who want the numbers by evening. I design for those realities first.
What I do now
I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Talentwale.com, India's first recruitment platform built only for manufacturing. I'm a Director at Safal Infosoft Limited, a Partner at Intelliworkz Infosoft Technologies in the UAE, where we lead expansion across the GCC, and a Partner at Safal Infosoft Inc in the USA, where we build AI agents and AI-led products for North American clients.
I completed an MBA in Operations at Manipal University Jaipur in 2024, and I'm now working on a PhD on optimising manufacturing performance through ERP systems. It's a chance to put twenty years of shopfloor observation to rigorous test.
Why I write
Travelling for work has given me a front-row seat to how geopolitics, trade policy and technology land on real factories. This site is where I think out loud about those things: current affairs, technology, geopolitics, India, and the craft of building businesses.
What I believe, in short: technology should make a business run better and grow faster, and innovation, operational efficiency and digital transformation are for every business, not only the large ones.
Memberships and credentials
Memberships
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Charter Member TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs
Jul 2026 – present A global network of entrepreneurs fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education.
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Member BNI, Business Network International
Nov 2023 – present The business referral network, meeting every week with one member from each profession.
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Member GCCI, Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Apr 2016 – present Gujarat’s apex chamber of trade and industry.
Boards and associations
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Member, Board of Studies (BoS) Shanti Business School, Ahmedabad
Apr 2026 – present, PGDM programmes Bringing industry insight into the PGDM curriculum, so that what students learn keeps pace with business and marketing: digital transformation, analytics and AI adoption.
Certifications
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ISMS Lead Auditor Bureau Veritas
Issued Apr 2014, Credential ID IS/14/IN/2228 Information security management systems (ISO/IEC 27001).
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QMS Lead Auditor Bureau Veritas
Issued Jun 2011, Credential ID LA2/11/IN/35793 Quality management systems (ISO 9001).
Education
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PR Optimizing Manufacturing Performance Through ERP Systems PhD research Ongoing
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MBA, Operations Manipal University Jaipur
Oct 2022 – Oct 2024, Grade: 8.37 Research project: evaluating the impact of ERP software implementation in a machine manufacturing organisation.
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Diploma in Business Management The ICFAI University, Tripura
2008 – 2010, Grade: Distinction
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Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University
2004 – 2008, Grade: Distinction
Vision
A day when every Indian manufacturer, however small, runs on systems as good as the best plants in the world.
Mission
Build software, hiring and AI tools that start from the shopfloor, and keep them simple enough that operators actually use them.
Values
Shopfloor first
Every system I build starts where the work happens, with the operator and the machine.
Honest numbers
Good decisions need data people trust. A hard truth beats a pretty report.
Craft
Like a smith's hammer, every strike has to land in the right place. Details matter.
Long relationships
Most of my clients became partners. I build for the next twenty years, not the next quarter.
About the mark
Two letter Ms, for Mayur and Makwana, drawn as two anvils facing each other. The anvil is my family's trade: the Luhars have worked iron for generations.
Between them stands a pen nib, because the other half of my work is writing, and in its eye sits a red ember: the heat that every forge, and every idea, needs before it can be shaped.