Gaurav Marya is India's leading franchise and business growth expert and a highly successful serial entrepreneur. He is widely known for bringing about the franchise and small business revolution in India. He is the visionary force behind Franchise India, the largest integrated small business, franchise and retail solution company. Franchise India provides end-to-end business growth solutions through it various business divisions. These include media, events, consulting and brokerage.

Gaurav is highly regarded as India's foremost consultant and has played a crucial advisory role with over 5000 large and small corporations in India and international markets, helping them make informed decisions about their business growth. He has provided consulting and advisory services to over twenty five thousand budding entrepreneurs with a focus on helping them select and meet the challenges of start-up businesses and also benefit to more than 10 million business investors both directly and indirectly.

Gaurav is highly admired for his non-conformist operating style, confrontational style of management and aggressive marketing business tactics, which also comes forth in the books he has authored including the Bestseller book in franchising "The Science of Reproducing Success", in which he has culled his years of experience in franchising and has sold over 25,000 copies. He has also penned "Take Charge", a Book on Building entrepreneurial and change mindset for achieving Business Growth and is the highest selling business book on Indian stands today. His third book "It Takes Two to Tango" gives insights into making a customer connect in Changing India. He has assisted more than 200 international companies enter the Indian market and also the Chairman of the Indian Franchise Association.

Gaurav considers his greatest achievements to be his sustained engagements with small and medium enterprises that have grown into big entities. He derives immense satisfaction from being part of hundreds of success stories. Gaurav has chaired several global business forums on Franchising and Retail.