Ajay joined United Way in June 2007. He earned a Master’s in Social Work from TISS, Mumbai, specializing in Urban and Rural Community Development, after graduating from College of Social Work - Nirmala Niketan. His core areas of expertise include program development, multi-stakeholder partnership management and community participation. Ajay is the alumnus of the Global Road Safety Leadership Course, 2019 (co-organized by the Global Road Safety Partnership and John Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Ajay heads the Community Impact initiatives of UWM and has been actively associated with initiatives such as: United for Road Safety, Mission Mangroves, Clean Shores Mumbai, Youth for A Healthy Mumbai campaign, Third Party Audit of Clean-up Mumbai campaign of MCGM, Swachh Survekshan with MCGM, etc. He is interested in community based disaster management, environment, civic issues and road safety.

In the past, Ajay has also served as the Visiting Faculty for Emergency Response Management course for the PTMBA at NMIMS.