HEAD FOOD PACKAGING TECH. & SENIOR PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST AT CFTRI

Dr. Rajeshwar Matche

An alumnus of IIT- Delhi and Heading Food Packaging Technology as Senior Principal Scientist at Central Food Technology Research Institute, Mysuru. He has vast experience of mentoring & guiding food & Agri value chain entrepreneurs.

CHAIRMAIN ISAP ILF

Mr. Bhaskar Natrajan

Mr Natarajan holds a BE from the University of Bombay and MS from the University of Cincinnati He has seven years of technology experience at Computer Science Corporation (Consulting division) in the US, during which period he worked in all roles from programmer to the technical architect on projects with several Fortune 500 companies. For the last 16 years, he has been with AgriWatch, where he has been a consultant to government as well as corporates in the areas of policy advocacy, Agri-commodities market intelligence, crop estimation, ICT in Agriculture, hedging and risk management, procurement strategies, primary research, and data-driven agriculture. He has a unique blend of technology and agribusiness domain knowledge acquired over the last 24 years.

CEO - ISAP

Mr. Kamal Khurana

Mr Kamal has been with the group for more than three years. Prior to this , he worked as Asst VP with Reliance Retail Ltd. (a key member in Fruits and Vegetable Vertical), VP – RJ Corps (Unit Head – PEPSI Beverages , followed by Head- Sales & Mktg- Cream Bell Ice cream ), DGM- Dalmia Industries Ltd and Asstt Manager – NDDB ( National Dairy Development Board) including Mother Dairy Kolkata and Mahananda Dairy, Mumbai. By profession an Agricultural Engineer from GB Pant University ,PANTNAGAR and a management graduate from IRMA.

ADVOCATE AT BAR COUNCIL OF DELHI

Ms.Liza Bhansali

Ms. Liza is an eminent public speaker, has got an appreciation award among the category of 100 phenomenal women. A Meritorious advisor, Experienced Independently employed with a showed history of working in the municipal and social association industry.

CEO & DIRECTOR, INDIAN SOCIETY OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

Dr. Anuradha

Dr. Anuradha Khairnar is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) of the United Kingdom (UK) and holds a Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (DFSRH). She has over 20 years of work experience in healthcare.

CO-FOUNDER AT DRISHTEE

Mr. Nitin Kumar Gachhayat

CEO, ADITI AGRICULTURAL FARMER PRODUCER COMPANY LIMITED

Mr. Manishkumar Gangadhar Paithankar

CEO at ILF

Dr Ram Narayan Ghatak

Dr Ghatak has over 25 years of experience in agri-business and supply chain management, agri-banking, and strategic consulting. By qualification, He is a graduate of agriculture with MSc and PhD in Agricultural Economics and a pass-out of IRMA, Anand (1997-99)..

EX- DIRECTOR IARI PUSA, NEW DELHI

Dr. S.A. Patil

An eminent agricultural scientist and educationist, Dr Patil is Chairman, Karnataka Agriculture Mission. Dr. Patil has earlier been Director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Before joining as Director, IARI, Dr. Patil was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (2000-2006). Dr. Patil holds B.Sc Honours and M.Sc degrees in Agriculture and Ph.D- Genetics and Plant Breeding. Dr. Patil developed a total of 16 hybrids and high yielding varieties in important commercial crops, namely, cotton, groundnut, niger, sunflower and castor. A cotton hybrid Varalaxmi (DCH-3) developed by him was the world's first inter-specific long staple cotton hybrid. Dr. Patil is a life member of 25 agricultural scientific periodicals of international, national and state levels. He has guided a number of M.Sc. (Agri.) and Ph.D students. He has 299 publications to his credit. Dr Patil served as Chairman/Member in 50 organisations concerned with agricultural teaching, research, extension, development, and administration. He is a recipient of several international, national, state and university awards.

SENIOR SCIENTIST, IARI, PUSA, NEW DELHI

Dr. J.P.S. Dabas

He is an eminent Agricultural Scientist, holding various positions in public as well as private institutions like Incharge, Centre for Agricultural Technology Assessment and Transfer (CATAT), IARI, Director-Beej India etc.

CO-FOUNDER AGRI START-UP KISANWALA ,CONSULTANT & ADVISOR TO BIOSTADT INDIA.INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR ON NACL BOARD. EX-PRESIDENT DUPONT, SOUTH ASIA

Mr. Ram . K . Mudholkar

Experienced Ag Industry Leader with a demonstrated history in business excellence in the Agriculture Input industry. Had the opportunity to lead DuPont as Corporate President for south Asia . Also managed and lead DuPont Crop Protection business in South Asia and ASEAN, DuPont Solae Soya Protein Business in South Asia and a 2.5 year stint in DuPont HQ in USA. Also worked earlier for Hoechst AgrEvo in India.

CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER, SUUMAYA INDUSTRIES LIMITED

Mr. Deepak Pareek

He is a highly respected and sought-after technology strategist, with various successful social and business enterprises to his credit. He has been honored by the World Economic Forum, Future Agro Challenge, DBS Foundation, National University of Singapore, Indian Council for Food and Agriculture, Grow Asia, International Telecommunication Union, and NASSCOM to name a few.

HEAD OF NSTEDB @ DST, GOI

Dr. Anita Gupta

Over 25 years + of professional experience in Management of Govt. of India programs on Innovation,Entrepreneurship, Startups and Incubation coupled with research and academic experience at premier Technical institutes . Currently Associate Head ( Innovation and Entrepreneurship) at Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

Mr. Sunil Khairnar

Mr. Sunil Khairnar has been working for more than 27 years in areas including Agribusiness, Agriculture, Incubation, Mentoring Social Entrepreneurs, Impact Startups, and implementation of development projects in India. He is a B. Tech in Agriculture Engineering and a Post Graduate in Management from IIM Ahmedabad. He is the co-founder at and also the Chairman of a number of social impact ventures including: 1. Indian Agribusiness Systems Pvt Ltd (www.agriwatch.com) 2. Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (www.isapindia.org) 3. Indigram Labs Foundation (http://www.indigramlabs.org)

DIRECTOR, EDII, AHMEDABAD

Prof. Dinesh Awasthi

He was Former Professor & Director, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad (2003-2015) and Former Professor, Strategic management and Entrepreneurship, IIM, Lucknow

PRESIDENT & CEO, GLOBAL CONNECT INC., CANADA

Dr. G.V. Shankar

He has over 40 years of multi-national experience in the management of industrial enterprises, including the last two decades as an Entrepreneur in Canada.

PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, IIT MADRAS

Dr. Thillai Rajan

His teaching and research areas include Corporate Finance, Venture Capital Project and Infrastructure Finance, and Real Options. In 2010, he was awarded a Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship at the Harvard University.

HEAD OF CIF, IKP KNOWLEDGE PARK, MYSURU

Dr. R. Raghunandan

More than 2 decades of experience in Tech. Entrepreneurship Development and Business Incubation. Instrumental in establishing and managing two Incubators supported by Dept. of Sc. & Tech., Govt. of India at Noida and Bengaluru. He is currently serving as the Head of CIF project Govt of Karnataka, IKP Knowledge Park.

CO-FOUNDER & CIO AT SPINTA GLOBAL ACCELERATOR

Mr. Miten Mehta

Miten Mehta is a Co-Founder of Spinta Global Accelerator, HQ out of Fremont, CA, that delivers “Silicon Valley Co-Acceleration Model‟ for fast growth companies in verticals of HealthTech, Education Tech, FinTech and may more

STARTUP ADVISER & MENTOR

Mr. Ajay Muttreja

Mr. Ajay Muttreja served many companies on a broad variety of topics related to strategy, incubation, operations and organization. He has delivered guest lectures at many global and Indian conferences and mentored many young professionals in India and USA.

EX-DIRECTOR GENERAL, NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTER, GOI

Prof. Moni Madaswamy

Prof. M. Moni is a well Known Senior Technocrat in the field of Informatics and e-Governance in the Country, having more than 35 years of experience

CA, ICAI

Mr. Adarsh Sharma

An Independent Member of Board of Directors of leading companies in India, he has been and is a part of strategy and decision making structures of these companies. An experience of over 25 years in Industry

DIRECTOR AT VIIT

Dr. Amol Chandrabhan Goje

He has been a member of ‘Experts Committee – Technical’ of Kumbha Mela – 2003 Nashik, Working group on Agricultural Extension Constituted by Planning Commission Government of India.

FOUNDER ANMOL ENERGY ,CO-FOUNDER SNEL ENERGY

Mr. Anupam Mathur

Mr. Anupam has worked in senior management positions in top Corporates like Adani Power Ltd (COO & Head – Renewable Energy), Mytrah Energy Ltd (Business Head – Solar Business) & Suzlon Energy before branching out on his own. He is Founder & MD of Anmol Green Energy.

ADVISOR TO NHAI

Mr. Vaibhav Dange

Experienced Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Strong professional skilled in Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Analytical Skills, Team Building, and Market Research.

ADVOCATE AT BAR COUNCIL OF DELHI

Ms.Liza Bhansali

Ms. Liza is an eminent public speaker, has got an appreciation award among the category of 100 phenomenal women. A Meritorious advisor, Experienced Independently employed with a showed history of working in the municipal and social association industry.

FORMER CHAIRMAN AT CLFMA OF INDIA, ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN LIVESTOCK SECTOR

Dr. Dinesh Bhosale

He is former chairman at CLFMA of India and worked at American Soybean Association as Technical Head, currently working as General Manager at AB Vista South Asia.

Shri M.V. Ashok

Mr. M.V.Ashok is former Chief General Manager of NABARD and after retirement in July 2017 is currently with the School of Agribusiness Management with MIT World Peace University Pune, as an Adjunct Professor .With a Post Graduation in Agriculture from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) New Delhi after a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore he has additional qualifications in General Management , Human resources Development ,, Training & Development and a Certificate course on Financing Micro Enterprises from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Reading, UK. as well as in Agribusiness Management from Cornell University US

CEO AT PANITEK POWER AG

Pankaj Agarwal

He is Founder and CEO at Panitek Power AG in Switzerland, He did his Btech from IIT Kanpur in Chemical engineering, Holds PhD from University of Florida, and MBA from Erasmus University Rotterdam

FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER, VENTURE GURUKOOL

Mr. Mahendra Swarup

Mr. Swarup is an industry leader with more than 2 decades of investment experience in Private Equity & Venture Capital. He has been a prolific investor with several early-stage/growth stage venture investments and as the Founder of Venture Gurukool, he has established a credible early-stage mentoring platform. He has spearheaded investments in over 150 ventures in several industries including pharma and life sciences, manufacturing, engineering, media, consumer-facing food and beverages, education, and business services

DIRECTOR GENERAL R&D,KIIT UNIVERSITY CEO OF KIIT-TBI.

Dr. Mrutyunjay Suar

Mrutyunjay Suar is a Professor and Director of the School of Biotechnology at KIIT University, India. He also currently serves as the CEO of Technology Business Incubator and Director R&D cell at KIIT University. He received the degree of MSc from Goa University, India in 1999 and PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Delhi, India in 2003. Thereafter, he worked at Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, until 2007, as post-doctoral fellow. He has been a visiting fellow at several prestigious institutions such as UCLA (USA), EPFL & EAWAG (Switzerland), UC-Berkley (USA). His research interests centre on developing a recombinant safe mucosal vaccine candidate against enterocolitic pathogens using Salmonella typhimurium as a model organism. He has also explored the differential virulence properties of Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella enteritidis. His research is mostly translational in nature and he believes in developing platform technologies for common man, which are sustainable and user friendly. He has published 30 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals and promoting 7 start up companies in the areas of biotechnology and engineering.

FOUNDER & CEO AT NETAMBIT

Girish Batra

An Enthusiastic entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience, he established NetAmbit with a dream to make monetary administrations accessible to the masses, he has diversified various solutions for high-touch offline scale-up of startups including managed sales processes, digital leads fulfilment, call centre operations, and other such areas.

EXPERIENCED MENTOR & STARTUP CONSULTANT

Rohit Jain

Rohit Jain has experience in Helping and mentoring tech entrepreneurs with fund-raising, strategy, and product development. He has completed his B.Tech in Computer Science & M.B.A degree from Harvard Business School from the U.S.

DR. SHAIK, N. MEERA

Dr. Shaik, N. Meera

Considered as one of the most influential extension and digital transformation specialist, Shaik N. Meera has 18 years of experience in designing and deploying digital transformation ideas into national programs in South Asia, North Africa, Near East and Central Asia. Topper of All India ICAR JRF, SRF and ARS exams. Currently he is working as Senior Technical Expert (Digital Agriculture) at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as UN agency, based in Cairo. Earlier, he worked for Indian Council of Agricultural Research as Principal Scientist. He was also Federal Coordinator of Frontline Demonstrations in Rice in India for over 13 years and helped more than a million rice farmers across the country. Shaik brings on board, a perfect blend of domain expertise of agriculture and digital world. His ability to bring farmers’ perspective to digital strategies makes him a rarest AgriTech professional. Evidences of his contributions are documentedthrough with 200 research papers, online blogs, bulletins, books and book chapters. He is decorated with 14 national and international awards that include prestigious Extension Leadership Award and ICAR Lal BahdurShastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award of Government of India for the year 2015. He was visiting researcher at International Rice Research Institute, Philippines (2012-13) and Iowa State University (2010).He travelled across 20 countries to design, deploy, share and learn the development strategies for several organizations.

Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd)

Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd) is the Managing Director of Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited(PRESPL), the leading biomass supply chain management company in India with a forward integration of biomass densification, energy utility service provider & project developer in Bioenergy sector. Post Graduate(M.Tech) in Nuclear Technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (2006). Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from JNU (2002) Bachelor of Science(B.Sc) from JNU (1994).

FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR AT PANINI

Ketan J. Shah

CEO/CFO – Advising on Fund Raising from Private Equity and Venture Funds, Equity Capital Markets and IPOs, M&A And Strategic Partners/Investors, DCM Products, ECBs, FCCBs, Structured/Project Finance, Acquisition Financing, Public Private Partnerships.Infrastructure & Renewable Energy Sector Expert * Senior Management (Promoters/CFOs) Relationships and Access across 500 Indian clients, focusing on Financial Services/Infra/Clean Tech/Metals & Mining/Consumer/Pharma sectors and Private Equity Funds Specialties: Setting up/building new businesses Origination & Business Development Execution/Fund Raising in all forms of Equity & Debt Execution of Strategic & M&A Advisory Overseeing an SBU Domain expertise in FIG/Infra/Resouces -Metals & Mining/Energy/PharmaChem Sectors

CEO at ILF

Dr Ram Narayan Ghatak

Dr Ghatak has over 25 years of experience in agri-business and supply chain management, agri-banking, and strategic consulting. By qualification, He is a graduate of agriculture with MSc and PhD in Agricultural Economics and a pass-out of IRMA, Anand (1997-99)..

PRESIDENT & CIO

Mr. Ashish Khetan

He is an MBA (Finance) from FMS Delhi and also an Alumni of Mayo College, Ajmer and has more than 15 years of experience both in entrepreneurship & working with large corporate mainly in Agri. commodity trading, Food Processing & corporate finance with companies like General Electric & Morgan Stanley.

CFO (M. COM, CMA, CA)

Mr. Yogendra Kumar

I am a CA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and CMA from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India with over 10 years of experience in Finance, taxation, auditing, and accounting.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (ACCOUNTS)

Mr. Bidya Nand Jha

B. Com (Hons.) and 15 Years working experience in the accounting sector.

ADMIN ASSISTANT

Mr. Ranvir Singh

He has done post-graduation in political science from Delhi University. He is having 20 years of work experience.

BUSINESS INCUBATION ASSISTANT

Rajni

M.sc In Biotechnology 2 years of research experience in the microbiology lab.

Investment Manager

Bharathwaj Sridhar

Bharathwaj Sridhar is a biotechnologist with ten years of experience who later became an agroecologist. He has a broad perspective on agriculture. His entrepreneurial experience and management skills help in overcoming the stumbling blocks in the go-to-market strategy and business model refinement for startups.

COO at ILF

Dr. Yogmaya verma

FORMER ADVISER AGRICULTURE, PLANNING COMMISSION

Dr. V. V. Sadamate

Dr. SADAMATE, was Former Adviser Agriculture, Planning Commission did his PhD from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi in 1975 &1979 respectively.

PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS & AI EXPERT

Prof. Narendra Ahuja

Narendra Ahuja is an Indian-American computer scientist and the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research primarily concerns computer vision and pattern recognition

POST HARVEST COLD CHAIN SPECIALIST AT ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Dr. P. G. Adsule

Dr. Adsule was former Director of National Research Center for Grapes, Pune. He has earlier worked on ADB assignment as International PHM and Supply Chain Specialist in Dhaka for Govt. Of Bangladesh, SCDP, DOE, Dhaka.

CEO & DIRECTOR, INDIAN SOCIETY OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

Dr. Anuradha

Dr. Anuradha Khairnar is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) of the United Kingdom (UK) and holds a Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (DFSRH). She has over 20 years of work experience in healthcare.

CO-FOUNDER IN ADORITHM

Mr. Prakhar Gupta

Mr. Prakhar is a technology evangelist specializing in Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, Natural Language Processing, and marketing. He has developed extensive analytical expertise in a diverse range of application domains i.e. Retail, Telecom, BFSI, Media, Hospitality, etc. His deep experience on various aspect of business helps in identifying marketing opportunities and converting them into actionable insights for improved data-driven products/ frameworks

FOUNDER OF FAREYE (ROBOTICWARES PVT. LTD.)

Mr. Gautam Kumar

With strong business acumen, deep industry knowledge and focus on detail he actively designs and implements business strategies and policies to promote the company’s culture and vision. Gautam was named the Social Innovator of India in the year 2011 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is having wide expertise in public affairs, a regular speaker & participant at industry forums. He has started doing investments into startups and became an advisor to a few more global startups.

MANAGER & HEAD - IPFC& WIPO-TISC, NRDC, GOVT OF INDIA, INNOVATION VALLEY, VISHAKHAPATNAM

Dr. B. K. Sahu

With more than 15+ years of experience in Intellectual Property Management, Strategic Technology and Innovation Management, Bringing Inventions to the Markets, Business Intelligence, Science, Technology & Innovation and Public Policy, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation with Expertise in IP/Patent Search & Due diligence, Technology Scouting, IP Portfolio Management, Market Strategies, Mentoring Start-ups & TBIs, Technology Incubation Services, Market Survey, Competitive Intelligence, Technology/IP Valuation and etc.

PROFESSOR IN DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY)

Prof. Ashutosh Upadhyay

Young Scientist Award 2007 conferred at Indian Agricultural Scientists and Farmer’s congress – Organized by BIOVED Society Allahabad. Best Science Research Award 2008 – Conferred by M. P. Council of Science and Technology – University Cell MGCGV, Chitrakoot, Satna (MP). Workmanship Appreciated by Cash award for contribution as Head Admission Cell, NIFTEM Village Adoption Program (VAP) Award Outstanding Achievement Award

HEAD ICT, M&E AT INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRIBUSINESS PROFESSIONALS

Mr. Gaurav Vats

Gaurav Vats has over 14 years of experience commodities trade research, event management, ICT interventions in agriculture and web-based content development. In ISAP, apart from leading the work on monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

IC2 INSTITUTE SOUTH ASIA CONNECT-NEXUS PROGRAM MANAGER

Ms. Divya Rajput

Divya works with the University of Texas (at Austin) to manage their entrepreneurship and incubation training programs from the American Center, New Delhi. She has served as an advisor to the Technology Development Board, GoI handling the agri business portfolio

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, IARI DELHI

Mr. Rajneesh Kumar

Rajneesh Kumar is an experienced innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship development professional with a demonstrated history of working in the biotechnology sector

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, JANANOM (LIVE BIO-THERAPEUTICS COMPANY),TAMIL NADU

Dr. Shriram Raghavan

Shriram Raghavan has over 2 decades of experience in building 6 start-ups in life sciences and operated in 28 countries. He lends his support to more than 60 startups along the east coast of India and advises many technology incubators. He has a Masters in biochemical engg., M.Phil and Ph.D. in computational systems biology, MBA in international business with a focus on transfer pricing for biotechnology intangibles, and a certified “Key Executive Professional” from HBS Boston, USA.

FOUNDER DIRECTOR (CUTTING EDGE MEDICAL DEVICES PVT. LTD.)

Dr. Pankaj Parashar

Dr. Pankaj Parashar carries an experience of looking at the healthcare industry from close corners and different capacities for more than the last 17 years. He is a rare academic combination; he is a qualified physician with an MBBS degree and for his passion for medical technology, he is also pursuing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from IIT Delhi and is in his last phase of research.

ADVISOR - FINANCIAL SERVICES & POLICY AT DEHAAT & CISR

Mr. Tushar Pandey

He is also an Independent Consultant & Advisor of PPP, Social Equity, and related sectors including Agriculture, Rural Development and Tourism. He is a CSR Partnership Consultant to Australia India Council funded project in Agriculture(Krishi Doot). Earlier, Tushar was a part of Top Management at YES BANK and a Distinguished Fellow at YES Global Institute. Tushar has over 25 years of professional experience with expertise in Public Policy, Governance & Institutional reform, and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP).

PROFESSOR IN DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY)

Prof. Jai Gopal Sharma

He has completed his Masters in Zoology from the Meerut University and Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He went to Kyoto University, Japan as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and conducted research in radiation biology. He continued the study in India as a Senior Research Associate (CSIR). Then he joined the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India as Scientist. He is actively involved in various Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) funded National and International Collaborative projects.

PRIVATE EQUITY / INVESTMENT BANKING

Siddharth Lal

Siddharth has over 20 years of experience spanning across private equity, investment banking, accounting and business advisory services. He spent the past 10 years at Rabo Equity Advisors, a private equity firm sponsored by the Rabobank Group, with a focus on investing across the Indian Food & Agribusiness sectors. As a senior investment professional, he evaluated close to 200 transactions across venture and growth stages; provided strategic, financial and operational mentoring to portfolio companies as a board member; and successfully led numerous exits. Besides Rabobank, he has also worked with KPMG and Arthur Andersen. He has an MBA from the Indian School of Business and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He presently resides in New Delhi with his wife and two kids.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT PLATAFORMA ASIA

Rajeev Aiyappa

Rajeev Aiyappa, and his advice comes from my work coaching Series A and B CEOs backed by VC firms in Europe, America, and Asia. Since 2019, I’ve been a Partner on a VC firm out of Singapore and India that invests in Agriculture and Food Technology, platforms, marketplaces, and tools. I’ve backed more than 25 companies, sat on boards, founded a startup two decades ago, continue to run it with a presence across 14 countries globally, and Co-founded two more. Before that, I worked for a Singapore public listed Agri Trading Firm.

BUSINESS HEAD FOR TIMESPOINTS & HEAD OF PLANNING & INITIATIVES FOR TIMES INTERNET LIMITED.

Nidhi Agarwal

Nidhi Agarwal is the Business Head for TimesPoints and the Head of Planning & Initiatives for Times Internet Limited. Up till recently she was the CEO of KAARYAH.com, and advisor at Your Nest Angel Fund. From the beginning of her career Nidhi has been keenly involved in setting Consumer Digital businesses, ground up. She adds value to Operations from having run a brand that was enabled by data analytics and two self coded patentable algorithms. Before her entrepreneurial years, Nidhi was Director, Strategy at Honeywell. Prior to that she worked with Bain&Co. and Airtel and was an auditor at KPMG. She is a Chartered Accountant and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management where she earned the prestigious Dean’s Service Award. Nidhi has been credited with helping set up Honeywell’s Space & Missiles business in 2011 & Airtel’s first mobile commerce initiative in 2004. She has been named among India’s Top 35 Business Women by Business World, CNBC’s Young Turk and featured in Cosmopolitan’s list of 30 Inspirational Women Entrepreneurs. She was one of eight women Entrepreneurs in the PMO’s Start Up India campaign and has been a TedX Speaker twice.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST, STRATEGIST, PRODUCT AND BUSINESS INNOVATION, STARTUP BUILDER, AI, ML, IOT, AR AND VR, ANGEL FUND

Manoj Arora

Worked as CTO, CIO for renowned brands and was instrumental in initiating and creating digital platforms and products for them. Presently working with Startup’s as Mentor & Advisors and with SME’s for Business restructuring and Product Innovation and Technology ‘n’ Idea Evaluator with some of Funding and Incubating platforms.

HEAD OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, CRISIL LIMITED

Abhisheik Vishwakarma

Abhisheik Vishwakarma is an Adaptable and prepared pioneer with 20 years of business, system, products, and deals authority with P&L obligations. He has magnificent transaction, banking skills, and expertise in digital banking, lending, and agritech with experience in Government Affairs and Public Policy

FORMER HEAD ENTREPRENEURSHIP HUB, UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI & RESEARCH PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, UNIV OF UTAH, SLC, USA VISITING PROFESSOR IIT M/K/C MD & CO- CHAIR : SHRM BIOTECH & CSC CAPITAL (USA) INDIA COUNCIL MEMBER : GLG COUNCIL, TX & MAVEN RESEARCH

Dr. Prof. Pradip Kumar Mazumder

Dr.Prof.Pradip K Mazumder is an established scientific and business leader with global footprints over 30 years of experience across India & USA. His domain expertise includes Plant, Animal and Human Healthcarein addition Pharma, Biotech and Education, He spearheaded many international projects pertaining to drug discovery & development of Type 2 Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases & Cancer, He worked with laureates and top echelon of global scientific order. Dr.Mazumder led many international research collaborations with Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Karolinska and other premier institutions. He also equally handled translational research efforts with top notch Companies like Merck USA, Novartis,Astra Zeneca, CVS Pharma, TATA Advinus. Currently, he is engaged as a resource person of IIT KGP/Madras/Mumbai. Dr.Pradip delivered lectures as a visiting Professor, keynote speakers in world class platforms including world Congresses and conferences in drug discovery & emerging trends in Technology & Businesslike AI and Healthcare, India as a investment ddestination. He has achieved many accolades including Fellowship byNew York Academy of Sciences, American Heart/Diabetes Association, Asia Pacific Entrepreneur For The Year 2018 & India Achievers Shiksha Bharti Award for 2019. Dr.Mazumder worked as CEO, President, Co – Chairman, Research Professor and Scientist. He is intimately associated with the development of the ecosystem for Entrepreneurship across the Nation. He has a flair for Social enterprises NGO and development work, he spoke on Horasis lecture series on Indian Growth Story. Dr.Mazumderremains ever – passionate to utilize his extensive experience,knowledge, network and out of box thinking geared toward Entrepreneurship Development of the nation and Society on the whole. Ling Dr.Pradipmentors the metamorphosis of nascentstartups from ideation to execution stage, he helps them in crystallizing the fledgling ideas, building solid business plans, raise funds, achieving exceptional excellence and strategic planning and finally connectthemselves to industry and marketing channels.

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF AUMIRAH

Rahul Bagga

Rahul Bagga is the Founder & Managing Director of Aumirah [Aumirah IP and Aumirah Analytics]. He is MSc DIC in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London and is a registered Indian Patent Agent with more than a decade’s experience of working in the IP sector in three different countries. At Aumirah, he leads a spirited, high-performing, and young team of engineers, lawyers, and analysts. Through Aumirah, he has served more than 500+ domestic and foreign clients over the last 5+ years in a range of matters pertaining to intellectual property rights in India and across the world. His specialization is patent law and has over the years gained significant expertise, and with his spirited & high performing colleagues at Aumirah, he has advised companies/startups/MSMEs from across multiple industries such as EVs, AI, Robotics, Biotechnology, Pharma, Drones, Defence, Automotive, General Engineering, Agriculture and nanotechnology. He also serves as a mentor to various other Delhi/NCR-based incubators such as Nexus & Aspire Labs, and has also been empanelled by i-hub Gujarat.”

Mr Arindam Chaudhuri

Post Qualification Working experience 25 Years in different organization Advisor (Projects) – Sustainable Environment Resource Institution (SERI) New Delhi. A sister Organization of AIILSG, New Delhi , Advisor (Agri Projects) – NB Institute of Rural Technology, Kolkata Director (Agri Projects) – Sri Sri Institute of Agricultural Sciences & Technology The Art Of Living Bangalore.

Shikhar Maini

Shikhar has been a co-founder, business incubator, advisor & investor in start-ups (Monepeak Fintech, Ghoom), greenfield banks (IDFC First, YES), and consulting firms (PwC). He has a strong background in entrepreneurship, financial services, rural banking & microfinance, micro-payments, fintech, neo-banking, embedded finance, clean (electric) mobility, and higher education. His experience includes leadership roles across business set-up and operationalization, strategy & corporate development, fund-raising & M&A, business finance, and management consulting. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and FMS Delhi.

Emmanuel Murray

Emmanuel Murray works as Senior Advisor, Food & Agribusiness, at Caspian Impact Investment Adviser Limited, a fund management company that manages both equity & debt funds. The equity funds invest in Food & Agri, apart from Clean Tech and Financial Services enablers. An RBI Licenced NBFC does the debt business currently stands at Rs. 500 Crore, about a fourth of which is in the Food & Agri sector, the rest being in Financial Services, Clean Energy, Education & Healthcare. Emmanuel’s role in Caspian is to support Ecosystem development through working with Incubators & startups in the Food & Agri space. Apart from mentoring, support in market linkages & credit linkages is facilitated. All these services are provided pro-bono. He works closely with over 15 Incubators and has mentored more than 120 Startups over the last five years. Emmanuel is an Independent Director on the Board of NABKISAN Finance Ltd, a subsidiary of NABARD that funds FPOs and other Agribusiness Enterprises. Before Caspian, Emmanuel worked for five years with Maanaveeya Development & Finance Ltd, the Indian Subsidiary of the Dutch Impact Cooperative, Oikocredit, in over 70 countries. He was in charge of the credit operations totaling around Rs 350 Crore in Microfinance, SME Finance, Renewable Energy, Agriculture, Education, and Livelihoods. A significant part of Emmanuel’s professional life, 25 years, was with NABARD, across various parts of India, including North-East India, and across multiple domains, including project finance, microfinance, direct lending, and consulting. He also was in the training system for seven years, including five in the Reserve Bank’s College of Agricultural Banking.

Vishal Ratan

Vishal Ratan is Associate Director at New Technology & Innovations Sector-AMESA at Pepsico. He was Co-Founder in Agzon Agritech Pvt. Ltd., Director & Chief Commercial Officer at Agzon Agro Pvt. Ltd., Marketing Lead at Syngenta India Ltd., and Sales Unit Lead at Syngenta India Ltd. He has experience in Ag-Tech (Conceptualization; platform and interface) Business Planning- (Forecasting and Business Planning, Growth Strategies planning, and implementation.) Supply Chain Management- Planning Logistics, Agri Input, Output Logistics, Agri-Output Procurement People Management- Sales Force Management, Training, and Capability development.

Vishwas Garg

Vishwas Garg has worked with various multinational companies in various geographies including Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, India, and China. He has in-depth knowledge of International Trade, New Business Development, Procurement, Risk Management, Import & Export, and Value Chain Management. The products he has dealt with during his 29 years in the agri-business space include Cashew, Coffee, Cotton, Cocoa, Sesame, Pulses, Oilseeds, Seafood, Spices, Oleoresins, and food flavors. Besides multinational companies, he has worked with existing FPOs and also incubated large-scale FPOs He is an alumni of Delhi University and IRMA. In his spare time, he loves to read, travel, and play golf.

Dr. Naveen B. P.

Dr. Naveen B. P. received his bachelor's degree in engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore, his master's degree in geotechnical engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, and his doctorate in geotechnical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Since 2017, he has held the positions of Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering. He had administrative, research, and teaching responsibilities. He also managed the accreditation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).

Vikas Gupta

Vikas Gupta is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor. He runs a wholesale-tech venture (Urban SuperMart) besides heading an investment firm, 'Imaginitiate Ventures' that makes sector-agnostic investments in promising ventures. Urban SuperMart also runs an accelerator program for consumer product startups. Vikas is actively engaged in mentoring startups.