Mr. Aditya Bafna is a management graduate with over 9 years of experience in the field of Commodities business. Belonging to the promoter family, he is involved in day-to-day business activities of SSLL. He also serves as a director on the board of NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS), a wholly owned subsidiary of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). 

Aditya joined Bagrry's in 2011 and currently leads the Marketing & Strategy function for the organisation. Previously, he has been a part of the international organisation AIESEC, where he led the corporate team in Delhi and has also worked with Goldman Sachs in the UK. Now, he also looks into Corporate Finance and New Business Development for the Bagrry's Group. Aditya is a Statistics Graduate from Hindu College, Delhi University and received a MSc. in Management from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he graduated with Distinction.

Amith Agarwal is the whole-time Executive Director - and one of the founder members of StarAgri. An entrepreneur with the right blend of managerial and business acumen, Amith plays a key role in realizing StarAgri’s vision of integrated development of India’s rural ecosystem.

He is responsible for managing corporate tie-ups, legal and financial matters and business development activities at StarAgri. Under his stewardship, StarAgri has evolved into a market-leading brand, building trusted long-term partnerships and creating value amongst various stakeholders. He drives the human resource and leadership development responsibility in the company with a key focus on building a professional organization.

He is a sought after management professional in the areas of warehouse receipt and collateral finance and is known for creating unique channel partnerships in the rural finance business. He has established numerous successful relationships with leading financial institutions for their rural lending and financing business. Known for his flair and drive in driving relationships and deploying innovative ideas, he is driving the creation of a global mindset within the company. His dual experience of dealing with rural India and corporates alike is helping in bridging the information divide and modernizing the rural sector.

Amith has attended an Advanced Management Development Program (MDP) at Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from Mumbai University. An innovative thinker and visionary, Amith’s views are often published in leading Indian and international magazines.

He has been heading Vista Foods for the last 10 yrs. The company is involved in the business of ready to cook frozen food and fresh products. Vista Foods manufactures products for the quick service restaurant industry and for retail companies in India. Before Vista, he has worked with PepsiCo / Frito-Lay from the beginning of the project in India from 1990 to 2001. He has also worked with Nestle India for 7 yrs. 

Mr. Appanna is the General Manager at the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development's (NABARD) Head office in Mumbai, Maharashtra INDIA. At NABARD while working in various capacities at 06 different States of India in the last three decades, he has interacted in conceptualisation and project formulation leading to project funding with technical input and marketing strategy keeping in view domestic and overseas market demand and supply of crops. He is also being directly involved in identification of potential for future funding programmes and in addition to certain promotional and developmental activities especially in the innovative/ hi-tech areas that are relatively new to Bankers/ Entrepreneurs in India.

He has earlier worked as one of the successful Agricultural Field Officers for a period of six years and three months in Union Bank of India which is one of the premier commercial Banks of India.

He has done his Masters in Agriculture from the University of Agrcultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore, INDIA and also completed a training programme  "Advanced project appraisal for Agriculture and Rural Development "from the HARVARD Institute For International Development    Harvard, Boston, M A, United States of America. 

Jinesh Shah is the co-founder of Omnivore Partners, a venture fund investing in early stage Indian start-ups developing breakthrough technologies for food, agriculture and rural livelihoods.

Omnivore invests in the following domains:
1) Agriculture Technology
    - Digital platform, big data solutions
    - Precision agriculture, Internet of Things
    - Remote Sensing, UAVs, farm automation
    - Sustainable inputs
2) Innovative Food
    - Branded products, novel ingredients
    - New food processing technologies
    - Value chains linked to farmers
    - Traceability, food safety and nutrition solutions
3) Rural Livelihoods
    - Water management
    - Fintech for farmers
    - Efficient energy tech
    - Supply chain tech
Jinesh is a Director for multiple Omnivore-backed startups, including Stellapps Technologies, Barrix Agro Sciences, Retigence Technologies and FR8. Previously, Jinesh was the Vice President and CFO at Nexus Venture Partners, one of India’s leading early stage venture capital funds, where he lead the finance organization and also few select portfolio investments. He earlier served in Finance roles with Datamatics (leading Treasury/M&A), Patni Computers (initiating the IPO process), and HCL Technologies (founding the BPO business).

He is a Chartered Accountant with B.Com from R. A. Poddar College and an MMS (Finance) from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS).

K. Vijayaraghavan (Vijay), is the founder and currently Chairman of Sathguru Management Consultants. He founded the firm in 1985 to integrate proficiencies in technology and management to help create and nurture innovative enterprises by adopting next generation technologies for product and services development and providing strategic ideas in reaching markets and delivery systems for diverse segments. His services to the hospitality sector provided several global players with the opportunity to establish their footprint in emerging regions such as India, China, Thailand and others — key emerging regions for the hospitality sector. His engagement with global leaders relates to identifying intellectual assets generated by the hospitality sector and protecting, licensing and managing intellectual assets including brand affiliation management. He takes special interest in exploring the potential of applying technological innovations in agriculture and food sector to support innovations in F&B services, food service industry and food safety management. His engagement with life science researchers has led him to advise food safety regulators in several countries. He has advised hospitality leaders and provided strategic input to countries to promote food safety management, a key driver for sustaining the travel and tourism sector. For over 25 years, he has advised several national governments of both advanced and emerging economies to shape their country strategy for hospitality sector development and international tourism. 

Mr Kapil Mehan is a graduate in Veterinary Science and Animal Health. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad with specialisation in Agriculture. He brings with him rich experience and background in varied leadership roles. He started his career with Rallis India and later moved on to Tata Chemicals Limited. Mr. Mehan held various positions in the Sales and Marketing function in Rallis and Tata Chemicals Limited before moving into the position of Chief Operating Officer for its fertilisers business in 2003. He took over as the Executive Director of Tata Chemicals in 2008. He joined Coromandel in 2010. 

Karan A Chanana has steered Amira Group from a family-run operation into a professionally managed business enterprise. With his leadership and global vision, Amira Foods India Limited has established itself as the Largest privately owned rice exporter in the country and also to be listed on the NYSE in October 2012.

Karan has had operating experience in vertically integrated companies including real estate, hotels and hospitality, mining and functioning of special economic zones.

He is the chairman for Food Processing Value Addition Council of ASSOCHAM, member of National Committee on Food Processing, CII, Chairman or CII Africa ? agricultural task force for AFRICA, member of FICCI, APEDA and FIEO committees.

He is the recipient of various awards, including Rashtriya Nirman Ratan, Indian Institute of Economic Entrepreneur Council & Bharat Shiromani Puraska, Institute of Economic Studies.

As the Managing Director of Siesta Logistics Corporation Limited, he is responsible for identifying, developing and directing the implementation of business strategy. He is also responsible for planning and directing the organization’s activities to achieve agreed targets and standards for financial and trading performance, quality, culture and legislative adherence. He drives the business with his well honed talent and years of experience within the logistics vertical. Kiran is a founding director of Siesta Logistics Corporation Limited. 

Mr. Mayank Jalan is the Managing Director of Keventer Agro Ltd. A first-class degree holder in Mechanical Engineering from University College London, he also has a degree in Business Finance from the prestigious London School of Economics. His core strength is managing strategic growth while ensuring a level of profitability essential for generation of internal funds that fuel rapid growth.

His proficiency in managing a complex supply chain has delivered steady top-line increments as well as bottom-line accruals.

While gaining some practical know-how at the University College London and London School of Economics, Mr. Jalan has acquired significant do-how as a Research Analysis Expert in Credit Agricole Indisuez in London. He has also worked with Smifs Financing Ltd. in Kolkata, India, marketing Mutual Funds.

Mr. Jalan's all-encompassing interest in markets and brands, and products and processes has led him to create a team of competent professionals who direct and operate the vital functions at the Keventer Group. This young but wise leader has been successfully steering the Keventer Group, one of the fastest growing groups in eastern India that has been making game-changing forays into several spaces - edibles, exports and real estate.

A keen sportsman, Mr. Mayank Jalan's sports interests include golf, squash, cricket, rugby, badminton, and swimming, alongside reading and music.

Murali Krishnan is currently the CEO of Nilgiris Dairy Farm Pvt Ltd. part of Rs 32000 Future group. Besides the Nilgiris Brand Buisness he is also overseeing the convenience format expansion in Delhi and Mumbai for the Future Group.

Nilgiris is a Heritage Food Brand , since 1905. With strong Manufacturing capabilities in Bakery and Dairy products the company has been focused on innovation led growth. It has a network of 155 Food and grocery convenience stores across Southern states operated through a Franchisee network. Murali and his team have been instrumental in the turnaround of the group making it one of the very few Retail chains to have turned profit able`. He has been instrumental in rejuvenating the brand and making it relevant to changing Indian consumer. Under his leadership the chain has achieved highest sales per sq ft in the industry and continues to grow at a healthy pace with a very strong Private label brand portfolio. The convenience format in Delhi and Mumbai has a network of 125 company owned stores and his team has been given the responsibility of building a strong convenience footprint.

Future Group acquired Nilgiris in November , 2014.  Murali was CEO for 5 years , with PE fund  Actis and saw through a successful transition as business got sold to Future Group.. Prior to that he was President of Subhiksha trading services in North India for a brief period of about 18 months handling all the verticals - Supermarket, Pharmacy and Telecom. A seasoned FMCG professional he has worked across geographies in India with some leading brands - Wipro Lighting, Gillette and Perfetti.

Murali completed his BE (Mechanical Engineering) from Birla Institute of technology and went to do his Masters in Marketing Management from NMIMS Mumbai - batch of 1994.

Nandini Chopra is a Partner in KPMG's M&A practice and leads the Consumer and Retail practice. She is also the firmwide sector lead for Food and Agri. She has over 20 years of experience of which 15 years are with KPMG. She specializes in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and valuations. Prior to joining KPMG, she spent 5 years with SBI Capital Markets working on IPOs and debt syndication. She is an Engineer from BITS Pilani and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

As practice head for Consumer Markets, Nandini primarily leads all deals in the food, drink, consumer goods and retail sectors. Among other, she has led marquee F&B transactions like the sale of Bush Foods, a leading basmati player, to Hassad Food of Qatar (which witnessed Standard Chartered PE exiting their investment), a recent fund raise from Rabo PE and Proparco for Prabhat Dairy, JV partnership with Mount Shivalik Breweries with Molson Coors of UK and entry and subsequent exit of Fonterra New Zealand with Britannia. In the FMCG sector, she led the sale of Femcare to Dabur, Godrej’s first overseas acquisition in the UK and also sold a clutch of fabric care brands like Genteel to Godrej. 

Neeraj is co-founder and CEO of Hector Beverages Pvt. Ltd. Tzinga Energy Drink, their flagship brand, is the second largest selling energy drink in India. Paper Boat drinks, traditional Indian beverages, is recent brand addition in the portfolio. Prior to starting with Hector Beverages, Neeraj had an impressive career with The Coca-Cola Company for 8 years.

Neeraj is a graduate from Wharton Business School and was awarded the highest academic honor, the palmer scholar, in the University of Pennsylvania business program.

Dr Prakash Bakshi started his professional career as a Lecturer in Economics for Post Graduate Studies at Ravishankar University, Raipur in 1977. He joined ARDC as Agricultural Economist in 1979 and moved over to NABARD when it was formed in 1982. He rose up the ladder and recently superannuated as Chairman of NABARD. During his tenure he handled many assignments for the Govt of India and RBI. He was Member-Secretary of the Committee set up by Government of India (2009) to examine the capital restructuring of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs). He was Member Secretary of the Working Group of the Planning Commission which estimated the credit needs for agricultural sector for the XII Plan. He was Chairman of the Expert Committee appointed by the RBI to revamp cooperative banks. He has recently been appointed by the RBI as member of the Committee on Financial Inclusion of small businesses and low income households. He has advised and spoken at many international forums including advising the Howard Buffet Foundation. 

Mr. Purvin Patel is the "Business Head" at Radhakrishna Foodland Private Ltd., for over 7 years now.  He joined the business as "Chief Operating Officer" in October 2006 from “ASDA Wal*Mart, a $40 bn retail giant in the United Kingdom, where he spent over 17 years in various Senior Management capacities, in areas of Retail operations, including Store management, Operations, HR and Profit improvement.

Purvin has spent more than 23 years of his career with Retail (Asda Wal*Mart) & Supply Chain Management (Foodland) businesses.  He has considerable experience building and organically grooming businesses in both multinational and growth companies in emerging markets.

Foodland serves world brands like McDonalds, YUM, Pepsico, Mondelez, P&G, Unilever etc. just to name a few.

Radhakrishna Foodland Private Limited (RFPL), India's leading National Supply Chain Management Specialist, has over 30 years of rich and varied experience in the Foodservice, Retail, Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Distribution and Logistics businesses.  RFPL is committed to delivering seamless, customized, functionally excellent and "Fit To Purpose" Supply Chain Management solutions in terms of cost, service and schedule to every customer. 

Rahoul Jain, Managing Director of Capricorn Food Products India Ltd., is a Chemical Engineer by qualification and hails from punjab settled in chennai for the last 35 years. He is from a business family who identified the potentials of Food Industry and promoted Capricorn Food Products India Limited and Shuchi Beverages Ltd., with the objective of manufacturing and selling of fruit pulps and concentrates, frozen fruit dices and vegetable etc., by setting up multiple state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Andhra Pradesh,  Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. Over the years, he has acquired vast knowledge in the field of Food Processing and has been successfully running his enterprise over the last 15 years. His extensive growth in such short span has also had him nominated twice in the elite league of India’s Emerging Entrepreneurs at the Emerging India Awards held by CNBC TV-18, CRISIL and ICICI Bank. He further has elaborate plans to establish to further bring about both Vertical and Horizontal growth in his enterprise by setting up many more factories across India and overseas in the years to come. 

Mr. Rahul Raisurana is Managing Director, Standard Chartered Private Equity Advisory (India) Limited wherein he founded and currently heads Standard Chartered’s Midcap focused private equity business in India. His over 20 years of professional experiences includes senior managerial and leadership roles in private equity, corporate and investment banking, corporate finance and risk management with leading global financial institutions in India and USA.

Prior to joining Standard Chartered, he was Managing Director, Investments at IDFC Project Equity Company Limited and co-founded India’s first project-level infrastructure investment fund jointly sponsored by Citigroup and IDFC. Previously he was also a senior member of Deutsche Bank India’s Executive and Management Committee in his capacity as Head of Institutional and Corporate Credits, India. His other professional assignments included roles with Moody’s Investors Services in New York and with Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Banking group in India.

Mr. Raisurana currently serves as a Director on the Boards of PI Industries Limited, Man Infraconstruction Limited, Bush Foods Overseas Pvt Ltd, Innovative Industries Ltd and Privi Organics Limited. He holds a Masters degree in International Management from Thunderbird, USA, Masters degree in Business Administration from Clark University, USA and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Calcutta, India.

Rahul Singh is the founder & CEO of THE BEER CAFÉ, India’s favorite Beer Chain. With 20 locations operational by the end of 2013, it’s poised to become the largest, fastest and most profitable alcobeverage service brand in India. It’s an enterprise with attractive growth opportunity in India’s food service space for its multiple growth drivers ( demographics, lifestyle and urbanization), attractive payback and entry into unexplored format. With 4 awards in its first year of launch ; Images Coca Cola Golden spoon award, India Restaurant Congress award, Times Nightlife award and ET Now business & service excellence award, the consumer and industry has recognized this startup as a blockbuster.

Professional turned Entrepreneur, Rahul has been involved with numerous sports & lifestyle brands for the past 20 years. As CEO, Greg Norman Collection India from 2007-09, he spearheaded the brand’s operation involving sales, marketing and manufacturing. Prior to 2007, he was the Executive Director at Reebok India for 8 years and was part of the leadership team which made Reebok the undisputed market leader. He was responsible for the apparel business at Reebok India and also setup a sound sourcing base for exports from South Asia. His stint as a founder member of Triburg consultants for 5 years, from 1994 to 1999 was spent in pursuing business from numerous international brands like Liz Claiborne, PVH group, Ralph Lauren, Ann Taylor, Nautica, Motherswork, Carligry among others. A Textile Engineer, Rahul brings in an analytical approach to each line of enterprise that he gets into.

Married to a fashion designer with a 13 year old son, Rahul is a gizmo freak, single malt collection, marathon runner and a certified scuba diver. Fortunately, beer is omnipresent in his line of business. 

Rajeev Samant is the founder and CEO of Sula Vineyards. After schooling at Cathedral School, Mr. Samant gained admission to California's prestigious Stanford University, from where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and also completed a Master's degree in Engineering Management. After Stanford Mr. Samant worked at Oracle Corporation in Silicon Valley for two years, where he had the distinction of being the youngest manager in Oracle's Finance Division, managing the Compensation group.

In 1993 Mr. Samant started farming mangoes at his family's 20-acre plot in Nasik and then tried his hand at various crops like roses, teakwood, and grapes. Realizing that Nasik had potential as a wine region, Mr. Samant established Sula Vineyards, Nasik's first winery in 1999. It was a pioneering effort and today Nasik is considered India's wine capital with 35 wineries. Starting with a sale of 50,000 bottles in the first year, Sula emerged as India's largest wine producer after completing a decade in 2010 with 3 million bottles sold.

Rajeev is also a pioneer in India's wine tourism opening the first tasting room at Sula in 2005, restaurants and recently a 32-room vineyard resort. His latest project is Vinoteca' Mumbai's first authentic Spanish Wine and Tapas bar. 

Rajesh Srivastava is the Chairman & Managing Director of Rabo Equity Advisors, managing 2 Rabobank sponsored private equity funds of US$120mln and US$150mln, both focused on food and agribusiness. The new Fund has Rabobank, CDC Group, UK; Asian Development Bank; Generali Insurance, Italy; FMO, The Netherlands; Proparco, France; IFU, Denmark as its investors. He has so far closed 12 investments, all in different sub-sectors.

Before setting up the private equity business, he was Managing Director (Corporate & Commercial Banking) of Rabobank India. Concurrently, he was Regional Head, Asia for food and agribusiness for over 5 years based in Singapore. In Rabobank, he is credited with setting up several new products such as Strategic Advisory, Renewable Energy, Carbon Credits and Micro Finance. Before Rabobank, he was with Lazard Brothers’ Venture Capital arm where he set up the largest VC Fund of the time for SMEs. Starting his career with Bank of Baroda, he has over 36 years of experience in corporate and investment banking.

Rajesh is regarded as a pioneer in establishing a private equity market for food and agribusiness sector and for advocacy on policies on agriculture/food processing. Amongst others, he sits on the CII National Committees on Agriculture, Food Processing and Innovation, Chairs CII Northern Regional Committee on Agriculture and Food Processing, and the Board of Sasakawa India Leprosy Foundation.

He is an Economics and Law graduate and a post graduate in Western History.

Sachid Madan is Director of Technico Pty Ltd, Australia (Technico), a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd, and a part of its Agri Business. He is also the Chairman of the Agri Committee of FICCI.

ITC's US$900 million Agribusiness Division (ABD), which Mr. Sivakumar leads, is engaged in sourcing a variety of agricultural products, commodity exports, rural marketing and specialty retailing. ITC Ltd. works predominantly in agriculture and rural India with over a century's experience in engaging with farmers.

Previously he was the VP at Agro Tech Foods Ltd., a subsidiary of ConAgra Foods Ltd., for 6 years, CEO at Mafatlal Denim Ltd. for 3 years, and Operations Manager at Hindustan Unilever Ltd. for 13 years.

Sachid is a Commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce.  He is also a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India & Company Secretary from Institute of Company Secretaries of India. 

Sameer's professional experience spans entrepreneurship, management consulting and operational roles in the TMT, engineering and design industries in the US, Europe, Japan and India. Prior to founding August Capital Partners, he was most recently the founder and CEO of an architecture, planning, construction and design firm, Indigo Design & Engineering Associates, in India.

Sameer's previous experience includes management consulting positions at PRTM in India and the US and at Accenture, UK. His primary focus was on M&A and strategy projects within the Media, High Tech and Telecom industries. He has contributed to various white papers and knowledge reports in the TMT and emerging market space, including Accenture's PoV report on Media & Entertainment and the 'India beyond the call-centers' report.

He was the manager of strategic planning at MCI WorldCom, Japan from 2000 till 2002 where he was part of the senior team responsible for the post-merger integration of the UUNet business (specifically SME) into MCI.

Sameer has advised and invested in multiple start-ups in the past, including Pyramid Technologies Ltd., Rent-a-Keg(F&B distribution) and Etable.in (social networks based analytics platform for F&B).

Sameer holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and attended HEC, Paris and Columbia Business School in New York for his MBA. 

Mr. Sanjay Kaul is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He is a former Indian Administrative Service officer. Before joining NCML, he was the Director & CEO of the NCDEX Institute of Commodity Markets and Research, New Delhi and has worked as the Joint Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India. He has around 28 years of experience at the district, state and country levels in development administration, of which ten years has been in commodity markets. Mr. Kaul has also worked extensively with policy makers, project leaders, international agencies and government ministries and also led multi-sectoral development projects and teams. He is a Graduate as well as Post Graduate in Economics from the University of Delhi.

Sanjay Sacheti is the Country Head since the year 2003 for Olam's Indian business which comprises of supply chain management of various agri commodities like Cashew, Coffee, Cotton, Rice, Sugar etc. He has been with Olam since the year 2000, and has experience of around 22 years in the areas of Finance, Commercial and agri commodity management.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary, and has prior experience of working with corporates like Hindustan Unilever, AgroTech Foods and the Tata Group. 

Shrenik is a commerce graduate from Sydenham College, Mumbai and a Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Thereafter, Shrenik completed his post-graduation in business management from IIM Bangalore. He is also a Certified Investment Manager from the Securities and Investment Institute, UK.

He joined us from Enam Securities where he was Executive Director – Investment Banking. He also set up the first international office for Enam in the UK.

Shrenik has over 16 years of experience in the areas of financial audit, management consulting, as well as Investment banking and has worked for companies like Lodha & Co., Accenture and A.T. Kearney prior to joining Enam. He has worked on several advisory mandates and has advised several clients (including the Tata Group) in Investment Banking. 

Sonal heads M&A and Private Equity Advisory at SMC Group. She has experience of over 20 years across M&A, corporate advisory and strategic consulting. She has advised leading Indian and international companies across areas including M&A, Joint Ventures, Equity/Debt Fund raising and Growth strategy. She has also advised Government of India- Ministry of Food Processing and Ministry of Agriculture and several State Governments on agri/food strategy and its implementation. She has been an active member of Industry Panels for the consumer, food, agribusiness and financial services sectors, for leading Indian Industry Associations. Sonal holds a PGDM from IIM Kolkata and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics (Honours) from Hindu College,  University of Delhi.

Mr. Tejpavan Singh Gandhok(Pavan)  has an MBA from UCLA (Dean’s list) and a BE Chem. Eng(Honours) from Univ. of Melbourne, as well as a qualification in journalism.

An Indian born, US educated, Australian citizen, permanent resident of Singapore and an Overseas Citizen of India. He has a very impressive entrepreneurial and professional track-record. He is co-founder of Litebite Foods chain of restaurants. He has over 18 yrs of international Senior Partner level experience in Country & Regional Head roles across Australia, US, South East & Middle East Asia with Strategy consulting & Private Equity firms such as Halycon, AT Kearney, Stern Stewart & co. and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He has advised most of the leading blue chip Indian , SE Asian as well as global MNC clients on issues such as: corporate portfolio and business unit strategy ; organization design; business performance improvement; corporate finance and valuation; governance and senior executive remuneration. Mr.Tejpavan also worked with Monsanto as Director - business development and growth strategy for Asia-Pacific, ICI Australia and the University of Melbourne. He is also a co-founder and Lead Director of Natures Bounty an alcoholic beverages marketing company; co-founder and managing trustee of Madadghar a charitable trust.

Currently Mr. Tejpavan is the CEO of OM Pizzas & Eats India Pvt Ltd & Tex Mex Cusinie India Pvt Ltd. OM Pizzas has the following brands under it ie Papa Johns & The Great Kabab Factory. Tex Mex has the following brand under it ie Chilis Grill & Bar.

Vikram Puri is a post graduate in Agriculture (Plant Breeding & Genetics) from the Punjab Agricultural University, and has done his Executive Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (MEP).

With 30 years experience as an agribusiness professional, Vikram has been associated with several Indian companies engaged in the production & marketing of agricultural inputs and output.  He has held senior positions in marketing & business development, operations, Policy, Strategy and other key functions. He has received specialised training in Process technology (Seeds and Horticulture) from Sweden & Holland and has successfully handled technology transfers, Project Management & Commissioning of advanced Agribiotechnology Projects, design & financial restructuring of businesses & projects. He has also initiated Greenfield JVs with Asian & European companies engaged in Horticulture and Plant biotechnology, aimed at product delivery to Indian, European and South East Asian Markets.

Vikram Puri has chaired the CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) Agri Services Showcase in 2008 in Chandigarh, which is India’s premier biennial Agro Technology and Business Fair. Vikram has played a significant role in serving on the Agribusiness Committees of the CII, Chandigarh and Delhi Chapters as well as at the Bombay Chambers of Commerce & Industry. He is presently serving on the CII AgroTech 2014 Steering Committee. He is frequently invited to speak at various seminars on agribusiness around the country and at leading Management Institutes such as at NIAM, IIMA and Harvard Business School to share his rich & varied experience in Agribusiness.

Vikram Puri is Chief Executive Officer at Mahindra Shubhlabh Services Ltd.and also oversees the roll out of developing of a rural marketing network for Agricultural Products (Crop Care & Nutrition) at Mahindra Agribusiness. Over the eight years that Vikram has taken a leadership position at Mahindra Agribusiness, MSSL has emerged as the leading Indian Fresh Grape exporter to Europe and also developed a strong and growing position in the Crop Care  & Seed potato industry in India.

During his career, Vikram has been instrumental in executing India’s first large scale Contract Farming Program for production of Industrial Softwoods (60,000 acres) which is regarded as a showcase initiative that successfully delivered its corporate objectives in the farm forestry area.