Banking and Financial Services Professional, with over eighteen years of experience in Business Strategy, Rural Stragtegy, Project Management, Business Development, etc. Recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Rural Marketing professionals in the country by the Rural Marketing Forum of CMO Asia in Feb 2016. Recipient of the Exceptional Leadership Award from the Managing Director of Citi Financial (Citigroup Co). 

Worked extensively in rural banking & financial services space and was invited as a speaker / panelist in many forums including Economic Times Rural Strategy Summit, Annual India Microfinance Summit, Rural Marketing Forum - Asia Retail Congress etc. He was the founding member and Head - Business Partnerships for Samunnati Financial Services Pvt Ltd - An Agri Value Chain Finance Co. In the past, he has worked as the Head - Strategy & Alliance for IFMR Rural Channels and as the Head - Microbanking Project for Citibank

9 years of experience in the areas of farm management, cropping systems, watershed management, NRM and nutrient management.

Research scholar at International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, a CGIAR Centre Hyderabad, India
Has published research papers in national and international journals/publications.
New Agronomic Practices for enhancement of Pigeonpea productivity", Annals of Plant and Soil Research., Vol-17, May.2015,Special Issue-1, ISSN 0972-19596Online ISSN-2347-6036

Working as a Head of Data Science at an award-winning innovative Start up in the UK.
Research Fellow at University of Salford, Manchester and University of Dundee, Scotland. & PhD from Newcastle University.
Published research work in world-renowned peer-reviewed journals.
Completed several challenging data science projects and research studies which includes projects for world-leading pharma companies.

Qualification: 
Research Fellow at University of Salford, Manchester and University of Dundee, Scotland. & PhD from Newcastle University.

PMP,Prince2 & ITIL certified Project/Service Delivery Manager
Niche skills in Incident management, Problem Management, Project Management and Service Management in Telecommunications technology.
12+ years of experience in managing Global IT infrastructure for international clients. 

With an experience as a biotechnologist and later as an Agro ecologist at Wageningen University, he comes with a global perspective on agriculture. His entrepreneurial experience and executive pgdm from IIM will help understanding and overcoming the stumbling blocks in the go to market strategy for farmsys.