Governing Board

Chairman

Mr. Khan, is the Chairman of Indigram Labs Foundation. He has over three decades of experience at Unilever in various International positions, with postings in India, Singapore, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom. Mr. Khan retired as the Global Leader of Innovation at Unilever London in 2009. He is the President of the IIM Network in Europe and is a Managing Trustee of the Rasuli Kanwar Khan Trust, which is transforming lives in rural Mewat. He was nominated as the Person of the Year in 2009 by Forbes India and has development experience at IIM - Ahemdabad, Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation, and Punjab Cooperatives.

Founder Director

Mr. Sunil Khairnar is the founder of Indigram Group. He holds a B. Tech in Agriculture Engineering and is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. He has seeded and supported several business and social ventures. His expertise includes business strategy, corporate financial structuring, commodity trade, and impact investing. He was an elected member of the Board of Directors of International Food and Agribusiness Management Association for 2010-11. He has been a member of various committees in government and various industry bodies including Planning Commission Working Groups for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012) on Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure and Policy for Internal and External Trade; and Governing Council of the India Development Gateway Group at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, GoI.He has spent several years in the early part of his career at trading companies such as Cargill and Godrej. A Passionate Value-Delivery man

Director

Mr. Sudarshan Suryawanshi is an alumnus of IIT – Kharagpur. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals. With nearly 25 years’ experience in agriculture and rural development, his expertise areas include community mobilization for forming producer organizations, integrated farming systems, market linkages, supply chains, water resource management, small and micro enterprises, international consulting and training. He has spent more than a decade working, travelling and interacting with farmers in 27 countries across Asia and Africa.

Founder CEO

Mr. Uma Mahesvaram, a professional with 20 years of experience spanning Educational Infrastructure, Petro-products retailing, Private Equity, Manufacturing and Rural Marketing of Livestock products. Has an entrepreneurial edge in creating, investing, guiding organizations in retail, technology, internet and wellness organizations. Graduate of IIM, Ahmedabad (batch of ‘97) and an Agricultural Engineer from College of Agricultural Engineering, Coimbatore. Mahesh has spent many years in BCCL, Reliance Industries Ltd, Educomp Solutions Ltd, TAFE and has experimented with co-creating a fear free-learning process school i.e., Ekalavya School Ahmedabad in the late ‘90s. Passionate Experimenter and Value Builder