Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director
Dhavalas Agro Commerce Pvt. Ltd.
Total years of experience :32 years, 0 Months
• The business is focused on providing integrated agriculture services to farmers - aiding them through the entire agriculture value chain covering from arranging agri-funding, purchasing farm output and providing market access for their produce.
• Supervising agri-science, consumables, infrastructure development, purchasing, warehousing, primary processing, logistics and market access functions with full P&L accountability.
• Engaged with over 3, 000 farmers having 7, 500 acres farmland in the state of Chhattisgarh. Farmers are encouraged to switch from single crop, single season farming to multi-crop & multi-season farming.
• Implementing irrigation, logistics, warehousing and primary agro-processing community owned facilities on a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) basis. The infrastructure created will be transferred to the farmers.
• Consulting farmers in obtaining funding from commercial banks and government programs for implementing the recommended farming techniques. Secured tie-up with two public sector and a private sector bank for expeditious agri-loan disbursement to our farmer base.
• Expanding the business in the neighbouring states of Odisha, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand states from next cropping season (Oct. - Nov. 2022)
• Liaison with state, district and village level government officials and elected representatives remains a key responsibility for implementing the project.
• Forecasting financial, environmental and internal risks in achieving the business objectives. Coordinating with MD & Group Governing Board towards mitigating the identified risks and planning for the same.
• Executing the group-wide implementation of ERP system. Involved in choosing the ERP platform, evaluating and finalizing vendors, negotiations on various aspects of the project and internal coordination for deployment of the ERP system.
• Expected to generate Rs. 120 million in revenue in current financial year.
• Invited to be a member of the Group Strategy Team.
• Reporting to the Board of Directors and leading a 158 member team with six direct reports.
• Co-founded Zeulantis Solutions, a pan India provider of IT solutions, enabling & empowering businesses.
• Managing B2B, tele-marketing, outbound & digital marketing efforts to promote company’s offerings.
• Resurrected operations that had been halted due to the security situation in Iraq at the time, as a result of ISIS aggression.
• Handled the company's sales and marketing functions, as well as the re-launch of voice and data services and devices for both consumers and businesses.
• Started a contract manufacturing and trading business for air handling devices.
• Appointed and managed sales agents nationally to direct sales and marketing efforts. To market the product, order generation, fulfilment, collection, complaint handling and technical support, regularly met with original equipment manufacturers and actual users of the products.
• Under the brand name Life, a greenfield telecom company with voice and data services was commercially launched.
• Managed the new telecom operator's sales, marketing and customer service functions.
Managed Tata Indicom’s regional marketing operation for South India.
Headed marketing function of Reliance CDMA operations for eastern India.
Headed marketing responsibilities for Airtel’s Fixed Line business in the largest private landline operation in central India.
Managed marketing of various residential & commercial projects in South & West India.
Managed sales & product management in B2B and B2C markets for international express products.
Sales & product management of international express and multi-modal domestic express products in a start-up B2B environment.
Sales & product management of domestic fans & appliances in North India for an Indian conglomerate.
MBA in Marketing
Masters in Physics (General Electronics)