Mr. Rajnish Sarna
Director
Mr. Rajnish Sarna is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a diverse experience of over 29 years in the areas of Business Development & Strategy, Customer Relationship Mgt., Operations, Finance, Risk Mgt, Legal Contracting & Compliances, Investor relations, Mergers & Acquisition, Fund raising, Information Technology and Process Reengineering, etc. He is currently on the Board of PI Industries Limited, PI Life Science Research Limited, PILL Finance and Investment Limited, Solinnos Agro Sciences Private Limited, PI Kumiai Private Limited, PI Bioferma Private Limited, PI Fermachem Private Limited and PI Health Sciences Limited.
Mr. Parmanand Pandey
Whole-time Director & CEO
Parmanand Pandey holds a PGDCA in Agri Business Management from MANAGE, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management. His extensive work experience spans two decades in business-to-customer and business-to-business environment in Chemical and related industries across Asia in areas of sales, marketing, strategic planning and project implementation. Appointed the CEO at Isagro (Asia) in February 2021, Parmanand is currently spearheading the launch of Jivagro – India’ horticare specialist company.
In his previous role as Regional Manager Asia Pacific, based out of BASF headquarters in Hong Kong, he successfully grew the market-share of Polyalcohols in Asia. The scope included medium & long-term strategic planning & implementation, preparation & evaluation of business case for investment projects, pricing, promotion, key account management, market research, and product lifecycle management. Parmanand has held key positions at BASF, leading focused business transformation initiatives from frontline sales to marketing. As Fungicide Product Manager he has successfully launched new products, working closely with farmers and sales teams. During his decade-long experience in driving business growth of Intermediate Chemicals within Asia, Parmanand worked with customers across diverse downstream industry segments including Pharmaceutical, Agrochemicals, Food, Feed, Coatings, Automotive, Construction, Leather & Textiles.
Ms. Alpana Parida
Independent Director
Ms. Alpana Parida has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM-Ahmedabad and holds a degree in Economics from St. Stephens, Delhi University. Ms. Parida has more than two decades of experience in retail and marketing communications in India and in United States of America. She has bridged strategy and design, customer centricity and profitability, semiotics and ethnography, analytics and consumer insights; all with a design thinking approach to growth and profitability. She is a Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tiivra Ventures Private Limited. She has served as Managing Director of DMA Yellow Works Limited. She was also associated as a Head of Marketing with Tanishq, a prominent Jewellery brand in India. She conducts branding workshops for large corporates. Ms. Parida holds Directorship and Chairpersonship/ Membership of the Committees of the Board of Directors of FSN e-Commerce Ventures Limited, Cosmo First Limited, Nykaa Fashion Private Limited, Nestle India Limited, Tiivra Ventures Private Limited, FSN Brands Marketing Private Limited, Nykaa Foundation and Hindware Limited, Nexus Select Trust.
Mr. Prashant Hegde
Director
Mr. Prashant Hegde holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Monsash University, Melbourne, Australia and Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Sciences from Dharwad, Karnataka. He has vast experiences in the area of seeds, Fertilizers, Agro chemicals and specialty fertilizers in both domestic and international markets. His last assignment was with Bayer Crop Science as a head of Vegetable Seed business for Asia Pacific. He was a member of Asia Pacific Bayer Crop Science and Global Vegetable leadership teams. He served as a Board of Director in Monsanto Holdings and Mahyco- Monsanto Biotech between 2012 and 2015. Mr. Prashant Hegde is known for his ability to provide strategic and operational leadership in a complex and multicultural environment.
Mr. Sameer Dhaga
Director
Mr. Sameer Dhaga holds a bachelor’s degree in science from Military College of Telecom Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and a master’s degree in field of Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has over 33 years of experience. He has worked with IBM India Private Limited, Videocon d2h Limited and has served in the Indian Army. He is currently associated with PI Industries Limited as Chief Transformation Officer.