Our Team

Architects of Strategic Integrity.

A diverse, distributed bench of leaders, mentors and principal consultants — pairing decades of on-the-ground experience with institutional-grade rigour. Brief profiles of our core team:

Rakesh Jha
Co-Founder & Managing Director

Rakesh Jha

Leading the one-door advisory model

A seasoned professional with 25+ years across sales, marketing, product development, rural business, finance and skill development — spanning agri-inputs, micro-irrigation, dairy, vaccines, commodity exchange and banking. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Agriculture, Management and Finance.

A turnaround problem-solver across 167+ companies and projects — Consulting CFO of Cambay Hotels & Resorts, Horticulture Value Chain Expert with the Asian Development Bank, Subject Matter Expert with Grant Thornton and Consulting CBO with Champions Group, among others. Today he is CEO of Drishti Biotech, MD of Shiva CSG, Founder of SHIVEENA Foundation and CFO of Altret Biotech.

Finance & TurnaroundAgribusinessRural & Skill Development
Founders & Mentors

The People Who Set Our Standard

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Co-Founder · Chairman & MD, Drishti Biotech

Rajesh Jha

An agriculture & management graduate (NEHU) with 25+ years in liaisoning, consultation and advisory to corporates and entrepreneurs, and a recognised expert in India’s land & revenue laws. He is Chairman & Managing Director of Drishti Biotech Pvt Ltd and a Director of Shiva CSG — advisor to Bosch Rexroth, GAIL and NACOF.

LiaisoningLand & RevenuePlantation
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Mentor · PMP, MBA, ME

Lakshmi Narasimha Rao Sista

A PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP, MBA, ME — IISc) with 50+ years across project finance, risk management and chemical-engineering projects. Former CEO of IFCI Financial Services Ltd, he advises on loan syndication, investment banking, corporate finance, project appraisal and risk management.

Project FinanceRisk ManagementInvestment Banking
Principal Consultants & Mentors

Specialists Across Every Domain We Serve

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COO — SHIVEENA Foundation

Prakaash Sharma

A recognised Agri-Business Growth Strategist, Rural Transformation Architect and Policy-Linked Ecosystem Builder based in Ahmedabad. As COO of the SHIVEENA Foundation he forges industry–academia and institutional partnerships for skill development, innovation and sustainable rural impact aligned to the UN SDGs.

Agribusiness StrategyRural Transformation
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R&D Head — Biotechnology

Raj Lokhandwala

14+ years in organic agriculture & chemicals; former Production & Marketing Head at Altret Biotech. MBA (SP Jain), BE Chemical (Pune). Leads SCG’s biotechnology & crop-nutrition business across India, Nepal and Uganda.

call +91 98791 04450
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Mentor — Sustainability & Environment

Braj Kishore Jha

37 years across ferrous, non-ferrous & process industries; IIT-Kanpur trained in hazard analysis & waste management. Deep EIA/EMP and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) experience across steel and process plants.

call +91 96502 50274
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Principal Consultant — EPC & China Expert

Ali Shahan Shah

15+ years in multi-disciplinary project coordination; fluent in Chinese, English & Hindi. Experience with Adani Power, Adani Green Energy and Merino, with strict cost, quality and schedule control.

call +91 99131 47382
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Principal Consultant — Agribusiness & Food

S.K. Gautam

25+ years in Indian agribusiness (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology) — agri value chain, organic business, large-scale farming, seed potato, agri procurement, and food-product development, processing & regulatory affairs.

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Head Consultant — Agri Infrastructure

Katti Laxminarasimha

32 years in operations & project management — Head Consultant at Agrosystem Project Management Consultants (Gulbarga University). Cold chain & refrigeration, warehouses, 3PL & logistics parks (PEB), and MEP/HVAC utility infrastructure.

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Mentor — Entomology & Agri Training

Dr. Ghanshyam Bhai Patel

Retired Professor & Head of Entomology (Ph.D., IARI New Delhi). Champions eco-friendly, integrated pest management and Integrated Farming Systems for safer, more sustainable agriculture.

call +91 99793 17918
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