Siddharth has a deep understanding of the agribusiness sector and is passionate about the potential it has to transform our society. Agricultural related businesses have been his focus throughout his professional life. He was the head of the agriculture portfolio at the Acumen Fund, worked with non-profits to improve the efficacy of agriculture development programs at the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, and advised a number of corporations on their strategy and operations as a consultant at McKinsey Company. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelors of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology-Madras. Shashi Kumar Shashi is a farmer at heart and nothing excites him more than the company of food and farmers. He is an organic farming expert, enthusiast and borderline obsessive, and spent a part of his life growing all of his own food for a couple of years. He is the co-founder of Akshayakalpa, India's first and largest organic milk company, a brand that is trusted by over 10,000 families in Bengaluru. His second love is engineering, and he often applies its principles to designing and implementing solutions for organic agriculture. He has a Masters degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago and a Bachelors degree from Kalpataru Institute of Technology at Tiptur. In May 2015, I felt I was ready to be an entrepreneur. I knew entrepreneurship is all consuming, and I had to be fully ready to plunge into it. In 2016, I joined hands with Shashi Kumar, who was an experienced entrepreneur in agriculture having been involved in many successful ventures in the past. He chucked his job as an IT professional to be an organic farmer and lives in a village. He has been growing his own food for quite a few years. We started Purple Chilli with our own finance and seven members. Our notion of chilli is green or red, but Shashi has 25 varieties of chillies in his farm and the purple chilli was his favourite one as it is very unique in the way it grows. All chillies grow with the tip facing the ground, but purple chillies grow with its tip facing the sky. Locally, it is called Gagan Mukhi. We decided to name our venture Purple Chilli to demonstrate the diversity of food we have. Full article in the link below http://www.rediff.com/ getahead/report/he-went-to- harvard-to-help-indias- farmers/20170504.htm website He went to Harvard Business School to help India's farmers
Siddharth Tata
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and COO
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