Advisors

Saurav Adhikari has over 35 years of global experience across consumer product industries both FMCG and Durables, and in the Technology industry. He has worked with Unilever, Pepsi, Groupe SEB, and HCL.

Over the last 2 decades he drove global strategy for HCL’s $10bn business working across industry verticals to drive shareholder value by investing for growth and incubating new businesses.

He is currently a strategic advisor to growth firms, a tech investor, and an independent director.

Yash Sikand is a 25-year veteran of the Consumer Product Goods (CPG) industry, focused on
analytics, insights and strategy. His passion is to help companies create and execute strategies
rooted in consumer insights, while driving efficiencies through use of analytics and processes.

He began his career conducting advanced analytics for CPG companies at AC Nielsen, after
which he spent more than 20 years working in a variety of leadership roles with Philip Morris,
Kraft, Wrigley, MillerCoors & Oceanspray.

Ravi leads the technology team and is a senior research scientist with established credentials in building advanced mathematical algorithms used in analytical modeling. He is the Co-architect of India’s first commercial vector parallel processor and the Indian Railway Reservation system. In his 35+ years of experience, Ravi has worked and advised successful companies like CMC, Telstra (AU), NEC and CGU Insurance.

His areas of expertise include business analytics, data mining, statistical machine learning, and high-performance computing systems. He is a IIT Madras Alumnus and former visiting scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University