Experience

Viridian Seeds

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Dec 2021 - Present

• Co-Founder

  • Dec 2021 - Present



https://www.linkedin.com/company/viridian-seeds/

• Co-Founder

  • Dec 2021 - Present



Viridian Seeds https://www.linkedin.com/company/viridian-seeds/

• Co-Founder

  • Dec 2021 - Present



PlantM

• Founder & Director

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  Cambridge, United Kingdom PlantM is a plant science consultancy company. Our mission is designing smart crop varieties with novel traits for food, feed, alternative protein market, regenerative agriculture and industrial crops.



University of Galway

• Ireland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct faculty (Plant Biotechnology Lecturer)

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  Galway, Ireland Teaching students on entrepreneurship and plant biology. Writing grants and managing projects on crop improvement and sustainable agriculture



BenchBio Private Ltd.

• India
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & Director

  • Mar 2007 - Present

  Gujarat, India Improving crops (Food as well as non-Food) using non-GMO method TILLING and Eco-TILLING and create new crop varieties with novel traits for food, feed, alternative protein market, regenerative agriculture and industrial crops



https://viridianseeds.com/

• Co-Founder

  • Dec 2021 - Feb 2022

  Viridian Seeds mission is to make agriculture greener. It is creating super legumes with novel traits to save the planet. Our varieties are greener and show significantly reduced carbon emissions.



National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, UK

• Project Leader

  • Jan 2005 - Apr 2006

  Cambridge, United Kingdom Grant writing and Managing R&D projects in crops.



Biogemma UK Ltd (Groupe Limagrain, largest seed company in EU)

• Project Leader

  • Sep 1997 - Dec 2004

  Cambridge, United Kingdom Managing R&D projects on gene discovery and functional genomics in crops. Co-ordinator of R&D projects between Biogemma and academic groups in France under the Genoplante programme. Participated in Bioinformatics projects within Biogemma. Member of Bioinformatics committee of the Genoplant programme and UK BBSRC Agri-Food committee.