Experience

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  Generex Pharmassist Pvt.Ltd.

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Senior Marketing Executive

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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  Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship -SINE IIT Bombay

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Project Associate and Start-up Incubatee

    • Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    • Identified grey area in the agritech industry and proposed a project of ‘Waste Management’ • Demonstrated and validated a post-harvesting technology to bring a value addition in the nutraceutical industry • Successful product prototyping; consumer validation; patent filing • Cost accounting and scale-up projections• Networking• Pitched and incubated at prestigious national and international incubators such as IIT-Delhi, IIM-Bangalore, COEP (Pune), Good Food Institute (India), Kerala Start-up Mission, Falling Walls Lab India, IIT-Bombay etc.• Our team was the part of:o Top 8 start-ups at Youth Colab by Kerala Start-up Missiono Top 16 finalists at DAAD’s Falling Walls Lab India, an Indo-German Collaboration o Top 30 start-ups at Women Empowerment & Entrepreneurship Program, IIT-Delhio Top 53 teams at Good Food Institute, India o Top 345 start-ups at NSRCEL’s Women Start-up Program, IIM-Bangalore • Received incubation support and government grant under the NIDHI-EIR program organised by BIRAC at Society of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIT-Bombay)

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  Krishna's Navjeevan Group

  • Founder

    • Oct 2019 - Aug 2022

    Worked as a start-up incubatee with COEP, IIT-Delhi, IIM-Bangalore, Falling Walls Lab India, Good Food Institute India, Youth Colab for this project. Currently, the part of SINE IIT-Bombay for incubation support. Involved in the project of ‘Development of sustainable plant-based protein source from the waste residual matter obtained after oil extraction process’ Also, developed a brand ‘Wooden Magick® Cold Pressed Oils’. In that, conducted research over each oil and posses experience about market research, raw material selection, marketing, B2B and B2C business models and logistics.

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  ORGANIC INDIA

  • Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

  • Distributor

    • Jul 2020 - May 2022
    • Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

    Introduced and expanded distribution horizon to nearby towns of Aurangabad, Targeted campaigns for herbal formulations resulted in full range of sale in Aurangabad territory. Exclusive focus on HORECA resulted in remarkable growth in food segment. Analysis of secondary sale data to manage inventory. Successfully implemented strategies for early recovery from market and reduced expiry returns including implementation of FIFO, Overall sale was progressed by 40%, Established good rapport with retailers and officials in modern trade.

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  Sami Labs Limited

  • Bengaluru Area, India

  • Junior Scientist

    • Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
    • Bengaluru Area, India

    Developed leads for new product in nutraceuticals and natural colorant segment from plant material and waste occurring in food industry. Brought enrichment of bioactive compounds in extracts and established therapeutic activity of plant material. Scaled-up previously optimised process to generate standardised plant extract, Handled HPTLC, various column chromatography, Clevenger apparatus and Rotary evaporator.