Rahul Nilkanthrao Deshmukh
Vice President - Strategy and Business Development
Double graduate in IT with MBA in international business. Certified Management, Information security, Privacy professional with global business exposure. Director of 2 MNC IT and 2 Agribusiness companies and Director of some NGOs working for farmers and agribusiness. Bamboo farmer and BambooPrenuer by passion. Total corporate experience of 18+ years. Driving force behind an informal group called ‘Vidarbha Bamboo Cluster’, where member farmers have planted more than 1.5 lakh plants in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. Founder President of Bharat Bamboo Association, which is a group of bamboo preneurs from India working on finding solutions faced by the domestic bamboo industry. Well connected with the bamboo fraternity. Associated with many social organisations who promote bamboo. Developed ‘Integrated Bamboo Processing model’ with social enterprise approach for Bamboo farmers. Beside this, motivating Corporations to invest in the Bamboo sector to help Farmers, on other hand, conserve the environment by providing eco friendly alternatives products. On a mission to get replaced steel, plastic and wood with bamboo products.