Mr. Pritesh Bhende

Expertise

Government Tendering

Bio

Mr. Pritesh Bhende, is a Civil Engineer by profession, is also a Chartered Engineer and Valuer. As a first generation entrepreneur he has more than 15 years of experience in the tendering business. He has worked with reputed organisations like DCSEN, Department of Atomic Energy (BARC), and Indian Register of Shipping (Industrial Division) etc. He has experience in handling various government and private tendering portals. He has also participated in auctions and reverse auctions. He also has to his credit a first hand experience of participating in more than 10,000 nation wide tenders.

Mr. Vikas Dangat

Bio

Mr. Vikas Dangat is a Serial technopreneur with 40 years of diversified experience in setting up business units in hard core engineering, food processing, Agriculture, Automation & nutrition. He is a first-generation entrepreneur with quite a humble background where he was schooled in his village with minimum resources and zero comfort. He started his career as a Production Engineer in SKF Bearings India in 1984. After a stint of 10 Years in SKF, he ventured into his first business of Providing automation solutions from concept to reality. He is a creative thinker and helps entrepreneurs to resolve their business obstacles with innovative ideas and passion. He is a speaker and mentor at more than 5 universities. He mentors students in the fields of engineering, food processing and innovation, agriculture and life sciences. He is instrumental to support many startups to scale-up. The organisations he leads are into Conveyors, Automation, Spindles, Food Processing & Engineering & Agriculture. He is associated with various NGOs and works with them for the upliftment of rural farmers and to help them achieve sustainability.

Advait Kurlekar

Business strategy & processes, HR

Bio

Advait has more than 30 years of experience in industry, management consulting and coaching. His expertise is in the areas of business strategy, designing business processes.

He has experience across various sectors – manufacturing, automotive, Infotech, Hospitality, BFSI, Retail

Chakor Gandhi

Business growth & Growth strategy

Bio

Mr. Chakor Gandhi is DME, MBA & self-employed for more than 30 years. He is a successful entrepreneur and handles different portfolios like trading, distribution, retailing as well as manufacturing. He has also partnered with multinationals.
Has a passion for teaching. He has been Mentoring, Consulting & Coaching Businesses for Growth for more than 25 years. Closely Associated with Startups, Incubation Centers & a part of Startup Eco System.

Bhagyashri Mhatre

Food - Registration & Product Development

Expertise

Concept to Commissioning of processed food products

Bio

1. Bhagyashri is a founder and director of Food Monk Consultants LLP
2. Bhagyashri is a food technologist having 16+ years of experience from various domains of food industry
3. She has worked upon more than 50 product and brand development.
3. Her area of expertise is in R&D, New product development, shelf life improvement, packaging solutions, turnkey solutions, manufacturing unit setup guidance etc.
4. Bhagyashri has expertise in all the categories of food products like milk & Milk products, non alcoholic beverages, snacks, savoury products, chocolates & Confectionary, bakery products, RTE,RTC,millet based products, infant and toddler products etc.

Objective

Her mission is to support 1000 entrepreurs by 2030 with her knowledge and passion about food industry.

Sandeep Tapaswi

Management & Growth

Expertise

• Understanding bottlenecks for entrepreneur, enterprise.
• Collating them
• Finding Solutions to provide escape velocity to the enterprise

Bio

Sandeep Tapaswi started Fands Infonet immediately after his Engineering in Computer Science from the Pune University while he was studying MBA.

Currently, Fands Infonet is one of the leading Corporate Training organizations in the country. We have served almost all the top IT organizations in the country. Since our inception, 20 years back, we have served over 500 customers across the country.
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Fands has offices in Mumbai and Hyderabad and clients across the country. For more details www.fandsindia.com

Fands also serves prestigious academic institutions and Manufacturing companies in Pune
It is my great pleasure to inform you that the story of Fands, has been featured in a book titled “Making It On My Own” by Prashant Karhade.

Rupa Kanvinde

Food - Training & Certification

Expertise

Nutrition and Foodtech consultant.

Bio

• Founder and CEO of Cherish foods consultancy and business
  excellency.
• Vice president of Association of Food scientists and
  technologists of India,Pune chapter.
• Co-convener Fssai-NetProFaN ,Pune
• Core committee member of Chamber for advancement of
  small and medium businesses.
• Director of Indo compass LLP

Objective

FBO Problems solutions and Support as a contribution towards deAsra's mission of supporting Small Businesses

Manisha Chandak

Food - Registration & Product Development

Expertise

New Food Product Development, Shelf Life Extension and modification in existing products, Packaging Solution, FSSAI license, and Legal Compliance

Bio

• 10+ year’s experience in Food Consultation.
• Supported many organisations in developing and launching new food products.
• Packaging Solution and Label Checking as per the FSSAI norms.
• Suitable packaging consultation for food products.
• FSSAI License, Legal Metrology, Shop Act License consultation

Objective

Entrepreneur Transformation and Support as a contribution towards deAsra's mission of supporting Small Food Businesses

CS. Gaurav Kulkarni

Legal - Registrations & Entity Formation

Expertise

Intellectual property laws, Setting up of businesses and licensing

Bio

• Designated Partner of SKGK & Associates LLP.
• Partner of Vigilant Management & Legal Solutions LLP.
• More than 14 years of experience in handling Corporate Legal Matters, Intellectual Property matters, Secretarial Matters, RBI & FEMA matters along with licensing work of Listed, Unlisted Public and Private Companies & LLP’s.

Objective

1. Empower businesses to be aware about the compliances.
2. Empower businesses to follow rules and regulations within due dates without penalties.

CA Amit Lomte

Finance - Tax & Accounting

Expertise

GST, Income Tax, Accounting, Project Finance & Consultancy

Bio

More than 12 years of experience in Accounting, taxation, Project Finance and related consultancy.

Objective

Entrepreneur Education, Business Building of small Entrepreneur and Support as a contribution towards deAsra's mission of supporting Small Businesses

Rahul Limaye

Growth - Sales & Marketing

Expertise

Business growth, positioning and transition; Technology adoption and scalability; Processes management and optimization; Market research and competition.

Bio

An appreciative-oriented professional with over 30 years of experience in Sales & Business Development, Pre-Sales, Product Management including nearly 10 years of experience in Business Analysis, Business & Management Consulting, Strategic Planning & Analysis with the domain expertise in IT, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Supply Chain and Logistics, Banking and Finance, Recruitment, Travel and Tourism, BPO/ KPO/RPO, Education/e- Learning, Construction, Agriculture & Food.

Objective

A patient listener, who works with the business owners from ground level, at every stage, in achieving the set desired results, in order to bring "Smile" on their faces - as a "Smile Catalyst”, by getting engaged with predefined baby steps, milestones - establishing meaningful relationships journey.

Anniket Morey

Business Growth Strategist

Expertise

Franchise & Brand Development

Bio

Mr. Anniket Morey is a Business Growth Strategist and expert in Franchise & Brand Development through his venture, QuantumBiz Learning & Solutions LLP. He is also the founder of the Business Acceleration Forum. With over 12 years of experience in brand building, franchise model designing, marketing, and sales, Anniket has developed a proven formula for creating successful and well-known brands. His extensive research and hands-on experience have equipped him to assist new and established businesses in scaling and thriving in competitive markets.

Objective

He is on a Mission to Help 100,000 Entrepreneurs Achieve Growth using Brand Building and Make an Impactful Revolution in the Food Industry.