Ram Kaundinya

Ram Kaundinya is former board member of Axis Finance, Axis Bank and Syngenta India. Until 2013, he served as the Global CEO and Managing Director of Advanta. He is the Co-founder of ThinkAg, a not for profit platform that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship in the food and agriculture sectors. He also co-founded another Not for Profit, Agricollaboratory , that is working to develop digital public goods for Agriculture. He is a visiting faculty at IIMA.
Ram served till recently as the Director General of the Federation of Seed Industry of India, where he waa actively involved in policy analysis and advocacy.
He holds a graduate degree in Agriculture from Bapatla Agriculture College and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He is Deeply passionate about the agriculture sector. Ram is the former Chair of SVP Hyderabad.