Mr. Anish Kumar is part of the lead team at Transform Rural India. He has been on the leadership team at India’s leading non-profit PRADAN, working on rural transformation.

His areas of expertise include creating business organizations run by poor communities and facilitating participation of small-holder farmers in modern value chains. Anish developed and piloted the small-holder poultry prototype; was the CEO of the first poultry co-operative; and then scaled up the model across new geographies. He is a Board member of the National Smallholder Poultry Development Trust, an advisory and policy advocacy body.

Anish has been a member of the Planning Commission Working Group on disadvantaged farmers, and has been involved in designing of policies on producer collectives. Anish has a post-graduate degree in Forest Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal.

Khitish Kumar Pandya is an experienced entrepreneur bringing his prior corporate background to his current business: Eco Tasar, an India based member of the Nest Artisan Guild. Eco Tasar has helped provide silk cocoon farmers with a stable source of income. Eco Tasar provides employment to over 2600 families in rural India and encompasses activities from sourcing to marketing of handmade Tasar products.

Khitish has done his B. Com ( Hons) from Ravenshaw College, Utkal University, Orissa and thereafter MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar with specialization in Marketing and Finance. He has been associated with marketing field for over 20 years.