Aswathaman Vijayan - Head Sustainability and ESG

Aswathaman Vijayan

Head Sustainability and ESG

Aswath is a sustainability expert with over 14 years of global experience in the Foods, Beverage, Agriculture, Tobacco, and Pharmaceuticals industries. He has a proven track record of implementing and leading sustainability initiatives at renowned companies such as ITC Limited, Imperial Brands UK, PepsiCo and Lupin Pharma. He’s not driven by sheer passion for sustainability, but he takes it seriously because, well, the company pays him to cover those everyday bills.

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Founders and startup folks who joined past eChai startup events
Upcoming events in Mumbai
Sep
13
Sat
Mumbai Startup Meetup
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
7 slots booked
Archana Manjrekar - AI & Cybersecurity Growth Ops Manager | D2C Strategist Denish Trivedi - Machine learning engineer, fynd Deep Kulkarni - Founder (Caracal) Arpita Singh - Computer Science and Engineering Student Aryan Singh - Computer Science and Engineering Student Chirag Agrawal - Founder & Head of Strategy @ WhiteCollar Placements
Sep
18
Thu
Building Consumer and D2C Brands : Mumbai Edition
Mumbai
Times of India Building
6:30pm — 08:30pm
1 slot booked
Sep
27
Sat
eChai Startup Demo Day in Mumbai: September Edition
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
25 slots booked
Sagar Madhani - Founder and CEO at Cyringe.ai Kunal Udhwani - AVP - aditya birla capital Abdulhussain Kanchwala - DevOps Engineer Shivang Desai - Founder's office at People group (ex Deloitte M&A) NAYAN AGARWAL - Director Aayush Sharma - Founder, Celestiq Horizon Kartik Padave - Associate Information Security Consultant - Qseap Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Sowvmya Venkatesh - Manager - Partnerships Aryan Yadav - CEO, OPSKL Jay Bhupali - VP Legal Ritika Mittal - Founder, Numakasé Sachin R Kabra - Director, Ziki Dalton Pereira - Product Design Lead, SquadStack Vikas Tiwari - Founder Krishna Patil - Founder, Artistveda (School of Photography)
Oct
04
Sat
eChai Women Founders Initiative in Mumbai: October Edition
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
11 slots booked
s santayana - Founder, Visibu Shreya shukla - Engineer Kiran Mandrawadkar - Business Head Sagar Madhani - Founder and CEO at Cyringe.ai Apekshakumari Patel - Cofounder and COO, Ridlin Vishwajit Lad - Marketing executive in lupin pharmaceutical ltd Tanya Gupta - Growth Manager @ Startups
Oct
25
Sat
eChai Startup Demo Day in Mumbai: October Edition
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
1 slot booked
Nov
01
Sat
eChai Women Founders Initiative in Mumbai: November Edition
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
Nov
29
Sat
eChai Startup Demo Day in Mumbai: November Edition
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
Dec
06
Sat
eChai Women Founders Initiative in Mumbai: December Edition
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
Dec
27
Sat
eChai Startup Demo Day in Mumbai: December Edition
Mumbai
DevX Andheri East
11:00am — 01:00pm
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Shrijay Sheth - Founder at LegalWiz.in and Hire4Higher Consulting
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Founder at LegalWiz.in and Hire4Higher Consulting
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Koumal Kalantry
Founder, Bignano Ventures

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