About Me.

Indo Gulf Industries Limited: Explosives manufacturing group with facilities spread across India for industrial explosives and initiation system for mining applications; and military explosives and for end use in aerospace domain.

From 2012–22, I was Business Development Manager – Defence of the Company, and as of 2022 I am Vice Chairman of the Company, while I have taken up complete responsibility to expand the business.

Some of my contributions include:

In 2014 I partnered with Department of Defense R&D for indigenization of explosives such as HMX

In 2015 I became the first exporter of gunpowder

In 2016 I established our second gunpowder plant

In 2017 I partnered a second time with Department of Defense R&D for plastic explosives

In 2018 I established a gelatin cartridge explosive plant

In 2019 I partnered a third time with Department of Defense R&D for indigenization of insensitive explosives for warheads

In 2020 I established manufacturing unit for ecofriendly ammunition such as Combustible Components

In 2021 I partnered a fourth time with Department of Defense R&D for missile propellants

In 2022 I partnered a fifth time with Department of Defense R&D for power cartridges having end use in Air Force fighter planes

In 2023 I established a detonator plant

OTHER FIELDS OF INTEREST:

Till today I have traveled close to 40 countries to expand my business interests, but my passion remains discovering India and I have visited remotest of locations/areas.

Even before I finished high school, I had a deep interest in entrepreneurship and in fact, had started a home-based business in gaming.

And even before I finished my undergraduate studies,

1. I founded two startups: (a) milk supply chain in the local Dehradun area, and (b) drinking water bottling unit for the aviation sector and for a FMCG chain.
2. And, moreover, I founded a not-for-profit animal care centre which evolved into the Shape Himalaya Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to creating local impact guided by global perspectives, and its activities have included, among other things, a prison inmates program which established a bakery inside the prison, promoted skill development (e.g. carpentry), meditation programs, musical therapy program.

In 2016 I established a library at a Doon School funded project, the Takshashila school in village Chakha in Rudraprayag district.

I have continued to mentor young minds—for example, especially those young people who have passed out with scholarships from Doon School.

I organised the International Conference and Exhibition on Jain History, Art and Culture, in 2018, in collaboration with, Museum of Asian Art in Corfu, Greece, Indian Embassy in Greece, Indo Hellenic Society for Culture and Development in Athens, Greece, and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi

Invitee at the World Economic Forum – Gobal Shapers community annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in 2015

Award for social project on Himalayan stoves at World Economic Forum – Gobal Shapers community South Asia conference – Nepal 2015

Appointed Vice President of International Relations of the All India Digambar Jain Mahasabha in 2018

Appointed Vice President of Greek India Business Association in 2020

ACADEMICS:

Currently pursuing Masters in Philosophy from JVBI Institute, Ladnun, Rajasthan