About Us

Vasu brings with himself three decades of experience in corporate strategy and change management. An architect by qualification, his passion lies in design and structures. Managing various prestigious projects, he also houses immense experience and knowledge about tea gardens.

At Indofil, he is leading and mentoring the organizational behaviour and change management. A nature lover, he is passionate about environmental studies and landscaping. He is an avid fan of soccer and golf.

With his current responsibility as Chief Operating Officer, he is leading the company to drive the overall direction and transformation at Indofil. As one of the key architect in building Indofil’s footprint globally and in India Business, he also is spearheading establishing world class manufacturing facilities at full capacity utilization to have wider product portfolio.

With more than 26 years of experience in leading teams & growing businesses, through marketing alliances, joint ventures, manufacturing & acquisitions, Mr. Rane will implement the new growth strategy, and will seek to accelerate the momentum of the organization with contemporary strategy and approach, coping with the New Normal in the post Pandemic era.  

Mr. Rane joined Indofil in 1994 as a Sr. Product Executive – Insecticide (Agro Business Division) at Head Office, Mumbai. In 1996 he was assigned the responsibility of establishing Indofil's business in the International arena. Since then he has ably handled various functions in international business viz registration, territory management, Business co-ordination and successfully taken on the role of heading International Business, in the position of General Manager, Vice President and Sr. Vice President. He was responsible for growth and operations of B2B International business, Synthesis business and Special projects.

In 2008 he has assumed additional responsibility as Projects Monitor and Strategy Head, affiliated to CEO Office and is instrumental in defining and implementing Vision, Mission and long term Strategy of Indofil. As a Project Monitor he has spear headed a number of projects in strategy implementation, leadership development, value dissemination workshops, reorganization of Indofil, establishment of growth office, to name a few.

Mr. Rane is a part of various institutions at the industry forums, namely

• Director -  CropLife India
• Member - The India CEO Forum (International Market Assessment India Private Limited-IMA)
• Co-Chair at FICCI LAC Council

• Director - Indobaijin Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Rane holds a Bachelor and a Masters Degree in Agriculture from the Konkan Krishi University. He has also completed Advance Management Program from Harvard Business School.

In his spare time, he enjoys reading on Anthropology, ancient civilizations and is fond of watching old movies.

Prior to joining Indofil,  he worked with Clariant Chemicals India Limited and at Clariant International for 19 years in various positions as Technical Manager, General Manager Production , as Vice President and Head of  Roha Site.

Dr. Rao has a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Technology from UDCT, Mumbai, M.Tech Degree from IIT, Delhiand Ph.D in Chemistry from South Gujarat University.

Mr. Bharat is a true blend of entrepreneurial spirit along with corporate experience, having an experience of over 13 years in diversified functions ranging from Corporate Strategy, M&A, Sales & Marketing, Finance to Commercial Operations.

At Indofil, as Head of International Business, Bharat is responsible for resolving the challenges that come with expanding footprint across geographies and products, along with managing & diversifying ongoing business operations.

Holding a masters’ degree in Business Management from Symbiosis International University, Pune along with being a Chartered Accountant, Bharat has worked in different capacities with Ambootia Tea Group, Aditya Birla Group, Firstsource Solutions and UBS prior to joining Indofil.

Bharat being an avid sports fan, enjoys playing and watching football, cricket and table tennis during his recreational time.

Amar began his professional stint with Indofil in 1992 in marketing & new product development in North India. He worked in various capacities in marketing, product management, portfolio management & local institutional business at Indofil after shifting to Mumbai since 1997.

Amar has made commendable contribution in last 28 years in the areas of Alliance development for new products, driving New Technical & formulation Development projects, Product Launches/ branding, and driving patentable products strategy.

With the help of a strong marketing team, he has been responsible to expand Core (Indofil manufactured), Strategic ( Patented & proprietary products from foreign alliances)  and Co-marketing ( Local collaborations in India)  product range of agrochemicals at Indofil & strengthened its presence in all major agrochemical consuming crops and established strong position in fungicide segment

He set the strategic direction for the synthesis of off patent active ingredients, enhancing the range of technical registrations & manufacturing and setting the stage for leading position in international market for key molecules.

His contribution in developing the patent cell & spearheading the patent strategy is enormous which lead to couple of patented formulations launch & success in domestic market and number of innovative formulation patents filings across countries.

He has worked in close co-ordination with manufacturing on capacity expansion projects, with QA and R&D for setting new standards in quality, with R&D on various synthesis and formulation projects and he contributed immensely in driving up the profitability through various strategic moves in collaboration   with front and back end teams.

Amar has travelled extensively in India and all major agro chemically important countries for various assignments and acquired vast knowledge on agrochemicals, and crop pest problems. He has played a pivotal role in designing the portfolio strategy for Indofil Agro subsidiaries & facilitated the launch of new products besides organizing collaborations for enhancing product range. He loves travelling and interacting & learning new concepts.  

He has attended Management Development Programs at IIM - Ahmedabad, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) & at Harvard Business School and benefited the organization by developing techno-commercially strong human resources pipeline.

Mr.  G. K. Venugopal, is an Agriculture Graduate from University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad and brings three decades of experience in the field of Strategic planning, Business Development, Sales and Marketing, Channel Management, Relationship Management and team Management.

Prior to Indofil, Mr. Venugopal has worked in different capacities in Searle (India) Ltd, Meghmani Organics Ltd, PI Industries Ltd and ATGC Biotech.

Mr. Venugopal loves travelling, interacting with people and learning new concepts. He is a strong believer of focussing on customer and farmer centric activities that help in increasing farm output. His expertise in new technology launch and nurturing of new products provides great traction to the crop growers thus enabling their prosperity.

Besides work, he is passionate about Badminton and in his free time he likes to watch films and sports.

Mr. Baxla, brings with him 25 years of rich Supply Chain experience in key areas namely Projects planning & implementation (strategic and tactical), Supply Chain operations - Supply Planning, Distribution, Warehouse Management, Production Planning, Shop Floor control, Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Inventory Management along with an exclusive experience in ERP implementation of Supply Chain modules at global level.

At Indofil, he heads Supply Chain & is responsible for Procurement, Demand & Supply Planning, International and Domestic Logistics

His past experiences include Henkel Adhesives Technologies India Limited, Castrol India Limited, BP LUBRICANTS, Asia & Pacific and LUBRICANTS UK LTD.
In his spare time, he enjoys Reading books and watching movies.  

Koshal is leading Growth Office & acts as Executive Assistant to Chairperson. He brings over 21 years of professional experience in the field of Sales & Supply Chain Management in diverse industries (i.e., Paints, Adhesives, Textile Dyes/Chemicals & 3rd Party logistics services). He has managed varied geographical operation & teams to support business growth in competitive & emerging marketplaces. His areas of expertise includes demand & supply planning, logistics, customer service, EXIM, tax & trade compliance, sales & marketing, contract manufacturing. He is proficient in business strategy deployment, project management, cultural change management, SC transformation & talent development. Koshal is qualified as a B.A. (Economics), having post graduate diploma in Material Management & a Certified Supply Chain professional. He has worked in different capacities with Huntsman Corporation, Henkel, Sherwin Williams, Asian PPG & 3PL companies. In his spare time, he enjoys activities closer to nature.

Dr. Rajendra brings with himself over two decades of experience in Chemical synthesis of active ingredients, both in Agro Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, and has several patents and scientific publications to his credit.

He has been active in various aspects of Chemical Synthesis such as new product development, process development, and CRAMS.

Through the course of his career, he has been associated with Indian and US based companies including Dr. Reddy’s, Piramal Health Care, and Medivation, Inc.

He has been a post-doctoral fellow at Colorado State University and University of Alberta. His expertise lies in focused delivery of new products and scalable technologies. Apart from his attachment with chemistry, he is a technophile and likes to spend time with gadgets.