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Chairman and Group CEO of UPL, a publicly listed global agrochemicals company
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Experience · 88th percentile
- Investing career began in 1992 through UPL, representing over 15 years of investing experience.
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Founder score
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Current Chairman and Group CEO of UPL, a publicly listed agrochemicals company.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)UPL went public via IPO, representing an exit for the company he leads.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of startup investments.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Made at least 3 known angel investments: Solasta Bio, Phospholutions, and Telesense.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Investing career began in 1992 through UPL, representing over 15 years of investing experience.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that accelerate your evolution from senior operator to serious investor — specifically gatherings that sharpen your CVC and micro-VC thinking, expand your agri-tech deal flow, and put you in rooms with AgFunder, Radicle Growth, and other domain-aligned funds. Events that position you as a thought leader in agri-tech innovation and sustainability will also help you attract inbound deal flow that matches your expertise at UPL scale.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA co-investment dinner with AgFunder and Radicle Growth partners for agri-tech operators-turned-angels looking to formalize deal flow and syndicate access
- tacticalA corporate venture capital roundtable with heads of CVC arms at Bayer, Syngenta, and Corteva to pressure-test the structure and thesis for a UPL strategic venture arm
- fundraisingA micro-VC formation dinner for senior operators with 3-10 angel investments ready to formalize into a fund or family office vehicle, featuring GPs who made the same transition
- introsAn agri-tech and climate-ag angel syndicate happy hour connecting domain experts from Indigo Ag, Pivot Bio, and UPL circles looking to pool deal flow and co-invest at pre-seed
- tacticalA tactical office hours session for early-stage investors taking on first board observer and director roles at companies like Solasta Bio and Phospholutions, focused on governance, signaling, and founder dynamics
- positioningA positioning dinner for agri-tech investors and operators building a public voice — including AgFunder News contributors and sustainability-focused LinkedIn creators — to workshop thought leadership that attracts inbound deal flow
- introsA curated networking night with founders from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and SOSV's HAX portfolio building at the agri-tech and sustainability frontier, designed to surface pre-seed deal flow for domain-expert angels
- tacticalA closed-door roundtable for UPL-connected operators and global agri-business executives exploring how to leverage industry networks and distribution relationships to back and accelerate agri-tech startups