People Making Impact

Raghunandan Saraf, hails from a small town named Sardarshahar, in Rajasthan.He is an MBA professional from Shree Ram College of Commerce, Delhi. After completing his studies in 2009, he joined his family business- Saraf Furniture.

By nature, he is a technology enthusiast and explorer of new opportunities. He believed in turning the tables in whatsoever he does. His passion to capture new market trends on e-commerce turned him into an entrepreneur of the e-commerce business. In 2014, he started Insaraf.com with a vision to make every home beautiful place to dwell. It was inaugurated with limited designs and a small team. Raghu realized that people like their homes to be unique with individual furniture choices. This concept extended the possibilities of creating customized handcrafted Sheesham wood furniture on a big scale.

His passion and dedication revived the family business and gave it a new foundation in six years. He believed in giving a brand new identity to this legacy of wooden furniture business with ethics. He framed new concepts like termite resistance warranty for a lifetime, PAN India delivery, best prices, and quality in each product making it a global brand in three years.

He is on a mission to help everyone excited; to create, renovate, and adore the beauty of Sheesham wood. Other than devoting his time making business strategies, he relishes spending quality time with his family encourages reading and being fit and holds the views, that his team is also an essential part of this family.

Raj is an experienced business leader and a healthcare entrepreneur who chartered a career in this sector out of his passion to be a part of this growing eco-system and contribute to it meaningfully.
He is the Founder & CEO of KITES Senior Care, a single specialty brand in geriatric care founded in Bangalore, South India in 2016. KITES Senior Care operates assisted care centers and provides geriatric care at home & at senior living facilities.
Raj commenced his healthcare journey as the CEO of Motherhood, a specialty in maternity care. He orchestrated a successful PE fund raise & a strategic acquisition which helped scale the brand from a single unit operations to multi-city multi-unit operations and its foray into treatment of infertility.
Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, he served as the Chief Executive of HCG Milann, leader in the space of reproductive medicine offering infertility treatment solutions & related research initiatives where he worked closely with the Board in formulating the growth strategies of the company and was responsible for its successful execution.
In the past, he has had the privilege of having worked with an eclectic mix of successful organisations Eastern Spices, AOL Time Warner, Cairn Energy India & HPCL where he had the opportunity to learn and contribute meaningfully at various levels.
His success stories include building/scaling brands, taking companies through Strategic M&A deals/PE fund raising, setting up of businesses (start-up/bootstrap) including scaling them. He strongly believes in effective teams to deliver organizational goals and hence strives to invest, build and grow high performing teams. Raj's strengths as a leader are in (a) Customer centric approach (b) People/Process/Value based Governance and (c) Sound Strategy with Execution
Raj is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi, an alumnus of ISB, Hyderabad (AMP) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Madras University. He also serves on the boards' of a super specialty hospital and a healthcare focused strategic advisory firm. He is extremely passionate about mentoring start-ups & sharing knowledge with budding entrepreneurs.

Onlygood is a one-of-its-kind novelty that empowers enterprises with growth centric integration of sustainability. Driven by transformational technology and accelerated by system innovation, it is a unified sustainability monitoring & management platform for real-time product traceability across supply chain touchpoints for manufacturers & enterprise owners, across the country.

Founded by Mr. Rajeev Sinha and Mr. Vivek Mehra, Onlygood serves as an ecosystem that develops, maintains, and reverberates an organizational sustainability roadmap and a conscious culture. In other words, this new-age platform helps businesses to reduce their carbon footprints through technology, in an attempt to build a conscious world worth living for generations to come.

Mr Nikunj Doshi is currently the Cheif Business Officer at the leading Fintech company Propelld.

Before which, he worked at Bajaj Finserv for 10 years; where he held the position of Business Head.

With 22 years of experience in financial services, he is a man who has not skipped even one step in

his success ladder. And here we have him today to enlighten us with his life matras of building

himself as a leader.

Dr. Raman Ramachandran retired as Chairman & Managing Director of BASF India Ltd, Head of BASF group companies in South Asia and subsequently lead PI Industries Ltd as its Managing Director and CEO. During his stint of nearly three decades with global chemicals major (BASF), Raman held many positions of responsibility and led the strategic evolution of BASF as a leader in the agricultural products business in the Asia Pacific region. He has global experience having worked for 11 years based at Singapore with Asia Pacific regional responsibilities. He has a PhD from University of Adelaide, South Australia and subsequently pursued his research interests with International Organizations in Kenya, Philippines and at University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Raman was a member of the BASF's Asia Pacific Business Board, Vice-President, Crop Life Asia and Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industries, Chemicals and Petrochemicals industry group.