Piyush Patnaik

For the past few years, Piyush has led three businesses operating in the Agri-value chain, consumer staples and the value-added processed food products space. In all these businesses, Piyush has driven the transformational growth agenda to reach the full potential of the business. In each of these businesses, he has also been able to secure global investments ranging in value from 50 – 150 million USD. 

Over a 23 year career span, Piyush has spent almost seven years of that time in the operations space, working in supply chain, procurement, projects, and plant management. He has spent considerable time in sales, business development and strategy functions. In the last decade he has spent managing P&L and large teams, with the last few years being CEOs of various businesses. He has wide ranging experience as a transformation leader for businesses across consumer, food service and B2B channels. 

Piyush has worked with organizations like Coca-Cola and Dabur apart from Cargill and McCain. He has also been a member of CII Food Processing Committee and FMCG committee, apart from being on various government panels e.g., NITI Ayog advisory team on Farm to Fork Strategy. In 2023, he founded Crescendo Consulting, which works in the space of turn-around and scale-up of the Agri and Food businesses. 

Piyush holds a Post-Graduate in Business from IIM, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. He is passionate about sustainability and strongly espouses practices that will help the world get better as a living space for our future generations.