Advisory Board

Alka Duseja is the Founder & CEO of Grainyday Nutraceuticals Pvt. Ltd., a women-led nutraceutical innovation and contract manufacturing company based in Pune. With 16 years of corporate experience in IT and Supply Chain Management, she brings expertise in functional foods, millet-based products, product innovation and manufacturing.

Alka Duseja is an entrepreneur and food innovation professional, and the Founder & CEO of Grainyday Nutraceuticals Pvt. Ltd. With 16 years of experience in corporate IT and Supply Chain Management, she transitioned into entrepreneurship with a vision to build a trusted Make in India company in the nutrition and wellness sector. At Grainyday, she works on developing and manufacturing functional foods, millet-based products, protein bars, nutrition products and nutraceutical powders for emerging brands, startups and institutional customers. Her work focuses on transforming traditional Indian ingredients, particularly millets, into contemporary, convenient and value-added nutrition products through modern food technology and manufacturing.

A veteran food technologist with 40+ years in food science, Prof. Smita Lele specialises in fruit & vegetable processing, fermentation and food-process development. Emeritus Professor of Eminence at ICT Mumbai and former Director of its Marathwada campus, she is among India's most prolific food-science researchers and academic mentors.

A food-technology and agricultural-processing academic with 19+ post-PhD years of experience. With a B.Tech from GB Pant University, M.Tech and PhD in Agriculture Processing from PAU Ludhiana, and US food-industry experience, he leads academics as Pro-VC at Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women's University.

A veteran academic and naturopathy practitioner whose qualifications span homeopathy, naturopathy and Ayurveda, with a Royal Society of Health (London) fellowship. After agro-industry roles (1970-95), he has spent decades in academia and practice, lecturing and running health-management workshops across four continents.

One of India's foremost food-regulatory and public-policy experts, with around 30 years of industry experience. He heads Global Regulatory, Public Policy & Advocacy at Marico Ltd., has represented India eight times at the Codex Alimentarius, is a past national President of AFST(I), and has authored 16 books including the bestseller 'Accidental Food Technologist'.