Farmneed Agribusiness is born with legacy technology backbone of Express Weather. Express Weather was pioneering weather data service in agriculture sector since 2012. With the key objective being agriculture focus, Farmneed is formed with adequate knowledge, foresight and passion.
Angshu is the founder and CEO of Farmneed AgriBusiness. He heads product planning, new business opportunity for the company. He brings in 20 years of professional experience in Developmental Landscape and Rural Marketing. Angshu has been a regular speaker and presenter in multiple weather-related conferences, including 'Global Forum for Innovation in Agriculture and Mobile World Congress'. He is also the founding team member of 'Society of Satellite Professional International (India Chapter)'.
Ritesh is the co-founder of Farmneed AgriBusiness. He brings over 20 years plus business experience from the field of logistics and food business. Ritesh has completed his Master’s in International Business from Ecole Des Ponts Business School, Paris.
Faisel is an experienced professional with a strong background in shipping, cross-border trade, and infrastructure. As a member of the 'Alunited Maritime & Trading Pte. Ltd.' board, Faisel takes care of Farmneed’s business development and operations in the South Eastern Asia region. He holds degrees in 'Global Politics' and 'International Affairs' from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and American University (Washington DC) respectively.
Ramesh is heading the remote sensing and severe weather domain at Farmneed AgriBusiness. He brings over more than 20 years of professional experience, comprising of remote sensing, oceanography and atmospheric science. He worked as lead scientist in ‘Lightning & Climate Change’ under DST during 2013. Prior to FNAB, Ramesh has worked for National Institute of Oceanography Regional Centre (Visakhapatnam), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) & APEC Climate Center (Busan, South Korea). He has done his Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Space Science from the University of Pune and M.Tech. in Remote Sensing from the Department of Geo Engineering, Andhra University.
Soma is heading the weather and climate science at Farmneed AgriBusiness. She brings over more than 10 years of experience in weather models and predictive analysis. She has worked extensively in Mesoscale Modelling of Thunderstorms using WRF model, data assimilation and observational analysis of severe rainfall events. Soma completed her Master's in Atmospheric Science from the University of Calcutta and done her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her Ph.D. thesis was on Mesoscale Modelling of Thunderstorms. Prior to us, Soma was with Banaras Hindu University as a Research Associate on Regional Climate Modelling. She used Reg CM 4.6 model and is also familiar with the DSSAT crop model.
Bablu is leading the core data team of Farmneed AgriBusiness. He brings over more than 10 years of rich experience in data modelling and user requirement analysis in farm sector. Bablu is rich with domain knowledge, related weather science and IoT. He plays a key role in proprietary development of crop-weather simulation model of EW. He has done his Master’s in Computer Application.
Arindam takes care of the entire computing including HPC management, essential for weather data generation. He is a certified professional from Microsoft. With more than 15 years of experience, Arindam is heading data security, computing, resource optimization and network security.
Siddhartha, with profound knowledge in agriculture and horticulture, is heading the farm interface domain of Farmneed AgriBusiness. He brings over five years of multi-dimensional field level experience in agriculture ecosystem which includes plant protection guidance, interfacing with farmers and input trade. He has done his Bachelor's in Horticulture from BCKV and Master's in Tea Science from North Bengal University. Prior to Farmneed, Siddhartha has served in Goodricke, Nagarjuna Agrichem and Bayer Crop Science.
Avradeep is handling both Domestic and International Business Development for Farmneed. He brings more than 18 years of experience in Sales and Marketing across continents. Grew up in a business family engaged in Agri Commodity trading for generations, Avradeep’s rich exposure consists of Agri Machinery Trade, Weather Data Services and IT Hardware & Software Sales. He has multi country exposure in AgTech and FinTech Solution selling with Globally acclaimed companies across Middle East & Africa. Prior to us, he was with Customer XPS, a leading software enterprise, dealing in Financial Crime Management solution for BFSI.
Moumita’s role with Farmneed AgriBusiness is related to business development with Banking and other developmental sectors. Her cross functional experience over 10 years, includes mobility and banking at large. She has done her Post Graduation in Mass Communication and Diploma in Banking and Financial Accounting. Prior to Farmneed AgriBusiness, Moumita was with Vodafone Essar and ICICI Bank subsequently.
Korak is part of the business team and looking after pre-sales in Farmneed. He has done his Master’s in Computer Application (MCA). Prior to Farmneed, he was with HSBC Data Processing, and has an overall experience of more than 7 years.
Atanu is a widely accepted leader within the organization with great people management ability. He brings over rich 25 years of experience in IT services and IT enabled solutions. His fundamental ability includes developing and managing large engineering team to deliver Software Products, solutions and services with proper cost benefit analysis. Atanu being passionate about building High Performance Team to produce high quality deliverables, started leading the product team of FNAB from March 2021. He has extensive technical and business experience in Software Engineering based industry, involving multiple research projects and product developments. In FNAB he heads the product development team.