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Subhash Lode

Growth Stage VC Investments, Cleantech, Edutech, Fintech, Agtech, AI, SSGMCE, JNV

Pune, Maharashtra

Work Experience

  • VP Investment Operations & Business Development

    2023

  • Mentor

    2022

2022 - 2023

  • CEO AGRI & FOOD @ BVG Group

    2022 - 2023

    BVG India employs 55,000+ professionals in facilities management that includes Rashtrapati Bhavan to 600+ facilities and 16 Airports in India. Group also recently started operations in the USA. We are working on a holistic farming aspects with a vision of sustainability & profitability to grower farmers and equitable return to every node in the supply chain that helps to take the produce to the end consumer. In the journey we have created associations with Farmer producer organizations (FPO), where we provide the package of practices to farmers, we also have initiated the contract farming associations. Brief About our Ecosystem Initiatives 1. Satara Mega Food Park is India’s Best Integrated Food Park. Round the year availability of power & water, with a rich biodiversity of raw materials, easy access to both domestic and exports markets, with the strong operations and management support of BVG Group See Intro https://youtu.be/YPEdaFVEkXA 2. BVG Agrotech provides organic inputs to farming communities. Further details on this brief video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgFkUc_1FgE 3. Animal Husbandry - We perform genetic evaluation of Milk Animals which helps farmers, dairy owners to become profitable

2019 - 2022

  • Senior Manager - Investments & Operations

    2019 - 2022

    Pegasus India Evolving Opportunities Fund is a SEBI approved INR 150 crores (USD 25 mn) Category II Alternative Investment Fund, with a greenshoe option of INR 150 crores. We are a sector agnostic fund, with a focus on the following sectors - Agriculture/Livelihood, Financial Inclusion/Fintech, Technology, Environment, Education & Healthcare. Our investment team cumulatively has over 70 years of global experience in fund management and operational exposure in many sectors including FMCG, healthcare, technology, financial inclusion, environment and start-ups. The fund has also put in place an Advisory Board with considerable domain experience across various industry verticals and thus would enhance the mentoring experience for these start-ups. We dwell in the philosophy of “Make it Happen” for the entrepreneurs. Our investments are with a view to support and encourage early stage entrepreneurs to help them create sustainable and scalable business models. We provide business acceleration and mentor our portfolio companies in order for them to expand and scale up their businesses. Our involvement with our investee companies gives them an impetus as we create an ecosystem that helps them leverage our network and relationships.

2015 - 2019

  • Founder

    2015 - 2019

    Agriculture is Subject which is connected to everyone, just think about food that is coming to your plate. We introduced Agrowbook.com to catalyze Agriculture. What it means, Farmers to connect with another farmer for a) Sharing the Best Practices to get more produce per acre b) Ask advice from networked farmer, agricultural research fellow and companies. c) Farmers to get access to research and development that is achieved in agricultural universities. d) Agronomist to get connected with farmers on the field to help them in research and trials. e) Farmers to get Know-How of the new products launched by agricultural companies. f) Farmers to express what are their requirements, issues so that universities and companies understand the requirements and make the research and products accordingly. Agrowbook.com will help in resolution of few issues directly or indirectly to avoid rural population migration to Urban, farmer suicides, rural employment. Today we see elevated fight for basic resources like water, air , transport due to concentrated population in urban zone. ( more Prevalent in developing Countries Like India and will intense in future) Agrowbook.com will be launching a few improvement in Agriculture supply chain which will save $567 million spend on petroleum and would refocus 2.71 billion man hours towards agriculture in India, all benefiting to farmers and Economics of Agriculture. Detailed concept Note is available here http://goo.gl/jTE7CN

2011 - 2015

  • Manager Strategic Sourcing and Business Analysis

    2013 - 2015

    Leading Teams responsible for Spend Analysis, Market Intelligence, Inventory/Materials Management and Master Data Management of $3bn organization. Contributing to fact finding and scoping process improvements on strategic sourcing. Enabling the organization with Market Intelligence to make better decisions on sourcing front. Leading technology project for data integrity across the multiple divisions for inventory optimization, supplier risk assessment. Leading the organization collaboration efforts with case studies including the financial improvements Sound Understanding and Experience on ERP Implementations in North America, United Kingdom, Netherlands. Over 11 years of experience in ERP Implementation, Change Management, Implementation Stabilizations, Data Management, staffing and IT Vendor Management, Requirements Gathering, Initiations, Planning, Executions, Project Closures, Document Management. Support Process planning, Data base Administration and User Management. In-depth knowledge of Oracle EBS and complex architectures with bolt on applications like Fusion Middleware, OBIEE, Hyperion, PDQ and Legacy Systems. Extensive Experience in coordination with Management and IT teams from North America, Europe, Middle East, India UK and Africa. Proficient in Oracle Purchasing, INV, I-Procurement in 11i and R12,  Proven ability to manage projects from initiation to execution adhering to PMP practices.  Researched, Collated Inventory Data from the multiple ERPs to showcase the Inventory Value over $100 million and provided the approach to unlock the capital investment and introduced the Material Management function in the Organization  Established the innovation Framework to capture the potential ideas for commercialization, cost savings, continuous improvements.  Prepared the Business case followed up and Initiated the Legal Process off shoring process to save $ 7 million over the period of time.

  • Sr. Functional Analyst

    2011 - 2013

2010 - 2011

  • Oracle Application Consultant

    2010 - 2011

2006 - 2010

  • Oracle Application Consultant

    2006 - 2010