KHETHINEXT

Management Team

KHETHINEXT Management team is a group of people having over 30 years of experience in agriculture domain, empowering farmers and rural communities and enabling digital transformation solutions. Having this vast experience, this management team has envisioned KHETHINEXT to enable digital agriculture transformation in helping famers improve their livelihood.

Mr. Phanidhar Palakoti - Founder CEO

Mr. Phanidhar Palakoti - Founder CEO

Mr. Palakoti has over 25 years of remarkable IT industry experience. He has worked with multiple MNCs, where he spent over 15 years with Microsoft in Strategy Consulting and Leaderships roles.

While at Microsoft, Mr. Palakoti played a key role in influencing Microsoft technologies and solutions to Global Enterprises, Mid-Markets and Governments. During his stint at Microsoft, he was involved in driving worldwide initiatives and setting a presales practice for cloud productivity. His leadership at Microsoft helped in driving strategic IT initiatives with global enterprises and was also instrumental in driving large scale e-governance and citizen service initiatives in India like eSeva, APOnline, Bhoomi and State Data Centers. With his strong executive presence, customer relationship, and technical competencies, Mr. Palakoti was considered as a trusted advisor to many enterprises. Prior to Microsoft, he had served as Country Head, Project Manager and Technical Lead in various organizations.

Stronger leadership, passion for technology, high determination and vast professional experience at the backdrop, he has founded companies PALS Global Solutions and PALS AGRI eCONNECT.

Mr. Palakoti holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science Engineering and Maters in Business Administration from a reputed university.

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Mr. A Raghuram Reddy, Director

Mr. AR Raghuram Reddy, Director

Mr. Raghuram Reddy has an experience of over 30 years of experience in socio-economic empowerment of disadvantage communities in rural areas. Worked for social, financial and digital inclusion among rural communities and has been instrumental in women empowerment.

Mr. Raghuram Reddy was responsible for bringing awareness on excess use of pesticides, fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals through social networking, campaigning, arranging rallies etc. and worked for the cause of cleaner environment on selective and need based usage of bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides. Brought economic transformation through entrepreneurship development through pre-production, production, pre-processing, processing, storage and marketing of agri-commodities. Developed a centres of excellence in the fields of organic farming, integrated pest and disease management, non-pesticidal management in field crops and vegetables by proper blending of improved technologies vis-à-vis tradition farming wisdom. Identified as national level resource person in organic farming.

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