Management Team

MART is a fully employee-owned consultancy firm. Partners are team members who have had the longest association with MART contributing to the transformational journey of the organization. These core team members provide leadership and vision to other team members and are experts in their own domains. Currently, there are five partners and this list keeps on increasing every year.

Ramesh Chandra Jena

CEO & Practice Lead (Development)
Ramesh has been with MART for 18 years and is currently the COO and Head-Social sector Vertical at MART. Having more than 21 years of experience, specializing in Project management, Consulting, Strategy formulation, Advisory, providing Large-scale implementation support to bi-lateral & multilateral projects for Government, Corporate and CSR in the domain of Livelihoods promotion, Agri-business promotion, Marketing, sustainability and impacting communities at the Bottom of the Pyramid.<br /> He has facilitated number of training program for social sector professionals, private and Govt. officers on sustainable livelihoods and marketing, business model innovation, Project Management etc. and also guest resource person in various B. School and other forums in India. He has been involved in various successful models of MART like 3M, collective marketing, community kitchen, market development and value chain intervention etc. He has been providing consulting support towards assignments of World Bank, IFAD, JICA, USAID, DFID, GIZ etc. corporates and many state and central government program. He has also been involved in multiple International assignments in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and UK and has worked in multiple states in India as well. Ramesh is a Management graduate in Business Entrepreneurship Management from EDII, Ahmedabad, PGDM from CAMS and Master in Commerce from Utkal University.

Pankaj Mishra

Practice Lead (Research and Consumer Insights)
Pankaj has been with MART since 2001 and is currently spearheading the research and agri-business division. He has a decade long experience of handling research and consulting assignments for the BoP segment in the emerging markets of India and Bangladesh. He has been instrumental in developing consumer-centric innovative research tools for rural which have been used extensively in different sectors for generating consumer insights.</p> <p>His work spans across key sectors including healthcare, consumer products, agribusiness, ICT and finance in the rural domain.</p> <p>Pankaj is a management graduate from the Indian Institute of Rural Management, Jaipur and has worked with Usha International and Population Services International prior to joining MART.

Biswadeep Palit

Practice Lead (HealthCare)
Biswadeep is the Practice Lead (Healthcare) and is responsible for the South Asian region business operations with special focus on the Emerging Markets. He has over 25 years of experience in the market research and consulting industry. He has been instrumental in devising business models and supporting strategic initiatives through research and consulting for global healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations, Donors and Government in India and other SAARC countries. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Economics, with a specialization in (Econometrics). Biswadeep has been associated with MART for the past 13 years. He is an associate member of UNCTAD VI, Geneva and a member Academy of International Business (AIB), USA.

Divya Kashyap

Practice Lead Events and Communication
Divya joined MART in 2012 and has been instrumental in setting up the HR systems in the organization. She has also contributed as a partner to business development, roundtable events, rural summits, rural immersion programs, the rural marketing book, proposal and report writing, research for projects and building MART as an institution amongst clients. She is Practice Lead, Events and Communication. Divya is a management graduate from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and has over a decade of experience with organizations like Oracle, Whirlpool, India Today, Aga Khan Foundation, UNICEF and PLAN Canada.

Akshay Kanungo

Partner & Expert – Social Research and Livelihood Promotion
Mr. Akshaya K. Kanungo holds a Masters and M. Phil degree in Anthropology. In his professional career spanning more than 25 years, he has worked in government projects, INGOs in areas of education, health and livelihood empowerment before he joined MART in 2010. He possesses excellent technical skills in qualitative research, has in-depth understanding of regional socio-political systems and strong advocacy skills and abilities in building partnerships and alliances. He is a key member of MART's research vertical and has contributed to and managed various research and evaluation projects ranging from value chain and market studies, opportunity assessment, needs assessment, impact studies and end line & ex-post evaluation.
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