Madhur Jain

Building world's largest smallholder focused tech platform for high-quality, removal, carbon credits.

I joined PAD while it was set up as a pilot in a couple of districts in one of the states in India. During my tenure, I was fortunate to- 1. Lead the the organization and strike key partnerships with both central & state governments/bodies, which enabled us to rapidly expand to 700,000+ (MAU > 50%) farmers across 60+ districts in 6 states 2. Grew the team from 15 to 170+, which included setting up the internal tech/product team 3. Played a key role in finalizing and setting up the legal Indian entity, and also served as a founding board member I worked along with an excellent set of folks spread across countries/continents and humbly proud of the growth and achievements during my time and beyond.

Project Manager GODREJ AGROVET LIMITED, BIHAR Oct 2013- June 2014 Prepared Strategy and successfully implemented the project on- “Re-inventing the supply chain of maize in Bihar” • Selected, trained and led a team of 24 professionals in a high pressure environment and challenging terrain • Commenced and supervised buying of maize at 4 different centre across three different districts • Successfully procured more than 36000 Metric tonnes (MT) of excellent quality maize • Shortened the value chain and expanded vendor base to village level traders and farmers Key Achievements: 2% cost advantage in buying as compared to market rate – savings of INR ~8 million Incremental contribution worth ~30 million in feed at buying price and replacement price comparison Buying at source led to better quality maize and feed – increased feed market share in the East & Central BU

Selected as 1 of the 12 Godrej Fellows, a highly esteemed program aimed at identifying young leadership under the age of 35 across the Godrej Industries Limited and Associate companies (Youngest among the fellows). Handling the P&L project to turnaround Oil Palm Plantation business of Godrej Agrovet in Tamil Nadu, thus making it EBITDA positive (TS: 3) • Responsible for providing strategic solutions and it’s on ground implementation to drive sustainable top line and bottom line growth

Worked on the Village Capital led Technology for Impact Accelerator initiative in collaboration with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad · Scouted, screened and conducted outreach to over 500 start ups across 7 sectors; Evaluated over 25 of them for selection of final cohort · Consultant, Business Strategy for 2 incubatee at CIIE; Prepared financial model and projections along with pitching documents for investors

Project Title: "Mapping scalable technologies in the post harvest sector" : Rewarded with a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) • Performed In-depth Interviews with 130+ people including manufacturers, entrepreneurs, industry experts, researchers • Conducted Research & Analysis of post-harvest technologies across 22 cities/towns of 10 states in India; gathered info from 6 countries • Identified 79 novel technologies; suggested 4 technologies and 4 target companies for investment after analysis

Locating the agricultural fields of two of the villages in the state of Uttarakhand (India) on the satellite map. Performed an accuracy assessment of the ground control points.