Dr Bibhuti Bhusan Pattanaik

Dr Bibhuti Bhusan Pattanaik

Non-Executive Independent Director and Chairperson of the Board

Bibhuti Bhusan Pattanaik is the Non-Executive, Independent Director, and Chairperson of our Company. He holds a degree of Bachelor of Science (Agriculture) from Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneshwar and degree of Master of Science (Agriculture) in Entomology and Agricultural Zoology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

He also holds a Post-Graduate diploma in Marketing and Sales Management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and a diploma in Human Resource Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University. He has also been awarded with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology by Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur (UP). He has over 40 years of experience at senior level in central PSUs and Government of India in the areas of warehousing and agricultural industry.

He earlier worked as Joint Commissioner (S&R) in the Department of Food and Civil Supplies, Government of India , as chairman and managing director in National Seeds Corporation Limited and as managing director in Central Warehousing Corporation. Subsequently, he was appointed by the Government of India, as Member and later a chairperson of the Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

He also currently serves as a director on the boards of Prabhat Agri Biotech Limited, National E Repository Limited, Farmersfortune (India) Private Limited and Odisha State Warehousing Corporation.