Owner
Born in a traditional Marwari family of Jodhpur, Rajasthan (known as “Blue City” of India), Amitabh completed his MBA in Marketing & Finance in 2000. Being entrepreneurial in passion he decided to join the family business of Timber trading.
In 2004, he set up a base office in Ghana for sourcing Teak to India. Gradually, he added other agro commodities like cashew, sesame, soya beans etc. to his trading portfolio.
His rich entrepreneurial skills and business acumen coupled with high level of integrity and family background have led to the growth and expansion of the company in Africa and elsewhere.
Owner
Shailesh Tulshyan, settled in Mumbai is a Commerce Graduate from Sydenham College (Mumbai). Coming from a Marwari family, entrepreneurship and integrity runs in the blood.
Plunging into work since the young age of 20 years, he joined K N Group of Industries to develop their agro trading business globally (1992-1998). Subsequently in the year 1998, he got an opportunity to establish and head the West Africa Division of Swiss Singapore Enterprises PTE Ltd (A company owned by the Aditya Birla Group). He was the youngest trader in SSOE at that time and was based out of Ivory Coast. In a span of merely 5-6 years he developed sourcing of Timber and Raw Cashew Nuts for SSOE Singapore in the West Africa region (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, Guinee Bissau, Senegal).
Being entrepreneurial and a risk taker in nature, in the year 2008 he left SSOE and joined hands with Amitabh Saboo and started a new journey.
Co-Owner
Born in March, 1977 Jodhpur, Rajasthan in a Rajput family, he completed his MBA in Marketing in the year 2000. He also holds a Diploma in International Marketing and Foreign Trade.
He has held Management position in the Telecom & BPO Industry from 2000 -2012 in companies like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Teleperfomance, India as Senior Management of Sales & Customer Service & Operations in various locations of Mumbai, Gurgaon & Rajasthan.
With a desire to step out of his comfort zone and venture into new areas, he joined this group in the year 2013. Overlooking the entire Ghana operations with commodities like Timber, Raw Cashew Nuts, Sesame, Soya Beans under his preview, he has risen to ranks of partnership due to his dedication, hard work and integrity.
With expansion and diversification in the trading business as the new focus, the founders are now dedicating their entire time in developing new markets, new origins and new commodities in the company portfolio.
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