Mahesh Patel, General Manager is a Masters in Agriculture from Gujarat Agriculture University, Anand (1994) Gujarat.
With over 10 years of professional experience to his credit, Mr. Mahesh Patel has a remarkable reputation of a hands-on professional particularly in rural projects. He started his career with Arvind Growell Ltd, a member company of the well-known Lalbhai Group, where he successfully spearheaded a project of cotton farming in a thousand hectare area. While implementing this project, he anchored two international collaborations with corporates from Israel and Australia. He chose GIAN as a subsequent career option because of his penchant for rural oriented products and technologies. He has been serving the raison-d’etre of GIAN-West since its inception and has played a pivotal role in making GIAN one of the most successful incubators of grassroots technologies in the country and possibly in the world. He has facilitated ten technology-licensing to first generation entrepreneurs and has helped in setting up several innovation-based micro-enterprises.
His expertise lies in the areas such as Commercialization of grassroots technologies, Enterprise Development, Formulation Business Strategy, Protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Forging Strategic Alliances.