Mr. Raj Kaul BSc Engg. (Hons) MBA

Raj Kaul brings 15 years of experience in Engineering Consulting and consumer products marketing / sales management, and more than 30 years in general management and M&A for Bayer India and Bayer Germany in Ag and related businesses. He’s a former member of several boards of JVs and other listed companies, e.g. Bayer India (a listed company) on behalf of Bayer AG, leading VC in USA on behalf of Bayer AG, Bilag India etc.

Raj has completed about 200 transactions from licensing, JVs, and research agreements, to partnerships, acquisitions and divestments. His single largest transaction was the acquisition of Aventis and its subsequent divestments. retired as member of the Group Leadership Circle of Bayer AG and Senior Vice President of Bayer CropScience AG.

Raj currently serves on the Board of Directors of Gowan, USA, Sajjan Industries, India, Boragen Bio, RTP USA. He is a former Board member of Vindara, RTP USA, and former Chairman of the Board Agrinos AS.

He was an advisor to Bayer Crop Science AG until 2014 and is currently advisor to Oerth Bio as well as a member expert panel of a leading European PE fund. Raj is Managing Partner, RK Associates, a business and advisory consulting company active in India and Europe.