Jayadeep Akkireddy Email & Phone Number

Santiago De Compostela, GA, ES

Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• I manage a portfolio of six businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa that are positively contributing to sustainable agriculture and access to water & sanitation services. In addition, I provide advice to entrepreneurs.
• Developed multi-year Social Business investment & portfolio strategy.
• Impacted 400k+ lives.

Utrecht, Netherlands

• I collaborate with the private sector and civil society organizations to create market transformation through analysis, advice, technical assistance and funding. I run a consulting unit, where we advise various.
• Developed and implemented tech & sustainable finance learning agenda as well as published several knowledge products and tools.
• Created a methodology to make digital transformation analysis & advice affordable to agribusinesses and other service providers.
• Designed an innovative pilot for Mastercard, Rabobank, ECOM, ETG and Kenyan banks to provide bundled services to maize and coffee farmers.
• Promoted smallholder segmentation and lead the creation of a segmentation tool.

Utrecht, Netherlands

• IDH achieves SDGs through sustainable trade. I work together with the private sector, governments, and civil society organizations to improve smallholder livelihoods.Accomplishments:
• Provided strategic advice for value chains such as coffee, cocoa, tea, spices, cotton, etc., in building smallholder resilience around the globe.
• Developed and implemented IDH technology agenda focusing agriculture value chain digital transformation.
• Conducted a design sprint in Indonesia to explore revenue opportunities for an information service provider aiming to improve the efficiency of pepper farming.
• Lead UNSGSA's Ag-fin working group that resulted in a partnership model among agribusinesses, banks and fin-techs. We achieved to unlock access to agri-finance while reducing overall risk through service ecosystem.
• Chaired smallholder strategy group facilitating learnings across IDH programs.

Lusaka, Zambia

• WFP is the food assistance branch of the UN addressing hunger and promoting food security. My role at WFP was enhancing market access for smallholder farmers to alleviate poverty. I co-created Virtual Farmers’ Market.
• Launched an e-commerce app called Maano in less than 5 months and connected 4,000 rural Zambian farmers with regional pulses markets.
• Mobile money payments to 50 rural communities.
• Digital Financial Services to increase agricultural outcomes' panelist at USAID Digital Development Forum-Zambia
• Certified Zero Hunger Supervisor.

Moshi Rural, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

• NEI is a social enterprise that produces ethically sourced, sustainably grown natural extracts and flavour ingredients. I revitalized spice value chains in Tanzania and created added value through a processing plant.
• Won Created Shared Value prize from Nestle in 2016 for the positive impact in smallholder livelihoods.
• Awarded 400,000 USD grant from African Enterprise Challenge Fund.
• Launched 6 new natural food flavours between 2014 and 2016.
• Doubled revenues every year for 3 consecutive years.
• Established supply chain to positively impact 1,200 smallholder farmers.

Haiti

• MFK is dedicated to saving the lives of Haiti’s malnourished children and other nutritionally vulnerable people by developing, producing and distributing highly nutritious foods, including Ready-to-Use Therapeutic.
• Revenues increased by 75 % under my leadership (5M USD in 2013).
• Classified MFK as a World Food Programme's supplier.
• Commercialized a new snack product.
• Increased revenues from key accounts by 40 %.
• Scaled up peanut outgrower programme in Haiti.

Milan

• Pirelli is the one of the largest global tyre maker by revenues and is leader in the high-end segments. I was tasked to complete an Enterprise Risk Management model for global procurement.Accomplishments:
• Presented a comprehensive risk management model to the executive team
• Completed risk profiling of 80 % of the suppliers by spend

Chittaurgarh Area, India

• Vedanta is a global diversified metals and mining company. I joined Vedanta as a Graduate Engineer - to collect, manage and analyse plant performance data. I quickly became Production Shift In Charge and start managing.
• Achieved plant availability of 96 %.
• An increase of 20 % in annual production volume for two consecutive years (60,000MT in 2010).
• Three times prize winner for delivering continuous improvement projects.
• Reduced production variability, defects, downtime and waste resulted in savings of more than 150,000 USD.

Chennai Area, India

TCS is India’s largest IT Company. I provided technical support for Morgan Stanley’s banking data management.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), General Management, 107/110

Activities and Societies: • Organizational Check Up Activity at ITT Motion Technologies. • President of MIP Strategy Club. • Participated.

International Mba- Exchange Student, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law, A+

Bachelor Of Technology, Chemical Engineering, 8.5/10 First Class With Distinction

Activities and Societies: • Recipient of Financial Assistance for Innovative Project from L-RAMP (Lemelson Recognition And Mentoring.