Dr. Amar Nath Chandrani

Biography

Dr. Amar Nath Chandrani, Sr. VP – Marketing & EBDC. Amar made a beginning of his carrier (after completing Ph.D. in Plant Pathology) in Indofil in Dec, 1992 as a Development Officer in North Region of Agro Business Division of Indofil. He attended Management Development Programs at reputed Institutes like IIM – Ahmadabad and University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School). Amar worked for four years in North Region in Product Development and Marketing and thereafter shifted to Head Office Mumbai to handle Mancozeb as a Product Manager. Since then he has worked in various capacities in Product Management and Marketing for Domestic and International Market (Sr. Product Manager, Marketing Manager, Chief Manager – Marketing, General Manager-Marketing). In addition to Marketing, Amar handled Institutional sales for 2 years in Domestic Market. Amar has made immense contribution in last 15 years in the areas of new product Development / Launch / branding, creating proprietary products. With the help of strong team of Product Managers, expanded Core, Strategic and Traded product range of agrochemicals at Indofil from merely 7 – 8 products to > 50. Besides this he set the strategic direction for the synthesis & launch of various agrochemicals technical molecules and took the range of own manufactured molecules to eight from one. He conceived the idea of various proprietary fungicide mixtures formulations (viz; Avtar, Merger and Sprint), all 3 are patented in India and successfully commercialized. He worked in very close co-ordination with manufacturing on capacity expansion projects, with QA and R&D for setting new standards in quality, with R&D on various synthesis and formulation projects. He contributed immensely in driving up the profitability through various strategic moves in co – rodination with front and back end. 

Research Interest

INDOFIL INDUSTRIES LIMITED, established five decades ago, headquartered in Mumbai, a research-led and fully integrated Chemical Company has emerged as a successful and vibrant enterprise, riding high on a simple philosophy of retaining loyalty and enlarging the fold of satisfied customers. The vision of INDOFIL is equally simple – to focus on specific opportunities, drive growth and enhance value for esteemed customers. It has a highly skilled and successful sales team that believes in learning and working with the customers as partners – thus developing the products and services around core issues, to meet their future needs. INDOFIL has a very strong domestic base and a well-recognized international presence. Both businesses viz, Agricultural Chemicals and Specialty & Performance Chemicals are poised for much faster growth through partnerships and joint ventures for manufacturing, marketing and research and development activities with prospective companies across the world. INDOFIL which is a very strong QMS ISO 9001 : 2000 and ISO 14001 Company is professionally managed by its GROUP COO, MR. R. K. MALHOTRA, a Post Graduate in Agriculture with 40 years “hands-on” experience and is an active and advisory member of various related Technical and Trade Associations.