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Prasanna Rao

Founder / CVO, Nirantara

Prasanna Rao is a veteran entrepreneur with a 35-year career in the shipping and logistics industry, having transitioned from the merchant navy to leading global maritime operations and forming successful international joint ventures. In 2018, he founded Essence Shipping in the UAE and Singapore, focusing on transporting commodities on niche trade routes. His professional path pivoted in 2023 with the founding of Nirantara, a rapidly growing sustainability initiative driven by his desire for lasting impact. Nirantara delivers technology-driven ESG and sustainability solutions that help businesses achieve regulatory compliance, unlock operational efficiencies, and create long-term value. Under Prasanna's leadership, the company's team has expanded quickly and emphasizes inclusivity, with more than half the staff being women. More than a business leader, Prasanna is a changemaker committed to making sustainability practical and accessible. He offers his proprietary ESG technology platform, VAJRA, free of subscription, removing financial barriers for companies. Furthermore, his team developed an AI-powered platform for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) that reduces a weeks-long calculation process involving thousands of data sets to just minutes of work. For Prasanna, sustainability is a strategic imperative and a mission to achieve competitive advantage through profit with purpose and growth with responsibility, and innovation with impact.

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