
Leadership Team

Yogesh Bellani
Founder & CEO
Over 20 years of rich and immersive Leadership experience in the food industry. Yogesh has proven track record of starting, building and scaling-up consumer businesses. He has built two immensely successful businesses, Kohinoor Ready to Eat Foods (later acquired by McCormick, US) and Del Monte in India.

Rishi Bhardwaj
Chief Innovation & QA Officer
Chef Rishi Bhardwaj is a versatile culinary expert with 25+ years of experience across luxury hotels (Oberoi), Michelin-starred restaurants (Benares), global coffee chains (Barista), QSR (Taco Bell), and FMCG (Del Monte). Known for blending creativity with operational excellence, he excels in product innovation, food strategy, and sensory analysis.

Vikas Sharma
Chief Business Officer
​Vikas Sharma brings over 26 years of executive leadership across the food, specialty ingredients, and FMCG sectors.
At Uttishta Partners, he leads the B2B and HoReCa verticals, driving commercial strategy, institutional partnerships, and scalable go-to-market frameworks.
Previously, as Commercial Director for India & Southwest Asia at Barry Callebaut Group, he managed enterprise P&Ls.
His career spans key commercial and market-development roles at Del Monte Foods, B.N. Agritech, and Ruchi Soya Industries.
Recognized for designing lean distribution models and scaling specialty food portfolios, Vikas excels at building resilient supply ecosystems.



