Pratheepan Karunagaran is the Executive Director of Apical. He is responsible for the Group’s Bulk and Value Added downstream business, Sustainability Roadmap, long-term growth strategy and expansion of Apical’s downstream business segment. In his capacity, Pratheepan also spearheads Apical’s entry into new and emerging markets and, manages the Group’s overall focus on continuous improvement, people and culture. With over 20 years of experience, he helmed senior leadership roles across the commodity space including rice, sugar, oil seeds and edible oils processing, production of value added products as well as agro commodities trading and merchandising in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Pratheepan holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States).