Biography
Kaushik has spent the last 15 years building scalable social enterprises building rural livelihoods in India. He is the Cofounder and CEO of Kheyti, an organization helping smallholder farmers battle climate change through its "Greenhouse-in-a-Box", a low-cost greenhouse bundled with end-to-end services that protects crops from environmental risks and grows 7 times more food using 1/50th the water.
Before launching Kheyti, Kaushik spent five years as a leadership team member of B-ABLE, a social enterprise that connects school dropouts to mainstream careers through high quality training and placement services.
Kaushik is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur and has an MBA from Columbia Business School. Kaushik is a winner of the prestigious EarthShot Prize and the Elevate Prize. He is an Acumen India Fellow and a DRK Foundation Entrepreneur.