NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Ananth Gudipati leads the digital strategy at the Farm to Market Alliance (ftma.org) – “A multi stakeholder demand-based consortium set up to develop various food crop value chains.” He has been engaged in the agriculture sector for more than a decade and has deep experience in agriculture supply chains and ICT for agriculture in Asia and Africa. He is also the co-founder of Coolify – a mobile-enabled micro cold storage firm in South Asia, and he advises iprotech – an IOT firm for aquaculture farmers.

Previously, Ananth was a strategy consultant and had stints with TechnoServe and Dalberg consulting, leading their agriculture and SME projects. He also worked on the Stanford University/RDVP-led “Computer on Wheels” project and was responsible for launching multiple ICT-based information modules, including localized agriculture price data portals. He holds an Engineering and Masters degree in telecommunication and business.