Mikhel Rajani

Co-Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India14 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered India's first drone-delivered pizza.
Co-founded Naagin, India's first hot sauce brand.
Expert in scaling Indian F&B brands globally.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Food & Beverage entrepreneur with a strong focus on brand development and operational excellence.

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Skills

Core Skills

Brand ManagementProduct StrategyBusiness DevelopmentOperational Execution

Other Skills

Commercial StrategyManufacturingDistributionProduct DevelopmentSupply Chain ManagementR&DTeam ManagementEvent ManagementMarketing StrategyMarketing CommunicationsNew Business DevelopmentNegotiationSocial Media MarketingAdvertisingCorporate Events

About

I’m a food entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the F&B industry across India, Hong Kong, and Italy. I started with Francesco’s Pizzeria, where we launched India’s first drone-delivered pizza. It was a bold idea, but more importantly, it gave me hands-on experience across kitchens, logistics, branding, and customer experience. In 2019, I co-founded Naagin. Despite being one of the world’s largest chilli exporters, India didn’t have a hot sauce brand of its own. We built Naagin to change that. Naagin is a product-led, manufacturing-driven brand rooted in Indian ingredients like Sankeshwari and Bhut Jolokia. Today, we are present across retail, HoReCa, exports, and direct-to-consumer channels. At Naagin, I lead product, brand, and commercial strategy with a strong focus on quality, consistency, and long-term growth. Always open to conversations around food, brand building, and scaling Indian consumer products globally.

Experience

14 yrs

Total Experience

11 yrs

Average Tenure

14 yrs

Current Experience

Naagin

Co-Founder

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Naagin is India’s first homegrown hot sauce brand, built to spotlight the richness of Indian chillies through clean, bold, and modern formats.
We started with a simple gap — India is one of the world’s largest chilli exporters, but didn’t have a single hot sauce brand to call its own. Our vision is to change that by building an original, export-ready Indian brand that reflects both cultural depth and product excellence.
I lead product, brand, manufacturing, and commercial strategy. From in-house production to distribution across retail, HoReCa, D2C, and exports, we’ve built Naagin with a focus on consistency, design, and scale.
We're building not just a sauce brand, but a long-term FMCG company rooted in Indian identity and built for global relevance.

Brand ManagementProduct StrategyCommercial StrategyManufacturingDistribution

Rajani food services & hospitality pvt ltd.

CEO

Apr 2012 – Present · 14 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Rajani Food Services was set up to solve for something simple — the gap between great food ideas and operational execution.
We build backend systems that power real products. From sourcing and R&D to manufacturing and supply chain, the company functions as an engine behind brands like Naagin, while also exploring new verticals in food and beverage.
The goal is to create a foundation that can support clean, scalable Indian F&B brands built for the long term.

Business DevelopmentOperational ExecutionSupply Chain ManagementR&D