Mikhel Rajani

Co-Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 1 mo 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 1 mo

Total Experience

11 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

14 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Naagin

Co-Founder

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo · 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 1 mo · 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