Our Leadership Team
Narendra Sarawgi - Chief Strategy Officer & Advisor
Government Consulting | Innovation & Development Policy | Country Representation | Market Entry | Business Development | Investment Attraction | Trade Promotion | Writer | Blogger
Narendra is the Chairman of Needemy LLP – a new-age business and consultancy venture that provides best-of-breed services and products to diverse stakeholders across the education & skills development, economic development & business consulting, and e-commerce spectrums.
He has over 40 years’ experience of consulting and business in leadership roles spanning management, strategy, sales, business development, and entrepreneurship. He has had professional and business relationships with several multi-national and renowned Indian companies such as Philips, Whitford, Telstra, Tata, Reliance, Rolta, Wipro, and Best & Crompton Engineering among others. Throughout his career, he has closely worked with senior executive management of corporations as well as decision-makers in the government.
He is the Founder Managing Director at management & strategy consulting firm Innoversant Solutions Pvt. Ltd, and is a consultant at Primera Networks-UK and Unignos-UK. He also served as a Director on the Boards of Mphinite Technologies Pvt Ltd and Manjushree Technopack Ltd., Bangalore, India.
He has shared responsibility as India Director of several international development, trade promotion and investment attraction agencies from countries such as USA, UK, Switzerland, Hungary, and Hong Kong. He has advised these government agencies in their international strategies, policies and competitive positioning for attracting international investors, and has led key marketing programs to drive the efforts with very high success.
Narendra also jointly held the position of India Representative of TEKES (a Finnish Government Innovation Agency) for its Innovation oriented fore-sighting project.
He has spearheaded prestigious Innovation Policy and State Development Roadmap consulting assignments for State Governments in India. He is credited with introduction of several innovative solutions to government organizations in the field of information technology, science, telecommunications, water supply, sewerage, agriculture and instrumentation. Narendra has worked on diverse and multi-sector projects of various State Governments, including internationally funded development projects.
Narendra has leveraged business strategy skills and long- term relationships with consultants, corporations and government in developing and executing consulting assignments. He has provided business development consultancy to manufacturing and technology companies catering to oil, gas and water utilities, defence, education, agriculture, industry, and other sectors. He has also founded several companies from scratch as an entrepreneur and successfully grown them rapidly. He specializes in and relishes challenging assignments.
He is a member of several professional, management and entrepreneurship development organizations and has developed excellent relationships at senior levels.
Keenly interested in academics and a firm believer in educational development and reforms, Narendra holds Post Graduate degrees in Management (M.B.A.) and Commerce (M.Com), and a degree in Law (LL.B.). He is certified by the World Bank Institute for “Innovation Policy For Developing Countries”. He has also completed Courses on Sustainability, Economic Development, Strategy etc. from reputed institutes such as MIT-USA, UNO-Geneva, IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM- Bangalore, Azim Premji University, and others.
Nishant Sarawgi - Founder Director & CEO
Intl. Business & Economic Development Consultant | Strategy & Business Development Consultant | Career Coach | Career Counsellor | Education Consultant | Soft Skills Trainer | Happiness Coach | CSR & Social Entrepreneurship Evangelist | Youth Empowerment Advocate
Nishant is currently the Director & CEO of Needemy LLP – a new-age business and consultancy venture that provides best-of-breed services and solutions to B2C, B2B, and B2G client segments across economic development, investment & trade promotion, education & skills development, and e-commerce sectors.
He is the Founder of EnrichMyCareer – a one-stop career counselling & mentoring venture serving students & working professionals for their holistic career mapping, career planning, & career development needs.
Nishant brings a rich experience of over 12 years of assuming leadership roles in diverse professional, academic, and social assignments.
He has had a rewarding career as an international business consultant and economic development professional. He has successfully led projects and supported domestic and foreign organizations in areas of business strategy, India and international market entry, investment attraction, trade promotion, innovation, marketing, business development, CSR and other key areas.
Nishant had played an instrumental role as a Consultant in driving the research, strategy, and business development efforts for some of the key projects and initiatives related to Higher Education, R&D and Innovation Ecosystem, Industry 4.0, and CSR of a renowned consulting firm.
As a former Director & Senior Consultant at a management & strategy consulting firm, Nishant had assumed leadership roles in several key projects. He successfully promoted the regional economies of St.GallenBodenseeArea (SGBA, Switzerland), and Marketing Birmingham (UK) as their India Director to attract investments from Indian companies in key target sectors. He provided in-country trade promotion services to Hungarian National Trading House (HNTH) as its joint South India Director. He also supported Tekes (Finnish innovation funding agency) in helping them understand about the Indian innovation ecosystem and identify potential Indo-Finnish collaboration opportunities. Further, he has provided consultancy to plan the development roadmaps for certain Indian State Governments.
Nishant has also worked as an Inward Investment Advisor at UK Trade & Investment (UKTI, Govt. of UK), where he provided strategic advice and handholding to several Indian companies from diverse sectors to help them successfully set up or expand in the UK. He had also earlier helped generate FDI from India for Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA, USA) and Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK, Govt. of Hong Kong SAR).
Nishant finds great joy in doing things at the intersection of economic, social, and environmental relevance. As a voluntary Director at National Social Entrepreneurship Forum – a non-profit organization, he masterminded several youth-oriented programs to promote social entrepreneurship as a viable career option. He has represented India at the United Nations Youth Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York in August 2010, in which global youth leaders met and brainstormed on the UN’s ‘Millennium Development Goals’ (now called ‘Sustainable Development Goals’).
Nishant, a mechanical engineering alumnus from R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore, founded Project Garuda during college days for building super fuel-efficient prototype cars to represent India in international competitions. He has delivered talks on Project Garuda at University of Cambridge -UK, and IIT-Guwahati. His project team has won multiple awards for this innovation.
Nishant believes in lifelong learning and pursuing growth opportunities for personal and professional development. He has completed the Executive Education Program on ‘Leading Economic Growth’, from the Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard University), USA. He is an Internationally Certified Career Coach by the Career Development Alliance, USA. Nishant is also an internationally Certified Happiness Coach. Besides these, he has completed several other Certification programs on various topics such as FDI, International Trade, Entrepreneurship Development, CSR etc. from reputed international and Indian universities and organizations.
In his free time, Nishant loves indulging in 3 Ts – Tea, Tennis (watching), and Travel.
Ravina Sarawgi - Founder Director & COO
Financial Planner & Analyst | Financial Advisor | Company Secretary (CS) | Operations Manager | E-Commerce Aficionado | Digital Marketing Evangelist | Interior Designer
Ravina Sarawgi is the Founder Director & COO of Needemy LLP, a new-age and multi-sectoral consultancy and business venture that caters to diverse needs of organizations and individuals, by providing high quality, reliable and innovative solutions, services, and products across economic development, investment & trade promotion, education & skills development, and e-commerce industries.
She has over 10 years of solid experience in finance, operations, sales, and marketing and in handling various projects for diverse stakeholders.
Ravina’s excellent multi-tasking ability, and proven management and leadership skills have enabled her to effectively lead the financial and operational aspects at Needemy, as well as make significant contributions to overall organizational planning and decision-making aspects.
The inception of Needemy’s e-commerce business for US and Indian markets is the brainchild of Ravina, and she currently heads it. This strategically aligns with her, and with the organization’s constant strive to keep pace with the changing market dynamics, industry trends, and business diversification needs.
Over the years, Ravina has also been successfully providing financial planning & management advisory services to various organizations and individuals as a Freelance Financial Advisor.
Coming from a business family and having developed entrepreneurial traits from a young age, she was also actively engaged in providing operational, sales, and financial advisory support to her family-owned businesses.
Ravina was employed with Cropin Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, for 4 years as Manager-Financial Planning and Analysis. During her tenure, she handled key responsibilities and made valuable contributions not only in helping optimise the company’s overall processes, but also in planning and forecasting revenues, preparing & monitoring departmental budgets, reviewing & reporting financial & non-financial KPIs, and providing insights to investors and founders on key metrics for better decision making.
Ravina is a qualified and professional CS, a CA Inter qualified, and a M.Com graduate. She also has a Diploma in Interior Designing and she has successfully completed quite a few interior designing projects for different clients.
Being a continuous and fast learner, and always looking to upgrade her skills, Ravina has completed multiple courses in areas like ecommerce, digital marketing, financial planning and taxation, and stock market among others from well-known platforms & organisations.