Managing Director, PhD

Dr. Saroj Nayak is currently a professor and Dean (Faculty and Planning) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar. Nayak joined IIT with a leave of absence from Rensselaer, NY, USA on November 2012 and left his tenured professor position in 2014. Nayak has cofounded the first start up from IIT Bhubaneswar, Kalinga Renewable Energy Manufactures (KARMA) that focuses on solar energy technology. He is currently the managing director of KARMA since its inception.

Managing Director, MBBS, Phd

Dr Sasmita Nayak is an assistant professor at KIIT School of Biotechnology at KIIT University and an adjunct faculty at Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences. She did her MBBS from SCB Medical College in Odisha following which she was a visiting physician at Department of Pediatrics, Ellis Hospital, USA and at the Department of Neurology, Albany Medical centre followed by a Ph D from RPI, USA. She is a director at KARMA since its inception.

Director

Dr. S. K. Dash (Sita Kantha Dash) is a globally recognized scientist, visionary, entrepreneur philanthropist. He is a founder of the probiotics industry worldwide and has made it his life's mission to research and promote the benefits of probiotics.Since the company's founding in 1979, it has become known as a world's top probiotics company. Dr. Dash has been instrumental in growing the probiotics industry from a $10 million-a-year to a $100 billion-a year industry, and the field continues to grow at a rapid pace.