Pratheepan Karunagaran

Pratheepan Karunagaran is the Executive Director of Apical. He is responsible for the Group’s Bulk and Value Added downstream business, Sustainability Roadmap, long-term growth strategy and expansion of Apical’s downstream business segment. In his capacity, he also spearheads Apical’s path into new and emerging markets, its entry into the renewable fuel business, including Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and manages the Group’s overall focus on continuous improvement, people and culture. Pratheepan has over 20 years of experience at senior leadership roles across the commodity space including rice, sugar, oil seeds and edible oils processing, production of value added products as well as agro commodities trading and merchandising in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States).