Sameer Athavale

Shop for Change Fair Trade is a nonprofit organization founded in 2009, incubated by European Union and Traidkraft UK, and restructured by Sameer in 2015. Shop for Change's Mission is to empower farmers, artisans, and their families via sustainable trade and provide long-term solutions to poverty. As an Indian NGO, we are the country's first Fair Trade label. We are committed to providing a meaningful and lasting impact on society through sustainable social Change. Through our work, we hope to make the world a better place.

• Reengineered the organization’s functioning by changing its priority from certification to trade development.
• Successfully developed and executed sustainable business plans for more than 2000 farmers. The income of farmers is doubled compared to conventional farmers.
• Successfully developed an alternative crop management system for more than 100 plus tribal farmers. Tribal farmers are able to earn a minimum of 2.5 lacs per annum with the extra crop.
• Planted over 50,000 fruit-bearing trees with 700 tribal farmers in 20 villages of Jawhar Taluka, Palghar District, Maharashtra India.
• Developed an in-house web-based dashboard to track and monitor the progress of the plantation and evaluate yield in terms of quantity and revenue.
• Encouraged more than 5000 farmers to convert to organic farming from conventional farming.
• Started organic farming training Centre in Boarding schools for tribal youth.
• Developed unique handmade consumer utility products made out of Cotton Canvas and Jute, which received an overwhelming response from consumers. (e.g. canvas shoe bags)
• Worked with various artisan groups and helped them in their capacity building and process optimization.
• Worked on various levels right from material sourcing to product development which helped the organization to develop cost-effective artisan products.
• Developed low-budget sales & marketing plans which will give immediate results and help the organization to develop self-sustainable business modules.
• Built around 5 cr worth of businesses for farmers and artisans in 5 years span.
• As of today, the organization is on auto-pilot mode and it can perform with the same results in my absence.

Major Clients: DHL, Bluedart, Edelweiss, Nature's Basket, Mariott Hotels, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited, Deloitte, Shoppers Stop, Thomas Cook, PMI, JSW, AXIS Bank, HDFC Bank, DelMonte, Color Plus

5 Aharatattva for Healthy Lifestyle Foods Retail Private Limited earlier known as Sustainble Livelihoods was incubated by Shop for Change Fair Trade to help farmers to sell their produce directly to consumers. Currently rebranded as Earthwise (earthwiseorganics.in) deals in more than 300 plus farm fresh products directly sourced from farmers across India.

• Started with roadside thela of vegetables in 2016 is now a well known organic brand in Mumbai & Suburbs.
• Drove performance initiatives, facilitating a 50% revenue increase each year.
• Deals in more than 300 SKUs sourced from more than 2000 farmers pan India.
• Successfully delivered more than 10,000 deliveries during the first lockdown while brands like Amazon and Bigbasket failed to deliver in Mumbai due to the sudden collapse of the traditional supply chain.
• Built a strong and robust end-to-end supply chain.
• Successfully developed an e-commerce platform which can handle time-bound local deliverers and pan-India deliveries.
• Acquired around 10,000 customers with a very limited marketing budget.
• Handled Social media and digital marketing independently.
• Integrated Google Merchant Centre, and Facebook catalogue.
• Successfully automated customer support by using the Whats app API tool.
• Post Exit company continued the existing business and added new verticals for expansion because of the robust supply chain.

Sustainble Livelihoods started as the marketing arm for farmers and artisans. The only motive was to build India's biggest fair Trade supply chain.

· Susuatinble Livelihoods successfully converted to a Private Limited Company in 2019 for raising initial capital.

· Successfully developed a fair trade business plan and executed it with profitability at both ends.

· Started with a seasonal gifting business and converted to a regular recurring business plan.

· Developed innovative ways to the market product with actually no marketing budgets.

· Tied up with large corporate in Mumbai for doing pop-up sales in their cafeteria and lobby area.

Developed an e-commerce platform using open-source technology with a payment gateway and SMS integration.

A platform for small and medium-scale entrepreneurs to come together and start using common services and share a common platform to grow and spread their business to the international market. Jackfruit United is an exclusive company that provides IT-enabled services along with Marketing & PR solutions for Hotels, Resorts, Homestays and Agro tourism centres.

• Developed Travel Portal to build a common platform for hoteliers.
• Directed marketing efforts to promote visibility and introduce new products.
• Analyzed complex situations, designed practical solutions, and implemented cost-effective plans
• Consistently maintained a high-standard performance record via exceptional service, follow-through, and specific attention to detail which resulted in higher sales.
• Good expertise in handling e-commerce things.
• Failed due to early entry in the virgin market and limited holding capacity.

Energy Consumption Optimisers Pvt. Ltd. (ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company), provide education regarding energy conservation and commercialize energy efficiency services. With the aim of saving the energy of the whole nation, ECO will make an effort to minimize the energy intensity in the Indian economy.

• Engineered & explored a concept called "SocioProfessional Enterprise". The 1st product of that concept was the "Energy Economizer".
• Promote, develop and implement non-conventional, renewable and alternate energy devices and technologies.
• Take concrete steps for conventional energy conservation measures in industries, commercial establishments and domestic sectors.
• Evolve suitable alternatives to meet the burgeoning energy demand.
• Information dissemination and public awareness through training programs, publications, exhibitions, seminars and conferences.

Major Clients: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Ipca Laboratories, USV Ltd, RCM.

Ananya MultiTech Private Limited, formerly "Panini Technologies", "Illusion Dynamics", "Mimansa InfoTech Private Limited" & "Ananya InfoTech" is currently involved in 3 diversified fields: Software Development, Energy Conservation and Organic Agriculture.

• Served more than 100+ clients and educated them about the technology and its use of it.
• Successfully helped “Ananya Multitech” to Expand in African Continents through cold calling.
• Consistently increased sales and maintained profitability each year.
• Provided assistance to businesses and individuals seeking to use this product.

Major Clients: RCM, Advance Pesticides, Sane Care, Coltene India, Vilberry

1st End2End IT Vendor that can provide you with all IoT Enabled Services like CMS, Shopping Cart, SEO, CRM, Shortcode, SMS & Payment Gateway, Domain Registration, Website Hosting, Server Administration, Data Security & Transfer, Digital Archiving, E-Wallet, Coupon System, Customized Software Development & Implementation under one roof.

• Established name recognition and generated sales through a combination of sales and marketing techniques including cold calling, corporate account development and judicious placement of advertising.
• Successfully served more than 500++ clients across the world. Marketed services and products, recruited personnel, trained employees and managed marketing activities.
• Preparing business plans & marketing plans for new products.

Major Clients: Diotek, EN2S-Pancard Group, Sevenrings International (Italy) and G2I.

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) is a technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company. It is one of the largest and most respected companies in India's private sector.

• Assigned with the task of Design Engineer (CAD/CAE) for the special projects in the Heavy Engineering Division of Larsen & Toubro Limited, which works on classified products engineering with the use of upcoming & sophisticated technologies.
• Part of the design and administration team which does the work of Conceptualization, Design/Engineering using the latest CAD/CAE tools (Catia) and maintain the software as well as hardware requirements of CAD tools and day-to-day software (MS Office, Auto Cad etc.).
• Worked on a special project where it is required to create 3D models in Catia of specific Objects on the basis of 2D drawings, and analyze the same in layout with the interference and space as guideline rules for analysis. Decide shipping in sequence on the basis of simulation and space analysis to estimate the time span and criticality in the process.

WIMCO is an ITC Company, which was incorporated on 7th September 1923. Wimco Ltd. is a reputed manufacturer and exporter of Cardboard matches, Veneer Matches, Safety Matches, Match Box, Wax Matches, Matchbox with Veneer Inners, Carryline, Packaging Machinery, Tube Filling Machines, Jar Filling Machines, Cartoning Machines and Powder Filling Machines, etc.

• In the dipping department on the shop floor handling day-to-day production activities.
• Assigned with the additional responsibility of handling special projects of fabrication and erection.
• Designed & developed a dryer in 3 months in 15 Lacs which costing around 45 Lacs.