Dr. K V Satyanarayana is the Vice President, Life Sciences Advisory Group at Sathguru Management Consultants. He currently leads the Food Processing and Retail Practice at Sathguru and works in the areas of corporate/ R&D strategy, technology commercialization, IPR valuation, food safety and regulations in the areas of Food, Agribusiness and Nutraceuticals. His expertise includes project management and has led several international projects on assessments of national food safety regulatory frameworks & food standards, capacity development for international market access, Food Loss & Waste, Food fortification etc. As FSPCA Trainer for Preventive Controls for Human Foods, he has trained over 400 food safety professionals and helped the food exporters to USA in meeting the compliance requirements.

He is GRI Certified Sustainability Professional and has interests in sustainability reporting and building sustainable supply chains.

He has over 18 years of industry experience and prior to joining Sathguru, he worked at Tata Chemicals – Innovation Centre, Pune in the areas of industrial biotechnology and food ingredients. Satyanarayana holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Agriculture from ANGRAU, Hyderabad and a Ph. D. in Biotechnology from CFTRI/ University of Mysore.