About us
Company
An Agtech company with the purpose of improving agricultural productivity in Cambodia. Our solutions leverage data analytics to enable, educate, and encourage farmers to use technology to improve their yield and livelihoods.
Our mission
Improving farmer’s lives by powering prosperous agricultural communities
Our vision
Innovating for the farming community to transform their decision-making process
Our value
- Integrity: Walk the talk!
- Innovation: Celebrate failure!
- Leadership: Own your work!
Founding story
Carl and Perwez met at IMD Business School in Switzerland, where they discovered a shared passion for using technology as an equalizer in society.
Their interest in Cambodian agriculture is attributed to Carl's familial ties and the potential to make a significant impact on people's lives, as farming contributes to more than one-fifth of Cambodia's GDP.
konektAgri was thus born, keeping the farmer at its core. While researching the Cambodian market, they met Sokkim, a 20-year-old AgTech entrepreneur whose work has impacted hundreds of Cambodian farmer households and Janmejaya whose technology company has worked to build credit solutions for underserved families in India.
Together, they diagnosed and developed the idea of agriKredit to solve the problem of high credit costs, so that farmers can concentrate on their job – feeding the world!
Meet our team
Carl Chih-Chieh Huang
Chief Executive Officer
MBA - IMD, Switzerland Founder of a beverage bottling company in Myanmar. 10+ year in S.E Asia as Head of Sales, General Manger in manufacturing
Perwez Akhtar
Chief Strategy Officer
MBA - IMD, Switzerland; MS - Univ. of Michigan, USA strategy consultant and startup advisor. 10+ year in the US, ASIA&Europe in consulting & engineering
Sokkim Neak
Chief Operating Officer
B tech, Information Technology - Cambodia. Founder of CHALATEX, Cambodia (SInce 2021) Featured by Impact hub & IFAD (United Nations)
Janmejay Mohapatra
Chief Technology Officer
B tech, Computer Science - India. Founder of Ajatus software, India ($7 m) that specialize in Web, Mobile apps, and analytic platform design
Kean Youhorng
AI/ML Engineer
Muny Roth
Full-Stack Developer
Sambit Kumar Sahoo
Full-Stack Developer
Sanjeet Kumar Mishra
Front-end Developer
Sakonna Pao
Admin and Finance Officer
Minerva Singh
Chief Scientist
Sandra Maria Cherian
GIS Tech Advisor
Advisory team
Market
Chao-ching Huang
Chairman, TCM Eng., Cambodia
Agronomy
Dr. Sophea Nhean
Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia
Technology
Jagriti De
Senior Director, DHL Digital Business, USA
Agricultural finance
Takashi Tsushima
CEO, Khemrak Machinery (Microfinance), Cambodia
Impact investment
Dr. Christian Kingombe
Managing Partner, 4IP group (Impact Investing Group), Switzerland