The unparalleled Matix
management team.

Mr Kanodia provides strategic direction to Matix. His focus on capital raising, growth and diversification is the force behind its current position as one of India’s fastest-growing fertiliser companies. He has been instrumental in Matix’s turnaround, including the induction of professional and experienced leadership with successful track records in the industry.

An MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Mr Kanodia is a member of the Mumbai Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (EO) and the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO).

Our Managing Director since September 2021 onwards, Mr Mishra has had a career spanning more than three decades in public sector undertakings, the co-operative sector and the private sector.

Prior to this, between 2015 and 2020, Mr Mishra was Chairman and Managing Director of National Fertilisers Ltd, India’s second largest urea producer and the Indian government’s largest fertiliser undertaking.

Under his leadership, NFL transformed from a single product company to one with multiple product lines in fertilisers, seeds, agro-chemicals and industrial products. It also emerged as a pan-Indian marketing entity, from being a predominantly Northern and Central Indian marketing set-up.

While at NFL, Mr Mishra also held the additional charge of C & MD of Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd and another fertiliser company The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd (FACT). He has been ex-officio Chairman of Talchar Fertilizers Ltd (TFL), a joint venture of RCF, GAIL, Coal India Ltd, and Fertilizer Corporation of India; and Chairman of Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (RFCL).

Mr Mishra has been co-chairman of the Fertiliser Association of India (FAI) and a Director on the Board of the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), a Paris-based organization that represents the global fertilizer industry. He is the first executive from the Indian fertiliser public sector industry to hold the title.

Besides this, Mr Mishra is a member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

Mr Naik, an MSc from the prestigious Bayes Business School, London, has over four decades of experience in port management, shipping, private equity and logistics, having held various leadership roles at firms. He currently serves as a director on the boards of several listed and privately held companies, both in India and the United Kingdom.

Mr Warior holds over three decades of experience in providing strategic and operational leadership to various public sector undertakings.

He superannuated from Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd, Mumbai (RCFL) a Government of India undertaking, on November 30, 2017, as Director (finance) after an innings spanning more than 32 years.

During his long tenure in RCFL, Mr Warior managed various facets of the finance function, such as treasury operations, project appraisals, management accounting, risk management, budgeting, financial accounting, MoU, taxation and most importantly, fertiliser policy dissemination.

In addition to his assignment at RCFL, Mr Warior also held the additional charge of Director (finance) at the Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT) from May 2017 until his superannuation, and the additional charge of C & MD, RCFL, from June 2017 to September 2017.

He was the Chairman/Director of Talcher Fertilizers Ltd (TFL), a joint venture between RCFL, GAIL, CIL and FCIL that aimed to revive the closed urea plant in Talcher, Odisha, from June 2017 to November 2017.

Ms Amrita DC Nautiyal is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS).

She also holds an LLB degree and a BCom degree from Mumbai University. She serves as an independent director of Cipla Health Ltd, Jay Precision Pharmaceuticals Private Ltd, Gandhar Oil Refinery (India) Ltd, Little Internet Private Limited, Riverside Industries Limited and Reliance Asset Reconstruction Company Limited.

She was the chairperson of the Western India Regional Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (WIRC – ICSI) in 2023 and currently serves as the regional council member in a term extending from 2023 to 2027.

The founder of Amrita Nautiyal and Associates, she has more than two decades of experience in secretarial, legal and compliance functions.

She is also associated with charitable institutions including the Cipla Foundation, Cancer Aid & Research Foundation, Narayan Sewa Sanstha, St Catherine’s Home and The Little Sisters of the Poor in India.

A mechanical engineer by training from MIT Muzaffarpur, Mr Mishra possesses 38 years of rich experience in the fertiliser industry. Prior to joining Matix, he worked at IFFCO in various capacities.

Mr Mishra has led and completed various projects of ammonia (Topsoe, KBR) and urea (Snamprogetti & Stamicarbon) with expertise across technologies. He has commissioned and operated fertiliser projects in OMIFCO, Oman.

His key interest area besides operational management is the development and implementation of energy saving schemes.

A respected technical speaker and writer, his articles have been published in FAI Journals and AIChE.

Responsible for developing and initiating the growth strategy at Matix, Mr Menon boasts more than two decades of transnational experience in building global businesses and brands engaged in petrochemicals, fertilisers, Technical Ammonium Nitrate, SCM and infrastructure.

Sanjay is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 25 years of experience in handling various facets of finance.

At Matix, Sanjay is responsible for all finance functions, including secretarial and legal functions.

His mandate includes managing the organisation’s capital-raising initiatives across domestic and global institutions, overseeing working capital management, financial processes and controls, risk management, treasury operations and the digitisation of financial operations.

A gold medallist in soil sciences from HAU-Hissar and an MBA in marketing, Mr Lal has been with Matix since January 2022 and currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing. He oversees sales, logistics, agricultural services, imports, trading and branding-related activities.

Mr Sohan Lal has a track record of over 36 years at the PSU fertiliser stalwart, National Fertilizers Ltd, which is India’s second largest urea producer and among the top three players in the sector in terms of revenue and market share. He started his career as a management trainee in 1985.

Mr Lal’s stint at NFL was truly cross-functional and involved diverse roles with hands-on exposure to fertiliser marketing, agri-inputs trading, the sale of industrial products, seed multiplication programs, channel development and management of rail and road logistics, agriculture extension and corporate affairs.

By the end of his tenure as executive director at NFL, Mr Lal had played a vital role in the transformation of NFL into a multiple product company with a pan-India presence. He has been recognised across various forums as an inspiring leader, quick decision-maker and an adept mentor.

Mr Brijesh Singh started his journey with Matix in 2014 and currently serves as Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs.

His career began at the Essar Group in 1988 where he managed retail and institutional investors for their IPOs, which were the largest ever IPOs at that time.

Subsequently, in 1995, as project head for Hutchinson Telecom, he was responsible for commissioning India’s first mobile telephone networks in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh.

Another prominent career milestone was reached in 2006 when he was involved in arranging statutory union government approvals for one of India’s largest call centre and telecom projects.

Mr Singh thrives in the policy advocacy and corporate affairs role at Matix and engages actively with various ministries in the Government of India to track policy and approvals.

An avid golfer, he can be found on the links whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Major Prashant Das joined Matix in April 2022 and is a well-respected HR professional with over three decades of experience in HR strategy, employee relations, talent management, organisational development and employee engagement.

Prior to Matix, he was the HR head at JSW Steel Coated. Major Das conceptualised and rationalised human resource potential and implemented a ‘lean’ team plan during his tenure at JSW. His efforts in talent retention and employee engagement led to the organisation being rewarded with the world-acclaimed ‘GPTW’ recognition. JSW Steel Coated emerged with the highest positive perception in the group, in 2019.

Major Das was also the head of HR at UltraTech RMC & Building Products Division of Aditya Birla Group for a period of seven years, from 2007 to 2015. He set up the human resources function and crafted a stellar organisation structure for the business while driving the manpower rationalisation process and ensuring a high-performance and people-positive culture.

From 2000 to 2006, Major Das was instrumental in developing the organisational design for Reliance Infocomm in Odisha and initiated its much-acclaimed digital recruitment process.

Over the years, Major Das has developed and implemented various talent diagnostic studies to build high-performance human capital with successful employee relations and capability building through leadership hiring.

He is associated with various management schools and is regularly invited to be a motivational speaker at corporate events and academic institutions, discoursing on the ‘Human Dimension in Managerial Excellence’.

Mr Madan Agrawal is Executive Vice President, Commercial, based at our corporate office in Mumbai.

One of our earliest employees, joining in November 2010, Madan is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI), Cost Accountant (ICWAI) and Fellow member of the Insurance Institute of India. He used to teach indirect taxation to the students of ICWAI at their centre in Surat, Gujarat.

He started his professional journey in 1989 with Essar Steel, working across the functions of indirect taxation, government incentives and commercial contracts.

During his tenure with the Essar Group, he worked on projects in South America (Brazil) and the West Indies (Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana) which included all the activities involved in setting up steel plants and managing a mining company.

Since 2010, Madan has played an active role in commercial activities related to EPC, commissioning, finalisation and the
management of technology. He manages gas supply contracts and project and operation insurance as well.

A staunch believer in ‘zero’ waste living, his hobbies include yoga and yogic activities. He is a fluent practitioner of Sanskrit and aspires to see the language regain its past glory.