Mr. Narain has served as a non-executive director of RiceTec, Inc. since 2025 and as an independent non-executive director of Medi Assist Healthcare Services Ltd. since 2024. Mr. Narain is also a founding partner of AgVaya an organisation that collaborates with agri businesses, food companies and developmental organizations to create sustainable opportunities and drive growth in smallholder agricultural markets. Mr. Narain served as vice chairman, managing director and chief executive officer of Bayer CropScience Limited from December 2018 to October 2023, and concurrently as president at Bayer South Asia and global head of smallholder farming at Bayer. He previously served as vice president and treasurer of Monsanto Company from November 2015 to October 2018, and held various senior finance and commercial roles at Monsanto from 1998, including chief executive officer of Monsanto’s India region.
Mr. Narain received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, is a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Madras.