Previously, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Rallis India Limited. He was responsible for operations of both Crop Protection and Seeds businesses. He has a cross functional experience of over 33 years in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Operations, Finance & Corp Planning areas. Through various phases of his career, he has managed large-scale activities involving large teams (1200+) and has worked in multiple locations.

Prior to his stint in Rallis, he served as the MD & CEO of Metahelix, an agri biotech company that develops, produces & sells hybrid seeds. Earlier, he was the Executive VP-Corporate at Tata Elxsi Ltd, a technology services & product engineering company. In the past, Mr. Nagarajan headed Visual Computing Labs (VCL), the CG Animation & Visual Effects division of Tata Elxsi Ltd as its COO. He led several change management efforts at the exciting, but challenging business - initially setting up a studio in Los Angeles (Hollywood), multisite delivery centres, a JV in USA etc and then later implementing strong bottom line focussed consolidation initiatives. He is experienced in the full business cycle of incubation, growth & consolidation.

Having worked earlier in Tata Cellular Ltd (which later merged with Birla AT&T Ltd to become Idea Cellular Ltd), the two telecom companies have given him the experience of working in unstructured & high-velocity startups & scaleup contexts. Prior to Tata Cellular, he worked in the Finance & Corporate Planning area at Tata Motors Ltd.

Mr. Nagarajan's professional career began with the Tata Administrative Service in 1991. He holds a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and is a PGDM Gold Medallist from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has been on the Board of several industry associations and a member of different committees.