Kallol Banerjee

Kallol Banerjee is the Co-founder at Rebel Foods (formerly Faasos). Incorporated in 2011, Faasos was started with the vision of becoming the largest food technology business in the country. Kallol pursued his graduation as a Mechanical Engineer in 1995 from Jadavpur University Kolkata. Post this, he went on to pursue his MBA from IIM Lucknow where he met his future co-founder Jaydeep (Barman). Both Jaydeep and Kallol then worked for a few startups in Pune before leaving for INSEAD (France) in the year 2007 to pursue another Management program. In his last stint before joining Jaydeep to start Faasos in 2011, Kallol worked with Bosch in Singapore. Kallol has been a key tour-de-force in expanding the company from a wrap-n-meals restaurant to the largest food technology business in the country today. He has donned several hats mostly with a view to course correct or start new initiatives. These have involved new city openings nationally and internationally (when they were being done for the first time), besides taking on leadership roles in Finance, Admin, Supply chain, operations. In all of these roles his approach has always been hands-on and his ability to quickly learn, identify and focus on the areas of maximum impact have been demonstrated time and again.