Our Team
Birat Agri Limited is led by a board of directors and a management team who work between our feed plant in Itahari, our fish ponds and our outlets. Meet the people who guide the company and answer for the feed and the fish that carry its name.
Our Team
Board and management
Behind the people below, a team of aquaculture and veterinary specialists looks after pond health and water quality across our five farm sites.
Board of Directors
Indra Bahadur Adhikari
Chairman, COO
Indra Bahadur Adhikari is the Chairman of Birat Agri Limited and leads its Board of Directors, which sets the direction of the company and oversees how it is governed.
Alongside the chair, Adhikari serves as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the daily running of the business: feed manufacturing at the plant in Khanar, Itahari-13, fish farming management across the company’s ponds, and the supply chain and production that carry feed and fish from the plant and the farm to farmers and customers. The work calls for operations management, practical knowledge of aquaculture and feed production, and steady planning from raw material to finished product.
Nara Pd. Sitoula
Board Member
Nara Pd. Sitoula is a member of the Board of Directors of Birat Agri Limited and its Chief Strategic Officer.
Sitoula’s work is to look ahead: business strategy and planning, corporate development, and the company’s dealings with government and institutional partners. This means deciding where the company should grow next, preparing the plans that get it there, and keeping good working relations with the offices and institutions that a feed and farming business depends on. Key skills are strategic planning, corporate development and stakeholder relations.
Laxmi Kattel
Board Member
Laxmi Kattel is a member of the Board of Directors of Birat Agri Limited. The Board sets the company’s direction, reviews its plans for growth and keeps watch over how it is run. As a director, Kattel takes part in these decisions and in the governance of a company that makes feed, farms fish and sells fresh fish.
Bishnu Prasad Achara
Board Member
Bishnu Prasad Achara is a member of the Board of Directors of Birat Agri Limited and a guiding figure of Birat Group. Achara holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Tribhuvan University (1998).
Achara’s career spans more than twenty-five years of business and banking. It began with commercial farming as an entrepreneur, moved through education, information technology and media, and then led to fifteen years in managerial positions at several commercial banks in Nepal. After retiring from banking, Achara turned to the feed and aquaculture value chain and takes an active part in the group’s work. This mix of farming, banking and management gives the company a broad, practical view of how a farm business grows.
Susil Dahal
Board Member
Susil Dahal is a member of the Board of Directors of Birat Agri Limited. The Board sets the company’s direction, reviews its plans for growth and keeps watch over how it is run. As a director, Dahal takes part in these decisions and in the governance of a company that makes feed, farms fish and sells fresh fish.
Management Team
Deepak Thapa
CEO / Board Member
Deepak Thapa is the founder of Birat Group and the Chief Executive Officer of Birat Agri Limited, and sits on its Board of Directors.
Thapa brings more than fifteen years of experience in agribusiness and aquaculture. That experience runs through the group’s growth from a fish feed plant to a company that makes feed, farms fish and sells fresh fish. As CEO, Thapa leads strategic growth, sets priorities across feed, farming and sales, and manages the company’s relations with investors as it prepares for its next stage. Core strengths are business leadership, long-term planning and building a business across the whole value chain.
Mohan Timsina
CFO
Mohan Timsina is the Chief Finance Officer of Birat Agri Limited. Timsina holds a master’s degree in business management from Tribhuvan University (1998), with a focus on accounting, taxation and financial management.
Timsina began as an accountant in the construction industry and then spent fifteen years in managerial positions at several commercial banks in Nepal, building about seventeen years of banking and financial experience. At Birat Agri, Timsina leads finance and treasury, banking and investment, and financial planning and risk management, and brings the discipline of a banker to the company’s growth. Strengths are financial management, credit and banking relations and risk control.
Anup Khadka
Head of Production & Quality Control
Anup Khadka is the Head of Production & Quality Control at Birat Agri Limited. A food technologist, Khadka holds a Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology (B.Tech Food).
Khadka is responsible for the quality of what leaves the plant. The work covers feed formulation, so that every recipe is accurate and nutritionally balanced, checks on raw materials when they arrive, and laboratory testing across the floating and pellet feed lines. The aim is simple: the bag a farmer opens in March should perform like the bag opened in October. Strengths are food technology, feed formulation, laboratory analysis and quality assurance.
Sanam Paudel
Head of Accounts & Audit Compliance
Sanam Paudel looks after the accounts of Birat Agri Limited and holds a Master’s degree in Business Studies (MBS, with a focus on accounting).
Paudel’s work covers financial accounting, internal audit, compliance with the Nepal Financial Reporting Standards (NFRS), tax planning and statutory reporting. In a company that is preparing to raise capital from the public, these records have to be accurate, on time and ready for audit, and keeping them so is the heart of the job. Strengths are accounting, audit compliance and careful reporting.
