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Diverse Hands Together

Team & Advisors

Building Human Sustainability, Thoughtfully.

 

PranaGlow Foods is built by people who believe that performance is not about pushing harder — but about recovering smarter, longer, and more intelligently.

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Our team brings together ancient Indian biofood wisdom, modern nutritional science, and systems thinking to address one of the defining challenges of our time: modern fatigue and burnout.

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We work with and learn from Ayurvedic doctors, natural scientists, nutritionists, foragers, organic farmers, and tribal knowledge holders, blending lived wisdom with scientific rigor to design food systems that respect human biology. Designed to work together, not independently.

Team 

Founder & Director

Nalini M

Founder & Director

PranaGlow was born from lived experience.

As a founder and working professional, my greatest challenge was never ambition or effort — it was sustaining clarity, energy, and focus without burning out. Years of professional work and personal exploration revealed a critical gap: modern nutrition often optimizes output, but neglects recovery, rhythm, and long-term vitality.

Rooted in India’s ancient food intelligence and informed by modern science, PranaGlow is my attempt to rebuild performance from the inside out — through rituals, superfoods, and systems designed for sustained vitality, not short-term output.

I believe India holds one of the world’s most powerful untapped advantages:
wild biodiversity, indigenous food knowledge, and human-centric wisdom — waiting to be thoughtfully re-engineered for modern life.

PranaGlow is that mission in motion.

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Rapheeq Mohammed

Chief Executive Officer

With over 30 years of diverse experience in India and international markets, Rapheeq brings deep operational strength to PranaGlow.

An MBA by qualification, he has led and managed:

  • Food business operations and scale-up

  • Procurement and supply chain systems

  • Origin-verified sourcing of wild and natural ingredients

  • Marketing and premium subscription / community-led models

He has built strong sourcing networks across North East India, Himalayan region, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Siliguri, Darjeeling, and other key ingredient regions.

At PranaGlow, he leads execution with a strong focus on ethical sourcing, operational discipline, and long-term sustainability, ensuring that innovation is matched by reliability.

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Our Extended Knowledge Network

PranaGlow is intentionally designed as a knowledge-first platform, drawing insight from a distributed ecosystem rather than a single discipline or institution.

Our work is informed by:

  • Indigenous and tribal ingredient knowledge holders

  • Tribal moopans and community elders

  • Ayurvedic and alternative medicine practitioners

  • Food technologists and nutrition researchers

  • Natural scientists and biodiversity experts

  • Farmers, foragers, and origin partners across India

This approach enables us to create products that are deeply rooted, ethically sourced, thoughtfully tested, and biologically respectful.

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Advisors & Mentors (Growing)

As PranaGlow scales, we are actively building an advisory and mentorship circle across:

  • Management & Governance

  • Food Science & Nutrition

  • Preventive Healthcare & Wellness

  • Supply Chain & Sustainable Sourcing

  • Startup & Innovation Strategy

  • Brand, Trust & Consumer Education

Our advisors help ensure PranaGlow remains:

  • Scientifically grounded

  • Ethically scaled

  • Trust-led

  • Impact-oriented

  • Well governed

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Our Strength

Our core strength lies in inclusiveness and integration.

India is a vast country with unparalleled depth in food and health wisdom — from tribal knowledge systems and monastic traditions to Ayurveda and modern food science. Different regions contribute different strengths:
Ashwagandha from Madhya Pradesh, high-curcumin turmeric from the North East, diverse fruits, roots, flowers, seeds, and herbs across ecosystems.

PranaGlow connects, accumulates, and integrates this distributed intelligence — combining traditional knowledge, scientific validation, ethical sourcing, and modern systems thinking to create meaningful superfoods and rituals.

We also actively engage with:

  • Food and agriculture universities

  • Research institutions such as CFTRI

  • Innovation ecosystems, including IITs, IIMs, and universities, for project, operations, and management guidance

Inclusiveness is our backbone. Coordination is our strength. Purpose is our compass. Designed to work together, not independently.

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Our Culture

We are building PranaGlow with a simple internal philosophy:

Design for humans first.
Scale with responsibility.
Measure success in decades, not months.

We value:

  • Long-term thinking over shortcuts

  • Evidence and outcomes over hype

  • Recovery as much as performance

  • Integrity over speed

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Join the Journey

PranaGlow is early — but intentional.

We welcome:

  • Researchers

  • Advisors and mentors

  • Strategic partners

  • Institutions

  • Aligned investors

who believe that India can lead the world in preventive performance nutrition — responsibly, intelligently, and authentically.

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Defeating Modern Burnout with India’s Ancient BioFood Intelligence
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Designed to work together, not independently— is the Core Strength.

PranaGlow’s greatest strength is not size — it is the diversity and depth of knowledge we are able to bring together.

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We are supported by a wide and evolving circle of well-wishers, advisors, practitioners, farmers, scientists, and traditional knowledge holders from diverse fields— from India and abroad— more than 100!. Many of them are curious and engage with PranaGlow as early members of our growing natural wellness and performance community. This collective enables us to thoughtfully draw upon experience, wisdom, and region-specific ingredient intelligence to design superfoods that are both meaningful and responsible.

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Rather than relying on a single discipline, we integrate insights from Ayurveda, nutrition science, natural sciences, indigenous practices, and modern food systems. This inclusive approach allows us to create blends that respect tradition, align with human biology, and remain relevant to modern lifestyles.

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At PranaGlow, innovation does not happen in isolation. It emerges at the intersection of many minds, many regions, and many forms of wisdom — carefully integrated, just like our superfoods.

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Our strength lies in integrating diverse knowledge — from ancient wisdom to modern science — into thoughtful, responsible superfood systems.

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