Dr. Bhavanishankar is the Director of Schevaran Innovation Centre, leading a team focused on product development for cleaning and hygiene products. A microbiologist with extensive experience, he joined Schevaran in 2014.

Before Schevaran, he spent 14 years as General Manager and Alternate Director at Bacardi’s manufacturing facility and 10 years at Gemini Distilleries in Quality Control and Technical roles. His earlier career includes 10 years at the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore and 2 years at the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad.

He has authored over 25 research papers and serves on the Academic Council and Board of Studies in Biotechnology at Sri Jayachamarajendra Technological University, Mysore. He has received the Karnataka Vigyana Parishad Award for his Kannada book on microbiology and contributed a chapter on distillery effluent treatment technologies in a book on environmental security