Pratishtha Shaily
Head of Key Account Sales – Specialty Business
Advancing Specialty Business with Customer Focus and Agility
As Head of Key Account Sales for Specialty Business in India, Pratishtha Shaily leads strategic customer partnerships and a diverse portfolio of specialty ingredients across food, personal care and nutraceutical applications. Since joining Roquette, her journey has been marked by expanding responsibilities, business growth and a strong customer focus. Today, she leads a team managing key customer relationships and strategic business opportunities across India.
Working closely with customers and cross-functional teams, Pratishtha focuses on understanding evolving market needs, strengthening partnerships and translating customer challenges into meaningful business opportunities. Roquette’s broad portfolio and global capabilities enable her and her team to deliver relevant solutions across diverse applications.
For Pratishtha, sustainable growth is built on trust, collaboration and creating long-term value for customers. Through her work with our solutions and customers, Pratishtha sees Roquette’s purpose and core values embedded in our day-to-day activities and in harmony with our plant-based portfolio.
Our products, quality standards, and commitment to compliance reflect who we are. Customers choose us for our plant-based ingredients and solutions that help them respond to evolving market trends and consumer demand for healthier food.
She takes pride in working on cross-functional projects to develop the right product for each customer’s needs. Having such efforts recognized and appreciated by local and global teams motivates Pratishtha.
As she puts it, “Recognition, even for the smallest effort, encourages you to grow and do better.”
Her pursuit of growth goes beyond work. Some of her favorite hobbies are reading and listening to music.
Pratishtha also loves traveling and exploring new places, especially mountains and beaches.
Plus, as part of her role in sales, she gets to visit different customer locations.
These interests and experiences reflect Pratishtha’s outlook on life and mindset at work. Pratishtha’s outlook is grounded in consistency, agility, and continuous improvement.