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Welcome to the MAVF Research grant application program. Please complete the online registration form below.  After providing some information about you and your organization you will be prompted to summarize the research work you are seeking funding for in 2500 words or less. We will review the application and contact you within 2 weeks with further login information that will enable the submission of your grant proposal online. However, if our internal panel decides you are not eligible for our grant, we will still reach out to you and explain why we think we are not pursuing this application further at this time.

Please ensure the application is complete in all respects and note that you will not be able to edit the information once you hit the Submit Button. So we urge you to take your time and review your application before submission.

If you need more clarity or are wondering if your current work meets the criteria for the MAVF Research grant, please go through the concept note on the Grants Page one more time before submitting the application.

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About Ashok

Ashok Vasudevan is Co-founder & CEO of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite and a range of other natural, ethnic and specialty foods sold in major supermarkets globally.

Prior to Tasty Bite, Ashok headed the India desk of Pepsi World Trade in Somers, New York. He received Pepsi’s prestigious MVP award in 1991.

Before joining Pepsi, Ashok spent 10 years with Unilever in various functions that included Management Development, Sales & Marketing and International Business

He is involved in several non-profit organizations in India and the US including:

  • Director on the Board of The Fairfield County Business Council
  • Member of the Chairman’s Circle of the US-India Business Council,
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Entrepreneurship and a member of the Business
    advisory Council of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, India.
    Ashok Vasudevan graduated in Agricultural Sciences from Bangalore, and post graduate degrees at Bajaj Institute of Management in Bombay and the Harvard Business School.

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About Meera

Meera Vasudevan is Co-founder of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite, a range of natural, ethnic food sold in major supermarkets around the world.

Meera also co-founded ASG-Omni a US and India based consulting firm involved in the design and execution of entry strategies for large US corporations looking to do business in India.

Meera began her career in market research at MARG (Marketing & Research Group), India. MARG is now part of the Nielsen group. After nearly a decade there, Meera co-founded India’s first specialist and largest qualitative research firm, Quantum Market Research. She worked on a number of entry strategies for global brands looking to enter the Indian market and on national social research projects for UNICEF.

She has served on some non-profit boards in the US, and is currently on the board of the United Way of Western Connecticut.

Meera has a Bachelors in English with post-graduate qualifications in Marketing from the University of Madras and INSEAD, France.

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