Coffee is a part of who I am. It runs through my veins. I was born into a marginal farming family but always dreamt of a brighter future. The future was inspired by my father’s small coffee and cardamom estate in the Western Ghats of India, where every morning as a child I awoke to the aroma of coffee. Fate however, took me down the oil and gas trail to the Middle East, Asia, Africa and North America. Three decades later after retirement, I knew it was time to go back to my first passion. Coffee brings my heart home.