Brahmani Nara On Carving Her Own Path, Steering Heritage Foods Toward Value-Added Growth | #BTMPW2025

At the Business Today Most Powerful Women 2025, Siddharth Zarabi, Group Editor, Business Today, engaged in an insightful conversation with Brahmani Nara, Executive Director, Heritage Foods. Brahmani reflected on forging her own path despite being part of a well-established business family. Raised under strong academic rigor by her mother, she was exposed early to global experiences—her first solo international trip to Japan at age 12 and multiple Oxbridge-style programs that shaped her confidence, curiosity, and independence. Her engineering education in the U.S. and exposure to the Bay Area’s entrepreneurial ecosystem further broadened her perspective. Returning to India by choice, she joined Heritage Foods and helped steer its transformation toward value-added products, which now contribute 32% of the company’s revenues.