Our Team

The team that built Maharashtra’s industrial infrastructure — now building yours.

Former senior officers of the Government of Maharashtra, leading every engagement directly.

Altius Ventures is led by former senior government officials and supported by a bench of domain specialists whose combined expertise spans every regulatory authority that governs industrial investment in Maharashtra.

While generalist firms navigate by guesswork, we operate with institutional precision — our leadership includes the very architects who drafted the policies and managed the regional offices that now oversee your projects.

Founding leadership

Photographs and full profiles are being finalised.

Gajendra Bharati

Founder & Managing Director

M.Tech, IIT Delhi · Ex-Additional Director of Industries, GoM

With a career spanning three decades in policy administration, Mr. Bharati is the primary architect of industrial strategy at Altius. His technical fluency as an IITian, combined with his tenure in the Ministry of Industries, lets him translate complex regulatory frameworks into executable business roadmaps.

Uday Puri

Co-Founder & Director — Regulatory Operations

Operational Specialist · Ex-Regional Officer, GoM

Mr. Puri provides the tactical edge required for ground-level execution. His experience as a Regional Officer gives him an unparalleled understanding of the internal checklists used by local authorities, ensuring construction-phase compliance is never a bottleneck.

Pratik Puri

Industrial Research & Strategy

MSc (Univ. of Stirling, UK), MBA · Chartered Marketer (CIM) · Sr. Industrial Researcher, London

Rishabh Puri

Industrial Planning & Design

B.Arch, M.Arch (pursuing) · Industrial planning, landscape & interior design

Archana Bharati

Structural Engineering

M.E (Structural), B.E (Civil) · Ex-Assistant Professor, Govt. Engg. College

5+ years of experience in structural design and engineering in the field.

The multidisciplinary network behind every engagement

A curated network of technical specialists operating under our direct coordination.

Licensed Architects & Structural Engineers

Full-cycle MIDC plan preparation, structural drawings and technical vetting for large-scale industrial sheds.

Environmental Consultants & EIA Specialists

EIA reports, Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) design and management of MPCB consent procedures.

Chartered Accountants — Tax & Incentives

Fiscal auditing for PSI-2019 claims and precise Fixed Capital Investment statements.

Labour Law Practitioners

Principal Employer registration and ongoing compliance auditing under the Factories Act and social-security norms.

Legal Professionals — Transactional

Title searches, industrial land transaction advisory and rigorous lease review for manufacturing ventures.

Questions about the team

What is the real value of your principals’ former government service?

It is not political access — it is institutional knowledge: understanding exactly how an approval moves through an authority’s internal process, which documentation is genuinely scrutinised versus administrative, and what triggers a query or inspection. That knowledge accumulates only from years inside the system, and our principals bring it to every engagement.

Do you work across all of Maharashtra, or only Vidarbha?

Both. Our base is Vidarbha — Nagpur, Amravati and surrounding districts — but our MIDC, MPCB, DISH and PSI-2019 expertise applies statewide. For projects in Aurangabad, Pune, Nashik or Konkan we engage associate professionals locally while retaining full responsibility for the regulatory advisory output.

How large is the Altius Ventures team?

Deliberately compact — structured around quality of expertise, not headcount. Founding principals lead every engagement directly, with an associate network providing specialist depth. Every client receives principal-level attention throughout, not a delegated team they never meet.

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