Kartikeya Baldwa is the C.E.O at Ixoreal Biomed Inc, a company based out of Los Angeles and Hyderabad. Ixoreal Biomed is part of the "Baldwa-Inland Group", a consortium of companies into diversified businesses with $350 million in annual revenue. Ixoreal Biomed is the maker of KSM-66, the best-selling ashwagandha on the world market with more than 55% of the global market share in ashwagandha extracts. Mr.Baldwa has made KSM-66 a multi-million dollar product and has brought Ayurveda to a wider global recognition.

Mr.Baldwa studied chemical engineering at Osmania University in India and then business management at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in California. He has also attended advanced management programs at Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and Anderson Business School in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of "Young Entrepreneur Award 2015" by iCOVE and "Herbal Industry Leader Award 2016" by Society of Ethnopharmacology. He has delivered several guest lectures across the globe at famous universities, academic and research institutions and business associations in India like CII and FICCI.

He has served as an adviser to the Governor of Goa from 2016 to 2018 on matters related to Health and Wellness Industry. He is currently serving as an advisor on the Nutritional Business Leadership Council of the South West College of Natural Medicine in Arizona, USA.