Cooking, building tech for mammoth firms kept this engineer busy amid Covid

Under Manav Garg's leadership, commodities and direct materials tech firm Eka Software grew 60% in the past 12 months and is on track to cross $100 million in revenue

Manav Garg, 46, loves cooking and took up the activity to another level during the pandemic. He is proficient in various cuisines, including Thai, and has set-up a small kitchen garden at his home where he grows ingredients such as galangal, lemongrass, basil, rosemary and all the herbs for farm-to-fork dishes. He has even been making 5-course meals for his family. As chief executive officer and founder of Eka Software Solutions, Garg is also steering the technology company for commodities and direct materials to the next level of growth despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Under Garg’s leadership, 2020 was a transformational year