Mr. Pawan Wankhede is the founder and chairman of Gaon Majha Udyog Foundation and since 2011 he has been involved in various metal and scrap trading, engineering projects, manufacturing projects, setting up media sector, creating a world class new brand in Fast Moving Consumable Goods (FMCG) and its sales and Designing a global marketing strategy, following up with Mauvi Corporation to create a new integrated industrial park for the industrial development of 10 lakh rural women entrepreneurs in self-help groups in Maharashtra, designing goal strategies with the help of the Directorate of Industries, Maharashtra State, following up with various ministries and agencies of the government for the implementation of various government industry schemes, etc. Are proficient in activities / business.
Metallurgical Engineer of 2004 batch from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), a reputed engineering college in Maharashtra.
Worked in senior positions with major groups of the country like Birla, Bajaj, Mittal, Metnier In the year 2005, from Aditya Birla Group, the honor of being selected as the only metallurgical engineer out of thousands of contestants in the nationwide walk-in interview.
Honored to get the job band of General Manager in Aditya Birla Group at the age of only 26 In 2005, selected as a Trend Black Belt Trainee of Six Sigma, a course recognized as a world-class Japanese quality system. In the year 2008, an opportunity to work as a project manager of Hindalco Almex Aerospace Ltd (HAAL), a joint venture company in the aerospace sector of the country and Almex of America, in Aurangabad (Sambajinagar), Maharashtra, worth 1000 crores. Selected as Auditor Accredited to ISO as well as ASM Quality Standard in the year 2008 Selected as Plant Head & Project Manager for the then largest scrap recycling group in the country investing 5000 crores in 2009 in Gujarat - Kutch
Started his own metal and scrap trading business in the year 2011 and in the next three years worked in major states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Delhi and became a successful entrepreneur with an annual turnover of over 100 crores of his own group companies.
In the year 2015, he established his own aluminum ingot production company with an investment of around five crores at Chakan, a famous industrial area in Maharashtra, along with Mercedes Benz and Force Motor Company. In the year January - 2016, with the blessings of late PL Shirsat, the founder of Maharashtra State Rural Journalist Association, he was given the honor and responsibility of becoming the President of Maharashtra State Rural Journalist Association, a 30-year-old aggressive and renowned organization of 5000 rural journalists
On 1st May 2017, on the auspicious occasion of Maharashtra Day, the privilege of being Founder-Director and Editor of News Channel by establishing Gaon Majha News Channel, which strives for justice and rights of common and rural people of Maharashtra. On the auspicious occasion of Raksha Bandhan on 22nd August-2021, for the all-round social and economic development of 14 lakh poor women in the state and a total of one crore poor women in the country, to bring about an industrial revolution in the rural areas of the country by establishing a section-8 company, Gaon Majha Udyog Foundation, registration and training of Gaon Majha Udyog Sakhi from Nagpur.