I'm Neal. 15 years building operations and strategy for organizations. Now building the data infrastructure, leadership pipeline, and economically viable interventions that India's animal welfare movement critically lacks.
I've worked with dogs almost all my life. Five of them live with me. Through rescue work, I watched good people pour everything into feeding a hundred strays, sterilizing a hundred more, believing the problem was shrinking. It wasn't. The system produces suffering faster than any rescue effort can absorb.
But it's not dogs, is it? The farmed animal system operates at a scale that makes companion animal welfare look like a rounding error. I needed to see it for myself.
Delhi has 86,433 cows and 1,62,142 buffaloes across 9 designated dairy colonies. I visited Nangli Sakrawati. In every unit, cattle were permanently tethered with short, abrasive ropes or heavy metal chains, unable to sit or stretch. Ten cows tied in a pitch-dark room, one after the other, hardly any space to move. That's not a bad day. That's their life for 20 years, until they stop producing milk and are sent for slaughter.
A calf carcass lay in the open, maggots infesting the body. Left long enough that nobody noticed anymore. Stray cows sat on dung piles eating polythene. Milk containers stood open, swarmed with flies, in sheds where workers bathed next to the animals they milked.
Every law exists. None are enforced.
Chicks with beaks cut off without veterinary supervision, showing visible stress and difficulty feeding. Nearly 10% mortality, dead chicks lying among the living. Birds pecking and cannibalizing each other. Four birds crammed into cages too small to spread a single wing.
Sick and injured birds untreated. Filthy sheds. Dirty drinking water. Dead birds left with no disposal. The farm operates 100 metres from a school.
These birds live for 32 to 40 days. Every one of those days is suffering.
Open-source Animal Welfare Intervention Prioritizer for South & Southeast Asia. Uses CE's Suffering-Adjusted Days framework to rank interventions by expected suffering reduction per dollar.
Novel corporate engagement: work with food companies to blend 20-30% plant protein into meat products. Unlike cage-free, this asks companies to spend less. Aligned economics.
Selected for High Impact Professionals' program. Testing how 15 years of ops career capital translates into animal welfare leadership.
Charity Entrepreneurship (animal welfare) and Kickstarting for Good (food systems). Building the evidence base for novel interventions in India.
COO and Head of Revenue Operations across multiple ventures. Management consulting, people operations, business development across India's technology and services landscape. I've built teams, designed processes, managed P&Ls, and scaled operations from zero.
The move into animal welfare was deliberate. Through effective altruism I found a framework for rigorous impact thinking. Through field investigations I found the problem that matched the scale of my ambition. Selected as an Ahimsa Fellow (2025). EA Global attendee. Now converting operational experience into the systems infrastructure India's animal welfare movement needs.
Working on animal welfare, food system transformation, or effective philanthropy in South Asia? I'd welcome a conversation. Especially interested in connecting with food industry professionals, EA-aligned funders, and advocacy organizations exploring novel interventions.
I also advise organizations on operations strategy, food system analysis, and impact measurement.