Rajeev has an IIM and PhD education and is awaiting a grant for his PhD from Utkal University. He started an aquaculture business in 1997 that he later expanded into shrimp and fish exports before selling it in 2001 to start a BPO providing web and voice CRM services, which he sold in 2005. He now teaches entrepreneurship at XIMB, where he coordinates the centre for entrepreneurship, and also teaches at a business school in Baltimore, USA. Rajeev advises state governments in Orissa and Chattisgarh on entrepreneurship policy and conducts entrepreneurship programs in Chile and Canada. He has written a book on entrepreneurship to be published soon.