Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Pranav Dahiya as Chief Business Officer (CBO). He announced the new role via LinkedIn.
Dahiya joins the specialty coffee chain with extensive experience spanning finance, strategy, sales and business leadership across the food and beverage, financial services and banking sectors.
Prior to joining Blue Tokai, he served as Chief Financial & Strategy Officer at Pizza Hut and was also a board member for Yum India from May 2025 to June 2026. Before that, he spent over four years at Chaayos, where he was appointed Chief Financial Officer in March 2023 after serving as Chief of Staff from February 2021 to March 2023.
Earlier in his career, Dahiya worked as National Sales Manager – Corporate & Institutional Finance at Hero FinCorp between February 2020 and February 2021.
He also spent nearly five years at Kotak Mahindra Bank, holding leadership positions including Regional Manager (North & East India) – Multinational Corporates from June 2017 to February 2020 and Vice President, Corporate & Conglomerates Group from April 2015 to May 2017.
Prior to that, Dahiya spent seven years at ING, where he held roles across the International Client Group and Emerging Corporate Group. He has also worked with Godrej Group and State Bank of India during his professional career.
