Ritesh Malik is a first-generation immigrant to Canada and a domain leader in international trade, logistics, and agri-business. Shaped by a deep business lineage and two decades of cross-border commerce, he has built his work around a single conviction: that the Canada-India trade corridor is structurally underserved, and that end-to-end, infrastructure-backed platforms are the path to unlocking its true potential.
“The next chapter of Canada-India trade will be written by those who control the infrastructure behind it-not just the relationships in front of it.”
Ritesh is a graduate of Delhi University and holds an MBA specialising in Global Marketing. He began his international career executing a high-stakes mandate for O’Neil Software, the world’s leading off-site records and information management software company, establishing its presence across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Since the early 2000s, he has served as a partner and Director at OM Group-a 30-year-old Indian logistics conglomerate with owned Container Freight Stations at JNPT, Mundra, and Kandla; an ICD at Bawal, Haryana; and pan-India inland distribution infrastructure. As Director of the group’s international division, he has led the expansion of its operations into China, Japan, and North America. Today, as the founding principal of OmTrans North America, he is bringing that owned infrastructure to bear for North American importers and exporters on India trade lanes- offering something most forwarders cannot: verified, asset-backed capability rather than brokered capacity.
In parallel, Ritesh leads Fruitsy, a fresh produce and fruit trading company anchoring the food and agriculture layer of the India-North America corridor. Fruitsy is the commercial front-end of a broader vision: a vertically integrated platform for food, agriculture, and natural resources trade -with OmTrans North America as the logistics bridge and OM Group as the owned backbone. He is also building Arth, a fintech which supports entrepreneurship at grassroots, particularly first time women entrepreneurs in rural areas.
Ritesh is a vocal advocate for the potential of India-origin wellness, nutrition, and natural products in the North American market -including Ayurveda, organic food, and plant-based supply chains-aligning his commercial work with broader convictions about health, sustainability, wellness and food sovereignty.
His community engagement is a direct extension of his professional convictions. As an active member of the Canada India Foundation, he has worked to deepen institutional and people-to-people ties between the two countries. In 2019, he was instrumental in CIF signing a landmark agreement with Hon. Anurag Singh Thakur, then Union Minister of State, to bring deserving students from the Hamirpur parliamentary constituency to Canada as part of the Sansad Darshan program-an initiative announced in the Indian Parliament. He views these bridges between civil society, government, and commerce as essential infrastructure for sustainable bilateral trade.
Ritesh brings the mindset of a domain builder- not a deal chaser. Across Fruitsy, OmTrans North America, OM Group, and Arth, he is assembling the pieces of a platform designed to make Canada-India trade structurally more efficient, more transparent, and more equitable for mid-market businesses on both sides.