Dr Agrawal is an engineer (B.Tech., M.Tech. and PhD) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and subsequently completed Executive Program in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kolkata. Lokesh has over 25 years of experience in R&D, engineering services, product development and product planning & introduction.

He has worked in automotive, aerospace, heavy industry and medical equipment verticals in various engineering disciplines with DRDO, GE Research, TCS engineering and Cummins prior to joining NBC.

Lokesh has been working with NBC since 2017 and is leading the Research and Development function comprising application engineering, product & process design, product development, plant engineering, technical capability development and new product & technology development.