Built in the Netherlands. Backed by deep industry experience.

The team behind RightOrigins.

Decades of supply-chain experience, built into one AI platform.

We bring together supply-chain operators, food-industry leaders, enterprise strategists and AI builders to turn fragmented QA and compliance data into trusted, reusable intelligence.

  • Building supply-chain technology since 2011
  • 55+ specialists across the Netherlands and India
  • QA, certification, food, strategy and AI expertise
Meet the team
2011 Technology roots

CIED began building enterprise and supply-chain software more than a decade ago.

18+ yrs Average leadership experience

Across the leadership and strategic team shown below.

55+ Specialists behind the platform

Product, engineering, data, QA, delivery and commercial teams working as one company.

Leadership & strategic team

Built by technologists. Sharpened by operators.

One integrated team spanning company building, food and supply-chain operations, strategic accounts, enterprise transformation and AI engineering.

15+ yrs

Akash Mathew

Co-founder & CEO

Technology entrepreneurship, product strategy and commercial growth across supply-chain software.

15+ yrs

Anto Varghese

Co-founder & COO

Technology delivery, operations and cross-border execution across the CIED group.

15+ yrs

Sudeesh Narayanan

Co-founder & VP of Technology

Enterprise platform architecture, AI systems and the data infrastructure behind RightOrigins.

40+ yrs

Jan van der Oord

VP Industry Strategy & Strategic Accounts

40+ years across operations, sourcing, procurement and supply-chain strategy.

30+ yrs

Dik Goorhuis

VP Industry Strategy & Strategic Accounts

Food, organic, retail and supply-chain commercial leadership, with senior operator experience.

25+ yrs

Bernd Postma

VP Industry Strategy & Strategic Accounts

Food manufacturing, operational excellence and executive leadership; Delicia MD since 2001.

10+ yrs

Matthijs Visser

VP Strategic Accounts

Corporate venturing, M&A, business development and sustainable food, water and energy ventures.

20+ yrs

Rutger Mans

VP Strategic Accounts

Strategy, organisational transformation, business building and sustainable growth.

12+ yrs

Sankaran Namboodiri

CTO

Software engineering, large-scale data systems and AI infrastructure for production environments.

12+ yrs

Jibin Jose

Director of Business Development & Sales

Enterprise business development, customer growth and adoption across regulated supply chains.

Customer reference

Real teams, measured outcomes.

Experience matters most when it translates into practical outcomes for the teams using the platform every day.

“CIED brought more than technology to the table — they brought alignment with our operational mindset. Together we solved a pressing data management challenge and created a digital foundation for scalable, cross-functional use cases.”
Dr. Alexander Sunder Business Unit Magnesia, LEHVOSS Group
Use case80% faster

How a European food ingredient supplier reduced RFI & questionnaire response time by 80%.

The workflow before and after, the numbers behind the reduction, and what it freed the QA team to do instead.

Read the case study
Our story

AI is the latest chapter. Not the starting point.

RightOrigins comes from years spent building systems around certification, traceability and supply-chain data. That history matters because the hard part is not generating text—it is knowing which data can be trusted, where evidence lives and how it should move between organisations.

  1. 2011

    CIED begins

    The founding team starts building technology products and enterprise software in India.

  2. 2013

    Certification & standards become a core domain

    Work expands into software for auditing, certification and regulated supply-chain workflows.

  3. 2017

    RightOrigins launches from the Netherlands

    The company joins the Brightlands ecosystem and builds deeper European supply-chain and traceability capabilities.

  4. 2024

    AI moves into live QA workflows

    RightOrigins begins deploying AI to structure fragmented evidence and automate customer questionnaires.

  5. 2025 → TODAY

    From one agent to a reusable data foundation

    The RFI Agent becomes the entry point to a governed Single Source of Truth and a growing set of AI agents for QA, compliance and supply-chain work.

Meet us in the workflow

Bring us one questionnaire you'd rather never fill in manually again.

We’ll show you how RightOrigins turns your existing files, systems and evidence into a reusable source of truth for QA and compliance work.

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