Currently Head - Corporate Business Excellence & Lead - HR (Seeds Division) at Rallis India Limited
20+ years eventful and enriching experience covering HR, Business Excellence, Strategy, MIS, Finance & Accounts in Agrochemicals (Agri-inputs, Agro chemicals + Seeds).
Working with TATA group since 2002, joined Rallis India at Mumbai and have been to Delhi, Lucknow, Ranchi, Kolkata & currently at Bengaluru covering various function including HR, Business Excellence, Strategy, MIS, Finance & Accounts, and Regional Sales.
Professional interests also include: Business Excellence, HR, Employee Engagement, Innovation, Organizational Development and Change Management.
Qualified Business Excellence Assessor - Certified TBEM (Tata Business Excellence Model - The BE model adapted by Tata group based on MBNQA, USA) and CII-EXIM Bank Award for Business Excellence (adapted from EFQM, Europe) Assessor, CII Excellence - Customer Obsession, CII-HR Excellence
Had a chance to assess and learn from various Organizations covering Group Cos. Tata , Godrej , Aditya Birla, Murugappa, Vedanta, Manipal, Somany and others, Associated with QIMPRO since 2012.
Academics: PGCHRM (XLRI, Jamshedpur), MBA (Indira Instt. of Management, University of Pune), Engg. Graduate- Govt Engg.College, B R Ambedkar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar

Corporate Trainer at Anand Automotive

I am a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and TQM practitioner, Mensan with IQ in top 1 percentile, PMP trained and also trained EFQM assessor

My career has spanned across Media Market Research Operations (BARC-MDL), Indus Towers largely (telecom infrastructure provider) with high performance year on year, preceded by Voith Paper (Paper machine manufacturer) and Futures First (proprietary online trading company) in roles ranging from Process Excellence which touches every business function, Energy Operations and Financial Trading.

A Quality Professional returning to the industry to contribute to the Business Excellence Journey of the organization after a consulting stint. Currently handling the Process Excellence and Continuous Improvement (Lean Six Sigma) Pillar of the company’s Quality Framework. Currently handling the Corporate Quality role at Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd. As part of his role he is responsible for driving the Lean Six Sigma journey and Process Excellence journey PAN India through the quality team. His role requires Planning, Training, governance and reporting of the respective journey across all zones and at Head office in various functions. Extensive experience in managing the Program Office for Quality Programs and ability to marry Business Needs and ‘Quality Way’ (incase perceived to be two different paths). Continuing the endeavor to constantly 'learn from' , 'adapt to' and 'contribute to' a new environment and sector.

Served as judge at the final round of International Team Excellence Award at ASQ’s World Conference on Quality and Improvement , 2013, at Indianapolis. Also as “Preliminary round Lead judge” for 2013 at Sacramento CA, USA in Oct 2012 and as Judge in Nov.2011.
· Six Sigma Master Black Belt :Indian Statistical Institute.
· Six Sigma Black Belt, certified by American Society for Quality, and Dr. Mikel Harry’s Six Sigma Management Institute (SSMI).
· QMS Lead Auditor for ISO9001:2008 with over 300 audit experience
· Head of “Hoerbiger Six Sigma Academy” , guided over two dozen Black belt projects and trained over 100 engineers and managers in Six Sigma
· Over 33 years of rich and extensive experience in Quality Management System, Training, and Quality Resource Management mainly in Auto component companies.
· Possess sound knowledge of QMS standards ISO: 9001, ISO/TS: 16949

Worked with
· Hoerbiger India Pvt Ltd – Head Quality Management
· BSI India Pvt Ltd – Client Manager
· Precision Camshafts Pvt Ltd – GM – QM
· Goetze India Ltd – Manager QA
· Freelance Consultant
· Professional Qualifications

· Post Graduate Diploma in SQC & OR from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkatta in 1978.
· Trained Lead Assessor in ISO9000 by Confederation of Indian Industry and Cranfield University, UK .

Education

· M.Sc. (Statistics) from Vikram University, Ujjain with 1 st Position in the Merit List in 1977.
· B.Sc. from Vikram University, Ujjain in 1975.

I am an mechanical engineer from IIT, with more than 30 years of industry experience. After working for 15 years in manufacturing, I moved to Services (mainly Shared Services covering Finance, Accounts, Taxation, HR and Supply chain). Last 20 years I have worked in Quality & Business Excellence and currently I am Head BE at JSW GBS, Belapur, Navi Mumbai.
I did my Black Belt and MBB, about 10-12 years ago, and since then I have done numerous projects in Lean and Six Sigma in Shared Services domain during my employment with Reliance Industries and JSW group.
I have a nack for giving training, I was involved in giving training on Quality Systems during my employment with BK Birla Group (which was for about 5 Years) and later with Reliance and JSW, I am involved in giving Training on Lean and Six Sigma.
Further I wish to contribute my time to the society in growth of Quality related education and activities. Being associated with QIMPRO, I look forward to fulfill that goal.

Haresh has 16 years of experience in IT, Consulting and Manufacturing Industries. He has been associated with the areas of Business performance and process improvement in various capacities. He has worked as part of global teams. He has supported the clients with diverse culture in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe & Middle-east. His major responsibilities involves improving the quality and productivity of service delivery, devising initiatives for improving customer satisfaction. He has contributed in the organization level initiatives like Six Sigma (BrITe), Program Management (TRANSCEED) and improving Product Quality (PQM), etc. He has played role of Master Black-belt at GE (Industrial Systems)

Relevant Experience

• Set-up Operational Excellence & Customer experience score-card and defined strategies to achieve the same
• Implemented change initiatives to achieve key performance goals in the unit level score-card
• Identified the focus areas for improvement and executed the improvement project by using the BrITe methodology
• Established and maintained quality system and measurements for new services introduced by organization
• Worked as part of CIO organization drive improvements in the vendor organizations to improve their service delivery
• Established digital cockpit system for CIO organization to measure and monitor the performance
• Established and maintained processes for software product development organization as per the practices specified by ISO 9000 and Software-CMM

Anand Kumar Anand is a LSS Master Black Belt with over a decade of experience in deploying Operational and Business Excellence methodologies in multiple industries. He has worked on projects across manufacturing, IT, banking, healthcare, food processing, metal processing, telecom, pharmaceutical and packaging industries. He has trained over 4,500 trainees across various levels of trainings and has mentored over 600 projects. He has mentored projects across Asia, Europe and US and has conducted trainings at multiple global locations. Currently he is managing his own venture Innovative Mindz Consultants and offers Lean Six Sigma and Strategy formulation & deployment related trainings and consulting services. He was amongst the initial few consultants to start Lean and Six Sigma in Healthcare in India and is associated with Academy of Hospital Administration as a faculty. He has also led culture and change management initiatives in multiple organizations and also executed leadership development programs. He is the Managing Director of Innovative Mindz Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. which offers investment advisory services to its clients. He is an industrial engineer with a post graduate specialization in Operations and Human Resource management. In the past he worked with LG Electronics, Infosys, Delphi Automotives, IBM and Deutsche Bank.

Manu Anand has Over 20 Years Experience In the corporate world in Leadership Positions . He Is a Mechanical Engineer and an Alumni of IIM Ahemdabad . His Key Strengths are in Production Planning, Maintenance And Management Of Plant . Lean Implementation and Leading teams for turnaround strategies and Growth . He Is Now A Management Consultant and Corporate Trainer By Profession . A true leader and an Organisation Change agent .

His Last assignment in the corporate was as the CEO for Pentair Water India Ltd Goa .
Featured in Business India as a Model for recruitment of Young Managers
Reached the Finals for the Young Managers Award by CII in 2002
He is Highly recognized and commended manager with strong leadership and training skills
Has Strong oratory and communication skills

Manu is the CEO and Founder Director of Alpha Mindz Trainers and Consultants Pvt. Ltd.. Alpha Mindz has its core Strengths in Providing Training and education solutions to all age Groups . Alpha Mindz Provides consultancy and Training in Lean Six Sigma , and Process Improvements

Alpha Mindz Runs Personality development and Voice Courses under its Brand “ Alpha KidzZ “ and Alpha Voice Master .

Alpha Mindz is having its Corporate Office in Panjim Goa and training Centre at Caranzalem , Goa . Alpha Mindz has its Associate and Franchisee Offices in Pune , Gurgaon , Vasco(Goa) and Punjab.

Anant Praveen is an Environment and Safety management professional. He has over 16 years of EHS management experience in Sugar Manufacturing & Distillery and in Coal Based Thermal Power Plants.

His professional quantification includes Masters in Environmental Science in 1998, Degree in Laws (LL.B), M. Phil. from Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM-Bhopal), International Certificate in OHS from NEBOSH (UK) and Advance Diploma in Industrial Safety Management from MSBTE (Mumbai).

During his professional career, he has worked with Reliance Infrastructure Limited, Lanco Infratech Limited, Monnet Power Limited and Adani Power Limited. His domain knowledge and experience includes environment and forest clearances, EHS regulatory compliances in manufacturing industries, hazards identification and risk assessment, implementation of EHS management systems, Sustainability Reporting as per GRI G4 guidelines and Assurance.

He is also certified for independent Assurance of Sustainability Report and lead auditor for OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001. He has been examiner with IMC Mumbai for Ramkrishan Bajaj National Quality Award and QIMPRO BestPrax Award in 2010-11 cycles.

Murty ASVS has 20 years of experience in diversified fields including Manufacturing, Teaching, and Service industries and also has multi-functional experience covering Quality, Operations and Industrial engineering.
He is certified Master Black Belt and Lead auditor for ISO 9000 and ISO/ TS 16949. He has extensively worked in the areas of Quality Management, TPM, Lean, Six Sigma, Performance Management and Change Management. He is an expert trainer of Lean, Six Sigma and Creative thinking concepts and tools. He has delivered more than 10,000 man hours of training till date to people at various levels.
He had mentored more than 100 Process Improvement projects and delivered financial saves over 3 Mio USD to organizations he was associated with.
In his current role, he is driving Continuous Improvement framework in Wholesale banking operations of SCB Scope International.

An experienced Leader with 17 years in Software Quality including 10 years of Leading and Managing Quality Function. Elaborate experience in Strategizing and Executing the Quality Program through Front Line Managers and Principals and tuning QA Practices to deliver high quality releases.

During this journey, worked for product companies (Symantec, BMC Software and Bindview) focused in domains of Compliance and security, Identity Management, gained in-depth skills in building and nurturing Quality Engineering function, setting strategic focus, identifying success factors, understanding customer requirements and building Enterprise Class Quality for both Large and Medium businesses.

A senior member of ASQ and Project Management Institute.

Work Experience
Over 15 Years of experience from various industries and companies such as Deutsche bank, Infosys BPO and Grasim Industries Limited (AV Birla Group) in leading organization change Journey - Quality, Transformation, Business Engineering, Operational Excellence, Client Delivery Management and Business development
Qualifications
Holds BE from REC, Bhopal along with MBA (HR). Some of the professional qualifications include:
· Certified Quality Leader
· Six Sigma Master Black belt
· Lean Trainer
· Certified SCRUM Master
· Certified ISO Internal quality Auditor
· eSCM and COPC professional.
· Certified Assessor for AVB Chairman’s Award for manufacturing Excellence (2004 Model)

Have experience of establishing change function from inception in multiple organization. Worked in Manufacturing and Service industry specializing in Business and Strategic Planning, Performance benchmarking, Risk Management, Process re-engineering. Global programs under leadership have led to significant process improvements in the areas of Nostro break reduction, T0 submissions, STP rate improvement, Backlog reduction, Query reduction, Cycle time reduction, Error reduction, Functional Realignment, Line Balancing, Cross Business Capacity creation and Strategic Operating Model Changes.

Specialise in assessing business need and designing change intervention to drive achievement of strategic goals, drive performance culture, strengthen employee experience, knowledge sharing and strengthen change DNA for the organization. Some of the program include: Champion Workshop for Sr Leaders, Problem solving & Mistake Proofing workshop, Theme based workshops, Lean and Six Sigma Academy for focused groups, etc

Mechanical Engineer handling Senior/Middle level managerial assignments in the areas of System Improvements, TQM, ISO & Training implementation across my span of 24 years .Expertise in implementing 5-S, KAIZEN, ISO-9000 ISO 14001 & IS 18001, TPM & Six Sigma, Lean Six sigma techniques .Have Proven abilities in enhancing process Capabilities (CP, CPk), optimizing resource & capacity utilization, escalating productivity & operational efficiency; while curtailing costs & expenses. SOP'S preparation for system improvement .

A Chemical Engineer from IIT Kanpur with over 23 Years Of Intensive Experience In Production, Diverse Technologies, Management And Quality Improvement In Process Industry. Worked in key positions in Quality, Product Development as well as Operations domain with companies such as Asian Paints, Sterlite Technolgies, Sukam , Euro solo. In early part of his career he worked in Production & Technical services in the manufacturing of products such as phthalic anhydride, paints , aerated beverages, asbestos cement roofing sheets . He started his Quality & then Big quality journey during his 9 years association with Sterlite Technologies which started in 1999, he was responsible for all the systems certification, leading a team of quality & process engineers to make structured use of problem solving, six- sigma tools that were to result in significant operating & capital cost savings & bringing the product quality at par with international benchmark. Currently leading the Technology & Systems function of General Cable Energy I P Ltd which is part of 6.5 billion $ General Cable Corporation. Was in assessment team of RBNQA in 2005 -06 & since last 2 years continue to be associated with Qimpro as examiner for Qualtech prize as well as was part of jury to decide this year's Gyan Jyoti School of TQM & Entrepreneurship's North west Qualtech prize for medium size manufacturing business category.

Solution-oriented leader with over five years of experience in developing strategic initiatives. Expertise in creating value through sustainable business management and strategies with a distinct ability to present persuasive analyses to executive-level audiences and public stakeholders. Analytical thinker with a unique combination of communication skills and technical expertise.

I have over nine years of work experience in service sector industry out of which more than 6 years has been in Quality & BE and client management role. I work in the capacity of Process Improvement Consultant with Infosys and my key deliverable include mentoring Six Sigma projects and facilitating Lean Six Sigma Training, My last stint was with a KPO based in Business Insights Group where my Key deliverable was to provide business intelligence to client based on the statistical analysis of data and to strike a balance in bringing value and building a healthy relationship with client. I have led around twenty DMAIC projects based on client and process needs targeting metrics like TAT, customer satisfaction, sales conversion and retention etc. I am Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified from Anexas and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified from ASQ, trained from TQMI.

Vishal Baadkar has more than 20 years of experience in IT and BPS industry. He was work in areas Order Management, Finance & Accounting, Customer Services across verticals like Retail, Telecom, Manufacturing, Energies & Utilities domain. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Registered Coordinator for COPC, ISO 9001 Quality auditor. He has diversified experience in BPS industry across Transition, Process management and process engineering and transformation initiatives.
At present, he is working with L&T in its Shared Services to drive Operational Excellence and Quality Assurance initiatives across functions like HR, Payroll and F&A processes like Procure to Pay.
Prior to L&T, Vishal worked with Wipro Limited in its BPS division as a Quality leader for a business unit that delivers Finance & Accounting, Procurement, HR and Payroll services across breadth of customers. His role was to drive operational transformation initiatives across aligned business units, manage & drive continuous improvement culture across different client engagements and migration and stabilization of service delivery.

Vishal has worked with Adventity, Godrej group in diverse roles in Quality, Operations and IT development. Vishal has done his Post Graduate Diploma in Finance from Symbiosis and Bachelor in Engineering (Computer) from Pune university.

A seasoned professional with over 19 years of rich experience in Strategic Planning, Organization Performance Excellence, Business Process Management & Re-engineering, Project Management, Quality & Risk Management and Strategic Sourcing. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt holder, Certified 5 S Champion, Certified Lead and Internal Quality Auditor for ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 10002:2004. Also certified assessor for IMC RBNQA. Holds Specialized Diploma in Compliance, Governance & Risk Management in Insurance by I.I.I & I.C.S.I and PMP Trained

Anish Balachandran is a Process Leader - Systems & Processes at LM Windpower Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., a company into renewable energy that deals with manufacturing of blades for wind turbines. His primary role is to drive excellence in the Service & Logistics segment leading to higher customer satisfaction. He was earlier working with the same company with a different role related to the continual improvements in the blade manufacturing process. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt from American Society of Quality; with Master of Science in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Mr. Anish Balachandran has offered training and continuous improvement consultation to companies in the engineering, manufacturing, and service sectors. Anish started his career as a Design Engineer post his graduation in BE Mechanical and was responsible in improvising the existing design of machineries used in the pulverizing section of pesticide manufacturing. He has worked with varied companies post his Masters, mainly, in the engineering, automobile, and manufacturing areas. Mr. Anish Balachandran's areas of specialization include - - Six Sigma, Lean Principles, Quality Management Systems, Statistical Analysis, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management.

P Balasubramanian ,is working as Manager - 22kt Vendor Development with Titan Industries Limited ,Jewellery division - one of the India's leading Jewellery,Watch Manufacturer. He has about 27 years of Manufacturing and Technology experience. He is a Six sigma Black belt and Leading External Assessor in TATA Business Excellence Model. He is a Post Graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and completed Graduation in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering . He has won the Gold medal in IIIE, Mumbai.

A Electrical Engineer and certified Energy Manager by Beauro of Energy Efficiency, Govt. of India with 27 years of cross industry experience in project management, Risk & Opportunity management, budgeting, quality assurance, operation and maintenance. He has mainly worked in chemicals, explosives and polyester manufacturing industries in different capacity. He had played a lead role in representing his organisations at various state & national level energy award and came with laurels. Also actively involved in implementation of ISO 9001 & 14000 and continuing to audit the effectiveness of the system.

Work Experience: Advisor (Organisational Development) - Polycab Wires Pvt. Ltd. May'2013 onwards Advisor, Trainer & Coach on Mgmt.Systems - Bardhan Associates May’2013 onwards Head(OD & Corporate MR) - Polycab Wires Pvt Ltd. Sept’2011 – April’2013 Management System Lead Assessor - UL MSS India Pvt. Ltd. Oct’ 2004 onwards VP (TQM & HR) - Ispat Industries Ltd. Sept'1994 - Sept'2002 Mgr (TQM Secretariat) - Bhilai Steel Plant (SAIL) May'1991 - August'1994 Suptd. Engineer (Projects) - Bhilai Steel Plant (SAIL) Sept'1997 - April'1991 Professional Qualifications: BE (civil) Certified TQM Facilitator (IRD Inc, USA) Enhancing Production Efficiency (AOTS, Japan).

T Engg,C Engg, AMIMechE(I), Degree Mechanical Engineer
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
QCI Certified ZED Consultant
QIMPRO Certified Qualitist Level 3

 Six Sigma Black Belt Certified, TOC certified professional with more than 23 years of experience in Operational Excellence, Manufacturing, Quality Management, Plant Operations, Projects and Supply chain. A keen strategist & leader with expertise in managing new initiatives and ensuring organisational level implementation. Always willing to learn new things and implement the same.
• As Kaizen Coordinator from 2009, Developed the culture of improvement by initiating Kaizen Culture. Currently we have Kaizen Management system in place and now we are delivering 16 kaizen/ employee on annual basis with 100% employee participation including blue collar employees. We are generating around 10,000 kaizen per year. Driving cost saving initiatives called PMO to generate saving of more than 2 Cr YOY.
• Implemented 5S at location. Securing first position for last 3 years in inter-divisional Housekeeping contest.
• As A TPM Steering Committee chairman, initiated TPM at location and secured TPM Excellence, Category A award within shortest possible span.
o Achieved OEE and OLE above 83%.
o 50% of Critical machines are Zero Breakdown machines
• Successfully completed various Capacity enhancement project through De-bottlenecking , SMED , Process Improvement, LCA’s and various Lean Management Techniques. i.e. Last year our manufacturing capacity is enhance by 15% without adding any capital expenditure and also achieved manpower productivity improvement of 15%. Similar project implemented on various product lines.
• Part of sample TOC project, Initiated by company in year 2012. We have successfully completed the same project. Also get myself certified as TOC Certified Professional from TCICO (Theory of Constraints International Certification Organisation)
• Part of Team who won CII Greenco Platinum Award and become first factory in India to be Platinum rated. Work as Green House Gas Emission Pillar champion.

I am basically Electrical Engineering Graduated done by BE course from COE -Pune in 1981.I am having different field experience@ 34 years in different industry such as power distribution, chemical, petrochemical, cement etc in electrical projects and maintenance. I am BMG six sigma green belt and completed Black belt course , presently working as internal faculty for Green belt training. I am giving guidance to green belts in their projects in different green belt projects in lean, service sector, HR services, production and maintenance field since last 5 years. I am also SAP power user for Plant maintenance module

As a Master Black Belt in Quality, leading business improvement projects, along with driving the team of Black Belts in the function like Finance, IT, Infrastructure and Logistics etc. Driving continuous improvement & transformation projects through usage of Lean, Six sigma & other methodologies.
Work experience in various domains of Operations, Finance, IT etc. Leading & coaching the Six Sigma Business Impacting projects, driving annual loyalty surveys for Customer & Distributors, managing the Process Excellence Journey, driving Culture Building initiatives like Kaizen and Knowledge Management, and Program Managing critical projects.

Kamaldeep is co-founder, director and leads the Business development and sales at Ask To Solve. He partners with customers in understanding and addressing their needs and pain points and is actively involved in solution design. Having mentored and executed 40+ projects and trained 600+ people in a diverse range of industries, Kamaldeep also facilitates delivery in individual/group capacity. Through self and mentored projects, he has made huge positive impact to organizations through significant improvements in productivity, customer experience, ideation programs, workflow optimization etc. among others. Kamaldeep has extensive experience of 13+ years in process excellence, project management and sales in BFSI and outsourcing industry. He has worked with companies such as Carrier Aircon, Standard Chartered Bank, Tata AIG Life Insurance, WNS Global Services and Motilal Oswal Securities. Kamaldeep has done his Post Graduation in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Indore and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering. Kamaldeep is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He is also a Fellow, Life Management Institute (LOMA-USA).

Currently working as a Assistant General Manager Quality and Service Excellence. Dynamic true quality professional with 16 years of experience in the Healthcare, Insurance and the financial sector. A keen strategist, planner and implementer with expertise in devising strategies aimed at enhancing overall organizational growth, sustained profitability of operations and improved business performance. In this capacity am responsible for establishing and driving excellence, process reengineering, BPMS and Six Sigma projects. For process reengineering the role outlines quality assurance, project management methodology and six sigma improvement projects (Maximizer, Green Belt, Black 1lstrj Belts)..I have the extensive experience in identifying, leading and executing strategic projects for meeting customer, shareholder and employee business goals. I have mentored 100 +six sigma projects so far. I have sound doman knowledge and am well versed with the Indian industry. Academic and Professional Qualifications include: - MBA from IMT Ghaziabad, Six Sigma Black Belt Certified and ISO 9001:2008 Certified Internal Auditor from TQMI. Won both Internal, External (CII Six Sigma ) and International accolades for continuous projects. Won the ASQ International Team Excellence Bronze Award at World Conference on Quality and Improvement projects’2014 at Dallas

A Chartered Engineer, Professional Engineer, BE Mech, MBA Operations & TQM, 6 Sigma MBB, CBCP, CQP MCQI, IRCA Principal Auditor with over 24 years of experience in working with more than 70 organizations in the field of business, operations, and process excellence.

A graduate Mechanical Engineer with with 34 years of rich experience in spearheading multi location manufacturing Plant Operations , supply Chain management with key focus on top line growth with sustainable bottom-line results. A keen strategist & implementer with expertise in managing entire operations with key focus on profitability & optimal utilization of resources.. An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills; strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities. An enterprising leader, ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Lean manufacturing practitioner with abilities in leading multi-skilled motivated teams to achieving organisational goals and industry best practices.
Has been actively participating in Quality Circle activities since 1987 and of late a jury in NCQC & CCQC events.
Lead organization in CII-ACT ,ACMA and ACMA -UNIDO cluster programs .Executed successful Six Sigma Projects driving excellent bottom line results.

Sudipta Bhaumik is an Associate General Manager in Sterlite Technologies Limited (Optical Fiber Division), Aurangabad, India. He joined Sterlite in 1998 as process development engineer. He received his bachelor degree in ceramic engineering from Calcutta University, India and master degree in ceramic engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. He has been engaged with research on quality and reliability issues of optical fiber and development of analytical techniques. He worked in various areas of optical fiber and fiber optics cable manufacturing like Quality Assurance,Quality Control, Process Engineering, Standard and specification control,Customer Assurance (Customer complaint handling, customer support; value enhancement, product approval), Business Development and Application Engineering. Sudipta worked to implement and sustain various management system like ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO10002, TL9000 and OHSAS:18001. He is American Society for Quality (ASQ) certified Six-Sigma Black Belt, Manager of Quality/ Business Excellence and Quality Auditor and IRCA certified Lead Auditor for Business Continuity Management System (BS25999). He worked as an examiner in IMC-RBNQA. He has published over 25 research papers/ white papers/ Application Engineering Note in various International conferences, magazines and journals.He has received Urbain J.H.Malo medal (by Wire Association International, Boston, USA) award for best technical paper in Electrical/Fiber Optics division in 2002 and 2003.

AnilKumar Singh is a VP for Quality at Kimia Biosciences Ltd.He holds a Masters degree in Chemistry with a specialisation in Organic Chemistry from Andhra University.As a professional qualification he holds an ISO Lead Auditor certificate from TUV SUD. Has vast experience in managing pharmaceutical companies and is equipped with more than 10 years of experience in the field of Quality that include training and implementing Quality Systems.During his experience he was involved in the designing and development of a number of manufacturing facilities. Specific experience and areas of expertise include: · design and development of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants · auditing pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing plants · auditing various manufacturing production and processing systems which require different materials and line separation · designing Master Document, Quality assurance and Quality control systems Specific achievements in areas of expertise include: -Major role in finding Root cause for critical deviations,and implementation of actions, for enhancement of the product quality. -Implementation of SAP for the tracking and controlling the movement of material as per the laid down procedures.QM Module owner for all Quality Management related transaction. -Handling of Regulatory audits viz., USFDA, Australian-TGA, DMA, KFDA, ISO, WHO,USP,PMDA, Customer / Regulatory authorities’ inspections -Looking the Quality and Regulatory compliances -Emparting the Training to the personnel in facility on New guidelines CGMP -Involvement in the implementaion of e-BPR complying as per 21 CFR Part11 electronic signatures. Model e-BPR is implemented in a successful manner. -New Facilities Qualification including Clean Rooms,Water System and a variety of equipments were dealt.

Narendra Brahmankar is Mechanical Engineer with Post Graduation in Plastics Mould Design and Post Dip. in Management . He is Management Consultant & has wide work experience of over 26 years in the industry out of which 14 years is into Plastic Industry and 13 years in the Quality Management Systems as a Consultant, Auditor & Trainer.
He has worked in the companies such as Supreme Industries, Bright Brothers and Mutual Industries in Tool Room and Projects departments. During this tenure he got good exposure in Project Management and Successfully handled various projects for engineering industry.
He is also IRCA registered QMS 2008 AUDITOR, IRCA approved EMS/OHSAS AUDITOR and a Certified Sr. Examiner of Business Excellence from IMC RBNQA Trust.
He is an Empanelled auditor cum Trainer for QMS with a TuV Nord from last 13 years.
Has assessed 6 applications for Business excellence from IMC RBNQA Trust, conducted 300 + third party QMS audits & helped various organizations in Manufacturing as well as Service industry, for Process Mapping & Performance Improvement.
Has received Certificate of Excellence for Demonstration of Team Performance during IMC RBNQA Assessment Cycles 2013 & 2015.
Had also participated as examiner in 26th QIMPRO Convention (2014)

20+years of Work experience largely into Banking and ITES Industry. Gained insight into various processes and improved them as a service quality professional, across multifunctional teams. Demonstrated leadership with balanced albeit driven approach towards long term client and end customer satisfaction by setting up quality framework across line of businesses, improving operational practices / CSAT/NPS , developing quality culture by appreciating quality across levels and managing stakeholders within and across regions/geographies. As part of ASQ India Section Governing Council Secretary, I lead the Quality initiatives for India.

Over the past 18 years, gained significant knowledge and expertise in domain areas like Telecom, Manufacturing, Media Studios, IPTV, Stock Exchange. Recent focus has been in gaining knowledge in Healthcare domain, where majority of the CSR activities and projects are centered.

Involved in managing and implementation of large complex projects, which were multi vendor, multi geography and cross software platforms. Software Development, Migration & Integration, Business/ Technical Consulting, Risk Assessment & Analysis and Software Project Management are some of the types of projects which have been executed.

Working in power sector for the last 20 years. Have undergone many changes is professional life during this tenure from service engineer to efficiency monitoring and finally in technical services. Certified External Business Excellence Auditor in 2015 according to GMR Business Excellence Model following Malcolm Baldrige Standards. Have conducted One day Single Assessor assessment on behalf of CII for SMB Star Icon Award.

Mr Anirudha Chakravarty is freelance consultant for Quality Improvement and Business Excellence and also Director at Qimpro. He is a BE Electronics from Mumbai University and a Six Sigma Black Belt from Six Sigma Academy (USA). He started his career as an IT hardware specialist, but over the last 15 years, he has worked dedicatedly in the field of Quality Management. His areas of specialization include assessments, training, facilitation and mentoring on Six Sigma, Intelligent Cost Reduction, International Quality Maturity Model, IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award and Best Practices.

Mr Chakravarty, over the last 15 years has conducted over 20 assessments on Business Excellence for top organizations in India and overseas. He has trained over 150 Black Belts and 1500 Green Belts on Lean and Six Sigma. He has facilitated teams from various organizations to complete more than 500 process Improvement projects in manufacturing, service and transactional processes.

Previously, Anirudha has served as a Director at Qimpro Consultants Private Limited and was heading Business Consulting. He was the key driver behind the successful implementation of the first ever National Demonstration Project on Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare. Prior to that, he has served as Sr. Manager - Continuous Improvement and Best Business Practices (CIBBP) at Johnson Controls (India) Pvt. Ltd. He also played a key role in launching and guiding the Six Sigma initiative at MIRC Electronics Ltd.

Amit is a Mechanical Engineer with an MBA in Project Management. He is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt and a Level 2 Vibration Analyst from Vibration Institute, USA. With around 16 years of experience across technical, maintenance, consulting, asset optimization and project management functions, Amit has developed monitoring methodologies for measuring PM Effectiveness & RCA effectiveness and developed a spares management philosophy for insurance & vital spares for inventory reduction. He has also successfully published papers on subjects like Vibration Analysis, Six Sigma and Asset Integrity Management System. His problem solving, analytical thinking and positive mindset have allowed him to lead and execute effectively.

A result-driven professional with over 11 years of experience; MMS – Finance (2000-’02)
Six sigma Black Belt certified from ASQ (American Society of Quality) in 2009. Was a member of the Business Excellence Team
in ICICI Lombard and handled improvment projects.
Currently Heading the Quality function in Mahindra Insurance Brokers Limited. Driving Quality
Improvement in Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd through process improvements and employee involvement in organization -
wise suggestion scheme and KAIZENs
Facilitation of documentation and revision of processes accross the organization.
Involved in the annual process of Balance Score Deployment to identify inter-departmental cross linkages and have them
incorporated in the relevant personnel's KRAs
Conducting trainings on '7 QC Tools & QC Story', Various pillars of TQM like Daily Work Management & Standardization and Top
Management Leadership & Strategy.
Facilitated completion of 20 yellow belt projects in MIBL.
Completed 'Post Graduate Diploma in Quality Management' (a 35 days residential) training by ‘Mahindra Institute of Quality’, Nasik
Attended a 5 days Management Training Program at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad nominated by MIBL

Engineer with post graduate management diploma, 36 years of experience in operations, quality, projects and management consultancy. working for the Tata Group for the past 30 years in various companies, large part of the last 15 years dedicated to the performance excellence and change management areas. Worked on management tools such as balanced scorecard, six sigma, risk management and development / assessment center.

Devraj Chattaraj is a Deputy General Manager in Tata Business Excellence Group (TBExG), a role in which he is involved in propagating the Best Practices programme across group companies through interventions like creating and managing discussion forums on EDGE portal, working with companies to make the EDGE White Label the KM portal of choice for them, planning & managing EDGE webinars, running promising practices campaign, implementation of best practices in group companies and conducting workshops on Knowledge Management through Tata Network Forums (TNFs). He is responsible for conducting benchmarking studies with non-Tata organisations. Apart from Best Practices, he plays a role in Operational Excellence (OPEx) Deep Dive diagnostics and designing & delivering customized capability building workshops on problem solving.

Hemant Chaubal is a Senior Business Analyst having an additional role as Head of QA and Documentation in NuLEAP Technologies, a small-sized IT company working in niche areas of the Pharmaceutical and Life sciences domain.
Also involved actively in regulatory compliance consulting assignments with respect to standards such as GDPR, HIPAA and 21 CFR Part11 in Healthcare and Pharma Industry.
Hemant has done his Masters in Organic Chemistry in 1977 followed by DMS in 1983 from Bombay University.
He then took up a commercial research project in I.I.T., Bombay in synthetic chemistry for a year working on indigenously synthesizing a pre-cursor for anti-malarial drug, Chloroquine.
This was followed by a twenty-year- career as a Research Scientist at Hoechst Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (now Aventis Pharma-) in natural product isolation, downstream processing, and analytical chemistry.
Hemant joined NuLEAP Technologies (then Megaware-) in 2006. Areas include Bioequivalence, Pharmacovigilance and LIMS. His contribution is in Quality Assurance for these products which have to be compliant with stringent US FDA rules among other international regulatory authorities. Any lacunae in the software application can lead to both huge losses for the customers in terms of non-compliance by auditing agencies as well as risk to the patients at large, though in an indirect manner. Constant improvement in basic design strategies, requirement gathering modalities, extensive discussions with customers have paid rich dividends.

Business Transformation Leader with 12+ years of expertise in building, leading, transforming organizational processes, to maximize business results in Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC), BFSI, Energy and Utility, Contact Centers and Manufacturing sector. Strong track record of process improvement, transformation and attaining business goals through digital initiatives, LSS implementation, improvement of Customer experience and other quality initiatives etc. Expert at building and motivating high-performing, cross-functional teams that exceed customer and shareholder expectations.

Amit Chauhan, Graduate Engineer in Electronics & Communication and a certified MASTER BLACK BELT, has over 20 years of experience in Telecom Industry. He carries blend of expertise in the area of Installation & Commissioning of Telecom equipment’s, Customer Services, Business performance and process improvements. He also carries RC COPC professional certificate & ISO 27000 Lead Auditor to his academic excellence. Amit has led one of the most successful vertical - Six Sigma programs at Bharti Airtel Ltd (previously known as Bharti Infotel) . These have now become case-studies at leading business schools, including IIMs. In his current assignment with Indus Towers Ltd. a world largest telecom Tower Company, he is responsible for improving the quality and productivity of service delivery, devising initiatives for improving customer satisfaction.

* 7+ years of experience as Business Excellence Manager with a demonstrated history of working across functions for pain point identification and on various improvement projects.
* Associated with Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited as Head of Business Excellence. Also worked with Centre for Study of Social Change (Mumbai), Mattel (Penang, Malaysia), Future Group (Mumbai).
* Post graduate diploma in Management (Business Design) from Welingkar Institute of Management and B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication from Pune University
* Skilled in Operations Management, Business Process Improvement (using tools like Lean, Six Sigma, kaizen etc), Innovation (Using tools like design thinking), Productivity Improvement and Strategy Development

• I am a postgraduate engineering having abundant experience implementing Industrial Engineering, Quality Management & Operational Excellence practices spanning diverse industrial sub-sectors such as automotive and auto components, tractor components, railways, light engineering, textile, FMCG, medical devices, Pharma, Health Care.
• I have successfully led the implementation of lean manufacturing practices in 3 clusters at Mohali in pilot phase of Lean Manufacturing Competitiveness Scheme of MSME, GoI India as General Manager (Consultancy and Training) of PTU Gian Jyoti School of TQM & Entrepreneurship (PTU Nalanda later). Case studies of this project got national as well as international recognition ((Success Stories published in MSME compendium and in p-watch of APO News Letter March-April 14). Total savings in all the projects were of the tune of 6 crores annually (year by year).
• Have mentored more than 400 participants in Lean & six sigma practices (Green Belts and Black Belts) in public programs conducted on behalf of the school. A Case study of one of his project also got recognition in APO News (September 2015). Total reduction in cost of poor quality from the successful projects are more than 50 Crore per annum. One of his project mentored for Swaraj R&D won the first prize in QIMPRO Qualtech in manufacturing category .
• Served NPC, India, as a Deputy Director for 13 years. During his tenure he provided grass-root solutions to various organizations, using Industrial Engineering techniques such as method study, Productivity linked incentive schemes, organization restructuring, work place layout, line balancing, ergonomic etc. He was groomed in productivity practices through training and interactions with Japanese consultants. He got opportunities to attend overseas workshops at South Korea, Cambodia, Japan and Malaysia.
• Served Watch Component Group of KDDL Ltd. as Head Corporate Quality & Engineering for Where he handled the full breadth of quality functions, from developing standards to handling customer complaints (of Swiss customers) to leading improvement projects.
• Key areas of expertise are operational excellence and productivity enhancement with the application of
o Core Industrial Engineering practices (Method Improvement, Layout design, Organizational restructuring. Line balancing, Inventory management, Standardization, Designing standard norms and productivity indices, balanced score card and performance management)
o Lean Manufacturing Practices (5S, Value Stream Mapping, Standardization, Quick changeover, Kaizen, TPM)
o Problem Solving (Using seven QC tools)
o Six Sigma & Quality Management Practices (DMAIC methodology, FMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC ANOVA, DoE, Taguchi Methods etc)
o Team Building and other SGA activities (such as Quality Circles)
o Software such as Excel, Microsoft Project, MINITAB, SPSS and igrafx
• I have been a guest faculty to IIT-Roorkee, IIM Kashipur and Sri Balaji Society, Pune
• Currently I am associated with Centre for Total Quality Management in Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh as visiting professor and program coordinator for MTech TQM. My key role is to mentor the students doing Masters In TQM and helping them improving their employability. In the last two years I got opportunity to mentor around 20 students and they are doing well in the industry.


Recently he mentored a pilot project of lean transformations at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai and Kasturba Hospital, Manipal which was great success and got a letter of appreciation from Johnson & Johnson, the sponsoring organization .
He has also successfully conducted two QA Conferences ; 7th QA Conference on Audits : System, Process and Product audits Sep 2016 & 10th QA Conference on Sampling April 2018 at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur as external

PMP, CMMI- SVC & DEV, ITIL, DevOps, ISO LA Certified, expert in Design Thinking and innovation programs.

Has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology with reputed IT organizations. Working with L&T Infotech (LTI) for last 21 years.
• Hands on experience on managing large projects within the organization
• Expertise in cost budgeting and profitability analysis of the programs and ensuring the revenue recognitions
• Expertise in ITIL, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000, ISO 27001 and CMMI Development and Services implementation
• Extensive expertise in all aspects of IT management including project management, Software development and maintenance with specialization
in applications and development
• Over 3 years of onsite experience in ITIL/ITSM implementation for an Energy and Petrochemical major based in California, USA
• Hands on experience in Quantitative Project Management using various quantitative techniques / Expertise in Statistical Process Control (SPC)
techniques
Talented, result-driven IT leader with versatile, cross-platform experience in program management, Delivery excellence and quality assurance.

I have 12 years of total experience in servicing sector and 6 yrs plus in bus excellence domain I'm a six sigma Master black belt certified professional from ISI institute & also certified in Advance Business Analytics from ISB (Hyderabad campus) ...also my other expertise include trained IMC assessor ..design thinker ...driving process re engineering and setting up advance Robotic process automation modules , designing process flows for Robots , conducting trainings on Quality concepts ie RCA, Quality tools, Six Sigma . Being a Change agent is my passion and i ensure i get my value adds to the table

I have 12 years of total experience in servicing sector and 6 yrs plus in bus excellence domain I'm a six sigma Master black belt certified professional from ISI institute & also certified in Advance Business Analytics from ISB (Hyderabad campus) ...also my other expertise include trained IMC assessor ..design thinker ...driving process re engineering and setting up advance Robotic process automation modules , designing process flows for Robots , conducting trainings on Quality concepts ie RCA, Quality tools, Six Sigma . Being a Change agent is my passion and i ensure i get my value adds to the table

A healthcare quality professional, having medical degree, defense background, management credentials, corporate hospitals’ management experience and a distinct skill-set for hospital accreditations (NABH & JCI). Core competencies include healthcare quality management systems & accreditations, hospital management, medical/clinical administration, patient safety & risk management, healthcare quality training, management teaching & research.

Cyril Danthi is Currently working as Asst. Manager - Business Excellence with TATA Projects Ltd, an Engineering, Procurement & Construction Contracting Company in the Engineering Sector. His responsibilities include driving continual improvements, Process Mapping & development of Enterprise Level Manual and Climate Change. Prior to joining TATA Projects , he worked with Voltas Global Engineering Centre as Sr. Engineer - Business Excellence, where he played a key role in Development & Implementation of Process, standardization & Improvements in Productivity for the new profit centre and Instrumental in conceptualization and implementation of Performance Management. He as also implemented OHSAS 18001:2007 standard across International Operations Business Group (EMD) of Voltas. He has hands on experience in the field of Quality & Business Excellence in Manufacturing, Project Execution & Project Management. He has done his Bachelor in Industrial Engineering .He is a Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2008 by IRCA, Assessor for TBEM & Climate Change. He is trained in Value Engineering from INVEST.

Anup Kumar Das, (B Tech, MBA),General Manager, started his career in Polyester production in 1991 with OSL,JK Corp and is working for Reliance Industries Limited since 1996. He has a rich experience of 21 years in production and process control. Currently he is responsible for deployment of Six Sigma at Reliance Industries Limited, Hazira Manufacturing Division. He has led several high impact high value projects and has developed several Black/Green/Yellow belts. He is an expert in process optimization, lean and six sigma and has many articles published to his credit. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (BMGI, ASQ) and a Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (ASQ).

Shantanu Das is General Manager and Head, Energy Management in Reliance Industries Limited, Dahej Manufacturing Division. He has total 13 years of Industrial and 3 Years of Academic Experience in the field of Chlor Alkali, Bio Chemical, Petrochemicals and Energy Business. He is a Green belt in Six Sigma and also an Energy Auditor from BEE. Apart from his fascination in Quality Tools and Operational excellence he has great interest in Safety and Environmental studies in Manufacturing facilities and also in Energy Management. He was Examiner of Qimpro-2015,2016,207 and attended the Seminar in Dec 2015.

A Certified Quality professional offering 15+ years of experience in Business Excellence, Asset Optimization, Spare Planning, Plant Operation & Maintenance. Current Leading Deputy General Manager - Operational Excellence in Sai Life sciences Ltd.
Use of Lean Concepts, Six Sigma tools & methodology, ensure that tools are used appropriately by team members, identify and assist in the removal of barrier to projects, conduct various training program in the organization and facilitate teams on various topics like Six sigma, Quality Circle, LQC, Lean Concepts, kaizen, 5S, TPM, VSM.
Driving benchmarking initiative focuses on Business Process improvement, also driving Six Sigma Black belt projects across location.
Certified Six sigma Black Belt from IACT Global Ltd. (ASQ)
Certified Examiner of IMC RBQNA (Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award)
QIMPRO Certified Qualitist – Leble-2 badge
Certified Internal auditor of all the three-management system (ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 , ISO 45001:2018 & ISO 50001:2018)
Certified in Business Excellence Tools from BMGI like Lean Manufacturing, Process Mapping, Problem Solving, Risk Assessment, TPM and Statistical Analysis.
Certified Kaizen & 5S Champion from ASCB (E)
Currently hold Joint Secretary position in Quality Circle forum of India – Rourkela Chapter
Acting “JUDGE” in CCQC & NCQC event every year organized by Quality Circle forum of India.
Exposed to various competitions and winner in Qual tech (Qimpro), NCQC & CCQC (Organized by QCFI)

Transformational Leader in Quality and Business Excellence. Turnaround specialist and achieves breakthrough results.
Skills : Business Excellence in Lean, Total Productive Maintenance ( TPM), Total Quality Management (TQM), Customer Experience, End to end Supply Chain Planning and Management. Turnaround specialist, expertise in Business Continuity and Sustainability.

Sudipto is a Six Sigma practitioner, data science enthusiast and educator with over 15 years of experience in teaching and consulting on process improvement and design methodologies across various industries including eCommerce, IT/ITES and Manufacturing.He is currently working at Flipkart, managing process engineering programs with the logistics division, Instakart (eKart).When he's not working, he is spending time with his wife (who is also a Six Sigma consultant) or watching movies.

Pawan is holds Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IMT, Ghaziabad. He has over Thirteen years of diversified experience in Automobile, Consumer Electronics & Home Appliance, Telecom, Insurance sector and now learning Healthcare space.

Pawan is currently working as Head and Vice President - Quality & Service Excellence for Max Healthcare. He has led teams to customize Six Sigma course materials to meet the requirements of LG, New Holland Ford, Bharti, MLI and now MHC. He has facilitated the implementation of more than 200 Six Sigma projects.

Pawan has also assisted select organizations in their journey towards implementation of 5-S, Daily Work Management, Problem Solving / Quality Circles, BPMS, BSC, Service Excellence, Project Management, innovations, Six Sigma Approach,. Continuously Improve/re-engineer Service delivery processes towards maximizing customer Satisfaction, defect reduction & cost optimization. Quality Culture development through Training on Process management, Process improvement etc. Coordinate the implementation of a robust “Process Audit” program. Develop & use MIS to track Process/Service delivery levels against competitive benchmarks. Monitor performance against standards for call centers & support units

Mr. Projit De is currently working as Professor in Amity Business School, Amity University, Mumbai. He is involved in inspiring young minds towards Quality Management subject and other Marketing Management courses.
Previously, he was with Mahindra EPC as Head – Quality and as AGM – Quality at Torrent Power He was heading quality & safety functions at Bhiwandi operations, formulating & implementing QM procedures initiatives.
He is well versed in formulating quality procedures and in improvement initiatives based on COPQ analysis, project time plan analysis, customer complaints, customer satisfaction survey action plans.
He has been involved in supplier assessments, site quality & safety audits, Internal Audits, formulation of project quality plans, inspection & test procedures and field quality plans for various electrical & automation equipment. He has rich working experience in quality management for over 21 years coming from earlier organizations Siemens Ltd, Bureau Veritas and M. N. Dastur & Co.
He is qualified Electrical Engineer from Mumbai University with PG degree in Management studies. He is also LA for ISO 9001 & OHSAS 18001 and a certified Quality manager in projects. He is also involved as Lead Examiner for IEEMA ISQA quality award since 2008 .

Mr. Jayesh N Desai is a Textile Engineer working with Reliance for the past 20 Years.
He is working as a SR GM- Production in Polyester plant. He leads a team of 20 engineers & 300 workforces. He has been involved in managing & improving shop floor processes with a focus on achieving Quality & Productivity excellence.

He is Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from American Society of Quality (ASQ). Has been in core team involved in the preparation and achieving the coveted DEMING prize and EFQM award to Reliance Industries Hazira. He has represented Reliance at many forums at National and International levels such as International Quality Circle Competition, National competitions for Young Manager, Six-sigma competition at ASQ,CII, SCMHRD , Quality Council of India , & QIMPRO to name a few.

Winner of more than 11 National & 2 International awards for his six sigma Projects. Including QUALTECH award in year 2008&2009.

Mr D V Deshpande is Vice President and Presently working in Operation And Maintenance Division of Lanco power limited in Corporate Operation service .He has more than 27years of experience in Operation and maintenance of Large size thermal power plant.He is certified six sigma Black belt. He has done many six sigma process improvement projects.

Shilpakala Deshpande is working in Global Audits and Quality in Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology, outsourcing services and local professional services.
She specializes in Quality Assurance Management. Presently, she has 16+ years of industry experience in Process definitions, Process Improvements, Audits and Assessments and Quality Assurance & Consulting. Her current role is that of ensuring compliance to standards and processes through compliance audits, internal audits and other regional audits. Her previous role was that of Delivery Excellence Lead for Northern European region.

Shilpakala specializes in the design and development of Quality Management System (QMS) and Trainings. Her specific areas of expertise include driving implementation of ISO standards like CSA STAR Cloud Security, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, CMMi & PCMM. She has successfully implemented/ enhanced Client Satisfaction Index Management & Internal Departmental Satisfaction Index Management in the companies that she has worked with. She simplifies process complexities by Process re-engineering and Implementation of Business Excellence Model.

She has worked in various domains like Telecommunication, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), ITES, IT and Finance.

She is associated with many Quality forums like IMC RBNQA, Qimpro, CSI, SPIN (Mumbai), Process Excellence Network etc. Certified examiner for IMC RBNQA and Qimpro. She is interested in emerging technologies and keeps upgrading her skill-set to align with changing technology environment.

In her spare time, Shilpakala loves to write and spends time with family. She is an avid reader, connoisseur of music and seeks adventure in outdoors.

Connect: https://www.capgemini.com/experts/cloud-services/shilpakala-deshpande/

Dynamic professional with more than 8 years of experience in Process Improvement programs, Service Quality, Innovation leading to cost reduction programs. Qualifications achieved and that match my profession are PMP certification, Black Belt from ISO, Green Belt. Fostered a culture of operational excellence and gained expertise in Five S, Kaizen, Process Mapping, D-M-A-I-C, QC Tools, etc.

Aggressively identify opportunities, develop, focus and provide tactical Quality solutions. My work places have provided ample opportunities to leverage my skills in the quality teams I was associated with. Prior to quality, I was serving Operations wherein data analysis interested me. Achievement oriented with excellent gap identification skills, people management skills & ability to manage change with ease. Instrumental in stakeholder management, gap identification, conflict management which to hand in hand to achieve project success.

A management professional with 7+ years of experience across the value chain in Strategy development & deployment, Business Excellence, Operational Excellence, Program management, Product life cycle management with global stakeholders .

Skill Set: Six Sigma (Green Belt), Project Management, COGS Reduction, Business Process Reengineering, Product Strategy & Development, Business Analysis, Stakeholder Management and KPIs reporting to CXOs (CEO/COO/CTO)

Rajesh Dighe a Chemical Engineer. I have over 20 years of experience in Manufacturing,Projects ,Expansion ,Capacity enhancement & Debottlenecking.

My experience in above fields relates to Chemicals & Petrochemicals .

I have also been involved in Energy Conservation & Energy Savings Projects.

I have also been actively involved in Implementation of ISO 9001& writing of SOP's & defining work & Operating Procedures.Also training of people has been part of my work.

SHYAMKANT DIKSHIT PROPRIETOR, VAWE SOLUTIONS A Mechanical Engineer from M. S. University of Baroda. Has 43+ years of Industrial Experience in various functions which includes setting up facility, simplifying processes, reducing cost and improving quality. Received various management awards for •Relocating plant and machinery flawlessly in record time. •Reducing power consumption cost. (Twice). •Speedy localization of components (from Global CEO). •Supporting critical transfer program. •Supporting Oracle implementation. •Quality improvements across organisation. Presently as a consultant enhancing knowledge through active participation with professional institutions ( IIPE, SEF forum of MCCIA, Institutions of Engineers etc.). Besides providing consultancy also visiting faculty/ external examiner to engineering colleges. Formerly working with GE medical system as Lean Manager implementing Lean Solutions through training, Kaizen, Quiz competitions, Kaizen Blitz events etc. for improving quality and productivity across organisation. As Manager Quality and Production Engineering improved quality processes and increasing awareness through training, quiz competitions and mentoring. Setting up and monitoring parameters for measuring continual improvement. Ensuring effectiveness through internal, external and walk through audits. Setup e-Communication for defect reporting and monitoring CAPA for supplier parts, enhanced troubleshooting speed and data availability for monitoring and analysis. Acquired knowledge of TQM, GMP, ISO 9000, ISO 13485, 21CFR820, 21CFR11 and other country specific regulatory requirements. As Engineering and Development manager acquired skills of New Product design and development. Successful in launching products with VE well accepted by market. Has worked with Siemens for designing of products and with ABB, setting up R&D Workshop and testing laboratories.

Mr. Nitin Dumasia is a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Foundry Technology and Lean Management. He is internationally recognized for Lean Management in Manufacturing and Service Industries by APO, Japan. He is Certified Six Sigma Black Belt by ASQ, USA. He is a Certified Lead Auditor of ISO 9001:2015 by BSI, UK. He is empanelled and working on Lean Manufacturing Projects with National Productivity Council (NPC) and Quality Council of India (QCI), Govt. of India. He is a Certified Enterprise Risk Management Personnel. He has a very deep experience of Training, Hands on implementation and Consulting Services in all types of industries ranging from Small Scale Enterprise to a Multinational Corporations. He has vast experience for Process Improvements activities, Lean Implementation in Indian Manufacturing companies and has benefited his clients to reduce manufacturing lead time, In process damage reduction, MIS Development, Workplace Management, Kaizen implementation, Inventory Management Systems Implementation, etc. He is associated as Assistant General Manager with RSM Astute Consultech Pvt Ltd and prior that he has worked Hilti Manufacturing India Pvt Ltd, Pentair Water India Pvt Ltd, InspirOn Engineering Pvt Ltd, Tata Steel Ltd, etc.

Zahara is a certified Lean Six Sigma expert (Master Black Belt) & program management professional with over 17 years of experience in the areas of Process Excellence, Quality, Transformation and Change Management linked to strategic as well as tactical objectives of organizations. Zahara has been instrumental in establishing the process excellence framework for several companies in the service / back office environment. She has successfully mentored projects across cross functional teams using the six sigma, Lean, Agile and other discipline frameworks impacting customer satisfaction, productivity and efficiency to support bottom line targets and improve companies top line achievements.

She has deployed several tools such as “Voice of Customer” and “Cost of Doing Nothing Different” to create and manage a pipeline of projects impacting the strategic objective and direction of the organization.

Zahara is currently associated with Accenture in capacity of the Global Lead focused on Quality, Training & Change management.

Mayank Gandhi specialises in driving quality initiatives through Six Sigma, ISO, Employee Engagement Champion etc. Of the 16 + years of experience, Mayank has spent most of his time serving domestic and US insurance clients both in Life and Non-life space and currently engaged in retail domain.

A Certified Black Belt from Motorola University, Employee Engagement Champion and Certified Examiner for Quality Management, he has completed Two Black Belt Projects and several Green Belt and Yellow Belt Projects saving millions in revenue. Mayank also specialize in transformation of organization using technology, organization redesign, process redesign and platform redesign as levers. Mayank is completed INS 21.

Specialties: Six Sigma, ISO 9001:2000, Business Excellence, Employee Engagement, Insurance

• Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001 QMS, ISO 27001 ISMS & ISO 14001 EMS
• Associate Member of American Society of Quality
• B.Com, MBA (TQM & Operations), MCS, DIATM, CEQM
• Senior Examiner – IMC RBNQA, India (modeled on Malcolm Baldridge Award, USA)
• Examiner – Qualtech Award, Qimpro - India
• 21+ years of work experience (especially in Service industry: Travel & BPO sector and others)
• 14+ years of experience in Quality Management, Business Excellence and Education Excellence
• Author of 2 Books:
1: An Insight into Corrective Action
2: Christian insight into Love, Joy & Peace

Sankar Ghosh, Graduate Engineer in Production Engg and PG Dip in IE is a certified BLACK BELT, has over 16 years of experience in manufacturing, consulting, and Telecom Industry. He carries experience in the areas of Management Systems, Lean & Six Sigma deployment in manufacturing as well as in service environment. Sankar has established LSS at Goodyear at their Radial plant in Aurangabad. He was one of key persons in introducing Six Sigma at RCOM. The Six Sigma deployment at Bharti have become benchmark for Telecom Industry. In his current assignment with India's largest Glass Container manufacturer, he is responsible for instituting Business Excellence practices development of sustainable business primarily through LSS & TPM.

Vast of experience in renowned Indian / multinational organisations in areas of Management system Design, implementation and Performance Improvement drives. Exposure to OB and various management systems in India & Abroad, worked as international Quality consultant – trainer & auditor for excellence protocol. Trained in Brisbane Australia.
 Involvement in special projects like Business Process Engineering and handled special assignments including new offices for an international organization in India ( DNV Pune was started as a pioneer)
 Excellent contacts with Government, Industries , Academics & Auditing Institutions and strong ability of network
• IQRS (International Quality Rating systems) from Australia.
• Ph. D From University of Pune
• Bachelor of Engineering from College of Engineering , Pune University ( Instrumentation & Control Engineering )
• Master of Management Science from Pune University.
• Registered auditor and trainers for Quality, Environment and safety.

A Passionate leader and a consultant by profession having profound knowledge of operation management and human resources. As a Corporate Trainer He has conducted training programs across a wide array of competencies, through various levels of professionals. His programs are designed
and tailored befitting her client needs and goals. He is an M.Tech in Manufacturing Management from BITS-Pilani and an ISI certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt , with more than eight years of combined Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Work Study, Supply Chain & Manpower Management experience. Leading and Managing end to end clientele of Elyn Consulenza. Previously worked with companies like Milacron India Ltd., Cipla Ltd., Jyothy Laboratories Ltd and Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd. in the functions like Supply Chain, Quality and Productivity Improvements and Operational Excellence and contributed to several crores of savings. Also providing consulting to MSMEs keeping focus on the integration of Humans, machines, materials and information to achieve the most excellent performance of the system. Believing in change, change for better.

Malay is presently leading Asset Optimization (an operational excellence initiative) at Hindustan Zinc Limited. As an Electrical engineer, Qimpro Certified Qualitist (level 2) and Certified Energy Auditor, Malay possess 15+ years of industrial experience in maintenance and operational excellence at various levels of mining and metal industry. He has played pivotal role in implementation of Energy Management system at the organisation he served earlier.
As MBA and Lean Six Sigma green belt, Systems; Malay is passionate about analytics and believes in rationale and unbiased decision making. Policy developments and structured drive of improvement projects are few of the key achievement at present organisation including leading the Organisation on Business Excellence journey under various business excellence model.

16 years of experience including 12+ years of success in quality management and directing business excellence programmes across diverse industries (trading, tourism and education). Led efforts for implementation, certification, and re-certification of Integrated Management System (IMS) comprising of ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001/ISO 45001 systems and for business excellence awards such as IMC RBNQA, APQO, IOD and others.

Possess an entrepreneurial leadership style, success in optimising costs/improving productivity, and a talent for connecting with C-level decision makers to roll out important business growth initiatives.

Successfully completed six cycles as a business excellence assessor for IMC RBNQA and three cycles as an examiner for QualTech Prize (Qimpro).

Abhijit Gothoskar runs his own consultancy in pharmaceutical formulation development. He is a doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Pune University and also an MBA degree holder. He is registered patent agent with Government of India and ASQ certified SSBB. His area of expertise includes development of formulations and drug delivery systems, quality improvement and cost savings.

Govind currently heads customer experience and process excellence in HP''s PC business division for its Asia Pacific region. He has over 5 years of experience as a Master Black Belt. He has led and mentored lean six sigma projects in both back end and customer facing areas. Besides process excellence, he has experience in driving outsourcing engagement, deploying customer satisfaction surveys, operations, program management, analytics and sales. He has done his engineering from Anna University, Chennai and MBA (Marketing & Systems) from Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Trichy.

Mr. G S Govindaraj is a professional, Chemical Engineer with Master of Business Administration and having 22 years of rich experience in Manufacturing Industry. At Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd, he was instrumental in adoption of RBNQA – Performance Excellence framework, coordinating company wide TQM – Continual Improvement projects implementation, supporting team for effective implementation of TPM activities. He administered effective implementation of Quality, Environment System with a key role as Management Representative (ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 14001:2004), and Occupational Health & Safety Management as Management Appointee (OHSAS 18001:2007) and Laboratory Management System as Quality Manager (ISO 17025:2005). He also lead Business Excellence role in other group companies of Vedanta Ltd . His previous assignments include Tata Steel for four years and Ion Exchange India Limited for three years before joining with Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd in 2005. He is currently working as Head – Operational Excellence at J K Paper Ltd and spearheading implementation of continual improvement activities and facilitating change management process across business units. His certification includes Examiner for Quality Management from IMC- Quality Cell, Manager of Quality/ Organizational Excellence and Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ, TQM Facilitator from AOTS, Japan, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt from QAI and TPM Facilitator from CII – TPM Club India.

19 years of experience in implementing TQM across Automotive - Electricals, Fuel Injections , as well as Metals and Mining industry.
B.E Mechanical Engineering, PGDBA(Operations), PG(TQM). I am a Data Scientist . Got trained by JUSE, Japan. and TPM facilitator by CII, TPM Club of India.
Had Experience in judging and evaluating case studies of Quality circles, 5S, TQM, Sixsigma etc., - Served as a Judges in National and Local Chapters of QCFI - HQ India. Also Won Gold Medal for the recognition of Paper presented in International TQM Convention, held in Daka. Published articles on 5S to Autonomous maintenance etc.,Served in the judges pannel since 2014 in QIMPRO.

G.Balaji, B.E Mechanical Engineer from College of Engineering, Anna University and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt by ASQ (American Society of Quality).
Certified Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence by ASQ (American Society of Quality).
Certified Project Management Professional by PMI (Project Management Institute).
Dynamic Professional with over 14 years of Professional Experience in Strategic Planning, Quality Control & Assurance, Business & Operational Excellence, Change management, Process Engineering, Project Management, Team Management , Audit and Assessments, Coaching / Mentoring / Training Staff and Internal Green and Yellow belts.
Currently Associated with NOK Asia Company Pte Ltd, Singapore as Assistant Section Manager – Quality and Engineering Support Division.
Key Performer in driving the continuous Improvement Projects across the organisations by adoption of Lean, TQM, 6 Sigma, DMAIC Methodologies.
Lead Internal Auditor for IATF 16949 Quality Management System by SGS, Singapore.
Lead Internal Auditor for ISO9001 Quality Management System by SGS, Singapore.
IRCA and IEMA Accredited Lead Auditor for ISO14001 Environmental Management System.
Lead role player in driving the Quality Circle Concepts in the organization.
Associated with many Quality Forum / Project Management Forums like Qimpro, ASQ and PMI.

Dr. Sureshchandar GS is an educator, researcher, and consultant in diverse areas of quality management/operational excellence. He has a unique blend of research and industry experience that has helped him to get the recognition as one of the leading quality thought leaders in this region.
He is currently a Director with the American Society for Quality (ASQ) South Asia. He takes care of content development, training delivery, and management consulting services in various areas of quality management and across all key markets of interest.
He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Management from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai.
He is also a recipient of the world-renowned Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the distinguished Alexander von Humboldt (AVH) Foundation, Germany. The AVH, as it is popularly known, is a top-notch research foundation in the world. The post-doctoral Humboldt fellowship is one of the world’s most acclaimed fellowships in the realms of research. His post-doctoral work dwelled on Business Performance Management, TQM in the software industry, and Software Metrics.
He has a great flair for writing which is exemplified by several research publications (in the areas of Customer Satisfaction Management, Service Quality, Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Performance Measurement & Management, etc.) that he has in reputed, refereed International Journals and International Conferences. He has received unanimous appreciation (in terms of awards, honours, distinctions, and citations) on his research papers for their originality, research & practical implications from premier research foundations and academic bodies of eminence. Most of his papers are extensively cited by other researchers and authors which can be seen in his google scholar page: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=ezV0Y8QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. The overall citations for his papers are currently more than 3800.
He also serves as an Editorial Review Board Member/reviewer for International Journals, “Quality Management Journal”, Lean Six Sigma Review (formerly known as Six Sigma Forum Magazine) “Quality Progress”, “Measuring Business Excellence”, “International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management”, etc. apart from serving as a book reviewer for Quality Progress.
He holds ASQ certifications such as Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CMBB), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), Certified Manager for Quality (CMQ/OE), and Certified Quality Auditor (CQA). Only a handful of people around the world hold the coveted ASQ Master Black Belt certification currently. He is also a Certified Zero Effects & Zero Defects (ZED) Master Trainer from the Quality Council of India (QCI). He was also awarded the Qimpro Certified Qualitist – Level 3 Badge which is a mark of excellence among Quality Professionals.
He serves as a Guest Faculty at the prestigious Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, Chennai and regularly conducts Management Development Programs (MDPs) at IIT Kharagpur. He teaches courses on Lean and Six Sigma.
He is also an author as part of the ASQ Influential Voices Program. The ASQ Influential Voices are a select group of quality experts and online influencers, across the world, who raise the global voice of quality through their blogs on various key quality management topics.
He has established himself as a renowned faculty/corporate trainer and consultant catering to the requirements of multiple industries. He has proven experience in designing and delivering different teaching and training modules on several management philosophies and concepts. He has trained hundreds of Six Sigma Black Belts, Master Black Belts, Green Belts, and Champions from multiple industries. His trainee profiles include leadership positions such as Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors, General Managers, etc.
Before joining ASQ, he has worked as Vice-President – Corporate Quality for a leading Software Organization in Chennai, wherein he was heading two critical initiatives of the organization that dealt with Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty Management & Operational Excellence.
He has expertise in leading teams donning the roles of Black Belt, Master Black Belt, and Project Champion towards implementing Lean & Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology for improving customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, increasing operational excellence, augmenting sales effectiveness etc. He is competent in running successful cross-functional Business initiatives & expertise in developing instruments, scorecards & frameworks for Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty Management and Operational Excellence.
To encapsulate, he has a rich and extensive blend of the industry as well as research/academic experience, spanning over 20 years (Post-Ph.D. experience), in the areas of Lean, Six Sigma, DFSS, Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty Management, Statistical Methods for Problem Solving & Process Improvement, Quality Analytics, TQM and Service Quality across multiple industries such as Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Software, IT & ITES, Education & Training, Banking, Healthcare, Telecom, BPO, etc.

Venugopal Gumpu has 15+ years of experience spread across Automotive, Finance and Accounts, Supply Chain, Banking and IT areas with key competencies from Manufacturing Operations and Quality, Operations Management (Service and IT), Operational Excellence / Lean Six Sigma, Agile, SAFe, Project/Program/Change Management, ISO /TS 16949, ISO 9001, CMMI etc. He is based out of Frankfurt, Germany.

Production & Industrial Engineer from IIT Roorkee, Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ, Certified Quality Examiner for IMC RBNQA Award, Certified TPM Facilitator from Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), TPM Club India with 4 years of experience in the industry of Business Excellence implementation in both Manufacturing & Service Functions.
Expertise in Data planning & analysis while implementing process improvement, standardization and cost reduction initiatives along with quality systems. Expertise in implementing focused improvement projects using lean tools like VSM, Waste elimination through Kaizens, etc. Well versed in conceptualizing and implementing TPM pillars like JH, KK, QM, PM, etc. and coordinating all the TPM activities for further deployment and confirm the organizational QA/QC requirements. More than 30 months of Training Experience of Business Excellence Concepts under Six-Sigma, TPM, TQM & CII-Exim. Currently, working at Piramal Enterprises Limited, responsible for driving Business Excellence Initiatives based on CII Exim Business Excellence Model in the Service Functions of HR, IT & Accounts in the organization.

I have worked on shop floor for 4 years after completion of B.Tech & then went for full time MBA in Operation Management. I worked in diversified area of the manufacturing Plant to acquire the knowledge of the various functions of a company. I also understand how a service & manufacturing company operated differently to from their purchase of material/services by vendors to value addition in the material & services till sales of the material/ services to their customers after working in company like WNS, Genpact, JSW & Piramal.

A professional with over 15 years of experience in the field of Business Transformation and Operations excellence through Business Change management and engineering strategies like Kaizen Continuous Improvement, BPM, LEAN , Six Sigma ,Capacity modeling and planning, Projects and Program management

Leading Business wide Transformation, Complexity Reduction, Change and Productivity agenda and deploying Breakthrough Operational Excellence Framework impacting 5Cs (Cost, Client Satisfaction, Completeness, Capacity & Controls)
Handling wide range of projects and programs like Continuous process improvement and optimization , BPM-IT workflow deployment , Business Integration and transitions, Business Operating model design , cross business utility , Global footprint diagnostics , New Product Quality Planning and Introduction , Vendor Quality management etc
Industrial experience including Automotive, Information Technology and Banking/Financial Services

QMS deployment in line with ISO/TS 16949: 2002 an Automotive Industry standard.

Qualifications:
B.E. (Mech.) from MNIT Jaipur, in the year, 1996

Accreditations:
· Six Sigma Master Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) , Bangalore
· Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI , USA
· Lead Auditor for ISO – 9001: 2000 Quality Management System With specific Reference to ISO/TS 16949: 2002 by Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB), US
· Six Sigma Black Belt thru’ Circumcentre eSolutions, a Six Sigma Consulting Company with the tutorage of Master BB from KPMG.
· Lean Expert thru’ Deutsche Bank Lean academy
· Certified Scrum Master, an agile project management methodology ·
· Quality Function Deployment , QFD (green – belt) from the QFD Institute, USA

ASQ certified Black belt, Qualified lead auditor for ISO 9001:2008 standard, EFQM assessor, PMP certified Professional with hands on experience of about 22 years in the diverse fields of Quality, Product development, Project Management, Production & Planning in the automotive, Building construction & Electrical fitting industry in India & international arena. A keen planner, strategist & implementer with demonstrated abilities in planning quality standards and accelerating the business growth through the implementation of cost efficient and advanced production processes with Sound understanding of
o APQP, PFMEA, Control Plan, SPC, MSA & Inspection Standards
o Six Sigma, TPS, JIT Methodology, Lean, Ind 4.0
o EFQM Excellence Model
o Kaizen, Root Cause Analysis, VA/VE
An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills. Strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities. Possess a dedicated, flexible & detail oriented attitude.

My self Pavan Kumar gupta , Post graduate in MBA (Operation) & graduate in B.Tech from Mechanical engineering having 8+ years industry experience In quality and excellence function.
I am certified Six Sigma Black belt from ASQ along with exposure of 80+ improvement projects & certified internal auditor for ISO/TS 16949:2009.
Currently associated with Kansai Nerolac paints as ME (Manufacturing excellence) coordinator having responsibility to drive ME function that includes drilling of actions to achieve business plan & transforming in X Matrix, training and support for sigma green belt project, Monitoring & mentoring for FIP (Focused improvement project) drive, imparting training on various tools & techniques for problem solving through PDCA & DMAIC methodology, support to quality management system & Driving of 5S and kaizen Pillar in Plant.
Prior to this industry I have worked in Sheet metal, molding & assembly, Machining & Glass industries having responsibility as in charge for Quality control, quality assurance, TQM Coordinator & Manufacturing excellence coordinator.

Working as a change agent, mining and driving Efficiency BoW/ Cost theme projects using statistical analysis deploying methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen • Build a change culture for organization and delivering projects on Capacity Optimization, mentoring Green Belt/ Lean projects for Operations team • Working closely with Process Leads/ Operations team and senior stakeholders to help them improve resource utilization/productivity, plug revenue leakages and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes • Capacity Modeling to identify optimum resource utilization, bottle neck stages & opportunities to drive efficiencies through cross utilization of resources • Identifying improvement opportunities for NVA elimination, process standardization, line balancing, capacity consolidation, automation implementing Lean/ Six Sigma (DMAIC) methodologies thus reducing TAT/ touch times and acting as a champion for best practice sharing/ Industry Benchmarking • Productivity analysis to identify efficiency save which targets to eliminate 100% non-STP volumes, Front to back process mapping • Identify constrains in existing system (technology) and propose plans for End User Developed Application (EUDA/Automation) to bridge gaps and improve efficiency. • Delivering projects using VSM (process maps), Failure Mode opportunities / CTQ drill down, Standardization and Benchmarking • Identifying and delivering process change opportunities aligning to ‘Business Strategy‘, clarifying process structure with boundaries, finalizing requirements, designing and developing detailed process solutions • Business requirement gathering, analysis, review and consulting • Creating SIPOC/VSM/Process Maps, identifying opportunities for NVA elimination /TAT improvement/ standardization to identify best practices creating synergies between teams.

I had been learning since I had completed my Masters in Gynecology and Obstetrics, every day. After completing my PG I had completed my three years Senior Residency from St. John Medical college and Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology(Mch teaching under UGC) . Research and evidence base practice had been my strength. I had various national and international research papers presented in all types forum. Now I really want to give the best to my patients if given opportunity to serve you and your community. With M.H.A Administration degree, I can gauge and evaluate hospital’s achievements with patient’s satisfaction .Lead Auditor course in Total quality management will help me to develop my Institution into a best quality service provider. I had also under gone training for Green belt and Black Belt for Health care and hospital from Qimpro India, branch of Quality Control of Indiana cleared Black Belt Qualitist for Health Care and Services. I had also undergone training for advance finance Managerial course form India’s pioneer Management in Finance from XLRI Jamshedpur,Jharkhand also. Now I do planning and budget as well as hospital and departmental finance planning also .Was also awarded for level 2 Qimpro Certfied Qualitist from Qimpro in September 2019.

An astute, results-oriented leader with an experience of 15 years in Digital Process Management, Project Management, Digital Branch Transformation, Social Banking and Commerce, Quality Management, Team Management & Client Servicing with Black Belt and Lean Sigma Projects with Global Certifications from the American Society Of Quality and Project Management Institute.

Sameer Inamdar is currently working as National Head for Quality & Process Excellence at Bajaj Finance. He is responsible for development and deployment of Process Excellence strategy at an Organizational level. He is presently working on deployment of Lean practices.

He has 19 years of experience in the field of Quality, his experience spans Manufacturing and Services sector. Before joining Bajaj Finance, he worked with Infosys BPO, Tata AutoComp and Mahindra & Mahindra.

He holds bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering with Masters in Materials Management. He is a certified “Lean Six Sigma Black Belt” from ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) and also ASQ certified “Manager for Quality & Organizational Excellence” and “Six Sigma Black Belt”.

He is a qualified assessor for Business Excellence models; iSOP (Infosys Scaling Outstanding Performance) and TBEM (Tata Business Excellence Model). He has participated in several internal & external assessments within Infosys units and Tata group.

He has global exposure to Quality; he has successfully led the post acquisition integration of Quality functions of Philips Shared Services Center, Poland and McCamish BPO, USA with Infosys BPO. He was also responsible for establishing & training Quality team at Infosys BPO center in the Czech Republic.

His achievements also include the ISO 9000 certification & development of resource management systems at Tata AutoComp (Engineering SBU) and ISO 9000 certification for M&M (Nashik plant).

Syed Saif with almost 2 decades of fulfilling experience in the field of Quality, Strategy, Continuous Improvement, Productivity Enhancement, Business Excellence, Six Sigma, Process Excellence and Innovation, offers you unmatched Advice on Quality and Business Excellence / Strategy / Trainings / Workshops and Work-out Sessions to boost your business revenues and cost optimization programs. Syed has had experience of working with diverse industries from Insurance to Telecom to BPO in leadership roles. His last assignment was with Max Life insurance as VP and Head of Corporate Quality. His additional professional activities include certifications like Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Certified Business Excellence Assessor, Certified ISO Lead Auditor, He is also the creator of “Sigma LITE” an easy to use tool kit for problem solving based on the world famous Six Sigma methodology and Juran’s 12 step Problem solving techniques. Syed is also a PG in Customer Relationship Management from Symbiosis.
Syed has been on the panel of CII Business Excellence Assessors and has assessed organizations like Purolator (Mahle Filters), KFC India on the CII HR Excellence Framework. Syed has also assessed Organization like Max Speciality Films and Tata Teleservices on the Malcom Baldridge Business Excellence Model of USA

In my 13 years of experience, I have worked across varied industries like Telecom, Manufacturing and Logistics and Courier, travelled across countries in Africa and Asia, implementing new ideas and learning along the way. In my current capacity as Lead Specialist (Senior Manager-II) -solution and Process Design for City logistics , I am responsible for Creating, Improving and Maintaining the last mile processes (both forward and Reverse) with a view deliver a world class customer experience in optimized costs. I am very passionate about building sustainable processes and that is what I do in my current role.

My areas of interests and expertise include and is not limited to Reverse Logisitcs, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Lean manufacturing, Six sigma, Contract Electronic manufacturing services, E commerce, etc.

J.Jegan is a post graduate in Textile Tech. from Anna University. He has a qualitative experience of 18+ years spread across in Operational & Business Excellence, Advanced Quality Management, Problem Solving, Customer Experience, Change Management, Business Analytics etc
He is a Certified Black Belt (ASQ), Certified Master Black Belt (ISI-B), ASQ EQLP 2017-18 : On-site Emerging Quality Leaders Program, United States;
EPQM 2017 - Executive Program on Quality Management by Dr. Kano, (HIDA) / AOTS, Japan and Business Intelligence / Predictive Analytics professional from SAS Inst. Active member in many Quality Councils / Societies / Forums - ASQ, JSQC, ISQ, QCI, LMII, CII –Inst of Quality, NIQR etc.
J.Jegan’s has a successful career track record in R&D, Manufacturing, Service / ITES, Healthcare, eCommerce / Logistics, Telecom, GBS / Electronic Mfg etc . He is passionate to learn Foreign Languages (German from Goethe Inst., French from Alliance Françoise and pursuing Business Japanese from ABK AOTS. He is currently practicing Yoga from the fundamentals and applying in Quality profession.
• Master Black Belt of the Year (2017) – Six Sigma Segment by WQC
• ASQ Fresh Faces – New Generation of Quality Leaders - 2016 class of under 40 quality professionals 40 New Voices of Quality by QP
• Recognized as "50 Most Impactful Quality Professionals 2016" by WQC

• Dynamic career of nearly 13 years that reflects pioneering experience and year-on-year success in achieving Manufacturing Production Operations, Project Management and Process Improvement objectives
• Skilled in steering the successful roll out of production operations involving defining scope, setting timelines, analyzing requirements and identifying dependencies as per pre-set budgets
• Proven track record in appraising prevalent processes, categorizing loopholes if any and undertaking effective measures for alleviating them and documenting the same
• Innately wired for strategic & tactical thinking—formulated & executed project related strategic plans and drove initiatives to realize bottom line results, realign, acquisition policies in the pursuit of objectives of leading organization and enhance client relations to create an amicable & transparent environment
• Leveraged skills in execution of continuous / breakthrough improvement modules such as TPM, WCM and so on
• Comprehensive knowledge of Work / Job Flow, Time & Motion Study, ISO 9000 & 14000, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, DET, ISO Standards, MMEM, BEC, CMMS, RBNQA, GPNQA, Why-Why, WWBALA, PM Analysis, ECRS, other
• A forward thinking person with excellent communication, leadership & time management skills; exceptionally well organized with a track record that demonstrates self-motivation & creativity to achieve corporate & personal goals

An astute professional with 17 years of experience in multiple facets of Business Development, Marketing & Communication, Operations, Risk & Compliance, Information Technology, Quality Initiatives & Business Process Re-engineering. Holds a patent for Noise Dashboard – a process performance management framework to enhance the end user’s experience of service delivery. An Active associate of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC) and American Society of Quality (ASQ). He has served in HDFC Life Insurance, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Confederation of Indian Industry. He is a strong proponent of following process oriented approach before designing & implementing a technology solution. Mayank has presented in various conferences. He is practicing Quality Methodologies, Six Sigma and have mentored 100+ improvement projects and trained over 200+ participants through various training programs. He is also a Business Excellence Assessor for last 6 years and contributing for the development of industry.

Professional career spanning 14 years in the Service & manufacturing organizations has provided me learning in the field of Business Process Management System, Process Improvement, Performance Management, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Training and Operations

Goals:

While Six Sigma & Lean help to make process robust & efficient, analytical skills and personnel effectiveness are important element of establishing culture in the organization, and making it a way of life.
Contribute to an organization that will benefit from my strengths in Business Process Design, Process Audit, Risk Management, Internal Controls, Process improvement, Performance Metrics Design & Measurement, Benchmarking and other quality initiatives like 5S, TPM, Six Sigma, lean, SPC, MSA, PPAP, APQP, Balanced Scorecard etc

BE (Mechanical), Auditor for IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS18001 &VDA 6.3.
Fourteen years of overall experience in which 8+ years in automotive industries, 6+ years of Consultancy / Auditing / Training experience.
Vast exposure in auditing and training in several kinds of organizations.

Pranay Jaiswal - Founder and Chief Consultant, REDEXCELL CONSULTING
Pranay is an ASQ-certified Quality and Business Excellence Professional with 28 years + rich work experience in Service and Manufacturing sectors, facilitating large and diverse organizations in their pursuit of Business Excellence.
His areas of expertise include Organisational Performance Mgt, Quality Mgt, Management Consulting, Process Re-engineering, Audits, IT, Training, Manufacturing, & Environment Mgt. He has led organizations to global excellence certifications like RBNQA, COPC, SW CMM, ISO 9001, ISO 27001. He has facilitated several six sigma projects resulting in cost optimization, cycle time reduction and enhanced Customer experience.
In the past, he has worked with GTL Ltd, Hexaware Ltd. Aptech Ltd, Standard Batteries Ltd., Bombay Oil Industries, Procons Consultants and Modipon Ltd. He also serves as an active Senior Examiner on the IMC RBNQA board and leads teams of examiners in annual RBNQA assessments.
His educational qualifications and professional certifications include: MAM, B.Sc. Tech. CSSBB, CQMOE, CEQM (RBNQA) COPC RC, ISO 9000:2000 & ISO 27001 LA, CSQA & AMFI. His other interests are reading, travel, music and Marathon Running.

Amit Jariwala is a Quality Professional with 20+ years of cross functional experience in the fields of Business Excellence, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, World Class Manufacturing.
Currently associated with HDFC Bank - Mumbai as Deputy Vice President. He is certified Master Black Belt from ISI and is working as National Process Manager – Secured Loans. He is primarily responsible for delivery of high impact end-to-end projects & drive process improvements for Secured Loans.
Prior to joining HDFC Bank, he worked at Tata AIG Life Insurance company (TALIC) in Organizational Excellence Group, where he was responsible for Deploying Six Sigma practices across all verticals in Tata AIG Life.
Prior to this, he spent 3 years with General Electric. He was the Management Representative, getting the company certified in ISO / TS certification 16949 requirements in addition to driving the Six Sigma initiative as a Black Belt. He has spent 6 years with Ford Automotive company in various verticals (Production, Lean Six Sigma , EHS) prior to GE Plastics.
He is an MBA from Xlri – Jamshedpur in Business Management along with Bachelor of Engineering degree in Machine Tools.

Over 9 Years of work experience in world's leading BFSI across the domains of Credit Risk, Quantitative Analysis, Customer Management and Marketing Analytics. Played a pivotal role in framing risk strategies of various banks across Australia, US and India, helped them to take robust, scientific and robust decisions. MBA (Marketing & IT) and Certification in Big Data from IIM - Kolkata has been strong foundation in Analytics

currently heading the Analytics team at Indiabulls Consumer Finance managing analytical support across the consumer lending business. Prior to this, he was working as Vice-President for Analytics team at Yes Bank. He has been instrumental in providing data driven strategy to policy, underwriting, product and risk team.

An avid problem solver,with deep understanding of advanced analytical solutions like Machine Learning, Neural Networks, NLP and Artificial Intelligence. He has expertise in analytical programming languages/tools like R, Python, SAS, SPARK and Tableau. Apart from work, he has attended many conferences/awards like CDAO (Chief Data Analytics Officers Conference) at Singapore, CYPHER, IBA Conference, Qualtech etc. He has won multiple awards at various events like CYPHER – Best Data Science award 2016, Qualtech Awards for Innovation 2016 &17, and finalists at many events.

Currently associated with Personal Care Product Business of ITC LTD, I am responsible for Process Excellence initiatives, driving Lean Six Sigma improvement projects,bringing a culture of statistical thinking across the corporate as well as R&D level of the business. A 2008 pass out of IIT-BHU Varanasi,joined ITC in 2012. Prior to that, I had worked with Piramal Enterprises Ltd in their Glass division heading the Manufacturing Excellence cell in one of the plants.A certified Black Belt,have championed more than 30 improvement projects bringing an accrued benefits of crores of rupees. A certified business excellence auditor of the CII-EXIM BE model, led the manufacturing team to won the Golden Peacock National Quality Award & also silver medal in the assessment by Frost & Sullivan. A keen believer of Manufacturing & Business Excellence, have trained numerous batches for the Six Sigma Green Belt. In addition, have initiated & championed automation projects in the current role to replace manual processes to IT workflow method.Have presented a technical paper on Quality Management in the Baroda Chapter of the All India Productivity Council.

working in manufacturing segment in various departments like product development ,branding ,process control ,inspection ,third party audit ,process audit ,vendor development , product audit ,safety rules and procedures , and presently MR for IMS ( ISO 9001,14001,50001 and 45001)

Mr.T.Sargunan, B.E., D.I.S., Mechanical Engineer, with 42 years of rich experience. ? 22 years in Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Neyveli, in different capacities ? Project Safety Manager in ITC Bhadrachalam - for two years. ? Headed Safety Dept. of Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, Tuticorin of Vedanta Group, for twelve years and retired as General Manager / Health, Safety & Environment. ? carried out good number of Safety Audits, HIRA, Hazop Study and Safety Training programmes for Vedanta Group companies. ? Won “5 Star Award” of the British Safety Council for Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, Tuticorin. Life member of the National Safety Council of India (NSCI) and Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD). IRCA qualified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certification. ? Carried out Hazop study for Konkola Copper Smelter & Sulphuric Acid Plant in Zambia ? Associated with M/S.Dalmia Cements (Bharat) Ltd., as Safety Advisor on retainer basis - 4 years,for their units in TN & AP. Coordinated assignments with M/S.DuPont for improving safety culture at DCBL. ? Carried out Safety Audit & Training Programmes on Safety, Health & Environment, Process Safety Management for various Industries and Engineering Colleges. Preparation of Safety Manual for various sites, Training on Project Safety and Implementation of OHSAS 18001 standards. Acted as evaluation team member for RBNQA & Examiner for Qimpro Convention Projects. ?? Currently engaged with M/S.DuPont Sustainable Solutions as Independent Safety Consultant.

I carry 8 years of experience in Operations and Quality. I have worked with Infosys BPO, First source solutions and HDFC Bank. I have worked in Telecom, Outsourcing operations and Banking domain for last 8 years. I represented semifinal for First-source solutions at BT- Challenge cup tournament at London 2010.

I, Dinesh Kakkad, am a qualified Electrical engineer (BE-Elect.), a Post Diploma in Television Engineering (PDTVE), having more than 35 years of professional experience, out of which 6.5 years in the field of technical education and 28.5 years in a continuously running Chemical Industry. Post this and since 2007, I have been a freelance Consultant.
During the industrial career, I handled various responsibilities as an Instrumentation Engineer, a Project Engineer and a Quality Systems Manager. During this time, I acquired additional qualifications like ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 Internal Auditor and have completed 40 audits. I am also trained in MBNQA based Examinership and have assessed more than 6 global, MNC and Limited companies. I am also Examiner for assessing SME clusters for Lean Manufacturing, appointed by NABET, QCI, New Delhi and have audited 48 MSMEs. I am ZED Assessor and have assessed 9 MSMEs on behalf of Quality Council of India, New Delhi. Recently, I have been qualified as WASH (Workplace Assessments for Safety and Hygiene Post COVID - 19) Assessor to guide all business establishments for safe working in current times.
I am well versed in various Quality tools and techniques like PDCA, SPC, COPQ, Benchmarking, Best Practices sharing, 5 S, Kaizen, Strategy tools like BSC and Organizational Change Management philosophies like TQM, TPM, TPS or Lean, WMC and Deming Award for Manufacturing and have participated in many of them for departmental and company wide improvement and innovation interventions.

Amit Kallianpur is a Financial Coach at My Financial Advisor (MFA): www.myfinad.com. Prior to MFA, Amit was a Senior Consultant with Qimpro, Mumbai, and Business Leader with BestPrax Club, Mumbai since February 2006. He has offered assessment and facilitation services to companies in the textiles, real estate, and education sectors. His internal responsibilities included handling the operations of the BestPrax Club. Amit has worked with JP Morgan Chase Bank as a Senior Customer Support Associate. He has also worked with eFunds Internationalas a Team Coach for one of eFund''s clients from the telecom industry.
Areas of Specialization:
- Personal Financial Planning
- Facilitating Process Mapping
- Facilitating Quality Improvement
- Business Excellence Assessments
- International Quality Maturity Model Assessments
- Knowledge Mining
Amit is a Certified Associate Financial Planner from the FPSB India. Amit is also a Certified Examiner for Quality Management for the IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award. He is also an Associate Qualitist for Quality Improvement from Qimpro College. Amit has attended and organized several training programmes on quality improvement, facilitation skills, and human behavior.

Master Black Belt with 16+ years of experience. Currently working with Sutherland Global Services in Mumbai. Earlier worked with IBM and HCL Technologies. Specialties: Driving Sustainable results through Process Adherence & Standardization, create a Quality Excellence DNA through training, building a Continuous Improvement culture in the organization and execution of Quality methodologies.

Profound in initiating, implementing & managing process & quality improvements with appropriate, structured & data driven methodologies to enhance operational effectiveness and meet strategic & operational goals with demonstrated benefits in bottom-line costs, cycle time reduction, increased efficiency, productivity and accuracy. Adept in managing cross functional projects and fostering symbiotic relationship with multiple stakeholders with clear focus on value addition . Key Skills - Business Excellence, Business Process Re-engineering, Project Management, Change Management, Business Process Management, Quality Functional Deployment, Operations Management, Risk Management, Outsourcing and Vendor Management.

Since Dec. 2002: Running consultancy, advising clients in matters of financial planning, wealth management, and providing ‘Value Add’ services.

Evaluated 3 Educational institutions, an Infrastructure company, and 3 Manufacturing companies for performance excellence.
Made “Online assessment for Process Improvement for 29 & Innovation for service sector companies.
“Certified Qualitist” by Qimpro Consultants, 2019.

‘ZED Assessor’ by The MSME Ministry, 2017.

Certificate of Excellence by IMC-RBNQA for performance assessment as a Team member, 2013.

1989-2002
In charge of a team managed Industrial-Civil projects (INR: 3150 million) from finance/costs aspects and supervised accounting function.

I am impaneled as a ‘Trainer’ by Five different bodies. I have conducted Twenty-two sessions on Investor Education, Finance, Investments & Banking.

Published twenty-six on Economic, Finance, Investments, Capital Markets, Education, Skill Development, Tourism, & Digitization.

Published a book on “Investments – Art or Science” (ISSN: 978-93-89583-07-6), 2019.

‘Mentor’ with BYST-CII Pune. 3-students are doing their Internship under my guidance.

Best Presenter Award at Doctoral Research Conference, 2016.

Ph. D. (Macroeconomics) & MBA-Finance.
Hobby: Reading professional literature & traveling.

Prateek is a Change Management professional , passionate about change, process Improvement. He firmly believes in having strong stakeholder/client/ people engagement to drive process improvement in the respective areas.

Prateek is a process engineer from MIT Manipal with a MBA in Operations Management from Symbiosis Institute Of Operations Management. He is a trained and tested Master Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute , Bangalore with 6+ years of experience , working extensively in transformation projects using Lean & Six Sigma Projects. He is well versed in using various process improvement tools like Six Sigma, Lean -A3 Strategy and Balance Score Card. Recently he has attended Advanced Quality Management course at IIM Ahmedabad.

BE mech Shivaji University 1974,
M.Tech Mech IIT Bombay 1976
Research engineer, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd,
Product Manager , Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, 1976 -1988 Notable work on Pump as turbine for North East region (Arunachal Pradesh), Roorkee University, development of CAD center from Concept to execution,
R & D Manager, Khimline Pumps later SULZER Pumps 1988 - 2002-- API 610 pumps for seismic area, development of fully computerised pump test lab, development of CAD/CAE center from Concept to execution, ISO certification ,
R & D Manager Mather & Platt pumps, 2002 -2003 Process development based on TOC, software for remote operation of pump house(Conceptual),
Independant Consultant Since 2004 -- Implementing BE model -- as per CII/EXIM bank model, as per RBNQA model,
Training in ISO 16949 modules,
Pump Laboratory Designs (6 labs so far)

• 14 years of experience in quality assurance, quality engineering, Warranty analysis , 6-Sigma, Purchase, Process & New Product launch
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Management Representative and Lead Auditor for QMS ISO 9001:2015 & ISO/TS 16949
• Expertise in Statistical analysis using Software Minitab , SPSS & Red X
• Published research article in Research Gate Revisiting Pre-Control Charts: A Case Study Of The Automobile Component Manufacturer.

Having joined RIL in 1984, Mr Sharadchandra Karve has with him over 31 years of rich experience spanning domains of Manufacturing, Debottlenecking, Project planning & commissioning, Learning & Development, Six Sigma & Quality Deployment Functions.
Presently ” Lead for Corporate Process Improvement cell “at Reliance Industries. Before joining this cell he had been associated with Shared Service Organization in capacity of Quality Head. He has been instrumental in developing sustainable Quality initiatives at Patalganga Manufacturing Division , Reliance & Corporate Shared Services Organization Reliance . He is a passionate Quality trainer and during last 7 years, he has coached 34 RIL employees to get ASQ Black Belt Certification, 200 Green Belts and Mentored 300 + Improvement Projects for Manufacturing , Services and Reliance Retail. Among the Six Sigma Projects executed Two of them got recognized Internationally (By IPQC London and Singapore ) and four at National Level.
Mr Sharadchandra Karve is an ASQ Certified Master Black Belts ( 1 among the 6 Indians ) , Certified Black Belt from ASQ, BMGI India and SSMI . ASQ Certified Manager for Organizational Excellence & also a Certified Examiner of Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Awards.

Chetna Kashmiri is an Architect, Management Graduate & a Certified Project Management Professional. She is currently on secondment from Tata Quality Management Services to Tata Steel Europe, and is based in London. She is supporting the business excellence movement in Tata Steel Europe through constant engagement with Senior leaders, conducting training workshops on the principles of Business Excellence & process improvements.

As a part of TQMS, she was a key resource for carrying out Business Excellence assessments in the Tata group of companies and other external companies based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Framework. She was also involved in certification training for assessors and for the Program Management of many group level programs. Chetna had a brief stint with ICICI Bank where she worked towards building a culture of Quality through various communication mechanisms and designing a Rewards & Recognition framework She also worked in driving a few lean projects across branches. Prior to this role, she worked for Aditya Birla Management Corporation as a Senior Manager. In this role, she was extensively involved in the design & delivery of training programs for assessment on World Class Manufacturing framework, in addition to trainings on 5S, Waste Elimination, Process Mapping, etc. She identified & disseminated best practices from external companies to the group companies. She received the "Chairman's Young Achiever Award" during her tenure with Aditya Birla Group.

A well grommed professional with 9 years experience in Business Excellence, Customer Relationship Management and Marketing. A passion for continuous learning as well as teaching, coaching and mentoring in the practical applications of improvement methodologies. Worked with various CFTs by mentoring, guiding and delivering small and midscale process improvement projects thereby creating value for stakeholders. Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and ISO Lead Auditor (ISO 9001:2008).

Associate Manager Business Excellence
Location -Pune
• Creating Six Sigma culture in the organisation by driving Six Sigma programs across all plant locations.
• Training & mentoring of Six Sigma Green belt projects across all plant.
• Initiated Six Sigma Yellow Belt program for spreading six sigma culture at all levels in the organisation.
• Central Quality-
• Work closely with plant quality team in continual improvement initiatives
• Sharing best practices across the business units through monthly Quality Review platform
• CSAT Survey-
• Conducting customer satisfaction survey from third party across all business verticals for key customers to measuring the health of our relationship with customer.
• Competitions/ Workshops-
• Participation / sponsorship for various quality competitions /training programs

Rajesh Kathuria is a result oriented professional with 20 years of experience in Medical equipment and Automobile industry in diverse area of sourcing, marketing, production engineering and main domain area of quality. Skilled in quality sytems as Lead auditor applicable to Medical and Automobile Industry like FDA(USA) 21CFR820, MDD(EU), CSA(Canada), ISO13485, QS9000/ISO9000, etc. Travelled extensively around the globe to conduct audits in Medical industry and work for QMS improvement with diverse culture groups. Experienced in establishing new product lines with focus on improvement in product quality , process and productivity along with quality systems from beginning and facilitating change and coach & develop workforce as the company grows and stabilizes. Highly customer oriented and strong in technical problem solving skills. Expertise in :

• Quality Management System improvement (Global Medical Device Industry)
• Practical use of Six Sigma tools
• Problem Solving and product quality improvements
• Quality System Auditing skills
• Team building
• Establish new product lines and ramping up production by resolving supply chain issues.

Dr.Gurvinder Kaur, an MBBS from Punjabi University and M.Phil in Hospital & Health Systems Management from BITS Pilani. Currently Zonal Head-Quality, Fortis Healthcare Limited. Over 16 years of experience with 10 years in Medical Administration & 6 years of clinical work. A Qualified Auditor NABH, Env. Management Systems. ,Occupational Health systems & ISO systems . A teaching faculty for students of DNB Hospital Administration.

- A strong leader with a reputation for quality, problem solving, people management and customer service; appreciation for openness. A strong believer of PPP (People, Processes and Prospects).
- 19th year of experience in the industry, involving full life cycle of Marketing, Sales, Estimations, Software Development, Testing (Manual and Automation) and Software Quality Assurance processes at organization and project level.
- Exceptional People Management and Client Management skills leading to internal and external retentions.
- Insightful experience in activities including project scoping, estimation, planning, risk management, finalization of technical / functional specifications, resource administration and quality management of project and product applications.
- A keen planner, strategist and implementer with demonstrated success in leading the organization towards CMMI MLs.
- Highly skilled in managing teams to work in sync with the corporate set parameters & motivating them for achieving business and individual goals.
- Proficient at maintaining cordial relationship with customers, ensuring quality and service norms to achieve customer satisfaction and business retention.
- Thorough understanding of the leading edge technologies to develop domain expertise and create new opportunities.

Naresh Kumar Kaushik
Asst. Vice President, PTA Plant, Reliance Industries Ltd. Hazira, Surat
Naresh Kaushik,(BTech), Asst Vice President, started his career with Chambal Fertilizers in 1994. He has a rich and varied experience of 20 yrs in Fertilizer & PTA manufacturing. During his illustrous career he have designed and comissioned many PTA plants in India and Abroad. He is a Black Belt and have many successful High Impact Projects to his credit. Many of his projects revolve around optimization of traditional processes which have paved many breakthroughs in the PTA technology.He is Lead Auditor DNV, CII Sustainibility and is actively involved in deploying Innovation,Six Sigma, TPM,TQM at Hazira.He is the Site Leader of Process Technology -RIL, Hazira. He is an Apex Member of Learning & Development, RIL - Hazira.

Aarifa is dynamic professional with over 19 years of versatile multi-cultural experience and deft in managing Consultancy and Research Projects, Ideation, Consumer Insights, Auditing, New Business Launches, Retailing, HACCP-FSMS, Sales and Marketing, Vendor Supply Chain Quality and Quality Management of Own Brand products (Pvt.labels).

She has set up quality departments and business operational processes for organization ventured into new markets and launched new service solutions including coaching for Business Excellence, Bench-marking Best Practices, Implementation and Sustenance of Continual Process enhancements.

Proven Leader and Team builder including work association with the senior leadership team in leading Retail, Finance, Home Shopping TV Channel – Media, Education sector and MNC in Food – Beverage industries.

In the past, Aarifa has worked with Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Aditya Birla Shared Services, Zee Learn, Star TV, Future Group, Hindustan Unilever,Coca-Cola, Cadbury and Cipla.

I am an experienced professional working since last 24 years in the service and manufacturing industries in Execution, Operations, R&D, Consultancy and Corporate divisions either as Head – Improvements Initiatives or Strategy & Business Excellence, Industrial Engineering or Quality or Energy or Operations or Technology or Improvements.
Previously, I have worked with Tata AutoComp, Pidilite Industries Ltd., Gharda Chemicals Ltd. and The ACC Ltd.
Currently, I am working with Tata Housing Development Company Ltd since last five years. I am in the position of General Manager and responsible for driving Strategy & Business Excellence & Industrial Engineering in the organization. Focus areas are Improvement Journey, Best Practice Adoption, Benchmarking, Value Engineering, Process Improvement and Project Management.
I am Gold certified in Tata Group “Business Excellence Leadership Program “by Tata Quality Management Services (TQMS). I am also external assessor for CII EXIM Bank Award for Business Excellence since last two years.
My educational background is:
Graduation : Chemical Engineering (REC, currently NIT, Durgapur) – Year 1989.
Post-Graduation : Industrial Engineering & Management (IIT, Kharagpur) – Year 1991.
Certification : Six Sigma Black Belt, External Assessors – Tata Business Excellence Model and CII EXIM Bank Business Excellence Award.

Certified TPM Facilitator & Six Sigma BB professional with 19+ years of hands-on in leading Business Excellence initiatives, integrating the principles of Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Daily Work Management & Six Sigma. Highly focused approach on cost reduction, productivity improvement & operational efficiency enhancement with employee involvement.
Presently, working on key business process improvement initiatives in a global pharmaceutical company. These include identification, prioritization and implementation of operational improvements. Focusing on best practices across the organization on Engineering, Quality, Productivity & Delivery.

Diverse Industry background: Pharmaceutical, Textile, Energy, Paper, Chemical & Automobile

Proven record of accomplishment in developing, mentoring and leading cohesive national teams to achieve results. Multi-faceted leadership experience in operations, business transformation and large-scale change management for project implementation.
Hands-on exposure on Order to Delivery end-to-end business processes; experience in implementation of ISO 9001, QS 9000 & TS 16949 quality management systems in automotive sector

- Have been working as Senior Examiner for RBNQA for more than 11 cycles,
- Six Sigma green belt certified from Motorola University,
- Integrated Management System auditor certified,
- Establishing, implementing and driving Business & Operational excellence
- Working in field of Quality from last 17 years
- BE (Instrumentation)

Professional Summary • 8+ years of work experience in Six Sigma, Lean, Balance score card (Big Y) development and deployment, Change Management, Project Management and Quality Assurance. • Six Sigma Master Black Belt trained from ISI (Indian Statistical Institute), Bangalore, Yr 2011. • Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from LG Electronics, Korea, Yr 2006. • Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from Deutsche bank, India, Yr 2012. • Certified Lean designate from Deutsche bank, india, Yr 2011. • Lean trained from Deutsche Bank Yr 2009, 2011. • Certified LGEIL Global Innovator from LG Electronics, Korea, Yr 2005. • Internal ISO Auditor & Certified Change Agent of LG Electronics, India, Yr 2005.

Currently working with Bajaj Financial Services as Sr. Manager – Quality and Process Excellence. Have an overall of 10 + years of experience in service sector. Worked with global financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank group and AXA . Have 5+ years’ experience in leading and mentoring process improvement projects using Lean, Six Sigma methodology in BFSI domain. Implementing Kaizen program including designing of platform for end to end Idea Management, web portal for facilitation of best practices across various business units and other initiatives at a pan organisation level for embedding culture of continuous improvement. Have mentored ~ 20 projects in the Finance and Accounting domain such as Sub ledgers across various European entities, Trade Support and Asset Servicing for Swiss, mediatarrean and Latin America, Performance Reporting for Asset Management for U.S.entities, lending and banking processes delivering efficiency improvements, standardization of practices, process re-engineering. Have Undertaken reviews of Black Belt projects to be certified at AXA Group level. BB project review from regions such as Mediatarrean, Latin America .Have completed bachelors in commerce from Delhi University, PGDBM(Marketing),Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ, PMP trained, Internal Auditor from DNV.

Mr. Mahesh Kothari is recently joined as General Manager in Corporate WCM at Aditya Birla Group & currently responsible for Operational Excellence Initiatives like Six Sigma, Lean across all locations of Aditya Birla Group Companies. He is also responsible for driving business excellence framework in Retail business. He is qualified BE Assessors & also RBNQA Examiner. Mahesh holds Bachelors degree in Textile Engineering & is post graduated in MBA - Operations. He is certified Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ , BMGI as well as Certified RBNQA Examiner. He has over 18 years of rich experience in virtually all industrial manufacturing operations of Polyester Staple fiber plant with hands-on production, technical & project management responsibility in customer driven team environments. In his previous assignments at Reliance Industries Ltd., he took various initiatives like World Quality Day celebration, Implementation of Quality Circles to create the Quality culture at Patalganga Site. He was responsible for mentoring, coaching all green belt projects as well as driving self end to end high impact projects. He has successfully developed 76 Green belts,10 ASQ Black belts. He has mentored over 215 Six Sigma projects in manufacturing and other support Functions & achieved a significant cost saving. He has also worked on streamlining of service processes in HR, Accounts Payable, Taxation & Procurements so as to bring end to end process visibility as a part “Business Transformation-Business Excellence model”. He has participated in various six sigma competitions & bagged 4 Awards at various National/International level competitions.

• Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt and ISO Internal Auditor certified professional with extensive experience in Quality Management System, Business Excellence and Resource Optimization with key focus on profitability and optimal utilization of resources
• Extensive experience in leading the Six Sigma, Green Belt and Lean projects with a proven track record of developing procedures, service standards and operational policies; planning & implementing effective control measures to reduce running costs for the clients
• Gained exposure of leading the transition & transformation projects with assurance to budgets & ROI in dynamic and globally expanding MNC environment
• CII Business Excellence Assessor with skills identifying the gaps in the processes and conducting RCA, CAPA sessions for recommending mitigation plans and providing customised solutions

36 plus years of work experience. Experience in various senior and top management roles across public /private and banking /insurance sectors covering various locations across the country. Both back office and customer facing roles held. Specific experience in QUALITY Movements and projects with Big 4 Consulting companies assistances. Pure Science background in degree and post degree diploma in management from NMIMS, with accreditation courses globally most recently from Columbia University. Certified by Hunt Partners for Independent Directors. Volunteer with Isha Foundation.

The rich experience is for 32 years in the areas like Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing,Manufacturing Excellence, Plant management, Outside processing cell management, TPM, Six Sigma, Supply Chain (APO), ERP (SAP, BaaN) implementation, Production planning & Control , Materials, Subcontracting, Manufacturing etc.
Currently working with Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd. as Head of Manufacturing and responsible for following Assignments.
• Currently heading manufacturing operations for all plants and other functions like Central Production Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence.
• Leading strong work force of 1400 employees pan India.
• West Zone Head for Industrial Coating divn. (Auto) with sales TO app 250 cr. PA.
• Plant head for state of the art plant at Bawal servicing esteemed customers like Maruti Suzuki Ind. Ltd, Honda SIEL, HMSI, Honda Moto corp etc.
• Championing Manufacturing Excellence Initiative across all plants using enablers
• Led Outside processing cell
• Led Supply Chain Solution Implementation project SAP- APO (Advanced Planner & Optimizer) at 5 plants, 10 RDCs, 66 Depots.
• Implementation of e-learning software, Knowledge Management tool
• Led SAP support function to give end user support to more than 600 users across all
• Head of Supply Chain Planning Cell for Industrial segment

Manish is currently working with Infosys Limited the Principal Auditor with the Corporate Audits, Assessments and Certification Group. In his current role, he manages complex audit program within the organization, its various subsidiaries, legal entities and vendors too. These audit programs are mainly focused on Contractual, Regulatory and Statutory Compliance dealing with multiple focus areas, including Data Privacy, Security, Intellectual Property and many more.

He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore with specialization in Corporate Strategy and Capital Management. He is an active member of various forums including Data Security Council of India where he is currently contributing as SIG Member on "BYOD - Bring your own Device" and "Economics of Security." He is also part of Executive Committee of National Bar Association of India for the IPR Committee since 2011. He was elected as an advisory council member for Institute of International Trade, Kolkata from Feb'13 - May'15. He has been an avid speaker, moderator and delivered numerous key note sessions on Data Security, Privacy, Information Security, Business Continuity, Intellectual Property, Mergers and Acquisitions, Contractual Risks in IT Projects, Internal Quality and Process Audits, Constraint Based Assessment.

Nilesh Kumar is currently working as Vice President Operation Transformation for HSBC. Nilesh comes with a rich experience in BFSI & Manufacturing industries for more than 20 years. Nilesh has graduated from IIT BHU & management education from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He is certified Black Belt, Master Black Belt, and Lean Coach & PMP professional.

Prior to joining HSBC, Nilesh has worked as Director Process Excellence at Cognizant Technology Services working with Investment banking domain.

Nilesh also served as Vice President, Business Process Engineering at Deutsche Bank for around five years. He drove several process transformation initiatives for various asset classes & product areas. Nilesh also worked with ICICI Lombard as Head Business Excellence for more than 4 years. At ICICI he has led customer support team as delivery head and Service quality manager.

Nilesh started his career with Tata steel Raw Material Division in 1996 and worked in manufacturing operation, cost reduction, safety improvement, six sigma, TQM, TOC and business excellence.

At industry level, Nilesh is a part of CII assessment panel for assessing companies on CII EXIM Award for Business Excellence based on European Foundation of Quality Management model. Nilesh had been serving as Jury/ examiner for multiple academic & Industry seminars and competitions including CII Six Sigma National Award, Qimpro, and NITIE etc.

Hemant Kumar is a Quality Professional with over 14 years of cross functional experience in the fields of Business Excellence, Six Sigma, Lean, Management Systems etc. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt Certified Professional with an MBA in Project Management along with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. He is working with NIIT Technologies as a Black Belt - QPE. He is responsible for taking up Business Process Improvement projects in the LOB's through study of processes, identification of process gaps and use of structured methodology to bridge process gaps. Hemant has previously worked in HDFC Bank as a Project Manager - Quality Initiative Group wherein he was responsible for taking up Business Process Improvement projects across various business functions e.g. Retail Assets, Liabilities, Collections, Credit, Operations, Admin and other support services through study of processes, identification of process gaps and use of structured methodology to bridge process gaps in the assigned clusters. Hemant is skilled in Process Excellence Methodologies, Business Process Management, Project Management and Quality Assurance, Voice of Customer Capturing & Analysis. During his career, Hemant has positively impacted 1000+ people through training, change initiatives and projects. Throughout the varied assignments, has had a chance to work closely across hierarchies from senior leadership to grass roots in companies across geographies. He has successfully delivered & mentored projects across cross functional teams using Six Sigma, Lean and other discipline frameworks impacting customer satisfaction, productivity and efficiency to support bottom line targets.

Jatin Kumar, former Assistant Director- NABH, Quality Council of India, Delhi possess 14 years of experience in the field of in Health, Safety, Environment & Quality Management, Accreditation Risk Management, Hospital Operations, P&L and Data Analysis. At NABH he has handled Hospital accreditation program, nursing excellence program and was the member secretary of accreditation committee. He has drafted the clinical establishment act standards for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW).
He is well versed with implementation of Quality tools to enhance patient safety, achieve financial benefits & augmenting hospital operations. Trained in NABH Hospital Standards, Pre Entry, Nursing Excellence, ISO 9001 & 14001 & 45001 standards. Well versant with ISO, JCI & QAI standards. Certified Transplant coordinator. Editor- NABH Journal (Inaugural issue, 2014). QIMPRO Examiner.
He has worked with both Government & Private corporate hospitals. Under Government sector he has worked with Government of Gujarat and handled 1500 bedded Medical college and hospital at Jamnagar, Gujarat. Among the private sector he has worked with the best corporate hospitals like Columbia Asia Hospitals, Gurgaon as Sr. Manager – Operations where he has headed departments like Quality, Laboratory, Radiology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy & Customer care. Implemented Quality tools to improve patients safety. At Fortis Hospital- Noida as Head Quality, Medanta- The Medicity, Gurgaon. He also worked with a consultancy firm and handled NABH & NABL accreditation projects across India.
Currently Jatin is working with India’s Largest Private Employer - “Quess Corp Limited, Bangalore”, as Assistant Vice President- Strategic HR & HSEQ where he is leading the Strategic HR (policy formulation) and Quality Assurance along with Health, Safety & Environment, Training and development vertical Pan India for the Integrated Facility Management division (Operating Asset Management). He has launched the UVC products under new innovation. He has designed and conducted training courses in health and hospital management in both onsite and virtual mode. Operational efficiency score card, Quality Assurance scorecard, Safety scorecard, Training dashboards, Brand services standards are few initiatives which has been started by him. He has received the Rising star award at Quess Corp recently in Nov 2020.
His last assignment was with Metro Hospital and Cancer Research Centre, Jabalpur, as a Chief Operating Officer where he has lead the entire Quality & accreditation department, Patients safety, Building safety & Fire safety. He has also lead the separate vertical for standalone blood bank. Incorporated tracing of all the quality indicators and quality processes along with RCA, CAPA in inhouse developed software.
He is fond of conducting Quality improvement projects and later converting these projects into research paper and in this series he has published research paper on “Use of checklists prevents errors during surgeries” and “fire safety in health care organizations” in the inaugural issue of AIIMS and AHA journal respectively. Couple of papers are under publication with various journals. He is QIMPRO certified Examiner for the QIMPRO awards. Currently he is serving as Member Secretary of the “Technical committee for Hotel & Homestays”, Quality & Accreditation Institute, Noida where the task allocated is to come up with the accreditation standards for Hotel & Homestays. This shall be the first accreditation program towards Hospitality industry in India.
He possesses strengths of multitasking and decision making skills. With excellent leadership skills and easy going team player qualities lead various NABH, Nursing excellence, Pre- Accreditation entry Level, ISO 9001, 14001 audits.
He has received 2nd Prize for performing well in RSBY project in District, from Health Commissioner, Dept. of Health and Family Welfare, Gujarat, July 2009. Presented a paper on “Japanese Patent System- the Emerging Market for Pharmaceutical Industry” at National Conference Pradanya- 2007, IHMR, Jaipur, Dec, 2007 and participated in a Exercise conducted during Regional Public Health Pre-deployment Course organized by WHO/SEARO at IHMR, Jaipur.
All these activities has developed Jatin as a more responsible & dedicated professional towards uplifting patient Safety.

Jatin has finished his MBA in hospital Management from Institute of Health Management Research (IHMR), Jaipur after completing is graduation in Medical Microbiology. He is currently pursuing his Phd in Hospital & Health Management, from K.N.Modi University, Jaipur. He has completed three months dissertation on ‘Quality Assurance in Government Hospital’ at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital (Government of Gujarat), Jamnagar: February 2009 to April 2009. Also completed two months summer training at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. Worked on various Hospital Quality & Operations projects like Estimation of the average waiting time and consultation time in Psychiatry OPD & retrieve a case files in medical records department and bring it to neurology OPD, System Analysis of Mortuary Department including estimation of waiting time for autopsy & System analysis of Laundry Department. In addition he has completed six months Clinical Internship Training in Department of Microbiology at Safdarjung Hospital & Assoc. VMMC, New Delhi: October 2006 to April 2007. Jatin is very few to completed Concentration Program in Hospital Operations Management (45 hours) from IIHMR, Jaipur:

He was part of the Thirtieth National Disaster Preparedness Course for Hospitals’, Academy of Traumatology (India), British Council and British High Commission, Ahmedabad. He has coordinated and attended two days workshop on ‘Hospital Disaster Prevention Plan’ at G.G. Hospital, Jamnagar, 23-24 June 2009.

He has finished his Green belt Certification on Lean Health Care’ organized by Simpler and IIHMR and MDP on ‘Lean Health Care’ at IIHMR, New Delhi. He has regularly organized 10th National Quality Conclave on “Creating an Eco system for World Class Quality” and 2nd National Conclave of Accredited Organizations organized by Quality Council of India. Attended Program of Implementation (POI) on NABH standards- 3rd Edition organized by Fortis Healthcare and Quality Council of India and NABH awareness programme on AYUSH hospital organized by Quality Council of India, New Delhi.

Cadavasal S Kumar is a trained facilitator in Principles of Process Management (Taguchi), Principles of Creativity and Innovation (de Bono) and Sales Excellence. He has four decades of experience in variety of responsibilities. He has served for two decades in Tata Electric & Tata Consulting Engineers and was with Wartsila India Ltd for 17 years. Post retirement he is a practicing Business Process Advisor for corporates and facilitator for Business Excellence. He is also a Trainer for TQM Initiatives and Development of Behavioral Attributes. Network Consultant with Qimpro for COPQ, TQM and Quality. Business Excellence Champion for CII – Institute of Quality and Champion for Sustainable Development – CII- ITC forum. Lead Assessor for CII-EXIM Bank Award for Business Excellence and H R Excellence, IMC-RBNQA, Invitee-non-Tata Assessor for TBEM, Sun Award of A V Birla group, RPG Operational Excellence Award and Qualtech Award. He is credited with over 90 assessments across a spectrum of industries and institutions. Senior Counsellor for Business Excellence, training and assessments Det Norske Veritas Chairman of the Quality Cell at IEEMA, since 2003 and Custodian of ISQA Awards of IEEMA for SMEs Professionally he is associated with Indian Multi-nationals for both Business Processes and TQM Solutions Mr Kumar is a post graduate in Electrical Power Systems from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and PG Diploma in Quality Management from World Quality Council, UK. He is a Certified Lead Assessor for ISO-9000 Quality Systems- Cranfield of UK. He is also a Certified Examiner for the RBNQA.

I am employed as QA/QC Manager with KEO International Consultants in Qatar, has over 20 years’ experience in project management, construction supervision of highways, local roads, bridges, culverts, drainage and other civil engineering projects. I have been extensively engaged in Construction Quality Assurance and Quality Control activities like Audits, Inspections and testing of pavement construction materials.

Prof. Santosh Kumar specializes in hospital management. After completing his Postgraduate Diploma course at IIHMR, he did M.Phil and PhD in Healthcare Quality from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He has worked with various consulting organizations and hospitals. His main areas of interest include Healthcare Quality, Health Systems Planning and Project Management and MIS. Prof Kumar volunteered with WHO Geneva with department of Patient Safety and has also authored a book on Assessment and Improvement : Healthcare Quality.

An Engineer of Mechanical filed.
- QMS 9001:2008 Lead Auditor ; TPM Facilitator –Certified by CII as well as Certified Sustainability Practitioner assessor.

Professional Background:
Over 13 years STANDING experience of R&D-Product Validation, Quality Control, Quality System, Project, Business Excellence (TQM-TPM) in Automotive, FES & Textile sector. •Man of Total Quality Management – Program Manager for Deming & TPM Excellence Award @ FES-Swaraj Division.
•Proven track record in implementing "Defect Free production" for achieving substantial reduction in terms of customer complaint, supplier de-rating and scrap reduction. •Played major role in Carrying out defect analysis, Detailed Product Portfolio, Coordinating Customer & Plant for future & present business. Expertise at handling the Customer & Manpower.Skilful in enhancing systems to bring greater result efficiency levels under PQCDSM. Foreseeing performance bottlenecks and taking corrective measures to avoid the same.Resourceful at strategizing techniques for maximum utilization of resources.

Swapan was born in Orissa, India. He completed his B.S in Chemical Engineering from NIT-Rourkela, India in 1988 and proceeded to US for his MS degree. He graduated from University of Nevada, Reno in 1991 with a Major in chemical & metallurgical Engineering and Minor in Environmental EngineeringSwapan is a leader in sustainability and EHS and have created and headed sustainability functions in four major multinationals across the energy utility, oil, gas and chemicals sectors. Have developed and implemented company-wide sustainability strategies and programs and have a particular focus on identifying and developing commercial and market based opportunities based on sustainability. Strategic leader and proactive self-starter with a track record of building and leading effective cross-functional, multi-site, and multi business teams, driving behavior change initiatives, and implementing EHS strategies. Strengths include developing cost-effective EHS programs that align with business goals and implementing sustainable cultural/organizational change through creating partnerships and buy-in. Excellent influencing capabilities and extensive company-wide networks in leading the EHS function across 61 countries.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/inpursuitofexcellence/

A seasoned and successful leader with fourteen years' experience in designing and deploying organization-wide business excellence and quality management functions. International leadership experience in Business Process Excellence, Audit and Compliance, Productivity Programs, Lean Six Sigma and Financial Operations in the Financial Services, BPO and IT Services industries.

- Current role is to drive strategic transformation programs at an organization level as part of the managed services center of excellence

-Designed and led the Operations Maturity function for the Information Technology Infrastructure Services (ITIS) business unit enabling Cognizant to become an industry leader. Delivered $100 mn in savings through Service Transformation and Lean Six Sigma programs.

- WG 25 convener leading the India national body for ISO 20000 series and ISO international co-editor on ISO 20000-5 and ISO 20000-6.

- Led the Quality function for the Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS) business unit in Wipro Technologies. Achieved ISO 20000 Certification for TIS.

- Designed and led the Six Sigma team in Satyam BPO (erstwhile Nipuna Services) as Master Black Belt. Helped achieve eSCM Level 4 Certification for Nipuna Services.

- Worked as Black Belt for GE Trade Payables Services and delivered $5Mn savings through 20+ Six Sigma projects

- Ran various business-critical projects in financial management, strategic sourcing and risk management as a graduate of GE’s Financial Management Program

Key areas of expertise:
- Quality Management and Innovation
- Lean Six Sigma
- Change Management
- Project Management and Risk Management
- Service Transformation and Continual Service Improvement
- Audit and Compliance
- ITIL/ISO 20000, ISO 9001 and eSCM
- Financial Management and Analytics
- Strategic Sourcing

Ashok Kurup is Founder Director at Zencore Management Services LLP, Mumbai. Before Zencore, he has worked in Quality and Operations with reputed organizations like Nielsen, Fullerton India, DCB Bank, Citigroup and Qimpro in India and Middle East.

Ashok has 26 years of rich experience in leading Quality Management, Six Sigma, Lean, Organizational Excellence, Operations and Customer Service. He has trained, facilitated and mentored multiple quality improvement projects across BPOs, financial services, IT and Petroleum Refining industry sectors. He has complemented these with Baldrige Self-Assessment, Balanced Scorecard and ISO 9001 programs to achieve tangible gains and improved process efficiencies.

Ashok is a Qimpro Certified Level 2 Qualitist and Six Sigma Black Belt. He is a Machine Tool Engineer with a PGDBM in Finance.

Vijaya Sunder is currently working as Head of Business Process Excellence with World Bank, Chennai. Prior to this, he has worked with Barclays, American Express and Citibank. His experience and contribution in leading cross-functional organizational-programs for process improvements has helped in organizational transformation. He has led and mentored various reengineering programs that helped improve the customer experience, employee satisfaction, eliminate process defects, increase productivity and reduce costs across service organizations. He is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt (from Indian Statistical Institute) and Lean Champion. He is a Lean Six Sigma Trainer – trained more than 1000 people in various Lean Six Sigma leadership trainings till date. He also is certified in Business Process Modelling and Six Thinking Hats. He is a distinction holder in MBA from the Sri Sathya Sai University and gold medalist in Bachelor of Engineering from the Anna University. He is a key note speaker in various national and international conferences and has publications in reputed journals on topics - Leadership and Quality. He also practices teaching for MBA students in subjects related to Quality, as a Visiting Faculty at various Business Schools. He is currently associated with Indian Institute of Technology-Madras for PhD doctoral research

Production & Process engineering in Chemical/Metal plant/VSF/,Business Excellence, GPCB,DISH, CCoE, PNGRB compliance, Energy conservation and performance evaluation of equipment as per BEE guidelines and report submission to statutory bodies, , Erection and commissioning of chemical plant, Business Excellence and WCM implementation in plant, Six Sigma Projects based on DMAIC methodology, QMS, EMS ,HSE systems as MR(IMS), analysis of technical problems, Hazop and safety in plants, HIRA and EIA, energy audits as per EC act 2001, performance and efficiency evaluation of pumps, compressors, cooling tower, fans,HVAC, MSFE, Crystallizers, scrubbers, vacuum pumps, boilers, furnaces, heat exchangers, Energy Conservation measures to conserve natural resources–coal, steam, power and water, Qimpro examiner for evaluating technical improvement projects, Conducting training programs, root cause analysis, HTRI, MINITAB, VISIO,PRIMAVERA software, operational trouble shooting, Identifying opportunities for improvements and it’s techno commercial analysis, utility balance and calculations, aiming for zero discharge to comply pollution control board norms, internal and external thermal imaging and predictive maintenance, audits for QHSE systems, Monthly progress reports and business review reports, adopting world class practices, overseas exposure for technical problem solving in Thailand & Indonesia units, Awards for business excellence, 14 principles of process safety management

B.E (Production & Industrial), MBA (Operations), Certified Master Black Belt in Six Sigma from Indian Statistical Institute, Certified Value Methodology Associate (VMA) in Value Engineering from Society of American Value Engineers, BVQI Certified ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and Senior Member of American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Joined Larsen and Toubro – Electrical & Automation division (E&A) in 1997. Worked in Quality Assurance for various BUs in E&A - (ESP, PDP and ESE) during the year 1997 to 2005 before moving to E&A-Strategic Planning & Initiatives.

Handled implementation of Strategic Initiatives, like Six Sigma, Poka-yoke (Japanese word for Mistake Proofing), ETPP (E&A's Technology and Product Portfolio Planning Process) and EPDS (E&A's New Product Development System), across E&A till September 2008. Guided more than 200 projects to completion and conducted various training programs on TQM, Six Sigma, Poka-yoke and Minitab.

Moved to Mysore in September 2008 as Head - Quality, Metering & Protection Systems and continued in same function till December 2012. Since then leading the operational excellence initiative team across E&A. The initiatives include Six Sigma, Value Engineering, Lean, TRIZ and Knowledge Management.

Santosh is an Information Technology Engineer by Qualification and is a certified Quality Leader & Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, PRINCE®2 Practitioner, ITIL® CSI Intermediate professional.
He has worked in Process Excellence function across Technology, Telecom & BFSI domains in Voice & Non Voice processes, was also part of delivery for telecom and technology processes. He was also involved in transition of processes (includes Research & Analytics) from client location to offshore.
Santosh was instrumental in setting up Process Excellence functions in his previous assignments, transactional quality audit framework and Management Information System.
He has also led consulting projects which include Data Analytics , Value Stream Mapping., IVR Mapping & Lean Six Sigma Projects.
Santosh was also a part of winning & finalist teams in various Lean Six Sigma competitions (CII, IQPC, NIQR, ASQ, ISI)

An Executive MBA and Bachelor of Engineering (Instrumentation) Graduate. A Quality Professional with a rich experience of 29 years. A Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Qualitist - Quality Manager, Lead Auditor of ISO 14000 and ISO9001. Presented Technical Papers on Quality in external events/conventions and international conferences which were appreciated and won critical acclaim. Presently working as an Deputy General Manager Production (Plant Head).

18 years of experience in Conceptualization, Defining, Developing and establishing and handling Operations in Process Architecture and Improvements; Corporate Operational Development & Business processes, Process Model Amalgamations & Blending of Global Best Practices within a QMS, Conducting & Managing Training Programs for optimum Resource Utilization. Was responsible for Strategic Enterprise Expansions in Establishing New Practices within Consulting & Manufacturing verticals by PoC, RoI, Addition in Value based Business practices, Premise thru automation or adjustments of revenue generation model; Product Development, Process Designing and Technology Determination; Establishing new LOB’s and Managing Resources & Operations across LOB’s. Hands-on Experience in Process Capability Assessments, Process Definition, its development & implementation, Technical and Process Training programs. Worked as Quality Head, SEPG Head, Organizational Configuration Management Head, Lead Auditor/Assessor, Trainer and Change Management Champion. Conversant and applied various approaches applicable to Manufacturing, IT and Construction verticals like ISO (9000, ISO 20000, 27000); CMMI ver. 1.3. (Dev & Serv); & COBIT. Provided End 2 End Consultancy as well as Innovative Functional (Onsite) Consultancy for clients across the globe as a Niche Process and Quality Management Consultant.

As a process engineer
• Working on process Modifications, expansions and cost saving projects
• Preparing PFDs, P&IDs, equipment layouts and Isometrics drawings for plant modifications
• Conducting safety assessment of plant modifications (HAZOP STUDY)
• Developing the conceptual basis for the application of automation in Operations
• Sizing and datasheet preparation of new equipments including reactors, heat exchangers, vessels, pumps etc
• Preparing of Bill of Materials, Cost estimates, Pay back calculations etc. for project activities.
• Following up with consultants, vendors & other departments.
• Preparing project schedule & monitoring the project execution.
• Coordinating with Purchase, Contractors, Maintenance and Accounts Departments for smooth execution of project
• Providing technical support to underperforming units and quality problem in plant
• Responsible for conducting feasibility analysis and implementation of Management of changes (MOCs)

Neeraj Mehra is an Industrial Engineer from Thapar University plus Operations Management from SCDL. Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from AT&T. He is equipped with more than 15 years of Cross functional Shop floor experience in the field of Quality and Production that include special processes like Welding, Dehydration, painting and Compressor Assembly operations. Also, skillful in training and implementing Quality Improvement Methodologies such as Juran on Quality Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma. Currently heading the Quality department for Refrigerators and Washing machines at Mohali Plant of GODREJ Appliances. As a Lean -six sigma professional he has successfully completed more than 6 Nos of high impact Projects and presented them in Various National forums like QIMPRO and Won various Accolades at national level for Six Sigma and Quality improvement projects. A dynamic professional who is adapt at overall planning, scheduling and management of projects, ensuring completion of assignments within time and budgetary parameters. Expert in Quality System Implementation (Supplier Up gradation, In process / Final Quality and Reliability Testing. An enterprising leader with abilities in leading multi-skilled motivated teams to achieve organizational goals and industry best practices.

KAUSHAL MEHTA is Vice President and Head - Quality and Six Sigma for Shared Services Organisation at Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, India. He holds an MBA from M S University, Baroda and is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB). Kaushal is an ASQ Senior Member and Treasurer of ASQ LMC, Ahmedabad. He is an ASQ CSSBB, CMQ/OE and Master Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute, Mumbai.
He has multiple industry experience of about 18 years with more than one decade association with quality movement in various forms. Throughout his career, he has been spearheading the effort to deliver seamless customer experience and raising efficiencies by leveraging structured problem solving methodologies.
He is presently involved in deployment of emerging technologies like RPA (Robotic Process Automation) as a key Digitisation tool for realizing untapped efficiencies from mature shared services processes. This will help in integrating legacy systems with newer digital technologies and creative a digital workforce.
Kaushal is also part of team entrusted with driving innovation-led solutions using D4 methodology to tackle some really challenging problem areas.
He believes in using Quality as a differentiator and passes this thought to next generation professionals he mentors.

Vaibhav is Mechanical Engineer and has Completed EPBM from IIM Lucknow. He has diverse experience in functions like Operational Excellence, Business Development, Technical services in various industry sector i.e. Wind energy, Metals & Mining, Commodity Trading and Infrastructure.
He has been instrumental in adoption of RBNQA – Performance excellence framework, coordinating companywide TQM – Continual Improvement projects implementation, supporting teams for effective implementation of TPM activities. He administered effective implementation of Quality, Environment & Safety Management System with a key role of Management Representative and as Quality Manager for Laboratory Management System.

His certification includes TQM Facilitator from AOTS - Japan, TPM Facilitator from CII – TPM Club India, QMS – Lead Auditor, Six Sigma Black Belt from QC Services, He has presented his Technical paper Project in AQS world conference at Minneapolis - US. He has served as Examiner for QualTech Prize hosted by Qimpro Consultants and IMC RBNQA awards from Indian Merchant Chamber.

He has been awarded and has shared Industrial best practices at forums organized by INSSAN , IMC and IMEA award function organized by M/s Frost and Sullivan. He is recognized to Pilot and promote Quality and Business Excellence practices through across various Organization and functions.

Anand Mehta, comes with about 10.9 years of experience in Business, Process & Quality Consulting, including Business Excellence & Project Management. Currently, he works as a Strategy & ValueBPS™ Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services. He is responsible to establish value based engagement with customers, addressing their strategic priorities and help customers grow their profitability.
Earlier, he was a Senior Consultant with Qimpro Consultants, responsible to demonstrate quality principles and deliver improvements in business, operations and customer facing processes. He has also worked with companies like Aegis, HDFC Life, and Intelenet Global Services before joining Qimpro.

In his engagement with over 10+ clients across geography, he has demonstrated value, established C-level mindshare and provided disruptive solutions that improved client’s business outcomes. He has led and delivered consulting assignments in areas of End-2-End Transformation, Customer Experience, Digitization, Cost reductions, BPM, Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) reductions, Business Excellence (Malcom Baldrige Model) & Process Excellence (Six Sigma and Lean).

He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ and he is also a certified senior examiner for business excellence with IMC’s Ram Krishna Bajaj National Quality Award, India

Aditya is currently working for Quantitative Research & Model Review group at a leading financial services organization in the Investment Management division.

He has over 11 years of experience in the risk management domain, spanning across market, credit and fraud risks, especially risk modelling.

In his previous roles, he has worked as a structured problem solver and Analytics team lead, where he helped diverse businesses in building risk analytics solutions using cutting-edge methodologies, including machine learning techniques backed by rigorous statistical analysis.

His career also includes playing pivotal roles where he helped in building systematic equity strategy models, validated risk and pricing models, a developer stint and a credit risk analyst internship.

Academically, he holds a Master's degree in Quantitative Finance from Rutgers Business School and Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

His interests include playing Sudoku, Nintendo Wii, cricket and spending time with his toddler. Occasionally, he engages in teaching stints in areas not limited to quantitative finance, statistics, mathematics and programming.

Abhishek Meshram is the Assistant Vice President –Corporate Quality Assurance at YES BANK. He is responsible for driving strategic initiative and process improvement projects for the entire operations & and service delivery including Business and Service excellence framework for the Corporate operations across all channels – including Corporate Branch Service Delivery & Trade Finance,CMS,Treasury & Branch Banking.
Abhishek has completed his Master’s in Business Management from IIT –Roorkee & Bachelor of Science from the Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur (MP). He brings with him over 14+ years of experience in Banking & Financial services industry spanning across Indusind Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Cent Bank Home Finance & ICICI Capital Services. He is Certified Six Sigma Black Belt with added professional qualification like CAIIB, QMS Internal Auditor, and Certificate in Trade Finance, Customer Service & AMFI, and NCFM etc.
At YES BANK, Abhishek is involved in driving Business excellence framework, Deploying Internal Financial Control Framework, conducting effective Benchmarking, Service Quality Audits, devising analytics tools and implementing/mentoring Process improvement projects .
He has General management experience which includes leading teams in a range of Finance & Operations functions apart from Banking and Quality Domain experience

Waqar A. Mirza is a diversified management professional with almost 13 years of experience in Software Engineering, Government, NGO and Healthcare setups. He has done BCS, MCS and MS in Engineering Management from CASE. Moreover, he is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI, certified Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) from Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) and IRCA UK Registered ISO 9001 QMS lead auditor. He is registered by SEI Lead Instructor for Introduction to Capability Maturity Model integration - CMMi and Appraisal Team Member (ATM) for CMMi SCAMPI Appraisals.

Currently Waqar is working as a departmental head of Engineering Management at Aga Khan University and primarily taking care of long and short term strategic planning to assist in setting future directions, resource requirement, policy analysis for compliance and improvement, process improvement, work optimization and response to strategic priorities as set by the executives of the university/hospital. Previously, he has served in PAF-KIET as Assistant Professor, Muslim Aid (DFID funded Project) as Project Management Consultant, Descon Engineering as Project Manager (Software Development), Ministry of IT and Telecom (EGD) as Deputy Director PMO and in DPS Inc Pakistan as Business Analyst.

Currently, Waqar is part of internal audit team (Core Group) and AKU and conducting/facilitating internal & external audits of JCIA for JCI standards 5th edition. His areas of interest are Project and Program Management, Process Improvement, Change Management, Organizational Performance Management System, Business Analysis, PMO Development, Risk Management and enterprise Software Development and Implementation.

Over 9 years of cross functional experience in the domain of Automotive, Paint, & Corrugated boxes manufacturing. I am currently working with Tata Motors, Commercial Vehicles Business Unit in Productivity & Business Process Excellence function. I had worked in various departments such as Manufacturing Excellence, Production, Supplier quality, Quality, & CKD/SKD operations.

Experienced Quality professional with a demonstrated history of working in the mechanical & civil engineeering industry. Skilled in LEAN, six sigma (black belt - ASQ), Lead auditor in QMS, EMS & OH&S, Large project management & Risk Management.
M.S. in Quality Management from BITS-Pilani & PGC-APM from S.P.J.I.M.R.

A graduate Chemical Engineer, Post Graduate in Project Engineering and PhD in Environmental Engineering with over 30 years of experience in Learning and Development, Knowledge Management and Quality. I am a certified QMS, EMS and OSHMS auditor, also a certified Quality Management examiner for IMC last 12 years. A visiting faculty and on Board of Examiner of leading Management colleges in Mumbai.

Dr Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty is currently head and DGM Quality of Godrej Properties Ltd, Mumbai. His area of specialization includes Process Improvements and Process excellence using Six-Sigma, DFSS, Lean Six-Sigma, Quality Management, and Process Automation. He has PHD degree from IIT Bombay, Master of Engineering in Industrial Management from University College of Engineering, Burla, Sambalpur (Orissa) and Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from REC Bhopal (at present MANIT). He is also an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Anexas certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

He has over 14 years of experience in many well know industry and has handled roles in various capacities and varied sectors (Manufacturing, Medical, Construction etc.). Over the years his experience has covered areas including Quality & Reliability Management, Six Sigma, Methods Engineering, Operation and Maintenance. He has experience in Automation of plant machinery and equipments to increase productivity and to reduce downtime with use of rives, PLC and SCADA system. He is a Lead auditor and internal auditor for ISO 9000, ISO 14000, OHSAS , 18000,, ISO13485 and ISO/TS 16949 for his current and previous organizations.He was guide for many industry based research/projects. He has published papers in National and International proceeding and has reviewed papers for many International Journals.

I'm a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with rich & extensive experience in Lean Six Sigma Implementation, Process Improvements, Business Process Re-engineering and Service Quality. I've hands-on implementation experience in Services and Manufacturing industries across different functions in diverse and multicultural organizations. Currently working as Director-Quality with Nokia Corporation. Won top award in the IQPC Lean Six Sigma summit in Orlando, USA. Presented Lean Six Sigma Projects in various International and National forums. I'm a graduate Engineer in Metallurgy from VNIT, Nagpur and Diploma in Business Finance from ICFAI.

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt working in a Manufacturing industry for more than 25 years. Masters in Business Analytics and TQM; PMP

Mosesraj is CIO and head of excellence, has been instrumental in driving cloud adoption, modernization of infrastructure and is driving excellence in delivery leveraging Agile and CMMI.
As part of cloud adoption he is spearheading automation of financial, human resources and CRM processes using cloud based products. Also under his leadership, Brillio has successfully gone live with office 365, Yammer, SharePoint, NetSuite, Oracle Fusion and Salesforce.
With over 18 years of experience across manufacturing and IT, his interests are in driving organization wide change initiatives, project/program management and software engineering metrics
Prior to Brillio, he has worked with Infosys Technologies and with MRF Tyres. He is a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Salem and has a master’s degree M.S. in Software Systems from BITS

A Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt & trained on New Product Development for Service Sector with 13 years of rich hands on experience in Service Delivery, Client Relationship & Quality Management, Process Reengineering, Operations & Team Management and Business Resiliency with impeccable Process Excellence credentials.
In my current role, I am primarily responsible to drive Customer Centricity and Process Excellence within the Organization, by engaging with employees at all levels (C.15K+ employees), through use of Excellence Model and Lean Six Sigma methodologies. In my capacity as a Lead Kaizen program manager I am been able to deliver sustainable cost saves of Rs.61.4Mn in FY16.
Mentored more than 150+ improvement projects (Small, Medium, Strategic large scale) & trained more than 1000+ candidates on structured problem solving tools (LEAN, DMAIC), TMW, DWM & Standardization, FMEA till date.
My key skills in BFSI : Business process re-engineering, Lean Six Sigma Deployment , Project & Program Management , Process Automation & Technology Enablement, Process Excellence, PCMM, Business Analysis, Organizational Excellence, Staff Engagement

Arup Kumar Mukhopadhyay - Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB), MBA (Marketing) & B.Tech (Textile Technology)

- Overall experience of 30 years in Industry & Corporate segments – Manufacturing, Six Sigma & Business Process excellence.
- Currently working as Lead in Continuous Improvement (CI) and Performance Improvement Cycle (PIC) in Hydrocarbon Mfg. (Refinery & Petrochem.) facilities, under Governance & Integration (G&I) of Group - Safety & Operation Risk (Group - S&OR) Business Function in Reliance Ind. Ltd. (RIL)
- Currently deploying Operation Management System (OMS) of M/S British Petroleum (BP) at RIL
- Developed Business Processes of DMAIC, DFSS, Innovation & CI in SAP (PPM_C-Project) Portal for all manufactruing & business function of RIL
- Leading Six Sigma deployment in Manufacturing, Businesses, procurement & other Service functions
- Executed & guided over 750 improvement projects across Hydrocarbon Mfg. & service functions
- Expertise in Manufacturing & Technical Service in Polyester & Acrylic processes
- Worked with various technologies like, DuPont, Zimmer, Neumag in Polymerization, Spinning & D/L
- Worked in Technology transfer of Japan Exlan (Acrylic) with M/S Consolidated Fibres & Chem. Ltd.
- Business Process Excellence Journey - EFQM Award (2008); Deming Award (2007); RBNQA (2002)

Working with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. as Manager – Business Excellence
Total 21 years of experience in Manufacturing, Component development & Business excellence. Out of which 13 years in Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
Certified ‘Six sigma Master Black Belt’.
Currently looking after Lean Six sigma initiatives across Automotive sector. Training, project facilitation & project approvals for Mahindra Yellow, Green & Black Belt projects.
Facilitated 2000+ improvement projects in last 3 years across Automotive sector
Professional qualification - Mechanical Engineer

 A Competent Professional with over 25+ years of extensive experience in Operations, Metal Finishing, Process Control, Quality Assurance, Systems, Inspection and Testing in Automotive & General Engineering Industry. Hands on Experience in handling Green field project, Operations, Recruitment, Training, Supply Chain development. Proven record of devising & implementing quality improvisation measures viz ISO 9001: 2001, ISO/TS 16949: 2002, ISO 14001:2004,OHSAS 18001: 2007, Lean Tools (VSM, SMED, '5S', Gemba Kaizen, Global 8D, Quality Circles, TPM, TQM, Pokayoke, DWM & Six Sigma). Hands on Experience in devising, implementing Lean Manufacturing Tools across the organizational processes. Extensive experience in leading Technology transfer, product & process design and development and ensuring compliance with stipulated quality standards. Well conversant with advanced product development methods like QFD and Project Management. Extensive Experience over 10 + year experience in Co-ordinating with JV partners in Technology Transfer and Project Establishments. An effective communicator with strong problem solving, analytical and organizational abilities.

General Manager (Head - Engineering & Operational Excellence) at PPIL-

Leading Engineering & Operational Excellence :Leading Plant Engineering, Projects and TPM in

B.E.(Mechanical Engineering)

M.E. (Industrial Engineering)

Alumini - AOTS Japan

Six Sigma trained by iGE

Trained in Reliability Centered Maintenance

Certified Assessor for CII EXIM AWARDS

Trained in BRC Global Standards

MATRIZ Level 1 Certification (in progress)

14+ Years of experience in implementing TPM/ TQM/ Six Sigma / Lean Approaches in Metal, Cement,

Fibre, Chemical, Automobile, Textiles, Mining and Flexible Packaging Industries

Flexible Packaging.

Active member in Global Centre for Education Excellence driving various excellence initiatives
Driving Master ISO certification across 13 campuses
Planning and preparation of Singapore Quality Award, Golden Peacock Award
Planning and preparing campuses for IMC RBNQA
Contributed to 134 awards for GIIS
IMC RBNQA applicant
APQO GPEA applicant

I worked with Garware Nylons , Pune as a Trainee Supervisor for three years in the Nylon and Polyester plants. I learnt the basic nuances of manufacturing and man-machine interaction.
I joined RIL in 1983, at Patalganga (PG) Plant in the very initial phases of its first Polyester plant and worked for 33 years till 31.03.2016.
I had the opportunity to work with a great technical team where I worked in the erection& commissioning of plants. Here I learnt not only technically, but also on various aspects of Manufacturing and Management.
In 2010 , I led the Business Transformation at our site. This was big drive to restructure the organization across all sites. Being part of greater team ,I interacted with a lot of people at various locations and all levels during the development and implementation process.
I led the six sigma initiative at PG for three years. I lead almost 20 projects every year successfully and also trained the young Engineers as Green belts. We won various competitions and also the Qimpro awards twice
I was the MR for OHSAS & QMS at PG. I was also involved in the Process safety and workplace safety at site.

Er. Sonali Nasikkar is a Chartered Civil Engineer, with specialisation of Quality Operations with Six Sigma Methodology.
Having a combined work experience of fifteen years in the field of Civil Engg. In reputed firms and Education Institute, having A Grade in India, Have gained varied experience in Civil Engg & Architectural softwares, Teaching field, Site Visits,Quality Audits, GIS and Project Management, Quality operations with Six Sigma and lean methodologies and ISO 9001:2008 and 2015 QMS.
Till date completed more than 500 Quality Audits, 450 Hrs of mentoring BB and 50+projects of implementation of six sigma and lean sigma.
On the basis of which has secured Certified status of Six SIgma Master black belt and Certified Six Sigma Master Implementer from India and USA.
Er. Sonali is specialised in achieving business excellence of any sector with combinations of different methodologies and tools.

A Management Graduate with over 16+ yrs of Professional Experience. Also a CSSBB & Lead Auditor on ISO 9001:2015.Have worked with companies in India and Abroad in various Industries like Steels, Plastics, Insurance & Banking. During tenure with these Industries have hands on experience on various segments like Sales, Marketing, Production, Quality, Dealer Network, Product Placements in Domestic & International markets, trainings, Team Management, EXIM, PRP etc...
Also executed projects on new vertical developments, like new startups, recruitment, vendor development, negotiations, Steel straps manufacturing line to PP, Six sigma objectives etc...
Currently working as a Management Consultant, helping many of SME's, sick units for a turnaround. Also attached with couple of Education Institutions in India & Abroad for Trainings of Lean / Six Sigma, ISO 9001:2015, Change Management, Team Management, soft Skills etc... Have conducted Lean Six Sigma, Change Management trainings in Singapore, Doha, Hong Kong for Senior Management of Banks like ABN AMRO, DBS & other companies.

Accomplishments
 Designed and implemented layouts of 3 sites of the ICD Project at Nepal in 1998-99 and increased the project revenue by Rs 10 million
 Completed the manufacturing unit of DG sets in Daman on time.
 Recipient of Excellent Performance Certificate from Daewoo Construction
 Identified cost savings potential of Rs 230 million through bench-marking in Overheads cost and Repair & maintenance cost across all locations of Hero
 Saved the company Rs 13 million per annum through plugging of gas (propane) leakage observed during energy audit at Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Haridwar plant
 Identified savings potential of Rs 50 million per annum through implementation of proposals for energy conservation.
Professional Summary: Excels at Building effective teams that succeed in any work environment. Expertise in problem solving through root cause analysis and increasing efficiency.
Skills
 Energy Audit
 Problem Solving & Data Analysis
 Plant Maintenance
 People development
 Project Management
 Automation

Having 10+ Years of experience on successful career with diversified fields of Lean, Six Sigma Business Process Re-engineering and Kaizen experience on IT/ITeS/BPO/KPO/Consulting Roles on BFSI, Health Care, Life Science, Bio Science, Contact Research, Retail, CPG,FMCG,EB Verticals, Market Research & Consumer Research ( The A.C.Nielsen Corporation, USA).
Having great functional and technical knowledge on BFSI and U.S.A. Mortgage Information Services, U.S.A Title Insurance, U.S.A Property Information Services, Financial Services, U.S.A Property chain of Tittles & U.S.A. Real Estates Information Services on Residential and Commercial.
• Currently working as Head &,MBB-Delivery Excellence & Lean Six Sigma Quality in Excelra Knowledge Solution ( www.excelra.com ) (Formerly GVK Informatics, The GVK and GVK BIO company www.gvk.com www.gvkbio.com ),Since Jan’2015
• Worked as Sr.Manager,MBB- Delivery Excellence Group in “Tata Consultancy Services( TCS ), (www.tcs.com), Baroda/Vadodara,Gujarat
• Previously worked as Process Coordinator,Black Belt – Operations Excellence Group in “First American Corporation” (www.firstam.com , Fortune 500 Corporation), Hyderabad.
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Krunal is passionate about sustainability, innovation and making business sustainable for all its stakeholders including people, planet and profit.

He has multi-disciplinary experience working in large Corporates for over 20 years in the horizontal functions of Sustainability, Business Strategy and Corporate Affairs and vertical functions of Operations, Project management and techno-commercial department. He has proficiency in the use of tools such as Innovation, Business Excellence Frame-work and Systems Driven Approach.

Krunal currently heads the department of Environment Sustainability for Lavasa Corporation Ltd. & Steiner India Ltd. since the past 10 years. In this earlier avatar, he was exposed to all Corporate Governance functions being an Executive Assistant to the President of Lavasa Corporation Ltd. for a brief period of 1.5 years.

In the previous role with Afcons Infrastructure Ltd., Krunal has experience with handling construction site work, planning, monitoring and contracts management. He then moved on to Head office handling techno-commercial and tendering. He is a certified ISO 9001 systems auditor and has also worked as an ERP function consultant for a brief period at Hincon Techno-Consult.

K Abhilash Padmanabhan is currently working as a Consultant with the Management Consulting business line of a leading MNC. Prior to the current engagement, he was working as Senior Manager - Quality Assurance at YES BANK. He was responsible for institutionalization of Quality Initiatives like Malcolm Baldrige Business Excellence Model (RBNQA), Six Sigma, Lean, ISO 9001, 27001 & Quality Circles PAN Bank. He was instrumental in getting 100 branches PAN India certified for ISO 9001:2008. Prior to joining YES Bank, he has worked with Six Sigma Alchemy. During his tenure as a consultant, he has mobilized and facilitated cross-functional teams for Business Excellence, Lean Six Sigma, BPMS, ISO 27001 & ISO 9001 implementation initiatives for the clients. He had been involved in consultancy assignments with corporate like Blue Star, NSE, Taj Group of Hotels, DHL & Blue Dart. He was also involved extensively in training on Public platforms.
He is an Electronics Engineer by Education & his other professional qualification includes: •Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute •American Society for Quality (ASQ) certified Six Sigma Black Belt. •Trained Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma Curriculum by Rath & Strong (UK)•Certified Balanced Scorecard Professional from CAMI (UK)•Expertise in Business Process Management System Implementation •CISACertified (ISACA UK) •Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 27001 from BSI.•Certified Implementer of ISO 27001 from BSI •Trained on Business Continuity Management System (BS25999) from MIEL •Qualified Trainer for ISO 9001 Lead Auditor (BM Trada) (UK). •M.S in Quality Management from BITS Pilani

A Certified Quality professional offering 16 years of experience in Operations, Business Excellence, Asset Optimizations and Project Management,
Presently associated with Vedanta Limited , Sesa Goa Iron Ore, Goa as Associate Manager- Business Excellence
Responsible for institutionalization of Business Excellence and Asset Optimization activities and Asset Scorecard Assessment.
Experience in Copper Refinery , Precious Metal Recovery, Dore Metal Process , Metal Accounting , Assessor for Asset Optimization framework
Well-demonstrated ability to develop and implement highly successful short and long term goals, routinely completing projects on time.
Possess excellent analytical and inter-personal skills with ability to drive quality enhancement, process improvement and cost savings initiatives.
Asset optimization, Asset Performance management.

Samir Palsule is a Mechanical Engineer with Management specialization in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He has total work experience over 25 years and has worked in variety of industries such as Chemical, Instrumentation, Automotive, tier II manufacturers for automotive, Tele-communications, Engineering industry. He has worked in mostly all the operational streams of the industry.
He drives Operational Excellence using Business Excellence and Quality Assurance tools. He has been part of various initiatives such as JIT, TQM, Kaizen, Six Sigma, FIBRES, Strategy Deployment Matrix, Lean Manufacturing, Productivity improvement based on OEE methodology, TPM, Pokayoke, Balanced Score Card, PPM reduction for incoming / in-process defects, customer complaint management & moving towards ZERO DEFECT, RPN reduction technique, layered audits. He has been himself a part of the Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma initiatives. He has conceptualized, planned and implemented the various initiatives in customized manner.
He is qualified auditors for various Management Systems. He is also a qualified Assessor for TBEM, AA and CII Exim award process. He has participated in various Business Excellence Assessments across Tata Group Companies and one of the Godrej Group Companies.
He believes in Operational Excellence way to improve the Organizational Profitability and long term sustainability.

I have been working scince 8 years in instrumentation maintenance and projects, automation in both cement and Waste Heat Recovery Power Plant. Major projects carried is Comissioning of WHRPP,Bag House,Flyash Handling system,coal Mill,coal firing,MVD installation and upgradation of plant automation. Doing the maintenance of reclaimer, rawmill, kiln, cooler, coalmill, WHRPP, weighfeeders ,beltweighers,VFD etc.

An MBA Graduate in Finance with an overall experience of 9+ years in Banking and ITES industry.
A progressive managerial position in Operational Excellence with a growth-oriented NBFC Industry providing opportunities to prove the ability of continuous improvement. Seeking assignments in Process Management/Improvement by leading and mentoring Six Sigma/Lean projects, driving Six Sigma/Lean culture by facilitating various training programs and Kaizen events.
In earlier roles, managed continuous improvement projects in Retail and Corporate Banking, design capacity models for bulk processing data centres.
Hobbies - Travelling, Driving and Foodie.

• Ashutosh Pandey is a seasoned Strategic Quality & Process Management professional with sound experience in Telecom, IT Services and Financial Services. He is an internationally Certified Six Sigma & Lean Master Black Belt , a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Process Professional (CPP on Enterprise BPM), a Certified Business Excellence Assessor (EFQM), a Certified Internal Quality Auditor (CIQA) and a Certified Software Quality Analyst and a Certified Internal Information Security Auditor (CIISA) on BS7799 standards.
• At present, as the Head of Process Improvement – Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt) for Nokia Siemens Networks, Ashutosh is leading critical improvement programs, and continuous improvement initiatives . Before this he was working as the Global IT & Process Director for the same organization
• A renowned Internaltional speaker on process excellence and six sigma, prior to joining Nokia Siemens Networks, Ashutosh was the Global Head of Six Sigma for Birlasoft India Ltd leading organization wide process transformation. Ashutosh has also worked with GE Commercial Finance and MetLife as a Six Sigma Black Belt and Consultant earlier as well.
• Ashutosh is a Bachelor in Engineering from BIT Mesra and holds a double MBA degree specializing in Operations Management and Strategy respectively (IIM Lucknow).

Mr. Binay Kumar Pandey is General Manager (ERM & Sustainability) at Grasim Industries Limited at HO in CFI Sector. He is a Bachelor in Commerce from Burdwan University, Masters in Business Administration from A P S University and has done Power Market Leadership Course from IIM, Ahmedabad.
In his 25 years of experience, he has worked for over 5 years in Sales and Marketing, over 10 years in Business Excellence and Management Systems, 8+ years in Consulting and Commercial domain and 2+ years in EHS & Sustainability He has worked in Consumer Durables at Nuchem Limited, Textile business of Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd., Copper business of Hindalco Industries Ltd, at Corporate function, an apex body and think tank of Aditya Birla Group and currently at Grasim Industries Limited.. He has been involved in Sales and Marketing function, establishing and managing Management Systems like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and SA 8001, conducting training workshops, Business Excellence assessments of various units, BPR Studies, Strategic projects, Quality initiatives, facilitating in institutionalising systems, introducing best practices, realizing group synergy, collaboration for competitive advantage and scanning developments on Power and Renewable sector to guide group on emerging opportunity and help in regulatory compliance. A Lead Assessor of ISO 9001:2015 standard, Lead Assessor of Chairman's WCM Award at Aditya Birla Group and Assessor of Qimpro Best Prax competitions.

Dr Hemendra Pandya:
After completion of Ph D, I worked in the field of Textile Research for 12 years and then switched to specialization in Analytical Chemistry. I handled QC, QA, QMS and GMP functions at Atul Ltd for 17 years. Prepared and submitted Drug Master File (DMF) to US FDA and European authorities for manufacture of Bulk Drug. I successfully completed Six Sigma training at NCL, Pune conducted by GE for their select suppliers.
I am handling implementation of TQM | Lean at present at Atul Ltd. Elements relevant to batch chemical manufacturing under implementation are 5 S, Quality Circle, DMT, identification, monitoring and eliminating waste | losses and improvement projects.
Training, Systems Audit and Effective Communication Skills, apart from technical knowledge, are key to success in my professional career.

Gold Medallist from the HRM & LR School( Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.), he has over 25 years of Corporate experience in Personnel Management, Employee Relations, Organisation Development, TQM and Manufacturing Management.He has worked with ICI, Novartis, Marico, Unilever Best Foods, IFFCO Group (UAE), ACNielsen ( UAE) , Mahindra & Mahindra and in his last corporate assignment was Director- HR at CHEP India Pvt Ltd. ( a Brambles Company)

As part of the Job Rotation Programme of Marico, he was moved to this factory as General Manager- Operations.He was also the Chief Company- wide TQM Facilitator between 1994 to 1996 at Marico.He holds Certification in Managing the Learning Function ( ASTD 2008) and GPHR certification from SHRM(2011) .



He presented a paper on ‘ Work Life Balance in India’, at the AOTS-Camfeba hosted workshop(early 2012- Phnom Penh).He iscurrently the EC member of the Mumbai chapter of NHRDN.
As PRINCIPALCONSULTANT with Empowered Learning Systems Pvt Ltd, he has/is advising companies on various facets of Human Capital Management.He is a licensed Kepner and Fourie Program Leader. He is a SME for SHRM India and on their Facilitator Panel to deliver Corporate Programmes.

Worked as a Management Consultant for over 18 years with several Large & Medium Scale Companies in India, Thailand & Indonesia. Areas of specialization include auditing and consulting on Business Excellence Models like the Tata Business Excellence Model (TBEM), International Quality Rating SystemÒ (IQRS), Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA, USA), training on Quality Tools, facilitation on Continual Quality Improvement (CQI), Strategic Management (using Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Deployment Matrix), Organization Development (OD), Employee Engagement Enhancement, Customer Value Proposition and Process Management. My clients have achieved greater alignment & success, and also won accolades at Group, National & International levels.

Apart from 18 years of Consulting, I have over 25 years experience in Project Management, Operations and OD & TQM. Before taking up Consulting as a career, I was National Head of Manufacturing at Agro Tech Foods. Other key roles include General Manager Works and General Manager OD & TQM at Marico Industries, Project & Operations Management at National Fertilizers Limited, Toyo Engineering India Ltd. and Castrol India.

Extremely passionate about retail, Chithra has been in this industry for the last 9 years. She has been with Spencer’s Retail and Reliance Retail before joining Future Group in May 2009. She is currently DGM - Operations with Future Value Retail Limited (a future group initiative). Her exceptional domain knowledge in retail coupled with rich multi-faceted talent and background has qualified her to be part of the Project Management Office (PMO) to lead and drive key strategic initiatives. In her current profile she is actively involved in business modelling, design modelling, risk assessment, project charters, driving SOP audits, quality audits, writing of Standard Operating procedures. Her areas of expertise have been process standardization, implementation and evaluation based on risk assessment thereby resulting in fraud investigation and process improvements, therefore cost savings. Her achievements include automating of the entire audit process of 950 stores using a hand-held terminal making real time scoring and monitoring possible. This coupled with a complete outsourced model ensured time and cost savings. In addition to being a cost accountant, she is a certified lead auditor from BVQi & ICRA (U.K), a Forum professional in supply chain management and has done her Six Sigma as well. She has completed her “certificate program in innovation and creativity” and “certificate program in project management” from Harvard Publishing School. Chithra''s interests include reading, travelling and listening to music, besides learning and practicing alternative medicine.

MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL—CERTIFIED SIX SIGMA MASTER BLACK BELT & LEAN PRACTITIONER with 8 Years of Rich Experience in Manufacturing, TPM Implementation & Six Sigma Methodology Deployment. Currently working with Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd since last one year as Manager Manufacturing Excellence developing people capabilities and enhancing plant efficiencies and performance through deployment of TPM and Six Sigma ways of working.

Rolita is a management and engineering professional with 14 plus years of experience in General Management, Business Strategy, Marketing & Communications and Management Consulting in – Utility Services (Power distribution), Media & Entertainment, Infrastructure, Engineering and Construction & Education sectors. She has business acumen with expertise in Planning and execution capabilities; process re-engineering, Corporate Branding and Reputation Management, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability. She has exceptional communication and inter-personal skills coupled with analytical and logical thinking abilities to undertake complex assignments and deliver superior performance in a fast paced setting that will prove to be an asset to any organization.

Qualification & Training:BE (Production), MDBA ( Production & Materials Management), Qualified CII-EXIM Business & CII HR Excellence Assessor, RBNQA Certified Examiner. Qualified Assessor of ZED (Zero Effect Zero Defect) Programme of Ministry of MSME of Govt.of India.
Experience:36 years of rich corporate experience with reputed industrial groups in the areas of Operations, Marketing, After Sales Service, , Supply Chain Management, Vendor Development & Outsourcing, Corporate Quality & Business Excellence Also Headed SBU of Kirloskar Pneumatic Company. Worked as Managing Director of Kirloskar Kenya Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya. Currently working as a Freelance Management Consultant & Visiting Faculty to many reputed Business Schools in Pune.
Carried out many Business Excellence Assessments -
10+ National level CII Exim Excellence Assessments, 5+ CII HR Excellence Assessments at National level, 2 RBNQA (Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award) National Level assessments, 15+ Internal Excellence assessments in Kirloskar Group companies, BEL (Bharat Electronics Ltd.) group of companies, Aditya Birla group of companies, Godrej group of companies, Murugappa group of companies as Sr. Assessor / Assessor.

I'm current associated with Dell Business Process Solutions as Advisor – Business Process Improvement. I'm currently managing and executing Lean Six Sigma Culture with Dell BPS. Key focus is to enhance Lean Six Sigma knowledge and experience by conducting trainings and mentoring on project execution. Setting up measures like Productivity Index (PI), Capacity Utilization (CU) for business delivery and bringing out inference through statistical analysis.
Prior to joining Dell I was working with TCS BPS, a leading BPO organization as Assistant Manager – Quality, Supporting projects in Telecom Domain and Infrastructure unit. Prior to this, I was working with Lason India, as executive Engineer.
I hold Bachelor of Engineering (EEE) degree from Madras University and Master of Engineering (Industrial Engineering) from Anna University, both from Chennai, India. I'm married for 3 years to Rohini and blessed with a son Ashwin Maadhav.

Presently working for GMR Warora Energy Ltd, a 2x300MW IPP as a O&M professional.

Power Plant professional having hands on experience in Power Plant O&M, Commissioning for 100MW &Above. Also the selected team member for takeover of 270MW power plant from NTPC after the privatization of BALCO in 2002.

Also deals with the international business partner Korean Power Co.(KPS) for day to day O&M of power plant.

Specialties: Power Plant Operation & Maintenance, Commissioning, Maintenance Planning, Performance Monitoring.

A competent professional with over 10yrs of experience implementing Lean, Problem Solving, in India and overseas
Experience in varied industries in both service and manufacturing fields.
Undertaken projects in areas such as Operations, Sales effectiveness, PMS Module, HR & Accounting, Process optimizations, Quality improvement, Productivity improvement, Supply chain, Logistics
Advising start-ups on operations management and MCRS techniques
Experience in implementing techniques like Pull, VSM, SMED, PokaYoke, KANBAN, 5-S, TOC, , TPM delivering measurable results, in short span of time.
Trained under eminent experts like Masaaki Imai – author of several best sellers like ‘Gemba Kaizen’ , Dr.Gondhalekar – author of best seller ‘Chronicles of Quality Detective’
Visited Japanese companies, like Toyota, Denso, Nippon Steel and SMEs to observe Lean practices
Worked in companies like E&Y as Sr. Consultant in Advisory, Kansai Nerolac Paints, as Manager – Corp. Mfg. Excellence and Kanzen Institute as Consultant
Carried out successful assignments in companies like L&T, Mahindra&Mahindra(FES), Tommy Hilfiger India, Uttam Galva, Pyrotek Inc. Gala Precision Engineering etc.
Visiting faculty in institutes like – S.P.Jain Institute, Welingkar & NMIMS for post-graduate programs on operations management
Currently founded a management consultancy practice – “Altius Cosulting Team” servicing SMEs

Mr. Prasad K.V. has over 18 years of multi functional experience covering production, quality and relationship management. He is BE. in Industrial and Production Engineering from University of Bangalore, certified Black Belt from KPMG and Associate Member in the ASQ. At Firstsource, he holds the position of Deputy General Manager – Process Excellence. He is leading the deployment of quality initiatives in our UK and Argentina centers, apart from leading critical global organizational initiatives. Prior to Firstsource, Mr. Prasad was part of the 247 Customer Global CSPM team and ‘Quality Lead’ in a leading Indian auto component manufacturer while managing new product development Prasad has previously upgraded operations performance to obtain ISO 9000 certification and compliance to QS 9000 requirements. Further in the ITeS sector, he has transitioned quality processes for several voice and non voice customer contact operations whilst leading six sigma initiatives. Projects led by him have been recognized by Saakal (SCMHRD Six Sigma Excellence Awards), IQPC UK/USA, TGSSA as winners and honorary mentions. As a Process Excellence relationship leader for our UK and Latin American markets He brings in extensive experience in identifying, leading and executing strategic Projects for meeting Customer, Shareholder and Employee Business Goals.

Siva is an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt with experience in industry and consulting across India, Europe and the Middle East. He is also a PMP and a Certified Supply Chain Professional. In his career spanning a decade, he has been associated with Elgi, TCS, GE, Alghanim, GM, BP, AC Delco, Delphi, PwC, etc. as an employee or a partner or a consultant. He is currently part of the Process Excellence team in Indus Towers, the world’s largest telecom tower company.
Siva has mentored, led and executed numerous black belt and green belt projects using methodologies such as lean, six sigma, DMAIC and DMADV. He has transformation experience in various industries, including manufacturing, IT, financial services, retail, automotive, pharmaceuticals and telecom. He has successfully led large functional as well as cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
Siva is a university rank holder in mechanical engineering and has an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Quality Professional with an experience of 8 years encompassing Quality assurance, Administration, Operations and Marketing.
Graduate in Microbiology, Post Graduate in Hospital Administration and Masters in Healthcare Services.
My responsibility entails Preparation, collation, coordination, implementation, monitoring and documentation of all Key Process Indicators, Quality Improvement Projects and Risk Assessments of all departments across the hospital.
Conducting regular Internal Audits, Facility and Patient Rounds.
Documenting all the Policies & procedure as per standard, formulating the subjective evidences for the same.
Monitoring Clinical Outcomes. Conducting training for all levels of personnel about accreditation requirements, standards, patient safety and quality assurance.
Formulating, organizing and conducting different committee meetings.
Coordination, Monitoring and Supervision of Non Clinical Departments like Housekeeping, Security, IT, Food Services, Linen, Maintenance, OPD, Stores and Purchase.
Preparation for Accreditations and Awards.
Examiner at IMC Ramakrihna Bajaj National Quality Awards

I started my career in 1989 as a Graduate Trainee in Mysore paper Mills Ltd. Bhadravati, Karnataka. Then I joined Grasilene Division, Grasim Industries ltd. Kumarapatnam, Karnataka in September 1990 as Process Engineer in CS2/Acid Plant. In 1993 I was transferred to the main plant of Grasilene Division i.e. Spinning Department where Viscose Staple Fibre is produced. There after I opted to manage Quality Circles in the Unit from 1996 to 1997, during this period I also looked after HR function. From 1997 I am with World Class Manufacturing Cell, which focuses on Total Quality Management. I am into this initiative of Aditya Birla Group since beginning. In 2004 I got transferred to Vikram Ispat Salav, A Unit of Grasim Industries Limited of AB Group, which is presently taken over by Welspun Maxsteel Limited (A Part of Welspun Group). I am heading the WCM Cell and also Management Representative for IMS & SA 8000.

I am a certified Internal Auditor for ISO 9001, EMS 14001, OHSAS 18001 and SA 8000. Also I am a certified Lead Auditor for EMS 14001 & ISO 9001:2008.

I am also a certified Examiner for RBNQA since 2002 and Senior Examiner since 2009.

Quality Experience: I am a certified assessor for Chairman’s Award for Manufacturing Excellence since 2000 and assessed more than 10 Aditya Birla Group units.

Siddharaj Purohit is a Business Excellence professional with 20+ years of industry experience. He has extensive experience in successfully deploying Quality frameworks and Process Excellence practices, leading & mentoring high-impact projects viz. Lean Six Sigma projects, Business Impact projects, and Consulting projects globally.
He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean practitioner, PRINCE2 Registered Practioner, and a trained Project Management Professional by PMI Global REP.

Over 11 years of experience in the field of Execution, Quality Assurance, Quality Control in Infrastructure and Real estate organizations. Prior to joining Tata Housing, have worked with Mahindra Lifespace Developers and Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) Ltd. Professional achievements include Implementing Total Quality Management for over 6 years, Conducting Quality, safety assessments for more than 8years, getting Golden Peacock National Quality Award for Projects, getting Cityscape Awards, Involved in registering a patent for “Low Thermal Conductivity Fly ash Brick” Getting OHSAS 18001:2007 Certification, , Green Building design, Pre-certifications and certifications for over 6 projects. Currently Involved in Developing and implementing a Product Quality Rating system based on International benchmarking.

P.Radhamanalan is a technically sound professional with 22 + years of experience in the precision engineering industry with the last 6 years in a top managerial position in a Tata group company. An effective problem solver and team leader capable of directing operations towards achievement of organizational goals. Proven track record of cost reductions, efficiency enhancement and productivity increase. An Extra High Performer and a TASK Master as called by the seniors.He has completed his graduation in Engineering from C.I.T , Coimbatore. His areas of strength are Manufacturing (Press, machining, polishing and assembly) • Production Planning & Control,Vendor Development & Outsourcing • SAP • Large Workforce Handling • Cost Reduction,New Technology Implementation • Engineering / Maintenance.He is presently heading New projects and development in Titan Industries limited , Jewellery Division.He has developed the Five year Game changing plan for the Company and "working for Tomorrow".

Dr Aravindan Raghavan is an ICF Accredited Professional certified coach, Master Black belt, International accredited Lean Six sigma trainer, an Author and an International Public Speaker. He is an engineer with B. Tech Chemical. He has also studied General Management from Indian School of Business. He has trained 8200+ employees globally. His 25+ years of experience in Petrochemical, Pharma sectors makes him an expert in managing Global Operational Excellence, Supply chain management in Big Pharma companies at corporate level. He also worked in areas of Business Strategy, Operations, Supply chain transformation, Organization Transformation and Deployment of Shop Floor Excellence globally engaging all employees. As a corporate excellence leader worked closely with CEO &COO to bring organization transformation to achieve P&L bottom line impact (Till date more than 55 Million USD in last 12 years).

Aravindan was associated with Reliance industries, Jubilant, Piramal group, Aurobindo pharma Dr.Reddys and currently heading the corporate operational excellence in Syngene international limited (a Biocon group) for spearheading their efficiency and effectiveness ‘’ LEAP’’ initiatives to transform as a world class service organization.

He has a unique experience of deployment of operational excellence program to entire pharma value chain business verticals ranging from Research services, API. formulations, Biologics to achieve mastery.

He has won lot of national awards and recognitions for best six sigma projects, Awarded Level 3 Qualitist by Qimpro and Six sigma professional of the year 2018 in manufacturing supply chain for contributions to pharma industry in field of excellence.

Aravindan’s vision is to touch and influence lives of at least 10000 people every year. He helps in areas excellence and leadership. Recently he co authored a chapter in COACH WISDOM – II book sharing his life context of ‘’ Self cull caring ‘’ and success story as Excellence leadership coach.

Suneel Rahator is a facilitator, trainer and consultant for Six Sigma and Total Quality Management. He has been providing consultancy and training in India and abroad for the last 14 years in various Manufacturing concerns, Banks, and Hotels. His area of expertise includes facilitation for Process Management, Six Sigma, Breakthrough Improvement Project Teams and training workshops for Team Members. Suneel has been providing Strategic Guidance to top management as well as working with middle and frontline management, including workforce, to achieve Benchmark Objectives, helping organizations achieve ‘best in class’ status. An Electronics Engineer with 36 years experience, Suneel has a rich industry experience in various functions like R & D, Quality, Service, Training, and Plant Management. Suneel has been an Examiner for the IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award and a visiting faculty for the Post-graduate management program at Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and also with Sophia College. He is associated with NCQM as a senior faculty and with NGOs CORP and Deep Griha as a member of the Board .

Radhika Ralhan is a sustainability expert with an experience of more than 8 years in the domain, a University Gold Medalist and holds an M. Phil in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics. She has enhanced her academic and research insights towards pragmatic implementation as showcased in her professional experience beginning with Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) for EU LENS -Learning Network on Sustainability. She presented India's perspective on sustainable service systems and systems thinking. During her tenure with United Nations Global Compact, India, she was responsible for expanding diverse sustainability chapters that constituted research development, human rights, and capturing responsible sustainable practices of leading companies in India. She spearheaded the corporate sustainability team of GlobalHunt Foundation, conducted CSR research, designed programs, training and implementation of CSR projects for leading private sector companies. As an academic she believes in interdisciplinary pedagogy as explicit in the courses she taught at renowned institutions both in India and abroad such as Politecnico Di Milano, Italy, IHM, Pusa, Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. She has written diverse publication and her on Sustainable Consumption was presented in global forums in Milan and Istanbul.

Mechanical Engineer & MBB in LSS
Partnering with PQ Systems, USA who are world leaders in training and consulting for continual improvement.
Consulted more than 250 organizations in manufacturing & service sectors in India & abroad on process improvement since 1999.
Ashok Leyland, Ceat Tyres, Coats Global, CUMI, NTPC, Panasonic, REVL, Saint Gobain , Yazaki etc.. are the clients for consulting

BE-Mech and MBA with 20 Years of experience in implementing TQM,TPM, Lean, Six Sigma, Quality and Environment Management systems.

Six Sigma Blackbelt from ASQ and BMG. Master Blackbelt Certified from Indian Statistical Institute , Bangalore.

Specialised in

Implementation of TPM using JIPM methodology.
3 level Lean certification
QMS Maturity Audits
Business Excellence Assessments
Lean and Six sigma Implementation
Training and certification of Lean Six sigma Belts

Senior Member-ASQ and Hon Secretary ASQ-LMC Ahmedabad

Senior Memeber - Society of Manufacturing Engineering

Lean Six Sigma professional with 15 years experience in Manufacturing & Business Excellence.

Rahul Rathi is a professional with 9+ years of diverse work profile covering Business Excellence, Change Management and IT integration coupled with rigorous one-year full time postgraduate management program. His key work areas include Business Process Re-engineering, Integrated Management System, 5S, TPM, TQM, Lean Six-Sigma, Malcolm Baldrige framework, Safety culture transformation, as well as Individual and Organizational change management, SAP ERP integration and Capacity building.
He has worked with renowned business brands in India such as Accenture and Adani. He has done Executive MBA in Infrastructure Management (Gold Medalist) and B.Tech in Electronics & Communication.

Certified as
 Assessor – IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award (IMC RBNQA) criteria for performance excellence
 Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt
 Lead Auditor (LA) for ISO 9001 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System) and ISO 50001 (Energy Management System)
 Internal Auditor for ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety Management System)
 Auditor for 5S Workplace Management System
 Prince2 Practitioner

Internal Trainer for
 5S Workplace Management System
 ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 management system standards
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Senior Vice President and Head - Corporate TQM, SRF Limited

B.E. (Electrical) DCE, Delhi and MS (Quality Mgmt) BITS Pilani. 28 years of wide experience spanning industry and consulting, as design engineer, project manager, business consulting leader and quality management change leader.

Leads group-wide promotion of improvement activities from the Corporate at the SRF group, an Indian multinational, integrating TQM, TPM and TPS with problem solving into building and sustaining a world class organization.

Successfully led the challenge of two Deming Prizes in the group.
In earlier stints, led consulting engagements for international clients in the retail industry, bringing to them business value through strategy and technology led interventions.

Trained by leading TQM gurus both in Japan and in India, Certified examiner - IMC RBNQA, senior internal assessor,

Board Member - Indian Society for Quality, Asian Network for Quality (ANQ), Associate Academician - International Academy for Quality (IAQ), Senior Member - ASQ

I am an Electrical Engineering Graduate by profession with a Post Graduate Diploma in Quality Management and a Master of Science in Quality Management from BITS , Pilani . I have more than twelve years of experience in teaching , training and effective implementation of different techniques and tools of Quality Management and Quality Management Systems like ISO 9001 : 2015 and the erstwhile QS 9000 .
My field of interest is the understanding and implementing the philosophy and works of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Many of my papers on the subject have been published in Indian Journals and Journals abroad . I have also conducted numerous seminars on Quality and related topics .
Currently I am a visiting faculty on the roll of many institutions related to management and engineering and specialise in teaching Quality , Production , Supply Chain and related topics .
• I was fortunate to meet Dr. Joseph M. Juran (a pioneer in the field of Managing for Quality) in 2002 , and be in touch with him for six years until his passing in 2008 .
• I was awarded a Medallion by the National Centre for Quality Management for contributions to the development and dissemination of Quality in India .
• I was featured in the text book ‘Quality Control’ by V.A. Kulkarni and A.K. Bewoor .
• My contributions have been featured in the Active Learning Course titled 12 Days to Deming by Dr. Henry R. Neave (www.theuic.com/deming)
• In May 2018 , I was made Honorary Member of the Deming Alliance , UK
• In December 2018 was inducted into the Advisory Council of the W. Edwards Deming Institute , USA
• Currently acting as a Statistical Advisor to the Covid-19 Task Force

A Lean Six Sigma professional with over 9 years of experience in Quality Management, Business Excellence, Production Management, Maintenance Operations, Erection & Commissioning and Team Management.
Currently Associated with Unilever Home & personal care Factory, Dubai as Quality Specialist - WCM.
Skilled in assessing businesses to identify improvement opportunities and develop cost reduction programs such as lean and Six Sigma to address these opportunities.
Proven excellence in business process engineering with proven ability in improving operations, formulating strategies and models for the distribution of financial and investment advisory products / services
Demonstrated Leader & Organizational Change Agent, delivering business results focused on improving manufacturing business processes to improve reliability, increase simplicity, and enable scalable growth
Capability in managing production operations, quality, maintenance and commissioning with key focus for profitability by ensuring optimal utilization of resources & diversification of business in various areas
Rich experience in business analysis with insightful knowledge of analysis, design, development, testing, training and quality assurance
Showcased capability in developing new processes and transforming old ones at business unit level while addressing staffing, technology, operations, maintenance, and training requirements
A creative and innovative thinker with relationship management skills with the capability to relate to people at any level of business and management

Sayantan Roy is a quality professional with over 15 years of experience in deploying Operational and Business Excellence methodologies in multiple industries.
He is currently associated with Tata Business Excellence Group (TBExG - a divison of Tata Sons) as a Deputy General Manager assisting Tata group companies in their Business Excellence journey. Overall he has more than 12+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Process Improvement and has successfully deployed six sigma in IT/ ITES and Banking Industry. Prior to joining TBExG, he was associated with Tata Motors Finance Limited, Jones Lang LaSalle, WNS and 247 customers and has been instrumental in deployment of QMS, EMS, LSS, Innovation and climate change initiatives. He is also a certified Trainer and has more than 300 hours of training experience including lean and LSS GB. Sayantan is an Electrical Engineer with Diploma in Business Administration and is a certified Tata Business Excellence Model (adopted from MBNQA) and CII EXIM Bank assessor.

Mr. Somenath Roy is an Electronics & Communication Engineering Graduate from IEI and PGDBM in Operations and Marketing. He is also certified Software Professional from RKMCC – WBCTE and DOEACC. He possesses BELP certification for TBEM (based on Malcolm Baldridge Improvement model) and NABET IQ92102 certification for QMS - ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor. He has over 6 years of work experience in Supply Chain and Logistics Industry. His previous assignment was in Vishal Retail where he handled Apparel purchasing division and distribution planning system. As an Assistant Manager - Business Excellence, he responsible for driving various Quality Initiatives such as ISO, Caliper, TBEM, TQM, 5S Projects, Benchmarking & Improvement Projects, across various Line of Business (LOBs) of DIESL. In his present responsibility he has integrated ISO with PMPI parameters for achieving greater operational excellence across all verticals.

HIGHLIGHTS: * 10+ years experience in Construction Industry (8+ yrs as QA/QC Engineer in Gulf). * Highly skilled in Quality Management and adequately skilled in Project Management. * Experience in Prestigious Projects like Education City (Construction of Oxygen Park), Hamad Intl. Airport(Catering Facility Building), Durrat Al Bahrain Resort(Construction of Villas), Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(Construction of Elevated Stations). * A dedicated Civil Engineer who wants to be innovative and technically skilled to perform as a topper in the challenging environment by creating and utilizing time as well as opportunities. ? EXPERTISE: * Well experienced in preparing, reviewing & deploying PQP, ITPs, Method Statements, QMS Procedures throughout the project and verify the effectiveness of implementation. * Effective Quality management by using Quality Planning, Problem solving, Improvement Tools. * Monitor compliance with workflow requirements, procedures, policies and track non-conformances to resolution with proper Root Cause Analysis and necessary Corrective & Preventive actions. * Assist in developing project performance criteria,monitor & analyze processes in order to meet KPI. * Provide training to staffs and monitor training program of contractors/subcontractors. * Perform,review,coordinate for Quality Audits and monitor contractor’s audit program. * Good knowledge in developing and establishing the QMS in compliance with ISO 9001:2008. CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS: * Preparing for ASQ – CQM/OE, CQA & CQE examinations. * IRCA accredited QMS Lead Auditor Certificate (# ENR-00120384) from BSI, 2014. * Parsons University Safety & Quality trainings accredited by IACET, 2014. * Lean Construction Program organized by Overseas Bechtel Ltd, Qatar, 2011. * Professional Course in Project Planning and Management (PPM), 2009.

Around 25 years of exposure in Vedanta Limited in Business Excellence, Asset optimization, Sustainability, Quality Control, Customer Support Services and Production departments.

Currently, Heading Business Excellence , Asset optimization & Sustainability at Vedanta Ltd, Sterlite Copper, Silvassa.
Lean Six Sigma Black belt certified in 2014 from Exemplar Global.
Management representative for Asset Management Systems ISO 55001:2014, Quality Management Systems ISO 9001:2015, Environmental Management Systems ISO 14001:2015, Energy Management Systems ISO 50001:2011, Quality manager for Laboratory Management Systems ISO 17025 : 2017 and for Occupational Health & Safety Management systems ISO 45001:2018.
Certified Lead auditor of ISO 9001 and OHSAH 18001: 2007.
Certified internal auditor of all the three management systems (ISO 9001: 2000, ISO14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007).
Member of Bureau of Indian Standards, MTD 8 (related to Copper & Copper Alloys).
Certified Examiner of IMC RBNQA (Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Awards), Completed 3 assessment cycles.Certified GRI training from KPMG.
Invited as Session Chairman in National convention organized by INSSAN- 2014 and 2015.
Exposed to various competitions and winner in Qualtech (Qimpro), NCQC, CCQC (organized by QCFI) and INSSAN (Indian national suggestion Scheme’s association).
Project assessor for Qimpro convention 2015 and 2016.

A seasoned professional with experience in Automobile, Tractor manufacturing and in Process Industry for Excellence practices.
18 plus years of rich experience in Business Excellence initiatives predominantly in Six Sigma, QMS (TS16949), TQM, TPM, Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing with hands on experience in Quality assurance and in Manufacturing.
Tremendous experience as a faculty by imparting training to more than 1200+ participants on systematic problem solving through QC Story, Quality Management system(TS16949), Six Sigma Green Belt, Black belt, SPC ,FMEA etc.
Have the credit of publishing Two statistical papers on Taguchi's Beta correction (Partial correction technique) and on DOE by Indian Statistical Institute(ISI) Bangalore and Mumbai.
Have been invited by CII to conduct Business Excellence assessments based on EFQM for 2018 & 2017.
Governing Council Member of QCFI-Mysore chapter from Aug 2018

A competent professional with valuable experience of 25 years in the field of QC, QA.
Presently associated with Hindusthan National Glass Industries Limited, Virbhadra, Rishikesh as Assistant Manager Quality Assurance.
Adept at managing In process QA operations involving Run test & routine test, calibrations, stage inspections, pre despatch inspection, First time right, Process Inspection.
LEAD AUDITOR FSSC 22000 v5.1 from SGS
IMS Internal Auditor - DNV
Well versed with Quality System Basic, GMP, TQM, TPM, SPC, HACCP, FSSC, Six Sigma and PAS 223.
Effective application of 5S to on shop floor.
ISO 9001:2015, IS0 22000:2013 Approved Quality Internal auditor.
Application of SAP under quality module.
Understanding of production operations and development of latest technology.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical & negotiation skills with strong organizational and team building abilities.
Completed three Six Sigma green belt Project.
Compilation of all the centralized reports of the organization i.e. Quality related MIS.
Familiar with statistical software Minitab16, Quality Companion 3 & Quality trainer from MINITAB.
 Master of Science degree in chemistry from HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar.
 Diploma in Quality Management from NCQM, Mumbai.
 PGDM-Marketing from AIMA-New Delhi.
 Problem solving Pro, Digital course from QIMPRO
Delivering training to a variety of individuals on topics ranging from SQC, ISO, FSSC, TQM.

Sumant Sahoo graduated in Mechanical Engineering and completed Masters of Technology, specializing in Quality, Reliability and Operations Research from the Indian Statistical Institute. He has 15 years of rich experience in Implementation of Business Intelligence Solutions, Optimization of Enterprise Operations, Products, Processes and Services with Six Sigma, ISO, CMMi, COPC and applied Statistics in various industries includes Software Development, IT Enabled Services, and Engineering industries. He has outstanding internal/external consulting and project management skills in a variety of disciplines including quality management, human resource development, customer analytics and customer relationship management. He has mentored and completed a Six Sigma project on “Developing Estimation model for Data Warehousing projects” which won the Runner-up prize in the International Software Estimation Colloquium. He has managed more than 100 six sigma projects as Master Black Belt.

His expertise includes:
• Data Mining & Analytics
• Statistical Analysis & Modeling
• Strategic & Tactical Analytics
• Six Sigma
• Operations & Transitions

Prakash H Sakhalkar is a well-known consultant offering his services to reputed organisations in the areas of Manufacturing, Quality and HR. A Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious institute, VJTI Mumbai University, he has developed valuable expertise in some specialised areas like Business Excellence Models, Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), Improvement Culture backed by his over three decades of experience in Indian industry. During his long and illustrious career, he has held important positions in reputed companies like, Sandvik Asia Limited, Mahindra Tractors Limited, Larsen & Toubro Limited (L &T). In his tenure in L&T spanning 24 years, he made significant contribution and has a number of achievements to his credit in various areas of business including Manufacturing,Industrial Engineering, Quality and HR. Throughout his career, he has been active in the professional field and was associated with Indian Merchants’ Chamber, Indian Value Engineering Society, CII. He served as an Examiner/Senior Examiner for the prestigious Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award instituted by Indian Merchants’ Chamber for Business Excellence in Indian industry since its inception. He is associated with well known Management Institutes in Mumbai as a Visiting Faculty and Student Mentor. Mr Sakhalkar is a network consultant with Qimpro.

Manager with 9.5 years of Experience in Process Excellence & Re engineering, Operations & Requirement Analysis. Qualifications which includes MBA - Information technology & Project Management Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Business Process Manager, Enterprise risk manager, Prince 2 Expert and ISO Lead Auditor adds value to my interest in maturing as a Quality Professional. Areas which interest me is Business Process Re engineering where I have Re constructed and Monitored Projects on the basis of reduction of NVA's and Reduction of Lead Time. Currently I work with the Risk Advisory Services of EY India LLP. I am also a member of American Society for Quality and Global Association for Quality Management.

• Mechanical Engineer having 31 years of experience in Manufacturing and service industry.
• Currently employed with Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. Mumbai, as a Vice President – Quality. Responsible for guiding the Quality journey of the Organisation.
• Corporate Management Representative for the organization.
• Prior to joining Reliance he worked as a Consultant / trainer on Business Excellence for 6 years and has helped many small/ Medium / big size organizations to take the journey of excellence.
• He is a Senior Examiner / trainer on Malcolm Baldridge Business Excellence model and is expert on TQM, ISO Quality Management Systems, 5 `S`, Small Group activities etc.
• Since 2001 he is on the panel of examiners for Indian Merchants Chamber that assesses Indian companies for Business Excellence.
• Conducts training programmes for underprivileged school children for a project `Leaders Of Tomorrow`.

Hitesh Sanghavi, Managing Director – CUNIX Infotech (CMMI Partner since 2003), CMMI cert. High Maturity Lead appraiser (HMLA), for CMMI (Development and Services). Experience of 27 years. He is BE (Computers),MBA, CMC (Cert. management consultant), Lead Auditor-ISO, Master Black belt Six sigma, CQA(Cert. Quality analyst), NLP, CPCD (Cert. Performance and Competency Developer),Transformational Leadership training, Cert. Balance scorecard professional (CBSP), Certified ISMS (Info-security management system), ITIL Certified and Certified Brand Manager.
Vital Stats: He has completed 152 CMMI SCAMPI appraisals, 25 HM appraisals, 175 audits in (CMM,CMMI, ISO, ITIL), 200+ trainings in CMM/CMMI, 150 in other quality related areas, 55 CMMI official CMMI introduction and 90 CMMI SCAMPI and 22 CMMI ML4-5 trainings.

He enjoys conceptualizing, crystallizing, measuring and mentoring organizational teams for high maturity performances. Significant contributor to Mumbai SPIN activities since 1998.

Received the “Best Partner Award” from Datamatics Ltd (CMM5, CMMI 5, PCMM 5)

Authored a book on VC++ 6.0, Visual basic (CHIP), Internet Programming (CHIP).

Authored Train the trainers manual, Managers manual and Sales Manual.

TRAININGS: Seminars and Corporate Training for more than 180 organizations in ISO, CMMI, Project Mngt, S/W Estimation, Metrics, Peer Reviews.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: IEEE, NACT, CSI, SPIN, PMI, CMMI -CMU, CII (ITES), IMCI

I'm a certified Six sigma Master Black belt, with 7 years of experience in ITES and 8 years in manufacturing industry. Hand-on with Lean tools and methodologies.

Started carrier in 1994 with Qimpro Standards Organisation, Mumbai as a Third Party Inspector conducting inspection on behalf of AMREP-Singapore, TISL & Compaq-Singapore. Joined TANDON group in 1997. Responsibilities included developing processes for new products and product control parameters, conducting internal audits.
From November 1998, worked as a partner in Quality Life Inc. helped various industries for availing certifications of ISO 9001, 14001, 18001, NABL, TS 16949, CE Marking, ISI Marking, etc. Currently founder of Vinay Sawant and Associates and working in the areas of Training (Technical, Soft Skills), providing consultancy in Business process and productivity improvement using LEAN, Business Excellence, support for IT system development, Supplier development, Development and implementation of HR practices, Top Management Mentoring, etc.
Industry experience includes:
Chemical, Oil, Engineering, Food, Rubber, Pharmaceutical, Hospitals, Educational Institutions, Financial institution - Banks, Testing and Calibration Laboratories, Construction, Garment, Fabrication, Plywood, Mining, Material handling, SPM Manufacturing, Electrical, Electronics industries & Other service providers like Painting contractors, Logistics, Gas agencies, HR service providers, Educational etc.
Few major customers:
Cadbury India Ltd, Pidilite Industries, Voltas Ltd. (A TATA company), Nelco Ltd. (A TATA company), The Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd., DIESL (A TATA company), Haware constructions, PuranIk Builders etc.

Currently Working as Manager Operational & Supply Chain Excellence looking after Manufacturing Excellence Projects & Global Supply Chain Excellence Initiatives involving Indian as well as UK, Canada & US Sites at Piramal Enterprises Limited.

Previously was Heading, Business & Manufacturing Excellence at Yarn & Terry Towel manufacturing division of the Trident Group.

B. Tech in Production and Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee with rich experience in Textiles, Pharmaceutical Industry across Manufacturing as well as Service functions like Supply Chain, Logisitcs, Customer Centricity etc. Well versed in implementing Lean Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance (JIPM), Industrial Engineering, & Process Improvement/Automation.

A Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from Quality Society of Australasia International..

Amitabh Saxena is Lean and Six Sigma Master Black Belt and PMP with 22 years of process excellence and quality related experience in services and manufacturing domains. He is trained in Lean and Six Sigma at AXA University, Paris, also certified by ASQ and has implemented Six Sigma and Lean in 8 organizations in Europe, Middle East and India. By education, he is a Chemical Engineer and MBA (Finance) from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and has served as Deutsche Bank Vice President- Process Excellence. Presently he is Principal Consultant and CEO, Anexas Denmark.

Amitabh’s last corporate assignment was as Head – Process Excellence in Riyad Bank. He has worked at senior Six Sigma positions in OfficeTiger-RR Donnelley (Vice President- Six Sigma), AXA, KPMG and has also worked with Indian Statistical Institute, Indo Rama (Thailand) Ltd and Bharat Petroleum.

As Master Black Belt, Amitabh has guided more than 800 improvement projects, trained more than 1000 Black Belts and 2500 Green Belts. He has also trained more than 1000 middle and senior management personnel in Lean, Balanced Score Card, ISO 9000, CMM and Statistical Process Control. He is trained assessor in CII-Exim Bank Buisness Excellence award based on EFQM model. He has spoken at global and national six sigma summits for IQPC, Marcus Evans, Indian Statistical Institute, NASSCOM, NIQR, CII and chaired leading conferences on Process Excellence. He has been a jury member of North America Shared Services Process Excellence Award and Symbiosis Lean Six Sigma process excellence awards.

I am a Chemical Engineer, MBA from IIM Bangalore and CFA from CFA Institute, USA. I have worked in the manufacturing domain in ITC & L&T before moving to Financial Services industry where I spent almost 15 years in GE Capital, MetLife & Reliance Life Insurance. Have worked in the area of Treasury Operations, Cash Management, Insurance Operations, Customer Service Delivery, Customer Retention, Sales Support, Quality & Business Excellence and Data Analytics. Am a certified Six Sigma MBB from GE Capital. For the last 2 years have been working on the Corp Business Cell of Aditya Birla Group supporting all service businesses of the group (Fashion, Retail, Telecom, Financial Services). Also anchoring Data Analytics in our manufacturing businesses and a AB group wide Knowledge Management initiative.

21 Yrs of experience in the field of Quality
Post graduate in Quality Management from BITS
Certified Lean six sigma Master black belt from ISI
ISO 9001 : 2005 Certified Lead auditor
Handling all the area of Quality
Good team Mentor
Handling team of 15 to 20 size
Handling Product and system certification

Arijit is the Chief Operating Officer of Future Learning, a Future Group company and one of India's leading Skills, Talent and Leadership Development organizations. Arijit is a post graduate in management and has been a Banker with a missionary zeal towards Learning & Development and has worked across leading organizations including Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI OneSource and American Express, India. Prior to coming on board at Future Learning, he was leading the Digital Learning practice at Kotak Mahindra Bank. Arijit has extensive experience across Digital Learning, L&D Operations, Content Development, Service Quality, Business Process Reengineering, Operations and Customer Service.

Arijit is a certified Six Sigma Practioner from the Motorola University, KL, Malaysia, Business Continuity Management Specialist from BCMI, Singapore, Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, 10002 and 27001 standards from British Standards Institute and a Certified Bank Trainer from the Indian Institute of Banking & Finance.

Komal is the Founder and CEO of AlterEGO Consultants, a boutique consulting firm focussing on culture transformation by 'unleashing the superhero inside you'. AlterEGO focusses on high impact projects across Corporate L&D, Skilling, Livelihood, Digital Learning, Consumer Research and Mystery Shopping for clients ranging from BFSI, Retail, Education and ITES. Prior to setting up her own firm, Komal has worked for around a decade in ITES, Banking and Education sectors. She was a Teacher with Mumbai's leading IB School, Ecole Mondiale where was managing the Primary Years Programme and continuously innovating learning methodology. At Kotak Mahindra Bank, she has worked across functions including Service Quality and Training. At ICICI Bank, she was managing functional L&D.

Suryakanth Shabolu Manager- Technical Services, VVF(India) Limited. Suryakanth Shabolu is an IIT Bombay alumni-2011 batch, B.Tech-Mechanical engineering graduate. Certified Qualitist Six Sigma green belt by Qimpro College, Indian partner of Quality council of Indiana, USA. After graduation, he started working with Oleo chemical manufacturing giant – VVF limited. His core competency is in thorough technical assessment of the projects, feasibility study, benefit analysis, and identification of cost cutting areas. During the early stages of his career, he became a crucial core member of Captive power plant & Co-generation installation team. His major contribution was to assess the previous energy consumption patterns of the entire manufacturing unit and come out with a most generic power cost calculation methodology. He institutionalized power cost calculation methodology, forecasted the project viability based on real time energy consumption patterns. As part of Center of excellence team he carried out various energy saving and cost cutting projects. He carried out various projects involving condensate wastage reduction, steam wastage reduction, increasing boiler efficiency, increasing efficiency of thermic fluid heaters, compressor performance assessment. Through his continuous efforts he implemented projects worth annual saving of INR 2.3 Crores at VVF limited, Taloja.

Qualified Metallurgical Engineer with Management degree having over 28 years experience in Steel and Engineering Industry. Also Certified Master Black Belt in Six Sigma techniques having handled internal projects of Business Excellence. Previously associated with Aditya Birla Group, Uttam Galva and Topworth Group. Currently at senior level in Marketing and Business development with Astral Pipes Group.

A Business Process Excellence professional with 9 years of experience in continual process improvement, process re-engineering, process design in sectors like engineering, Telecom, FMCD and Insurance.
Currently working with Process Innovation and Excellence unit of IDBI Federal Life Insurance.
A Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt and Lean Practitioner certified with experience of driving projects and delivering results around metrics like TAT, Cost, CSAT, Revenue, Sales Conversion, etc.
Area of specialization includes Lean Six Sigma, Project Management, Quality Management, Data Analytics, Business Analysis & Operations Research

Mr. Shandilya is an operation, business excellence and quality management professional, consultant and a trainer of a high repute. He has worked with various big business houses of the country like Ispat Group (Balasore Alloys Ltd.), HERO MotoCorp Limited, Maruti Center for Excellence - Maruti Suzuki India Limited and VISA Steel Limited.
He has been a recipient of numerous prestigious awards for his contribution in Industry like Young leader of the year award, Best Guru Award, National merit award, speaker of the session award, best researcher award, best trainer award, best consultant award and so on.
Academically, Sumit is a Ph.D., M.B.A. in Operations, M.Sc. in Statistics, Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management and a B.E. in Mechanical. He is also a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, Lead Auditor - QMS, Quality Council of India empanelled Lean consultant and a certified ZED consultant.

I have rich experience of 13 years in different manufacturing industries in different roles like production, Quality, Operational/Manufacturing excellence.

Currently working with Wipro consumer care & lighting (FMCG) as Manager Manufacturing Excellence for 4 north Indian factories. Prior to that I have worked for United Breweries ltd, Piramal Glass Ltd & AT&S.

Education:- PGDM(operation & finance) XIMB+BE(mechanical) VTU

Certification:- Lean Six sigma Black belt-ASQ, Certified manager quality & Organisational excellence-ASQ, lean practiser certificate from Lean institute of India, Certified Auditor TPM, Trained auditor for CII-EXIM, Certified auditor for IMS(ISO 9000, 14000 & 18000).

Accolade-
Winner of chairman award for the best project of the year (2010-11) at Piramal Glass Limited,
Twice Winner IMEA award-2011 & 2012 at Piramal Glass Limited,
GPNQA winner-2011, Piramal glass Ltd
ISI- six sigma Case studies- 3rd award-2015, WEPL
Twice winner of LSSEA - SCMHRD- 2016 & 2017 , WEPL
Twice winner of DL Shah National quality award- silver (2016 & 2017), WEPL
Finalist for ASQ-South Asia Team excellence award 2017, WEPL

Industrial Association
Was Member of CII-TQM Club (Mysore), Key Speaker IPCA-2017, CII as Judge for Quality Circle, Jury/Examiner for 12th North-West QualTech. Full Member for ASQ, Guest lecture-PTU Nalanda.

I am Neha Sharma, a Quality professional, specializing in Process Excellence (PEX), Operational Excellence (OpEx) and Business Excellence.

I have led operational and human excellence initiatives-using CMMI-Development and Services; People Capability Maturity Model (PCMM) and ISO 9001:2015-for over 40 clients spanning 9 Sectors and 19 Industries. My clients include numerous Fortune 500 Global, Fortune 500 Indian and Public Sector Entities classified as Maharatna, Navratna and Miniratna.

My passion for Quality and Excellence drove me to complete my Master of Science in Quality Management from UK and subsequently pursue various certifications including the ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and Assessor for CII-EXIM Bank Award for Business Excellence.

In 2019, I was conferred the Qimpro Qualitist Level 3 Badge, the highest level of recognition awarded for individual excellence in the space of Quality / Excellence.

Today, as Founder and CEO of Beacon Solutions, my purpose is to guide organizations ‘Chart their Path’ to Business Excellence and help them transition seamlessly from Process Excellence to Business Excellence by visualizing solutions built on Process and Service Design Principles.

I am a result oriented professional, with over seven years of experience in project management, problem solving, business development and management consulting. I am presently working as Manager – Process Excellence at Indus Towers, world’s largest passive telecom infrastructure provider. At Indus Towers, I am closely associated with the Process Excellence organization building, program management of lean six sigma training and project mentoring across the west and south regions. Prior to Indus, I worked as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Gurgaon, in their operations consulting practice. I have successfully led and have been part of business development efforts and consulting delivery across varied industries such as automobile, textiles, paper, chemical and heavy engineering. I was engaged in assisting my clients in improving their operations’ performance in line with overall business strategy. Prior to PwC, I worked with TATA Motors Ltd. As part of planning group and manufacturing, I was responsible for introduction of new products on bus platforms, facility planning and designing robust processes for assembly operations that had a direct impact on customer satisfaction. As a Six Sigma professional, I have played a key role in reducing the cost of operations, improving process & product quality and eliminating abnormalities by employing process re-design, TPM, six sigma, Kaizen and lean manufacturing techniques.

Om is a Vice President and Head of Business Excellence at GeBBS Healthcare Solutions. Responsible for driving International Quality Standards, Process Training, Quality Assurance, WFM and Lean Six Sigma etc. Om comes with rich experience in designing & implementing Quality Management framework across industries. He brings expertise in Quality Standards, Process Excellence, Cost Optimization, Performance Management, Operational Efficiency, Business Strategy, ISO, COPC, CMMI, PCMM, SA-8000, Transaction Monitoring and Training.in different roles. His deployments have been into different industries like Healthcare, Telecom, Airlines, Software development, Technical Support Services in KPO/BPO/IT space. Prior to joining GeBBS, Om was associated with Wipro as Global Quality Leader; he has also served VFS Global (largest Visa facilitation company) as Senior Vice President – Quality & Transformation, and at leadership roles at WNS Global Services & GTL Limited.

Om is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, holds a Master's Degree in Total Quality & Business Management and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. Currently he is also a research scholar in Entrepreneurship & Organizational Success.

Om is also on the advisory council of World Quality Congress, Advisory Board of Guranga Infotech, also on Panel of Assessor for few National and International award secretariats. Some of the national and international recognitions conferred are “Top 50 Most Impactful Quality Professional of India in 2014”, “Quality Leader of the year”, “Six Sigma Champion of the year 2015”, “Dubai Quality Appreciation Award” etc..

I'm certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Facilitator from AIG. I'm also certified Internal Auditor for ISO 9001 (Quality Management System). I have total work experience of more than 11 years into service industry and more than 5 years into Organizational Excellence implemeting Lean & Six Sigma. I have experience into various domains like Finance & Accounting, Insurance, Travel, Utility & Telecom. I have also been involved in transition of 7 processes from the UK.

Completed Erection & commissioning of Thermal & Gas Power plants each of 25 MW and 12 MW respectively.
Erected an Bag House for Kiln/Raw Mill for reduction of Pollution and eliminated ESP.
Also completed recently an Hydraulic Truck Tippler Project of 100 T.
Now we are going for revamping of WHR Power plant for running continuously from Waste heat in a cement plant.

CA. Jagadish is currently the Director of Arsha Advisory Services Private Limited and operating from Dadar.

He is a co-faculty and an assessor for the prestigious Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award of the Indian Merchants Chamber since the last 7 years.

Presently, he is also an Independent Director on the board of Future Ventures India Limited, Indus League Limited and Aadhar (All companies of Future Group) and its audit committees.

Jagadish has over 21 years of management consultancy, training and internal audit experience and exposed to all functions of an organisation. He has provided consultancy services to over 150 organisations:
1) Systems and controls documentation
2) Balanced score card and Performance management
3) Business excellence assessment and consulting
4) Internal Audit
5) Training and development

He has a great passion for learning and has the following qualifications and certifications:
• Chartered Accountant
• Certified for Enterprise Risk Management
• Accredited Practitioner for MBTI (Personality testing)
• Certified Practitioner for Competency assessment
• Certified Practitioner for Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ -Innovation)
• Certified Lead auditor for Quality and SA 8000 (Social Accountability)
• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

He has a wide experience in conducting assignments for leading organisations in :
· Auto Finance
· Advertising and PR
· Construction companies
· Stock broking
· Insurance brokers
· Clearing House agents
· Facilities management
· Travel and tourism

Hardcore Quality Professional with 21 years of cross functional experience in the fields of Business Excellence, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, World Class Manufacturing, Customer Service, Management Systems etc. Spent 11 years in Manufacturing Industry before switching over to Service industry.

A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute, currently associated with HDFC Bank, Mumbai as Head–Quality Improvement Projects, chiefly responsible for delivery of high impact end-to-end projects / process improvements in Retail Assets and Cards business of the Bank using methodologies like Lean Sigma, BPMS etc.

Prior to joining HDFC Bank, worked at ICICI Bank, responsible for implementation of BPMS framework along with mentoring Six Sigma Projects. Prior to this, spent 8 years with Biral Copper - Hindalco Industries Limited – a flagship company of Aditya Birla Group. One of the pioneer members who implemented World Class Manufacturing framework at Birla Copper.

MBA from Universitas21 – Singapore and Bachelor in Industrial Engineering. Recipient of the coveted Chairman’s Award for Young Achiever in A V Birla Group and Academic Excellence Award from U21 for his MBA. Also featured in Business India (10th August’08) in “FrontRunners”

Shrutin is a B.E., MBA (Finance), a Design Thinker & Quality Improvement Associate, with fifteen years of diverse experience.
Currently, by way of a small, innovation & design strategy firm called Crystal Planet Labs LLP, he helps young businesses globally to innovate or solve complex business challenges using his unique blend of strategy, design thinking and behaviour.
Visiting faculty for Masters of Design students at the National Institute of Fashion Technology.
Author of 'Design the Future', a book that simplifies Design Thinking for business.

Before start of consultancy services in Feb 2012 I had Professional carrier of 36 years was mainly related to Engineering Industry in the following areas ,
Industrial Engg. Projects – Capital Investments ,Establishment of Factory,
Manufacturing, General Management. Collaborations & Technology Transfer.
Knowledge and understanding about latest & Global trends related to Manufacturing like 5S , Kaizen , Kanban , Lean Mfg. , Group Technology , JIT , Toyota Mfg. System , Quality Assurance etc.

Attended at least more than ten Training programs conducted by very reputed institutions like,NITIE , NPC, Indian Statistical Inst., One of it is One Week at IIM Ahmadabad on “Innovative Practices in Manufacturing.”

Certified lead Auditor for ISO 9000 ( 2008) .

Visited once to Germany, France & China for business, training & conferences.

Visited twice in 2010& 11 to Japan. AOTS Japan Scholarship & Training for 2 weeks in Japan – Jan/Feb. 2010.For “Corporate Quality Mgt. for India” and in July 2011 for 2 weeks – “Executive Program for Corporate Management.”

Associated with IMC RBNQA as CEQM for last 9 years. For 2015 cycle felicitated with Certificate of Excellence
Fellow of NCQM from Aug 2017 [National Council for Quality Management - Mumbai]

Nilesh Shinde has 13 yrs of experience in various industries like Logistics operations, Finance and BPO industry. Domain Expertise : Customer Interaction Manager - Cards (Servicing), Insurance (Policy Servicing), Telecom (Order Fulfilment), Consumer Banking. Banking – Back Office Operations, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Management
Key Projects and Accomplishments: Transformation project for Citi Telesales Australia on “Dialer Strategy” resulting in increase in Right Party Contact by 54% and Increase in conversion rate by 12%. Transformation project for US Cards CRM Optimization resulting in reduction of Customer Service time by 20% and USD 2 MM benefit to the client. Net Promoter Score (NPS) Improvement project for US Cards resulting in improvement in NPS from 36% to more than 55%, giving more than USD 5 MM business benefit to the client. Developed a New Hire Performance Prediction Model, which helps reduce the learning curve for the associates by 20%. Nilesh is a certified Master Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute, Mumbai, ASQ Black Belt, Post graduate in Masters of Management Studies and he graduated as Mechanical engineer from Mumbai University

Mr.Dipak Shukla , a certified Six-Sigma Black Belt both from BMGI and ASQ, is a graduate Chemical-Engineer from Deemed-University with a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration –Dual specialization Operation and Marketing from Symbiosis. He is BEE Certified Energy-Manager & Auditor .He has a total of 10 years of experience primarily in the fields of Plant Operation, Refinery Technologies and nurturing Yellow Belts and Green Belts Project mentoring/coaching. In the initial years of his career, he has worked as a Shift-In charge in TATA Chemicals,Mithapur and GNFC,Bharuch Chemical Plants.He has got exposure in the field of Technical services in Hazop study,Energy ,Safety audits as well. The last 06 years have been spent at Reliance Industries Limited ,Jamnagar Petroleum Refinery division in Central Technical Services in the area of Six Sigma, Quality ,TPM,Plant simulation /new initiatives across the site. He is part of Technical services and currently working as MBB and Six-sigma & TPM deployment Manager at RIL,Jamnagar Refineries in addition to his current assignments. He has presented papers and participated six sigma projects in various national forums such as CHEMCON,Indian statistical institute. He also regularly coaches YB and GB waves. He has coached 500+ no. of persons in YBs training and 50+ no. of persons in GB training and mentored 40+ no. of GB projects along with self-execution of 04 BB Projects.Mr.Dipak Shukla is a recipient of ‘Ideator of the Month’ recognition from Reliance Industries Limited. Mr.Dipak Shukla is an associate member of ASQ and Member ASQ, Jamnagar LMC Chapter.

Professional with over 10 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Food Safety Management, Auditing, Training and Customer Relations with esteemed organizations like British Standards Institute (BSi), and Pest Control (India) Private Limited.

Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2008 QMS as well as ISO 22000:2005 FSMS. I am also an “Assessor” for CII-FACE National Food Safety Awards.

Presently, an Assistant Professor at YMT College of Management, Kharghar. Current role involves gap analysis, documentation and training to establish Quality Management System and achieve ISO 9001:2015 and NAAC accreditation apart from other academic responsibilities.

Hold a Bachelors degree in Microbiology and MBA (Marketing) from Dr. D.Y.Patil University.

Professor Virendra Shukla has over 35 years’ strategic experience in Industry with leading Business Groups like Godfrey Phillips - Phillip Morris , RPG Group , Mehta Group , Aditya Birla Group at Strategic Human Resources Management level . He is an Visiting Professor to KJ Somaiya Institute of Management and Research , Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. He has been a Faculty with SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai in the area of OB and HRM for 5 years and conducted MDPs in the areas of Leadership Development , Managerial Effectiveness , Performance Management , Emotional Intelligence , Personal Growth Lab and competency development for various organizations. Presently a Management Consultant for over 4 years to a $250 million Family Managed Corporation advising them on their Business Performance , HRM and CSR Strategies and Policies. A Management Educator and an Executive and Life Coach, he was a board member of an International Consulting organization from 1998 - 2006. A Business Excellence Examiner (RBNQA ) for Indian Merchants Chamber besides a Quality Improvement Assessor for Qimpro for over 2 decades. He is on the 2 Academic Advisory Boards of Management Institutions and adjunct Professor with TISS SVE besides a trainer and faciltator with HEI institutions in India

Currently Working as Sustainability Specialist in SABIC.
• Worked as Sr. Environmental Engineer, HAIF Company, Saudi Arabia
• Worked with M/s. Hindustan Zinc Ltd. (Vedanta Plc) as Head -Environment (Hydro metallurgical Zn Smelter 420000 MTPA Zn )
• Free lancer for promoting Environmental Education Activities
• An extensive experience in EHS Management in Petro-Chemical/Metallurgical/mining/power Plant with legal requirements, Ash Management, HSE-MIS, Monitoring, HW Management, water management, EHS management system implementation(ISO, OHSAS), Green Belt, CDM technologies etc.
• Facilitator for Achieving World Class Manufacturing in Industries and achieving Operational Excellence
• CDM Champion for Hydro Smelter
• Corporate Environmental and Business Excellence Trainer for Industries
• Certified Examiner for Quality for RBNQA for two years
• Successfully completed 15 Days Program on Business Excellence in Japan from 27th Jan 10 to 9th Feb 10. For Company Wide Environment Management for India
• Certified Examiner for CII-ITC Sustainability Awards
• Technical Expertise in Integrated Waste Management Approach
• National Expert in Clean Technology by Envis, Ministry of Env. & Forests (MoEF)
• Published more than 2 dozen papers in various National and International Conferences.