About Me

Highly accomplished executive management professional with over 3 decades, of experience in heavy engineering, manufacturing and trading industries, working at present as Managing Director. He has extensive experience of Africa, India, South East Asia, USA and UK.

MBA followed by Doctoral degree (PhD) in Corporate Finance, offering multifaceted experience in operations, sales, marketing & commercial functions with major companies internationally. Have the distinction of setting and turning around business, business diversification & creating revenue streams, consulting on business projects, winning financiers' confidence on projects,embracing new technologies, providing supply chain solutions, etc. Additionally he is experienced in heading University level administration for world class Universities. He is widely travelled.

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Career

My experience is concentrated in manufacturing and general Business Management Activities. I have improved production and profit. I have about 34 years of work experience, with over 24 years of management experience, including at leadership level positions.

I have over 31 years of experience in industry in operation, commercial, sales, marketing and at board level. I have held board membership, non executive directorship, adviser and consultant to a number of major companies. As head of operation I have reduced cost and increased production on long term basis based on innovation in process and encouraging product innovation. I have increased profit on sustained basis. I am trained in technology identification and making them useful. I support innovation in all aspects in a company. I have been head of factory, marketing, trading and technology transfer and business development. I have recently done a project in Accra for Education promotion.

I have helped to revive loss making businesses and set up new factories and businesses. I have successfully negotiated transfer of technology in to India with European and North American companies. I have helped to make many small and large projects accepted by international funding agencies. As CEO I was involved in making financial consortium of I billion USD for IT Park project for a Local Government. I was also consultant to ADB Bank for a year.

Social Service: I have helped academics mainly in management education. Even as Vice Chancellor I have improved the standard of University taking lower remuneration for about 10 years in academics.

What I can bring with me

I shall bring in the skill of reducing cost at all levels not always reducing working staff. I shall bring my experience of handling union and ability to streamline production. I will be able to introduce the thinking among staff to innovate and produce goods and services which others will copy. I shall bring in negotiating skills which will help to develop business in all markets. I shall reduce the stress factor in the organization which will ensure better quality of output. I shall make the organization grow not always by takeover. Being MBA in finance I shall help to reduce cost of capital and improved asset utilisation.

Industries Worked

Industry

Previous (28 years) In Gillanders Industries worked
Gillanders Arbuthnot
  • Vice President @ Gilanders Arbuthnot & Co Ltd, (Ogilvy Gillanders Ltd., UK)
  • Made report to set up new factory - implemented in the form of actually setting up factories in India and Dublin. This report apart from covering the technical aspect had Training of HR and planning and scheduling for implementing modern method of production included in the report.
  • Identified new areas of business in the area of personal utility of industrial durables. Visited several countries engaging agencies for conducting market surveys for finding out the impact of consumer habits and preferences.
  • Prepared complete report after detailed study of existing system in Palghat Municipality, Kerala, which was approved by the cabinet. It was the basis for introduction of controls by IBM.
Hyward Walde Ltd., (Tin Refining) Gillanders
  • Tin manufacturing
  • All commercial and handling suppliers like Tinplate and all authorities related to tin. Aso communicate with Dealers in metal market.
Waldies Ltd. (part of Cookson Group, UK). Gillanders
  • Commercial activities, dispatch, excise, liaison with branches and large customers like Dunlop, pain companies.
  • Chemical manufacturing: Pigments for tyre and paint companies.
Kalamazoo PLC in India a Division of Gillanders
  • Was in Kalamazoo Plc factory at UK. Went through all the aspect of manufacturing, operation, procurement, accounts and some large suppliers of components. It was a large operation with 2500 workers.
  • Manufacturing-Assembly line for mechanical products.
  • Setting up factory in Calcutta and Dublin.
  • Cost control and system development.
  • Advance planning and scheduling with planning required for optimisation.
  • Supply chain management for ensuring CRM.
  • Inventory control.
  • Chairman of labour negotiating committee.
  • Negotiations with companies and government for large orders.
  • Strategy development for division for sustained growth.
  • Innovative thinking used for problem solving.
  • My main job as factory manager was to increase production and reduce cost which I achived.
Aluminium Division- Gillanders
  • Aluminium fabrication & Extrusion every job was different.
  • From procurement of Ingots from Hindustan Aluminium and open market to production.
  • Negotiated large sales deals with Metal Box, large utensil manufactures and all containers manufactures in India.
AdVance Supply chain Solutions , Singapore
  • Management Consultancy & Consultant to ADB Bank most of the consultancy was to improve discrete production in automobile and assembly line companies.
  • Projects. Handling large infrasture projects such as city and factoryfactory building.
  • Prepared project reports for green field new business covering Market report, finance and business strategy for IT park at Jharkhand.
Consultancy projects handled in AdVance
  • Involved in development of IT city concept on 200sqmiles land with financing model of USD 1 Billion.
  • Prepared Negotiation document and report with MEAS OPAS, BASF, Bayer's, Hays Technology, USA for technology of Self-Copy Paper, Videotapes in 1983.
  • Prepared complete strategy document which was the basis for Negotiation for technologies for the manufacture of Special adhesives in India, 1984.
  • Drafted Technology collaboration document for large paper manufacturers, including Orient Paper, Circar Paper Mills, Yash Paper and Triveni Paper, and also negotiated such deals, 1984.
  • Complete planning for UK and Ireland factories of Kalamazoo PLC for increase in their productivity.
  • Prepared Project report for Technology transfer from USA companies; include United Technologies, E. Maerck (for departmental store chain), India Desk Officer of Ohio, Northrop Grumman and Fluor Daniel.
  • Made complete project report and established a new composite project for manufacture of Computer stationery and forms in India.
  • Re-layout plan and implementation of a factory for setting up operations which reduced cost by 15% and increased production by 30%. This achievement was recognised by the industry.
  • Developed specimen signature system for Banks as a security system. These projects involved system study information layout, training and implementation.
  • Implemented School systems report for students from O level to Masters and institute level.
  • Prepared Sales control and marketing information system Report in mega steel plant which was later computerized. All these were actually implemented.
  • Information Technology - Software Industry - Enzyme Article- It talks about the Dilemma of this industry to strike a balance between cost and availability of application applications and how to address it.
  • Use of IT tool such as ERP & Supply Chain Management for Project in Industry.
  • Negotiation methodology to be adopted with the workers while dealing with large organisation for completion of projects in time.

Position Held

Recent

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Vice Chancellor
Techno Global University ( Current)

Set up the University.

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Managing Director
Disha Education Ltd ( 2 Years)

Make the organization profitable and setup Skill development programme.

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Dean and HOS of Management Faculty
Lovely Professional University ( 2 Years)
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Dean & Director
Techno India Group (6 years)

Brought industry closer to management education and persuaded industries to participate in the process of education.

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Director in charge
Jessop Ltd. Kolkata, India

Restarted production and established 70% capacity utilization.

Reduced labour tension and political interference and making them to agree to one union President for all the unions

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Director of Tea Company.
Tengpani Tea Limited the best Tea producing company in India
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CEO (India)
Advance Supply Chain Solutions Pte Ltd. - Singapore (6 years)

Set up the company's operations in India and developed market for large consultancy in IT, ERP & Infrastructure.

Improved operation of Toyota pant in China and set up system for purchase for a few companies in Guangzhou.

Did give training for 56 medium companies on operation and strategy under Singapore Technologies.

Organisations Worked Experience

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Manufacturing 28 Years
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University Level Education over 10 years

Doctoral Level study Undertaken

  • Prepared project reports for green field new business covering Market report, finance and business strategy for IT park at Jharkhand.

  • Made Project report for setting up of Handicraft Park in Kolkata where about 2000 N0s of small entrepreneurs were to be housed in the park. This park would have all common facilities and marketing centres for domestic and international customers. This Park would provide advanced communication facilities and Bank.

  • Made Project report with three ‘D’ CD and financing proposal for IT Park in a state of India. The total financial consortium done was for USD$ 1 Billion. The consortium members were Sembcom, Singapore, Capita Ltd, UK,Thermoselect, USA.

  • When with Kalamazoo- Gillanders

    Made report to set up new factory. This report was implemented by me in the form of actually setting up factories in India and Dublin. This report apart from covering the technical aspect had Training of HR and planning and scheduling for implementing modern method of production.

  • Identified new areas of business in the area of personal utility of industrial durables. I had to visit several countries engaging agencies for conducting market surveys for finding out the impact of consumer habits and preferences.

  • I made complete report after detailed study of existing system in Palghat Muncipality, Kerala which was approved by the cabinet. It was the basis for introduction of controls by IBM.

  • Made a report -Analysis of the causes of labour absenteeism in India with particular reference to West Bengal. The findings were implemented which resulted in 50 % improvement in results.

Consultancy Projects completed

  • Negotiation document and report made with MEAS OPAS, BASF, Bayer’s,Hays Technology, USA for technology of Self-Copy Paper, Videotapes in 1983

  • Complete strategy document made which was the basis for Negotiation for technologies for the manufacture of Special adhesives in India. 1984

  • Technology collaboration document made for large paper manufacturers,including Orient Paper, Circar Paper Mills, Yash Paper and Triveni Paper. He also negotiated such deals. 1984

  • Complete plan was made for UK and Ireland factories of Kalamazoo PLC for increase in their productivity.

  • Project report was prepared for Technology transfer from USA companies; include United Technologies, E. Maerck (for departmental store chain), India Desk Officer of Ohio, Northrop Grumman and Fluor Daniel.

  • Re-layout plan was made and implemented of a factory for setting up operation which reduced cost by 15% and increased production by 30%. This achievement was recognised by the industry.

  • Developed specimen signature system for Banks as a security system. These projects involved system study information layout, training and implementation.

  • Sales control and marketing information system Report in mega steel plant which was later computerized. All these were actually implemented.

  • Information Technology-Software Industry- Enzyme Article- It talks about the Dilemma of this industry to strike a balance between cost and availability of application applications and how to address it.

  • Use of IT tool such as ERP & Supply Chain Management for Project in Industry.

  • Negotiation methodology to be adopted with the workers while dealing with large organisation for completion of projects in time.

  • I have also handled IT city project for government.