Sangita Sadafule

Vice President
Essel Mining & Industries Ltd. (Aditya Birla Group)

Her 24 years of journey in manufacturing industries includes 15+ years of experience at the top management level in MNCs. From setting up Greenfield units to holding responsibility for entire SBUs, her expertise spans general management with P&L responsibility, operational excellence, lean management, project management, legal compliance and new product lines start up. Exposure to different work cultures like Indian, European, American, and Chinese make her a truly global professional.

Santanu Satpathy

Head – Engineering
JK Tyre & Industries Ltd

Besides being a key member in setting up the Greenfield Plant at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai as well as all the major expansion thereafter, he went on to head the Engineering function of the Unit after its completion. Instrumental in implementation of advance asset management techniques and adopting Industry 4.0 for making the shop-floor reliable and predictable, he is also passionate about the Green and Sustainability initiatives.

Kapil Modi

Executive Plant Head
at Tata Steel BSL

This B Tech in Electronics Engineers from NIT Jamshedpur has more than 25+ years of experience in maintenance, project, TQM and operations. His experience in the field of Maintenance is approximately 14 years. At Tata Steel, he has played a key role in developing the Quality Assurance process for maintenance services. He has also successfully coordinated the Deming Grand Prize application & examination for Maintenance, Power & Utilities at Tata Steel in 2012.

Lakshmi Umapathy

Factory Manager
Caterpillar India Private Limited

A true woman manufacturing leader, she has over 27 years of experience in Plant Operations. Having started her career with Hindustan motors Limited, she has also worked with other manufacturing majors like Cummins, Schneider Electric India, Kurlon limited and Kirloskar Brothers Limited. Her work experience spans various departments like Production, Quality, Safety, Engineering, Logistics, Project Management, Utility & Maintenance, Business Development & Strategy as well as HR & Finance.

Manish Singhal

Business Director for General Industry, India
Henkel

He has had a long illustrious and inspiring career spanning 2.5 decades. He has worked in several companies starting from L&T as an area supervisor, Regional Sales Manager in Henkel, National Sales Manager in 3M, Business Development Manager in Kent and across various roles and capacities in Henkel since then for the past 7 years. In 2020, Manish got an additional responsibility as the Head of Sales and Excellence in EEIMEA (Eastern Europe, India, Middle East and Africa) in addition to his role of Business Director.

Ravi Ramarao

Chief Architect & Trusted Advisor
Digital Transformation & Manufacturing Excellence

He is the former Chief Architect – Industrie 4.0/IIoT/Smart Mfg Platform Solutions at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Pvt Ltd. Earlier, he was with Tata Consultancy Services for over 10 years as Manufacturing IT & Plant Solutions Business leader. Mr. Ramarao believes that the way forward is with Sensors, Software Solutions and Platform.

Chetan Shrivastav

Executive Director Manufacturing,
Dalmia Cement Bharat Ltd

A result oriented professional having 25 plus years of a successful career with diverse roles distinguished by commended performance and proven results. Expertise in Transforming and Driving Manufacturing units as well as Teams towards key strategic and operational success.

Ashok Muthuswamy

Vice President – TQM & BE
Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE)

With three decades of extensive experience in Manufacturing, Operations, Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Quality, and Project Management, he has turned around businesses, and has implemented strategic improvements positively impacting the bottom lines of various organizations. In his current role as the Vice President of TQM and BE at TAFE, he is responsible for the continuous improvement across multiple plants, products and processes of TAFE.

Lakshmi Narayanan Govindarajan

CITO|Head Business Excellence & Asset Integrity
Vedanta Resources Limited

With 18 years of experience in different functions like Operational Excellence (OE), Quality, Innovation & Asset Optimization, Business Excellence, as well as Digital Transformation, he has won several awards & accolades across various manufacturing sectors. Highly energetic & result oriented about exploring new ways of doing things by constantly Innovating and converting new learnings to actions, he enjoys the journey of transformation of culture as well as workplace.

S Devarajan (PED/Hos Devarajan)

Sr Vice President
TVS Motor Company

Winner of the prestigious ‘Rolls Royce’ award for excellence in manufacturing concepts and implementation in UK, he has been working with the TVS Group for the last 38 years. During this time, he has been involved in many projects including setting up facilities of press shop, welding shop, painting plants, heat treatment plant, machining of steel and aluminium engine parts, and assembly lines. Presently, he is the Head of Production Engineering and New Technology in the organisation.

V Venkatanarayan

Vice President - Digital Transformation Leader – GMO
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

Brijesh Kumar Verma

Digital Transformation Leader
Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles

An industry leader with more than 16 years of professional experience, he is currently heading the digital transformation practices at Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles. He has been accomplishing the value outcomes of large scale digital transformation programs and comes with strong industry background as well as domain knowledge of Manufacturing Enterprises.

Krunal Patel

Head - India and South Asia Region
TeamViewer

He has over 18 years of extensive experience in sales and business management. He has held key positions in several renowned companies in the technology and enterprise software industry such as SAP, Gartner, itelligence, and Esri to name a few.