Experience

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  Voltas limited - a tata enterprise

  Jan 1977 - Jan 1985

  Manager-north zone

  Business profitability/ margin. Responsible for executing over 200 concurrent medium to mega air-conditioning and refrigeration projects from inception to commissioning spanning hotels, hospitals, industrial, offices, and homes. I learnt profound lessons in understanding humaneness, unimpeachable integrity, honesty, uncompromising quality, timeliness, and commitment from Tatas. Tata’s ethical values in business: If value makes us wealthy, values we regularly assume, and assert are what make us human. Ethical values are all about making people human. What comes from people must go back to people. Voltas revenue: USD 2 billion. Show less

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  Usha breco limited

  Jan 1985 - Jan 1986

  General manager

  Innovated and introduced modern adaptive project management PERT- CPM time, quality, cost management techniques that evolved Usha into India’s leading organization in ropeway, material handling, firefighting mega- projects domain. Usha Breco garnered leadership market position. Responsible for all ropeway and material handling businesses in India /overseas.

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  United technologies - carrier

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1993

  Director marketing

  Responsibilities: P&L, Green field start-up, sales, marketing, servicing HVACR operations in India, South Asia and Singapore. Reporting 5 business unit heads.Invited by Chairman as founding member of start up team. Scaled up start up to leadership. Innovations: Global first heat reclaim machines for hotels, hybrid, franchise turnkey projects partnerships.

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  Aircommand group (mitsubishi heavy industries japan, toyotomi japan, condyne, usa)

  Jan 1993 - Feb 1997

  Group president and ceo

  Responsibilities: Global P&L, Start up, collaborations, public listing.Listed 3 companies. Believer that " plausible impossibility is better than convincing possibility". Mitsubishi generated huge order book prior to launch. Toyotomi low power first portable air conditioner was concept innovation that turned on masses. Condyne energy saver excited government , media and consumer as a huge energy saving solution- Alibaba in energy starved India.

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  Mettube sdn bhd ( jv of metdist group and mitsubishi materials japan)

  Mar 1997 - now

  Director and board director

  Responsible for global P&L and business operation in 25 countries.MetTube is leading provider of high technology copper tubes for HVACR industry. Founded in 1991 as JV between Metdist group and Mitsubishi materials, Japan. Metdist is one of 14 principle ring members at LME UK (annual trade USD 14 trillion).Transformed commodity ( HVACR copper tube) business to a technology- service niche business by unique team innovations through deft fusing of technology, quality service, sustainability. Part of team that scaled start up to premium exclusive brand with global presence with 250 OEMs in 4 continents. 24/7 100% capacity utilization for 20 years, 4 expansions to over 500% growth, new energy business unit creation, global - first innovations through heat transfer technologies, deep value marketing, enthralling service lead to 30-50% premium over world's best. First 50:50 value sharing concept, 100% customer share of business in North America at high premium and zero ppm supply performance.MetTube became globally first premium brand to deliver these new performance benchmarks and gain substantial share serving distant NA/ EUROPE markets in HVACR seasonal business via unique unmatched value creation.Won several best / unique awards including: United technologies- Gold, Nordyne, Panasonic, Hitachi, Daikin, LG , Fredrich and others. Show less