Globally competitive manufacturing on Indian soil- real life successful experiences - 2 Jan 2021

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GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE MANUFACTURING ON INDIAN SOIL-

REAL LIFE SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCES, LEARNINGS, IDEAS 6:00 PM

Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Opening Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd

Address by the Speaker Mr Sarbajit Ghose

Mr Sarbajit Ghose Executive Director, CIEL Textile Ltd, Asia &

Executive Director, CIEL Textile Ltd, Asia &

Managing Director, Laguna Clothing LLP

Managing Director, Laguna Clothing LLP

Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees

SATURDAY

Mr A N Chandramouli

JAN 2, 2021 | 6.00 PM

Former Managing Director Starrag Heckert Machine Tools Pvt Ltd

Mr Venky Nagan Group CEO Asmara International Ltd, Hongkong

Mr T V Thyagha Rajon Consultant, Coach & Mentor

Share your questions by SMS/Whatsapp to 98401 23906

7:45 PM

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SPEAKER

SARBAJIT GHOSE Sarbajit Ghose is the Executive Director, Asia, of CIEL Textile Ltd. and a member of the Board of Directors.

CIEL Textile is a $400 million, textile and apparel business, with 20 manufacturing units present in multiple countries.

He is also the Managing Director of Laguna Clothing, a joint venture with Tessitura Monti of Italy, exporting premium shirts.

Before this, Sarbajit has worked with the Unilever group and with the Tatas.

He is a mechanical engineer with an MBA for IIM Ahmedabad.

SPECIAL

INVITEES

A N CHANDRAMOULI

V BALARAMAN MBA from IIM Ahmedabad

In his over 4 decades of Industrial career, A.N.Chandramouli has held many Leadership positions in diverse industries such

Former MD of Ponds’ Former export Director of Hindustan Lever

as Machine Tools (Starrag, Makino), Electrical Industry (Lapp, Cooper),

Consumer

Durables

(Amtrex

Hitachi

appliances),

Consumer products (Unilever- Ponds division), Trucks ( Tata

Was independent director on Nokia, Mahindra World city;

Motors).

Polaris; Mother Dairy New Delhi; Intellect Design Arena Ltd

Chandramouli superannuated as the MD of Starrag India, and Chairman of CAMS; Chairman of Footwear Design and Development Institute.

now it’s Board Member since June 2017. In this capacity, he set up a State of Art manufacturing facility and Technology

Currently on Delphi TVS and India Nippon Electricals Ltd

center

in

Bangalore

Aerospace

Park,

and

established

the

Past President of MMA.

famous WMW brand of Horizontal Machining Centers with a significant local content under Make-In-India vision. Prior to Starrag, he was holding position as CEO of Makino India, a Japanese MNC in machine tools.

Now

Chandramouli

has

established

his

own

Independent

Management Consultancy and he is coaching, advising and mentoring

Startup

manufacturing, Conducting

ventures

Training

awareness

and

in on

Industrial

IoT,

in

Operational

training

seminars,

Aerospace Excellence, experiential

tours and webinars in Industry 4.0, Sales training for machine tool companies, and Management academia.

Chandramouli is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Trichy (RECT) @ 1979, and Post Graduate in Management from IIMC (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)@1984.

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VENKY NAGAN

T V THYAGHA RAJON

Venky Nagan has a B.E (Hons) Mechanical Engg from BITS Pilani and MBA from the IIM Calcutta.

He

is

International

Group Ltd.,

global-sourcing

C.E.O

Hong &

of

Kong,

exports

Asmara

involved of

in

fashion

apparel from Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, India, Indonesia and Turkey. To manage the and

Supply

Chain

activities

for

an

Footwear

8-year

stint

with

Exports

Division

of

the

Leather

Pond’s

India

Set up a formal suits factory for Gokaldas Images at Bangalore in a JV with Oxford

Bangalore

Coaching based

&

FMCG

Mentoring: start-ups

Currently

and

mentoring

Teaching

few

few

elective

subjects in Management Institutes in India Managing P& L of varied SBUs from business leadership positions

Focus in Strategy formulation, Managing People & Projects in Retail & FMCG domains

Worked for Norwest Industries and Asmara International Ltd in Hong Kong and Mainland China for 10 years. China remains a topic of

·

organizations - 17yrs (NN Fems,Tech Nova, Shop24Seven, HTMT),

Key Achievements: Conceptualization, piloting, rolling out & managing specialty formats such as:

interest for Venky. also

Organizations Served: Reliance Retail and other retail Unilever (Pond’s, Nepal Lever, HLL) - 15 yrs, Larsen & Toubro - 2 yrs.

Industries USA.

stationed

at

Bangladesh

for

2

Vision Express, Office Depot & Timeout stores within Reliance Retail;

years.

Have

Consulting,

Creating and Managing specialty retail formats

Ltd.

Was

Career Summary:

in India, Nepal &Nigeria

leading retail fashion brands.

Had

B E (Hons) from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai - 1981 PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 1985

the

Design

Education:

also

Cambodia,

done Sri

intense

Lanka,

and Egypt.Group.

groundwork

Myanmar,

at

Ethiopia,

Cash Club (based on Sam's Club business model) for Technova India; Starting up Shop 24 Seven Channel & Stores (Teleshopping) for HTMT; Managing Hallmark Cards stores retail chain in India; Concept creation & piloting work for Sangam retail of HLL.

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