TSR. Rajaguru Raja

MD

Raja has 37 years of experience managing textile plants globally. He has established businesses, turned-around plants, led turn-key projects and managed large textile operations. Advised leading mills in India, Indonesia and Bangladesh to develop growth strategy and execute. He has managed leading mills in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and South Africa and has been business head responsible for P&L of large textiles in Bangladesh. He has planned, developed business models, raised capital, built large scale textile plants in Bangladesh and Indonesia.

His key areas of expertise include

• Strategy development and execution
• Business Turnaround
• Managing Large Textile Operations
• Country Level Strategy formulation for the Textile Industry
• Establishing new business and scaling
• Developing leaders.

He holds MBA from University of Wales.

Ramakrishnan Janarthanan

CEO

Ramakrishnan Janarthanan has over 34 years of experience managing textile plants, establishing a business, turning around plants, managing turnkey projects and managed large textile operations. Prior to joining a consulting business, have managed leading mills in India, Africa, Canada, and the USA. Has been business head responsible for P and L of large textile operation in Canada and USA.

His key areas of expertise include:       

• Turnkey project management
• Turn around of large textile plants in different geographies
• Establishing and managing the business in different geographies
• Strategic, financial and marketing planning and execution for textile plants
• Product development
• Customer relationship management.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Textile Technology from PSG College of Technology, India

Raghu G

Director Corporate Affairs

Raghu G has over 32 years’ experience in operations, project strategy planning and implementation, costing and in-depth shop floor experience of Textile spinning of cotton and varies blends. Specialist in making value-added yarn and super fine yarns. Raghu G has worked with reputed spinning mills in various capacities in Operations and Customer Technical Services. Prior to consulting, worked in Machinery Marketing specialized in identifying new markets and customers. Since last 10 years working as a Technical consultant mainly focusing on Capacity building through Benchmarking and gained his expertise in International Projects.

He has attended many special programs regarding machinery, technology, quality enhancement, international quality management systems. He is an expert in system formulation, training, and implementation, Cost control and fine-tuning of administrative and control systems. Have done successful Quality and performance enhancement as well as cost-cutting measures..

His key areas of expertise include:

• Capacity building – benchmarking and gap analysis
• Management contract
• Turnkey project management
•  Business and economic viability reports for new & restructuring textile plants
• Designing and development of complete policy and system manuals

He carries a diploma in Textile Technology.

Padmanaban P

Region Head - Bangladesh & Vietnam

Padmanaban has over 30 years’ experience in operations, project strategy planning and implementation, costing, and in-depth shop floor experience of textile spinning of cotton and blends and in managing the textile spinning plant in South Asia and South East Asia. Specialist in making value-added yarn and fancy yarns. Since last 10 years working as a management consultant mainly focus on Capacity building through Benchmarking and gained his expertise in Project planning, operation consulting. He has been a part of the team to visit various Textile mills for assessment and auditing in national and International locations.

He has done extensive market research to develop new products in the area of special yarn for value-added shirtings and suitings, especially for Raymonds, Siyarams and Bombay Rayon. He has attended a special program at Cotton Inc. USA to get familiar about Engineered Fibre Selection (EFS) system for USDA cotton. As a Head of the operations he turn-around many underperforming and sick spinning units into a profitable and best performing units in the market. He has attended a program at Cotton school, Texas, USA to master about cotton selection and ICE, NY operations.

His key areas of expertise include:

• Capacity building – benchmarking and gap analysis
• System formulation, training, and implementation
• Cost control and fine-tuning of administrative and control systems
• Management contract
• Turnkey project management
• Business and economic viability reports for new & restructuring textile plants
• Designing and development of complete policy and system manuals

He carries a diploma in Textile Technology.

Mukul Kapoor

Synthetics - Global

Mukul Kapoor is a veteran with 40 years of experience in polyester projects including construction, commissioning, manufacturing and sustainability. He was associated with the Indorama group and has lead polyester project and manufacturing teams as a site head of Purwakarta unit from 2005 to 2017. He has managed the largest polyester manufacturing plant in Indonesia. It included management of 200 hectares site and 7 projects namely; 900 TPD CP, PSF, POY, FDY, DTY, SSP (Biggest in ASEAN).

His key areas of expertise include:

• Operation excellence
• Leveraging human resources
• Business value enhancement
• Community engagement
• Manufacturing & Management Strategic Positioning and Comprehensive Planning
• Leveraging Regional Capabilities

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Textile Chemistry from TIT- Bhiwani, India.

 

Subramania Suresh K

Region Head - Indonesia

Suresh has over 30 years’ experience in managing Textile Spinning plants in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa. Has extensive knowledge in the Textile spinning of cotton varies blends in Ring as well as Rotor and a Specialist in coarse to super fine yarns and fancy yarns. He has all-around expertise in planning, building, operating and transferring large textile plants. He has been part of the team leading a large composite unit comprising spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing. Since last 10 years involved in consulting as a project leader and managed multiple projects under his leadership. Planned, built, operated and transferred 100,000 spindle mill in Bangladesh. Introduced new value-added products and implemented engineered raw material selection to improve profitability. Modernized and expanded the projects under his leadership in Indonesia.

His key areas of expertise include

• Capacity building – benchmarking and gap analysis
• System formulation and implementation
• Energy saving & Cost control
• Plant relocation
• Project planning and execution

He carries a diploma in Textile Technology.

Sarathy TG

Region Head - India

Sarathy has experience in operations, project planning and execution, systems formulation and implementation. He is a specialist in coarse, superfine, compact and fancy yarns. He has worked with leading spinning mills up to director level in India and Thailand. He planned, implemented, operated and transferred 200,000 spindles modern mill in Andhra Pradesh, India and lead the NSL group as Head of Technical. He has been part of the team leading a large composite unit comprising spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing. He also has expertise in automated plants with minimum workforce. 

His key areas of expertise include:

• Group technical audit
• Introduction of cost-effective in costing and SAP operations
• Introduction of new value-added products.
• Raw material selection
• Human resources management
• ISO and 5S Japanese work culture

He is an associate member of the Institution of Engineers in textile engineering. He carries a diploma in textile technology and has an MBA in Human Resources Management.

 

A K Guru

Spinning Subject Matter Expert - Global

A.K Guru has a broad experience of 32 years in the field of operations management and project execution of textile spinning mills in India. He has vast experience in turning around textile mills in India and Indonesia. He has been in the Textile Consulting services for the past 10 years. He has successfully managed various projects like Gap analysis, Capacity building through benchmarking, Turnkey project management in India, Ethiopia, Indonesia and West Africa. He was part of the strategic planning and development of Textile industrial parks in West Africa. 

His key areas of expertise include

• Managing operations
• Implementing systems
• Capacity building and benchmarking
• Turnkey project management
• Strategic planning

He carries a diploma in Textile Technology and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration.

 

Jitendra Yadav

Head of Strategy - Global

Extensive experience with international apparel retailers, manufacturers in the supply chain, quality, and consulting roles. Jitendra's expertise is in management consulting in the textile and apparel industry. He has worked with leading international apparel retailers and successfully executed operations management projects with international apparel manufacturers, international textile value chain stakeholders. His other engagements include working with Govt. of India for policy formulation and implementation among other projects.

His key areas of expertise include

• Competitive Analysis and landscaping
• Business Strategy
• Operations Consulting (Garments)
• Government Advisory

He holds a Bachelor degree in Fashion Technology from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India

Sakthi Balachandran M

Region Head - East & Sub Saharan Africa

M. Sakthi Balachandran has 25 years of experience in the Weaving Operations and Technical Consultancy. Handled the high volume operations with different product ranges including Denim, Bed Linen / Sheeting, Home textiles, Yarn Dyed Shirting and  Furnishing fabrics. Expertized in overall operations including Production, Maintenance, Quality, Inspection, Compliance, Costing support, Planning and Control. 

His key areas of expertise include:

•       Weaving Operations Management and Technical Consultancy.

•       Project Management – Planning, Installation, Commissioning and Operations.

•       Process Improvement and Technical Training.

•       Capacity Building and Cost Saving Projects Implementation.

•       Certified ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor (QMS) by CQI & IRCA. (TUV NORD CERT GmbH.)

•       Machinery Maintenance and Troubleshooting Management. 

•       Protocol and Compliance Specialist.

•       Working knowledge in Yarn, Fabric, Textile Designs, Planning, Finishing, Testing, Quality and Inspection.

He is technically qualified in Textile Technology.

Dr G Nagarajan

Sr. Technologist - Strategy - Global

Dr Nagarajan has a vast experience of 35 years in textiles, working in the industry, academia as well as research. He has published more than 15 research papers in national and international journals and 3 textile books. He has presented his research studies in various technological conferences held in India. He has traveled across the globe working and providing consultations to mills and institutions. He has been well received and appreciated by the Ministry of Industries & Commerce of Ethiopia for improving the quality of the yarns to Uster 5% level.

 

His area of expertise:

•Strategy consulting

•Maintenance & Quality improvement study in cotton, polyester, polyester blends spinning

•Analyzing and interpreting patterns and trends

•Analyzing past reports for insights

 

He holds a Ph.D. in Textile Technology.

Rajesh Pandiyan

Spinning Subject Matter Expert - Global

Rajesh is a result oriented professional with 22 years of extensive experience in Reputed Spinning Mills in India, Bangladesh and Indonesia. He has profound knowledge in the area of Process control, Machinery Maintenance and Quality assurance. He has participated in many training programs conducted by stalwarts in the industry,

 

His area of expertise:

•Planning and preventive schedules of maintaining various machineries and Instruments to increasing machine up time and longtime reliabilities

•Knowledge of planning manpower & Machinery for achieving the targeted Quality oriented production

•Interacting with the quality department for defect preventive measurements and defect detection techniques and further involving in corrective action implementation.

•Implementing annual improvement plans for process re-engineering work, Technical supports to projects expansion and implementing new projects.

 

He is technically qualified in Textile Technology.

MD. Ziaul Hossain Chowdhury

Project Manager

Md.Ziaul Hossain Chowdhury has more than 23 years of experience in layout planning, Engineering and implementation, and in-depth shop floor experience in the maintenance of utility and textile machineries.

 

Prior to consulting, he has worked with reputed Textile mills as AGM-Engineering in Utility and services in Asian countries. Currently, he is working as a Project manager in TTS with special focus on project planning and consulting.

 

His key areas of expertise Include:

•Project design and supervision of layout planning, construction, installation, commissioning, regular preventive and predicative maintenance & smooth operation of utility machineries.

•All kind of spinning, weaving and dyeing machineries.

•Managed development works of Textile industries.

•Design, drawing, estimation, construction supervision, installation supervision, operation and  maintenance of various types of Textile industry as well as Green field projects.

 

He carries a Diploma in Power Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.