Our Team
A TEAM YOU CAN ENTRUST YOUR BUSINESS WITH
Rajaguru Raja
Managing Director
MBA – Wales University, UK, Diploma in Textile Technology
Have over 32 years of experience managing plants in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa.
- Raja has over 32 years of experience managing textile plants, establishing a business, turning around plants, managing turnkey projects and managed textile operations with USD 200 million turnovers.
- Prior to establishing a consulting business, have managed leading mills in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and South Africa. Has been business head responsible for P&L of large textile operation in Bangladesh.
- 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
- Developing people to lead business units independently
Raghu G.
Senior Partner
Diploma in Textile Technology
Over 32 years of experience in managing the textile spinning plant in India. Expertise 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.
- 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 4 years working as a Technical consultant mainly focusing on Capacity building through Benchmarking and gained his expertise in International Projects.
- He has been part of a team to develop Business and Economic Viability Reports for New & Restructuring Textile Projects (Spinning, Weaving manufacturing unit).
- He has been part of a team to design and develop complete policy manuals and system manuals, Training, and implementation.
- He has attended many special programs regarding machinery, technology, quality enhancement, international quality management systems.
Ramakrishna Janarthanan
Senior Partner – Chief Operating Officer
B Tech – Textile Technology (PSG College of Technology)
Have over 34 years of experience managing plants in India, Africa, Canada and USA
- Rama 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&L of large textile operation in Canada and USA.
- 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
Arivarasu K
Senior Partner
B Tech – PSG College of Technology, India
Over 33 years of experience as Consultant, Project Leader, Entrepreneur and Service Engineer of textile machinery. Expertise in handling projects from Cotton to Garments across Asia and Africa, Benchmarking, Assessment, and execution of projects.
- Arivarasu possesses over 33 years of expertise in the textile field from Cotton to Garments. Was a service engineer for spinning, weaving, knitting machinery.
- Trained in Europe on textile machinery installation & service and handled many new project installations in India.
- Owned textile units manufacturing of fabrics & garments, exporting to leading brands in Europe
- As a consultant, handled projects across Asia and Africa for capacity building through benchmarking.
- Designed & developed systems in handling projects from concept to completion.
- Has done techno Economic Feasibility of the textile plant for specific countries.
- As a Team player, inspires teammates in working towards a valued goal.
Padmanaban
Partner
Diploma in Textile Technology
Over 30 years of experience in managing the textile spinning plant in South Asia and South East Asia. Expertise in system formulation, Training, and Implementation. Cost control and fine-tuning of administrative and control systems. Have done successful performance enhancement assignments and capacity building through Benchmarking.
- 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. Specialist in making value-added yarn and fancy yarns.
- Padmanaban has worked for 30 years with many reputed spinning mills in Operations and Customer Technical Services. Prior to consulting he has worked in projects in various Indian and international assignments with a focus on Asian countries.
- Since last 4 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 been part of the team to develop Business and Economic Viability Reports for New & Restructuring Textile Projects (Spinning, Weaving manufacturing unit) with Project cost varying from 20 Crores to 500 Crores.
- He has been part of the team to design and develop complete policy manuals and system manuals, Training, and implementation in the various Spinning unit in National and International.
- 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.
Subramania Suresh K
Partner
Diploma in Textile Technology
Over 30 years of experience Managing Textile Spinning plants in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa. Expertise in Projects, Systems formulation, and implementation, Bench marking, Energy Saving, Cost control, Gap analysis & Turn around of the textile plants
- Suresh has over 30 years’ experience in operations, Project planning, and execution, Systems formulation, and implementation, Benchmarking, Energy saving, Cost control and Turn around the Loss-making plants to profitable one. Knowledge in the Textile spinning of cotton varies blends in Ring as well as Rotor. Specialist in course to super fine yarns and fancy yarns.
- Suresh has worked with Leading spinning mill in various capacities in Operations and Managed mills in India, Indonesia & Bangladesh.
- He has all-around expertise in planning, building, operating and transferring large textile plants. Specialized in the relocation of a textile mill.
- He has been part of the team leading a large composite unit comprising spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing.
- Since last four years involved in consulting as a project leader and managed multiple projects under his leadership.
- Benchmarked, planned, executed a turn around of spinning projects in Indonesia.
- 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.
Mukul Kapoor
Senior Partner
Bachelor of Engineering - Textile Chemistry
Has over 40 years of experience managing polyester fiber, filament, DTY and twisting operations. Managed largest polyester manufacturing plant in Indonesia.
- Manufacturing & Management: acquired consulting proficiency by managing a large Industrial complex with US$ 750 million/annum turnover. Subsequent Consulting improvements posted at multibusiness complexes. Leveraging Human Resources: fully exposed to building and implementing successful models for effective engagement, development, and empowerment of the workforce.
- Operational Excellence: led 6,000 strong workforces to achieve manufacturing excellence through enhanced operational & cost efficiencies. Continuous environment improvement with 100% compliant PROPER certifications
- Leveraging Human Resources: fully exposed to building and implementing successful models for effective engagement, development, and empowerment of the workforce.
- Business Value Enhancement: continued focus on sustainable and profitable growth through product & vendor development and cost saving initiatives.
- Strategic Positioning and Comprehensive Planning: highly skilled at process & product re-engineering to maximize benefits to stakeholders.
- Leveraging Regional Capabilities: positive and progressive engagement with Government bodies at regional & national levels.
- Community Engagement: implementing & managing successful models for community education & entrepreneurship.
