A dynamic, result-oriented leader with a strong track record of performance in Hero Moto Corp Ltd, the world number 1 two wheeler company. A competent professional with more than 3 decades of multifaceted engineering, project management, new model development, plant operations, and corporate quality management in the automobile industry.
Self-driven, respected for uncompromised integrity, and practitioner of building strong working relationships with all stakeholders both internally and externally. Currently working as Chief Quality Officer, Hero MotoCorp Limited. His prime responsibilities include
- Development & implement a Global Quality management system;
- Creating a structure for Global Talent management and quality excellence;
- Fostering Quality improvement culture in the organization so as to continually improve product, process and system and consistently exceeding expectations for the highest level of customer satisfaction;
- Delivering an enhanced value to our customers by capturing, understanding, and fulfilling their ever-changing needs, and consistently exceeding expectations for the highest level of satisfaction;
- Managing readressal of Quality issues for internal and external customer satisfaction;
- Driving digital innovation across the quality ecosystem;
Core Competencies
- Hands on experience in New model development, managing plant operations and ensuring global level quality end to end quality in value chain.
- Focused approach for developing and implementing manufacturing strategy for market demand fulfilment across products and geographies.
- Competent in augmenting bottom-line by leveraging cost reduction initiatives and improvement projects to curtail manufacturing cost.
- Expertise in manufacturing of high quality products to create operations as competitive advantage and to surge customer satisfaction.
- Firm believer in strengthening employee engagement by fostering teamwork, competency development and skill enhancement.
- Pragmatic approach to collective bargaining with labour union in a highly volatile IR environment.
- Personal Interests
- Community Service to add value to someone’s life and helping under-privileged for a better tomorrow.
- Sharing Values with peers to refresh their memories on his/her responsibility towards larger society.
Adrian has spent over 20 years in customer-facing positions ranging from sales and marketing, to fulfilment and account management. His career focus has been on problem solving and development within emerging and rapid growth segments to enable customer success across a wide range of industries from Hi Tech to Retail and Logistics and across multiple disciplines such as Supply Chain, Manufacturing Simulation and Analytics.
Kiran DIVEKAR is currently working as Director of Business Planning for Dassault Systemes India. In his role, he is responsible for building a multi-year business plan and strategy for the entire Dassault Systèmes solution portfolio to target the markets in India spanning across all multiple industries like Automotive, Aerospace, CPG, etc.
Kiran Divekar was heading the manufacturing portfolio with DELMIA brand and has worked very closely with customers like TATA Motors, Ashok Leyland, Mahindra, Hero MotoCorp, Havells and ITC. He has promoted and worked extensively in implementing the Smart Factory/Industrie4.0 & Digital Manufacturing initiatives with these customers.
During his stint in R&D, Kiran worked with Global customers like Boeing, Toyota, Airbus and Embraer. His contribution with Boeing on the 787 Dreamliner program played a key role in designing the solution for Boeing for their Manufacturing Planning and Shop Floor Applications. Kiran has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from UVCE, Bangalore, Master of Technology (M Tech) in Design Engineering from IIT Delhi and a MBA from Michigan State University, USA
SHUNMUGAVEL Ramaswamy is a senior member of Manufacturing Business Transformation at Dassault Systèmes India Pvt Ltd, helping organizations to strategize their smart manufacturing & Industry 4.0 initiatives and helping them deploy digital transformation solutions to achieve manufacturing excellence. Shun has held a variety of management positions within Dassault Systèmes over the past 20 years in India, predominantly in R&D and in business development.
Sanjeev R has 12+ years of background in Supply chain, Digital Manufacturing & Operations, and Product Lifecycle Management Space. Sanjeev is serving as a Business Consultant at Dassault Systemes, leading a team of experts & consultants in supply chain & manufacturing domains and helping organizations to strategize the smart manufacturing & Industry 4.0 initiatives focusing on the segments of Sales & Operations, Digital continuity, Operations management, lean manufacturing & logistics optimization across different industries.
Prior to this role, he was working in the capacity of a Solution Architect and an Industry consultant on digital manufacturing for domains such as Aerospace & Defense, High Tech, Transportation & Mobility, and Infrastructure industries.
Sanjeev holds a Masters Degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing & Bachelors' degree in Mechanical Engineering and has an industry experience of more than 12 years.