The bench

Seven practitioners. Every one an operator first.

Nobody here learned manufacturing from a case study. The people who diagnose your constraint are the people standing on the line when it is fixed — which is only possible because the bench is deliberately small.

18+ yrs
on the floor

VJ

Vishnu Jayakumar

Practice lead

Manufacturing excellence & applied AI. Eighteen years across manufacturing operations and improvement programmes, now leading the applied-AI practice. Full time on this business.

R

Ramesh

Practice lead

Manufacturing & quality excellence. Lean, Six Sigma and quality systems installed on live lines, with a bias for daily management over documentation.

N

Naveen

Practice lead

Sustainability, EHS & ESG. Energy and utility cost reduction first, then the compliance systems — HIGG FEM, ZDHC, ISO 14001 and 45001.

16 yrs
on the floor

AG

Ankush Gupta

Practice lead

Digital transformation, ERP & workforce systems. ERP selection and rollout, shop-floor data capture and the change management that decides whether either lands.

20 yrs
on the floor

PC

Pravin Chaudhari

Practice lead

Polymer process & product engineering. Formulation, compounding and process windows, and the project engineering that turns a specification into a running line.

S

Sathish

Practice lead

Supply chain & logistics. Sourcing, vendor development, freight and EXIM across four countries, measured on landed cost per unit.

PP

Poonam Poojari

Business development — your first point of contact

Owns the first conversation and the relationship after it, and makes sure the scope we agree is the scope you actually needed. Twelve years in key accounts and business development.

Get in touch

Most of the bench are practising professionals who lead engagements alongside their own roles. That is deliberate: it keeps the advice current, because everyone here is still accountable for a plant somewhere.

How we are set up

A partnership, not a pyramid.

There is no layer of analysts between you and the person who has done the work. Whoever leads your engagement is the person you met, and they carry the outcome — commercially as well as professionally.

  • The person who scopes the work is the person who does it
  • Engagement leads share directly in what their engagement earns
  • We take on what the bench can actually staff, and say so when we cannot

Next step

Want to meet the person who would run it?

Tell us roughly what the problem is and we will put the right practitioner on the first call — not a salesperson.