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County Galway, Ireland

Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland

Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland

Production - Operation

County Galway, Ireland

Leveraging 10+ years in the natural food ingredients industry, I help GLG Network clients navigate complex challenges in new product development, clean label ingredients, isolation of active components from plant material using speciality extraction methods like CO2 extraction, solvent-free extraction, and traditional solvent extraction, supply chain.

County Galway, Ireland

Sourcegoodfood.com: Bringing Cost-Effective Natural Ingredients to the Irish Food & Beverage IndustrySourcegoodfood.com is a business-to-business (B2B) platform that connects Irish food and beverage companies with reliable, cost-competitive suppliers of natural ingredients. We work with a network of high-quality, B-tier extract manufacturers worldwide to.

Cochin Area, India.

• Development and commercialization of colouring food stuff extracts.
• Supercritical CO2 extraction, purification, and process development: Clean label rosemary CO2 extract for free food application, Clean label Marigold extract for the food colouring industry, Vanillin purification using.
• Development and commercialization of Turmeric ethanol Dye - 95% from Fresh turmeric. An effort to develop clean label ethanol Dye along with this development of additive-free clean label turmeric extract. Development.
• Product management of clean label portfolio P&L management. Generated revenue of 1.25 million USD @ 30% CAGR.
• Techno- commercial roles: SCM management, inventory management, production controlling, quality & regulatory compliance, and customer service.
• Strategic project management: Growing and sourcing paprika from Zimbabwe, and Zambia for developing African origin paprika extracts for the EU and US markets. Technical support for Common roots inc, Canada.

Kochi, Kerala

• LOCATION: Synthite Kochi, Synthite Marudur, TN.
• Project Management: Led erection and commissioning of production plant (total project cost: USD 0.2 million).
• Production Management: Experienced in supply chain management, inventory control, and production control through team leads. Controlled and responsible for a 500+ MT through put/annum production plant focusing on clean.
• Process Engineering/Scale-Up Engineer: Supercritical CO2 process development for marigold oleoresin, vanillin crystals, E number-free rosemary extract, hop extracts, and brown flavors (roasted and toasted).

Kochi, Kerala

• Shop Floor Management: Managed continuous and batch solvent extraction plants (total annual capacity: 1,000-1,200 MT/annum). Managed manpower, document control, internal/external audits, root cause analysis (5W-1H).
• Total Productive Maintenance: Certified TPM facilitator and led four TPM circles, promoting 5S activities, implementing Kaizens, and participating in the PM and AM pillars of TPM.
• Project Management: Led the erection and commissioning of a production plant (total project cost: USD 0.25 million) in China. This included proof-of-concepting, plant design, and leading the project team for the.

Kochi, Kerala

• Utility Management: Led the revamping of the ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) from 80 KLD to 120 KLD capacity. Selected the heat exchanger design and vendors for solvent recovery brine chillers.
• Production Management: Gained experience in production processes, document control, and ERP systems.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba (Executive-Pgp), Business Operations And Corporate Strategy

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Production Engineering

Activities and Societies: Jy-tkmce, Conjura-tkmce Mechanical stream-Production Engineering, University of Kerala. Batch of 2008-2012, from.

Education record

Science-Maths Stream