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Englewood, Colorado, Us

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Ananda Scientific is a pharmaceutical company with a patent protected delivery technology that enables botanicals to efficiently reach the bloodstream ensuring consistent dosing and reliable therapeutical results. Steer budgeting, planning and forecasting functions to ensure that revenue generation and capital raise is aligned to successfully fund clinical trials and on going research and development plans. Developed costing models for new product launch in nutraceutical space and product exports in China, Greece, Israel and Australia.

Tampa, Us

Private Equity Fund that invests in high tech consumer products, applied medicine and B2B & B2C services. Prepared companies for strategic sale by advising on business strategy, business process integration and operational risk management.

Houston, Texas, Us

Helped align regional businesses with the global corporate strategy by launching Balance Score Card (BSC) Process as a business strategy and enterprise performance management tool. Successfully led corporate restructuring project that involved acquiring 15 legal entities in USA, Africa, Middle East and Far East being structured under a single holding company in Singapore while navigating local regulatory requirements, inversion risk and legal challenges around acquisitions. Developed & implemented an ‘intercompany services model’ that leveraged services from a low cost back office delivered tax efficiently in all international jurisdictions. Directly led transfer-pricing studies in all jurisdictions & implemented reporting systems in line with latest BEPS guidelines. Developed & improved the effectiveness of a shared service center by adding Accounting, HR & IT services for the global operations and delivering 10% profit improvement to the bottom line.Provided leadership for the implementation of Microsoft ERP & CRM to improve business visibility and enhance controls in multi-country business environment.Initiated processes to prepare the company for an IPO/strategic sale. Completed due diligence exercises on compliance, risk and corporate governance. Developed & improved business continuity and planning processes.

Significantly improved the inventory turnover (from 2.5 to 6.4) through ‘Just in Time’ raw material supply, ‘Made to order’ stocking strategy and reduced ‘collection period’ through tight cash flow monitoring. Synergized manufacturing, supply chain and finance teams to develop an activity based ‘Costing Digest’ to improve margin visibility on 200+ product lines. Employed manufacturing excellence concepts to lift plant efficiency & product quality to world-class standards (OEE: 94.2%, Quality rate: 99.2%, Efficiency: 95%) through vertical integration of operation teams into Injection and Blowing wings with a customer-supplier relationship.Successfully managed a consolidation of operations by relocating the manufacturing facilities in Karachi and Rawalpindi to Hattar Industrial Estate resulting in an annual addition of USD 1.1m to the bottom line of the company through synergy savings.Led the implementation of ERP Project (Microsoft Great Plains) to provide integration of Manufacturing, Sales, Fixed Assets and General Ledger to improve visibility, accuracy and timeliness of business reporting. Initiated and implemented an expansion project based on ‘through the wall supply’ concept to a Pepsi Cola Filling Plant by installing a blowing production line at customer premises.Initiated ‘PET recycling project’ to make Ecopack the first plastics manufacturing facility in the country operating at almost zero waste while adding USD 0.5m to the bottom line of the company. Leveraged relationships with Technical Experts in Coke, Turkey & Pepsi, China to develop new products that helped launch exports in Central Asia & South Africa resulting in 12% improvement in utilization of plant assets.

Responsible for the maintenance of electrical & instrumentation assets of a 240 TPD Polyester Fibres Plant through a team of 11 managers and 30 skilled techniciansHandled the upgrade and expansion of Foxboro DCS that involved design reviews with Foxboro Singapore and detailed engineering with Chemtex USA.Successfully implemented energy conservation project to operate 10MW engines on a mixture of furnace oil and natural gas. Independently designed and implemented a ‘Data Acquisition System’ using Alan Bradley ‘Control Logix’ PLC and a network of ‘Controlnet’, ‘Modbus’ and ‘Ethernet’ to measure, trend, historize and report all key parameters of the Utilities plant.

Managed the operation and maintenance of gas turbines, steam turbines, boilers, air compressors, chillers and an off-site water supply network at a 225 KTPA Soda Ash Manufacturing facilitySuccessfully commissioned a Co-generation Project involving a 5.25MWe Gas Turbine (Alstom, UK), 20 tons Heat Recovery Steam Generator, High Pressure Natural Gas Compressor (Toromont Process, USA) and associated utilities.

Responsible for the maintenance of plant assets at a Paints manufacturing facilitySuccessfully completed an ‘Asset Modernization Project’ involving replacement of high noise ‘Attritors’ with ‘Bead mills’, automation of Filling lines and replacement of oil lubricated air compressors with ‘oil free units’. Facilitated ISO 14000 certification of the manufacturing facility.Selected as ‘Lead Tutor’ for ICI Asia Pacific on ‘Engineering Standards’ as a part of ‘Distance Learning Program’ of ICI Technology UK.

Pld, Business Leadership

Ymp, Business Management

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering