From Global Sourcing to Local Resilience

Q1. Could you start by giving us a brief overview of your professional background, particularly focusing on your expertise in the industry?

I am an Engineer and MBA with 24 years of experience across supply chain, strategic sourcing, quality assurance, and new product industrialization, working with leading organizations such as Varroc, Wabtec, Greaves Cotton, Cummins, VE Powertrain, Lombardini, and Mahindra & Mahindra.
My career has been centered on building and scaling complex manufacturing and supply ecosystems across automotive, EV, railways, industrial engines, and electronics. I have led large-scale sourcing and component development portfolios, managing annual spend exceeding ₹4,700 crore, multi-plant operations, and cross-functional teams to support aggressive business growth targets.
I bring strong expertise in localization, indigenization, supplier capacity creation, and technology transfer, including EV motors, controllers, PCBs, rail brake systems, pantographs, gensets, and powertrain components. A significant part of my career has been focused on cost leadership and risk mitigation, delivering sustained cost reductions, improving contribution margins, and ensuring execution certainty in high-growth environments.
Having spent over a decade in quality leadership roles with global manufacturing organizations like Cummins and Volvo Group companies, I strongly believe in embedding quality at the design and supplier stages to enable scale without…