The Shift Rewriting HVAC Operations

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

CEO and enterprise operations leader at Onoma Kaiketsuwith close to 29 years of cross-sector experience across Consumer Durables, Mobile Devices, HVACR, and Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS). Core expertise lies in supply chain management, localisation strategies, contract manufacturing, and greenfield project execution. Over the course of my career, I have worked across the spectrum—from large multinational corporations to MSMEs—including organisations such as Flextronics, Samsung, Intex, and Onida. This has provided an operating perspective across high-volume global manufacturing environments and highly customised, customer-specific production models.
Thus, has been exposed to a balanced view of scale, cost discipline, localisation, and execution excellence, with a deep understanding of how operational decisions translate into sustainable business performance in the HVAC and electronics manufacturing ecosystem.

Q2. What is the one change in the AC and refrigeration components market that is materially altering operational decision-making today, and why does it matter now rather than two years ago?

The single most material change reshaping operational decision-making in the AC and refrigeration components market today is the combination of extreme commodity price volatility and an accelerated…