meet our team

We are passionate for the textile industry. With an average experience of three decades gained working across the globe, the team has a mix of people with strong analytics, business focus and actual Industry understanding. This enables us to deliver award winning work and develop repeat clientele.


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TSR. Rajaguru Raja

Managing Director

Have over 32 years of experience managing plants in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa. Raja has over 32 years of experience managing textile plants, establishing a business, turning around plants, managing turnkey projects and managed textile operations with USD 200 million turnovers. Prior to establishing a consulting business, have managed leading mills in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and South Africa. Has been business head responsible for P&L of large textile operation in Bangladesh. Key areas of expertise include; Turnkey project management Turn around of large textile plants in different geographies Establishing and managing the business in different geographies Strategic, financial and marketing planning and execution for textile plants Developing people to lead business units independently.


Ramakrishnan Janarthanan

CEO

Have over 34 years of experience managing plants in India, Africa, Canada and USA Rama Janarthanan has over 34 years of experience managing textile plants, establishing a business, turning around plants, managing turnkey projects and managed large textile operations. Prior to joining a consulting business, have managed leading mills in India, Africa, Canada, and the USA. Has been business head responsible for P&L of large textile operation in Canada and USA. Key areas of expertise include; Turnkey project management Turn around of large textile plants in different geographies Establishing and managing the business in different geographies Strategic, financial and marketing planning and execution for textile plants Product development Customer relationship management.

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Raghu G

Director Corporate Affairs

Over 32 years of experience in managing the textile spinning plant in India. Expertise in system formulation, Training, and Implementation. Cost control and fine-tuning of administrative and control systems. Have done successful Quality and performance enhancement as well as cost-cutting measures. Raghu.G has over 32 years’ experience in operations, Project strategy planning and implementation, Costing, and in-depth shop floor Experience of Textile spinning of cotton and varies blends. Specialist in making value-added yarn and super fine yarns. Raghu.G has worked with reputed spinning mills in various capacities in Operations and Customer Technical Services. Prior to consulting, worked in Machinery Marketing specialized in identifying new markets and customers Since last 4 years working as a Technical consultant mainly focusing on Capacity building through Benchmarking and gained his expertise in International Projects. He has been part of a team to develop Business and Economic Viability Reports for New & Restructuring Textile Projects (Spinning, Weaving manufacturing unit). He has been part of a team to design and develop complete policy manuals and system manuals, Training, and implementation. He has attended many special programs regarding machinery, technology, quality enhancement, international quality management systems.


Arivarasu K

Senior Partner

Arivarasu possesses expertise in the textile field from cotton to garments. He was a service engineer for spinning, weaving, and knitting machinery. He is trained in Europe on textile machinery installation & service and has handled many new project installations in India. Prior to consulting, he owned manufacturing units of fabrics & garments and exported to leading brands in Europe. His key areas of expertise include: • Capacity building – benchmarking and gap analysis across Asia and Africa • Management contract • Turnkey project management • Designing & development of systems in handling projects from concept to completion • Techno-economic feasibility of the textile plant for specific countries • Training and implementation Arivarasu holds a degree in Bachelor of Technology. He has worked with leading spinning mills up to director level in India and Thailand. He planned, implemented, operated and transferred 200,000 spindles modern mill in Andhra Pradesh, India and lead the NSL group as Head of Technical.

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He has been part of the team leading a large composite unit comprising spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing. He also has expertise in automated plants with minimum workforce. His key areas of expertise include: • Group technical audit • Introduction of cost-effective in costing and SAP operations • Introduction of new value-added products • Raw material selection • Human resources management • ISO and 5S Japanese work culture He is an associate member of the Institution of Engineers in textile engineering. He carries a diploma in textile technology and has an MBA in Human Resources Management. He was associated with the Indorama group and has lead polyester project and manufacturing teams as a site head of Purwakarta unit from 2005 to 2017. He has managed the largest polyester manufacturing plant in Indonesia. It included management of 200 hectares site and 7 projects namely; 900 TPD CP, PSF, POY, FDY, DTY, SSP (Biggest in ASEAN). His key areas of expertise include: Operation excellence Leveraging human resources Business value enhancement Community engagement Manufacturing & Management Strategic Positioning and Comprehensive Planning Leveraging Regional Capabilities He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Textile Chemistry from TIT- Bhiwani, India.


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Padmanaban P

Senior Partner

Over 30 years of experience in managing the textile spinning plant in South Asia and South East Asia. Expertise in system formulation, Training, and Implementation. Cost control and fine-tuning of administrative and control systems. Have done successful performance enhancement assignments and capacity building through Benchmarking. Padmanaban has over 30 years’ experience in operations, Project strategy planning and implementation, Costing, and in-depth shop floor Experience of Textile spinning of cotton and blends. Specialist in making value-added yarn and fancy yarns. Padmanaban has worked for 30 years with many reputed spinning mills in Operations and Customer Technical Services. Prior to consulting he has worked in projects in various Indian and international assignments with a focus on Asian countries. Since last 4 years working as a management consultant mainly focus on Capacity building through Benchmarking and gained his expertise in Project planning, operation consulting. He has been a part of the team to visit various Textile mills for assessment and auditing in national and International locations. He has been part of the team to develop Business and Economic Viability Reports for New & Restructuring Textile Projects (Spinning, Weaving manufacturing unit) with Project cost varying from 20 Crores to 500 Crores. He has been part of the team to design and develop complete policy manuals and system manuals, Training, and implementation in the various Spinning unit in National and International. He has done extensive market research to develop new products in the area of special yarn for value-added shirtings and suitings, especially for Raymonds, Siyarams and Bombay Rayon. He has attended a special program at Cotton Inc. USA to get familiar about Engineered Fibre Selection (EFS) system for USDA cotton. As a Head of the operations he turn-around many underperforming and sick spinning units into a profitable and best performing units in the market. He has attended a program at Cotton school, Texas, USA to master about cotton selection and ICE, NY operations.


Mukul Kapoor

Senior Partner

Mukul Kapoor is a veteran with 40 years of experience in polyester projects including construction, commissioning, manufacturing and sustainability. He was associated with the Indorama group and has lead polyester project and manufacturing teams as a site head of Purwakarta unit from 2005 to 2017. He has managed the largest polyester manufacturing plant in Indonesia. It included management of 200 hectares site and 7 projects namely; 900 TPD CP, PSF, POY, FDY, DTY, SSP (Biggest in ASEAN). His key areas of expertise include: Operation excellence Leveraging human resources Business value enhancement Community engagement Manufacturing & Management Strategic Positioning and Comprehensive Planning Leveraging Regional Capabilities He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Textile Chemistry from TIT- Bhiwani, India.

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Subramania Suresh K

Senior Partner

Over 30 years of experience Managing Textile Spinning plants in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa. Expertise in Projects, Systems formulation, and implementation, Bench marking, Energy Saving, Cost control, Gap analysis & Turn around of the textile plants Suresh has over 30 years’ experience in operations, Project planning, and execution, Systems formulation, and implementation, Benchmarking, Energy saving, Cost control and Turn around the Loss-making plants to profitable one. Knowledge in the Textile spinning of cotton varies blends in Ring as well as Rotor. Specialist in course to super fine yarns and fancy yarns. Suresh has worked with Leading spinning mill in various capacities in Operations and Managed mills in India, Indonesia & Bangladesh. He has all-around expertise in planning, building, operating and transferring large textile plants. Specialized in the relocation of a textile mill. He has been part of the team leading a large composite unit comprising spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing. Since last four years involved in consulting as a project leader and managed multiple projects under his leadership. Benchmarked, planned, executed a turn around of spinning projects in Indonesia. Planned, built, operated and transferred 100,000 spindle mill in Bangladesh. Introduced new value-added products and implemented engineered raw material selection to improve profitability. Modernized and expanded the projects under his leadership in Indonesia.


Sarathy TG

Partner

arathy has experience in operations, project planning and execution, systems formulation and implementation. He is a specialist in coarse, superfine, compact and fancy yarns. He has worked with leading spinning mills up to director level in India and Thailand. He planned, implemented, operated and transferred 200,000 spindles modern mill in Andhra Pradesh, India and lead the NSL group as Head of Technical. He has been part of the team leading a large composite unit comprising spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing. He also has expertise in automated plants with minimum workforce. He also has expertise in automated plants with minimum workforce. His key areas of expertise include: • Group technical audit • Introduction of cost-effective in costing and SAP operations • Introduction of new value-added products • Raw material selection • Human resources management • ISO and 5S Japanese work culture He is an associate member of the Institution of Engineers in textile engineering.

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He carries a diploma in textile technology and has an MBA in Human Resources Management. He was associated with the Indorama group and has lead polyester project and manufacturing teams as a site head of Purwakarta unit from 2005 to 2017. He has managed the largest polyester manufacturing plant in Indonesia. It included management of 200 hectares site and 7 projects namely; 900 TPD CP, PSF, POY, FDY, DTY, SSP (Biggest in ASEAN). His key areas of expertise include: Operation excellence Leveraging human resources Business value enhancement Community engagement Manufacturing & Management Strategic Positioning and Comprehensive Planning Leveraging Regional Capabilities He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Textile Chemistry from TIT- Bhiwani, India.


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A K Guru

Partner

Textile expert with 32 years of experience in managing spinning mills in India, executing Projects and turning-around Textile Plants in Ethiopia and Indonesia. • Rajaguru’s expertise is in successfully managing and operating Spinning Mills and executing new Projects • Handled various Capacity building and Benchmarking Projects in Ethiopia His key area of Expertise include: • Managing Operations • Implementing Systems • Capacity building and bench-marking • Turnkey Project Management


Jitendra Yadav

Junior Partner

Extensive experience with international apparel retailers, manufacturers in supply chain, quality and consulting roles. Jitendra’s expertise is in management consulting in the textile and apparel industry He has worked with leading international apparel retailers and successfully executed operations management projects with international apparel manufacturers, international textile value chain stakeholders. His other engagements include working with Govt. of India for Policy formulation and implementation among other projects. His key areas of expertise include – Competitive Analysis and landscaping Business Strategy Operations Consulting (Garments) Government Advisory.

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