Demystifying Career Growth - 24 Jan 2022

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Demystifying Career Growth

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ARUL SHANMUGAVELU AUTHOR

Monday, 24 Jan 2022 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

SIVARAMAN FORMER L&T

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"It is a dream for every employee to climb the corporate ladder and assume positions of higher responsibility.

However, how to reach such a higher position remains a mystery. Many individuals dabble with various traits, competencies, attributes, etc., in their quest to find the mantra to fast track their career growth?

The situation is worsened by the pandemic creating new challenges in the supply chain and working from home. In this complex situation, industry leaders debate on how one can assertively find his or her way in the corporate maze? Come and join us in the debate on demystifying career growth."

6:00 PM

Welcome Address

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, Madras Management Association

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Launch of the book authored by Mr Arul Shanmugavelu

By the dignitaries

Fireside Chat & Discussion on the theme "Demystifying Career Growth"

Distinguished Panelists: Mr Gopal Subramanyam Chairman, SKF India Ltd

Mr A R Unnikrishnan Managing Director, Saint-Gobain Glass

Mr Katsushi Minobe Executive Vice President, Kobelco Industrial Machinery

Mr Arul Shanmugavelu Author & Managing Director Kobelco Industrial Machinery India Pvt Ltd

In conversation with Mr N S Sivaraman Retired Vice President (Special Projects), Larsen & Toubro Ltd

Q&A 7:30 PM

Vote of Thanks

Mr. Gopal Subramanyam is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras and belongs to the batch of 1976.

He has more than four decades of association with the manufacturing sector. His experience ranges from handling businesses of high precision products like press tools, moulds & dies to camera manufacturing to heavy engineering such as earthmoving, & construction equipment, industrial machinery products, to name a few. He has held positions of CEO and Board of Director roles in Joint Venture, Private and Public Listed companies of high repute & excellence in corporate governance practices.

During his long tenure at Larsen & Toubro Ltd., he donned various roles in Operation Mgt., Business Planning & Development,

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Technology transfers and formation of Joint Venture companies. He is a former Chief Executive of 2 Joint Venture Companies of L&T , namely L&T Komatsu Ltd. and L&T Howden Ltd.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board of SKF India Ltd. and also NSDC’s Nominee Director on the Governing Council of 3 Sector Skill Councils. He is also a past Non Exec Director on the Boards of L&T Kobelco Pvt. Ltd, Lincoln Helios Ltd. (a subsidiary

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of SKF, Sweden) and Ajax Fiori (India) Pvt. Ltd. Besides being on the boards of companies, he is currently active in four other spheres.

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Skill building under the aegis of ‘Skill India’ initiative: He is an Advisor to the office of the Chairman of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and L&T Skill development Mission He is a member of NTTF’s Academic Council

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He is a member of the Jury for awarding the Prime Minister’s Trophy to major Integrated Steel Plants.

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He is a jury member for CII-EXIM Business Excellence awards. He actively assists the CII Institute of Quality for their Business Excellence initiatives.

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He is a guest faculty at the Institute Of Directors to train Independent Directors.

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the Glass business.

He played a pivotal role in Saint-Gobain Glass India’s journey to market leadership in a short period of time, state of the art manufacturing, impeccable quality and trusted brand building.

A R Unnikrishnan

With rich experience of over 20 years in the Glass Industry, Unnikrishnan now is the Managing Director of Saint-Gobain India Pvt Ltd (Glass Business).

Apart from his professional role at Saint-Gobain, he is a thought leader across various fora in the areas of Sustainability and Regulations drafting key policy structure frameworks for the Indian Construction Industry. He is the Chairman of Glazing Society of India, Chairman CII TN CEO Forum, Chairing CII SR Task Force on Future of Manufacturing.

Born in Osaka, Japan

Graduated KWANSEI GAKUIN University (Hyogo, Japan) in Political science in 1997

Work experience in 3 Continents 19 years in Japan 4.5years in Brazil and 1.5years in Germany.

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In India, since October 2021

Having worked in the marketing and sales of Industrial Machinery (Tire and Rubber machinery) in Kobe Steel, Ltd since 2006.

Katsushi Minobe

Personal Details: Family: Wife, Kyoko is leading my family in Japan. She is U.S.CPA and working for Hitachi, Japan now.

Daughter, Kana is pupil in elementary school, her hobby is dancing (Hip Hop and K-pop), she will dance at the stage of Disney land, Tokyo, next year.

Pet, Suzume (it means a sparrow in Japanese.), female, Toy poodle, as her name, very tiny dog but our star.

All of them are looking forward to living in India next year.

Hobbies: Climbing mountain, hiking Swimming, jogging, cycling on my holiday Reading books of history, World situation, management and so on.

Traveling India and try Indian foods (new hobby just started) Learning English (for myjob, but now it becomes my hobby)

A mechanical Engineer from Coimbatore Institute of Technology. Graduated in 1984 and furthered the qualification with Diploma in Materials Management and a MBA in General Management.

Over 35 years of Corporate experience, including 30 years in L&T. Previously Chief Executive of L&T- Kobelco Machinery Private Limited.

Currently Managing Director of Kobelco Industrial Machinery India Private Limited, a 100% Subsidiary of Japanese Conglomerate Kobe Steel, Ltd., Japan.

Exposure

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Started as a Materials person, later shifted to marketing.

Successfully developed export market from near Zero to over Rs. 150 Cr pa. In addition, handled Customer Service, Product Development and Purchase.

As a Managing Director of Kobelco Industrial Machinery, built the business from scratch to over Rs. 100 Cr, with over 50%

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export.

Personal Details: Family – Self, Wife, Daughter, Son-in-law and Son Wife, Sathya is a Home Maker, a power behind my growth.

Daughter, Janani & Son-in-Law Kamal Kant Jena are practicing Doctors. Son, Senthil is doing his Doctorate in Robotics in the US.

Hobbies Reading management books Conducting training program on Effective living, Fun with Finance, etc. Founder Trustee of a Charitable trust for education Active Blogger on Career tips - (https://arulshanmugavelu.com) Author of Career Guidance book – “French Fries – 15 Golden Ideas to Power Your Career Growth”

Mr. N.S. Sivaraman is a Mechanical Engineer (1964-69) with two PG Diplomas in Industrial Management from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Research Institute for Management Science, Holland.

Mr. Sivaraman has about 43 years of experience in various areas – Management Consultancy, Materials Management, Personnel & HRD, Manufacturing and General

Management. After about 1-1/2 years in Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad, he joined

Larsen & Toubro Limited in the year 1972 as a Post Graduate Trainee. He became Vice President (Industrial Machinery) in 2005. He

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was later responsible for the creation of a Greenfield Shipyard & Port at Kattupalli near Chennai and retired as Vice President (Special Projects) in April 2011. He was then a Consultant to L&T until March, 2013.

He was a participating member of a Research Study by MIT, Boston, USA in association with PMI (Project Management Institute),

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USA on Engineering Programme Excellence during 2012-13.

He was the Chairman of Indian Institute of Materials Management, Chennai Branch, during 1984-85. He was awarded the Distinguished Membership of the Institute during the year 2001.

He was a Guest Faculty at Indian Institute of Materials Management, Madras Management Association and Indira Gandhi National Open University in various subjects like Materials Management, Operations Research, Industrial Relations, etc., for almost 15 years.

He has taught Business Ethics to the MBA students of Madras University in Logistics & Supply Chain Management.

He was associated with the Rotary Club of Madras Porur as Charter Secretary and was President of the Club during 1996-97.

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