Managing Consultant
Consultants
Pratik Kadakia, Founder & Managing Consultant, with a successful track record, nearing three decades, of delivering results, driving performance through management consulting and industry leadership roles in start-up, turnaorund, business development and leadership within the chemical, materials and energy domain with Indian and global multinational companies founded SSASM Consulting to leverage globally relevant experience and skills, together with our Advisors to support the numerous organizations realize full potential from cutting edge advise, implemented to deliver results.
Our Consultants will execute the projects together with the team from the Client’s organization leveraging these insights and connects.
Pratik holds a B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a Masters in Management Studies from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
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Rajendra Bhinge
ADVISOR - BUSINESS STRATEGY
Rajendra (Raju) Bhinge is Chairman of Nelco Ltd. and Nelco Network Products Ltd. He is Chairman of Antennae Ventures Pvt. Ltd.- an accelerator of innovative, tech-driven startups. He is an Independent Director at Mahindra Consulting Engineers Ltd. and Ex-Chairman of Infiniti Retail Ltd. (Croma).
In 1991, he established the Tata Strategic Management Group (TSMG), which became the largest Indian-owned management consulting firm. As CEO (till May 2017) he led major strategy consulting engagements in diverse sectors like Automobiles, Engineering, Consumer & Retail, Chemicals, Technology, Telecom, and Government Policy.
In 1973, he graduated from IIT Bombay with a B.Tech Hons. (Electrical Engg.). He was awarded a PGDBA in 1975 from IIM, Ahmedabad.
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Vinay Shah
ADVISOR - FINANCE AND M&A
Vinay Shah is the Co-Founder and Director at Mosaic Capital Services Pvt. Ltd. with nearly three decades of experience, pre-dominantly in advising high growth, mid-market companies on their corporate finance strategies, having worked on cross-border transactions besides engaging with large public companies, transnational companies and Private Equity funds.
His experience encompasses almost all industries with expertise is raising equity is open to being part of an international M&A alliance which would provide a 2 way reach for our clients.
Vinay is a certified Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, Katz School of Business, USA.
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Dr. Vik Kortian
ADVISOR - BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
Dr Kortian is the Managing Director of the Performance Improvement Institute. He has been advising and working with Australian and Multinational organisations on Business Excellence and Organisational transformation for over 16 years.
Dr. Kortian has held a number of senior positions leading Lean Six Sigma practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Unisys having spent 20 years working for Dow Corning prior.
Dr. Kortian holds an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of NSW, a Master’s in Business Administration, a Master of Arts (Research), and a PhD in Business from Macquarie Graduate School of Management where he also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer teaching the Lean Six Sigma Executive Education programs as well as Operations Management and Quantitative Methods.
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Dr. Sudhama Gopalan
ADVISOR - FINANCE AND INSURANCE
Sudhama is co-founder and CEO of AveriSana, the most accurate prediction of insurability based on health risk prior to underwriting. He conceived the idea of tailored risk-selection from his experience in consumer financial services and health insurance, and first tested it out by building an industry-leading ML tech stack in life insurance. This transformed customer acquisition at Efinancial and Fidelity Life, an insurance carrier with a product portfolio spanning a wide range of health risk, and reduced customer acquisition costs by 30% while scaling the business rapidly.
Sudhama has delivered billions of dollars in value via new products and businesses, and turnarounds as a senior executive at HSBC and Aetna, as a strategy management consultant for Booz Allen and as an independent advisor. He currently mentors and advises Tada Cognitive Solutions, whose healthcare business he built from the ground up.
Sudhama, is a PhD in Engineering from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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Dr. Amrutur Bharadwaj
ADVISOR - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND AI
Dr. Bharadwaj is a Professor at IISc Bangalore and is involved in exploratory research projects and student mentorship in human-robot interactions via speech/vision, robot teleoperation, high-performance computing enabled real-time optimization for intelligent systems, low energy systems.
He also manages the academic activities at Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical System @ IISc (a new academic department) and technology R&D at ARTPARK @ IISc (a new Not-for-Profit company).
Prior to serving IISc, he worked with Bell Laboratories, Agilent Laboratories and Greenfield Networks in the US.
Dr. Bharadwaj studied Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where he completed his Masters and Ph.D after a B. Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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