Praveen Ramachandran
COO/Managing Director - India - iCEO #84293

Experience

*Founder/CEO/CBDO/Entrepreneur *TED Speaker *Mentor of Change - Govt of India - Atal Innovation Mission * Mentor - Kerala State Govt. Start-up`s Mission * Business Strategy Advisor * Negotiator * Mediator A Successful Entrepreneur & Industry Thought Leader. Capacity : Technology Business Leadership.

Major Achievements

# Highly Motivated & Experienced Executive with expertise in coordinating targeted business strategy and operational excellence for highly successful Organizations; # Skilled in managing revenue growth in highly competitive industries as well as navigating companies from launch through to profitability. # Comprehensive understanding of the skills needed to manage ongoing business planning processes while developing strategies to meet future challenges. # Ability to visualize broad situations and devise and execute focused strategies through exceptional leadership, with the command of the details necessary to ensure the successful resolution of complex issues. Core Skills & Competencies : * Strategic Business Planning. * Budget Management. * Visionary Leadership. * Profit &Loss Management. * Revenue Growth. * Budget Forecasting. * Operations Management & Streamlining. * Cost Reduction. * Organisational Restructuring. * High Growth Ventures. * Leading hi performance team Award of Excellence from the Indian Institute of Metals, IIM Calcutta, For Brahm Prakash Memorial Competition. Awarded the best PLM Synthesis Paper by the National Aerospace Laboratories CSIR Bangalore India Mentor of change for the Govt of India Business strategy Advisor - Kerala Government. Awarded the best International Symposium poster, by the International Geotechnical Society. Responsible for bringing in 1 french Optical Technology company headquartered in La Alfrede, France and setting up the Indian Subsidy, and became the 1st GM/ Country Business Head and made it operational and brought in Revenues. Responsible for bringing 2 israeli startup technology company`s to India and made it fully functional by becoming their Country Business Head, marking up high business value technolgy and turnkey engineering services, establishing a big client base within a span of 3 years. Responsible for bringing in an American, optical technology company, located in washington D.C and setting up the Indian operations within a very short time and made it fully functional. All these companies have been acquired by global top brands in no less than 3 - 4 yrs into merging, resulting into an exponential business strategy.

Industry Sector Competencies

Software

Automotive

Energy-Oil-Gas

Engineering

Professional Objectives

Function: CEO/COO/CBDO/CRO/CSO

Sector: Energy, Automotive, Aerospace, Engineering Services, Technology, Acoustics, Optics, Management secto

Interim Manager: Yes

Permanent Position: Yes

Operational: Yes

Availability: Full time, part time, coaching on demand

Prefered Locations: Bangalore, Kuwait, Mauritius, France, Belgium

Additional Professional Interests

Operational coaching on demand

Non executive director assignments

Countries Covered

Belgium

France

India

Kuwait

USA

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Expert)

Business development (Expert)

Acquisition and shadow management (Professional)

New product or service launch (Expert)

Geographical expansion (Expert)

Company rescue or turnaround (Expert)

Close down or sell off (Expert)

Pre or post investment audit (Professional)