Name: Mr. Anant Gokhale
Education:
B.E. (Instrumentation), College of Engineering, Pune, 1985
M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering), I.I.T. Bombay, 1987
Professional Experience: Over 27 Years
Profile:
Anant Gokhale has over 27 years of industrial experience in electronic product design, communication software development and customized solutions. He has developed many products that have earned international repute and he is highly respected in the areas of electronics design, communication and data management.

Anant’s professional career began as a R&D engineer at Datapro Electronics building PC-based teleprinter / telex machines. After a period of two years, he co-founded San Telequip. Here he was instrumental in developing and manufacturing Protocol gateways and Interface converters for various industrial automation and telecom connectivity applications. Several products and several years later, after setting up the technical team at San Telequip, Anant co-founded Crystaline Infotek with a focus on Electronic product design services.

Anant’s technical strengths have enabled Crystaline to build several products for customers worldwide in the areas of Home Security, Data Communication, Industrial Automation, Automotive Electronics, Semiconductor Equipment, and Medical Electronics. Anant has guided several offshore teams on product design and as the CTO continues to be the technical backbone for the SAN Group companies.

Anant is also an authorized design consultant for Microchip and AVR. More recently, Anant has inducted himself more formally into training extending his previous role of a technology mentor. He has conducted several trainings, locally and abroad, in the areas of microcontroller based product design, networking & communication, and communication interfaces. He is also a visiting faculty at College of Engineering Pune and the University of Pune.

Name: Mr. Nitin Joshi
Education:
M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering), I.I.T. Bombay, 1987
Professional Experience: Over 28 Years
Profile:
He has more than 28 years experience in product design, software development, and project management. Nitin is responsible for strategic and tactical planning for business development as well as technical direction. His dedication to complete customer satisfaction has been key to the success of the group companies.

Name: Mr. Madhav Kane
Education:
Chemical Engineering, LIT Nagpur
M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering), IISC, Bangalore
Professional Experience: Over 34 Years
Profile:
During his professional career of 34 years, Mr. Kane initially worked in the field of Process and Design Engineering, computer applications and technical software development, project engineering and site engineering for process plants.

Mr. Kane switched into the exciting field of process control, instrumentation and automation engineering during the eighties.He worked with a medium size chemical manufacturing company followed by an instrumentation & automation company and an Indian affiliate of an international engineering organisation active in the food and chemical process industries. He was deputed to work overseas with affiliate companies for detailed automation engineering of large food and petrochemical industry projects that were ‘first of the type’ automation projects for these industry segments. Between 1985-87, he worked in the field of dynamic process simulation. In his last employment, Mr. Kane served as the business unit head for automation and was involved in the first significant automation engineering ‘software outsourcing’ project for the parent European organisation.

In 1998, he established Consultancy Process Control Engineers (CPCE), a control engineering design and engineering organisation that is focussed on a process centric approach to chemical process control and automation. CPCE, under his leadership has, amongst others provided services to automation and engineering companies, Invensys and APV. His current interest areas include performance improvement of existing plants with process control solutions, batch process control and applications of advanced process control.

Mr. Kane has carried out training in the areas of computer applications in chemical process engineering as well as instrumentation and process control for the food and chemical process industries. He has served as a trainer with professional companies, with professional forums such as Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers as well as with educational institutes like the Government College of Engineering, Pune (COEP). He continues his association with the academic world as examiner of both B. Tech and M. Tech. instrumentation and control programmes of the University of Pune.

Name: Mr. Sharadchandra Pavnaskar
Education:
B.E.(Electrical Engineering), IISc Bangalore, 1969
M.E.(Electronics and Control Systems specialisation ),IISc Bangalore,1971
Professional Experience: Over 40 Years
Profile:
Mr. Pavnaskar started his professional career with Tata Motors Ltd., Pune (TML) in 1971 in the Electronics Division and has served in several capacities thereafter in a long stint of 40 years. He initially worked on design and development of test rig instrumentation for testing of automotive components, aggregates and engines. Subsequently he took up design and development of controllers for machine tools for very demanding automotive production environment. As head of development group he contributed to design and development of machine tools such as DC servomotors, Tachogenerators, DC servo drives, Computer Numerical Controllers, Grinding machine controllers and controllers for special purpose machines. He has three patents based on this work.
He was a member of team responsible for installation, commissioning and proving the weld shop and the assembly line for the Safari vehicle in 1996.

In 1997 while at the electronics division he designed and developmental PLC based welding fixtures controls and motion control systems for the weld shop of the Indica plant. He was also a member of the team responsible for the installation, commissioning and tryout of this weld shop.

Mr. Pavnaskar, as the management representative (MR) for the ISO 9000 quality systems, he helped setup the quality system at the electronics division of TML. He has authored more than 50 internal standards and datasheets for electronic components in the process.

In 1998, he helped stabilize plant machines, equipment and operations in his capacity of head of the electronics maintenance department.

In 2004, as project manager for the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for Indica car plant, he set up the first and the largest implementation of MES in the automotive sector in India. Post-retirement in 2007, Mr. Pavnaskar consulted for Tata Technologies Pune in his capacity as program manager and consultant for MES. Having travelled worldwide to countries like Germany, Japan, England, USA, South Korea, Saudi Arabia as a part of technology transfer, machine / equipment approval, study, or MES implementation, Pavnaskar brings this international exposure and experience to the training he conducts. He has conducted several technical training programs for managers, engineers, supervisors and workmen of TML on CNC, servo drives, and robotics.

Name:Mrs. Shweta Surve
Education:
B.Com., University of Pune, 2002
M.Com., University of Pune, 2005
Diploma In Co-Operation And Accountancy (G.D.C & A.), Maharashtra State Board
Professional Experience: Over 09 Years
Profile:
During her professional career spanning over 09 years, Mrs. Shweta Surve has worked in the areas of ACCOUNTS AND HR MANAGEMENT. She has handled following responsibilities:

Accounts Responsibilities: Preparing Balance Sheet , Budgeting , MIS ,Taxation, bank transactions such as bank reconciliation & bank guarantees, letter of credit, T.T., Import documentation also handled issuing of TDS certificates to customers maintaining / filing TDS return records, Preparing Form 16A, customer’s / supplier’s reconciliation and collection / issuing of form ‘C’. Checking & finalizing employee’s expense reports as per management’s instructions & guidelines. Handling of inter-divisional & branch transactions & reconciliation.

H.R. Responsibilities: Preparation of monthly salary of the employees, submission of the returns such as P.F., E.S.I., L.I.C. & Professional Tax. Employee’s record updating & maintenance for assistance to the management during employees’ performance evaluation. Working on ERP System for bill processing in Payable Department.

Name: Mrs. Sphoorti Govande
Education:
B. com, 1996
Professional Experience: Over 14 Years
Profile:
Sphoorti is a commerce graduate with over 14 years of experience including last 4years as Internal Sales Co-ordinator with MNC, manufacturing Industrial Products.

She is looking after all matters related to external & internal Training/Sales/Admin Co-ordination.