| Mr.
Madhavan is an Electrical Engineer by profession and has extensive
strategic business management and project management expertise
- from concept to commercialization - and is considered as
a TURNAROUND EXPERT, one among few, in India. He has turned
around five companies, from impossible positions to continuing
profitability, in a career spanning over thirty years. For
his contribution to the Industry, Mr. Madhavan was awarded
the "Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award" for his contribution
to the Electrical Power Sector in 1995. He was also honoured
by the Delhi Telugu Academy with a National Award for his
valuable contribution for the year 2000 in the field of Industry
for 'Business Solutions'. He has been recognized by the CIGRE,
Paris as a "Distinguished Member" of the body. He
was nominated as one of the Men of the Millennium by Economic
Times as well as Indian Express in Andhra Pradesh in the year
2000. He was nominated as among the Visionaries of Andhra
Pradesh in 2000.
After retiring from Tecumseh Products India Limited, Mr.
Madhavan started his own consultancy firm - M/s. K. S. Madhavan
& Associates in April 2000 along with a few of his colleagues
with extensive experience in internationally reputed organisations
like World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Indian Planning Commission,
etc. It is a unique Consultancy Organisation with a cross
section of consultants starting with Worker Teachers and Union
Leaders, who are ready to work with other unions and unionised
labour / staff to change their mindset. They also have Senior
Consultants, who will be able to empathetically deal with
the middle level and senior levels of employees of organisations.
Mr. Madhavan is an expert in introducing and implementing
Japanese Management Systems in companies transforming them
into world-class organisations. He has been closely associated
with the management systems and styles of over twenty countries
and has intensely studied the advanced systems of management,
both European and American Systems, as also the Japanese,
and believes that India can benefit substantially by practising
the Japanese systems effectively.
He was on many committees of the Confederation of Indian
Industry - Chairman, WR HRD Committee, Chairman of Institute
Industry Collaboration Committee, Chairman - Industry Indian
Institute of Technology (Bombay) Collaboration Committee,
etc. and was the Vice Chairman of the AP Council of CII in
the year 1999-2000.
He was on many of the technical committees of the Government
of India - EHV Standardisation Committee for the standardisation
of the inter-regional electrical power transmission within
India, Technical Committees of the Bureau of Indian Standards
on MV & HV Switchgear, Instrument Transformers, etc.
Has wide international experience, which includes project
setting up negotiations, technical know-how building for self
and his team, setting up of projects in some countries. The
countries covered include Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France,
UK, Norway, Holland, Italy, USA, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,
Singapore, Thailand, Norway, Italy, South Africa, Swaziland,
UAE, Oman, Qatar and Bangladesh.
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