Babu Ramachandran
Smart Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, Multi Dimensional Business Leader
Years of Experience:
Clients / Startups Supported:
30
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Professional Summary
Babu is a multi-dimensional Leader with an experience spanning 30yrs in the Manufacturing Industry. He has held senior management positions with leading global organizations across Railways, Automotive and Engineering sectors, and led multi-projects and global programs with multi-dimensional teams and supply chains. He has a track record of delivering operational excellence and exceptional business results and fostering ‘start-up’ to ‘scale-up’ growth.
Key Achievements
Alstom (Railways sector) : Driven turnaround in Rolling Stock Manufacturing, Quality and Supply chain transformation across several major RollingStock projects like Metros Chennai, Kochi, Lucknow, Sydney, Montreal, Mumbai, Perth (from Alstom SriCity, and Agra-Kanpur, Delhi RRTS (by takeover of Bombardier site, Vadodra) ; electric Locomotive WAG12B (from Madhepura)
Daimler : Instrumental in startup and scale up for the Truck project and thence the Bus project, which he pioneered. Quality leadership resulting in setting up and achieving the sourcing roadmap for 90% localization in 12 months, setup and led the Quality Assurance (Vehicle) for Truck, and Quality Management for Buses India; successful launch of Medium-duty and Heavy-duty Trucks
Cofounder and COO of startup Sooorya EV – he leads the engg and manufacturing aspects for creation of the purpose built electric vehicle platform.
ReUpyog : Instrumental in creating the innovating circular business process and solutions forthe avoiding EWaste and adopting renew - repair – reuse, and has created 1000s of circularity transactions.
Areas of Specialization
Business Strategy & Program Management, Leading Start-ups to Organization & Manufacturing Set-up, Operational Excellence & Quality, Leadership & Organization Synergy with multi-dimensional Team Development
Education & Qualifications
B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering (NIT Calicut)
PGDM from Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
Design Thinking (MIT-Sloan & Emeritus)
Corporate Quality-Ford
Lean and SixSigma BB, Digital Transformation (BCG and Univ of Virginia)
Smart Cities (EFPL)
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