Energy, Manufacturing and Operations Panel: "Made in India - The Manufacturing Revolution"


Dhaval Buch
Executive Director
Supply Chain, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)

Dhaval Buch is a Mechanical Engineer. He joined HLL in 1984 as Management Trainee and further went on to work as Departmental Engineer in Personal Care in 1986 and ran PC manufacturing from 1996 – 1998. He worked for 3 years in UK in Personal Care Engineering department and headed two new ventures for a couple of years (Ayush and Water). Buch ran the Household Care category from 2001 – 2003, and is currently Executive Director – Supply Chain for HUL and Vice President Supply Chain for South Asia. He is married to a banker and they have a 17 year old son.




Sanjeev Rangrass
General Manager – Operations
ITC limited

Sanjiv Rangrass is currently Member Technical- Executive committee of the Cigarette – Brands and Supply Chain vertical of ITC. His key responsibilities include adoption of best manufacturing practices, achieving benchmark performances in the areas of product quality, responsiveness to market and costs and ensuring intake of talent and its development. His responsibility spans across operations, supply chain, engineering and human resources.

His key focus over the last decade has been in bringing in scientific methods in business processes and has spearheaded changes in planning process, quality processes and operations. The latest has been the function wide implementation of Lean and Six Sigma. During his tenure as General Manager (Operations) he introduced a novel approach to innovations on the shop floor, coordinated induction of technology in all plants and was responsible for rapidly scaling up in operations in identified locations. Between 2001 and 2004, he led the HR function for Tobacco Division, being the first General Manager in ITC to perform such a cross functional assignment. In ITC, he has worked in various capacities across all the manufacturing plants in the Tobacco Division.

Rangrass has extensive manufacturing experience comprising Supply Chain Management, ERP, Quality Management and other significant large scale Change Management initiatives.

He has also participated in the Executive programmes in Wharton and Kellogg as well as the HR Leadership Programme at Michigan University. He is a speaker at several educational institutions.

Rangrass is a Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur.

He is currently a member of the PAN IIT, India Board and represents IIT Kanpur on it.

He is also on the Board of Governors of the new IIM at Shillong.




Sundar Parthasarathy
Managing Director
Otis Elevators

Sundar Parthasarthy is with Otis since 2007 and the company is a market leader in India for installing and servicing people moving systems such as elevators, escalators and moving walkways. Otis revenues in India exceed INR 1.25 billion (250 Million US $) annually with a service base in excess of 40,000 installations around the country. The company employs about 2500 people and has a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Bengaluru. Prior to joining Otis, Parthasarthy was the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Cummins Sales and Service (India) Limited, responsible for Cummins distribution and after-market operations in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Parthasarthy brings with him 23 years of sales, operations and leadership experience, working in a variety of business and functional environments. He began his career with Thermax Limited as Sales Engineer and later held the position of Area Sales Manager for South India. He has also worked with Kirloskar – AAF Limited as their Deputy General Manager, Business Development and later with Wartsila India Limited as Deputy General Manager – Sales, Northern and Eastern Region.

Parthasarthy holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, India. In 1998, he went to the Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK, under the British Chevening Scholarship Programme, coupled with a project assignment with Taylor Woodrow plc, UK.