TAB Surfaces / TAB India Granites Pvt. Ltd. (Engineered Quartz Stone manufacturing and operations company) | Hosur, India (near Bangalore)

Assistant General Manager and Management Appointee - IMS

• Led the Engineered Quartz Stone division as division head, with full P&L responsibility and a cross-functional team of more than 200 employees.
• Reported directly to Mr. Sumit Gupta, Managing Director, and Mr. Amit Gupta, Chairman; work spanned General Management, Operations, Strategy and Finance Analysis.
• Served as Management Appointee / Management Representative for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001; led internal and external audits across the company and led EcoVadis and other product / systems certifications.
• Supervised sourcing, production planning, quality control, inventory, dispatch, sales, daily shop-floor management and production scheduling; reviewed the domestic sales pipeline and digital marketing performance.
• Managed an INR 50 crore budget and worked strategically with management on new product development, plant expansion, capex planning, potential acquisitions and relationships with key global clients including IKEA and Caesarstone.

Senior Operations Manager

Operations Manager

PC Modi & Co (later R Sogani & Associates) (Audit, taxation, corporate law and compliance firm) | Jaipur, India

Articled Assistant, Internal Audit / Statutory Audit / Taxation / Company Law

• Worked on internal audit, statutory audit, taxation and company law matters.
• Executed statutory, internal and tax audits for clients across manufacturing, retail and service sectors.
• Carried out financial analysis and identified process inefficiencies.
• Handled tax compliance work, including Income Tax and Service Tax returns; handled corporate law matters such as company incorporation and statutory filings.
• Received the 'Peacemaker' recognition / award for resolving difficult client audit situations and turning tense working relationships into positive ones.

• Received two out-of-turn promotions, became the youngest-ever Assistant General Manager in company history and served as a trusted strategic advisor to the Managing Director / Chairman on important operational, financial and strategic decisions.
• Led an INR 100 crore expansion project, completed it 10% under budget, delivered capital savings of about INR 10 crore and secured government subsidies totaling INR 2.5 crore.
• Designed and implemented a Toyota Production System-inspired gain-sharing incentive system that delivered about INR 5 crore in annual savings and reduced plant attrition by 20%.
• Implemented a just-in-time procurement strategy that released INR 4 crore in working capital; delivered more than INR 7 crore in annual savings through major operating and strategic initiatives.
• In response to US tariff and trade disruptions affecting quartz exports, built the domestic sales channel from scratch, identified target markets, drove ad campaigns, managed early lead generation and created a new revenue stream that generated about INR 10 crore annually and contributed more than 10% of total plant sales.
• During the strategic China visit, sourced an upcycling machine worth about INR 50 lakh that saved about INR 2 crore annually.
• Led a compliance effort that improved the audit / compliance score from 65% to 95%.
• Led digital transformation initiatives at TAB, including app development, SAP ERP implementation / customization and an IoT-enabled Manufacturing Intelligence Platform.
• After a strategic visit to China, initiated an R&D shift toward sustainable quartz, helping create first-mover advantage in Australia, Europe and the US.
• Developed a customer and kitchen visualization tool for which a design patent has been filed and is pending.

• Chartered Accountant (CA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
• Bachelor of Commerce, University Commerce College / University of Rajasthan, 2012-2015.

• Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA), Corporate Finance Institute (CFI), issued Mar 2026.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG, issued Feb 2026.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance, issued Jan 2026.
• AI for Business: Marketing, Finance, People Management, Strategy & Governance, University of Pennsylvania, issued Jul 2025.
• Agentic AI, DeepLearning.AI, issued Jan 2026.
• Artificial Intelligence for CA (AICA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, issued Jun 2025.
• New Age Business Models - Gold Certification, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, issued Jan 2025.
• Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Duke University, issued Dec 2024.
• Certificate Course on Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, issued Nov 2023.
• SAP Finance & Controlling (FI-CO) Power User Course, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, issued Jan 2022.

• Started a Saturday Club at the company for sessions on Excel, tax filing, personal finance and meditation; mentored the office boy's son through CA, after which he secured a role at Amazon; worked to maintain a flat hierarchy and mentor junior employees.
• Appointed to the Governing Council of IIS University, where Mr. Sumit Gupta is Pro-Chancellor; role scope included guiding executive hires, finalizing the new ERP system and shaping digital strategy.
• Developed a CA fraternity CustomGPT trained on 50,000+ pages of ICAI publications.