TAB Surfaces / TAB India Granites Pvt. Ltd. (engineered-quartz stone manufacturing and export company) | Hosur, India (near Bengaluru)

Assistant General Manager & 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 the Managing Director and Chairman; work spanned General Management, Operations, Strategy and Financial Analysis.
• Served as Management Appointee / Management Representative for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001; led internal and external audits, 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, including Income Tax and Service Tax returns, and corporate-law matters such as company incorporation and statutory filings.
• Received the 'Peacemaker' recognition for resolving difficult client-audit situations and turning tense working relationships into positive ones.

• Led the engineered-quartz division with full P&L ownership, an INR 50 crore budget and a 200+ member cross-functional team.
• Earned two out-of-turn promotions to become TAB's youngest-ever Assistant General Manager and served as a trusted adviser to the Managing Director and Chairman on major operational, financial and strategic decisions.
• Built the domestic sales channel from scratch during US tariff disruption, generating about INR 10 crore annually and contributing more than 10% of plant sales.
• Led an INR 100 crore expansion project 10% under budget, saving about INR 10 crore and securing INR 2.5 crore in government subsidies.
• Designed and implemented a Toyota Production System-inspired gain-sharing system, delivering about INR 5 crore in annual savings and reducing plant attrition by 20%.
• Implemented just-in-time procurement, releasing INR 4 crore in working capital; delivered more than INR 7 crore in annual savings through major operating and strategic initiatives.
• Sourced an INR 50 lakh upcycling machine during a strategic China visit, creating about INR 2 crore in annual savings.
• Led ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 audits, EcoVadis and related certifications, raising the audit / compliance score from 65% to 95%.
• Initiated an R&D shift toward sustainable quartz after a strategic China visit, helping create first-mover advantage in Australia, Europe and the US.
• Founded and operates The 7AM Brief end-to-end as a live daily news platform with 100+ email subscribers.

• 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, issued Mar 2026.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG, issued Feb 2026.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance, issued Jan 2026.
• Agentic AI, DeepLearning.AI, issued Jan 2026.
• AI for Business: Marketing, Finance, People Management, Strategy & Governance, University of Pennsylvania, issued Jul 2025.
• Artificial Intelligence for CA (AICA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, issued Jun 2025.
• New Age Business Models - Gold Certification, IIM 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.

• Serve as Candidate Strategy Lead at Pay It Forward after mentoring 6 MBA aspirants in the previous cycle; also revamped the pro-bono mentorship collective's website.
• Developed an IIMA Super App prototype for a Digital Transformation of Business project and currently work with the institute IT team to finalise deliverables for the Unified Campus Platform.
• Built Deadline Radar, an AI event-and-deadline portal used by the 160-member IIMA PGPX batch.
• Co-founded One Nation, One Group, a pan-India MBA knowledge-transfer community with approximately 500 members from different business schools.
• Served on the Governing Council of IIS University, advising on executive hiring, ERP selection and digital strategy.
• Built an alumni website for Jaipuria Vidyalaya and am working with the school administration to establish a formal alumni society.
• Founded and led the Saturday Club at TAB for employee learning; separately mentored an employee's son through CA, after which he secured a role at Amazon.
• Developed a CA-fraternity CustomGPT trained on 50,000+ pages of ICAI publications.