Introducing Our Core Team
Sanjay B. Shah
Founder and Principal Consultant
Sanjay has 30 years of experience, held leadership roles at prominent global Bio/Pharma (Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Amgen) and Engineering Consulting organizations. He spent 16+ years in the US and is in India since 2010. He is a recognized subject matter expert and has helped several organizations in their transformation journeys, has led projects right from inception through planning, design, execution and start-up. He has firsthand experience with global best practices. He holds MS in Chemical Engineering from the US.
Key focus areas:
- Manufacturing operations transformation
- Capability building towards mature Tech Ops
- Process engineering & design
- Strategic capacity & infrastructure planning
- Capital projects
- Advanced process controls, PAT
- Tech transfer, process scale-up
- Quality systems
- Plant engineering
- Sustainability
- CIP/SIP design and integration
- Process safety management
- Comprehensive start-up, CQV planning and strategy
Keyur Bhavsar
Head, Automation & Digitalization
Keyur is a recognized automation expert with over 23 years of experience in designing and developing automation, and instrumentation systems.
He possesses strong technical background, and project management skills with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations.
Keyur has closely worked with several global and Asian/Indian clients. Keyur has extensive experience with biotech, pharma, dairy, food, beverage and chemical industries.
He holds BE in Instrumentation & Control.
Key focus areas:
- Process automation & integration
- Automation upgrades at legacy facilities
- Instrumentation & process control
- IT/OT convergence
- Data acquisition, historian, analytics
- Building automation
- Extra low-voltage systems
- Managing and coordinating with system integrators
- Automation start-up planning
- MES integration
- Automation platforms: Siemens, Rockwell, Emerson, Schneider
Ramya Seshadri
Head, Engineering & Design
Ramya is design subject matter expert with 16+ years of experience, leading multiple global and Asia Pacific projects. She has experience in facility design, planning, project costing, supporting process engineering deliverables for biopharmaceutical and injectables facilities.
She has experience in design of clean utilities, CIP, hygienic piping, spatial planning & 3D design, project management, coordination with other infrastructure A&E and vendor firms. Ramya holds Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering.
Key focus areas:
- Design of process, clean utilities, HVAC systems
- Site master planning
- Spatial planning, retrofitting in constrained spaces
- Process, CIP and SIP engineering and design integration
- Clean utility sizing and distribution design
- CIP sizing and distribution design
- Project coordination with multiple disciplines and service partners
- AutoCAD software for plan, elevations, orthographic & isometric projections
- Navisworks software for interdisciplinary 3D review