Growth through strong leadership
India Partners
Saurine Doshi
Saurine leads the A.T. Kearney India unit. He joined A.T. Kearney in 1994, and has been a partner since 2002. Over the last 18 years, Saurine has worked with and delivered value to major Indian and global clients across a diverse set of industries including Consumer Products and Retail, Communications and High-tech, Automotive and District Manufacturing, and Pharmaceutical and Healthcare.
His expertise lies in driving growth and business strategies, transforming and enhancing organization capabilities, and delivering large scale margin improvement / cost reduction programs.
Saurine earned an M.B.A. from Wharton School of Business, and also has a civil engineering degree from the University of Colorado.
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Debashish Mukherjee
Debashish has over 11 years of consulting experience assisting leading global and Indian companies evaluate strategic decisions as well as supporting them in their operations improvement initiatives. Debashish focuses on Consumer Goods and Retail and has been integral to developing a strong practice in India over the last few years and a key member of the India team over the last 10 years. His range of clients include hypermarkets, rural retailers and a variety of consumer goods companies who he has advised across business strategy, category management, marketing effectiveness and supply chain.
Debashish is a sought after speaker at industry forums and has a wealth of thought leadership documents to his credit. Apart from India, he has significant experience in the Middle East and Australia with A.T. Kearney.
Personal Interests: Weekend pursuits include jogging, playing quash and keeping himself proficient on his drum sets. He also plans to start a jam band soon with old mates.
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Hemant Kalbag
Hemant is a partner based in Mumbai, and heads the consumer and retail practice for Asia. He moved to India in 2006, and over the last several years has been involved with some of the largest retail launches in India. Hemant also works closely with leading FMCG companies in India advising them in areas of strategy, operations and transformation.
He has authored some key thought pieces and is widely published and quoted in local media. This includes the CII-A.T. Kearney study on the future of the retail industry, and several articles in the Economic Times, Business Today, Business Standard, etc.
Prior to joining A.T. Kearney india, Hemant spent two years as a senior executive with Levitz, a home furnishings retailer based in New York. Before Levitz, he was also a consultant with A.T. Kearney.
Hemant has as BA in economics from Temple University and an Exec MBA from University of Michigan.
Personal Interests: Hemant enjoys traveling around the world with his family. Golf and tennis are aspirational hobbies.
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Manish Mathur
Manish has over 15 years of management consulting and automotive industry experience. His focus spans across automotive and aerospace. He has been advising Asia’s leading automotive commercial vehicle OEMs, passenger vehicle OEMs, and auto component manufacturers on a broad range of topics including long term business strategy, cost and complexity reduction, global market strategies and auto financing strategies. Manish has also advised a large number of private equity firms on investment opportunities identification, due diligence and post-acquisition strategies of automotive companies. In the aerospace sector, Manish has been advising clients on market assessment, market entry strategies for aircraft manufacturing and M&A due diligence.
Personal Interests: Manish’s Interests include travelling to places of historical significance and reading contemporary authors.
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Mohit Rana
Mohit has over 17 years of experience in industry and consulting and has led complex engagements with Indian and global telecom, media and IT companies. His areas of expertise include strategy, new business launch, sales & marketing and large scale organisational restructuring. Apart from technology companies, he also works with clients in the energy, construction and services sectors. He has a deep interest in adoption of new technologies and how these changes have fundamentally impacted industry structures over the last 2 decades.
Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, Mohit worked with ICICI, financing infrastructure projects. He has also worked with a global telecom equipment player setting up telecom networks and has an in-depth understanding of technology issues related to the industry.
His educational background includes an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Delhi.
Personal Interests: Reading, swimming
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Nikolai Dobberstein
Nikolai has over 19 years of experience across consulting and telecoms. Most recently, Nikolai was the SVP New Businesses & Strategy at Maxis (end 2004 to early 2010), where he was responsible for all data, mobile internet and broadband businesses and corporate strategy. Maxis is Malaysia’s leading mobile operator and has operations in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. He transformed Maxis into a globally leading mobile data and internet player, making Maxis one of the global top 15 operators in non-voice share.
Before joining Maxis, Nikolai was with McKinsey & Company for 12 years, where he served as Managing Partner of the Kuala Lumpur office from 2002 to 2004. His consulting experience was focused on telecoms & technology, change management and M&A. Nikolai moved to Malaysia in November 1996, after having worked for 4 years in the Indian (Mumbai) and 1 year in the Italian offices of McKinsey.
Nikolai holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Innovation Management from the University of Kiel, Germany.
Personal Interests: Nikolai is a passionate tennis player, avid reader and enthusiastic traveler. He is married to a very sociable Indian with two boys.
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Vikas Kaushal
Vikas leads the Energy and Process Industries practice for the firm in India. He has over 17 years of industry and consulting experience. He has worked extensively with the leading Indian and MNC organisations focused on the Indian Energy and Process industries including oil and gas, power, chemicals and metals and mining. He has also worked with many emerging players in the renewable domain. His functional expertise includes business strategies and planning, process improvements, procurement transformation, organisation design and large scale program management.
Vikas plays a key role in the regional Energy and Process Industries practice in Asia and in this role has had the opportunity of working with Energy and Process Industries players across many countries in Asia. He is a frequent speaker in public forums.
Personal Interests: Vikas is passionate about Formula 1 and cricket. He has recently taken up running and tries to improve his running results.
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Shiv Shivaraman
Shiv has extensive global industry and consulting experience in the Automotive and Chemical industries and recently relocated to India after about 20 years in the US. He has built deep expertise in the automotive sector across North America and Europe in a broad range of topics across the value chain including product development/engineering, supply chain and manufacturing and procurement. Shiv has advised most global Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers globally across a multitude of areas such as engineering efficiency and effectiveness, design cost reduction, complexity management, engineering off shoring, procurement and supply chain transformation as well as in manufacturing improvement. Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, Shiv spent 7+ years working as an engineering consultant in the chemical and process industry and continues to work with process industry clients on engineering, procurement, supply chain and cost reduction topics. Building on his industry and functional expertise, Shiv has published multiple articles on topics like Working Capital Reduction, Material Cost Reduction Strategies, Ultra Low Cost Product Development (ULCPD), Ultra Low Cost Cars (ULCC) which have been referenced and/or published in leading industry publications like the Economist, Industry Week, Ward’s Automotive etc.
Shiv holds an MBA degree from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, an M.S.ME from University of Florida, USA, and a B.S.ME from Bangalore University, India.
Personal Interests: Reading, traveling
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Gaurav Gupta
Gaurav has over 15 years of consulting and industry experience, with the last 10 years focused on the IT and BPO industry. Most recently Gaurav was a Managing Partner at Everest Group, a boutique consulting and research firm, where he had responsibility for the Firm’s India and regional business. Across his tenure at Everest Group in the US and India, Gaurav has served leading IT/BPO buyers, suppliers, industry and government bodies as well as investors in the offshoring and outsourcing space.
Before joining Everest Group, Gaurav was a core member of the sales and relationship management team of Progeon Limited (now Infosys BPO) in the US, where he developed and managed relationships with leading financial services, resources and hi-tech companies. Gaurav has also worked at McKinsey and Company in India for over 5 years across a variety of strategy, operational and organizational engagements.
Gaurav has a BA in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and an MBA from IIM, Bangalore
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Kaushik Madhavan
Kaushika Madhavan has over 16 years of consulting & industry experience. In his consulting career, Kaushika has been involved in several large scale organization transformation engagements helping clients achieve breakthrough improvements in service level, cost structure and time to market across multiple industries.
Kaushika is a PGDM from IIM, Ahmedabad and has an engineering degree from Annamalai University. He has worked for Larsen & Toubro, Arthur Andersen & KPMG prior to joining A.T. Kearney.
Personal Interests: In his free time, Kaushika likes to spend time with his son, daughter & wife, is an avid reader of books, watches movies and has recently started dabbling in photography.
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India Principals
Abhishek Poddar
Abhishek has about twelve years of consulting experience in energy & process industries (including utilities, metals and mining, chemicals), infrastructure and logistics sectors. His areas of expertise include business strategy & reorganisation, enterprise transformation, market entry assessment, organizational and financial restructuring.
Personal Interests: Abhishek enjoys traveling, watching movies, reading ancient history and Indian mythology. He also collects T shirts with country names from all the places he visits.
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Ajay Gupta
Ajay has over 13 years of consulting experience, wherein he has been advising companies across communications, media and information technology. He has led wide ranging engagements ranging from business and operating model design, business valuation, marketing strategy and revenue enhancement. In addition, Ajay has deep expertise in driving cross-functional operational excellence programs across domestic and multinational companies resulting in dramatic top-line and bottom-line impact.
Besides his industry focus, Ajay is passionate about the “customer” domain. Before joining A.T. Kearney, he was with Accenture for 9 years, where he led the launch and growth of the customer relationship management service line. He was responsible for thought leadership, development and implementation of various offerings pertaining to marketing, sales and customer service transformation for diverse businesses. In the past, Ajay has been responsible for driving pioneering consulting engagements including value delivery linked fee structures, analytics driven enterprise value enhancement and transformational outsourcing programs from concept to operations.
Ajay completed his MBA at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1998, and has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering
Personal Interests: Ajay has a very keen interest in photography, honed on the now obsolete film-based SLRs. He likes shooting candid street pictures in Mumbai and while travelling throughout the world. He reads avidly, especially Indian fiction, philosophy and mythology. His favorite stress buster is cooking and he can be found rustling up a Jamie Oliver recipe for friends on weekends. Music- spanning classic rock to sub-continental Ghazals- as well as world cinema are his other relaxing pursuits.
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Anshuman Maheshwary
Anshuman is a Principal with the Energy & Process Industries Practice for A.T. Kearney in India. He has over 10 years of experience in management consulting across India, Asia, Australia and Middle East & North Africa. His core competence lies in advising clients on entry and growth strategies, market assessments and business planning, due diligences, project / capex management, operational improvements and complete organizational transformation. He has considerable expertise across Oil & Gas, Power and Downstream Process (including Chemicals & Fertilizer) industries. He also does considerable work in the Transportation & Logistics sector, supporting global service providers in various strategic and operational topics.
Anshuman has been advising several large Indian and global companies in the Energy sector. He has specifically done significant work across the Oil & Gas value chain in India and the Asia-Pacific region. His work with these clients include visioning & strategy development, market entry, strategic sourcing & procurement transformation, large-scale project management, organization restructuring and large scale business transformation.
Anshuman is a regular speaker at public forums in both Indian and International conferences. He has also collaborated with leading academic organizations, including the Stanford University on these topics.
Personal Interests: Anshuman loves spending time with his eight month old daughter. In addition, both he and his wife are passionate about travelling and photography.
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Arun Unni
Arun has built expertise in the energy and infrastructure sectors in India over his ten years of consulting. He has worked with a number of clients across the energy space, including in oil&gas, power and renewables. He is particularly interested in renewables and sustainability-related issues. With India becoming a hotbed for climate change topics, he hopes to continue this focus.
Arun has worked across a broad range of topics including growth strategy, market entry, policy advisory, operational efficiency improvement, and supply chain design. He enjoys the travel opportunities that consulting, as a profession, provides.
Personal Interests: Arun is an avid reader. His other interests include gaming, and playing the flute, when his daughter allows him to
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Himanshu Bajaj
Himanshu has over 9 years of consulting and industry experience with strong expertise in CIRP working with clients in both retail and consumer goods. He has also done significant amount of work in other industries including energy (especially renewables), water, real estate, chemical and fertilizers across multiple geographies.
His main functional areas of expertise are strategy development (entry and growth strategies), large scale transformation programs/organization turnaround and media efficiency improvement.
Personal Interests: Himanshu’s strong passion for working out ensures that he hits the gym at least three times a week. He is an avid follower of sports including cricket, soccer, Formula 1 and also enjoys reading fiction.
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Neelesh Hundekari
Neelesh has 19 years of consulting and industry experience and is one of the leaders of the Consumer Industries and Retail Practice in India. He has advised several large retailers and consumer goods companies on Entry and Growth Strategy, Operations Strategy, Performance Improvement and Organization and Change.
Neelesh is an expert in the Luxury & Lifestyle Industry and has advised leading Indian and International clients in the Apparel & Accessories, Jewellery, Watches & Home Furnishings segments, across several geographies – India, US, EU, Japan and Middle East. He has also has authored comprehensive studies of the Luxury industry in India and spoken at key luxury forums.
Neelesh has earned his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Personal Interests: Spending time with kids, cooking, travelling, retaining fitness, and movies.
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Vinod Kumar
Vinod has more than 16 years of consulting and industry experience focused in the automotive and discrete manufacturing industry. He has worked closely with automotive and auto component companies, diversified industrial groups and industrial associations on a broad range of topics, including: corporate and business unit strategy, entry strategy, process improvement and end-to-end cost reduction programs.
Vinod has wide global exposure, having worked in 11 countries on various consulting assignments across industries.
Personal Interests: Vinod is a sports enthusiast, likes travel and movies
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Sarovar Aggarwal
Sarovar has over 8 years of experience in consulting and industry. He is a core member of the Communications and High Tech practice in India. He has worked closely with a top-three Indian mobile operator for the last two years, on a range of topics spanning from cost and working capital transformation, to functional strategies and organizational design and change management efforts. Sarovar has also worked in other sectors and geographies including real estate, retail, process industries (maintenance) and automotive. His areas of functional expertise are large-scale cost and organizational transformation, business entry strategy and launch support.
Sarovar has also anchored multiple firm-building efforts for the India unit, including recruitment for one of our key campuses, in-office events as well as alumni relations.
Personal Interests: His interests include cooking and traveling to new countries every year.
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Ram Kidambi
Eight years of Automotive industry experience in North America. Seven years of consulting experience. Ram has built solid expertise in the automotive industry across North America, India and South East Asia. He has worked closely with global automotive OEM’s, suppliers and private equity companies on a broad range of topics, including top line sales improvement, benchmarking and productivity, material cost reduction, complexity reduction, manufacturing cost reduction, SG&A cost reduction, off-shoring, and business process re-engineering. Ram has co-authored multiple white papers for the automotive industry.
Personal Interests: Interests include travelling with family (and making plans for the next trip), sudden bursts of enthusiasm for long-distance running, and a complete fascination with anything related to spectator sports—anywhere in the world.
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Mayank Bansal
Mayank has more than 11 years of global consulting and management experience with a focus on ‘Automotive & Discrete Manufacturing’ vertical and ‘Performance Improvement’ horizontal. He has served multiple Automotive clients across India and North America, including OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, on a broad range of topics. Mayank is very passionate about ‘rolling-up-his-sleeves’ and making a real impact in the performance of a company. He has led several performance improvement projects across the value chain for clients in multiple verticals.
Mayank started his career as a Management Trainee at HUL and then spent more than 7 years at McKinsey & Company before joining A.T. Kearney. He is a B.Tech. from I.I.T. Mumbai and an MBA from ISB.
Personal Interests: In his personal time, Mayank enjoys his role as a "Dad". Mayank and his wife love spending time with their daughter and are also avid travelers always on the lookout for scenic destinations.
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Pameela Pattabirman
Pameela has built deep expertise in the functional areas of strategy development, business planning, sourcing and supply chain management, specifically focused on the retail and consumer goods industry. She has worked with key retail accounts for the India unit and has significant experience in both multi-category and specialty retail. In her seven-year consulting career, Pameela has worked with clients in India as well as South-East Asia and Australia.
Pameela is the key anchor of Women’s Consulting Network for the India unit. Besides this, she plays a significant role in firm-building initiatives such as recruitment and people care & development.
Personal Interests: In her spare time, Pameela enjoys travelling to and exploring new countries. She also likes cooking ‘Master Chef’ inspired meals, yoga, watching movies and reading mystery novels.
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Utsav Garg
Utsav specializes in Marketing, Customer Service, Sales, Distribution and Operations with a focus on Telecom players. Over his ten-year industry and consulting career, he has worked with Telecoms and Consumer industry players across Asia Pacific and Europe on a broad range of topics like Marketing effectiveness, Customer service, Sales and distribution, Shared services, Outsourcing and Organization transformation.
Utsav has published several media articles on Telecom strategy and operations topics, such as next generation marketing effectiveness models and the Indian Telecom industry landscape. He leads the firm’s “Spirit of Service” initiative for India Unit – Unnati – and has been instrumental in getting substantial contributions to several NGO firms from India through this platform.
Utsav holds a Masters degree in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Bachelors in Technology from Indian Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Personal Interests: Utsav is a sports enthusiast who follows everything from Indian Premier League cricket to Formula 1 racing. He also spends time volunteering through Unnati and enjoys lip syncing to old Bollywood songs.
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Akshat Seth
Akshat is a Principal with the Energy & Process Industries practice of A.T. Kearney in India. He has over 8 years of management consulting experience primarily focused on Oil & Gas and Chemical industries. His core expertise lies in Strategy development, Due diligence and in Capex management. In addition, he has significant experience in the Telecom and Utility space around Cost reduction topics.
Akshat has strong international experience having spent significant time in Middle East and Europe, more recently through his two year stint with the London office of A.T. Kearney.
He has co-authored several papers / articles on Natural Gas and Capex topics and also collaborated with leading academic institutions, including the Stanford University.
Personal Interests: In his spare time, Akshat enjoys travelling, reading autobiographies and catching up on latest Bollywood flicks
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