Ashish Rakheja
- Designation in Focus President
- Current Organisation AEON Integrated Building Design Consultants LLP
- Current Designation Managing Partner
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
Mr. Ashish Rakheja is Partner at AEON Consultants and has a post graduate degree in Thermal Engineering from IIT Delhi with over twenty eight years of work experience.
He is a seasoned Consulting Engineer who has designed over 3000 projects including Hotels, Airports, Hospitals, Retail, Residential, Commercial, High rises and Industrial projects. Mr Rakheja specializes in high-performance buildings and has been actively involved in leading design activities of electro-mechanical services for ten Net Zero Energy Buildings and over sixty Platinum rated green projects in India. He is spearheading the green building movement in India in capacity of role as Chairman, Technical Committee of Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Mr Rakheja is also a Board Member at ASHRAE, USA
Mr Rakheja has won many awards and delivered over 1000 talks on various facets of building design across the world. He is an active member of over 20 Technical societies and regularly contributes his time on writing Standards, codes & position papers for Government bodies & Technical societies. He is involved in imparting training to budding Architects in the field of Building Services and a visiting faculty at leading schools in India.
Mr. Ashish Rakheja along with a team of dynamic sustainability experts and engineers shared a dream of Vikalp, which is an alternate approach to design by moving away from age old practices. Their mantra of thinking out of box paved way for creating AEON Integrated Building Design Consultants LLP.
K.P. Dominic
- Designation in Focus Vice President
- Current Organisation Blue & Gray
- Current Designation Managing Partner
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
35 years of successful & satisfying experience in the Fire Safety & Security domain. Founder of FSAI (Fire and Security Association of India) which was established in 2002, served as the Marketing & Events chairman for 11 years and as the President for 2 years. A committee member of the prestigious National Building Code(NBC). I also have corporate experience in DATS/Honeywell and Mircom as a country Head. Founder, Director, Chairman of Marketing & Events of Forum of Critical Utility Services (FOCUS).I have been actively engaged in conducting Tech talks and workshops and motivational speeches (for tech companies) and over 250 seminars, globally.
Goals:-
Educate & Create awareness on Security & Life Safety Practices to every responsible citizen of India, and to make every Home Safe and Secured.
Specialties:
Marketing, Business Development, Brand Promotion, Motivational Speaker
Dr. C. Velan
- Designation in Focus Vice President
- Current Organisation CapitaLand India Limited
- Current Designation City Head - Chennai Operations
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
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Sandeep Shikre
- Designation in Focus Vice President
- Current Organisation SSA Architects
- Current Designation President & CEO
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
Ar. Sandeep Shikre is the President + CEO of SSA Architects. He is an USGBC LEED Accredited Professional, the founding member of Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) and the Chairman of IGBC Mumbai Chapter.
At SSA, he heads a team of 250+ committed professionals. With a diverse portfolio and with the integration of Architecture, Interior Design and Construction Management Services under one roof, is what makes SSA stand tall and apart, making team unique. His firm specializes in Urban Renewal & High Rise projects and providing solutions that are environmentally sustainable.
SSA is the proud recipient of various international & national awards Recently SSA has also been bestowed with the honor and privilege of being the finalist at the World Architectural Festival 2019 (WAF) for their Residential project, Atharva. Sandeep believes that Architecture is a comprehensive approach, which combines the hard skills of design and the soft skills of human connection and experience. In a nutshell, it’s all about Space, People and Happiness.
Jatin Shah
- Designation in Focus Vice President
- Current Organisation Blue and Gray Management Consultants India Pvt Ltd
- Current Designation Managing Partner
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
35 years of successful & satisfying experience in the Fire Safety & Security domain. Founder of FSAI (Fire and Security Association of India) which was established in 2002, served as the Marketing & Events chairman for 11 years and as the President for 2 years. A committee member of the prestigious National Building Code(NBC). I also have corporate experience in DATS/Honeywell and Mircom as a country Head. Founder, Director, Chairman of Marketing & Events of Forum of Critical Utility Services (FOCUS).I have been actively engaged in conducting Tech talks and workshops and motivational speeches (for tech companies) and over 250 seminars, globally.
Goals:-
Educate & Create awareness on Security & Life Safety Practices to every responsible citizen of India, and to make every Home Safe and Secured.
Specialties:
Marketing, Business Development, Brand Promotion, Motivational Speaker
Ravi Shankar Thandavan
- Designation in Focus General Secretary
- Current Organisation Shlara Automation Pvt. Ltd.
- Current Designation Director & Consultant
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
Ravi Shankar Thandavan has over 33 years of experience across varied industries such as Hospitality, Aesthetic & interior enhancement products, Direct Marketing & Mailing, Material Handling, Advertising & E-commerce.
He is a Domain Expert in the area of Movement & Storage in Confined Spaces. He is Sales & Marketing Consultant to companies from varied fields viz. Parking Management, Automated Mechanical Parking Solutions, Automatic Storage & Retrieval Systems, UV Sanitising & Disinfection Solutions etc.
He is also a Founder Director of Shlara Automation Pvt. Ltd., a company engaged in offering Entrance Automation Solutions for controlling Pedestrian & Vehicular traffic. These are typically products and solutions offered for applications such as Boarding Gates, Access Management into buildings, offices, Theme Parks etc. Parking Management & Parking Guidance products, systems & solutions is another area of speciality that Shlara Automation caters to.
B K Prasad
- Designation in Focus Treasurer
B.K. Prasad is a graduate mechanical engineer from the University of Mysore with a post-graduation in Marketing Management. He has a rich experience of 45 years in Hydraulics especially with pumps and valves. He is into systems engineering and power audit. At present, he is the chairman of The Indian Plumbing Association, Bengaluru Chapter, and a long-standing member of FSAI, ISHRAE and IGBC.
Ashish P Dhakan
- Designation in Focus
- Current Organisation M/s PRAMA HIKVISION INDIA PVT LTD
- Current Designation MD & CEO
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
Ashish P. Dhakan is a first generation entrepreneur with rare foresight and zeal. He has raised the bar of the security industry in India by setting a new benchmark. He is an MBA from Mumbai University witha Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the SS Engineering College, Bhavnagar. An out of the box thinker and business leader, he has supported the cause of Indian Security Industry through various Industry bodies and forums. His consistent efforts and initiatives led to security awareness among government and private sector companies in India.
His vision about Indian security industry’s growth has led to the formation of Prama Hikvision India, the very first joint venture company formed by Hikvision across the world. He led Prama Hikvision into a leading security business entity by successfully creating a pan India network of dealers, distributors and system integrators.
Ashish Dhakan had built a diversified vertical solutions team to cater Hikvision solutions to the Indian market. The vertical solutions offered by Prama Hikvision are best suited for the Indian environment and customized as per end-users requirements and specifications. He led Prama Hikvision in driving technological innovation by offering solutions in the Smart City, Safe City, Transport, Education, Banking, Pharma and Retail segments.
He has also been instrumental in setting up a state-of-the-art training center in India. Itprovides product knowledge and training system integrators, partners and end-users. He has enhanced the customer service through 21 RMA centers to enable RMA processes across India.
He is the driving force behind Hikvision’s ‘Make-in–India’ plan and implementation strategy. He has been instrumental in making big ticket investment in Hikvision’s‘Make in India’ program. It is one of the biggest initiatives rolled out by Prama Hikvision India as a part of India specific product manufacturing roadmap. With this initiative Hikvision has set up a world-class manufacturing plant to cater to Indian market.
Under his dynamic leadership, Prama Hikvision has established impeccable trust and reputation among security industry professionals in India. His pioneering initiatives led to many breakthroughs and established Prama Hikvision as one of the leading security business entities. His success saga is an integral part of Indian security industry’s shining growth story.
A.L.Narasimhan
- Designation in Focus Chairman-Security
- Current Organisation PRAMA HIKVISION India Pvt Ltd.,
- Current Designation Vice President - Strategic Business Alliances
- Mail id marcom@ourfocus.co
Mr. A. L. Narasimhan is the Vice President -Strategic Business Alliances, Prama Hikvision IndiaPvt. Ltd. In his current role he is developingthe strategic business alliances for the company with the government, organisations and industry bodies.
He has vast experience spanning over 37 years in handling the Government Agencies and Public Sector Undertakings. He is known in the Industry for excellence in project management and business development. He has implemented many successful projects in the government verticals.
In his extensive career in the security products and systems business, he has set many new benchmarks in the project management. He is wellknown in the Industry, for his contribution to many successful projects. He has served the senior management positions with some of the leading organizations in India.