27th Edition – Zak World of Façades India

This was the 27th edition globally and 18th edition in India. It showcased the latest innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to building envelopes and the latest technological solutions.

Speakers and Panelists

Prabhat Rahangdale

Chief Fire Officer, Mumbai Fire Brigade

Nitin Govila

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer + Sr. VP - Asia Pacific + MEA, Serge Ferrari

Nitin Govila is a senior-level International Director with diversified experience in managing business operations in B2B, B2C environments across different business categories at a Regional level. He has also handled international consulting assignments and global projects. Nitin is based out...

Malvinder Singh Rooprai

Senior Technical Program Manager - APAC, Kuraray

Malvinder Singh Rooprai, Architectural Market Development Manager & Technical Consultant for PVB division of Kuraray, is based out of New Delhi – INDIA. His key responsibilities are to grow the market for value added products under the umbrella of Trosifol®...

Frank Goudman

Export Sales Director, Renson

Frank Goudman is a Belgian engineer in civil building graduated in 1988. In the first years of his career he was R&D manager for Reynaers Aluminium and since 1994 as an Export Director for Reynaers Aluminium, has been developing new...

Mukesh Jaitley

Director - Projects, The Wadhwa Group

Mukesh is an experienced Director of Projects with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry. He is skilled in Negotiation, Budgeting, Value Engineering, Business Planning, and Cost Management. She is a strong operations professional.

Girish Dharachar

Managing Director, Umicore India

Girish has 22 years of experience in Sales, Operations & Management of businesses related to Process Industry solutions, Building Materials & Allied Systems through Direct Product, Direct Solution and Channel Management business models. He is the Managing Director at Umicore...

Rajeev Antony

Managing Director, Schueco India

Line functions: General Management, CEO, Head of business unit, Start up’s, New Business Development, Field Operations Staff functions: Strategic plans, Board of directors, Business plans, Financial Analysis, Corporate Planning, Product Management, Industrial Marketing 23 Years Experience with 13 years of...

Sourabh Kankar

Marketing Manager - India, Gujarat Guardian

Sourabh Kankar heads Marketing Operation at Gujarat Guardian Limited, a leading manufacturer of float, coated and mirror glass products. A Computer Science graduate with a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing and Finance, Sourabh spent over 14 years in various Technical,...

Tanuj Sharma

Director Marketing & Sales - Eastern Europe, CSG Holdings

Over 14 years of experience in the façade industry, Mr. Tanuj Sharma is a known personality in the South Asia market, a master in business administration, foreign trade & consulting facade engineer, He is currently handling the role of directing...

Kamlesh Choudhari

Director, Glass Wall Systems

Born with an aim to conquer his ambition in life and goal. He started working as a entrepreneur to take path in achieving his vision. With over two decade plus experience in Façade industry.He has played a pivotal role in...

Rajan Govind

Director - Façade + Construction Tech Specialist, BES Consultants

Rajan has more than 30 years of international experience within the facade industry, out of which he has served more than 11 years at Arup. With Structural engineering background Rajan has gained working experiences in various regions such as Asia,...

Micha Pawelka

Chief Operating Officer, Priedemann Façade Experts

Micha Pawelka, who has an academic qualification in Wholesale Management and Foreign Trade, gained over 20 years of experience in the Glass and Facade Industry in Europe. He was a Sales Director in the Schollglas Group in Germany before relocating...

Pronit Nath

Principal Architect, Urban Studio

Urban Studio is a multi disciplinary firm with a boutique vibe and we enjoy a 360 degree approach right from masterplanning to the smallest product details. They want to build something that can stay relevant in the perspective of time....

Ulhas Ghare

Consultant, GFRC Technology

Ulhas Ghare has 32 years of experience in the field of composites like GFRC / GRP / GFRG Facade Materials. He has independently set up GFRC factories in India and Middle East. He has designed, manufactured and installed GFRC /...

Balaji Chandran

Head - Speciality Business, FunderMax India

Balaji has been associated with FunderMax India from past 4+ years and has always had an eye to the details. He has been primarily responsible for façades and structural design of complex building structures involving FunderMax panels for number of...

Nikita Mehta

Principal, NM Corp

Nikita is the Founder of NM Corp with over 13 years of experience leading large multidisciplinary teams in the design of large scale complex projects across the architecture industry. The diversity of her work spans across Residential, Commercial, Retail, Convention...

Koushik Sarkar

CEO, USG Boral India

Koushik Sarkar, CEO of USG Boral South Asia has more than 25 years experience in the Building Material industry in India as well as abroad. During this time he has held leadership positions in organizations like Saint Gobain Construction Products,...

Sundeep Gwash

Principal, The Firm Associates

He is the cofounder of THE FIRM along with Architect Vishal Shah. Sundeep has been responsible as lead architect and design team leader for a wide range of projects in the commercial, residential, educational, urban, media and leisure sectors involving...

Seema Puri

Principal Architect, Seza Architects

Seema Puri-Mullan: Having completed her Government Diploma in Architecture (G.D.Arch) from Rachna Sansad’s “ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE”, Mumbai in 1991, she worked for a number of years before setting up her own practice in 1998. Philosophy: A design should rise and mould itself...

Akhil Palherkar

Joint General Manager, L&T Realty

Akhil is the Architecture Head for development of South Mumbai Project clusters. Prior to this he was with RSP Design as an Associate Director where he was involved in Management of Studio & leading Design, Planning, co-ordination and execution of...

Sanmukh Bawa

Project Engineer, Eckersley O’Callaghan

Sanmukh joined Eckersley O’Callaghan in 2012 and has always had an eye to details. He has been primarily responsible for facades and structural design of complex glass structures including a number of Apple flagship retails stores worldwide and has increasingly...

Hans Brouwer

Director, HB Design

Hans was born in Hong Kong in 1961 where he lived until he was 11 years old. He was sent to boarding school in Switzerland where he completed his Matura (equivalent to A-levels) in Davos and then entered the first...

Hitesha Thakur

VP - Estimation, Glass Wall Systems

Hitesha Thakur has completed her Architecture from Mumbai University. A technical Façade design and project management professional with an immense techno commercial skills, she has an experience of over 15 years in this field. She has been a technical support,...

Ashish Kapoor

Sales Director, Schueco India

Ashish is a sales and marketing professional with over 30 years of experience in building material industry and quality management. He has worked with several multinationals bringing in his skills to the best use for the growth and development of...

Ravishankar Subramanian

R&D Head, Dow

Ravishankar supports the TS&D team to drive projects in innovation and transformational growth projects. In addition, he has domain expertise in providing design support and demonstrated technical leadership in building facade projects for India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. Ravi joined...

Niraj Borikar

Country Manager, DanPal India

Niraj Borikar is the Country Manager of Dan Pal (India) Private Limited managing the operations in India with responsibility of establishing and growing the business of versatile and innovative portfolio of Light Architecture Solutions. Niraj is a Mechanical Engineering graduate...

Tariq Kachwala

Director, FG Glass

Tariq Kachwala is the Director of FG Glass Industries and has 12 years of experience in the glass processing industry. He spearheads marketing, strategy and new business development and is also a consultant to architects and façade specialists on the...

Jawahar HH

Director, Glass Wall Systems

Serving the façade industry for more than 27 years, Jawahar makes sure all his ventures are met with immaculate precision and absolute commercial success.

KR Suresh

Regional Director, Avante Facades Consulting

With a view to lead by example through devoted work ethics and constant innovation, Suresh is one of the most sought after façade consultants of India with a unique approach of integrating and detailing to insure that all elements of...

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