33rd Edition – Zak World of Façades India

This was the 33rd edition globally and 1st edition in Hyderabad. It showcased the latest innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to building envelopes and the latest technological solutions.

Speakers and Panelists

Anand Kapadia

Director, Vibrant Façades

Niroop Kumar Reddy

Director, NA Architects

Vinod Kundargi

Principal Consultant, Aspect Façade and Engineering Consultants

In the Façade industry for over 20 years and have held Technical & Managerial roles since 1996 in India and the Middle East. His role involves providing clients with façade solutions for their projects and facilitate commercial & technical negotiations...

Sreenivas Narayanan

Global Partnerships Director, Siderise

Sreenivas Narayan is Technical and Compliance Director for India, the Middle East, and South Asia Pacific at Siderise Group and is responsible for developing and delivering the technical strategy for the business in the region. His experience in the passive...

Mathieu Meur

Director, DP Façade

Mathieu Meur provides strategic and technical leadership as the director of DP Façade. Through his training as a multi-disciplinary engineer, and subsequent years of experience heading the largest façade consultancy practise in the world, he has developed extensive knowledge of...

Ashok Khemlani

Chairman, Clean India Group

23 years back, when he saw first glass building in Mumbai, Ashok Khemlani tied up with Cradle Runways International and imported the very first system. This was for DHL at Andheri. Subsequently, he started manufacturing the facade access systems in...

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,...

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...

Mahesh Arumugam

Regional Director - South Asia, Meinhardt Façade Technology

Mahesh provides the strategic leadership as the Regional Director for Meinhardt Group and Façade Consultancy business in South Asia. He has been in the Engineering Consultancy Services and Construct industry for over 27 years. His experience ranges from Aluminium Glazing...

Renati Venkateswara Rao

General Manager, Wipro Limited

Renati Venkateswara Rao has completed his BE civil from Osmania University during 1986. He has done masters in Urban planning from I I T Roorkee. He served Indian Armed Forces for 21 years in the branch of corps of engineers....

Karan Keswani

Director, Aluplex

Karan Keswani is Operations Director of Aluplex, a graduate in Manufacturing Engineering from Cambridge University, UK (Bachelors and Masters) and a MBA from INSEAD. He has worked at the Alcoa – Aluminium Extrusion plant in England and then went on...

Dushyant Kumar Gupta

Assistant General Manager, Vedanta

A metallurgist from University of Roorkee, with an experience of 17 Years in the field of Aluminium castings namely Billet, Slabs and ingot. Expertise in melting technology, Billet casting & homogenizing. Presently associated with Vedanta Limited. Excellent skills on debottlenecking...

Jean-Paul Hautekeer

Global Strategic Market Director - Building Science, Dow

Jean has developed and lead the implementation of global market strategy to deliver financial results to the business. He coordinates marketing 4P implementation in the different regions through a team of regional marketers. Jean has develop a sustainable innovation growth...

Mathan Ramaiah

Design Director, FHD Group

With over 14 years of international and local experience in the construction industry, Mathan has designed over 100 Million sq.ft of projects ranging from 400 hectare Award-Winning Sustainable Urban Developments to Convention Center to 50-storey Twin Towers in the Middle...

Pavan Kumar

Senior Manager Architect, JLL

Currently managing design for upcoming IT/e- commerce campus building in Hyderabad, working under JLL, a renowned project Management firm as Senior Manger Architect. An Architect by profession has overall 12+years of working experience. Handled many projects IT/commercial/Hospital in terms of...

S P Reddy

Chairman & Managing Director, Terminus Infrastructures

Founded enGenius Consulting Group in 1995. The company offers a broad range of IT-related services ranging from IT strategic planning, e-Governance, software development, business process reengineering, ERP implementation, Cyber Security and Network Management. Since enGenius’ launch in 1995, Mr. Reddy...

S Vasu Prakash

Senior Vice President, Meenakshi Developers

Vasu Prakash has a B Tech Degree in Civil and has completed MBA in marketing. During his time at L&T, he was involved in significant projects across different sectors, demonstrating your versatility and expertise. These projects, including the steel plant,...

Eshan Hemrajani

Director, Glass Wall Systems

Eshan completed his civil engineering and an MSC in business Management from the UK. He designed and set up the principal factory at Rasayani for Glass Wall Systems and is currently Heading the Production.

Arun Madappallath

General Manager - South Asia, Serge Ferrari Group

Arun MADAPPALLATH, a Mathematics graduate and a post-graduate diploma in Computer Applications, is the General Manager of Serge Ferrari India Pvt Ltd for South Asia. He has been associated in the field of tensile membrane architecture for over 18 years...

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...

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...

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...

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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