21st Edition – Zak World of Façades India

This was the 21st edition globally and 15th 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

Tejasvi Nagaraju

Associate Director - Design, RMZ Corp

Dr. Prashanth Reddy

Managing Director, FunderMax

An astute, self-motivated, results driven leader and Managing Director, Dr.Prashanth Reddy spearheads Fundermax, the leading Austrian architectural brand’s Indian business for the last 16 years from a career spanning 31 years. A mechanical engineer, postgraduate in business administration and a...

Ravindra Kumar

Director - Design, Venkataramanan Associates

Ravindra Kumar (Ravee), architect, heads Design as a Director at Venkataramanan associates. His strength has been in providing innovative design solutions to emerging project trends in Asia. He has a keen understanding of the complex needs of urbanity and its...

Jatin Shah

Chief Technical Officer - India & Managing Director, Colliers

Seasoned Project Management professional with 22+ years of demonstrated history delivering diverse Real Estate industry in India and overseas. Skilled in all aspects of development management, Jatin has a proven delivery track record and first-hand knowledge of the entire real...

PV Varghese

Director & CEO, Sobha Developers (Glazing Division)

Mr. P.V. Varghese serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Sobha Glazing & Metal Work Division at Sobha Limited and has over 2 decades of experience in the field of Glazing, Cladding & Construction Management. He has been associated with...

Tapan Mozumdar

Divisional Manager - Project Director, Central Projects Division, ITC

26 years in Industrial Projects and Real Estate Projects. Projects Handled in Steel, Aluminium, Power Substations, Data Centre, Office Building,Residential building sectors. Worked as consultant, contractor, design engineer, commissioning engineer and now in ownership position. Recent projects include green field...

Tom Thomas

Principal Architect, Thomas Associates

Ar. T M THOMAS has more than 40 years of experience in the field of traditional and specialized architectural services. Having a Bachelor’s degree from the Madras University, he is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects and the...

Winfried Heusler

Head of Corporate Building Excellence, Schüco International

Winfried Heusler has worked with GARTNER, a façade construction company in Germany, from 1981 to 1998. Afterwards, he has been associated with Schüco International as Technical Director for Aluminium and CTO (Chief Technical Officer). As Sr. VP-Engineering, he oversaw international...

Antony John

Engineering Director, Schueco India

Mr. Antony John has been in the façade and fenestration industry for over two decades and has a vast experience in project management, design, fabrication and installation ranging from residential to commercial sector. He has played a pivotal role in...

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...

Praveen Chaubey

Principal, Facade Design Factory

Mr.Praveen K. Chaubey is one of the well-known names in the field of façade engineering in India and internationally. He have an experience of more than 15 years in Façade Industry. He has executed many complicated facades in india and...

Mahesh Khaitan

Director, Salarpuria Group

Mr. Mahesh Khaitan serves as a Director at Sattva Group. Mr. Khaitan has more than two decades of rich experience in Planning, Designing and Execution of Projects. He spearheads Project Development, infuses quality and commitment into every aspect of the...

Harmeet Singh

Director, Global Façade Solutions

Mr Singh has around 3 decades of experience in manufacturing/design/planning/execution of aluminium window and curtain walling of all types unitized, semi unitized, stick etc., suspended glazing systems, complemented by global experience in the field.

Bernhard Koll

Technical Marketing Manager, Kuraray Europe

Bernhard Koll joined the today’s Kuraray Europe company/Germany in 1990. The first 11 years he worked in R&D group for TROSIFOL Polyvinyl Butyral (PVB) interlayer for laminated safety glass. In 2002 he moved to the Technical Marketing position being responsible...

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...

Vikram Desai

Principal/Studio Head, CnT Architects

CnT Architects (earlier known as Chandavarkar & Thacker Architects Pvt Ltd.) traces its roots back to being Bangalore’s first architectural firm with its practice founded by the late Mr. Narayan Chandavarkar in 1947. It was reorganised under Chandavarkar & Thacker...

Vikas Gore

Director, DP Architects - Singapore

Mr Vikas M Gore was born in the United States and grew up in India. He came to Singapore on a holiday after graduating. Upon joining DP Architects, he ended up liking his job so much it still feels like...

Jae Kim

Vice President, Callison RTKL

Jae Kim is a Vice President of Callison RTKL’s Commercial Practice Group that primarily focuses on the India market. He has been a Design Principal for the firms India projects since 2009 and has worked directly with prestigious Indian clients...

Kapil Chikodi

Head - Business Development, Glass Wall Systems

Kapil is the head of Business Development in Glass Wall Systems. He looks after the Indian operation & new International Business assignments for Façade Engineering. Glass Wall Systems Pvt Ltd is India’s leading facade fabricator. They provide turnkey architectural facade...

Kavitha Selvaraj

Director, CRN Architects

Kavitha Selvaraj is a Principal architect and Director at C R Narayana Rao. She has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from residences, campuses to large scale Master planning projects. She divides her time between design practice, teaching...

KP Nagaraj

Associate Vice President, Infosys

Mr. KP Nagraj is an Architecture graduate from the College of Architecture, Goa, currently working as an Associate Vice President with Infosys Ltd. He is one of the extraordinary minds behind the super-efficient sustainable buildings at Infosys. During the beginning...

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...

Michael Cohen

Vice President - Projects, Embassy Group

Michael has been a part of the Embassy Group for nearly 4 years. As the VP, he is responsible for all the projects – commercial, residential, hospitality within the group. Embassy Group is one of the leading property developers in...

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...

Steve Swales

Chief Commercial Officer, Siderise Group

Graduating in Building Construction then Architectural Science in the early eighties, Steve was immediately employed by the Welsh School of Architecture to develop specifications for fire resistant external cladding and facade systems. This lead to a position with Rockwool where...

Sudhakar Pai

Director, Sudhakar Pai Associates

Sudhakar Pai graduated in 1st Class with Distinction from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai, in the year 1989. After working with renowned architect Charles Correa, he pursued his Masters Degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA,...

Vijay Sawant

Technical Head, Q-Railing India

Head of Technical for Q railing India, Vijay leads Technical team for design solutions, estimation, and structural security of handrail system along with sourcing and procurement. Graduated as a Civil Engineer from Mumbai & further acquired his Masters in Marketing...

Abhay Zachariah

Partner, Zachariah Consultants

Abhay is the partner at Zachariah Consultants which is an architecture and design firm that helps companies and organizations create innovative places and identities. The firms practice is characterized by combined emphasis on designed excellence and high standards of client...

Geetha Pillai

Director, Hadi Teherani Project Consultants India

Geetha Pillai is the Director in HadiTeherani Project consultants (India) Pvt. Ltd. She is an architect with over 17 years of experience and has worked on a variety of projects with well established practices. She has graduated from Nagpur University...

Hariprasad Hegde

Senior Vice President & Global Head - Operations, Wipro

Hariprasad is a C-Level Executive, with close to 3 decades of deep experience in Business, Supply Chain and Operations. He played a key role in scaling up functions as Wipro grew into a multi-billion dollar global business enterprise. He built...

Pankaj Keswani

Managing Director, Alufit

Style and charisma personified, suave and enterprising to the core, pankaj Keswani is the founder Managing Director of the 300 Cr. Indian Façade conglomerate – Alufit. Alufit is today a renowned name in the aluminium curtain wall industry and over...

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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