Ramesh C. Grover

Promoter Director of QGS, Ramesh is Leader of QGS services related to Environment, Health & Safety and Energy Management Systems. He is an Engineering Graduate from IIT, Delhi, the Pioneer Institute in India in Engineering & Technology.

He has more than 40-year experience. For more than 16 years he has worked with Bureau of Indian Standards, the National Standard Body of India, on the formulation of Standards, Product Certification, and Quality Systems. He was instrumental in the preparation of their Certification Scheme and the well-known Rajiv Gandhi Award Scheme. For the last 20 years, he has been working on various Management Systems. He has assisted more than 700 companies in India and overseas in their continual improvement of Quality, Environment, Health & Safety and Energy Management Systems.

He is a registered Lead Auditor with IRCA UK and Tutor for various training programs. He is an OSHA and NEBOSH qualified expert on Health and Safety.

Praveen K. Pasricha

Praveen is promoter Director of Quality Growth Services Pvt. Ltd. with 37 years of industrial experience of which 18 years are in consulting and training in Six Sigma, Lean, IATF 16949, ISO 22301 and ISO 27001. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, CII EXIM Award Assessor and Lead Auditor for ISO 9001 (QMS), ISO 27001 (ISMS) and VDA 6.3. He has vast experience of carrying out onsite consulting and projects hand-holding, in-house and public training in India and over 20 countries across the globe including Europe, Middle East, South East Asia and African and Indian Sub-continent. He has assisted over 500 organizations in diverse sectors including Automotive, Engineering, Process, IT and Service.

He has mentored over 500 improvement projects in Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen & Disciplined Problem Solving. He has trained over 200 Executives, 250 Champions, 350 Black Belts, 600 Green Belts and 2000 personnel in Root Cause Analysis through Disciplined Problem Solving Approach.

T. Venkataraman

A Promoter member of QGS; T. Venkataraman is Director of QGS and a Lead Consultant on Quality, Environment, Occupational Health & Safety and Integrated Management Systems as per the International Standards. He is also the Lead Consultant for Social Accountability Management System as per SA8000 Consultants. He has consulted more than 500 organizations in India and abroad on various management systems.

A Mechanical Engineer from Kerala University, he had worked in the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of India, for 17 years in the field of Quality Assurance and Product Certification.

He is a Lead Auditor registered with IRCA, UK, for QMS, EMS, and OHS. Besides he is also an approved Lead Tutor for IRCA and NABET QMS, EMS and OHS Lead Auditor courses. He is a qualified Lead Auditor of SA8000, ISO 22000 and @ IERS.

Surendra P. Tiwari

Director in QGS, Surendra leads Business Excellence Division of the company. He is an expert of international repute in the domain of Lean, Six Sigma (DMAIC and DFSS), TQM, TPM and QMS and, is considered among one of the highly respected faculties and consultants in the field.

Surendra is a Ph.D. research scholar in TQM and holds MS-TQM (Gold Medallist), MBA (Operations), MSC (M & P), PGSMA (SQC&OR-ISI), PGDCA, and MBB (Lean-Six Sigma). He is also a qualified lead auditor for QMS andAssessor for EFQM and ZED business excellence models.

His 30 years of diverse experience includes 14 years working in the industries at various management positions and 16 years in training and consultancy. He has conducted over 12,000 hours of classroom trainings (through public and in-house courses in India, Europe, Africa and Middle East Asian countries) covering over 700 training programmes, 650 organizations in various sectors and has trained over 60 Master Black Belts, 600 black belts, 1500 green belts, 400 champions and over 3000 executives on Quality Engineering, Process Improvement, core tools and advanced Statistical tools etc.He has supported and mentored over 2000 improvement projects related to Lean, TPM, Six Sigma and problem-solving.

Dr. Sumit Shandilya

Executive Director & Chief Strategy Officer – QGS Group

Dr. Shandilya is an Analytics, Operations, Supply Chain and a Business excellence professional. He is a key resource for deployment of Lean manufacturing system, Six Sigma, Industry 4.0, Quality Management system, Performance Management, TQM, TPM, Problem Solving, Malcolm Baldrige Business Excellence Model and Operational Performance Excellence strategy initiatives.

He also serves as the CEO of IIPE India (A QGS Group organization). Additionally, Dr. Shandilya also serves as an Adjunct & Visiting Professor in different reputed business schools of the country, Advisor – Centre for Operation Excellence, BML Munjal University. He has been a recipient of numerous prestigious awards like Platinum Award in Research by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), BW’s 40 under 40, ET Young Leader award, National Merit Award etc.

His previous experience comes from big business houses of the country like ISPAT Group, HERO MotoCorp, Maruti, VISA Steel etc. Academically, Dr. Shandilya is a Ph.D. in Operations, MBA in Operations, Masters in Statistics, Masters in Project Management and a Mechanical Engineer. In addition to all this, he has published numerous research papers in reputed journals and conferences. Icing on the cake is the Patent that he has published with Government of India.

Sumit Shandilya, has been a sportsman in Shotput (Athletics) where he has represented Haryana and Maharashtra at National games securing a bronze medal thrice. He has received the state honors as a star of naval wing (NCC) by then Chief Minister of the state, best sportsman award and bowler of the tournament award at a Regional Cricket Championship. His hobbies include playing Chess and Sudoku.