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Founder & Director
Ashokan Kunhiraman is Co-director, responsible for Product validation services at Acufore. Ashokan holds an M.Tech in Mechanical engineering (Machine design) from IIT Madras, Chennai. He has 22+ years of experience in the areas of CAE/FEA/Simulation/Design calculations and has worked in organizations like GE Healthcare, MSC Software, Cranes Software, Pelorus Consulting, and Lucas-TVS in technology leadership roles.
He has led and delivered various product validation projects of static, nonlinear, dynamic, optimization, impact, crash, CFD, thermal to various sectors like automotive, defense, power, instrumentation, aerospace, oil & gas, shipping, etc.
Sanjeev Keethari is Co-director, responsible for Product and Equipment engineering services at Acufore. A Mechanical engineer by training, he has 30+ years of experience in product design and development.
He has worked in organizations like Goa Shipyard Ltd., Pelorus Consulting and Enventure Technologies, in Marine design / Product development / Plant engineering practice lead roles. He specializes in both project requirement studies & project deliveries. Sanjeev has proven expertise on team building and customer relationship management.
Founder & Director
Advisory Board
Professor K. Sudhir is James L Frank Professor of Private Enterprise, Management and Marketing at Yale University and Director of the Yale China India Insights Program (CIIP). He has been an honorary member of Acufore’s advisory board since its inception. He routinely consults for Fortune 500 firms within the United States, and top firms in China and India across many industries such as technology, financial services, entertainment, and retailing.
Professor Sudhir is one of the leading research scholars worldwide on marketing; winner of major awards for his research across leading journals. He is currently a senior editor of marketing’s top quantitative journal marketing science. More about Professor K. Sudhir
L. Ramanan is an acknowledged, awarded, accepted and one of the most respected subject matter experts & Corporate trainers in the industry. He is an accomplished technologist, DFSS six sigma quality champion, Prolific inventor with patents, publications, and trade-secrets. He possesses an impeccable 30 years of cross-functional, multi-product, multi-domain global expertise with leaders like GE, TVS, Indian Railways.
He is an official speaker for ASME forums, a member of many professional associations, Industrial bodies, a reviewer for International journals, and constantly invited for delivering keynote addresses and invited talks in National and International conferences and workshops.
Advisory Board