Sudhir Pillai
General Manager, Homes,
Honeywell Home and Building Technologies, India
Sudhir Pillai was appointed General Manager, Homes, Honeywell Home and Building Technologies on March 22, 2017. In this role, he is responsible for developing and executing Honeywell connected homes business strategy for the India region.
Pillai joined Honeywell in August 2007. Prior to his current role, he has held multiple leadership roles at Honeywell over the last 10 years, including Sales Director, South East Asia for the ersthwhile Honeywell Envoirnmental & Energy Solutions; Marketing Director, Honeywell Security Group, and Sales Leader for ADI. Pillai is also a Director on the board of Elster Metering Pvt. Ltd.
He brings to the business a successful track record from a career spanning more than 19 years, with a mix of sales, profit, P&L, people management, and a rich business experience. He is proficient in exploring and developing new markets, brand promotion, new product launches, and accelerating growth and achieving desired sales goals.
Before joining Honeywell, Pillai worked with Ingram Micro India Limited, where he spent more than seven years where he was instrumental in managing the P&L while growing the business for their Enterprise Solutions group.
Pillai earned his MBA in Business Management and a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Sciences from the Pune University.
Pillai lives in Pune with his wife, Rekha and their nine-year old daughter, Rhea
Ashish Podar
Senior Director
EFM & Asset Services, India
Ashish leads the Service Delivery Group for Enterprise Facilities Management and Asset Services for CBRE India.
His role is to provide leadership to achieve corporate strategies, support business growth and manage change to drive organizational performance.
He is responsible to provide active oversight and management guidelines to the Facilities & Property Management Operations with a focus on transitions, Strategic Sourcing, best practices, continual improvement programs, Quality Assessments and Innovation.
Ashish has been with CBRE for 17 years and has gained vast experience in all aspects of Property and Facilities management. During this time he has managed Operations, Client Solutions and a multitude of responsibilities in the domain of Property and Facilities management.
EDUCATION
Ashish holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Mumbai University.
BARUN AGGARWAL
CEO-Breatheeasy Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Barun Aggarwal is a serial entrepreneur with international experience spanning 20 years in several continents. In his current role, he founded and runs BreatheEasy Consultants Pvt Ltd – the leading full service Indoor Air Quality consulting and remediation specialists in India.
Barun serves on the Indoor Air Quality assessment working group of USGBC
He is a founding member of Indoor Air Quality Association, USA , India Chapter.
He is a member of ISHRAE and is a founding member of the IEQ Committee of ISHRAE that has developed the first international standard for IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality) – published in 2016.
He is a Climate Reality leader trained by Vice President Al Gore.
He has taken up a position of
visiting faculty at the
School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi where he teaches a course of
Human Wellness in the Built Environment.
Barun, an avid golfer relocated from the US to New Delhi, India – the world’s most polluted city in 2010.
Ravi Ahuja
Sr. Executive Director
Mumbai & Developer Services - Colliers
Ravi specializes in various asset classes in general and engages extensively in Office Leasing & Sales / Investments, Office Core Asset Acquisitions, Acquisition of Income Generating Assets, Capital Markets and Corporate Asset Monetization’s, and Residential. He is involved in identifying new opportunities, improving organizational efficiencies and strengthening Colliers’ presence in the markets across the country.
Ravi leads the India Office Services team as the
Sr. Executive Director,
Mumbai & Developer Services, and has been one of the most successful brokers over the years. He continues to contribute in generating revenues and aims to focus on increased knowledge delivery, targeted client engagement and service excellence.
professional accomplishments
With over 20 years of pan India real estate experience in multi-disciplinary transactions and advisory for occupiers, developers, investors and the government, Ravi is widely regarded as one of the more knowledgeable and credible real estate professionals in the sector across the country.
He started his career at Colliers International in 1996 and joined C&W in 1999.
He pioneered the practice of Office Services and Industrial Services in India.
Over the years, his experience in Transaction Advisory encompasses Tenant Rep, Landlord Rep, Land, Asset Monetization, Investment Sales, Retail & Industrial Services.
Ravi has held executive leadership roles with India P&L responsibilities for 4 businesses viz. Consulting, Transactions, Project Management and
Karuna Gopal
President – Futuristic Cities
Ms. Karuna Gopal, is an Internationally acclaimed Thought Leader, IVLP Fellow , Keynote Speaker and Advisor on SMART CITIES. She is the Founder President of Foundation for Futuristic Cities, a Think Tank that has influenced Urban Transformation in India for over a decade.
Ms Gopal contributed to the design of the 100 SMART CITIES MISSION of Government of India and has been an invited speaker at the launch of the mission by the Prime Minister. At the event, her innovation “CITIZENS for CITY – 2007” a disruptive tool to engage citizens in governance, has been showcased as a National Best Practice. Her innovation ‘Sculpt Your City’ has shaped the guidelines of the Mission.
Ms Gopal was a member of the Speaker delegation representing the India at COP21-United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), PARIS 2015.
In the past, she served as an Urban Expert for The World Bank, DFID (Department for International Development, UK), USAID (United States Agency for International Development), BMGF (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) & ADB (Asian Development Bank)
Ms Gopal regularly gets invited by Country Governments like Singapore, Philippines, Turkey, Israel, UAE, USA & UK to lend her expertise in Urban Transformation. Recently she was offered ‘Eminent Member’ position at RICS (Royal Society for Chartered Surveyors), UK.
She chairs and addresses conferences around the world and is a special invitee to meetings of FII (Foreign Institutional Investors) exploring investments into India.
Rajat Malhotra
Chief Operating Officer
Integrated Facilities Management, West Asia – JLL
Current Responsibilities
Rajat Malhotra is the Chief Operating Officer for IFM, West Asia. Rajat oversees business infrastructure functions and leads the SME platform that supports core IFM operations. These functions are JLL’s best practice platforms such as Engineering & Operations Solutions (EOS), Energy & Sustainability Services (ESS), Supply Chain Management & Procurement, Transition, Compliance, Risk Management & Technology. The ESS and EOS groups in specific provides subject matter expertise support to IFM and other business lines in the domains of sustainability, environment health & safety and critical engineering.
Experience
Rajat brings along over 25 years of experience in maintenance management as well as engineering & sustainability. He has worked in the submarine arm of the Navy and in the course of his career, been the chief engineer for 3 different classes of submarines. He holds a Masters degree in Nuclear Technology and has been with JLL’s Integrated Facilities Management Business for over 7 years. He has led a number of business excellence, sustainability, risk management, technology and productivity projects in FM that have brought in significant value to clients in their Real Estate Operations. He has also spearheaded a number of engineering consulting projects involving critical engineering design reviews, energy optimization, risk assessments as well as test & commissioning.
Rajat is a member of the Executive Committee of IGBC and works closely with them to provide the necessary impetus to the Green Building Movement in India. He chairs the Advisory Board of Economic Times’ Global Green Summit and is well known in Building Engineering, Safety and Sustainability Industrial Forums.
Education and Affiliations
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical
Specialization in Marine Engineering
Master of Technology in Nuclear Engineering
Ty Fastovsky
Managing Principal, Asia Pacific
Ty Fastovsky is a Managing Principal in charge of the Asia Pacific region for Trascent and is based in Singapore. Mr. Fastovsky provides project management and client relationship expertise in the delivery of outsourcing services, organizational effectiveness and re-design, and performance improvement. He has particular expertise in corporate real estate, project management and facilities management (CRE/PM/FM) outsourcing, capacity planning, financial analysis, and benchmarking. Ty has over 18 years of consulting, financial services and manufacturing experience. He joined Trascent in 2007 and has been supporting clients globally on CRE/PM/FM initiatives since that time. During his time at Trascent, Ty has led multiple RFP efforts for clients and has negotiated over $3 billion (total contract value) in global CRE/ PM/FM agreements in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
