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Company is founded and is being led by Industry veterans in the Pharmaceutical, automation and control space.

Kumaraswamy M S, Director, Pharma Solutions

(Representing GreenLeap Projects Pvt. Ltd.)

Kumar has about 21 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry, he worked with Strides Arcolab Ltd for about 16 years. He was responsible for plant Engineering services & EHS as Associate Vice President. He has hands on experience in maintaining pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, ensuring regulatory & statutory compliance and leading the teams during regulatory inspections. He has expertise in defining & implementing process & building automation systems. He was part of core project team at Strides and played a key role in setting up more than 15 facilities. Majority (eight) of them are Sterile manufacturing facilities and includes oral solid dosage manufacturing facilities, R&D facilities and corporate offices. All the manufacturing facilities were USFDA & MHRA approved. Kumar is the co-founder and director of Green Leap Projects Pvt Ltd, Green Leap is involved in Engineering design consultancy and project execution on turnkey basis with special focus on pharma.

Ganesh Shivashankar,Co-Founder & Director

Ganesh Shivashankar has over 37 years of experience in the industry covering a wide spectrum of projects and products. During initial part of his career, he worked with Electronic Division BHEL for 16 years and then a brief stint of 18 months with ABB Power plants control division. He was responsible for project execution and product development for power plant controls. He was with Honeywell for a total of 13 years and served in various departments such as Quality, Process Solutions, Building Solutions, and Environmental and Combustion Controls responsible for product development teams. He is responsible for project planning, engineering and delivery.

Jayson Pappachan, Co-Founder

Jayson has about 25 years of software development experience in developing software applications ranging from Embedded solutions, Enterprise, Web and Mobile applications. He started his career in DRDO as a scientist and worked for various avionics software projects. Later he moved to Honeywell Technology Solutions where he held senior positions, for developing Industrial Process Control and Building Control Software. He worked with various global customers including ExxonMobil and Chevron for several years for defining new features to Honeywell Products. He is M Tech in Computer Science from IIT Chennai, and PMI certified Project Manager. Jayson has completed general management program at IIM Bangalore and project management training from National University, Singapore.

Boby K Joseph, Director (Representing IOTMatic Automation & Control Pvt. Ltd.)

Boby spent over 23+ years in the industry working for Tata Consulting Engineers (5 years) and Honeywell Technology Solutions (18 years).

Before leaving Honeywell in Aug 2014 Boby was the Senior Director of engineering for Automation & Control Solutions responsible for a group of 2000+ engineers involved in automation and control product engineering for applications in Industrial, commercial and residential market segments. Boby has many years of experience in wall to wall product engineering, engineering site leadership and management development.

Prior to Honeywell Boby worked with Tata Consulting Engineers in various capacities for piping engineering design for nuclear power plants from 1991 to 1996.

Boby holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India. Boby has undergone management development program at Indian Institute of management Bangalore as well many Honeywell Corporate training programs for executive leadership. Boby is a certified Six Sigma black belt.

Benoy Joseph, Director

Benoy Joseph is currently on the board of Mactus as Strategic Advisor. Before Mactus, Benoy spent over 26 years in the Industry, working for the Defence R&D (6+ years) and Honeywell. Benoy held posts of Engineering Director and Engineering Operations Director in Honeywell before he left in June, 2018.

At Honeywell, Benoy worked for the Industrial Automation segment, Honeywell Process Solutions. Benoy built development team in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and transitioned the India R&D centre from an out-sourced model to Product ownership model. He built a strong and self-sufficient R&D team that constituted of Marketing, System Engineering, Program Management, Engineering Management, User Centric Design, Data Analytics, Proficiency in Mechanical, Electrical, product certification and Requirements Experts. Benoy worked at Honeywell for 20+ years and has experience in embedded and system programming, enterprise level software architecture, wall to wall product engineering, program management, leadership and management development, strategic planning, Innovation nurturing, budgetary planning and organization level talent acquisition and development. His external responsibilities included customer interaction, user group collaboration, Honeywell Senior Leadership presence, Honeywell inter-department co-ordination including Marketing, Projects, Sourcing, Manufacturing and Sales. Benoy has done his Masters in Computer Science from Cochin University of Science and Technology, has undergone Management Development Program at IIM Bangalore and various prestigious leadership training program from Honeywell. Benoy holds a Green Belt in Sig Sigma, Program Management certification from CITPM and he is a certified Scrum Master.

Sridhar S Rao, Director

Sridhar S Rao is a technical specialist and holds a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology from BITS, Pilani. In his nearly 40 years of work experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry, he has gained significant experience in Manufacturing and Quality Assurance of Oral Solids & Liquids, Topical and Sterile Dosage forms. As a consultant, he continues to support a number of clients in enhancing their Quality and Compliance related activities. He was Quality Head of Injectables, India at the time of his departure from Mylan in Dec.2014. Prior to Mylan acquisition of Agila facilities in Dec.2013, he was President Quality and Reg. Affairs at Strides/Agila for about 15 years. He has also worked in various reputed organisations and held key positions in the Quality and Regulatory function. As a Director at Mactus, he will guide and support a dynamic team which will develop & deliver Cost effective and Innovative Technology based Solutions for the Pharma Industry. This will significantly enhance continued Compliance and also support Manufacturing and Quality Operations at manufacturing sites.