Sanjay Lal
With over 30 years of experience, Sanjay is a veteran in the sourcing field. He started his buying house in 1989, exporting fabrics to Bangladesh. He then diversified into exports of yarn, commodities like rice, fresh fruits & vegetables. He also started contract farming of raw cotton in Africa.
Anindya Ray
With 30+ years in the fashion industry leading diverse functions like Buying & Merchandising, Design, Marketing, Sales, Sourcing & Quality, being associated with premium brands like US Polo Assn, Flying Machine, Arrow, Calvin Klein, Allen Solly etc. This collaborative blogspot is Anindya's effort to contribute back his thoughts and to provide a medium to industry's other like-minded professionals like him to share their experiences with a larger interested audience.
Ramesh Gunasekaran
Ramesh Gunasekaran is optimistic & cheerful textile technologist with an experience of 20 years. He is an apparel sourcing head who specialises in strategic sourcing & opportunity buying. He has worked with leading apparel retailers, export buying houses & factories. He is currently the Head-Sourcing for Easybuy-Max retail division @Landmark Group, India
He nurtures future talent through his career guidance programs & need based learning sessions.
Suman Saha
With over 20 years of experience, Suman is a proven industry leader with diverse experience in the apparel and textile field. He is regarded highly for his analytical skills and is a champion of diversity. In his journey so far, he has worked with esteemed brands such as Allen Solly, Raymond, Madura Fashions & Lifestyle. Currently he is CEO of the heritage brand Arrow(Arvind Fashions Limited)
Ajay Ravuri
With 16 years of vast experience in export & domestic apparel manufacturing, Ajay currently heads the quality division at Arvind Fashions Limited.
His motto of “learning” has helped him in improving throughout his career. He has a keen interest in Lean manufacturing, Six sigma concepts & KPI management in Quality & manufacturing excellence.
Satheesh Kumar
Satheeshkumar Dharmalingam is a textile enthusiastic person, apparel sourcing professional specializing in Knitwear. Having 25 years of work experience in various companies, he Graduated in Textile Technology and holds Masters in Textile Chemistry.
Tushar Jindal
Tushar has over 12 years of experience in the Sustainability domain. He has consulted various companies in different industrial sectors including Cement, Chemicals, Automobile, FMCG and Apparel among others to develop Sustainability Strategy, Clean development mechanism, internal and external Stakeholder Consultation and Communication, Environment, Health and Safety management and Data analysis. He has held prominent positions during his stint with EY LLP and Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. and is currently the Head – Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Supply Chain for Arvind Fashions Limited.
Gaurav Kumar
With 17+ years of experience with Fortune 500 organisations in Global Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Negotiations and Procurement Ops. Over the years, Gaurav has had the opportunity to work across industries, that include Banking Finance & Insurance Services, Media & Advertising and Information Technology. His areas of interest include participating in various industry/management institute forums on the topic of people development & mentoring, procurement, personal financial wellness, etc.
Gunish Jain
Gunish is founder of BlueKaktus. A fashion technology company that specializes in helping textile and fashion companies leverage technology for improving productivity and speed to market. Gunish has a unique distinction of also being from the fashion industry – having run a successful apparel company and fashion brand for the past 20 years. Gunish brings with him extensive technical and business knowledge. He has had experience in working with large ERP applications both in India and the US. Gunish has a Bachelors Degree in Computers from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. Apart from being on boards of numerous government and industry trade associations
Aseem Chitkara
Aseem Chitkara has been part of the Denim Industry for last two decades having a spectrum of experience in Denim Fabric sales in Domestic, Exports and Brands Segment. In addition he has experience as Brand and Retail Head for established Domestic Brands in competitive retail markets.
Ramesh Ramalingam
With a total experience of more than 20 years in apparel procurement field made me proficient and a visionary sourcing executive with an extensive work experience with renowned brands like GAP, Tommy Hilfiger, Marks & Spencers and currently heading the sourcing operations for Arvind Fashion Ltd., Always interested in learning new skills and improvising, building and leading the procurement function in rapidly growing and dynamic business environment.