Gender:: Male
Country/Countries I have worked in:: India, Nigeria
More Details: Mr. H R CHANDRASHEKAR
An MBA with 24+ years of Cross Cultural Exp.
Skills : Business Set Up (Build, Operate & Transfer), Commodity Procurement / Supply, Business / Market Development, Market Assessment, Management Consultancy in Feasibility Studies / Techno-economics Appraisal of Projects, Socio-Economic Benchmarking, Design of MIS for proper Monitoring & Evaluation of Projects, Rehabilitation of Sick Units, Community Developmental Programs, Charity Management & Fundraising.
Strengths : TEAM PLAYER, FLEXIBLE & MULTI-TASKER, DETAIL ORIENTED, SELF MOTIVATED, QUICK LEARNER
Joining Period: Negotiable, at least 1-2 weeks.
Employers : Management Consultancy Services (own) July 2008 till date
Branch Manager, West African Cotton Co Ltd. (TGI Nigeria) 2007 – 5/2008
Manager (Finance / Commercial) WACOT, Nigeria. 5/2002– 3/2007
Charities Co-ordinator, Tulsi Chanrai Foundation, Nigeria. – 2001 – 2002,
National Dairy Development Board, Anand / Bangalore. India 1983 – 2001,
Foundation for Organisational Research (FORE), New Delhi. 6-12/1983
Present : Management Consultancy – trying to revive the outfit that I had started in late 1990s. Taking up small consultancy assignments. Presently on Consultancy with VIKASA Rural Dev Orgn., Bangalore.
A life Advisor with KOTAKLIFE.
Previous Experience – 7+ yrs in Nigeria
(1) Branch Manager, WACOT(Agro-Chemicals), Jalingo / ABUJA Br. : Agro-chemical Business Expansion – Ensure timely supply of Co.’s brands of Agro-Chemicals (Herbicides & Insecticides), Ensure Proper Advt. coverage thru various media, Ensure Field Demo on various crops, thru liaison with various Govt. & quasi Govt. agencies.
Commodity Procurement – Achieve targeted quantity of proc of Sesame in the area.
Business Expansion of Co’s other line of products like Fish-feed, Starch, Scouring Powder & other hygiene products.
(2) Manager (Finance & Commercial), WACOT, Gombe : Part of the set-up team for a Cotton Ginnery – starting from the land acquisition, erection, commissioning of a Roller Ginnery; Recruited & Groomed a fairly reliable Nigerian team for the Unit. Set up systems & controls in the Unit for its operation – Financial, Admin., Engg Store, Procurement, Sale of Seed, Logistics etc. Nurtured an excellent rapport with the merchants in the catchment area with seed cotton proc. reaching about 60% of local production by the 3rd year of operations.
Opened up Agro-Chemical Business for the Company in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria for its various brands of Herbicides, Insecticides & Storage Chemicals.
Simultaneiously opened & expanded the market for Co’s fruit juice & powder milk segment (CHIVITA, CAPRISONNE, HOLLANDIA brands); Achieved good market penetration in less than 2 years with annual sales of about N. 200 mill.
(3) Charities Co-ordinator. Tulsi Chanrai Foundation, Nigeria – (a) Co-ordination of Community Rural Health Program – Monitoring working of Rural Health Units by the Village Health Workers, Doctors Visits to Units, Ensuring Immunisation Coverage, Training of village mid-wives, Weekly Review of all the Community Health Workers, Supply & Delivery of Drugs/Medicines, (b) Community Drinking Water programs – Rehabilitation of Defunct Community Bore-wells, Ensure its maintenance, Continuous Community Awareness programs on Proper Sanitation & Hygiene, (c) PR visits to various donors for Fund raising Activities (c) Initiated ground work for a New Community Rural Health Program & Eye Care Programs in Nigeria.
Indian Experience – 17+ yrs.
I. NATIONAL DAIRY DEVELOPMENT BOARD (NDDB), ANAND, INDIA
Positioned : Asst. Exec.- Executive – Sr. Executive – (State Director) – resigned
12/1983 1989 1998 03/2001 06/2001
NDDB – Implementing agency for the World Bank’s largest Food Aid program in India in Co-operative (Milk, Edible Oil & Oilseeds, Salt, Fruits & Vegetables) Sectors. CLUSA (NCBA), CIDA (Canada) and SDA (Swiss) being other Co-operative partners in the program.
Expertise : Project Appraisals, Techno-economic Feasibility Studies & Developing Project Implementation Plans, Rehabilitation Strategies, Impact Studies, MIS + M&E
Tasks & Responsibilities handled at NDDB Tenure in Brief
1983 Dec. – Joined NDDB – Oilseeds & Veg Oil Wing at Anand; attached to Special Studies group.
1984 – 91 – Various socio-econ / benchmark studies for CLUSA / CUC reviews
• Study on the Co-op interventions on Soyabean growers for MP Oilfed (a comparative study of Fed Mgt vs. NDDB’s Mgt at Indore)
• Study on the Rabi Groundnut Crop’s Economics for OilOrissa
• Project Finance & Management Services – worked on the Project Finance aspects of ATCO, Idar, Jamnagar Oil Union, Junagadh Oil Union, Bhavnagar Veg-oil Project and also represented NDDB on their Boards.
• Corporate Planning Services – Primary responsibility of developing following Detailed Project Proposals drawn out from NDDB to State Federations: Dharwad Co-op Oilseeds Growers’ Union Project, Bharatpur Co-op Oilseeds Growers’ Union Project, Techno-economics of Mehsana’s 300 TPD Oil Mill, A report on Mother Dairy Delhi’s Marketing Operations, A survey / A report on Calcutta Kachi Ghani Mustard Oil Market
1992 – 2001 – Services transferred to NDDB, Bangalore, PFMS/MIS Section, Milk Sector
• Vegetable Market Survey in Kerala, Project Finance,
• NDDB’s Representative at Hospet Regional Oilseeds’s Growers Union
• NDDB’s Representative at Bangalore, Kolar, Hassan & Raichur-Bellary Milk Unions and sometimes as alt nominee on KMF & NKDP Boards.
• Draw-out a Rehabilitation Strategy for Tumkur Milk Union, Dharwad and Gulbarga Milk Unions
• Detailed techno-economics / feasibility for the Hassan Cattlefeed Plant, Kolar Cheese Plant, Powder Plant at Mother Dairy – Bangalore Powder Plant
• Computer On-line Systems Interventions at Bangalore milk Union
• Completed all the southern Karnataka Milk Union Budget and Appraisal of Augmentation Plans.
II. FOUNDATION FOR ORGANISATIONAL RESEARCH, New Delhi – 6 months
Positioned: Research Associate in Foundation’s Consultancy Projects with ONGC and then 3rd Airliner of India , VAYUDOOT.
Personal Details :
Age / Date of Birth : 50 years, 8th May,1959
Qual. & Exp: M Sc. (Hons.) & M M S (BITS Pilani) – 25 years.
Permanent Address: No. 202, 14th Main, BSK-I Stage (2nd Block), Bangalore.
Pin: 560 050, INDIA.
Computer Literacy : Adept at Microsoft based tools – Word, EXCEL, Power Point
Languages spoken : Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindi and working know-
edge of Hausa (sub-Saharan Language)
Family : Married with two daughters; Family in India (Bangalore ).
Interests : Music – Play Spanish guitar, Star Gazing and Homeopathy.
VERIFIABLE REFERENCES : Can be provided at the time of interview / or on demand
