Vice President & Business Head - Lifesciences

Udit is a management post-graduate specializing in Marketing & Finance from Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon and has a Bachelors in Technology in Biotechnology from Amity University, Noida, India. Udit has over 11 years of experience in the area of life sciences and healthcare. Before joining at PLUSS, he has held different roles ranging from product management to business management in companies from life science industry such as Bio-Rad Laboratories and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Udit now leads healthcare and agriculture business verticals at PLUSS - from strategizing the new product development to identifying business growth opportunities. He has been a recipient of several awards in his previous roles and has also been a speaker at different public and private conferences. One of the latest innovations he is working on is an affordable, electricity free infant warmer for low birth weight new born babies supported by BIRAC and CMC Vellore.

Besides work, Udit has keen interest in a variety of subjects that he enjoys fueling through reading and traveling. His interests range from colonial history to advances achieved in science and technology; from philosophy to finance and; from chess to cricket.

General Manager Business Development – Middle East

Preeti is a seasoned professional with an impressive academic background in engineering, HR management, and law. Her career journey began with Siemens India, where she excelled in both Technical and HR functions. She later transitioned to Executive Search and Recruiting, where she thrived as both a Consultant and Entrepreneur.

Preeti's expertise is deeply rooted in a people-centric approach, which she brought to PLUSS as our Chief People Officer. In this role, she played a pivotal part in defining and executing an effective talent strategy, strengthening our employer brand, and designing forward-thinking HR policies. Over the last 5 years, Preeti has driven HR Transformation at PLUSS through the strategic use of technology, leading to enhanced performance management, an effective compensation framework, and a culture of learning and leadership development.

Now, Preeti has taken on an exciting new challenge as she transitions to Business Development, focusing on expanding PLUSS’s presence in the Middle East. Her wealth of experience, combined with her passion for building a performance-driven and inclusive culture, makes her the perfect fit for this role.

Outside of her professional life, Preeti is a loving mother and a dedicated philanthropist who believes in the holistic connection of mind, body, and soul. Her journey is a testament to her commitment to excellence in every aspect of life.

Vice President & Business Head – Climate Technologies

Vishnu is passionate, innovative and solution focused professional with a blend of creativity, technical and business experience of 13 years. As the Vice President -New Product Initiatives, he leads the New Business and product development strategies for the Phase Change Material(PCM) business unit with cross-functional responsibilities.

Over the last 8 years in PLUSS, he has been responsible for developing business verticals under PCM from conceptualization stage to scaling up into market. Prior to working with PLUSS he has worked with organizations offering thermal energy storage (TES) solutions in HVAC systems for commercial and industrial buildings, wherein he gained experience of design, engineering, implementation and sales strategies for TES systems.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bengaluru(2007) and MBA in marketing management from S P Jain School of Global Managernent. Singapore and Dubai(2012).

He firmly believes that with focus, discipline and persistence the most complex problem can be solved. He likes to build and implement processes to improve efficiency and is always game to troubleshoot problems irrespective of the department or function. He also believes looking at a problem as an 'outsider and asking the right questions to the customer is the key to solving most problems or arriving at impactful solutions.

His personal interests are in movies, travel, and new technologies. A fitness freak, he starts and ends his day with a customary visit to the gym and has completed two full marathons. He makes sure not to miss any opportunity of participating in a few marathons every year.

Vice President & Business Head – Cold Chain

Praveen is a dynamic and accomplished professional with over 12 years of experience in the field of Product development, Sales, and Category Management. He has a proven track record of successfully leading teams and delivering exceptional results for his clients and has donned various hats from Service, Product Management, Strategy and Sales through his career. Mr. Das has worked with a wide range of products and is known for his charming networking skills, strategic thinking, and his ability to drive innovation. With a deep understanding of his customers and market trends, Mr. Das has effectively helped drive growth by understanding the pulse of markets very effectively.

Praveen has done his bachelor's in engineering from the Mumbai University and his MBA from the Indian School of Business. He has over a decade of experience in the building materials industry and has worked with Companies like Hafele before joining Pluss. He is excited about the Energy Management sector and is looking forward to developing this space which is the need of the hour.

Praveen is an avid sports enthusiast and was a State level Athlete and Badminton player. In his spare time loves meeting new people, playing badminton, solving puzzles and spending time with his loved ones.

Head R&D

Nidhi graduated in Chemical Sciences and did her post-graduation in Organic Chemistry from St. Stephens College, Delhi University (2005) where she was awarded the best student of the year. In 2007, she submitted her thesis for M.Phil. which focused on 'enzymatic studies of nucleosides' and received the prestigious 'Science Meritorious' award.

Her first job was at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, on chemical synthesis of UV active compounds for DNA labeling. With an eagerness to see her work converted into products, she moved from a pure research environment to an industrial environment at Leonid Chemicals, Bengaluru, where she developed methods for characterization of newly designed chemical compounds. However, in her quest for innovation, she connected with PLUSS. With a belief that energy will be the key to the future, the idea of working on PCMs to store energy appealed to her. What followed was a steep learning curve and over a span of 5 years she built a team and has created several PCMs. Form stable PCM is one of the products which brought a significant change in the pattern of products developed at PLUSS.

Besides, her passion for PCM, she loves plants and her motto is "Be Calm and Go Green". She likes travelling; be it a family outing or an official meeting, she enjoys exploring places and vegetarian food of different origin. Her chemistry experimentation has spilled over to experimenting with cooking too; whether it's a mouth watering dessert or anexotic main course. An avid fiction reader -her favorite authors include Jeffrey Archer, Robin Cook, Harper Lee and Amitav Ghosh.

Principal Scientist

Apoorv received his integrated master's degree in Polymer Science & Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy storage and transport behaviour of glassy ionomers from Clemson University, USA. At PLUSS, he is working on developing new products, materials, applications, and R&D initiatives in the field of energy storage as well as identifying the cost-benefit analysis and value proposition for development of new research and technology verticals.

He is passionate about development of innovative materials which can provide tangible benefits to people and believes in the power of first principles thinking and fundamental data analysis in overcoming any technological challenge. Above all, he considers learning to be his first and foremost responsibility at PLUSS, whereas the ability to do and to achieve are mere by-products.

Apoorv is a philomath and enjoys a wide variety of activities in his personal time. Currently. he is involved in learning to play Kalimba and setting up Raspberry Pi microcomputers for home automation, reading graphic novels and gaming in his free time, and is always happy to discuss current affairs, screenplay techniques and philosophies with anyone interested.

Director

Jan is a people-oriented, passionate pioneer with a broad business and technological background.

He holds a MSc degree in Chemistry (University at Utrecht) and Chemical Technology (Technical University, Eindhoven) and also completed a post academic study of Business Management at Institute for Career & Development in Eindhoven.

Half of his career Jan worked in Pharma and Fine Chemical Industry, in varied roles, as Research Chemist, Head Laboratory, Manager Technology and Business Development Manager. From 2001, Jan worked as Operational Manager/Director in several SME companies in different branches (Agricultural, Chemical, Life Sciences, IT, and Renewable Energy). In these roles Jan was mostly responsible for expanding the business, business development and sales.

Since the beginning of 2019, together with Thijs Veerman, Jan was involved in the development of Pluss Advanced Technologies B.V. where he became Director in January 2020. Jan has agreat interest in technical developments that have positive impact on environmental issues and nature conservation. He is a walking encyclopedia if you want to know anything about gardening and garden plants and trees. He is a member of the Dutch Association of Tub plants and member of the International Clematis Society. In his free time, he does long-distance marches, most 25 miles and once a year even 50 miles.

Operations Manager

Gabor holds a B.A. degree in economics from College of Economics and Commerce, Szolnok and has a rich experience in overseas multimodal shipping, warehouse process optimization and retail-chain management. He's also a passionate cook, a music-production enthusiast and a sceptic until proven true. He believes that to help our beloved Earth, it's our responsibility as individuals to 'Reduce and Reuse' as much as we can. His pursuit is to help the industry save on energy and resources by applying advanced methods and technologies.

Sales Manager

Eddy holds a B.A. degree in Sales and Management and has a broad experience in concept selling and onboarding projects with several bioproduction companies.

Eddy has knowledge of leading sales teams to meet their goals and targets, working together to mutual goals is what I like best.

In his spare time, Eddy likes gardening, playing badminton and singing in several choirs.

Chief Commercial Officer

Joris has a bachelor's degree of Business Administration in Hotel Management from the International Hotel School in the Hague. From there he has been active in international business with sports retail, smart urban mobility and tourism. With a focus on Europe as a start, he has been actively pioneering and setting up long-term business relationships in Africa, the Middle East and South America. Now at Pluss Advanced Technologies, he wants to spread sustainable solutions to make the world a greener place. For this, he will be looking for new partners and intensify relations with current business partners who share the same goal. When not behind his laptop, on the phone or traveling the globe for work, you can find Joris in the garden growing his own veggies, on the water windsurfing or in the woods mountain biking. By the way, should you host a dance classics party, you can always invite him to spin some records.

Business Development and Sales, United Kingdom

Sonal is a Civil Engineer from Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, and a Postgraduate in Advanced Construction Management from NICMAR, Pune. She is a certified Empowered Entrepreneurship trainer from Johns Hopkins University (SEE Change Initiative).

Sonal has managed building construction, renewable energy, and interior fit-outs projects. In the renewable energy space, her focus was on providing energy access to the rural population and facilitating social impact. She has worked in different domains across strategy, business development, operations, mentoring & training, and project management.

She brings with her a cross sectoral experience held together by one underlying factor which is 'sustainable development'. In addition to her role at Pluss she is a mother of two beautiful girls and a practicing consultant in the area of Energy Access. She loves to paint, and she makes some mouth-watering Indian food.

Managing Director

Samit holds an M.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics and a B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, both from the prestigious Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (1994). He also holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawai'i, USA (1997).

Samit started his career with Tata Elxsi in India and subsequently worked both at Hawai'i and Los Angeles in the area of network communications before returning to India in 2000. He has been actively involved in various capacities and stages in all functions at PLUSS since 2003. Currently as Managing Director, Samit heads the overall strategy, marketing and finance portfolios. He has led conceptualization and development of various new projects at PLUSS and spearheaded the equity investment of Tata Capital Innovation Fund into PLUSS for development of the current products at PLUSS. He has spoken at several national and international conferences over the years on promoting energy storage and phase change materials.

Extremely passionate about environment, he engages in environment conservation projects with school children as part of Advit Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in Gurugram. As a trustee of Advit, he has worked extensively to propagate Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy through various seminars held by GIZ, Germany, Bureau of Energy Efficiency and State Nodal Agencies for Renewable Energy.

Samit would ideally like to create a company based on ethics and values with a culture that will transcend the organization. A company will be known by its people, so people come first for him. Keenly interested in classical music, he hopes to soon find time to start playing the Sitar again. An avid marathoner, with a conviction that good health is the key to success, Samit has successfully completed the Los Angeles Marathon, the Airtel Delhi Half marathon several times and the Standard Chartered Mumbai marathon. He aims to participate in all the major marathons around the world one day!

Director

Sridharan is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, a graduate member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and holds bachelor's degree in Commerce from Madurai University. Sridharan has about 30 years of overall experience in various fields like banking, manufacturing, contracting, service, and distribution businesses. Sridharan is associated with the Murugappa Group since June 2011 as the Chief Financial Officer of CUMI till January 2018 after which he took over as the President and Group CFO of the Murugappa Group. Sridharan is currently on the Boards of PLUSS, Cholamandalam Financial Holdings Limited, Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company Limited, Cholamandalam MS Risk Services Limited, Parry Agro Industries Limited, and Net Access India Limited. Sridharan has also served on the Board of Timken India Limited.

Director

Manoj is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Symbioteco (www.symbioteco.com), a Singapore based social enterprise, committed to the deployment of sustainability solutions in Asia. He has over 25 years' experience in corporate and investment banking in Asia Pacific and has worked in India, Hong Kong and Singapore. Prior to Symbioteco he was Singapore CEO of IL&FS Financial Services. He has worked with leading global banks such as The Royal Bank of Scotland and ABN AMRO N.V. where he held senior positions such as Head of Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets, Asia and Head of Investment Banking, India.

He began his career with Kotak Mahindra in the investment banking group in 1994. He has extensive experience in leading complex M&A and capital market transactions and has a strong network in the Asian financial ecosystem. Manoj has a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and a master's in physics from BITS, Pilani.

Born a natural leader, Manoj lives in Singapore with his wife and daughter. In his spare time Manoj is a student of Vedanta and enjoys meditation and going on long walks.

PCM & Energy Storage

Harald works independently as consultant, author, and lecturer. He has over 20 years of experience in R&D, with a focus on heat transfer and heat storage, covering materials to applications. He is author of more than 80 publications. He authored one of the bibles on Phase Change Materials - "Heat and Cold Storage with PCM - An up to date introduction into basics and applications" together with Prof. L.F. Cabeza.

He has contributed to several chapters in "Thermal energy storage for sustainable energy consumption - fundamentals, case studies and design". His latest book is "Technologies of energy conversion, storage, and transport in the energy system - A brief introduction". Dr. Mehling received a Diploma and Ph.D. in Physics from University of Würzburg (Germany) - the oldest University in Germany with over 14 nobel laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine to its credit.

He also has a M.S. degree from SUNY Buffalo (USA). Dr. Mehling worked for 15 years at the ZAE, Bayern at Wurzburg and Garching where he was a group leader and senior scientist mainly on Thermal Analysis nalysis and Phase Change Materials.