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Maritime Leadership Development Program

Program outline Comaea Consulting Pte Ltd2020

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Maritime Leadership Development Program

Program outline Comaea Consulting Pte Ltd

2020

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS ...................................................................................................... 2

CONTEXT ........................................................................................................ 3

CURRICULUM STRUCTURE ......................................................................... 5

PROGRAM OUTLINE ..................................................................................... 7

COURSE FACULTY ......................................................................................... 8

KRISHAN KUMAR SHARMA (Program Director) ..................................... 8

DAVID MILLER OSAMMOR ..................................................................... 9

PRASHANT KOTHARI ............................................................................. 10

PUNIT OZA .............................................................................................. 11

JYOTIRMAY MAJUMDAR ........................................................................ 12

RAHUL PANDEY ..................................................................................... 13

PIYUSH RAJ ............................................................................................. 14

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3Context

Understanding Maritime Leadership in SingaporeA 2016 presentation by the CEO of Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) Mr. Andrew Tan highlights that a merchant vessel arrives or leaves Singapore every 2-3 minutes. Walking on East Coast Park you can see hundreds of ships anchored in the open harbor visibly demonstrating the predominance of the maritime sector in Singapore economy. Maritime Singapore information site highlights how Singapore distinguishes itself as the main center of a variety of shipping services. Singapore remains a major port that connects to 600 other ports globally. Table 1. shows the preeminence of the maritime sector in the economy of Singapore.

Traditionally, maritime education and training have focused on technical skills and competency of the seagoing staff. As a result, the management education of the seafarers has been ignored in traditional maritime institutions. Many of the mid to senior level managers serving the 5000 strong maritime companies in Singapore come from the seafaring background. A  number of them also come from neighboring countries such as India, Philippines, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and China.

After interacting with managers in our client organizations and within our network, we discover that the most significant need that should be bridged is among the ship management and ship owning organizations for the superintendent, fleet manager, marine superintendent, and general management cadres.

The Port of Singapore has been recognized as the World’s Busiest Transhipment Hub

About a million visitors cruise into Singapore annually.

Although Singapore does not produce any oil, it is the top bunkering (ship refueling) ports in the world. In 2016, more than 48 million tons of bunkers were lifted in Singapore. This is enough to fill over 17,000 Olympic-sized pools.

Seaborne trade has been an important lifeline for Singapore from the time of its founding in 1819.

The Singapore Registry of Ships (SRS) is among the top 10 largest registries in the world.

Today, there are more than 5,000 maritime establishments contributing about 7% to Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Annually, more than 130,000 ships call at Singapore.

Introduced by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the Maritime Cluster Fund (MCF) facilitates the growth of Singapore’s maritime cluster by supporting the industry’s manpower and business development efforts as well as its drive for productivity improvements.

Singapore commands about 70% share of the world’s jack-up rig-building market and 70% of the global floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) platforms market.

Maritime activities employ more than 170,000 personnel.

CONTEXT

TABLE 1: Ten interesting things about maritime activities in Singapore1

1st 1 million

48M tons100 years

Top 10

7% GDP

130,000 ships

Maritime Cluster Fund

70%

170,000 employees

1 Source: http://www.maritimesingapore.sg/about-maritime-singapore/ and https://www.mpa.gov.sg/web/portal/home/maritime-companies/setting-up-in-singapore/developing-manpower/maritime-cluster-fund-mcf

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This is the population that is among the brightest, possesses significant technical education and experience, and manages a large budget spend as well as large teams ashore and onboard. Their education and experience levels are such that they can imbibe stronger managerial practices and skills with relatively limited inputs, that is, they don’t need an MBA. Instead what would benefit them tremendously is a targeted leadership development program that allows them the flexibility to learn over time and implement what they learn as they go along.

Between 2006–16 the employment in the maritime sector grew from 100 thousand to close to 170 thousand. With the registration of more ships, the building of new ports, an increase in the number of ships calling Singapore, and potential upturn of the shipping industry highlights that employment in the maritime sector will grow more and more. As a result, we will need even more well-trained managers. MPA Chief Executive Ms. Quah Ley Hoon said “If you are working in the maritime sector in Singapore, you are working in the heart of the world.” Despite this she highlighted that it is getting harder to get Singaporeans interested in what maritime sector has to offer.

The maritime industry is here to grow. Singapore continues to stay number one as a shipping, ports, and logistics capital of the world. It stands as number one in attractiveness and competitiveness for ports and logistics. However, the Senior Minister of State for Transport Dr. Janil Puthucheary noted that the maritime sector has struggled to attract and retain talent for many years and addressing this will require collaboration among stakeholders and the retraining of experienced staff. He also emphasized that the manpower crunch applies to both seafaring and shore-based jobs.

We believe that a management development program that tar-gets managerial capabilities of the maritime mid to senior exec-utives will have a positive and purposeful impact on the talent development and retention in the maritime industry.

“Industry faces challenges including the rapid pace of change and the need to draw talent into the sector.

MPA chief executive Quah Ley Hoon2

“Singapore is very used to looking at manpower as a significant constraint on economic growth. But if we can get the management and interventions correct, it becomes a competitive advantage.

Senior Minister of State for Transport Janil Puthucheary3

2 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/innovation-and-talent-among-themes-of-this-years-maritime-week3 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/collaboration-and-retraining-of-staff-key-to-tackling-manpower-crunch-in

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5Curriculum Structure

Overview

When we look at the management of ships from ashore the key person involved is a technical superintendent. He is the per-son ashore, responsible for providing technical and operational support to the ship, and to facilitate the safe and efficient running of the ship. A marine superintendent in a similar vein provides operations support especially relating to cargo and navigational matters. Looking at the organizational structure ashore, a fleet manager supervises a group of superintendents and is in turn supported with auxiliary support functions such as accounting, purchasing, and quality assurance. They all are managed by the Director, GM or MD of the company.

Many of them are either engineers or navigators and here the need for training emerges. The choice of a technical specialist who is recruited from the pool of chief engineers or navigators is obvious because they are very hard working, know the ships’ running, resilient in attitude, possess a can-do attitude and sound technical knowledge. But a job ashore changes completely from rolling up your sleeves to leading, building teams, developing people, organizing resources, managing regulatory requirements, handling global logistics and supply chains, to motivating remotely and monitoring million-dollar budgets and taking disciplinary actions. These are not natural competencies acquired by engineers and navigators on ships.

Today 40% of the world fleet is managed by third-party ship-man-agers. Frontline managers like superintendents and fleet man-agers can easily establish a good reputation of the company or undermine it thanks to their direct communication with the shipowners, customers, and charterers. Similarly, the purchas-ers, crewing professionals, quality assurance people, and even finance professionals are not very attuned to complexities in-volved. As a result, understanding global networked operations, customer sensitivity, managing stakeholders with the potential to win more business, etc. does not come naturally to this cadre.

Design of the program

Considering various inputs of superintendents, fleet managers, directors and MDs of shipping companies we have identified thirteen training areas. We have based this Maritime Leadership Development Program on sound academic research and by sticking to a practical approach in learning, developing and practicing leadership in shipping and ship-management organizations. The aim of the program is to provide participants with knowledge and skills about effective leadership, management and teamwork in the maritime context based on principles, concepts, application cases, exercises, and self-assessments. It is designed to develop competencies

around leadership and management with a special focus on the maritime sector. Apart from classroom teaching, central to the course is an implementation-based learning approach, where the participants would learn by on the job implementation in a real-life context. The MLDP offers an opportunity for participants to learn by doing exercises that facilitate the development of leadership and managerial competencies in real-life situations.

Course Assessment Method

No formal assessment of the participants would be done. A  primary means of course assessment will be the quanti-ty and quality of contributions made in class and exercises. A  certificate of participation would be provided outlining the course structure and content. Leadership profiles can be developed based on the specific request of participants organization and at additional cost.

CURRICULUM STRUCTURE

Provide fundamental man-agement concepts that can be used in the day-to-day working of a mid to senior level maritime executive in

Singapore.

To fill the management education gap in predominantly technically educated marine professional.

To make Singapore maritime managers better leaders.

Harnessing the full potential of marine professionals; making talent in maritime industry in Singapore more competent.

OBJECTIVE MISSION VISION

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Learning MethodologyA key assumption of this Program is that learners construct knowledge and not merely absorb from someone with more experience. In constructing their knowledge, learners draw on their previous knowledge, mental processes, and experiences in integrating knowledge with their mental models of that domain (e.g. teamwork, leadership). For that reason, the Program is highly interactive and experiential. Participants meet in sessions and in small groups; they work in teams; they participate in leadership, teambuilding and management exercises; individually and collectively they reflect on their experiences through class discussion. In short, the Program requires active participation as the foundation for learning.

Duration and Fee

Course Duration 13 sessions over 4-6 months

Session Duration 3.5 hours

Program fee SGD 10,500 Per participant

MCF Training Grant is available for eligible participants. Please refer to www.mpa.gov.sg/mcf for information

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PROGRAM OUTLINESession Date Time Key Topics

1. Introduction Dr. KK Sharma

5-Jun-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.

• Shipping in a global context• Management issues and leadership challenges in

shipping• Overview and program philosophy

2. Understanding Leadership Dr. KK Sharma

19-Jun-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Who is a leader?• Personality traits and leadership• Motivational approaches

3. Developing Effective Teams and Teamwork Dr. KK Sharma

3-Jul-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.

• Characteristics of high-performing teams• Team leadership capacity• Team development processes• Source of power

4. Marketing and Sales Dr. KK Sharma

17-Jul-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Business development• Sales • Concepts of marketing

5. Finance and Accounting Mr. P Kothari

7-Aug-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• P&L and Balance Sheet• ROI• Financial ratios

6. Manpower development Dr. KK Sharma and Mr. D Miller

14-Aug-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Recruitment and selection • Talent acquisition • Manning management

7. Chartering Mr. P Oza

21-Aug-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Fundamentals of chartering • Key concepts for charter party • Chartering for non-chartering people

8. Commercial Operations Mr. J Majumdar

28-Aug-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Voyage operations • Commercial concepts for non-commercial people

9. Materials and Maintenance Management in Shipping Prof. R. Pandey

16-Oct-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Concepts of maintenance and materials

management • Economic order quantity

10. Supply Chain Management Prof. R. Pandey

6-Nov-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Concepts of supply chain management• Design thinking of supply chains

11. Concepts of Operation Research and IoT world Dr. P. Raj

20-Nov-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Optimization • IoT

12. Customer orientation and stakeholder management Mr. D.Miller

4-Dec-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• CRM• Leading in commercial world

13. Putting It All Together Dr. KK Sharma and other available faculty

18-Dec-20 2:00 PM.-6:00 PM.• Summation of the learning / Take home • Closing dinner

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Krishan has over 20 years of global experience in executive search, talent management, leadership development, business coaching, and human resources management. For the last 10 years, Krishan has been focusing on leadership development and talent management for a variety of industrial customers and professional services customers in Asia Pacific and Europe. In addition, he has been responsible for managing a team of consultants for all offices of Comaea Consulting.

During his corporate career as VP HR for large shipping organizations such as Fleet Management (Singapore listed Noble Group), Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (two of the top four largest ship manager) and Norgas Carriers (the largest global Ethylene Shipping Company) Krishan handled the global crewing and HR operations. In these roles, he managed offices in several cities in India and a number of countries in Europe, FSU, and Asia including direct management of offices in India, China, Russia, Ukraine, and the Philippines serving a population of over 10 thousand seafarers as the global head of crewing.

Krishan has worked extensively in the fields of industrial management, human resources development and recruitment at a global scale. In his last assignment in executive search and talent management Krishan was heading international business and supporting about 50 international clients for their talent needs.

Krishan was a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa working with Prof James L Price, a leading organizational turnover scholar, in 1997 and taught as Adjunct Professor at Singapore Management University in leadership, teambuilding, compensation and performance management courses during 2007 to 2008.

Krishan’s current professional interests include leadership in shipping. As a result of this interest, he has trained over a thousand seafarers through his two-day workshops. He has conducted over 20 workshops in India, Ukraine, Russia, and Cyprus. He currently collaborates on academic research with universities in Australia and USA on three topics – services management, sales development, and marketing of professional services. Krishan has lived and worked in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, USA, and Norway.

Krishan is a Marine Engineer from DMET in Calcutta (1984-89) with hands-on seagoing engineering experience and has earned his Ph.D. in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1994-98) on a full scholarship. Krishan is a trained and certified Executive Coach.

KRISHAN KUMAR SHARMA (Program Director)

COURSE FACULTY

“The biggest challenge that faces shipping today is leadership ashore.

Dr. KK Sharma

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9Course Faculty

David Miller Osammor is a Partner and founder of Miller|Hunter career consultants. Since its inception in 2001, Miller|Hunter has established itself as a reputable firm in leadership, senior management and C-suite recruitment. David is also a board member of Comaea Consulting Pte. Ltd.

David has over 20 years of extensive experience in executive search and professional development. He has handled several senior-level assignments, involving team movements, law firm mergers/acquisitions in Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia and the United Kingdom. He has also advised many organisations looking to set up operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Prior to founding Miller|Hunter, David was the Managing Partner of a leading, global Executive Search consultancy company based in Singapore.

He has also worked in Hong Kong and is presently managing Miller|Hunter’ s executive search business in Beijing, China.

Before moving to Asia, David worked for a fortune 100 recruitment organisation in London. He was responsible for setting up the IT recruitment division, which covered 12 offices in Europe.

David is an advocate of professional development and was ap-pointed the career counsel for the New York University / National University of Singapore, Master of Laws campus where he ad-vised senior lawyers on career and professional development.

David is legally qualified. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK and his L.L.M degree from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

DAVID MILLER OSAMMOR

“Shipmanagement pioneered outsourcing much before IT outsourcing came to light.

David Miller

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Prashant has 27 years’ experience in financial services and investment management, leadership development, training, organization development and executive coaching. He is passionate about helping people realize their full potential and live a more fulfilling and purposeful life. As an external consultant to Comaea Consulting, Prashant dedicates himself to develop senior level leadership capabilities and focuses on Banking and Financial sector for executive coaching, leadership development assessment and training.

Prashant began his equity sales career with Peregrine India as Manager (Institutional Sales) and soon moved to work on Wall Street in New York with global financial firms. In New York, he worked as Head of India Sales at Raymond James & Associates, Vice President (Institutional Sales) at WI Carr Securities, and Director - Pan Asian Equity Sales at Deutsche Securities. During his equity sales career, Prashant was voted twice the best sales person for Indian equities globally by international investors. He then moved to buy-side working as a Senior Research Analyst at Artha Capital Management and as a Senior Analyst at SAC Capital.

Prashant moved to Singapore in 2006 and co-founded a global hedge fund Geosphere Capital and worked as its Head of Asian Research. In 2014, he also set up another Asia focused hedge fund Ashiana Capital. In his last role he was an Investment Director at Dymon Asia Capital, the largest Singapore based hedge fund.

With strong exposure to many high-pressured competitions on Wall Street and hedge funds and having lived through multiple financial crisis, Prashant now focuses on coaching practice for executives working in high pressure jobs and facing stressful situations and transitions. He brings a unique combination of senior management corporate expertise, combined with the real time experience of being a successful entrepreneur and a global investment manager. He is particularly interested in helping busy executives create a work-life balance to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life.

Prashant has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (1995) and master’s degree in commerce from SRCC, Delhi University  (1993). A committed lifelong learner, Prashant has completed various accreditation courses such as CFA (India), CFA (USA), ICF-ACCI Coaching Course. Prashant is an avid backpacker having traveled extensively throughout the globe covering 50 countries and six continents. Prashant has lived and worked in India, USA and Singapore.

PRASHANT KOTHARI

“A superintendent with close to 8 million OPEX, over 100 million in asset, and 100 crew runs a mid size listed company.

Prashant Kothari

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11Course Faculty

Mr. Punit Oza is the Executive Director of Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration Since March 2020. Mr. Punit Oza has over 26 years of experience in Dry Bulk Shipping, holding senior management positions in some leading shipping companies.

He began his career in Precious Shipping, Bangkok handling the commercial operations for an owned fleet of 32 handysize dry bulk carriers. Building on this operational foundation, he went to work with an operator, Astra Shipping Dubai, primarily involved in an operational role including supervising loading and discharging as a supercargo. Following this, he worked as a ship broker in Aries Shipbroking, Singapore and then went on to work with a commodity trader, Noble Chartering Hong Kong as Assistant Vice President, Chartering. He returned to Precious Shipping Bangkok in a senior chartering role and was exclusively handling the transportation for the entire minerals business of an exclusive trade, Eastern Energy in addition to handling the employment of the Precious Shipping Fleet of Handymax and Supramax Dry Bulk Carriers.

Mr. Oza joined Torvald Klaveness’ Singapore Regional Office in 2006 as Chartering Manager in charge of the Supramax market and thereafter progressed to head the Supramax team. The team successfully built market share for Torvald Klaveness in South Africa, Middle East & Asia-Pacific regions. He later went on to head the entire office in the role of General Manager of

Klaveness Asia Pte Ltd. Over the last 2 years, he was involved in the transformation and competence building across the entire organization as Vice President & Head of Process, Systems & Competence. He was able to blend his commercial expertise with analytics to create a robust platform for building sustainable process and systems and also standardize competence and training for the teams. Since January 2020, he has moved into the board of Klaveness Asia Pte Ltd as a director.

Punit is a graduate in Financial Management and Accounting from University of Mumbai and a post graduate in Shipping, Trade and Finance from CASS Business School, London. He also holds a LLB from University of London He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS), UK and chairs the Singapore Branch of ICS.

He was recently inducted as a Senior Adjunct Fellow in Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) Academy. He is a guest lecturer at Singapore Management University lecturing in “Geopolitical Risks & their impact on Shipping and Trade Flows” and also a guest lecturer for “Private International Law” at BAC College, Singapore, which is affiliated to University of London. He is a board member of Singapore Maritime Foundation (SMF) and a member of the Trade and Connectivity sub-committee of Singapore Government’s Future Economy Council (FEC).

PUNIT OZA

“As old school mentoring recedes formal knowledge sharing and competence building on chartering becomes even more vital.

Punit Oza

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Jyotirmay Majumdar has over 30 years of Commercial Shipping experience in various International companies, of which about 20 years were in senior management positions.

Jyotirmay obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from IIT, Delhi in 1983 and then completed his MBA from IIM, Calcutta in 1985. He starter his career in commercial shipping with the largest Indian shipping company – The Shipping Corporation of India. Since then Jyotirmay continued to serve the shipping industry in various fields like Offshore, Ship Financing, Bulk Carriers and Gas carriers. He spent close to 28 years in the gas industry and worked for a total of 14 years with Norwegian Gas Carriers (NGC) in Singapore and served in the capacity of Managing Director and Vice President Global Chartering at Norgas Carriers. He has also served in senior positions at Varun Shipping Company Limited, Singapore and Reliance Industries Limited, India.

Jyotirmay’s main strength is commercial negotiation and explanation of charter party clauses. He has handled all sorts of commercial shipping business that includes Spot, TC, COA, Trip TC, Formula based COA/TC and many more.

During the years in Reliance he had the opportunity to successfully handle both the areas of commercial shipping namely chartering and operations. He has comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of gas shipping including handling arbitration.

During the days in Norgas he had taken up a special role to train the Norgas employees in commercial and non-commercial departments like finance & accounts, technical, business development etc. and ran shipping training familiarization course for employees of customers like Sabic and Qatar on regular basis. He has also been the supervisor of the shipping projects carried out by Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Polytechnic students in collaboration with Norgas.

JYOTIRMAY MAJUMDAR

“The role of technical and operations are often undervalued. The ROI on training them in management has very high retuns.

Jyotirmay Majumdar

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Rahul has over 25 years of experience in teaching, research, consulting and entrepreneurship in the areas of supply chain management, operations management, operations strategy, design and innovation, energy and climate change policy, sus-tainable development, and education.

Rahul is a co-founder of IGSA Labs, a private limited company based in India. IGSA Labs develops mathematical optimization solutions for supply chain planning and offers products and services to manufacturing, logistics, retail and e-commerce companies. IGSA’s solutions helps its customers plan optimal supply chain networks, allocate products to plants, warehouse and transport modes, determine optimal levels of inventories and replenishment systems, schedule dispatch of vehicles and routes, and plan procurements. Major industries served by IGSA include FMCG, FMEG, automotive, cement, steel, energy, equipment manufacturing, logistics, and retail. Rahul has been a part of IGSA teams that have served and consulted compa-nies from these diverse industries.

Rahul is also a visiting professor with several top manage-ment institutes in India such as Indian Institutes of Manage-ment (IIMs) at Lucknow, Udaipur and Kashipur, and SPJIMR.

Formerly, he was a regular faculty member with IIT Bombay and IIM Lucknow. For the past 21 years he has been teaching courses on supply chain management, operations strategy, op-erations excellence, and supply chain analytics. Rahul is also a member of the training team of Comaea Consulting. He has also taught courses at a few business schools in Europe and Dubai. As part of academic work, he has published in some of the leading journals in India and internationally.

He collaborates with National Institute for Environmental Stud-ies (NIES), Japan, on development of mathematical models for analysis of energy and climate change policy.

He is part of the founding team of a non-profit organisation that runs skill and educational activities for students and youth from low-income families.

Rahul is a B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, doctorate from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, and post-doctorate from National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan. Prior to joining academics he worked with Maruti Suzuki as Quality Assurance executive.

RAHUL PANDEY

“It is not realised but about 70% of the job of fleet management is managing supply chain be it crew or spare parts.

Rahul Pandey

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Piyush has over 20 years of experience in the maritime domain, which spans across shipping, shipbuilding, classification and technology domains. For the last 5 years, Piyush has been focusing on innovation in maritime industry, especially how technology can provide assistance in tactical and operational decision making in maritime industry. He is currently the Director of Product Management in Alpha Ori Technologies, a start-up funded by industry leaders, leveraging IoT and cloud technologies to address ship operations challenges.

Before joining AlphaOri, he was Principal Consultant with DNV  GL, world’s largest maritime classification society and technical advisors. Apart from carrying out several inspections, technical qualification and consulting jobs, he led maritime academy in India and South Asia regions with a team of 20+ maritime trainers, to address issues such as safety, risk assessment and process improvements in maritime sector. Subsequently he also led an innovation team in Middle East and South Europe region to support both internal and external stakeholders, including start-ups and government entities.

Piyush has worked extensively in maritime logistics sector, for improving productivity and operational efficiency of commodities value chain in Indonesia, India and briefly in West

Africa. In Indonesia, he led a 50 plus maritime infrastructure team to complete design and build of a floating crane of 30,000 tpd capacity, a coal loading jetty and several barges to shift road-based transportation to river based. This was preceded by a logistics design work, evaluating all transportation options, inventory and application specific constraints for each option and candidate locations.

In early part of his career Piyush worked onboard ships and as owners’ representative for a series of chemical carrier newbuilding in Korea. Subsequently he joined a shipbuilding team in India as head of productivity improvement. This team helped turnaround a brownfield shipyard and delivered 5 bulk carrier over 3 years, reducing cycle time to less than 50%.

Piyush is a Marine Engineer from DMET, Calcutta (1994-98) and has earned his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (2002-07) on a full scholarship. He is a trained and certified ISM, ISPS, ISO  9001:2015 and ISO 50001 auditor and trainer. He is a member of Institute of Marine Engineers, India and Royal Institute of Naval Architects, UK and has several publications to his credit.

PIYUSH RAJ

“Technological advancement in Internet of Things will transform the way ships operates in just few years.

Piyush Raj

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15Contact

Please contact Rajeshwari Nair at [email protected] for more details.

Or write to us atComaea Consulting Pte. Ltd. 171 Tras Street, #06-171 Union Building Singapore 079025www.comaeaconsulting.comTel: (65) 6974 4170EA Lic No 15C7642

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