J Ravikant, Vice President and Head – Corporate TQM, SRF Limited
Education
B.E. – Electrical, Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi
M.S – Quality Management, BITS Pilani
Senior quality, business excellence and strategy professional with 27 years of experience spanning
industry and consulting
Quality Management Role
Handles group-wide promotion of the improvement agenda at the SRF group
Guided two successful challenges of the prestigious Deming Prize within SRF
Integrated business strategy and deployment through the planning process, as a core member of the
strategic planning team.
Created long-term roadmaps for businesses through Deming prize based internal diagnoses.
Trained and facilitated businesses in India, Thailand, South Africa, and the Middle East on achieving
transformational results through training and implementation support
Provide oversight and leadership to the company’s flagship capability building and certification
program – PSP Blue and the advanced PSP Silver, which generate ~ Rs. 50 Cr. annually to the company’s bottom line.
Member of the strategic planning team at SRF
In earlier roles – Design and Development at a largely diversified manufacturing co., led Strategy and
Process consulting assignments for large retail sector clients in the Middle East with an IT major
Trained and associated over a long period with luminaries in the Quality management field, such as
Prof. Kume, Prof. Kano, Prof. Shiba, and others, in India and overseas.
Professional Memberships and External activities
Member – Governing Council (Board member) of the Indian Society for Quality (ISQ)
Board Member – Asian Network for Quality (ANQ)
Associate Academician – International Academy for Quality (IAQ), the world’s apex quality body
Member – Global Quality Futures Workshop, a network of international senior quality professionals led by Prof. Kano and others
Examiner for Qimpro Convention for several years
Trained Assessor on the Baldrige Award criteria
Speaker at international and national fora invited speaker and juror at reputed organizations