Who is Consoul Associates?
We’re so glad you asked.
We're a consortium of highly skilled practitioners with versatile experience across a diverse range of organizations — from smaller, local SMEs to larger companies with national and international operations. Our practitioners have all managed an organization, or a business unit, and have a track record of success from within business before joining Consoul Associates. This gives us the background and depth to understand the challenges that face the industry and offer practical advisory services and bespoke scalable solutions for our clients.
Founders
Board of Advisors
Anoop Kumar
ERP & CRM
A result-oriented IT professional having a strong sense of ownership with 13+ years of experience. He is a versatile product owner and certified Agile Coach with extensive experience in CRM business transformations. By providing strategic leadership to distributed teams, he has successfully led ERP projects, making sure the implementation process goes smoothly from start to finish. He is an MBA graduate from IIM Kozhikode.
Parag Patekar
Construction & Infrastructure
A versatile construction management professional with the distinction of executing prestigious real estate projects of large magnitude - townships, hotels, malls, high rise buildings - within strict timelines, cost & quality. Integrating industry experience with technical and financial competencies, he has provided end-to-end Project Management Services, Design Services, and Cost Consultancy services for many real estate projects. Over the last 20 years, Parag has spearheaded all stages of a project lifecycle - project planning, designing, procurement, construction and operations - for leading Residential, Commercial, Retail, and Hospitality clients. He is a postgraduate in Advance Construction Management from the National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR) and earned his B.Arch. from the University of Mumbai.
Roy John
Founder
With two decades of managerial experience in Human Resources Management at State Bank of India, Roy spearheads the HR transformation engagements for our clients. Prior to Consoul, Roy has held senior roles in retail banking and consulted for NBFCs on their Learning and Development strategies. Roy completed his executive MBA from IIM-K and holds Doctorate in Management. He is a diploma holder in Training & Development from Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) and the current Secretary of Operational Research Society of India (ORSI), Kochi Chapter. At Consoul as Co-Founder, Roy is responsible for all finance functions and HR processes.
Nisha K R
Co-Founder
Over 15 years in digital business, she had honed her skills and methodologies to drive Consoul's singular mission: the success of our client's business transformation through digital solutions. Prior to founding Consoul, Nisha has directed product development teams, building ERP and CRM solutions. Nisha earned her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) with gold medal and holds Bachelor degree in Computer Science Engineering. She manages all facets of Consoul's business: improve internal processes and develop sales and marketing strategies.
Krishnakumar R
Lean Manufacturing
Krishnakumar has 20 years of industrial experience across production planning, maintenance, quality, procurement and logistics functions in manufacturing sector. For large manufacturing plants and multi sites operations, he has handled end to end Supply Chain design, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) implementation, Profit Centre management, Capex planning and execution, and Co-Pack management. With extensive knowledge of regional and global manufacturing processes and technologies, he is a champion of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma for operational excellence. He has consulted many Packaged Foods & Beverages companies to certify for quality systems on Food Safety Standards - AIB, HACCP, FSSAI.
Binu Jacob
Industrial IoT
Has more than 16 years of experience in the technology solutions and transformation programs in digital space. Having worked in multiple verticals across geographies, he is a champion in defining and architecting solutions for domestic and international businesses.
Deep understanding of the process and transformation goals of organizations and have led various innovation programs by adopting latest technology best practices to drive transformation and cost savings for customers.
Rustum Usman
Learning & Development
An entrepreneur, a seasoned product leader, and a business adviser. He has almost a decade of professional experience spanning from academics to industry. Defining product strategy, validating hypothesis on product vision, defining KPIs and business models are his areas of interest. As a business adviser, his mission is to help companies innovate at scale.
Rustum acquired an MBA from IIM-Kozhikode, and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Kerala University.