Speakers India Opportunities Seminar 20th June 2014
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Lal Singh, Plastindia Foundation
Lal is the Chairman of International Relations Committee, and Fairground Committee, Plastindia Foundation and is responsible for developing International relations and organizing Plastindia exhibition in 2015.
He is also Managing committee member of AIPMA, governing council member of South East Asia rotomolding Association and was the secretary of PRI, Delhi chapter.
He is a Managing Director of Fixopan Machines Pvt. Ltd in India, which he set up and manufacture and export rotomolding machines and molds. Fixopan has exported to nearly 80 countries worldwide including UK, Ireland, Germany, Scadinavia, USA, Canada, South America and Australia.
He graduated from Birmingham University and did his apprenticeship with BIP Tools Ltd., Birmingham and also trained with Refienhauser KG, Germany.
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Prof. Poonam Kumar, Mega Ace Consultancy
Prof. Poonam Kumar brings over three decades of experience as an international business strategy consultant and policy expert. Closely associated with the liberalisation and globalisation process in India, she has worked with governments of several Indian states to initiate economic reforms and attract foreign investments.
Over the years, she has been working with Boards and senior managements of several global companies working with international teams to develop a phase-wise India eentry strategy. Her initiatives to develop innovative public private partnership models have led her to undertake pioneering work with various public and multi-lateral agencies.
Prof. Kumar is a member of several professional bodies, trade & industry organizations. She has
addressed the European Parliament in Brussels (May 2006) as an expert on Indian Business when the EU- India trade policy was being finalised. She has also addressed several other international Summits including India- EU Summit, India- UK Summit and the World Economic Summits since their inception in mid nineties and has presented papers in these forums for over two decades.
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Bob Hawkins, UK Trade & Investment
Bob trained as a Mechanical Engineer and has designed, built and supplied Capital Equipment to over 65 countries. Areas of support, service, marketing and sales of capital equipment to a wide range of geographical markets across a client base in many sectors. Material handling, weighing, packaging, cardboard/paper, plastics, also systems for the reprocessing of industrial plastics waste.
Establishing sales networks Worldwide via direct sales, agents and distributors providing equipment and services to companies of all sizes.
His 30 years+ of export experience at all levels will prove invaluable to those using the UK Trade & Investment services.
Having lived and previously owned, operated companies in UK, USA and Brazil he now resides in Bedfordshire with interests in the renovation of character properties and performing in a local charity band.
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Stephen Hunt, British Plastics Federation
Stephen Hunt has been working at the British Plastics Federation for 10 years and is the Business Development Manager looking after the BPF Members, overseeing the trade show programme and marketing issues. Stephen has been involved in all foreign exhibitions where the BPF has ever been to and he has 10 years experience in making the best of trade shows.
Stephen has graduated from Sheffield Hallam University Business Studies and is a Chartered
Marketeer.
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Colin Brookes, Boston Matthews - Chairman of the Seminar
Colin Brookes is Chairman of Boston Matthews, manufacturers of extrusion machinery for the
medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and automotive industries together with recycling machinery.
Boston Matthews has been established for more than 60 years and has 34,000 machines in daily use throughout the world.
Boston Matthews exports approximately 80 per cent of its turnover and has a subsidiary company in Florida, USA and an office in Shanghai. |
