Board of Directors
In his current role, Raj serves as – Chairman: Avalon Consulting, AGR Knowledge and Germinait Solutions Pvt Ltd.
As a strategy consultant, Raj has helped companies across diverse industries in India, USA, Europe, and the Middle East to develop strategies, align strategy to vision, grow in competitive markets, restructure to make companies more customer focused etc.
After working in consumer durables marketing at Murphy and later as a Merchant Banker with Grindlays Bank for 6 years, he set up a Marketing Research and Advisory firm and followed that up with a Management Consulting company. He, thereafter, co-founded a very successful Analytics company in 2000. In 2008, seeing the opportunity in text analytics with the advent of Social Media, he founded a technology company that would create IT products that help analyse what people are saying in the digital world.
Raj is an Engineering graduate from IIT, Bombay and a Post-Graduate in Business Management, from IIM, Ahmedabad. He also holds a degree in General Law from the University of Mumbai.
He has built lasting relationships with clients through successful engagements that have delivered substantial value. He has provided and helped implement solutions in areas of business strategy, performance improvement, supply chain optimisation, partner identification and sales & marketing. Sridhar also has significant experience in franchising model development and management, having developed and implemented growth strategies through franchising across a range of industries. Sridhar has also done extensive work evaluating the relative economics of businesses across the two hottest emerging markets – India and China – for a number of Indian and International entities. He was part of the CII Task Force on China, constituted to develop the China engagement strategy and lead the development of a report which was the basis of a number of actions at a policy level from India. He is a regular speaker at various conferences organised by CII, ACMA and other National and Industry Level Associations and serves on the Board of listed and unlisted companies as an Independent Director
Sridhar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the Mumbai University and an MBA from one of India’s leading business schools, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
Over the years, he has led companies to grow from small divisions to successful independent entities with over hundreds of employees. With his ‘solution-focused, customer-first’ style of leadership, Rishikesh enabled the right business and operations environment in organizations to gain customers’ trust, who in turn increasingly progressed from ‘ad-hoc projects’ to ‘annuity process driven’ engagements.
In early 2020, Rishikesh had the privilege of accompanying the Honorable, former President of India, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, as part of his delegation to several countries to promote cross border business expansion.
As the CEO of Avalon Global Research, Rishikesh is responsible for growing the business sustainably, building the organizational culture that encourages entrepreneurial growth, and directing the company to align with the vision of the business outlined by the shareholders. He has also successfully created and developed a platform for cross-border partner search and connect that has found considerable traction in select countries and industries.
Prior to his stint in Avalon, he has had senior leadership roles at various organizations in consulting, outsourcing, and media sectors.
Management Team
Over the years, he has led companies to grow from small divisions to successful independent entities with over hundreds of employees. With his ‘solution-focused, customer-first’ style of leadership, Rishikesh enabled the right business and operations environment in organizations to gain customers’ trust, who in turn increasingly progressed from ‘ad-hoc projects’ to ‘annuity process driven’ engagements.
In early 2020, Rishikesh had the privilege of accompanying the Honorable, former President of India, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, as part of his delegation to several countries to promote cross border business expansion.
As the CEO of Avalon Global Research, Rishikesh is responsible for growing the business sustainably, building the organizational culture that encourages entrepreneurial growth, and directing the company to align with the vision of the business outlined by the shareholders. He has also successfully created and developed a platform for cross-border partner search and connect that has found considerable traction in select countries and industries.
Prior to his stint in Avalon, he has had senior leadership roles at various organizations in consulting, outsourcing, and media sectors.
As Executive Vice President at Avalon Global Research, Radhakrishnan oversees the scale up of the Consumer Insights and Investment Research practices. These practices have emerged in a short period as among the largest business units within Avalon. He is adept at successfully designing and delivering research solutions while building client relationships and managing costs and business profitability.
Over the years, Radhakrishnan has played a pivotal role in various types of research start-ups, building processes that take organizations to the next growth stages. He is focused on developing highly responsive client-focused teams that believe in the ethos of striking the right work-life balance.
Subramaniam plays a key leadership role in the business research division of AGR Knowledge as the Executive Vice President. He leads the division to develop high quality, bespoke research and trackers for corporates, management consultants, and the financial community in India and abroad.
Earlier, he worked as Associate Vice President at Avalon Consulting for about 10 years, specializing in marketing research, strategy development and performance improvement consulting services for manufacturing and services sectors.
In his current role as Vice President, Shubham leads the Market insights and Business activation practice for Automotive and Engineering domains. Prior to AGR, he spearheaded Business development for a Danish consulting firm; Valcon. In 2011, Shubham started his entrepreneurial venture Presilium (originally, Invensis Management Consultants) that offered bespoke Business consulting services to Corporations and MSMEs in India and Middle East. During his stint with Netscribes he was in-charge of the Business Research & Analytics division with responsibility of managing client relations and building the research practice.
Over the years, he has conducted multiple research studies across the metals value chain: starting from raw materials to semi-finished and finished products, and recycled materials. Ankur has significant exposure to the domestic as well as global markets. As Vice President, Ankur drives business activities, insight generation, solution development, and customer engagement as the P&L head of the Metals, Minerals & Mining practice at Avalon Global Research.
Ankur also manages the Business Analytics practise that creates automated dashboards using PowerBI, Python, SharePoint, and PowerApps to support CXOs in decision making.
Bhasker advises senior executives and CXOs on successful growth initiatives, meaningful process improvements and impactful strategies for business, geography expansion, branding, and partner diligence.
As part of Avalon Global Research’s senior leadership team, Bhasker is responsible for the practice’s strategic direction and business scale up. He looks after its revenue acceleration, operational execution, GTM approach, and brand marketing. As Vice President, Bhasker leads the business sales pursuits, client relationship development, and organizational competency development and delivery for Avalon Global Research.
Earlier, Bhasker headed the advisory operations of Ipsos Strategy3 India and collaborated with Ipsos India senior management and Ipsos global strategy team to drive the growth of its consulting business in B2B and B2C sectors. Prior to that, Bhasker led the Business Research practice for Aranca.
Over the years, Divesh has worked on numerous research assignments on chemicals, energy logistics & pharmaceuticals, executed techno-economic feasibility studies on chemicals, specialty chemicals & medical devices and successfully delivered CI projects in chemical, energy & pharmaceuticals, while acquiring new clients.
As Director at Avalon Global Research, Divesh is responsible for the P&L/revenue targets and profitability of the division he is part of. He manages key accounts while identifying scope for business development and leads a team of project managers and analysts to execute projects with a complete focus on ensuring customer delight.
Suyog is a result-oriented, award-winning professional with over 15 years of experience in B2B/B2C Market research, Customer insights, Customer centricity, Business consulting, and Net Promoter Score across diverse industry sectors.
In his current role as Director, he leads a specialized team for Customer Insights, Customer Satisfaction/Loyalty (POSAT/NPS) and Customer Experience Mapping practice at Avalon Global Research. His team empowers the clients to gain actionable insights, undertake strategic initiatives, develop market entry plans, and achieve objectives with in-depth business and consumer research.
Prior to Avalon Global Research, he supervised the entire lifecycle of research reports and led a team of research practice in Electronics, Semiconductor, and ICT domain at Future Market Insights. Earlier, he helped clients across industry sectors in market entry, expansion, partner identification, competitive analysis, market sizing, industry insights, and NPS as part of market research and consulting team at D&B Tangram Advisory Services and various other business consulting and advisory firms. With more than 5 years in MBA/PGDM education, Suyog is also associated with leading Business Schools as a visiting faculty.