Cdr. Binu Tom Jacob (Retd.)
Co-Founder and Managing Director
A former Indian Navy officer with over 20 years of extensive experience in Indian Navy and Nuclear Technology, Cdr Jacob was always an entrepreneur at heart. Business, he always believed, was merely a means to connect and give back to the society. With this thought, his first entrepreneurial stint began in 2011 when he rolled out indigenously built, state-of-the-art, customized healthcare mobile units through his firm “Crescendo Corporation” to support palliative care, tele-psychiatry, ophthalmology, and general medicine care to serve the underprivileged in the society. Cdr Binu Jacob brought alive his passion for niche technologies when he founded Crimson Energy Experts Pvt. Ltd along with Cmde RD Mane in 2012 with their vision to utilise the vast expertise and skill sets of the veteran and retired scientific community to benefit our Defence forces and strategic national programmes. Cdr Jacob holds a Bachelor’s Degree both in Science & Engineering and did his post-graduation in Nuclear Technology from BARC and is a gold medalist in MBA ( International Business) from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He is also a certified PMP from PMI,USA.
Cmde. Rajendra Dattajirao Mane (Retd)
Co-Founder and Director
Cmde RD Mane is a retired senior Indian Naval Officer with over three decades of unmatched experience in senior management of technologically complex projects. He is the Co-Founder and Director of the company. With specialisation in Nuclear Technology and Marine Engineering, he has held numerous prestigious appointments including in strategic projects involving the Indian Navy and the DAE. Having been a professional lawyer, and having specialised in Nuclear Technology from BARC, Cmde Mane brings an unmatched and unique perspective with the combination of Technological vision along with a Corporate legal outlook. With his immense technical experience, sound knowledge, and great planning skills, he directs comprehensively all the Nuclear and Marine projects of the company in addition to preparing the company for the forthcoming technology intensive projects.
Cdr. Nitin Madhavan (Retd.)
Vice President Digital Technologies
A Naval Veteran with over 27 years of experience in the Defence and Maritime subjects Cdr. Nitin Madhavan was an avid submariner in the Indian Navy. He has an M. Phil ( Defence Studies) and two Masters degrees in Nautical Sciences and Defence Studies and is one of few luminaries in the country with a comprehensive know how and understanding of the Maritime surveillance domain. Having been the faculty of the prestigious Defence Services Staff College, Wellingtion, and having served in the Netcentric operations at the Naval Headquarters, his prowess and proven credentials in creating state of the art digital platforms for Maritime surveillance is what propels him to deliver cutting edge technologies for the company in this domain as the Vice President Digital Technologies. He has a hands-on and deep understanding of Digital Systems, Softwares, Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence and their adaptation for modern day applications. Cdr Nitin is spearheading a movement in the company which has the potential to revolutionize the surveillance and other applications utilizing the latest AI and ML techniques not only for our country but also in the vast International canvas.
Cdr. Saju Thomas (Retd)
General Manager
Commander Saju Thomas is a seasoned professional in the field of Marine, Project and Facility Management. His vast skill set of Technical Administration & Management with over 20 years’ experience in the Indian Navy is in complete synergy with the company’s vision. His profound experience at Senior Management Level in leading organizations in India and Overseas is a great asset to the company. An MBA from ICFAI, M.Tech. (Computer Science) from IIT (Chennai, and B.E. (Mechanical) NIT, Durgapur Cdr Saju brings the potent mix of technological acumen sharpened with an entrepreneurial thought process to the company. He is the pillar of the company for its current foray into the innovative e-documentation domain.
Lt. Cdr. Gireesh Gopidas (Retd.)
Deputy General Manager (Projects)
LtCdr Gireesh holds a bouquet of varied capabilities and background. While he holds a Master’s Degree in Hydrographic Survey, and a B.Tech Degree in Mechanical Engineering, his passion is in multiple software domains. He is a Certified Network/ Server administrator, with more than one and half decade of experience in the Training, Development and Evaluation fields . He has played an active role in IHO training programs, conceptualization, design and implementation of digital documentation solutions and has good experience in the arena of international training.
Mona Savio Pereira
Senior Manager (HR & Admin)
A Management professional with experience in Banking and Operational sector for over a decade. Mona holds a double masters and is a Certified Recruitment Analyst. Mona with her exceptional multi-tasking skills manages our large Human Resource of over 200 professionals whilst handling a major portion of our financials associated with them. Her amazing capability to handle all the Admin work coupled with her stupendous team management skills is a pillar of strength for the company. Mona Savio as the Manager Admin and HR brings vital support to the Apex management. Mona is “professional execution skills” behind an always smiling face.
Abhijeet Mane
Lead Engineer-Waste Management Technologies
Abhijeet is what you would call the young, brilliant firebrand. He is a Mechanical Engineer with a Master’s Degree in Resource Recovery from Sweden. With a specialisation in waste to energy, he heads the company’s activities in providing sustainable tailor-made Waste Management solutions and corresponding technical assistance to our customers. Having already designed and developed the fuel less green incinerator for the company which has got the Pollution Control Board approval, his current focus is into Plasma Pyrolysis and Gasification plants as also mobile incinerators for total treatment of bio- medical and chemical waste. Abhijeet’s value is based on grounded knowledge coupled with an international outlook from his stint in Europe which he applies to adapt and innovate the world’s best technologies in the waste management domain to match with the ground reality in India- a tough challenge that few with mettle like him can handle. Abhijeet’s earlier experience in the Video gaming industry and testing of its software brings on table his added support for visualisation and digital documentation tools that the company is currently working on.
Hon Sub Lt Raj Singh
Engineer- Documentation
A veteran with more than 25 years of service in undertaking and managing engineering operations and maintenance of main and auxiliary machinery in Indian Navy onboard Submarines, Raj Singh is a man with solid hands-on experience. His certification and experience on operating nuclear plants gives him the rare expertise in this field. Raj Singh provides the critical onboard knowledge to our documentation services.
Venu Kumar Kommineni
Engineer in Charge-Site
A high-calibre Mechanical engineering professional possessing a decade of experience in nuclear and process industry in execution and maintenance roles. Venu has hands-on experience working on Nuclear reactors (PHWR, ALWR) for repair and maintenance, special equipment, Jigs& fixtures, and decontamination. He is a specialist in technical works to be undertaken in radioactive environment having worked in these projects in various plants. Venu leads a large team of professionals in this domain for our special projects delivering technical services.
DTH Srinivas
Design Engineer
Srinivas is a naval veteran with over 15 years of excellent service. He holds a B.SC(Electronics) Degree from CUSAT and Diploma in Electronics and communications. Srinivas has vertically specialised in Electronic warfare system and is well trained in missile fire control radar, missile control system and early warning radar systems. With is exceptional knowledge in Quality Control, he had worked as QC inspector for DRDO organisation. Srinivas leads our team at a premier equipment development agency contributing immensely in overall design and site trials.
Dinesh Kumar
Senior Design Engineer
Dinesh has over a decade of rich experience in modelling and assembly of complex equipment in platforms with constrained spaces. His hands on expertise in working on a wide variety of tools including in AUTO CAD (2D, Isometric, 3D, Script, Animation, Customization), UG NX (with Core & Cavity, Reverse Engineering and Motion), SOLID WORKS (with simulation, Core & Cavity, Reverse Engineering and Motion), ANSYS Workbench, DELCAM, PLM and PDM makes him a role model in modelling and designing aspects. A Mechanical Engineer, with sound experience built over years of his hard work, he is a key player in bringing visualization and modelling to our e-documentation projects.
Ishaan Sharma
Machine Learning Engineer
Ishaan is a “Machine Learning” Engineer with expertise in Natural Language Processing and Image Processing using Deep Learning. At this young age itself, he has taught “Artificial Intelligence” to thousands of students at various premier institutes of the nation including IITs. Ishaan contributes to the important Machine Learning/ AI component of our special projects.
Manoj Sharma
Project Coordinator
An Indian Navy Veteran having over one and a half decades of experience in underwater sonar operations and maintenance of marine platforms. Manoj has served onboard various warships and senior administration Offices of the Integrated Headquarters, MoD as Protocol Officer and Training Instructor. He is currently holding the duties of Project Coordinator. Manoj with his excellent recruiting skills has provided us valuable veterans for our multiple projects. He also manages our logistics and infrastructure set up.
Vishnu Nand Chaubey
Project Coordinator
Vishnu is a graduate from Annamalai University and a veteran with over fifteen years of experience in Indian Navy of which he served more than a decade on submarines. A trained and certified nuclear plant operator, Vishnu under his calm demeanour contributes with his excellent techno managerial skill set which is so essential for large technical services delivery projects. Vishnu coordinates all activities for our technical services projects where he manages a large team of technicians to deliver on day to day basis.