Mr. SANJAY NIKAM

He has worked with leading cement and building product material industries such as UltraTech cement ltd, Holcim-Ambuja cement ltd; Robo silicon Pvt Ltd, RMC Readymix ltd. He has more than 30 years of experience in Aggregate and sand industries and one of few in the country who was responsible for setting up aggregate in India. His area of expertise are Aggregate Strategy, Aggregate Operations and AGC marketing, Project and maintenance; Fly-ash marketing, Project and maintenance; Ready mix concrete. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering (B.E) from Mumbai University, Sanjay earned post-graduation diploma in Industrial Safety. As a young mechanical engineer he joined BASF and then Asian paints as maintenance manager. After gaining experience in project maintenance a great new opportunity came along at Clariant as Project manager. This is where he understood the workings of a corporate organization and the complexities involved in managing different projects thereby strengthening his management skills. His project management skills took him to work for RMC Readymix (India) Pvt. Ltd. in 2000. From General Manager (Operations) in 2000 to Vice President in 2008, he helmed the organization and the fledgling industry. The vast experience made Sanjay a natural choice for Robo Silicon pvtLtd as Chief Operating Officer(Aggregate business) in 2009. He then went on to work for Ambuja Cement as Sr. Vice President (Aggregate and New Business) and then for UltraTech Cement as Vice President-Head (Aggregate Business). Due to his rich experience in aggregates and business development, he has been a visiting faculty in IIT Bombay to Mtech and Btech students for inculcating his valuable knowledge.

Mr. Subodh Kasangottuwar

Subodh has worked with leading building product material, construction and mineral industries such as RMC Readymix (India), RMC Gulf Quarry (UAE), L&T, Continental Construction, Float Glass, Gammon, Dodsal etc. He has more than 25 years’ experience in Mining, Quarrying, Crushing of Aggregates & sand industry in India & abroad. His area of expertise is Mining & Quarrying which involves various controlled blasting techniques, setting up of Quarry& Crushing business, business development, Aggregates & sand strategy including Sales & Marketing of the products.

A graduate mining engineer BE-Mining in 1992 from Nagpur University did his Diploma in post-graduation in Material Management in 1998 and obtained Mines Managers Certificateissued by DGMS Dhanbad in the same period. He is one amongst very few in India who obtained ‘Certificate in International Quarry Operations’ from reputed Institute of Quarrying, Derby University, United Kingdom in 2013.

As a young mining engineer, he joined his career in Silica Mining Industry & got opportunity to establish one of the biggest Quartz mine & Silica Sand processing plant for Float Glass India Ltd till 1996. The desire& curiosity to work in remote environment, took him to join one of the biggest hydro-power project, 1500MW Nathpa Jhakri in Himachal Pradesh as Sr Manager with CFJV (Continental Foundation JV) in 1997. This is where he understood workings for mega project especially planning & execution of 450tph plant and responsibility of catering aggregates to entire project till 2000. After this he worked for various road, nuclear power & hydro-power projects in the capacity of heading Quarry & Crushing vertical till 2003. The vast experience in this industry made Subodh a choice to join RMC Gulf Quarry in UAE as Project In-charge for their commercial aggregates Quarry & Crusher till 2003. The management skills in this industry took him to work for RMC Readymix (India) in 2005 from Dy. Manager to Country Head – Aggregates in 2016.

During this tenure, with his knowledge, experience & strategy, he brought the company in the list of Commercial Aggregates Industry. Last but not the least, Subodh has always developed culture ofHEALTH &SAFETY amongst his team and grabbed various safety awards for many organisations he served.

Mr. Vijay Uttamrao Lichade

Vijay U Lichade is a competent & diligent mining professional with an experience in above ground, underground excavation operationand production, HSE & product quality management.

During his professional life he works in various prestigious projects in leading construction companies like Continental Construction Ltd,New Delhi, Gammon India Ltd.,RMCReadymix India (A Division of Prism Cement Ltd).

He has an area of expertise in mining,quarrying,excavation along with aggregate crushing, Specially in hand experience in controlled drilling blasting in large excavation like dam site excavation, quarryexcavation, civil area excavation as well as underground excavation like tunneling, shaft sinking,etc.He also having skill in various crusher operations & maintenance.

Vijay passed his Diploma in MINING & MINE SURVEYING in 1998 from Board Of Technical Examination, Maharashtra State.After diploma he completed Post Diploma in mining, Gas Testing Examination by DGMS. He also obtained the Second Class Mines Manager Competency Certificate from Director General Of Mines Safety, Dhanbad. He also completed his (graduation) Bachelor Of Arts in hindi leaturature in 2006 from Mumbai University.

As a professional he starts his carrier as a field engineer(Quarry)in a small company in Gujrat where he gets the interest in deep hole drilling blasting, mine planning work in 1999-2000.In seeking a challenging job he went to Himachal Pradesh with Continental Construction in excavation department at NathpaJhakri Hydro Power Project(Formerly named SutlujJalVidyut Nigam)at Nathapa(1500 MW)Dist.Kinnour,HP.It was one of the big mega project in Asia. During his service he also works with Gammon India Ltd,at Dist.Kathua(Jammu &Kashmir).He also works in RajasthanAtomic Power Project(RAPP,KOTA),Rawatbhata.

In Maharashtra with RMC Readymix India,he successfully run the 250 TPH crusher & quarry in a close proximity of village in Thane Dist. with deep hole drilling blasting for more than 10 years.He also works in various parts of India for the business development work of quarry & aggregate industry.

During his carrier he gets the opportunity to learn the working expertise under the guidance of Indian as well as Canadian Engineers.He take a part or participate in various seminar / workshops organized by Govt. or non Govt. organization regarding the drilling blasting work.

In the journey of professional life with his team was awarded the National Safety award for the safe working of Quarry & Crusher.