Ashwanii Khanna is a seasoned professional with over 11 years of experience in the facade industry and an overall career spanning 18 years in the construction materials sector. Having worked with esteemed organizations such as Fundermax, Armstrong, and Saint Gobain. Ashwanii is a Chief Customer Officer at Fundermax India.

His journey in the industry is marked by notable achievements, including managing key accounts, spearheading expansion into emerging markets, and devising and executing effective sales & marketing strategies.

Fundermax, an Austrian MNC with a legacy of more than 130+ years, has Design at its core and caters to varied segments like Exterior Facades, Architectural Interiors, Furniture, Packaging, Automotive, Healthcare & many other Allied Industries.

We offer Unique solutions where Aesthetics meets Functionality and strive towards Perfection with the constant pursuit of delivering World Class Products & Services aimed toward Customer Centricity through Brand Leadership and Digital Transformation leading to Business Excellence for a Sustainable Future with People First & ESG at the helm. At Fundermax, we are open to Ideas, Innovation & Collaboration, for you to create a world of limitless possibilities.

With a view to lead by example through devoted work ethics and constant innovation, Suresh is one of the most sought after façade consultants of India with a unique approach of integrating and detailing to insure that all elements of the façade render absolute performance.

Kushagra Awasthi comes with over 13 years of experience in various aspects of façade and fenestration in both Aluminium and UPVC products. By education, he is a post-graduate in Architecture, integrated with Façade Design, from TH OWL, Germany, and a graduate of Anna University in Mechanical Engineering, from India.

His core competencies include custom engineering, value engineering, and system development. In his current role, he heads the engineering division of Schueco India, that is responsible for technical compliance, pre-construction designing, post-award activities, structural engineering, new product development and L&D activities.

Prior to this role, he was leading product management for a global portfolio where he was accountable for article management, market analysis, product costing and product performance.

He comes with a diverse knowledge in project execution, auditing and troubleshooting with his experience over these 9 years with Schueco India, in both commercial and residential businesses. Before Schueco, his capabilities span across plant operations and material planning. In his free time, he prefers listening to music, and enjoys going on long scenic drives.

Malvinder Singh Rooprai, Architectural Market Development Manager & Technical Consultant for PVB division of Kuraray, is based out of New Delhi – INDIA. His key responsibilities are to grow the market for value added products under the umbrella of Trosifol® in Asia Pacific region.

His academic background in structural engineering and working experience as structural façade engineer enables him to provide technical consultancy on laminated glass applications to façade consultants, architects laminators. He has a rich experience on finite element modeling of laminated glass for analyzing the effects of viscoelastic behavior of polymeric interlayers on the structural performance of laminated glass panels in architectural applications. He has provided consulting support on structural analysis of laminated glass in various iconic projects like Shanghai Tower, Lotte Tower, World One in AP region. He complex applications like blast & bullet resistant glazings.

Malvinder has presented papers on laminated glass with Ionomer interlayers in events like GPD, World of Facades at Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo & Singapore. He has also presented on structural performance of laminated glass at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He did his Masters in Structural Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala – India and did his dissertation work on Wind Load Modeling in Tall Rectangular Buildings including Interference effects by Artificial Neural Networks.

Rajan has more than 30 years of international experience within the facade industry, out of which he has served more than 11 years at Arup. With Structural engineering background Rajan has gained working experiences in various regions such as Asia, Middle East and Australia. He has extensive experiences in both new built and existing buildings. He has successfully delivered several prestigious projects with integrated facade designs, involving 3D design, complex engineering and building integration. He is a Certified SGMM (Singapore Green Mark Manager), enable him to understand sustainable design requirements from Architectural and practical perspectives. He has managed and delivered several large projects with highly practical and efficient designs resulted successful implementations such as Mondeal Heights, The Park, Brigade Tech Garden, Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore. ASPTM Hospital, Vietnam.

Passionate in future technologies and experiments with innovations, taken various efforts to adopt technology to improve the efficiency in design and construction aspects. With his extensive International and regional experience in the façade and construction industry, known face to regional facade industry with good reputation on high quality works completed.

Ritesh started his career with Arup Singapore after completing his Bachelor`s in Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and has now re-joined Arup Mumbai Office as Senior Consultant. Ritesh is currently leading the façade team for Arup India. He brings in unique perspective to projects with his computation design approach and his proficiency in visual scripting, BIM platforms, and Climate Change Design. Ritesh brings technical skills and project delivery experience having worked in façade projects from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India with key clients. He has also been involved in various building diagnostics and rectification works in Singapore and India.

Armed with a Structural Engineering double-degree from Oxford University, Rohan has experience working with Façade and Fenestration companies in Thailand, Spain and South Korea. Leading the operations at Aluplex since 2011, Rohan has been using his strong technical foundations to deliver multiple façade projects across the country of varying complexity and scale.

Sushant Goel is a postgraduate structural engineer from the University of Stuttgart, with seven years of professional experience in Germany. During this time, he contributed to a diverse range of international projects across the USA, Europe, and the Middle East, focusing on grid shells, membrane structures, cable facades, movable roofs, and footbridges.In July 2021, Sushant co-founded the India office of Eckersley O’Callaghan in Noida, alongside Brian Eckersley and James O’Callaghan. Since then, he has worked on domestic and international projects of varying scales, delivering structural and facade engineering solutions.Sushant also serves as Visiting Faculty at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, where he mentors postgraduate structural engineering students, bringing real-world project experience into the academic environment and strengthening industry-academia connections.

T.S. Aditya is the Vice President – Strategy & Business Development at Qutone, bringing over 14 years of extensive experience in the façade industry. He has been instrumental in driving the company’s sales function, focusing on acquiring key accounts, developing and managing sales budgets, and strengthening relationships with key industry stakeholders and channel partners.

Aditya holds a B.Tech in Civil Engineering from NIT Jaipur and an MBA from IIM Lucknow. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from SSBM, Geneva, specializing in consultative selling and key account management. His research paper on the Analysis of Flow Characteristics Through Circular Crested Weirs was published in the international journal Hydro in 2008, earning notable appreciation.

Architect Vrinda Shetty is the Director of Operations at Bentel Associates International, India. Bentel Associates, founded in 1960, is an award-winning multinational architectural firm with vested interests across varied scales, which include architecture, interior designing and master planning. Vrinda has had an illustrious career, handling the planning and operations of various projects at Bentel in India for over 14 years across diverse typologies. Along with extensive knowledge of working on retail and commercial projects at Bentel, she has also led many hospitality and residential projects pan India. With an eye for precision and a vision for progress, she has led Bentel to become one of the most respectable names in the design industry, especially known for its large-scale public architecture. Some of the significant projects completed under her tenure are DB Mall in Bhopal, Vega City in Bengaluru and Vegas Mall in New Delhi.

With more than 20 years of experience in the architectural and design industry, Vrinda has actively participated in multiple events and panel discussions, engaging in a growing dialogue around public projects in India.