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Dr. Pillai has worked in ISRO and DRDO for the last 40 years under the great visionary leaders Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, Prof. Satish Dhawan and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He is a technology leader in the field of launch vehicles and guided missiles. His contributions to the successful development of SLV-3 as a core team member and evolution of PSLV configuration for ISRO have been remarkable. In DRDO Dr. Pillai networked multiple institutions for the development of critical missile technologies overcoming denial regimes enabled realization of Agni, Prithvi, Nag and Akash missiles under the IGMDP as its Programme Director.

BrahMos Aerospace is a unique Joint Venture, first of its kind between India and Russia to design, develop, produce and market the most advanced supersonic cruise missile. His outstanding leadership qualities made India proud to possess the fastest, highly precise and the most potent missile BrahMos which is now inducted in the Indian Armed Forces. BrahMos is a world leader in the family of Cruise Missiles surpassing those in the developed countries. As the founder CEO & MD of the Joint Venture, Dr. Pillai is regarded as the “Father of BrahMos” which has become a role model for establishing joint ventures between the countries.

Well-known as a defence technologist in the world, Dr. Pillai has been recognized by many prestigious engineering and management institutions with Fellowships. He has received many Honorary Doctorates from Twelve reputed Universities of India and Russia. The Moscow University of “Security, Defence and Law Enforcement” honoured Dr. Pillai with the Order of Peter the Great and the Academician of the University. Dr. Pillai has published many papers in the international and national journals and conferences. Dr. Pillai has written many books including The Success Mantras of BrahMos (The Path Unexplored), Revolution in Leadership, Nano Science and Nano Technology for Engineering. He is the co-author with Dr. Kalam for the books (a) Envisioning an Empowered Nationand (b)’ Thoughts for Change – we can do it’. Dr. Pillai is a recipient of various prestigious awards including Technology Leadership Award, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, Organization for Industrial, Spiritual & Cultural Advancement International Award from Japan, Raja Rammohan Puraskar, Lokamanya Tilak Award, Performance Excellence Award from Institution of Industrial Engineering, and the most importantly Padma Shri (2002) & Padma Bhushan (2013) by the Govt. of India for his contribution to Aerospace and Missile Technologies and “ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP” by the Govt. of Russian Federation, the highest Russian Award for the foreign citizens

An Engineering and Management Graduate from BITS Pilani with more than three decades of rich professional experience in various sectors, joined PMA in Feb. 2007 and is presently Head , PMA Cert. the Certification Body (CB ) for IPMA 4 Level Certification in India and responsible for managing operations of CB as per International Certification Regulations ( ICR 4 ) and as per directives from Certification Validation Management Board ( CVMB ) of IPMA .He is one of the Validators for other CBs.

An Engineering and Management Graduate with more than three decades of rich professional experience in various sectors, both in India as well as abroad, he is presently the Regional Director (South) of PMA (Project Management Associates). He takes care of all the PMA activities in all the states of South India to achieve the mission of “Creating a Project Oriented India”

A Product of HAL Staff College ( erstwhile name of HAL Management Academy), after completion of the prestigious Management Trainee (Tech) program of HAL, he served for more than 2 decades at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, in various capacities ranging from Production to Quality. Project Management and Marketing of Defence avionics.

He subsequently performed as General Manager in a leading Electronic Surveillance Company for more than 10 years. He was instrumental in successful execution of Projects in many centres of Reserve Bank of India through out the country and several Airports of India with state of the art technology in field of electronic surveillance. He has exhibited his Management skills covering Technical, Behavioral & Contextual Competences as over all in charge of the organization handling several branches and sites across India, with multi cultural human resources.

A certified Project Management Professional, he is well experienced in entire project life cycle management. He is now utilizing his expertise to promote PMA India and IPMA certification programs in all Industries, Organisations, Institutions and Universities in all the states of South India.

Vishal Narain Dar graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia, New Delhi, and has worked with Siemens India, in the Power Transmission and Distribution Division, responsible for Design Engineering and Project Coordination of various key projects covering the complete range of Power Distribution solutions for utility and manufacturing companies.

After completing his Masters in Management from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, Vishal has been associated in Managerial and Regional Leadership positions with various Special Projects and New Business Initiatives for workflow, corporate training, eLearning, assessment and certification based solutions.

He has about 20 years of experience with a highly successful track record in working with principal and reseller organizations including MNCs like SkillSoft (APAC) and Wiley.

He is presently Regional Director – North at PMA – India, responsible for all activities including Marketing and Promotion of IPMA’s Certification Solutions across industries, institutions and universities in North India.

Umesh Jha is a Graduate from Mithila University, Bihar, and has a long association with PMA. He has been with the organization since 1997, and has been involved in various roles relating to office coordination, general administration and accounts. He is presently working as Dy. General Manager, and is responsible for coordination of back office admin process and operations relating to PMA’s Certification, Membership services and towards coordination of Events/Seminars.

Sushil Kumar is Bachelor of Arts from Meerut University and has a Diploma in Graphics & Computer Applications. He is presently working as Dy. General Manager. He has a long association in making presentations for PMA Events, providing IT support and System Administration and Training activities.