Management Team
Pramod Agashe – Managing Director, APW President Systems Ltd.
Pramod is a Business Professional with over 26 years of work experience. He is a Mechanical Engineer with Masters Degree in Marketing Management from University of Mumbai.
In his career span, Pramod has worked with large companies like Thermax, Ingersoll Rand and Tata Liebert (now known as Emerson Network Power). Because of the terrific success achieved by his team, he was nominated as Trainer in the Telecom Task Force created for Asia Pacific Region and trained over 100 sales associates of Liebert in China, Singapore and Australia in 1997.
After playing various roles in Marketing and Project Management, he left Emerson Network Power as Corporate Champion – IT Solutions, in 2002 to join APW President as Vice President – Sales & Marketing.
He was promoted as the Chief Operating Officer in October 2007. In his capacity as the COO, he strongly contributed to President’s growth over the last 3 years.
On May 20, 2011, with the constitution of the new board, Pramod was nominated as the Managing Director of APW President Systems Ltd and also one of the board members on the President’s board
V. Dharani Babu - Vice President – Manufacturing Operations, APW President Systems Ltd
V. Dharani Babu is the Assistant Vice President – Works, APW President Systems Ltd, at its Bangalore factory. He joined the company in May 2006.
Dharani Babu has over 21 years of experience across various functional areas of Manufacturing operations and projects gained at BPL group of companies.
He holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Calicut University, as well as a Post graduation specialised in Production Engineering from PSG TECH, Coimbatore. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management in Finance from TAPMI, Bangalore.
Col Milind Solke( Retd) – Assistant Vice President – Pune Works, APW President Systems Ltd.
Col. Milind Solke (Retd) is a B E(Electrical) from Nagpur University and Post Graduate Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication from Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad. He has also done Radar Maintenance Course from HSA Holland and Executive Management Certification from IIM Bangalore.
During his distinguished career of over 29 years in Indian Army, he was part of UN Mission in Cambodia, General Manger (Production) of an Army Base Workshop, Chief Maintenance Engineer of Maintainability Advisory Group to DRDO, Hyderabad, Director, Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme for Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa.
He has vast experience in providing engineering support to defence equipment. He took premature retirement, joined APLS in July 2008 and is now heading Pune Works.
Kishore Bhavsar – Company Secretary, APW President Systems Ltd
Kishore Bhavsar joined Union Bank after graduating in 1974, He later joined Standard Mills in the textile Industry as Cost Officer. There he successfully implemented the Cost Audit Record Rules, introduced for the first time by Government.
He later served with Britannia Industries Ltd in India and Bilquis Poultry and Industry in Yemen. He simultaneously cleared the Company Secretarial course.
Bhavsar joined Stellar Modular Systems Pvt. Ltd. (now APW President) as Finance Manager in January 1994. He was subsequently promoted as the Company Secretary in the Company. He has handled the Accounts, Finance and Secretarial functions successfully for more than a decade in APW President Systems Ltd.
