The
Team
M. N. Rama Rao, Managing Partner
Mr. Rama Rao has a long and distinguished role in
the world of filtration for over 30 years. After graduating from the
University of Mysore in 1953, he had a successful career for 15 years.
He joined hands with KLN Engineering in Bangalore and developed the
first lube oil filter for Tata Direct Injection Engines that were introduced
in 1972. In 1985, he saw tremendous potential in a new filter media
called Flexible Porous Cellular Plastic, which had several advantages
over the paper filter that was prevalent in those days. He successfully
developed the first FPCP air filter for the new generation TVS Suzuki
motorcycles. Mr. Rama Rao has been associated in one way or the other
with several filter companies in India: Esramatic Enterprises that started
supplying the first indigenously developed edge filter pack for John
Fowler India, Merit Industries that supplied air filters for the automotive
market, KLN engineering and others. He also founded Trijama Filterall
which was later sold to the Kirloskar group in 1990. Mr. Rama Rao has
several innovations to his credit including developing the first Superfine
filters for a Class 100K clean room at ISRO, developing a washable,
re-useable F6 class fine filter and washable re-useable pre filter,
and developing a Quick Media Change panel filter that increases the
uptime of the filter system. He also helped co-design a test facility
for MNR with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Mr. Rama
Rao is also a member of the Institution of Engineers in India.
M.N. Krishna Rao, Manager, Quality Control
& Planning
Mr. Krishna Rao brings with him an abundance of
experience in the field of Quality and Planning. Having completed
his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the Mysore University
in 1956, Mr. Krishna Rao joined Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the
Inspection Department. He later joined Kirloskar Electric Company
(KEC) in 1959 as an Engineer and rose to become their Corporate Vice
President in Quality & Reliability in 1985. During his outstanding
career at KEC, he worked in almost all disciplines like Planning,
Production, HRD, QA, Marketing and Product Engineering, giving him
a broad view of the entire organization. His biggest achievement was
his focus on TQM and getting Deming's philosophy propagated throughout
the organization. While at KEC, he was mentor and felicitator to more
than 300 projects involving quality improvements and cost reductions.
In 1993, he joined Anaar Consultants and helped various organizations
in India move towards TQM in their production and support departments.
Mr. Krishna Rao has been with MNR for the last 12 years and has helped
MNR achieve ISO 9001-2000 certification as well as design the complete
Quality Management System for the company. Our quality systems are
obviously working very well since we are able to meet the schedules
of 19 of our OEMs on JIT/Kanban principles. Mr. Krishna Rao is also
the Treasurer of the Karnataka Chapter of the Indian Institute of
Plant Engineers that helps Plant Engineers from all over India enhance
their effectiveness and productivity.
Narayan Manepally, Chief, Strategic Projects
Narayan Manepally has been chartered with product
strategy and creating a strategic direction for MNR. Prior to his
current role, Mr. Manepally was with the Intel Corporation in the
US for 13 years. Mr. Manepally started his career at Intel at the
Princeton Research Operation for Intel and co-designed and developed
the Intel Videophone for which he holds a worldwide patent. He was
Technical Marketing Engineer at Intel's Architecture Lab where his
group authored, developed and promoted G.Lite a new standard for Digital
Subscriber Line or DSL. In that role he designed, developed and deployed
an Interoperability Test Network that allowed over 50 companies to
test their CPE's and DSLAMs against one another. He was posted to
India in 1998/1999 to head up Intel's Online Services Group that was
a service offering from Intel for Web Hosting. He later became the
Manager of Product Strategy at Intel's Internet Media Services and
was responsible for developing a strategy around Content Syndication
and Monetization. Mr. Manepally then joined the Platform Networking
& Wireless Networking Groups as Technical Assistant to the Vice
President and was responsible for assisting the Vice President of
the group on the tactics as well as advising on strategic and acquisition
discussions. Mr. Manepally has four patents in his name and holds
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with several credits towards an
MBA.
Usha R Rao
Mrs. Usha Rao is our Production Manager. She has
been responsible for setting up our flexible manufacturing processes
that serves the needs of so many of our customers and has stood the
test of time at MNR for almost 20 years. She has a Bachelors in Arts
and has been with the company for over 20 years.
Prahlad Tantry
Mr. Tantry is our Senior Manager for Marketing.
He graduated in 1987 from the Regional Engineering College in Jaipur
with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering. He later obtained an MTech
from the IIT in Mumbai in 1990, with a thesis on “Sintering
of Silicon Nitride powders”. He worked for a year at Mahindra
Ugine before he joined Grindwell Norton. At Grindwell Norton, he was
instrumental in developing Ceramic Foam Filters from scratch, attempted
for the first time in India . He also focused on developing refractories
for Steel Industries and High Alumina products. He also authored a
paper on the Development of Porous Ceramics. Mr. Tantry has been associated
with our organization since 1998 and is currently chartered with the
Technical Marketing and Business Development of Industrial and Ceramic
Filters.
Mr. Hanuman Singh
Prof. M.V.Narasimhan
