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Atharva, wisdom. Ayan, the way to it. You already know something is off. We help you find out what, and do something about it.
Kaushal Kadiyala
Founder & Principal Consultant
An engineer by training and a strategist by practice.
Alma mater
- NIT HamirpurBTech, Mechanical Engineering
- University of HoustonMS, research on atomistic simulations of nanocrystalline materials, grain boundaries and Zener pinning
- IIM KashipurMBA, General Management · with UCLy, ESDES School of Business and Management, International Business
Experience
At AMPeers in Houston he worked as a mechanical engineer on superconducting wires, covering both research and fabrication, with a patent now pending on that work.
Houston is also where the interest turned towards business. He read for an MBA at IIM Kashipur, and an international business exchange at ESDES in Lyon took him across fourteen countries in four months, a faster education in how markets and people actually differ than any case study offers. The running count is now nineteen. He joined Mikrotek afterwards as Marketing Director, leading the EMEA expansion along with the branding and strategy behind it.
The combination is deliberate: the research side supplies the discipline of testing a claim before making it, and the commercial side supplies the judgement about which claims are worth testing at all.
Four commitments
- We say no. If a problem sits outside our competence, you hear it at the first conversation, not after an invoice.
- We measure before we start. The baseline is agreed in writing so any result can be checked, including by you.
- We report unwelcome findings. If an intervention did not move the number, that is what the verification says.
- We hand back a routine. The intention is that the next cycle does not need us.
Newly established, deliberately so
Atharvayan is a young firm and we would rather say that plainly than imply a history we do not have. The argument for hiring us rests on the method: observe, measure, intervene, verify. A recommendation nobody checks is an opinion in better clothes, and we would rather be judged on a number than on a deck.
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