Mr. Madhusudan Kulkarni is an experienced industry professional with over 27 years within the GE ecosystem, spanning ABB, Alstom Power, and GE Power India Ltd. In his present capacity he leads the setting up of a Centre of Excellence to drive standard and complex repairs on OEM and third party large Turbogenerating equipment adhering to the core principles of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Costs thereby improving plant availability and reliability. Under his leadership the CoE also supports Localization initiatives for critical components of Steam Turbines to enable a Lean supply chain capable of achieving global standards and delivering to Customer expected timelines.
Mr. Madhusudan is accountable for generating Repair opportunities, Repair growth targets, New Product introductions for improvement in Repair offerings and optimizing cost through localization. He is also responsible for training field personnel for Repair execution during outages, large refurbishment projects and assessing damage during forced outages.
Mr. Madhusudan is a Graduate Metallurgical Engineer and a Post Graduate in Materials Technology from IIT Mumbai. He has to his credit several research publication has been on the examiner panel and dissertation guide to the MS University in Vadodara.