History

Expert, founded in 1981, has grown to become a trusted partner and OEM supplier for a number of leading companies in India, Russia, East and South Africa, for supply of Industrial Valves.

Our mission to create value and confer sustainable advantage to our stake holders is based on two philosophies "Winning together" and "Continuous Business Excellence"

Our aim is to develop honest, long term relationships with our customers that seek to confer cost, quality and on-time performance advantages that help customers meet the challenges of a highly competitive market for valve engineering services.

Expert enjoys advantages of access to qualified and experienced valve engineering personnel, reliable supply of quality castings and forgings and a cost competitive structure. Our wide range of certifications showcases our intense focus on quality. By appropriate investments in capacity addition we seek to respond to customer requests in the shortest possible time. By working jointly with our esteemed customers on a long term vision, we seek to create quality, cost and timely delivery advantages. We call this long term business relationship philosophy as "Winning Together"

By Continual focus on Business Excellence, we aim to innovate and improve our organizations effectiveness in a range of critical business functions as Human Relationship Management, Vendor Management, Capacity up-gradation/automation and Quality Control Management. Our quest for Business Excellence has led to numerous certifications including the prestigious API certification in 2011. A rigorous, disciplined process based approach to continuous improvement in all aspects of business has helped us exceed customer expectations.

Mr. A. R. Kalluraya

Mr. A. R. Kalluraya holds Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from a renowned Institute in India. He has over 40 years of experience in various Mechanical engineering fields such as machine shop, tool room, and industrial engineering at the shop floor and management levels. He has worked in premier engineering companies in India and has been involved in forging collaborative relationships with companies in US, Europe and Japan. He has been awarded numerous awards and commendations by Industry organisations and Government.

Strategy & Product development policies are the major areas handled by him.

Mr. Sharad Lokur

Mr. Sharad Lokur is a B.Sc. AMIE graduate with over 40 years of experience in Manufacturing & Finance. He has an expertise in development of gauges, tooling and jigs and fixtures, which improve productivity & quality. He currently handles the Procurement, Finance & Commercial matters of the company.

Mr. Vinayak Lokur, M.D

Mr. Vinayak Lokur holds Bachelor's Degree in Industrial & Production Engineering and Management certification from IIM, Ahmedabad. He has worked in leading engineering companies in India on Computer Aided Materials Management, Production Engineering, Design, TQM and Allied fields.

He handles Customer development, exports, product development and HR.

Mr. Santosh Mamdapur - CAO

Mr. Santosh is an Engineering Graduate from Karnataka University, having over 20 years of experience in administrative functions. He co-ordinates and manages the day-to-day administrative affairs, statutory compliances, infrastructure managementand also the expansion activities.

Mr. Anil Islampure - COO

Mr. Anil has over 20 years of experience in various fields involving commercial activities such as Planning, People management, Supply Chain management etc. He is instrumental in managing the day to day operations of all the 3 plants. He is also instrumental in successful implementation of ERP @ Expert.

Mr. Bhalchandra Bailur - G.M. - Technical

Mr. Bhalchandra is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and has over 20 years of experience in technical fields related to valves and flow engineering. He heads the Technical Team (Design & Quality functions) at Expert and is also the Management Representative. Apart from IMS, he is also instrumental in implementing LEAN initiatives and management of third party certifications.