Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Other Professional Engagements
Papers Publications
Personal Information
Timeline
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K. Padmakumar

K. Padmakumar

Trivandrum

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Member Secretary / Chief Executive

Public Sector Restructuring & Internal Audit Board
1 1998
  • Has been the Principal Executive ‘Point of contact' for 50 government owned companies having a combined Annual Turnover of 500M USD

Managing Director

Kerala Ceramics Ltd
01.2023

Managing Director

Kerala Rural Women's Electronic Industries Co-operative Federation Ltd
01.2018

Fund Manager

Kerala Industrial Revitalization Fund Board – KIRFB
01.1999

Managing Director

SIDCO
01.2015 - 01.2016

Managing Director

Malabar Cements Ltd
01.2011 - 01.2016

Project Management Specialist

Tsunami Emergency Assistance Project (TEAP)
01.2005 - 01.2008
  • Attended to Budgeting, inter-departmental coordination, Procurement of goods & services, preparation of ToR, RFQ & RFP documents, bid process management, work scheduling, periodic monitoring, budgetary control , interfacing with Extended Mission of ADB and Government, Progress reporting and multi-party reviews involving Government of India, Government of Kerala, ADB, PMU and PIUs in line departments like Public Works Department, Kerala State Electricity Board, Kerala Water Authority, Harbour Engineering Department, Fisheries department, and the Disaster Management Department

Secretary

Committee of Government Secretaries (Enterprise Reforms Committee)
01.2001 - 01.2003

Associate National Project Coordinator

UNDP Project on Public Sector Reforms
01.1999 - 01.2002

Education

B.Tech. - Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering, Trivandrum, University of Kerala

Master's Degree - Futures Studies (M.Phil.)

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Kerala

Fellowship Training - UNDP Project IND/96/004

Commonwealth Secretariat, London (Governance & Institution Development Division – GIDD)

Short term International Training - Strategic Management, Performance Benchmarking, Performance Contracts / MoUs

Civil Service College, Sunningdale, United Kingdom

Company Director Course - Corporate Governance best practices

Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance, New Zealand

Skills

Procurement and Contract Management for Sectoral Development Projects

Business Process Re-engineering

Business Analytics

Appraisal of Detailed Project Reports

Parametrization of ERP / E-Commerce platforms

Project management

Capacity building for effective governance

Other Professional Engagements

  • Professor of Practice in Centre for Management Development
  • Chairman of the Program Advisory Council of Knowledge Services Group of KELTRON
  • Observer, Board of Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation
  • Director Board Member of various Public Sector Undertakings
  • Member in consultative committee of the OECD on Corporate Governance of SOEs and for preparation of Corporate Governance Codes for State Owned Enterprises at OECD Conference, Paris in 2008
  • Convener - Departmental Committee (Industries) for implementing Modernizing Government Program funded by the Government of Netherlands
  • Convener - Social Safety Net Program (SSNP) Steering Committee
  • Member of the Committee constituted for Rejuvenation of Cashew Sector
  • Member of the Committee constituted for Rejuvenation of Textile Sector
  • Resource person for conducting IT systems audit in Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA)
  • Representative of India in a Program on ‘Impact of Corporate Governance on Productivity' at Seoul Republic of Korea, Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo in 2003
  • International Resource Person for Corporate Governance Week at Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, Dhaka in 2008
  • Resource person in various International Conferences on Public Sector Enterprises and Corporate Governance
  • Member of Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance, New Zealand

Papers Publications

  • Paper on 'Expert Systems: Applicability in Business Decisions' in the National Seminar on Software Engineering organized by IEEE
  • Paper on “Improving the quality of Enterprise Governance through Business Analytics“ presented in an International Conference on SOE Reforms held at Trivandrum in 2010
  • Paper on ‘Public Enterprise Reforms' published in Commonwealth Public Administration Reform in 2004 (Co-authored with (Late) Mr. Michael Gillibrand, Former Special Advisor, Commonwealth Secretariat, London)
  • Paper on 'Innovations in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Training' presented at an International Conference held by EDII and published by the FNF (coauthored with Dr. M. Sivaraman, Former Director, CMD)
  • Paper on 'Developing Entrepreneurial Industrialists - An Alternate Approach' published in the ‘Productivity' published by the National Productivity Council (co-authored with Dr. Thomas T Thomas)
  • Paper on “SOE Governance: International Trends and Uniqueness of Kerala Experiences presented in an International Conference on SOE Reforms held at Trivandrum in 2010 (co-authored with Dr. YRK Reddy, former Professor, ASCI)
  • Paper on 'Systems approach for Integrated Care of the Aged' presented in an International Conference on Elderly care in Trivandrum in 2014 (Co-authored with Sr. Tessin Mynatty, SABS)

Personal Information

  • Number of Children: 1
  • Date of Birth: 06/16/1964
  • Nationality: India
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Managing Director

Kerala Ceramics Ltd
01.2023

Managing Director

Kerala Rural Women's Electronic Industries Co-operative Federation Ltd
01.2018

Managing Director

SIDCO
01.2015 - 01.2016

Managing Director

Malabar Cements Ltd
01.2011 - 01.2016

Project Management Specialist

Tsunami Emergency Assistance Project (TEAP)
01.2005 - 01.2008

Secretary

Committee of Government Secretaries (Enterprise Reforms Committee)
01.2001 - 01.2003

Fund Manager

Kerala Industrial Revitalization Fund Board – KIRFB
01.1999

Associate National Project Coordinator

UNDP Project on Public Sector Reforms
01.1999 - 01.2002

Member Secretary / Chief Executive

Public Sector Restructuring & Internal Audit Board
1 1998

B.Tech. - Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering, Trivandrum, University of Kerala

Master's Degree - Futures Studies (M.Phil.)

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Kerala

Fellowship Training - UNDP Project IND/96/004

Commonwealth Secretariat, London (Governance & Institution Development Division – GIDD)

Short term International Training - Strategic Management, Performance Benchmarking, Performance Contracts / MoUs

Civil Service College, Sunningdale, United Kingdom

Company Director Course - Corporate Governance best practices

Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance, New Zealand
K. Padmakumar