Gopalkrishna Kulkarni
Gopal is a Mechanical Engineer from IT-BHU, with a Post Graduate Degree in Management from IIM – Bangalore. He joined GE Medical Systems in 1995.

Gopal has been one of the first MBBs in GEMS South Asia. He has to his credit the success of Six Sigma implementation in GE Medical Systems India. He has himself completed over 10 projects and mentored over forty projects. His experience of Six Sigma implementation is across various functions like manufacturing, sales, service and customer fulfillment. He has also trained over 50 Black Belts and Green Belts. During his stint as a MBB in GEMS, Gopal was responsible for savings amounting to more than a million dollars in the first year of Six Sigma implementation.

Gopal did a short stint with Msource Corporation (Mphasis BPO) as the Vice President of Quality, leading their Six Sigma implementation and was responsible for initiating and training.

Currently, Gopal is the Managing Director of Synagoge Knowledge Services and helps Synagoge to reach its goal of customer value and satisfaction. He has in the current role aided the management of a number of industries in India towards successful Six Sigma implementation.

Mahesh Kumar
Mahesh is an Electronics & Communication Engineer, having joined GE Medical Systems (GEMS) in 1997. Mahesh is a graduate of the prestigious Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP) of GEMS. Mahesh was trained in as a Blackbelt in GE by the finest Six Sigma professionals. He is a certified Black Belt.

Mahesh moved on to be part of the team to start the Six Sigma implementation of in Msource (Mphasis BPO). After a brief stint with Msource, Mahesh moved on to join Synagoge Knowledge Services as a Principal Consultant for implementing Six Sigma across the various clients of Synagoge. Currently, Mahesh is also a Director and had additional responsibility of business development.

Mahesh has in the last two years gained 1000+ hours of training and consulting experience, mentored numerous projects from different industries. Some of the industries he has worked are BPOs, Textiles, Financial, HR, Telecom among others.

Nandakumar S
Nandakumar is a Graduate Electronics Engineer with Post Graduate Diploma in management from IIM Lucknow. He is a Director of Synagoge Knowledge Services. He has 15 Years of Operational experience in Sourcing, materials, Vendor development, Manufacturing, Quality and Finance including Leadership positions in organizations like GE medical Systems and Cognizant Technologies.

He was the Quality leader for Global Products group before he moved up as the CFO of GE Medical Systems India. He was the Six Sigma Champion for Cognizant Technology Solutions, which is a $900M IT Services company employing about 22,000 people.

He is a certified Master Black Belt from GE and has Significant operational experience in Finance, Six Sigma and Manufacturing. He has also led World-Wide Six Sigma deployment at Cognizant. Currently leads Perfint Engineering Services.

He moved on to work for TVS Electronics before he joined Synagoge. In a career spanning 15 years so far, Guru has been in various roles in Sales and Quality Management (5S, Lean, BPMS, Six Sigma, TQM ).

Guru is a certified Black Belt from GE Medical Systems and has hands on experience of Six Sigma deployment in transaction based processes. In his process quality leader role at TVS, Guru has had direct experience in Lean, BPMS and 5S.

His significant achievements in transaction and process quality improvement include Cycle time reduction collection, Increasing rate of order conversion and Turn around time in customer facing processes.