Avinash Sadana

Programme management and strategy support at a new-age startup manufacturing power quality solutions — the delivery side of hardware, where the schedule is only as good as the coordination behind it.

• Run programme management across workstreams — scoping, sequencing and keeping engineering, sourcing and commercial aligned on the same dates.
• Support strategy work: reading the market, sizing opportunities, and turning that into decisions the business can actually act on.
• Working inside a startup rather than an established manufacturer, where the process often has to be designed before it can be followed.

Procurement, strategic sourcing and global market research inside the process equipment business — the part of heavy engineering where a single delayed steel order stalls an entire fabrication line.

• Worked end-to-end across procurement, strategic sourcing and supplier development for steel and specialised internals used in process equipment manufacturing.
• Negotiated on cost while holding the quality and delivery windows that fabrication schedules depend on.
• Studied sustainability-driven practice in supply chain and manufacturing operations, and how it changes sourcing decisions.

Project: Improvement in Project Flow Process Leading to Purchase Order — Mapped and optimised the Procure-to-Pay cycle, cutting friction between engineering release and purchase order issue. The work targeted the handoffs where accuracy and cost control usually leak.

Project: Global Market Study for Penetration in New Countries — Researched demand for process equipment across oil & gas, power, energy and hydrogen sectors in target geographies. The findings fed directly into international sales and expansion strategy.

Ran the floor for ice cream cone manufacturing — raw material intake through to finished, sleeved product — with daily output and quality targets that did not move.

• Supervised production, operations, supply chain and quality control across the full manufacturing line.
• Managed the production workforce day to day against output and quality targets.
• Learned where theoretical process control meets a real line running at speed with real people on it.

Founded and scaled a music festival in Gujarat through the hardest possible years to run live events. Five editions, 700+ attendees, and still going — now with a core team running it and me in an advisory seat.

• Founded the festival in November 2020 — during pandemic restrictions on gatherings — and built it into a recurring event.
• Organised and hosted five editions, drawing over 700 attendees despite capacity and safety constraints.
• Led administration and operations across pre-event, live-event and post-event phases: venue, vendors, artists, ticketing, crew.
• Recruited and built the organising team, then moved into a mentorship and advisory role so the festival could outlast its founder — it has.

A community platform for cycling enthusiasts across India — endurance rides, races and bikepacking events, run for riders rather than for sponsors.

• Built a pan-India community platform for cycling enthusiasts, active since 2018.
• Organises endurance rides, races and bikepacking events across the country.
• Grew through word of mouth among riders rather than paid reach — the community is the product.

MIT World Peace University, Pune, India — Completed June 2026

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India — Graduated with Distinction