Ashwin Upponi Vice President, Lennox India Technology Centre & Global Program Management

He leads the Lennox India operations which consist of Controls Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology, Finance and Human Resources. LITC operations support Corporate and the three business units of LII. In addition, as the PMO leader he is responsible for executing all aspects of IT projects, New Product Introduction (NPIs) and Material Cost Reduction (MCR) for the businesses with team members in Dallas and the Lennox Engineering and Sourcing Center in Shanghai, China. Prior to joining LII, he was with Trane/Ingersoll Rand as Director of Program Management. He also worked at General Electric in their Medical Systems, Information Systems and Transportation Systems divisions. While at GE he was in leadership roles spanning multiple functions, including Global Service Delivery, eBusiness, Six Sigma Black Belt, Marketing, Global Sourcing, Engineering, Quality and International Programs. He began his career as a manufacturing engineer at BAE Systems.

Hema Mani Director, Human Resources

Hema Mani has over 25 years of experience in Strategic Human Resources Capacity, with wide ranging Multinational experiences from Kelly Consultants, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Jain Group of Institutions, i2 Technologies and Honeywell. She is a certified Korn Ferry Leadership Architect, Lean Sigma Green Belt assessor and certified OD facilitator. She is currently heading the Asia Pacific HR at Lennox International Inc., part of her responsibility in Lennox India & Asia sourcing leadership team, she spends considerable time in developing HR talent in the organization and developing them into a global team of excellence. She is committed to the cause of Diversity. She has recently launched the LGBTQ+ initiative at Lennox India. She is the current Chairwoman for CII-Indian Women Network in Chennai and part of her role she is focused on develop Leadership talent among women, Mentoring initiatives, Gender Parity diagnostics & facilitation in corporations and POSH activities. She is a member of the Board of XIME-Chennai and plays a vital role in developing the HR curriculum for the group. As part of XIME, she mentors and coaches young HR talent. She is recognized as one of the 30 Women Super Achievers by World HRD Congress.

A. Sowmyanarayanan Director, Information Technology

Sowmyanarayanan is a qualified Cost Accountant from ICWAI & a graduate in Commerce from the University of Madras. With an enriching career of 30+ years with top notch clients (i.e Siemens & Hewlett Packard,) he has been instrumental in building the IT team in Lennox India closer to a decade. At HP, he led the Asia Pacific HP-IT team in Singapore for SAP Planning and Finance before relocating to Chennai. Prior to joining Lennox India, Sowmya was part of the Global Delivery organization in HP leading the SAP Practice in Chennai as well as managing a major consumer industry customer account.

He is a Strategic and Tactical Leader with strong footprints in managing multimillion-dollar IT organizations. He is an inspiring leader in building a strong & engaged workforce. His exposure and interests are being Outcome Driven/Offshoring/Outsourcing/SAP, eCommerce, Web, Mobile, Analytics & Infrastructure, etc.

Prem Babu Director, Mechanical Engineering

Prem Babu is a dynamic, accomplished senior executive who offers a solid background of experience leading large international multicultural R&D and Product Development. Extensive experience from innovation program, technology commercialization, fast growth business start-up, R&D, Business Development, Product development, Manufacturing excellence, transformation management, cash management, restructuring and consolidation. He has around 20 years of experience having started off his career with working in Central government research organizations like CSIR & NAL in various research-oriented roles before taking the plunge into the corporate sector, also having worked with organizations like LM Wind Power, Suzlon in leadership capacities and currently leading the mechanical team at Lennox India.

Ram Satagopan Director, Controls Engineering

Ram Satagopan has over 30 years of diversified experience in architecting holistic large-scale software solutions in embedded and wireless systems, low cost designs, mobile wireless communication technologies (specifically GSM handsets), Low energy and footprint critical embedded devices design and development, R&D management, software/firmware development, real-time embedded systems design (DSP and non-DSP based), PC applications development, software engineering and process improvement. CMM Lead assessor, having a penchant for research methodology studies. He holds 9 utility, design and defensive patents, for novelty algorithm implementations and methods. Ram has a Masters in Management of Technology from the Graduate school of Business, National University of Singapore and a BE from Annamalai University.

Prabhu Jayachandran Regional Leader, Sourcing

Prabhu Jayachandran is a dynamic, accomplished senior executive who offers a solid background of experience leading large international multicultural Global Sourcing & Supply chain. A real global leader, who travelled to more than 10+ countries & handled domestic/international leadership roles. Extensive experience from Manufacturing, Low cost country sourcing, Supply chain, Quality Improvement Projects, Procure to Pay, Innovation programs, Unique supplier development, techno-commercials, fast growth business start-ups, Cost savings, Indirect/MRO sourcing & supply chain, developing new sourcing regions, transformation management, cash flow management, process improvements, restructuring and consolidation etc. He currently leads the India Region Sourcing & Supply chain initiative at Lennox India.

Vinod Goswami Director, Finance

Vinod Goswami has over 15 years of experience in increasingly responsible roles within Finance in various global organizations. He has worked in Barclays Bank, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Before his position in Lennox India, Vinod was the Vice President of Finance Department at Barclays Bank. He has done his graduation in Commerce and is a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary by qualification; he also holds a Diploma in IFRS and is a member of ACCA (UK). As Director of Finance, Vinod is responsible for Finance and Shared Services teams at LITC.

Karthikeyan M Manager, Corporate Services

He has over 16 years of experience in General Administration, Accounting, Facility Management, Security Operations, Vendor Management, Disaster Management, Cost Management, Travel Asset management, SLA Adherence and Team Management, Import and Export Compliance across IT and Technology Industries. A keen planner, strategist and implementer with deftness in handling day-to-day administrative activities in coordination with internal/ external departments for smooth business operations. Karthikeyan holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Annamalai University.