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Ravi Gilani is a globally renowned expert in evaporating cash constraints, empowering companies to achieve remarkable improvements in cash flow within weeks. As the pioneer of introducing TOC (Theory of Constraints) to Indian companies in 1998, Ravi holds the distinction of being the only Indian citizen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from TOCICO for his outstanding contributions to the industry. With an industry veteran experience of over 51 years, including 30 years as a consultant and 21 years as a practitioner, Ravi has worked with numerous large and small Indian and transnational organizations across diverse industries such as engineering, automotive, consumer durables, aerospace, metals, cement, insurance, and more. Prior to his consulting career, Ravi gained valuable hands-on expertise during his 21-year tenure in operations within the automobile industry at Tata Motors and Eicher. Ravi's groundbreaking knowledge in evaporating cash constraint has been shared at TOCICO International conferences since 2006, and his paper on cash constraint and cash buffer has been formally recognized by TOCICO as new knowledge under TOC Body of Knowledge (BOK), placing him alongside the esteemed founders of TOC, Dr. Eli Goldratt, and Eli Schragenheim. He is the creator of several original concepts, including Cash Velocity, Free Cash Score, and Better than Before, which provide essential parameters to guide corrective actions and enhance decision-making. Many Indian companies have significantly benefited from Ravi's weekly review process based on these concepts. As an alumnus of IIT Delhi, Ravi consistently challenges conventional assumptions and simplifies complexity while focusing heavily on metrics and review processes in his consulting assignments. He lives by Eli Goldratt's famous quote, "Measurements Drive Behavior," and is known for providing practical solutions with forthrightness and transparency. Beyond consulting, Ravi shares his vast industry experience as a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at international forums and industry bodies. He has been associated with IIT Delhi and SP Jain Business School as a guest faculty and passionately contributes to making Bharat the best place to live and work, fostering optimism in the nation's intrinsic potential. Presently, Ravi focuses on making organizations debt-free through the innovative concepts of Free Cash Score, weekly reviews, and Better Than Before strategies, working towards the goal of contributing to a USD 5 trillion economy.

Dr. Alan Barnard is a leading decision scientist and Theory of Constraints (TOC) expert with almost 20 years of experience working directly with Dr. Eli Goldratt, the creator of TOC. As the CEO of Goldratt Research Labs (USA), Alan focuses on using advanced technologies and decision sciences to develop Apps and Decision Support methods, enabling organizations to achieve more with less time. Under his leadership, Goldratt Research Labs has collaborated on innovation and research projects with renowned Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Cargill, BHP, Tata Steel, Amazon, and others, along with public sector organizations like Utah Governor's Office and UN WFP. Alan has held prominent roles in various organizations, including past-President of the South African Supply Chain Society SAPICS and past-President of TOCICO. His significant contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards, including inclusion in the 2020 Marquis Who's Who Global Listing, membership in the Forbes Technology Council, and the TOCICO Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an accomplished author and frequent presenter on Decision Making in a Complex World and Theory of Constraints at international conferences. Alan's latest book, "The Bottleneck - How to resolve our attention crisis," is currently in progress. As the chief architect of the award-winning HARMONY Decision Maker, Change Simulator, and Change Maker series of Decision Support Apps, Alan continues to shape the landscape of decision science and TOC. Please let me know if you need any further information or details.

Most recently, Sanjeev Gupta was the CEO of Vulcan Mozambique, Africa’s largest coal mine. Within the first 90 days, he led impressive improvements in profitability, mining production, and logistics, setting the mine on a path to sustained success. Sanjeev’s journey in turnarounds began early in his career at Xerox, a Fortune 100 company, where, as a junior manager, he turned around its worst-performing factory and made it the best-performing one. This initial success led him to found Throughput Technologies, where his team provided software based on the Theory of Constraints for factories. He worked with companies ranging from $5 million to $5 billion, improving throughput by 20% to 50% and reducing lead times by over 50%. He later founded Realization Technologies, offering similar software and consulting services for project-based organizations. There, he achieved comparable throughput improvements, with lead time reductions varying between 25% to 75%. His clients included organizations such as ABB, BHP Billiton, Boeing, L & T, Medtronic, Siemens, and the U.S. Armed Forces (Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy). Sanjeev is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Virginia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Eli Schragenheim is a well-known international management educator, author and consultant active in various fields of management. He worked with a huge variety of organizations all over the world, including public-sector organizations, industrial, high-tech and start-ups. Since he had joined Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the famous creator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) in 1985, Eli Schragenheim had taught, spoke at conferences, and consulted all over the globe. Eli Schragenheim is the author of several books on various aspects of management. His last book, Throughput Economics – Making Good Management Decisions, together with Henry Camp and Rocco Surace, was published in July 2019. Eli Schragenheim first book Management Dilemmas (1998) showed a variety of problematic situations in management and the rigorous analysis leading to the right solution. Next he collaborated with William H. Dettmer in writing Manufacturing at Warp Speed. In this book the new concept of Simplified-DBR, now a key concept in production planning according to TOC, was introduced. He collaborated with Carol A. Ptak on ERP, Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, and with Dr. Goldratt and Carol Ptak on Necessary but Not Sufficient. In 2009 his book Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed, with William H. Dettmer and Wayne Patterson was published. In March 2015, Eli has opened a blog, now containing more than 140 articles on various topics in TOC that everybody can access.

Milan Gupta is a Practitioner of Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt's management philosophy of Theory of Constraints. He has more than 18 years of experience in supply chain.