Prakash Kumar Thangavelu – Technical & Managing Director

Prakash, B Tech Mechanical (India), gained much of his knowledge and experience from working with Swedish ball bearing group SKF for ten years, specialising in the service of rotating equipment maintenance works and covering process, production and project engineering in various industries such as oil and gas, power plants, quarries, cement plants, fertilizer plants and many other general industries. He has also worked previously in Tepat Teknik Sdn Bhd, Applied Magnetics Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and Bristol Industries Sdn. In 2001, Prakash set up Applied Maintenance Solution Sdn Bhd (AMS), a company which he has led from the start.

Sarojini Thangavelu, Finance & Administration Director

Saro has a degree in Chemistry from Madras University in India. She also has a certificate in Financial Management for Senior Management from Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia. She worked for 16 years in senior management positions in Astra Pharmaceutical (M) S/B and subsequently as Sales Director of Ranbaxy (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. She is co-owner of Applied Maintenance Solution Sdn. Bhd. (AMS).

Jan Orrnert – Commercial Advisor

Jan is a graduate from Sweden’s prestigious business university, the Stockholm School of Economics. He has had an extensive international career. In the 1970’s, he established the Swedish multinational pharmaceutical company Astra (today AstraZeneca) in South East Asia. He has worked in many countries over 40 years and has worked a total of more than 15 years in Malaysia. He has also been responsible for major international projects.

Ts. Dr. Sathiabama T. Thirugnana MIET – Technical Advisor

Sathiabama is Senior Lecturer at the Engineering Department, Universiti Technology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur since 2015. She has worked in the private sector for 10 years after she attained her Masters degree from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. And then on completion of her PhD at Waseda University, Japan, she has moved into academic research.

Her current research is on Sustainable Energy, namely Photovoltaic System and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). GUP Tier 1 and II focuses on Salt Water Lantern and she is the SATREPS Project manager and coordinator, 2019 – 2024.

Member

  • Japan Applied Physics Society
  • Materials Research Society (MRS – USA)
  • IEEE Malaysia Section
  • The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK
  • Energy Institute (EI), UK