Ravi Kanth has been with MarketsandMarkets for more than 4 years now and is AVP-Enterprise Business overseeing the Semiconductor and Electronics practice within North America. In his role, he actively works with our key clients and leading global companies, to help them identify and assess potential opportunities and augment their revenue growth. With a clear focus to support new business initiatives, technology advancement and application prioritization, he has been instrumental in developing customer-centric solutions for our manufacturing and technology clients alike. Prior to his stint at MarketsandMarkets, he has worked with industry leaders such as SAP and ZS Associates.

Lakshmi Narayanan  is  a  seasoned  market research and management  consulting  professional  with  15 years experience  in  providing  strategic consultancy  services in the lightweight material space such as composites, core material, additive, resin system, adhesive etc.

Lakshmi has been pioneering in execution of over 1000 consulting and syndicate projects in the field of composite materials, High strength alloys, resin system, core material, and so on. His area of  expertise spans – Go to market strategies, opportunities screening, market  attractiveness analysis, customer  intelligence  studies, customer  satisfaction  studies, manufacturing cost analysis, due diligence, and so on.

He has led and executed many assignments  in  the lightweight  material space  across North America, Europe, APAC, Latin America, and  MEA. These assignments have been in the areas of Aerospace, EVs, Wind energy, Construction, Marine Oil & Gas, Defense, and so on

Pankaj  is  a  seasoned  market research and management  consulting  professional  with  12 years experience  in  providing  consultancy  services in the composites and advance material space. Pankaj has executed over 200 consulting and syndicate projects in the field of composite materials. His area of  expertise spans - market  assessments, competitive and customer  intelligence  studies, customer  satisfaction  studies,  locational  assessments, value chain analysis, manufacturing cost analysis, benchmarking studies and due diligence.

Pankaj has accomplished  many  assignments  in  the composites  industry  across North America, Europe, APAC, Latin America, and  MEA. These assignments have been in the areas of Aerospace Composites,  Automotive Composites, Wind Turbine Composites, Construction Composites, Marine Composites as well as Oil & Gas Composites.

Pankaj  holds an MSc (Chemistry), MBA (Marketing), MA (Economics) and MPhil (Economics)

Paul Gallen has over 25 years experience of leading composites developments in automotive and other sectors. He has contributed to industry roadmaps and programmes for automotive and composite industries over the last 8 years, and played an instrumental role in setting up the Automotive Composite Group within the UK’s Composite Leadership Forum.

 Paul strongly believes that composites, used in the right place, can make better products, where multi-functionality, improved safety or lighter weight provide benefits. Lightweighting alone does not provide a large enough benefit case as we move towards zero-carbon vehicles, and the emphasis has changed towards enabling better BEVs and FCEVs and reducing energy use through the vehicle’s life.

Paul is Sales Director, Automotive Composites, for Hankuk Composite UK Ltd, who produce a wide range of composite materials optimised for low-carbon mobility.

As an engineer by education for mechanical engineering, I have got into contact with polymers and plastics in 2015 at Next generation Recycling Machines, a designer and manufacturer of thermoplastics recycling plants. In 2016 already I have started at Isovolta as a sales manager for the composite materials in commercial aviation. In 2021 I have taken over the responsibility to lead the sales team which I have already handed over and focus on the business development also outside aviation now. It is more important than ever before to diversify. This is my mission right now.

Isovolta manufactures prepregs with the focus on flammability and temperature resistance as well as impact and transmissivity performance. In the aviation sector we mainly serve the interior industry. However, we also have other fields in which we are active. In the Isovolta Group many other industries (automotive, electronics, electric machines etc.) are served as well.

My career began with Delta Air Lines on the operational side of the business where I received technical experience in airframe, engine, APU, landing gear and thrust reverser maintenance.  While at Delta, I finished my undergraduate degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and my MBA from Georgia State University. I ventured into general aviation and ran a 145 repair station for Hawker Beechcraft that included a maintenance base with full repair capabilities. Additionally, I participated in a special missions program while at Hawker to build a CLS program for the Iraq Air Force, during Desert Storm. My other special missions’ assignment included developing a corrosion control program for the Israeli Air Force.  I am currently in business development with Satair, who is fully-owned by Airbus. My passion is to find innovative technology that applies to today's aircraft that directly affects the sustainability of our industry. 

Roman Gätzi is Global New Business Development Director at 3A Composites Core Materials,having served in several positions in lightweight material supply and engineering companies.

 For 16 years he is working with Composites and especially Sandwich structures, serving markets such as wind energy, marine, automotive, aerospace interiors and many others. Before he was in the aluminium business, working 6 years at Alcan in the mass transportation sector and engineering railway, bus and maglev carbodies .

He holds a master degree in mechanical engineering with specialization in lightweight design and an executive MBA in general management.