Dr. K.S. Rama Krishna is Director (immediate past chair) and an Executive Committee member of DFI of India. He served as Chairman of DFI of India from its inception in 2013 to 2020, and is a member of the DFI Board of Trustees. He is recipient of DFI 2020 Distinguished Service Award. As an independent consultant he provides geotechnical engineering services in the area of foundation engineering and project implementation, for land, coastal projects and offshore oil and gas projects.

 As head of foundation engineering at Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) between 2005 and 2013, he provided technical expertise to several projects and companies within L&T. He was instrumental in identifying and implementing the latest foundation technologies, equipment and in building techniques in the special foundations industry. He retired from L&T as chief engineer–technologies in 2013.

In 2017, Dr. Rama Krishna was named one of four winners of the DFI President's Award, and was recognized for his efforts in creating DFI of India, organizing annual conferences and quarterly workshops, introducing CFA technology to India, and creating a permanent DFI of India office.

Manish Kumar is Executive Vice President and Chief Technical officer with ITD Cementation India Ltd., Mumbai, India. He holds B.Tech and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay and Auburn University, Alabama, USA, respectively. He is author of more than 19 technical papers in National and International forums. He is a Life member of Indian Geotechnical Society and a member of BIS Committee on Foundations.

Till very recently, Manish Kumar was heading the Specialist Engineering Division covering Geotechnical activities such as Piling, Diaphragm Walling, Ground Improvement, Anchors and other Grouting applications. In his career, he has been involved with major construction projects such as Elevated and Underground Metros, Airports, Industrial projects, High-rise Buildings, Dam Rehabilitation Works and other Infrastructural Projects.

As Chief Technical Officer, he is the Chief for many other functions in his Organization including Quality, Design and EHS functions. He has more than 34 years of experience in design and construction of Pile Foundations, Diaphragm Walls, Geotechnical Investigations, Ground Improvement, and other Geotechnical Designs in India and in USA.

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.  If you can think different, so will be you. That’s what describes Satin Sachdeva in one line.

The founder of CERA (Construction Equipment Rental Association) and also its current Secretary General, India’s largest equipment rental association and a dynamic entrepreneur, who has set the industry ablaze with his modern ideas, dynamism, keen foresight, impeccable leadership skills, intellect and futuristic outlook, is celebrating 25 years of successful journey in the industry, rendering excellent services to the nation in building infrastructure and generating employment. Satin Sachdeva leads by example and believes that the ability to learn and transform is very important in the fast -changing world.

He is the pioneer of seeding the thought of organizing the equipment rental industry and the one who has realized the contribution of construction equipment rental industry towards India’s infrastructure progress. With a vision of creating and sustaining a conducive environment for the growth of the industry, he has mooted the strong relationship between the construction equipment rental industry, manufacturers, financers and construction companies not within India but globally.

He is also the Managing Director & CEO of the company he founded – Equipment Planet, a premier construction equipment rental company which also buys and sells construction equipments. His group’s other company E-value is a valuation & inspection, surveyor & loss assessor organization.

Dimitrov Krishnan is Managing Director of Volvo CE India Pvt Ltd, and president of the Indian Construction Equipment Manufacturers Association (ICEMA).

Krishnan, who served as vice-president of ICEMA from 2019 to 2021, has been on the ICEMA governing council for more than five years. A part of the Construction & Mining Equipment Industry in India and Asia Pacific region for 27 years, he spent the first 13 years of his career working in India. From 2006 to 2014, he held senior management roles at Asia Pacific region based out of Singapore. In October 2014, he returned to India to head Volvo Construction Equipment in India.