Abhinav Shashank

B-306 RK Hall, IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 721302, India

+91-9775502362 abhinavshashank@gmail.com

Work Experience

Inexur Ltd (Startup) September 2008 - Present Kharagpur, India

Founder and COO - Business Plan under review with CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) for a collaborative first hand approach -Aims to bridge the gap between the SME (Small & Medium Enterprises) Sector, financial institutions and various research institutes.

Kharagpur Consulting Group (Startup) June 2009 - Present Kharagpur, India

Co-founder and Head (Business Development): IIT Kharagpur’s Consultancy Group – Provides Consultancy to Governmental Technical Problems and also consults industrial problems through a collaborative effort by Professors and Students TRANE (Ingersoll Rand) May 2009 – July 2009 Chennai, India

Summer Intern - Worked on a market survey of "TRANE in India - Now or Never" Submitted a 114 page set of recommendations – Implementation profits may range into million dollars.

ITC Ltd May 2008 – June 2008 Kolkata, India

Summer Intern - Worked on the efficiency improvement of the HVAC system at ITC Kidderpore. Project findings were estimated to result in a net saving of INR 850,000 per annum to the organization.

Education

IIT Kharagpur Bachelors of Technology, Mechanical Engineering (2010 Expected) CGPA: 7.10/10

Modern School Indian School Certificate (ISC) (2005) 91.75%

Positions of Responsibility

Core Team Head, Kshitij (Asia’s Largest Techno Management Festival)

Worked on India's Largest Virtual Stock Trading Portal - Woodstock Handled a budget of $200,000 in a team of 5. Introduced industrial and Academic collaborations – ASME, ACM and ASHRAE Collaborations. Project Initiator and Manager for Grand Central - Redesign of the World's Longest Railway Station Took Kshitij to international horizons – Prelims in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Student Chair and Founder, ASME Student Section - IIT Kharagpur (Largest Global Student Chapter)

Special recognition by Director, Education and Professional Development Introduced ASME IIT Kharagpur Summer Internship Program - 40 Students got internship through this

program. Promoted to Executive Committee Student District Operating Board - Sector G(Asia Pacific)

Student President and Founder, ASHRAE IIT Kharagpur Student Chapter

Member, United Nations Work and Employment Group (Solution Exchange)

Achievements

Working on developing an NGO to make India a “true democracy”

Working on B. Tech Project under Professor Kanchan Chaudhary - Reinventing Cold Storage Systems Final findings to be published in the form of a book forming the guidelines of setting up Multi Commodity Cold Storage Systems and submitted to the Ministry of Horticulture to set up guidelines for Cold Chain Deployment in India.

Selected among 350 budding entrepreneurs (all over India) to meet social entrepreneurs who have made a difference in India.