Hitesh Bhatt

Background

About Hitesh Bhatt

Hitesh Bhatt (hiteshvbhatt@irma.ac.in) works in the area of General Management. He holds a degree of B.Tech. from IIT Delhi and M.S. from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA. Prior to joining IRMA, he was Head of the Centre for Management Studies at Dharmsinh Desai University in Nadiad, Gujarat. He started his career with Reliance Textile Industries Limited in 1979 and has a total of 18 years of industrial experience - of which 8 years is as CEO/Country Head of large organizations in India and in Tanzania. Apart from Reliance, he has worked in Mafatlal group of mills, Sunflag group of textile and garment factories in Tanzania, Kenya and UK, and finally a joint venture company (Indo-Bhutanese- South Korean) in Sanand, Gujarat. During this period, he set up of 2 large textile mills and revived another textile & garment factory (employing over 2500 persons) from ‘near closure’ to a position of envy in East Africa. Since 2001, that factory is the most efficient operation in the entire East Africa. He started his academic career in 1995 with IRMA as an Associate Professor and since then has been involved in teaching, training and consulting in diverse areas. He has trained different cadres of persons in a variety of organizations – government, non government, cooperatives, dairy unions, industrial units, educational institutions and corporate. He has delivered talks in a number of organizations both in India and overseas on diverse topics. His current areas of interest are quality management, operations management, project management, individual & organizational effectiveness and developing soft skills for employees in an organization.