Introduction
 Amit P Kumar
is currently Chief of Technology & Head-New Business, at Reliance
Telematics. Amit secured his B.Tech.in Mechanical Engineering in 1994
from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. Prior to joining
Reliance Telematics, Amit was responsible for designing and formulating
Integrated Transport Management System & Telematics business
Process for Right Delivery for Reliance Retail.
Before that, Amit was
Head-IT Initiative & Telematics for Mahindra Logistics (An
Independent division of M/s Mahindra & Mahindra Limited), where he
played an important role in transforming the Company to a technology
savvy company. He led a successful initiative on telematics with
respect to transport visibility. His one of the initiatives with a
reputed multinational client won M&M the best IT Implementation
award (Most Innovative) by PC Quest’2006.
Prior to Mahindra
Logistics, Amit had stint with entrepreneurship in the field of IT
education, ERP Consultancy. During this period, he developed a business
model on B2B Barter trade and was instrumental in launch of
cashfreetrading.com based at Delhi. Prior to that he worked with
India’s super star international trading company, MMTC Limited (A 7
Billion USD co.), in various capacities for about 7 yrs, during which
period he was deputed to a green field Steel Plant Project (NINL) as
Head - Project Procurement(Auxillary & Utility), where he handled
200 million USD purchase and contract management.
Presently, Amit is working on Startegy on integrated Telematics based frieght Exchange System in India.
Amit is in demand as
a speaker and panelist at logistics and transportation focused industry
gathering in Asia and was a speaker at eyefortransport’s global summit
on transport, India’2007 at Mumbai, and is also sought after as an
industry expert on Distribution & Logistics, Telematics, 4PL and
Barter. |