The Team
 

Angshujyoti Das : way back 1998 he started his first venture ‘Express Consumer Finance’ – A small enterprise used to promote Retail finance business in association with Kotak Mahindra Group. While doing business with kotak, Das has been introduced with the corporate finance and clinched some remarkable business on behalf of Kotak Mahindra Group. After that he never looked back and started his Consulting & Project Management Company ‘Express Advisory Services Private Limited’. In a shorter time EASPL has roped into clientele through out the country in various sectors. With his dynamic leadership the company has developed its overseas base in Europe, South East Asia also entered into a joint venture with US based ‘Custom Weather’.
Keeping consulting as the core service area, the company has emerged into other areas like Tourism, Entertainment, Exports etc. with the leadership of its dynamic search engine of opportunity.

Subrata Rana : not often would find such a versatile management guru with wide ranging expertise accumulated in all but in 15 years. A Master in Science from IIT, Kharagpur (1990), a PG Diploma Holder in Development Economics; IGIDR ’92, a former SANE-Asia Coordinator with International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Philippines, and a Consultant to Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubenswar, Subrata has acknowledged expertise in natural resource planning and management, agriculture, food scarcity situation, watershed development, forestry, health system management capacity building and training, networking, IEC in reforms and participation and more. His assignments have taken him far and wide, at home and abroad, on a large number of prestigious and vital projects. His participation and stewardship in these projects are indeed legion. Even to name a few would be his yeoman role with Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibar Rahman Agricultural University on South Asia Capacity Development Programme on Participatory Research and Development in Natural Resources Management; Integrated Development Project for Homestead Farming, Bangla desh; Natural Resources Management, Bhutan; promotion of Multi-stakeholders Forum on Conflict Resolution concerning the prudent usage of Chilka Lagoon natural resources; Disaster Reduction programme of ActionIndia International; moderation of Millennium Village Projects (Development of MDG Tracking in 14 countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America),Ministry of Environment, Govt of India, on Integrated Water Resource Management and Wetland Conservation; Process Evaluation of ICT based Knowledge Centres in Orissa; Orissa Resettlement and Rehabilation Policy,2006, UNIDP; mentoring of Agriculture Rural Institutes in Participatory Research & Development on SANE coordinated projects, CIP upward, in Nepal, Thailand and Karnataka in India; SAPROF study on Orissa Forestry; Evaluation of Core Programmes of Centre for World Solidarity; guidance on the largest Poverty Alleviation Programme…the list goes on besides embracing other projects spanning Cuba, Britain, Denmark, Vietnam. Added to all this is his role as an Evaluator of EU funded watershed projects - and as a Mission leader for UNEP Projects. Last but not the least, he has authored Holistic Plan for the development of the Burdwan District, West Bengal; Community Development through alternative livelihood, Sustained Agriculture and Rural Development. Not surprisingly, he has proved to be quite a search engine for the Express Group taking it on a fast forward progress track.

Professor Tapan Kumar Basu : (M.SC. – Physics, Electronics), has done advance courses on Satellite Meteorology, Cyclone Forecasting in between seventies & eighties and while working with Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the perfect combination of knowledge and hands on experience taken place.
In IMD Prof. Basu started as Scientific Assistant in the year 1968 and retired as Director in 2004. During his career of nearly thirty six years in IMD, he worked with a command in the following areas;

  • Solar Radiation & its Measurements (Centre Seismological Observatory)
  • Aviation Weather & Maintenance of Weather Instruments
  • Radar and Upper Air Measurements
  • Strom Detecting Radar installation at Paradip port complex
  • Maintenance of BENDIX WEATHER RADAR. Operation, Maintenance and Collection of Meteorological data through Radio SONDE using 1680 Mhz. weather balloon Radiotheodelite, and reception of Polar Rbiting Satellite Picture data analysis
  • Weather Orecasting and satellite picture interpretation and estimation of movement and strength of Cyclonic Strom at Cyclone Warning Centre.
  • Flood Forecasting.
Prof. Basu, a part time guest lecturer at Calcutta University (atmospheric science), also participated in SAARC Seminar, held in Kolkata, during Tsunami he was one of the experts for leading television Channel.
2007, April Prof. Basu has joined with us as ‘Director-Weather Business’ and directly handling the analytical part of it.

Sambit Kundu : Kundu being a Chattered Accountant joined in the company called ‘Maharashtra Explosives Ltd’. (Goenka company) in the year 1986, at Nagpur. And he was in charge of overall accounts and member of various committees set up for systemization and Integration there. He came to India Aluminum Company Ltd. (A subsidiary of HINDALCO, Aditya Birla group) in the year 1999. He had handled costing, accounts, MIS and he was the member of the core team for setting up the ORAFIN software and Excise Integrated system and also member of the core implementation team of ISO 14001 & Re-certification of ISO 9002. Sambit got a huge break in the year 2000. He was posted at Jamshedpur Main office of Timken India Limited, a subsidiary of Timken company, USA. He was in charge of Purchase and accounts and subsequently lead general accounts and treasury group. Handled final accounts as per Indian GAAP & US GAAP, also became member of the business planning group of the concern. Implemented and handled system based accounting using the tailor made integrated software ERP in the ORACLE platform.
Presently Sambit is in charge of analytical jobs related to Finance and Accounts in Express Group.

Alok Kumar Banga : Aloke is. a Mechanical Engineer and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, with vast cross functional experience in renowned corporate houses He joined TATA STEEL as Graduate trainee worked in Maintenance, Operation, Quality Assurance, Human Resource Management and Marketing functions. He had worked on special assignments of a varied nature-Training & Development, ISO 9000,Quality Circles Project by Project improvement applying Taguchi Concept, Preventive Maintenance and Condition based monitoring, TQM, 1PM, JRD QV, Process Control, SQC, Value Engineering, Methods Improvement, ERP, Production & Sales Office Administration, Union Negotiation, Market & Product Development, Customer Relationship Management (Govt. & Institutional), Dealer & Distributor Channel Management , Advertising Pricing & Discounting , Business Plan etc. He is a Certified ISO Auditor of TATA STEEL. Presently his focus of activity involves Corporate Advisory & Development, efficient Resources utilization & Human Resources Management in various Business Sectors. Specifically to read the trend, for maintaining on going profitable business activity.

 
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