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Dr. Ravi Bhatkal serves as Managing Director, India, Element Solutions Inc., Cookson India Private Limited. Dr. Bhatkal is responsible for the India businesses of Element Solutions Inc., including MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions and MacDermid Enthone Industrial Solutions. Cookson India Private Limited is a unit of Element Solutions Inc., an NYSE listed $2.5 billion specialty materials and chemicals company. He is also responsible for the South East Asia business of the Semiconductor and Assembly Solutions unit of MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions.
Dr. Bhatkal currently serves as Member of the Global Board of Directors of iNEMI, the global electronics industry consortium with over 85 global electronics systems, sub-systems, components, PCB and materials manufacturers with cumulative member revenues in excess of $750 billion, as well as universities and research institutes. Dr. Bhatkal serves as National Executive Board member and member of the Electronics Manufacturing Committee of American Chamber of Commerce, India, and also serves as a Research Advisory Board Member at the Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bengaluru.
Previously, Dr. Bhatkal served as VP, Energy Technologies, at Alpha Assembly Solutions, an Element Solutions Inc. Business, where he built and scaled a new business in the Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency value chains. Prior to this, Ravi served as VP and General Manager of the global Engineered Products business at Alpha and led Global Strategic OEM Marketing, Strategic Planning, and the corporate New Business Development initiatives at Cookson Electronics (Alent), a global >$1 billion specialty and electronic materials company.
Dr. Bhatkal has previously served on the Industrial Advisory Board of the Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications NSF Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA, and the Technology Commercialization Advisory Board for Physical Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Dr. Bhatkal’s early experience includes roles in R&D in India, and management consulting, as well building an advanced materials start-up, in the USA.
Dr. Bhatkal earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering and M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Vanderbilt University, USA, and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune, India, where he won the Savley Gold Medal. He is widely published and is a co-inventor on ten patents.
