Mr Milon K. Nag has been the Managing Director of the Company since 1995 and, since 2007, has also been the company’s Chairman. Mr Nag joined K. K. Nag Pvt. Ltd in 1987 as Vice President – Marketing and later took charge as Executive Director (from 1988 to 1994). Prior to that, he worked for Price Waterhouse in USA as a Management Consultant.

Mr Nag is an active Member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and has been Co-Chair of CII’s National Task Force on the Ease of Doing Business since 2017. In 2016-17, he was Co-Chair of CII’s National MSME Council and he has been a Member of the CII National Council since 2016. He has held several other offices at CII.

Mr Nishikant N. Dange has been a Director on the Board of the Company since 2019. He joined our company as an Assistant Engineer in the Production department in 1995 and has only excelled since. In 2007 Mr Dange was given the responsibility of commissioning our Ranjangaon (Pune) foam moulding plant which he was able to do successfully. Total Quality Management and Total Productive Maintenance were implemented at the plant within 6 months leading to Ranjangaon becoming one of our best plants in terms of 5S, productivity and profit.

Mr Samir S. Oke has been a Director on the Board of the Company since 2019. When Mr Oke joined our company in 2013 he took on the role of vendor management and settlement. He resolved several pre-existing issues and implemented new systems to manage and encourage timely payments. During his tenure Mr Oke has negotiated better payment terms with our customers, improved our cash flows and handled negotiations with our primary raw material supplier, all of which have led to higher profit margins for the Company. Mr Oke was also able to recover a substantial insurance amount when we had a fire at our Bangalore plant.

Mr Jayddep D. Pawar joined our Company in 2022 as Vice President – Business Development. He leads the Business Development function for all our foam moulding divisions. Mr Pawar has cross functional experience in end-to-end business operations viz. P&L management, sales channel management, product management, strategic sourcing, new product development, supply chain management, lean and green manufacturing and customer service. He is a strong advocator of change and technology. In his last stint as Regional Business Head for a leading consumer durable company, Mr Pawar was responsible for network and channel management/development and P&L management by ensuring the right product mix and devising the pricing strategy for the region.

Mr Satish S. Kulkarni has been an active member of our KKN family for over 20 years. He joined as an Assistant Engineer in Maintenance in 1997 and was promoted to General Manager in 2013. Mr Kulkarni started our Rotational Moulding division in 2004. The division has exported more than 4 lakh squatting slabs to over 40 countries till date. His other achievements include successfully moulding in-built Polyethylene (PE) partitions and composite moulding PE with Polycarbonate (PC) and PE with EPS inside, none of which have been done by any rotational moulders in India thus far.

Mr S. Palaniselvam joined our company in 1995 as a Trainee Supervisor. He was promoted to General Manager in 2020. Currently, Mr Palaniselvam oversees all 3 of our foam moulding plants in the South. Over the past 25 years Mr Palaniselvam has ensured that his Puducherry division has broken several records. He has done so by continuously innovating and introducing new methods and technologies, an example of which is the chiller system that is now used at Puducherry. Mr Palaniselvam’s contribution to decreasing costs, eliminating rejections and increasing the overall productivity of the division has greatly benefitted the company.

Ms Mitali M. Nag joined our company in 2019 as a Deputy General Manager at the Corporate Office. In 2021 Ms Nag was promoted to General Manager. Ms Nag launched RecyCole, the first Thermocole (EPS) recycling initiative of its kind in India, in March 2021. She has been working with local government and waste collection organisations to make this project a success. Ms Nag has also manages the Company’s social media accounts and oversees all automation projects.

Mr Shashikant V. Kadekar leads our Engineering Support Division (ESD). Since he joined our company in 2020 he has been promoted to Senior Deputy General Manager. Mr Kadekar has revamped several operations in the Tool Room to eliminate bottlenecks and increase the efficiency of our processes. He has single-handedly enhanced the technical skills of members belonging to our in-house team as well as of members at our suppliers’ end. He has used his extensive knowledge from his previous experience to introduce new technologies (e.g. laser welding), cut down costs, decrease lead times and increase the overall productivity of our Engineering Support Division.

Mr G. Tamilan joined our company in 1998 as a Supervisor. He was promoted to Deputy General Manager in 2016. Over the past 25 years Mr Tamilan has introduced several improvements which have benefitted the company overall, such as sourcing local suppliers to provide us with machinery that would otherwise need to be purchased from international suppliers, reducing both wait times and cost. Mr Tamilan has visited different countries such as Germany, Russia and Turkey on behalf of the Company to inspect and select machines for our foam moulding divisions.

Mr Kedar S. Nimbalkar has been leading our HR function since he joined as a Deputy General Manager in 2020. Mr Nimbalkar has overseen and ensured our success in multiple external ethical and social audits. He has managed to streamline and improve the coordination between the corporate and plant HR teams. He has also taken responsibility for the welfare of each and every KKN employee during the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting vaccination drives and supporting members affected by Covid-19.