Varroc is a rapidly growing organisation that has targeted tremendous growth in the domestic and global arena. "We aim to achieve these targets with a judicious mix of strategic investments and aggressively tapping the opportunities presented by the various customer and markets we service today.

"My personal vision is to make Varroc the No. 1 technology player in the products that we chose to be in. This requires aiming for the state of the art technologies in intelligent passenger car lighting systems in the global arena and skilling up our Indian organisations to deliver technological excellence in our diverse product lines for the two wheeler market," Dr. Ravi shares.

Besides growing topline by 14 percent last year, Varroc also added three new plants - one each in Chennai and Rajasthan to support local customers and one in China for its passenger car lighting systems. "We have also added over a 100 engineers in our technical centres last year to back up our engineering capacities for existing products and also to enhance capabilities for new technology development.

Our partnership with Scorpion Automotive for advanced security and telematics systems for varied automotive segments early this year has already evoked interest amongst customers as they search for more robust solutions in these domains," Dr. Ravi adds. Varroc is also planning to build a Technical Centre in Pune early next year that will house over 300 engineers in the near term designing products and building technologies for Indian and global markets.

On a personal level, Dr. Ravi thinks that his optimism and ability to inspire the workforce are his biggest strengths as he continues to work to bring together diverse opinions and create an atmosphere of enquiry and reform to provide solutions to every challenge the organisation faces.

It is these strengths that have enabled him to overcome all the challenges. Of course, he looks upon challenges as a stepping stone: "Each professional move in my career was inspired by the challenges it presented. My current role in Varroc is no different. The opportunity to be part of a think tank that drives Varroc to achieve excellence in whatever it does also came with the challenges of working in an environment that has delivered consistently in favourable market conditions but was never tested in the kind of slowdown that we are witnessing in the auto industry for the past few years. 

"Strategic planning is the tool I use to ensure that the future is de-risked and my own personal values of Sincerity, Humility and Integrity are what stood me by in driving change persistently with diverse teams and amidst adverse sentiments. All my life I have derived hope and positive thoughts from those ordinary people who consider it their duty to silently contribute to build a peaceful tomorrow," he says.

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