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Who We Are

Leadership and People

V.K. Bafna founded the firm in 1973 and led it for four decades. The bench he built is still named in full, including a technical head thirty-four years into materials testing, corrosion engineering and root-cause failure analysis.

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The organisation runs three operating entities (TCR Engineering, TCR Arabia, TCR Advanced), one training subsidiary (Evolve by TCR), one strategic equity investment (into partner companies). The senior bench is named, credentialled, and accessible. The expert consultant network at TCR Advanced is a structural differentiator.

The Leadership Team

TCR Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 1973 by V.K. Bafna and Neelam Bafna. Leadership passed to Neelam Bafna in 2013 as Chairperson and Managing Director, with Rohit Bafna as President and Viren Khandwala as Director.

Founded 1973: by V.K. Bafna and Neelam Bafna.
Neelam Bafna: Chairperson and Managing Director since 2013.
Rohit Bafna: President. Viren Khandwala: Director.
Ownership: family-owned since 1973 and woman-led since 2013.
The 2013 transition: no private-equity recapitalisation, no break-up of the operating entities, and no sale of the institution.

The firm has been family-owned since 1973 and woman-led since 2013, through a transition with no private-equity recapitalisation, no break-up of the operating entities, and no sale of the institution.

V.K. Bafna

(1940 to 2013), Founder and Chairman Emeritus

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Neelam Bafna

Chairperson and Managing Director

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Paresh Haribhakti

Managing Director, TCR Advanced; Chief Metallurgist and Global Technical Consultant to the TCR Group

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Rohit Bafna

President

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Viren Khandwala

Director

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TCR Engineering Operations Team

Avinash Tambewagh

Technical Head

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Lalit Surve

General Manager, Operations and Finance

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Samir Choudhury

General Manager, TCR Eastern

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Dr. Ajay Essampally

Senior Metallurgist and Head of Quality Assurance; NADCAP AC7101 Materials Testing Lead

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Manoj Prabhakar Singh

Department Head, Corrosion Testing

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Parul Hariya

Head of Civil and Building Materials Testing

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Shaila Kadam

Head of Chemical Analysis Testing

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Shailendra Singh

Head, NDT and Third-Party Inspection

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Shemi Bhaskaran

ASNT NDT Level III (RT, MT, PT); RSO (BARC Level II)

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Atul Yadav

HR Manager, Public Relations and Government Liaison

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Hemant Sakpal

Business Development Manager

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Ashwant Singh

Assistant General Manager, Project Management

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Anil K. Lund

Digitalisation Expert; Bangalore Operations Team Partner

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Mukesh Kumar

Senior Metallurgist, Metallography and Corrosion

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Manoj Bhandari

Senior Engineer, Mechanical Testing

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Mohd. Rehan Baig

Assistant Technical Head, Advanced Testing

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Aarti Bhawari

Senior Chemist, Chemical Analysis

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Abhay Dhuri

NDT Operations Manager; RSO (BARC Level II), ISNT Level II (UT, MT, PT)

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Sagar Salvi

Head of Accounts and Purchase

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Rafi Ahmad Baig

Senior Engineer, Mechanical and Fatigue

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Nishat Baig

Laboratory Coordinator and Witness-Test Scheduling

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Harshal Tambe

Administration and Accounts Executive, NDT

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Umar Ahmad Baig

AI Transformation Architect

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Group Company Leadership

The senior benches of the group companies are carried on their own pages: the TCR Advanced Engineering page holds the Vadodara consulting bench and the expert consultant network, the TCR Arabia page holds the in-Kingdom leadership and senior bench, and the Evolve by TCR page holds the training academy leadership.

TCR Advanced Engineering: the Vadodara consulting bench and the expert consultant network.
TCR Arabia: the in-Kingdom leadership and senior bench.
Evolve by TCR: the training academy leadership.

Group Headcount and Distribution

The group bench at a glance:

Metric	Value
Group employees (consolidated)	750+
TCR Engineering employees (within the 750+)	400+
TCR Advanced employees (including consultants)	200+
TCR Arabia NDT professionals	100+
Field crews, in-situ metallographic replica	12 dedicated teams
ASNT NDT Level III credentials in-house	4 (Shemi Bhaskaran for RT/LPT/MPI; Vishal Gherwada for UT; Nagesh Shinde at TCR Arabia for RT/UT/LPT/MPI; Nikhil Sabhaya at TCR Advanced for ET/UT/PT/MT)
ASNT NDT Level II field crew	Multiple
BARC Level-1 radiography certifications	11+

The People

The senior bench is named, credentialled, and accessible, across TCR Engineering, TCR Advanced, and TCR Arabia.

The Senior Team

Paresh Haribhakti, TCR Advanced Managing Director (the ASM author bench)
Avinash Tambewagh, Technical Head, TCR Engineering
Ketankumar Upadhyaya and Gopul Patel, TCR Advanced reliability and AiOM leads
Nikhil Sabhaya, four-method ASNT Level III holder
Chiral Patel, CP Division Lead, 20+ years cathodic protection
Anil K. Lund, AI and Digitalization Head, Bangalore Operations Team Head
Manoj Singh, Department Head, Corrosion Testing
Parul Hariya, Department Head, Civil Testing
TCR Arabia: Khalid J. Al-Dabal, Managing Director; Syed Ameen Hassan, Country Manager; Abdul Waheed, NDT Manager (ASNT Level III); Syed Ahsan Ali, Metallurgist (API 510, 653, 571, 580 certified)

The expert consultant bench, 30 to 47 years of operating experience

Prof. Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Power Plant and Turbine (ex-BHEL, ABB, ERDA)
Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Fertiliser Asset Integrity (ex-Dangote, Indorama Eleme)
Dr. M.M. Pandya, Corrosion (200+ industrial cases)
M.N. Patel, SEM and EDS (33 years of teaching)
Dr. P.B. Joshi, ex-Head, Metallurgical Engineering, MS University Vadodara (50+ research publications, ASM book co-author)
Subrahmanya Bhat, Corrosion (32 years at ONGC, patent holder)
Narendra Kumar Roy, FEA and FFS
Dinesh Butala, Process Safety (ex-ED GSFC, 50+ technical papers)
J.N. Agarwal, Cathodic Protection and Pipeline Integrity (33 years at GAIL, ICorr Level 4 Fellow, AMPP Corrosion Awareness Award 2023)

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Frequently asked questions

Who leads TCR Engineering?

Neelam Bafna has been Chairperson and Managing Director since 2013, with Rohit Bafna as President and Viren Khandwala as Director. The firm has been family-owned since its founding in 1973 and woman-led since 2013, with no private-equity recapitalisation and no break-up of the operating entities.

Who founded TCR Engineering?

V.K. Bafna (1940-2013), a gold-medallist metallurgist with an M.Eng from the University of Toronto and an M.S. in Industrial Management from Clarkson College, founded TCR Engineering Services in 1973 and led it for four decades. Leadership passed to Neelam Bafna in 2013.

Who leads the technical and quality functions?

Avinash Tambewagh is Technical Head, with over 34 years across materials testing, corrosion engineering and failure analysis. Dr. Ajay Essampally, Senior Metallurgist and Head of Quality Assurance, leads the NABL ISO/IEC 17025:2017 assessments and the NADCAP AC7101 Materials Testing accreditation, alongside the BIS, IBR, PDIL and RITES audits.

How large is the group's technical bench?

The group employs 750+ people: 400+ at TCR Engineering, 200+ at TCR Advanced including consultants, and 150+ at TCR Arabia. Twelve dedicated field teams run in-situ metallographic replica work, and four ASNT NDT Level III credential holders sit in-house across the three operating entities.

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