Mohammed Vilayath Ali

Professional with over 25 years of experience in the field of Heating, Ventilation, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC) & MEP contracting. Having worked in corporates initially as sales engineer, turned an entrepreneur journey in the year 1996 with two other friends, fellow classmates Mr.Bala & Mr Vinod as partners and embark on Journey as Founder Director in M/s. ABS Aircon Engineers Pvt Ltd.

Personally involved in all activities right from sales, procurement, project & after sales services initially, as business grew got more into the operations of project management as demand from large project management companies like JLL,CBRE, and C&W wanted to have single point of contact for project related queries and as ABS was picking up contracts in wide range of projects covering various market segments like Industrial, Pharmaceuticals, Office Buildings & Commercial Spaces, Hospitals, Hospitality, IT & ITES offices, etc.

Supported with strong technical team of project engineers & managers to assit in completing the project. We also use Autocad for designing & recently implemented ERP from Microsoft NAV 360.

Ever since inception of ABS, ensured that the company gained the recognition in the industry for on-time delivery with unwavering commitment to the cost, quality.time (project schedule) and right engineering solutions.Also, effectively handled the overseas project operations in Maputo, Mozambique and Colombo, Srilanka.

Having gained the reputation for project excellence & timely delivery of project without cutting corners in Indian market we were approached by Mis Fujitsu General for joint venture in year 2017 & finally in the year 2018 the Japanese conglomerate M/s FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED acquired 51 % stake in ABS, now we are subsidiary of FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED – JAPAN.

After M&A we as founder directors got more involved in expanding and setting up branches in other cities.This we could achieve by developing strong system & procedures handled by second line of General Mangers & Managers in key position who are identified & guided by us.

We also emphasise on learning and call ABS as learning organisation. In these lines have undertaken an executive program at IIM Ahmedabad and also enrolled for Senior Management programme at Cambridge Business school London UK

Now, my current position as Director & COO, I am at Board of Directors of ABS with four other Japanese directors & also at executive role as Chief Operating Officer.