Palani is the Engineering Director of Hontrel Technologies. Prior to Hontrel, he held a Mechanical Engineering Manager role at Evoqua Water Technologies and a Lead Mechanical Engineer at WEG and GE, he has also worked as a CAE Engineer with Valeo and Parametric Consultancy Services. He works globally and has a domain expertise which includes Water & Wastewater treatment, Oil & Gas, Power, Automobile with geographies spanning USA, UK, EUROPE, APAC, & INDIA. He has a diversified experience in engineering and management, with more than 20 years of extensive experience in team building and management, project management, proposal engineering, process and detail mechanical engineering, piping design, order execution and delivery, new product development, standardization of products, product engineering life cycle maintenance, cost reduction of products, design of rotating machines, static equipment design, structural engineering, computer aided engineering (FEA/CFD), and CAD data management (PDM/PLM). Palani earned his bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Bharathiar University and a Master’s degree in Computer-Aided Mechanical Design from Sathyabama University.