Anvarhusen's CV
Anvarhusen Bilakhiya
R&D Leader | Process Development, Scale-Up and Technology Transfer
Profile summary
Strategic R&D Leader | Process Development, Scale-Up and Technology Transfer with twenty-nine years shaping chemical industry outcomes. Known for multidisciplinary team leadership, laboratory-to-plant scale-up, and technology transfer. Committed to directing end-to-end product development across multiple sectors while aligning operations with business goals.
Career highlights
R&D Leadership and Scale Up: Directed end-to-end product development across multiple chemical sectors, managing R&D functions from laboratory synthesis through pilot plant trials and commercialization.
Process Optimization and Technology Transfer: Managed in-house and third-party technology transfers while delivering process improvements, cost reduction, yield enhancement, and effluent minimization across multiple manufacturing sites.
Cross Functional and Budget Management: Prepared capital and operating expenditure budgets, managed regulatory strategies, and partnered with manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial teams to align operations with business goals.
Key skills
Professional experience
Operates as Founder and R&D/Toll Manufacturing Consultant, shaping new product and process development strategies while steering operations across scale-up and commercialization support. Directs consulting engagements focused on process improvement and troubleshooting for diverse clients.
- Provides independent consulting services for new product and process development.
- Executes process improvement initiatives and technical troubleshooting engagements.
- Supports manufacturing scale-up activities for commercialization projects.
- Delivers toll manufacturing advisory services.
Shaped R&D strategy across Synthesis, Analytical Development, Process Development, and Pilot Plant units. Guided end-to-end product development spanning performance, battery, aroma, food, and shelf-life chemicals from concept to commercialisation. Directed regulatory strategies and multi-departmental partnerships while preparing capital and operational budget proposals for senior management.
- Managed in-house and third-party technology transfers supporting product development and commercial delivery alongside analytical method development and validation.
- Represented the research organization in engagements with global partners, collaborators, and licensing teams while leading pipeline development and technology evaluations.
Reported to senior executive leadership as founder and R&D consultant, steering product and process development programs from research phases through plant scale operations for clients such as Transpek Industry Limited, TML Industries Limited, and Eskay Iodine.
- Delivered consulting in product and process development, scale-up, troubleshooting, and ongoing process optimization.
- Executed cost and effluent reduction programs alongside efficiency improvements for chemical industry clients.
Reported to the Vice President, Operations to oversee research and development functions, guiding technical operations and plant support systems.
- Led process development initiatives for new agrochemical technicals to transition products from laboratory scale to manufacturing.
- Executed troubleshooting protocols for existing plant products to resolve operational bottlenecks in production workflows.
- Supported GLP studies by listing and identifying probable impurities and synthesizing them in pure form.
- Delivered CRO services for a multinational company from laboratory-scale process development through pilot and plant scale.
- Executed literature searches, route selections, paper costing, and impurity profiling for generic agrochemical technical development.
- Managed process development, validation, and scale-up while supporting product registration and cost reduction through yield improvement, effluent reduction, and process simplification.
- Executed full development cycles from literature review through pilot-scale and commercial plant process development.
- Managed outsourcing of impurities and intermediates while supporting product registration and facility setup activities.
- Identified commercially relevant molecules through literature reviews, route selection, and experimental planning.
- Coordinated process improvement initiatives and plant troubleshooting across operations.
- Evaluated prospective chemical products through desktop costing to determine financial viability.
- Executed laboratory trials based on market requirements and synthesized selected compounds.
- Maintained rigorous project documentation and timely reporting to ensure full alignment with customer requirements.
- Delivered custom research projects across multiple specialized business lines on schedule.
- Executed Sonogashira coupling reactions for advanced nanotechnology research.
- Conducted Diels-Alder reactions to synthesize polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
- Synthesized five new ligands, including two established by crystal structure, and studied complex formation with Co, Ni, Zn, and Fe, resulting in one published research paper.
- Applied Schlenk techniques for air-sensitive synthesis while operating NMR, IR, and UV-VIS instrumentation.
- Synthesized and characterized ruthenium, osmium, and rhodium complexes Using designed polypyridyl ligands for electrochemical and photophysical analysis.
- Authored the doctoral thesis focusing on advanced coordination chemistry and analytical methodologies.
Education
- Research conducted at CSMCRI, a CSIR National Laboratory, Bhavnagar
- University First Rank
- University First Rank
Publications: Six research papers: three in American Chemical Society journals, one in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal, one in an Elsevier journal, and one in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung. Conferences and Project Meetings: Two international conferences in Edinburgh and Heidelberg; international project meetings in Aachen and Paris; seven national conferences at IISc, IIT, and other research organizations. Professional Training: Chemical Development and Scale-up in the Fine Chemical Industry, Scientific Update LLP, UK, 16–18 February 2005. Awards and Scholarships National Merit Scholarships for B.Sc., M.Sc. Semester I, and M.Sc. Semester II; Dr. K. A. Thakar Shashti-Purti Gold Medal for securing first Rank in M.Sc. Organic Chemistry, Bhavnagar University, 1996. Late Dr. D. R. Baxi Memorial Award; Smt. Taraben J. Baxi Prize; Shri Jethalal Morarji Prize; Late C. C. Sheth Smruti Prize for securing first rank in B.Sc. Chemistry, Bhavnagar University, 1994.