Ishikawa Birth Centenary Commemoratory Session Program
Janak Mehta is a mechanical engineer by profession with over 46 years experience out of which
25 years was in industry working across various functions and becoming a chief executive of a
medium size company. While working in industry in 1982 he pioneered the quality movement in
India and promoted it vigorously across the country.
His belief in the use of quality management principles, concepts and methodologies as the
primary means to business excellence and integration of society led him to leave the confines of
working in industry to set up institutes that will be the vanguard of quality promotion. He set up
and led the TQM Division of CII from 1988 to 1992 a leader in quality movement in India. In
1992 he made a unique contribution as the only industry member of the team to propose a
structure for Quality Council of India (QCI) for promoting quality, standardization and
conformity assessment in India that would be on par with the best in the world. He is a member of
the Governing Body of QCI.
Thereafter he set up TQM International Pvt. Ltd., as an organization for training and consultancy
in quality management to work towards the frontier of quality technology. TQMI has become one
of the leaders in this field not only in India but also the Middle East. He is currently the Chairman
and Managing Director of TQMI. Under his guidance TQMI has provided training and
consultancy services in over 12 countries. He is also the Chairman of T4T Consultants Pvt. Ltd.