From order to delivery we give our customers the visibility they need for real-time data, supply chain transparency, and the ability to control costs in ways they’ve never been able to before.
Digitalisation of supply chain processes
We have digitalised the supply chain processes that enable our customers to enhance their business performance. It provides our clients with deeper insights and matched it with access to the expertise.
Transforming the way our customers do business
Through inventive solutions, workflow tools and consultant expertise that reduces the visible and invisible costs in the supply chain, adapts to changing needs, and speeds up delivery.
Drive innovation forward
We transform lives of our clients and the performance of the category we operate in. We work with our customers to understand the evolving needs to their business.
We have achieved the digitalisation of supply chain processes that provide deeper insights and matched it with access to the expertise and creativity of our people.
Credence Partners Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based private equity firm, providing growth stage capital and expertise to small and medium-sized enterprises in the Manufacturing, Information Communication Technologies, Services, Logistics and Consumer sectors in the South East Asia region. The partners have strong business backgrounds and bring with them vast operational experiences. They seek to add value through strategic planning, assisting portfolio companies in regional and global expansion, improving operational efficiencies and sourcing for key operational resources. Keeping true to the firm’s investment philosophy – ‘Invest and Build’, Credence strongly believes in investing time and effort in every portfolio company.
Zephyr Management, L.P. is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and marketable securities funds. Zephyr funds have a dedicated investment team located in-market, which engages in fundamental, bottom-up research to identify outstanding businesses with excellent balance sheets, high returns on capital and good corporate governance. In addition to providing growth capital, Zephyr funds seek to add value to its portfolio companies by leveraging its global relationships and helps enhance financial and organizational structures, business strategies and implement professional governance practices.
The investment team, based in Bangalore and New York, combines local and international private equity expertise and has many years of investing and operating experience.
Capt. Vilas Katre was one of the initial investors in 20Cube. He recognised at an early stage that 20Cube indeed had a unique business model that could be scaled up to make a significant participant in emerging market logistics. Capt. Katre is a master mariner by profession, having sailed with Shipping Corporation of India in the 1960s. He was a founder promoter of Seahorse Group which commenced operations in 1980, engaged over the next three decades in liner ship agency for containerised and conventional vessels, container leasing and operating off dock container depots. Freight forwarding vertical was added in 1995 when the government formulated legislative framework for this industry in India. Omega Global Logistics was the entity engaged in air/ocean freight and domestic distribution. Omega merged with 20Cube in Oct 2011.
In the 1990s Seahorse Group diversified into manufacturing (electrical equipment) and healthcare (multi-speciality hospital), with Capt. Katre leading the turnaround of two sick units in south India into viable businesses. He continues to be actively involved with IEEMA, which is the apex industry association of manufacturers of electrical, industrial electronics and allied equipment in India. His latest foray is in the field of agriculture. Capt. Katre brings to 20Cube over 40 years of multidisciplinary experience.
Beat Simon is an international leader in the logistics industry with over 35 years of experience holding senior positions across multiple cultures and geographies. Beat will act as Executive Chairman of 20Cube and provide the Chief Executive officer (CEO) with support and guidance on key strategic issues as 20Cube embarks on its next chapter of growth. Beat served as President of APL Logistics, a global logistics provider with more than USD1.5 billion turnover and over 7,000 Employees and CEO of Agility Europe, where he oversaw the company’s expansion from 11 to 25 Countries. At Agility, he was also member of the Board of Directors of Agility organisations within Europe and joint ventures. Prior to Agility, Beat was member of the Panalpina Executive Management Board and CEO of Latin America for Panalpina. Beat was also a member of the regional economic council to the Swiss National Bank. Beat is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and the Basel School of Business, Switzerland.
A successful business executive, rose through the ranks to a corporate leader and an entrepreneur. Mahesh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 20Cube Logistics and Chairman of the Board of Directors as well. Creativity, innovation and relentless execution capability has been the cornerstone of his achievements. Mahesh Niruttan started his career with Hayley’s Group of companies where he worked in Finance, Strategic Planning, Shipping Line Management and Logistics. Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, he held the position of CEO, South Asia, served as a Management Board Member for the Asia Pacific region and doubled as Chairman of the “Technology Transformation Board” with Agility Logistics, a global logistics leader with turnover exceeding US $ 5 Billion. Mahesh, obtained his fellow membership with “The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants”, UK in 1992 and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka in 1996.
Anand, Founder and Director on the Board of 20Cube Logistics, brings in a strategic approach to designing an integrated organization that delivers superior value by leveraging his experience of over 25 years holding leadership positions such as P&L head, head of Business Development, Human resource head , head of Finance, IT, Start-ups and new product launch. A team player, Anand is adept at keeping his shareholders happy and guides his teammates with equal ease. Anand knows the importance of being in complete charge of your business and transactions. And this clearly reflects in one of virtues of 20Cube that allows customers to be in complete control of their cargo with the 24/7 e-support system. Anand established a start-up for a large Indian group and ran it as business head growing it from a concept on paper to reality he helped create 37 times equity appreciation in five years. He led the Strategic Planning process and played a vital role in the cost management process and quality management initiatives. Anand completed an executive program in Human Resource from the University of Michigan Business School in Ann Arbor and has also completed a Management Development Program from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a member of ICAI and ICWAI.
Stewart brings in more than 25 years of experience in the logistics domain. Leveraging his experience of having set up branches in Australia, he was sent to Hong Kong to set up a subsidiary and establish a China network. Subsequently Stewart also set up the Malaysian operation. His experience has created a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive emerging market capability. Having built customs consulting practice including guiding on customs optimization and compliance with regulatory framework in Australia and emerging markets, Stewart brings a deeper capability to 20Cube. Stewart also brings in the expertise of having created remote centralization out of Malaysia. He believes the best way to build business is to build enduring partnerships and is the pillar behind 20Cube’s network creation with both emerging and developed market capability Stewart holds a degree in Business Administration with majors in International Business and is a member of the CEO Institute & the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australia.
