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Abhishek is an Engineer and a Post Graduate Diploma holder in Finance. He has been advocating the need for compliance to standards for improved safety and quality across industries for most of the last two decades. He has vast experience of promoting conformity assessment in several industries including Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Renewable and Building Products across geographies and jurisdictions. He has worked on several Standards and Codes development initiatives, specifically with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), ASTM, UAE Fire & Life Safety Code of Practice and Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO). He is a regular speaker at Façade and Fire Safety conferences, workshops by Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), Insurance Industry and is often invited as a keynote speaker (like New Zealand?s FireNZ Conference)
He frequently writes articles for magazines & publications and his note on ?Does A Large-Scale Fire Propagation Test Ensure A Fire-Safe Cladding?? was published in the ?The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat? (CTBUH headquartered in Chicago) Journal.
Since the pandemic hit the world, he has been regularly delivering free education webinars increasing awareness about Conformity Mechanisms for Fire Safety (Passive Fire Protection) as well as the Saudi Building Code.
He joined Thomas Bell-Wright International Consultants in 2013 and has been the driving force behind the expansion of the fire compliance activities into new markets. His valuable experience from other, larger TIC (Testing, Inspection & Certification) companies has helped customers and construction industry stakeholders over the years.
Along with helping certification bodies expand their horizons of business, he also owns and drives a blog and a LinkedIn group called Gurus of Testing, Inspection and Certification (www.tic.guru) aimed at expanding the understanding of conformity across the world.

Abhishek is an Engineer and a Post Graduate Diploma holder in Finance. He has been advocating the need for compliance to standards for improved safety and quality across industries for most of the last two decades. He has vast experience of promoting conformity assessment in several industries including Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Renewable and Building Products across geographies and jurisdictions. He has worked on several Standards and Codes development initiatives, specifically with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), ASTM, UAE Fire & Life Safety Code of Practice and Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO). He is a regular speaker at Façade and Fire Safety conferences, workshops by Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), Insurance Industry and is often invited as a keynote speaker (like New Zealand?s FireNZ Conference)
He frequently writes articles for magazines &…

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