Team

Naval architects and Master Mariners

A team that has designed structure and stood on deck — so the advice you receive is grounded in both the analysis and the operation.

Umitech Marine Solutions draws on the wider technical bench of the Pelagic Marine group.

Team members

  • Portrait of Nishchay Maken, CEO

    Nishchay Maken

    CEO

    Nishchay founded Umitech Marine Solutions to solve, through engineering and design, the problems most firms only survey. Across more than two decades, including over a decade at sea on tankers, he has specialised in project cargo workscopes and stability — the work that inspired UMISTAB-X. His wider expertise spans regulatory compliance, audits and inspections, loss prevention and incident investigation for leading P&I clubs.

  • Portrait of Bhanu Prabhakar, Associate Consultant – Naval Architecture

    Bhanu Prabhakar

    Associate Consultant – Naval Architecture

    A Naval Architect with fifteen years across offshore structures and seagoing vessels, Bhanu leads Umitech Marine Solutions' design and engineering practice. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, his core strengths lie in structural and finite-element analysis, intact and damage stability, hydrodynamics, mooring analysis and CFD.

  • Portrait of Capt. Vipul Negi, Associate Consultant – Marine Operations

    Capt. Vipul Negi

    Associate Consultant – Marine Operations

    A Master Mariner and an expert in chemical cargo handling, Capt. Negi brings more than two decades across the marine and petrochemical industries. He leads the firm's inspection and survey work — including CDI inspections, condition and pre-purchase surveys, and damage and P&I claim surveys — together with ISM, ISPS and MLC audits.

  • Portrait of Capt. Abhinav Upadhyay, Associate Consultant – Clean Fuels

    Capt. Abhinav Upadhyay

    Associate Consultant – Clean Fuels

    A Master Mariner with over twenty years in gas-carrier operations, Capt. Upadhyay is Umitech Marine Solutions' specialist in clean and future fuels. He brings hands-on cargo experience across LNG, LPG, ethane, ethylene and ammonia, and advises on emerging fuels including methanol.

  • Portrait of Capt. Harjit Singh Sidhu, Associate Consultant – Marine Operations

    Capt. Harjit Singh Sidhu

    Associate Consultant – Marine Operations

    Capt. Sidhu brings a container-shipping background and sea time with Maersk to his role managing Umitech Marine Solutions' operations and day-to-day delivery. He advises on container-ship stability, cargo planning and load optimisation, and is a certified practitioner of remote magnetic compass adjustment.

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