Chief Data Officer
Pevqazri Materials Evidence
- Sector
- Regional building-materials testing and evidence services
- Ownership
- Founder 44%; employee vehicle 36%; private investor 20%; personal 0.03% within employee allocation
- Company scale
- ₹61 crore FY ending March 2026: ₹43 crore laboratory and ₹18 crore data/evidence services
- Employees
- 156 at March 2026; external advisers separate
- Geography
- Davanagere-based practice serving fictional regional projects
- Reporting to
- CEO Devika Qazvelri
- Team
- Eighteen colleagues through three data leads
- Financial scope
- ₹3.7 crore FY2026–27 function expense; separate ₹1.9 crore instrument and data programme
Mandate
Preserve measurement meaning, analytical conditions and permitted use across the practice's data products.
Outcomes
- Kept below-limit qualifiers in an export instead of converting them to measured zeros.
- Rebuilt a predictive assessment around complete material batches.
- Separated portal presentation from authorised technical conclusions.
- Narrowed a reusable evidence product to its cleared purpose and collection limits.
Decisions in context
I report to Devika and lead eighteen colleagues through three leads. The practice's ₹61 crore revenue and 156 employees describe enterprise scale; my delegated function expense and separate programme have different purposes. Imran retains qualified laboratory and reporting decisions. The current cases examine transformations that could change what a client or executive believes has been established: qualifiers, model partitions, rounded categories and reuse conditions. I want the data team to make those choices accountable without absorbing professional authority it does not hold. My 0.03% personal interest is part of the employee allocation, and I hold no statutory seat. The proposed board contribution would need a company-specific review of relationships, capacity and readiness. This role demonstrates data stewardship within a regional practice, not accreditation, construction approval or independent verification of any real material performance. A search partner should preserve those boundaries alongside the scale of the responsibility.
Reason for the move
Current appointment; exploring an initial board contribution while completing preparation.