Mr Manan Bateriwala is a computer engineering graduate from SPCE, Visnagar: Year 2009. Being interested in automation he joined the worlds best Robot manufacturer KUKA and was responsible for applications development in welding and cutting domain. Within a short span of 2 years he mastered the robot development platform and then became a freelancer to provide services for critical robot programming and commissioning. He was the first and the only robot programming freelancer in the country.

Having experienced success in the field and to scale up the operations, he formed Keepsake Automation in 2017, as a start up. This company now provides custom solutions to the manufacturing industries such as Oil & Gas, Defense, Heavy Engineering, etc.

He and his team @ Keepsake Automation are associated with some of the nation builders such as  ISRO, L&T Defense, TATA, MHPS Boiler, etc.. The systems provided by them have improved productivity while providing quality driven solutions with safety.

Today, the company is in the list of top 3 welding automation solution provider of INDIA.

He is a member of the ASM, GCCI, Cradle – EDII and is an active gamer. He is a faculty and is regularly invited by colleges, training institutes to share his knowledge and experience with students. His interests include reading, chess, cycling, mountaineering and binge watching.