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Tofrum Founders – Anurag and Ajit met in 2017 in Sydney, Australia. Over coffee, both discussed how cumbersome the fragmented excel spreadsheets and documents were and the need for a SaaS platform to simplify the management system. In addition, both subject matter experts (SME), from business and development backgrounds, respectively, understood the need for sophisticated management system platform for related processes.
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QS2000 had been in the consulting business for over 25 years. Over the years, Anurag had identified client’s challenges and the need for relevant tools to automate the processes for efficient and effective management systems. The other advantage is the data sovereignty by keeping the data within the country using AWS region for hosting the platform and related data.
Tofrum was born in 2017. “Our purpose was to design and implement solutions that would make work simple, convenient, and easy for our clients as they focused on their core business,” shares Anurag. Anurag and Ajit identified gaps and possibilities while constantly interacting with their clients.
2020-21, as the “existing customers” onboarded, discussions, deliberations, and constant feedback resulted in a refined product that addressed their needs. In addition, the “new customers” got the advantage of speeding up their certification process using the SaaS platform instead of working on cumbersome spreadsheets.
” Being in the IT industry for more than 20 years, I firmly believe that our life is driven by technology, but what sets Tofrum apart is the human touch and the intent to provide simplified bespoke solutions,” shares Ajit.
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Today, Tofrum has onboarded over 20 pilot customers, and the platform has covered various ISO standards (ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 45001:2018 etc).The platform utilizes existing frameworks and guidelines i.e., ISO 31000:2018 for risk management. The platform is highly configurable to suit any industry and organization. The key advantage of using the SaaS platform is simplifying the compliance process, resulting in saving time and cost for building an efficient and effective management system. The platform provides:
- Dashboards
- Notifications
- MFA
- Ticketing
- Control Register
- Risk Register
- Status of platform outages and user documentation.
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The Core Team
Anurag Saxena has over two decades of experience working in Senior Leadership roles across the IT industry and eventually beginning his entrepreneurial journey as Founder of QS2000 and Tofrum. Experienced in formulating business and digital strategies and translating them into actions to achieve growth and excellence, Anurag has managed complex and transformative assignments across various industries, namely, Manufacturing, Government, and IT-ITeS.
Today, he helps companies build management systems across various industries (public and private sectors) conforming to different ISO standards. Anurag supports the companies through a bespoke plan based on a defined methodology and comprehensive evaluation built on a rigorous framework.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Anurag completed his post-graduate business administration qualification from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM).
His passion and belief in giving back to the community resulted in laying the foundation of Shalini Niketan, Friends of Ashraya and Vision 2020 charities in Australia.
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Ajit Sharma has expertise in solution architecture, technical architecture, and database design across several industries ranging from manufacturing, Government Utilities, Insurance, Human Resources, and Online security, amongst others, for 20 years. Ensuring the integration of relevant digital initiatives into the strategic-planning process for leadership commitment, resource allocation, and execution, Ajit has experience defining digital customer journeys, mapping business processes, and proposing practical alternatives for business impact.
Ajit holds a Masters’s degree in Computer Application. He manages the Customer process design governance to ensure adherence to policy, standards, and controls across the end-to-end processes, thus owning process change governance. In addition, Ajit has worked with geographically dispersed stakeholders, including leadership, to lead and deliver individual projects or components of significant, complex transformation of processes and enabling technologies.
Passionate about giving back to the society, Ajit is on the Advisory Board on Sant Singaji Educational Society, for empowering rural youth through education.
Arthur Petronzio, has held senior management roles, responsible for business, technical operations, and compliance across industries including retail, mining, agribusiness, telecommunications, and international SaaS vendors during his 25 years of experience.
He has established, maintained, updated, and improved several compliance programs. More importantly, Arthur has played a crucial role in maturing company practices, due diligence preparation, and evaluating companies that have successful investments from Telstra, Cisco and trade sales to Ascender and Ceridian. Arthur holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering & Computing (Honours) from Monash University.
Arthur specializes in integration activities post-investment and acquisition and has experience in program, project, and change management. In addition, Arthur has led and grown product development teams and infrastructure operations teams responsible for highly available and fault-tolerant international SaaS products, including responsibility for incident management and business continuity.
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Patricia De Gori has held executive and senior human resource leadership roles for two decades in IT, industrial services, logistics, retail, FMCG, and manufacturing industries, across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Japan and Middle East. Experience spans both strategic development and tactical delivery of value adding recruitment and retention practices, organizational development, and leadership capability aligned to organisational goals. Strong record of delivering outsourced solutions for transactional processes and acquiring technical capability.
Patricia holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Relations, and is a certified practising member of Australian Human Resources Institute.
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Surbhi Sahai has over 4 years of experience of building management systems for clients from various industries. She works closely with the development team focusing on solutions to meet client expectations and industry standards. She collaborates with all partners to identify opportunities for continually improve the product to enhance user experience.
Surbhi is an alumna of Delhi University and had completed her post-graduation in business administration.
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Aishwarya Chakravarty is responsible for building management systems for clients from various industries. She works closely with the development team focusing on solutions to meet client expectations and industry standards. She collaborates with all partners to identify opportunities for continually improve the product to enhance user experience.
Aishwarya is a trained economist and alumna of prestigious Shri Ram College of Commerce and Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. She is currently pursuing a MSc in Development Economics at the University of Sussex, ranked #1 worldwide for Development Studies. Her larger goal is to make a positive contribution to the lives of marginalised sections, particularly women and children.
Advisory Board
David has over 50 years of business experience, spanning business mentoring, growth firm creation and development, as well as large company experience.
David has mentored business owners for almost 25 years, across a wide range of industries, including publishing, IT, entertainment, heritage management, telecommunications, hospitality, metal manufacturing and engineering, as well as the professions.
David’s business experience even extends to creating and running his own Sydney-based art gallery, The Durning Lawrence Gallery, from 1994 to 1997. The gallery focused upon Australian representational paintings and prints of the twentieth century. It was great fun!
From 1979 to 1993, David held senior positions in the Australian IT industry, including eight years as Managing Director of Hypertec Limited, an Australian developer and distributor of hi-tech PC products, with markets in Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the USA.
Prior to his involvement in the IT industry, David spent 14 years with CSR Limited, including 6 years in the company’s New Business Division.
James has over 40 years of experience in the hardware and software engineering industry, responsible for the design and development of high performance products. An engineer by qualification, he has been actively involved in research and development activities within the industry, including 3 years of research on computer hardware simulation systems at the University of New South Wales.
Prof. Nihal S Agar is a distinguished member of the Australian community. Born and brought up in Mathura, he completed his M.VSc. & Ph.D. from Agra University before migrating to Australia in 1967. In 2000, he retired from the Department of Physiology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, after a long and illustrious career wherein he published about 150 research papers in scientific journals and edited a book named “Red Blood Cells of Domestic Mammals”.
After retirement, Prof. Nihal continues to serve the community. He was the Founding President (2004- 2010) of Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of Australia, an organisation which seeks to educate rural and tribal children in India. He was also the Chairman of the Hindu Council of Australia (2009-2017) where he worked to promote a strong, cohesive and active Hindu community in Australia. For his dedicated service to the country and the diaspora, he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) in 2015 by the Australian Government and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman in 2019 by the Indian Government.
Tofrum
Tofrum is a product, consulting and services company. Tofrum product is a SaaS platform that utilizes existing frameworks and guidelines i.e., ISO 31000:2018, for risk management. The platform is highly configurable to suit any industry and organization. The essential advantage of using the platform is simplifying the compliance process, saving time and cost for building an efficient and effective management system.