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.

Team members

  • Portrait of Nishchay Maken, Founder & Director

    Nishchay Maken

    Founder & Director

    Nishchay founded Umitech Marine 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's 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's 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's 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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