Phuspitaa Naaidu

President Director at GIH Asia

Speaker

Phuspitaa Naaidu is a manufacturing transformation leader and emerging turnaround specialist who has redefined how industry collaboration drives growth and workforce development. As President Director of GIH, she led a comprehensive turnaround that transformed the company from a traditional SME into a structured, innovation-driven enterprise, restoring profitability and building corporate-level systems across production, finance, and R&D.

To extend this transformation beyond the company, she established PlastIQ, an innovation and research consortium within GIH that connects academia, government, and industry. PlastIQ focuses on polymer forensics, certification, and applied research while co-developing new talent pipelines and commercialization models aligned with Indonesia Vision 2045.

Through PlastIQ, Phuspitaa demonstrates how leadership-driven collaboration can shape the future of manufacturing, where ecosystem-led innovation and workforce readiness move hand in hand to strengthen national industrial capacity.