About ClaySys Lifestyle

The ClaySys group of companies started out in the IT sector with ClaySys Technologies Pvt Ltd. Since most of our key employees were returning to India after working extensively in the US and other parts of the world, it became very important to ensure an appropriate lifestyle for our key employees, to allow them to look at a career with ClaySys from a long term perspective. One of the biggest challenges in relation to this need was the quality of housing available in Kochi. While any number of Premium Villas and Premium Apartments are available, unfortunately, none of them are designed for Centrally Air Conditioned comfort. ClaySys Lifestyle Pvt Ltd was born out of this need to provide quality housing for our key employees within the group, through leveraging our extensive experience in building very competent teams. We assembled and employed a group of experienced and talented designers and engineers, to participate in building international quality housing at feasible prices in Kochi. Our designs adhere to international building code specifications for Heat Insulation, Central Ducted Air Conditioning, Smartphone Apps for Home Automation, Laminated Glass for Forced Entry proof facades, while leveraging sustainable Solar Power for the energy requirements to the extent practical.

ClaySys Lifestyle Pvt Ltd has the mandate of developing quality residential and well as commercial office space. Our first two projects are in Kakkanad, with our residential project ClaySys Heights coming up 600 meters from Infopark Phase 2 with close to 250,000 square feet of built-up space, and our first commercial office project, ClaySys Campus is coming within Infopark Phase 2, where we are developing an IT office campus with more than 300,000 square feet of built-up space.

The ClaySys Group of companies was founded by promoters that grew up in India, but spent a significant portion of their careers working outside India. The two key promoters of ClaySys Lifestyle are Dr. Manoj Tharakan and Mr. Vinod Tharakan who are expanding their entrepreneurial initiatives with the growth of their businesses in India.

Dr. Manoj Tharakan Radiologist And Partner – PRC, Perth, Australia

Dr. Manoj Tharakan is a Radiologist currently working and living in Perth, Western Australia. He is well regarded in his field by his peers for his competence and super specialization in Neuro and Paediatric Radiology. He is also a business partner and equal shareholder with the Perth Radiological Clinic (PRC). PRC is owned and run by an elite group of 20 medical professionals who are the shareholders like Manoj, and is one of the largest independent Medical imaging practices in Australia. PRC has over 70 doctors and more than 600 employees who support the operations for a network of 18 community and public hospitals around the Perth Metropolitan area. PRC also provides imaging services to four of the bigger independent private hospitals in Perth.

Dr.Tharakan accumulated a collection of degrees over his career, in his pursuit of excellence in the medical imaging field. Striving to balance his keen business acumen with his commitment to the greater good has taken him on a journey through prestigious medical institutions in India, where he worked at CMC Vellore, after his assignments at the Goa Medical College where he did his base degree and MD, followed by key fellowship programmes in institutions around the world, before finally settling in Perth, Australia.

Dr. Tharakan and his family continue to have close ties to home in Kerala, and have expanded their business interests by investing in some joint ventures with his brother in Kerala. Key among them are the 300,000 sq.ft. ClaySys IT Office Campus coming up in Infopark Phase 2 at Kakanad, and ClaySys Heights, a 250,000 sq.ft. Premium residential gated community, coming up next to Infopark Phase 2.

Dr. Tharakan is a Director and promoter in the Indian companies and brings to bear his experience with commercial office space buildings owned and managed by PRC in Perth, to support and influence the designs and lifestyle options being finalized for the residential and commercial ventures being promoted by ClaySys.

Dr. Tharakan is settled in Perth Australia, where he lives with his wife Rose and two sons Chirag and Akash. At heart, he is a family man, with his feet firmly on the ground, while also being an astute and circumspect investor who believes in slow and steady progress, while holding integrity and commitment to quality, close to heart.

Vinod Tharakan Director – ClaySys Group

Vinod Tharakan is a Computer Engineer and serial entrepreneur, currently based in Kochi, Kerala. After graduating from the Goa College of Engineering in 1995, he spent a significant part of his career working as a Senior IT Professional with companies in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He moved back to India in 2005 to start his first IT Company, in Kochi Kerala. In 2010 after moving into Infopark Kochi, he founded ClaySys Technologies PVT Ltd, a specialized IT Product Company. The ClaySys AppForms product is one of the leading ‘No-Code’ Application builder products for on-premise installations and cloud computing configurations and also supports a version for Forms/Workflow automation in SharePoint. ClaySys employs more than 250 professionals today, with offices in Infopark Kochi, Infopark Cherthala, and in Florida, USA.

With many of the key employees at ClaySys having worked extensively outside India, prior to taking up the opportunity with ClaySys in India, one of the key challenges was to ensure excellent lifestyle options for them in Kochi itself. So to support this initiative, ClaySys Hospitality LLP was founded, that today runs a premium food catering service within Infopark Kochi, while also operating the popular Currymean Multi-cuisine restaurant at the Athulya Building in Infopark. ClaySys Hospitality also provides large scale food catering services to the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and KPMG campuses within Infopark Kochi.

The quest for excellent lifestyle options in Kochi for its key employees led to the next venture, which is ClaySys Lifestyle PVT Ltd, a premium Villa and Apartment development coming up next to Infopark Phase 2. This project is called ClaySys Heights and is probably the first residential development project in Kerala, if not India, with key features like Central Air Conditioning, US building code standards-based Heat Insulation for the walls, ceiling, and floor, Smartphone App-based home automation, with a 100 KW Solar Powered micro-grid on the rooftop, floor to ceiling glass facades and other luxurious amenities.

To support the growth of the core IT Business, he founded ClaySys Infrastructure PVT Ltd, and its first project is the 300,000 sq.ft. IT Office Campus coming up within Infopark Phase 2. This IT Office Complex is targeting the facilities and amenities required for core Intellectual Property based product companies, who need to attract and retain senior talent, and features extensive work lifestyle options like a Tennis Court, Club House, International Gym, Olympic Size Swimming Pool, Rooftop gardens and premium dining facilities. All these premium facilities would be available to the tenants leasing space with ClaySys Infrastructure.

The key value add and USP behind all the ventures promoted by Vinod are the tight quality control and management, that is only possible through building the core team in-house, instead of sub-contracting the work related to the projects. So at ClaySys Lifestyle, the Architecture and Design team, the Electrical Engineering and plumbing team, the Civil Engineering team, the HVAC team, and the Fabrication and Woodworking teams are all full-time employees. This ensures tighter quality control and predictable project execution while ensuring ongoing support and maintenance services to all our clients.

Vinod lives with his wife Cynthia, daughter Maya and son Dev, in Kochi, Kerala, and spends time between Kakanad and his hometown Olavaipu which is 25 KMs south of Kochi.

Our Vision

To accelerate the transition to a sustainable and comfortable lifestyle, through applying innovative and practical designs to building homes and work environments.

We believe that not enough attention is being paid to creating community environments conducive to excellent work and residential lifestyle in India as yet, besides the super-premium housing sector. ClaySys Lifestyle Pvt Ltd was established to focus our energies on developing work environments and residential communities that are supportive of the best lifestyle options, that are feasible and practical in India, through leveraging modern proven technologies that are feasible in cost but provide exponentially better benefits. While there has been tremendous progress in almost all industrial sectors of India, it is unfortunate that the residential housing sector is still in the ‘Ambassador’ and ‘Fiat’ days, to use the analogy of what the automobile industry looked like in India, prior to the entry of modern technology and vendors into the auto industry. The industry is currently modeled on multiple layers of sub-contractors, with no proper ownership of design and quality by any key stakeholder. ClaySys Lifestyle takes ownership of all key aspects of building the residential community and homes, such as Architecture, Design, Civil Engineering, HVAC Engineering, Electrical, and Plumbing, by having full time experienced employees dedicated to these key departments and functions, with only day to day labor staff working on a contractual basis.

Our Culture

The ClaySys family of designers, engineers, and craftsmen, are hands-on, willing to multitask, and passionate about what they do, with the spirit to run the extra mile. All our key team members are full-time employees at ClaySys, including Architecture, Design, Civil Engineering, HVAC, Electrical Engineering, Plumbing, and Landscaping. You simply cannot provide quality of an international standard, and ongoing maintenance, without a dedicated in-house team. We structure employee incentive plans that include a path to owning their own homes through ClaySys. We facilitate International travel to have our team experience and absorb the latest designs, materials, and lifestyles possible, and we support ongoing skill acquisition through training and specialized educational courses.

Our Design Philosophy

Our design philosophy focuses on comfort, simplicity, and practicality, to ensure an excellent lifestyle for the communities we build and maintain in a sustainable manner. Being a core technology company, many of our innovations on design are technology-driven, with a focus on practicality, and future ongoing ease of maintenance and use. In many respects, we believe we are putting in place the foundation of what a modern home needs to be in Kerala, for a happy and sustainable lifestyle. While traditional techniques and methods that have evolved over hundreds of years do make a lot of sense most times, it is also important and critical to ‘reason by first principles’ to ensure that modern proven and practical science is applied in the quest to meeting design goals. A good example of this is ‘Heat Insulation’, as while there are a number of traditional means of heat insulation, you can exponentially optimize and increase the R-Value of your homes, by applying modern insulation materials like Styrofoam, Polyurethane Foam, or Glass Wool.