Srinivas C. Kanthadi

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Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 248-***-****(Cell); 248-***-****(Home)

Partner & Global Business Executive - Management Consulting, Performance

Improvement, Information & Technology Services and Manufacturing Industry

Distinctive, results-driven management consultant and a global business

leader with a proven track record in leading products and manufacturing

firms, delivering management consulting, information and technology

services. Big-picture thinker, proficient in strategy development and

execution, architects and delivers comprehensive solutions to enterprise's

complex issues of growth, profitability, operations excellence, cost

reduction and technology integration. Balances passion with realities,

overcomes challenges skillfully and with diplomacy, and inspires

performance excellence in teams. Delivered game changing results to an $80B

CPG firm recently in engineering global capital projects. Is a Partner in

IBM. Experience highlights include:

. Serving clients across Automotive, construction and agriculture

equipment, industrial and consumer products and consumer packaged goods

(CPG), in the USA and over 25 countries.

. Solving CXOs' issues related to business expansion, time-to-market,

product complexity and life-cycle management, sourcing and procurement,

operations and supply chain costs, manufacturing productivity and

technology alignment.

. Leading clients' global programs and cross-functional teams in product

development and engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain, and

technology (product, manufacturing and IT) integration.

. Managing P&Ls; building strategic clients relationships; forming

strategic alliances; establishing shared services model for engineering,

sourcing, manufacturing and marketing; and performing due diligence for

mergers and acquisitions.

Summary Of Work Experience

IBM Global Business Services, Southfield, MI, USA

Oct'13 - Present

Partner, Strategy and Transformation for Industrials

IBM is $100B consulting, information technology (IT) services, hardware

and software firm.

Responsibilities include shaping and leading strategy and transformation

engagements for industrial products, chemicals and petroleum clients and

developing new business opportunities. Key accomplishments include:

. Launching a $1.0M business process harmonization initiative, inclusive in

an organization transformation for a $3.0B high-performance materials and

products client. Architecting solutions for accelerating capital projects

for Oil & Gas firms.

. Architecting strategy and transformation engagements around client

business issues that enable deliver business process, information,

mobility, cloud and social media solutions and expansion of relationships

beyond the CIO office.

Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Limited - Southfield, MI, USA

Apr'04 - Sept'13

Vice President: Held multiple leadership positions: Mid-west manufacturing

sector leader for information and technology services, north-american

business leader and global platinum account leader for engineering and

technology services

L&T is a $13.0B India based construction, engineering and manufacturing

conglomerate diversified into offering off-shore based consulting,

information technology (IT), engineering and technology services globally.

Responsibilities included: developing and nurturing senior executive

client relationships; working with the CEO in executing strategic agenda;

business and organization development; P&L management. Key accomplishments

include:

. Establishing CXO relationships, growing revenues by 30%-50% year on year

across industries viz. automobile, industrial & consumer products,

agriculture & construction equipment, instrumental to firms ten fold

growth to $900M.

. Architecting off-shore services as a strategic initiative in CXO agenda

and delivering benefits beyond labor cost arbitrage.

. Becoming a trusted global client partner and achieving "strategic partner

status" in an $80B consumer packaged goods (CPG) firm; delivering

engineering services in over sixty global locations; reducing engineering

costs by forty percent; enabling deliver faster manufacturing capacity;

and being nominated for Client CEO's "2011 cost innovation award"

. Generating over $250M in revenues over six years; building a 450 member

global engineering services organization as a P&L leader; establishing

client funded state-of-the-art 3D design validation center - first ever

made in a vendor location.

. Delivering 12%-18% savings in materials costs through global sourcing;

Establishing low cost sourcing competency capabilities and product tear

down analytics for industrial product companies.

. Partnering with HP (formerly EDS) to win a joint $100M information

technology services deal with an automotive client.

Summary Of Work Experience (Continued . . .)

A.T.Kearney Inc., & Electronic Data Systems (EDS) (now HP - Hewlett

Packard), MI, USA Sep'94 - Mar'04

Manager, Automotive Consulting Practice, A.T.Kearney Inc. - '94-'99

A.T.Kearney is a $1.0B management consulting firm.

Responsible for selling and delivering consulting engagements; developing

solutions to issues in product development, sourcing and manufacturing.

Key accomplishments include:

. Leading consulting projects and generating cumulative revenues over $25M.

Developing target accounts.

. Leading multiple strategic and operations improvement engagements for

Fortune 100 clients; delivering $20M-$150M cost savings by reducing

materials and freight costs through strategic sourcing, shortening

product development times, increasing manufacturing and labor

productivity, simplifying supply chain complexity, reducing product

complexity, developing lean manufacturing solutions and benchmarking and

implementing best practices.

. Developing flexible manufacturing strategy for a $3.0B industrial engines

manufacturer that enabled deliver higher productivity and reduce product

costs by 30%-40%.

. Leading global teams of consultants, client executives and union members

and achieving excellent client ratings.

Director & Client Industry Executive, Global Automotive Industry (EDS) -

'00-04

EDS is a $22B information technology services and business process and

outsourcing (IT / BPO) company.

Responsible for leading client consulting engagements that led to large

IT/BPO deals. Key accomplishments include:

. Developing "Plan to Win" framework for multi-million dollar pursuits to

overcome issues of flattening growth.

. Generating over $40.0M in revenues architecting consulting engagements in

lean manufacturing, indirect materials cost reduction, establishing trade

exchanges, leading to opportunities for multi-million dollar IT and BPO

deals.

. Developing and piloting end-to-end MRO outsourcing services offering,

integrating strategic sourcing, IT applications development and business

process analysis that lead to a multi-million dollar MRO outsourcing

deal.

. Piloting integrated lean manufacturing execution system for a $3.0B auto

supplier leading to $200M IT opportunity.

During (Mar'99 - Sep'00) served as a Director Management Consulting in TRW

Inc., USA. Accomplishments include: Leading turn-around of a $12.0M

consulting project and delivering over $18.0M savings in material and

freight costs to a $600M cable-networking equipment company; Winning "TRW

Management Excellence Award".

Summary of Work in India

Aug'84 - Aug '93

Held multiple functional management positions, leading initiatives in

marketing, product development and manufacturing and working closely with

the office of the CEOs in industrial products manufacturing firms having

international affiliations viz. Tata Advanced Materials Ltd. (high

performance composite products in collaboration with SNPE, France), Saint

Gobain Inc. (industrial abrasives); Sundram Fasteners Ltd. (metal and

powder forming products), Hindustan Motors Ltd. (mining equipment in

collaboration with Caterpillar Inc. and Terex Inc.). Key accomplishments

include:

. Winning a multi-million dollar contract to supply armor products.

Establishing business plans to enter new markets.

. Turning around industrial abrasives business by doubling sales each year

and developing client across industries viz. automotive, steel, consumer

products, rubber, motorcycles, foundries, leather, glass, particle board,

paper and textiles.

. Leading technology upgrade and capacity expansion capital project that

involved developing business and product plans; international transfer of

manufacturing technology; designing plant; sourcing equipment and

managing the program office.

. Improving material flow, optimizing plant layout, streamlining

manufacturing processes and systems.

Education and Professional Affiliation

. Stanford University, CA, USA. - Masters in Engineering Economic Systems,

a business management degree in strategy, enterprise economics, finance,

marketing and technology pursued at schools of engineering and business.

Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai - Masters level certification in

metal forming technology.

. Osmania University, India - (B.S.) Mechanical Engg.. Won "Inaugural Gold

Medal" for academic excellence.

. APICS, USA - Certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM).

. Detroit Economic Club, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) - Promoting

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education, and SME, USA

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