BALA PANCHA

Alpharetta, GA *****

678-***-**** • adguc2@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-bala-pancha-6b360811/ STRATEGY, DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, BUSINESS CONSULTANT Established professional with successful track record of accomplishments in operations, supply chain, business process improvements, and product development, saving hundreds of millions of dollars for organizations. Passionate about making businesses and operations competitive by applying R&D skills, lean manufacturing, technology tools and competitive strategies. Focused on advancing organization capabilities to make manufacturing, supply chains, product differentiation and portfolio performance to improve End to End delivery capability to customers. Demonstrated experience to balance investment in technology tools (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, other tools) and capabilities versus benefits that could be gained.

Specialties: Strategic Planning, Transformation, Data Analytics, Engineering/Capital Management, Business Development, Financial Analysis, Team Leadership, Manufacturing Automation, Business Development, Supply Chain and innovation to enhance product life cycle and develop new products, Over 30+ years covering manufacturing, engineering, management and executive leadership

• Strategic Planning • Digital Transformation • Data Science/Analytics

• R&D/Product Development • Business Development/Sales • Channel/Portfolio Performance

• Management Consulting • Business Process Improvement • Supply chain/Integration EXPERIENCE

Georgia Pacific Corporation November 2004 – August 2020 Consumer Products Group, Sr. Director, Operations

Vice President Engineering, May 2016 – August 2020 Led transformation efforts by application of technology tools (AI/Machine Learning/Python) to achieve higher efficiencies and throughput.

• Worked with data scientists using machine learning, artificial intelligence tools, automation, for remote monitoring and troubleshooting, resulting in savings of millions of dollars.

• Have led efforts to modify asset capabilities to capture new markets developing new products. Has experience developing products through ideation, testing, mass production and serving customers. Georgia Pacific Corporation, Consumer Products Group Vice President Engineering, Containerboard and Cellulose Division, May 2012 – May 2016 Experience with analyzing product portfolios to understand the product line performance along with distribution channel (Cost of delivery) to maximize the revenue. In one case, some SKU’s were eliminated that enabled other products that have higher margins to increase market share to have revenue growth and higher profitability

• Has experience developing new products from ideation to commercialization. Has maintained innovation pipeline for the team to test out viability of process with value proposition and pro-forma analysis.

• Have used LP solver to understand the channel performance on the distribution channels. Used decision trees to evaluate channels understanding the demand variability in products.

• Have used technology tools (RFID, automated guided vehicles, Robots) to ensure that the right products reach customers at right time.

• Has completed evaluation of corporations doing internal and external benchmarking to understand the competitive position and developed a list of opportunities to implement. BALA PANCHA adguc2@r.postjobfree.com Page Two

• Completed evaluation of consumer products company on brick and mortar, on-line distributions, other channels to understand supply chain efficiency and overall profitability and made recommendations resulting in savings of 100 million dollars among the product lines.

• Completed competitive analysis by comparing financial ratios between several consumer products companies participating in the same market segment. With analysis of the information publicly available (Annual Reports, Quarterly Reports, K-10) came up with recommendations for developing new strategies to compete in the marketplace. This had the potential of revenue growth of 50 Million dollars.

Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, GA.

Director, Technology and Manufacturing Services/Manager, November 2004 – May 2012 Process Engineering

Provided leadership and technical support to manufacturing.

• Assisted operations in capital projects scope development and implementation, resulting in a savings of 200 Million dollars by several high NPV projects ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Jacobs Engineering Group, Cary, NC

Manager, Process Engineering, Project Controls and Estimating BE&K Engineering, Morrisville, NC

Business Consultant

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration

(Operations/Supply Chain Management, Finance)

University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler Business School) Chapel Hill, NC Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering/Pulp & Paper Technology) North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

B.S/M.S. Chemistry

Chennai, India

OTHER SKILLS

• Experience with AI/Machine Learning/HTML, BI and Python tools and applications, predictive data analytics, LP solver, developing algorithms to build automation.

• Use of RFID, Automated Guided Vehicles, inventory management to transform production and delivery processes. Led a team of data scientists, operations and business teams to build strategy, technology tools to implement business/digital transformation to improve performance and competitive position. RELATED PUBLICATION

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