Bangalore · India
Director, Technology Consulting — EY India LLP · 14 years
I've been in supply chain long enough to know that the hardest part of any transformation is never the technology. Large implementations, real problems, multiple industries — that's most of my working life. Outside that: I travel as much as I can, take my parents somewhere new every year, lose track of time over board games, and still load up CS or AoE when the evening allows.
Fourteen years of supply chain consulting means I've seen most of what can go right and wrong in a large implementation. My work lives at the intersection of advanced planning platforms, S&OP design, inventory optimisation, and AI in planning — usually in pharma, FMCG, utilities, or energy. At EY I lead technology engagements focused on making platforms actually work in practice, long after the consultants have left.
The platform is rarely the problem. The question is always whether the organisation is ready to use it.
Travel
For work and for the love of it — and always with family when I can manage it.
Work takes me across cities and time zones regularly. Personally, I travel for the change of pace. The annual family trip is a ritual I protect: my parents, a new destination, the same familiar chaos. There's something about moving through an unfamiliar place that clears out the noise in a way nothing else quite does.
Gaming
Started before I had a salary and never really stopped.
Age of Empires, Dota 2, CS:GO — played competitively and obsessively, well into my working years. Some habits don't retire, and I've made peace with that. Board games whenever I can corner people into a session: I'm the one who knows the rulebook and still somehow loses to a first-timer.
Reading & Ideas
Heavy reader — mostly non-fiction, strategy, and whatever thread I'm currently pulling on.
Supply chain thinking turns up in everything eventually — how a city manages traffic, why some systems fail under pressure and others don't. I follow AI in planning closely: not the hype cycle, but the structural shift in what planning work will actually look like a decade from now.
EY India LLP
Director, Technology Consulting
Supply chain transformation & advanced planning
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
FMCG & Consumer Goods
Utilities & Energy
NITIE Mumbai
PG Diploma, IT & Supply Chain · 2012
NIT Raipur
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering · 2010
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