Our core team consists of strong, top-tier professionals from strategy consulting, investment banking, and Supply Chain industries. With a complementary skill base and a combined experience of more than 60 years, we are able to leverage our knowledge base to create outstanding results.
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Vivek Sood
Entrusted Counsel of Senior Leaders; adds multi-million dollar value to corporate bottomline; always delivers the promised results.
For over 25 years Captain Vivek Sood has empowered corporations on 5 continents to achieve their peak potential – in operations, in strategy, and in all components of their entire supply chains. In January 2000, he co-founded and managed Global Supply Chain Group, a high impact services company made up of supply chain pioneers and thought leaders who work only on selected high impact strategy projects with some of the largest corporations in the world. Prior to that, Sood was a management consultant with top-tier strategy consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton. The Sydney resident travels 60% of his time around the world for a single passion – creating, configuring, and formulating effective, secure and sustainable supply chains around the world.
A dynamic, high impact professional and presenter, Sood has a unique ability to shake-up the status quo and transform operations to maximise returns. His work experience spans more than 80 countries on 5 continents, and the clients range from fortune 500 companies to some of best known brands on earth. He has also worked with some of the most innovative green technology companies to help create outstanding supply chains from scratch for hundreds of millions of dollars worth businesses in periods as short as 18 months. His work has added cumulative value in excess of $500M, incorporating projects in major supply chain infrastructure investment decisions, profitable growth driven by global supply chain realignment, supply chain systems, negotiations and all other aspects of global supply chains.
Sood is also an acclaimed author of two very highly regarded books.He writes regular path breaking articles and lectures at business schools, supply chain conferences, forums and workshops in various parts of the world.
Sood is also the Chairman of Quantum Leap Private Investments, a private investment business directed towards extraordinary growth of assets using his unique global network and supply chain expertise.
Sood is a Master Mariner Class 1, and holds an MBA (with Distinction) from the Australian Graduate School of Management, a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a LLM from the University of London.
Specialties
Business and Supply Chain Transformations on Global Scale to make millions of dollars for the corporations.
More information on Vivek's profile is available on http://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek
Dr. Wolfgang Partsch
Dr. Wolfgang Partsch is widely acclaimed as the person who originally coined the phrase "Supply Chain Management" in the early 80s when on his way to a Swiss industrial company factory driving through the snow using snow chains. Most of the original thinking, methodologies and terminology of Supply Chain Management were developed by Wolfgang and his team in the 1980s while he was at one of the 3 Bs.There is a saying in the European supply chain circles - "if Wolfgang does not know it - then it is not worth knowing.' A maven in the world of Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point", Wolfgang is constantly thinking about the technologies, the economics and the emerging trends in Global Supply Chains. Based at Munich, Germany, Wolfgang concentrates his effort on advising select senior executives of European industrial houses on creating outstanding supply chain.
His client base include supply chain leaders such as Volkswagen, Audi, Daimler Chrysler, Aventis, Nestle, Coca Cola, and many other global leaders. Dr. Partsch is a co-author of the seminal text on supply chain management-‘Supercharging Supply Chains'. He has written numerous highly regarded articles, papers and reports on supply chain management and presented key note addresses in several global supply chain management conferences.
Marco Gabbiani
Marco has 10 years of experience across a broad range of industries including, research and development, management consulting, investment banking and private equity. At the international Investment Bank ABN AMRO, Marco was involved in structured finance for industrial clients. At the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Marco advised clients on strategic issues such as Mergers and Acquisition strategies, Post Merger Integration and supply chain impact of mergers. At Orbital Engine Company Marco was responsible for managing research programs in and liasing with key licensees.
More recently Marco has been investing in, advising and managing early stage supply chain and other technology ventures and as a consultant to Quay Partners, a private equity fund. Marco is a Chartered Financial Analyst® and holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney. Marco also holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Some of Marco's career highlights include:
- As part of an investment banking team, financing $150 Million acquisition through operations modelling, optimising and marketing
- Feasibility study on urban passenger network in a major metropolitan area
- Participation in several infrastructure projects related to supply chain field
Roc Yang
Roc has 10 years of experience in logistics and supply chain management. He has worked in strategic and IT perspectives with a particular focus on the unique challenges facing China today. A former official with the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) in China, Roc earned his MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) in the University of New South Wales in 1996. He also attended executive logistics program in the United States offered by Georgia Tech. After receiving his MBA, Roc spent four years with PwC consulting in the US and China running large supply chain projects and SAP implementations. He then gained first hand knowledge of inbound and outbound logistics and supply chain management in China working as a co-founder of egistics Corp., a pioneer and leader in financial services BPO, for close to 5 years.
The projects that Roc had managed or participated include the following:
- SAP implementation for several leading MNC products companies in China
- Strategic and IT planning for the largest 3PL in China
- Logistics strategy, process and IT solutions for the world's largest TV manufacturer based out of China
- Logistics strategy and 3PL selection for a worldwide beer brand in China
- Strategic business planning and implementation for a world leading ocean shipping company in China
- Strategic planning and implementation for the logistics hub operators of five major cities in China
- Logistics strategy and IT solutions for a leading dairy products brand in China
- Logistics strategy and software system selection for a leading retailer in China
Thomas Wiedmann
Thomas has more than 20 years experience in international operations and supply chains. He set personal focus on global supply chains and logistics 10 years ago and has grown into an industry leader in this field.
He has held leadership positions in global and european organizations, ranging from several interim-CEO assignments to supply chain change leadership positions during periods of intense organizational development. His specialization is in creating outstanding results through combined application of practical supply chain insights and appropriate supply chain technology. His projects have targeted optimization of the key organizations elements - processes supported by appropriate technology and change management principles. Based on his experience, Thomas has developed his "best value-concept" as a trademark which is recognized as an industry standard and is now being applied across the globe.
Some selected projects where Thomas has managed included the following:
- Supply Chain Management optimization
- ABB
- Ritter
- Cherry etc.
- Logistics development
- Development and Implementation of 3PL and LSP concepts
- Supply Chain Security and Risk Management
- Assessments and development in Supplier Relationship Management
- Process industry - Food and Beverage
- Assessments and development in Customer Relationship Management
- Finance Industry
- Assessments in Enterprise Risk Management
- Consumer products industry
- Investments in East Europe
Gennady Teplitsky
Gennady Teplitsky is our senior partner located in New York . He has more than 20 years of experience working in Consulting, Finance, Manufacturing and CPG industries. Gennady's unique skills include:
- International supply chains incorporating commodities
- Risk management
- Strategic sourcing
- Trade management and execution
- Channel partnerships and OEM relationships management strategies
- Growth strategies - key drivers, and execution
- Marketing and product analysis and growth recommendations for supply chain IT systems vendors
Earlier, Gennady Teplitsky was a Vice President of a unit of JPMorgan Chase , where he led the Strategic Technology consulting organization. In this capacity he managed a group of senior business and technology consultants whose mission was to help accelerate measurable business performance leveraging reengineering and technology innovation. The areas of focus include supply chain technology, knowledge management, information effectiveness and business process utilities. Gennady also provided advisory services to the firm's investment bank and venture capital business partners.Prior to this role, Gennady was a practice leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He managed large programs and provided thought leadership in the area of Automation and Analytics. His leadership and expertise helped several large clients with combined footprint of 20+ million customers in US, Europe and South America.
Gennady holds a Master degree in Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Louisville, Kentucky
Murali Dharan
Murali specialises in Supply Chain transformations and Technology Solutions. He has a strong track record of leadership in commercial and non-profit organisations, with special focus on CSR. He is a veteran of IT industry with expertise in Technologies, Sales/Marketing and implementation of Business Solutions in Asia Pacific and General Management. As a State Manager at Microsoft, he built and managed $100M+ software business. As the Manager for Strategic Global Partners, he built a strong Partner Channel, including ISVs such as SAP. He had served in various Solutions, Services & Consulting roles with Novell, Amdahl and IBM in Australia, NZ, Asia & India.
As an entrepreneur, Murali founded and run two IT companies & served on the Board of Public (ASX Listed) company in Australia. He also teaches Business/Marketing, Competitive Strategies to MBA students at Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM, Sydney). He is a founding member, since 2002, of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), the global network of entrepreneurs, which he built up as President over 5 years. He currently runs EmpowerIS as CEO, specialising in Supply Chain & ERP/CRM/BI solutions and also as Advisor to software companies & Investors (VCs, Angels, PEs).
Murali has a top Hons Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, India, top medal MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Director’s Diploma from Australian Institute of Company Directors(AICD) and he is a certified Enterprise Architect of TOGAF from The Open Group.
Besides business, Murali is an active Social Entrepreneur, providing leadership to several non-profit organisations in charity, education & social transformations.
Lin Giralt
Lin Giralt is based in Houston Texas and covers supply chain strategies in the Americas. He has over 30 years work experience of which 19 years have been in consulting.
He started his consulting career with McKinsey and Booz-Allen & Hamilton and founded Lambda Consultants in 1997. His main foci are in corporate strategy, organization, processes and M&A. He has strong experience in the financial, IT , telecom and restaurant-tourism sectors. He is an expert in new business development, market entry and establishment of business models for new businesses.
He has significant experience in logistics, having redesigned fresh product logistics for a supermarket chain and package handling processes for a medium sized freight handler. In a recent logistics project, Lin redesigned the Venezuelan commercial and operational logistics system for a major Spanish Telecommunications company saving over USD 2MM in inventory and handling costs. Prior to consulting he worked as a construction manager (4 years) completing various commercial buildings in USA and Venezuela, he also worked in agribusiness (6 years), building and helping the start up of a meatpacking plant and a mixed use farm raising cattle and hot peppers.
He holds a B.A. from Duke University (USA), a Master of Architecture from Rice University (USA), and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is fluent in English and Spanish and has a knowledge of basic German.
Dr. Hanns Zeltinger