Seasoned CEO and Board Advisor with over 25 years of leadership in Fortune 500, regional & local conglomerates, high-growth & diversified enterprises, driving revenues exceeding $250M, led 10,000+ people. Proven expertise in scaling businesses, strategic transformations, operational excellence, merger & acquisition and global expansion across apparel & textile manufacturing, apparel buying, labeling & packaging, technology, telecom, agri-inputs, retail(Fashion & Food), trading & international logistics.
Career Highlights:
• Company Environment: Worked for US Fortune 500, Medium sized high-tech, Nasdaq listed, privately-owned, start-up and public limited company.
• Leadership & Transformation: Led large scale organization with diversified businesses, exceeding revenues $250M with 10,000+ people, built best-in-class Finance, HR, and Supply Chain functions via corporatization and digitalization that made a profitability jump by 2–3%
• Growth & Turnaround: Scaled apparel revenue from $47M to $110M in 4 years; boosted agri-business increasing its revenue by 200% and increasing profitability from 3% to 11% via strategic restructuring.
• Global Deals: Awarded for securing €65M & $200M telecom projects in South Asia and led multi-country SAP/ERP rollouts.
• Operational Excellence: Enhanced profitability by another 2–3% through Lean, Optimization and Automation.
• Sustainability & Governance: Led ESG, LEED, FDI, Free zones, Internal control and government-level trade negotiations.
• Merger & Acquisition: Led high impact M&As (Paxar vs. Adhi Press, Paxar vs. Avery Dennison, Alcatel-Lucent vs. HP for IT Ops, Digitex-HK vs. Yester).
• Project Management: Built projects from scratch for 2 large global players (Avery Dennison, USA & Digitex HK)
International Experience:
Worked in Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Singapore & Vietnam for global and regional assignments.
Interest:
Passionate about scaling businesses, driving total excellence through manufacturing & transactional lean, and mentoring future leaders. Open to strategicMore...