Meet Vinayak Viswanath, an accomplished Supply Chain and Operations Management professional with 7 years of experience. Vinayak has worked on projects with stretched targets and tight deadlines with teams from all around the world. He possesses a practical grounding in designing efficient business processes and has gained good global exposure to best business practices. Vinayak has achieved multi-million dollar cost reduction activities, supported purchasing strategy to help a startup factory grow with volumes, and managed a total spend portfolio of $35 million. Vinayak has taught and supervised over 1500 undergrad and high school students over the course of 4 years.

Vinayak is skilled in Teaching and Research, Oral & Written Executive Level Communication, Data Analytics in Excel, Matlab, StatTools, VBA, Business Strategy Formulation, Development, and Implementation, Manufacturing Engineering in WITNESS, FlexSim, Procurement & Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, New Product Development & Introduction, Cross-Functional & Cultural Teamwork, Quality Control, 6 Sigma DMAIC Methodology & Lean Thinking, and Sustainability - Tier2, Tier4 Product Development.

Vinayak has completed an MBA in Strategy and Finance from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, an Msc. in Engineering and Management of Manufacturing Systems at Cranfield University, and a B.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

Vinayak is currently the Lead Instructor of Supply Chain & Business Classes at Canadore@Stanford College. He was previously a Consultant & Teacher at the Egalitarian Education Foundation and a Supply Chain Business Manager at Lam Research. He has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and as a Manufacturing Engineer, Associate Engineer, and Supply Chain Engineer at Caterpillar Inc.