Ajay Patel

Ajay Patel is an accomplished executive with over two decades of experience in growing global supply chain, manufacturing, and business operations. He has a successful history of delivering outstanding gross margins, quality, and customer satisfaction. He has an expertise in developing and executing long-term strategies for global growth and profitability. He is known for creating metrics and process-driven organizations through best practices and modern business tools.

Ajay has worked with technology companies that have made successful exits. He has had multiple successes in building scalable operations organizations from the ground up and scaling existing organizations to achieve breakthrough results. He has a track record of driving cost management and spend discipline throughout the organization to achieve financial efficiency. Ajay has executed supply chain and value engineering strategies to achieve a COGS reduction of around 30%.

Ajay Patel has a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Management, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University. He studied at the University of Mumbai and The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Ajay has held executive positions in several organizations over the years. He is currently the Vice President of Business Operations at Pavilion Data, and formerly held the position of Vice President of Operations at Springpath. He was also the Director of Operations at AMD, Nimble Storage, and Consentry Networks. He served as the Director of Supply Chain Management at Omneon, Inc. and the Product Materials Manager at Cisco Systems. Earlier in his career, he was Mfg Engineer III at Compaq, Staff Engineer at Seagate Technology, and Process Engineer at Akashic Memories.