Raghav Wate

- Benchmarked manufacturing processes and cost accounting practices across five countries and presented findings to the CEO - Initiated better inventory control and demand estimation practices across warehousing and production floor. - Achieved capex reductions and annual production savings of about ~1.7M Euros and developed plans for global roll-out - Had fun while doing that. True story

- Performed gap analysis with respect to current American Express assets to influence behavior within insurance purchasing life cycle through agent channel - Recommended property casualty insurance Agent/ Broker strategy to efficiently maximize charge volume opportunity for American Express to the tune of $6M

Extensively involved in - new product development - value engineering projects - supplier development - field issue reolution

- Worked as product developmet engineer on development of a new bus platform for the Middle East market which involved global benchmarking and supplier development. - Drove in one of the left hand drive protoypes (in India) of the same bus platform for 500 miles to test design. Funny story.

Operations Management & Corporate Strategy