About Us

Kaushik Ghatak

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Kaushik is passionate about sharing his expertise and knowledge gathered over more than 25 years in the industry through consulting, facilitating and mentoring engagements. His strong focus is in Supply Chain, Digital Transformation and Sales domains, specifically in the areas of strategy development, strategy execution, people capability development and change management. He is also associated with leading management schools in South Asia as Visiting/Adjunct Faculty where he conducts Supply Chain and Digital Transformation courses.Prior to ValueQwest, Kaushik worked in senior roles for multinational technology and management consulting corporations in Asia Pacific and North America, including PwC, IBM, Oracle and most recently at SAP as Vice President of Value Engineering and Presales in Southeast Asia. His extensive experience has led him to spearhead business transformation programmes for clients across consumer products, high tech, automotive, industrial manufacturing and retail.

EDUCATION

Kaushik has a PhD from in Production and Operations, Management, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a BE in Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

Ramachandran Kallankara

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We conduct workshops on Supply Chain
Reach out to me for (ramachandran@valueqwest.com)
• Bringing alignment across various functions like Procurement, Operations, Sales, Planning
• Masterclass on S&OP
• How to make your company resilient, in light of the dynamic environment we are living in today
• Customers are demanding that Sustainability and Circularity become second nature to your company. What does it take to be Sustainable. We help sensitise organisation personnel to various aspects of Sustainability and Circularity.
• Supply Chain Analytics – We can help you get your analysts and operations personnel, data literate and increase their decisiveness by data driven decision making

Ganapathy Nathan

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I have nearly 35 years of experience, leading Sales, ERP (mostly in SCM & EAM domains), Open Innovation, IP Management, and Technology consulting teams. Have led operational and consulting teams, responsible for thinking through, designing and implementing various interventions that have had significant impact on practice management, IP portfolio build, innovation, and customer success.

Areas of strength: Facilitating SCM capability building & advisory, Open Innovation strategy and interventions, ERP selection, Business benefits/Value realization.

I am interested in the intersections between SCM, Emerging Technology, IP, Economics and Innovation and in the application of inter-disciplinary skills and capabilities from these domains, for organizations to thrive in the emerging landscape of opportunity, challenge and disruption.

Sarah Soon

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Sarah has extensive consulting experience advising senior management of many fortune500 companies and emerging market leaders in driving selling excellence through behavior changes, best practices, frameworks, skills and competencies development. She has extensively worked with sales teams across a wide range of Industry sectors such as, Healthcare, Food Solutions, Lifesciences, Automotive, Aviation, Manufacturing, Energy, Financial Services, Insurance, Higher Education and Consulting Services. Prior to consulting, she worked in the defense, medical, service, and technology enabling verticals. Her tenure included time with Singapore Technologies, Johnson &Johnson Medical, Quintiles, HRNet One, and a Parkway Healthcare subsidiary in Sales, Product Management, Business Unit Management, Strategic Planning and lastly as VP for Business Development.

EDUCATION

Sarahholds a Bachelor of Business Administration from National University of Singapore.

Alfons Willemsen

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After studying Industrial Engineering, Alfons Willemsen worked 12 years at ExxonMobil, in positions varying from human resources and marketing to supply. He conducted multiple logistic optimization projects.In 1997, he became logistic manager of Coating Resins at DSM. Here he implemented a differentiated logistics strategy, realized a higher service level and capacity utilization as well as a reduction of total costs. He also played an important role in the development of a number of global DSM supply chain concepts.From 2000 through 2007, Alfons was responsible for all European supply chain activities of Arizona Chemical. Besides many improvement projects, he had a special interest in the development of a robust European S&OP process.

In 2007, he switched to business consultancy and became managing partner at Involvation. His special focus areas are supply chain strategy, S&OP/IBP and capability development. He serves customers from different industries across the globe. Alfons is also the CEO of The Value Chain Academy, the learning & development concept developed by Involvation.

EDUCATION

Alfons received an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Eindhoven University of Technology.

Peter Woon

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Peter is a senior management executive with more than 20 years of Operational Management and Supply Chain Management experience having provided functional leadership of Global Procurement and Strategic Sourcing organizations. He comes with extensive knowledge and experience in strategic outsourcing for High Tech and Services industry, Contract Manufacturing, 3/4 Party Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) and IT BPO outsourcing services.

He has recently taken a break from the corporate world to pursue his Technopreneur interests and cofounded EcoHub Global, a technology startup to provide supply chain and sustainability solution leveraging a Data-Driven Operational Platform that will integrate and connect the physical supply chain with payment and regulatory gateways for the traceability in Food Supply Chain.

Peter is actively involved in several key Procurement, Supply Chain and Contract Management international and regional professional organizations to promote best practices and to provide leadership in being a principal Change Agent with a continuous improvement mindset.

EDUCATION

Peter holds an MBA from Nanyang Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from NUS.

Surajit Dhar

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Surajithas over 30yearsof experience in Aeronautics, Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing, Transportation and Educationsectors with SMEs, LLCs, and MNCs in Singapore. He has worked with major corporates, private equity firms and the public sector to assist clients in areas ranging from productivity improvement & operational excellence, applications of lean six sigma, business process re-engineering, project management, quality & reliability management, OEM/ODM supplier management, consulting on business model innovation, and also in TAE (Training & Adult Education) sector.Much of his work concerns Lean & Six Sigma methodology, business process re-engineering strategy, quality management & environmental management system, warehouse management system.Surajit is also a (WSQ & non-WSQ) curriculum developer for transport sector and TAE sector in Singapore.

EDUCATION

Surajit holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore.He also holds a BE in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from IIEST (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal).