Kalyan Vaidya

Kalyan brings four decades of global experience transforming product and service businesses across Fortune 500 enterprises, including GE Medical Systems, GE Aircraft Engines, Quest Diagnostics, Deloitte, Jet Aviation, British Petroleum, GSK, Qantas, Syngenta, Akzo Nobel, General Dynamics, Wipro, BearingPoint, and TVS. He commenced his career with Wipro and has since led end-to-end transformation, from strategy through execution, across both product and service sectors.

His deep expertise spans operations, supply chain, sourcing, M&A integration, and business excellence, leading growth, consolidation, and network-optimization programs across greenfield ventures, expansions, rationalizations, and diversifications. As a proven M&A integration practitioner, he has led the cultural integration of acquisitions, building cohesion and fostering collaboration among diverse constituents while avoiding silo formation. As a global sourcing and procurement leader, he has built vendor ecosystems that deliver sustained cost and productivity improvements across direct and indirect spend.

Today, Kalyan is an experienced board and CXO advisor, known for building high-performing, performance-driven teams across the US, Europe, and APAC. He is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt (GE Medical Systems) and a Lean Master (GE Aircraft Engines), with industry experience spanning medical diagnostics, imaging systems, pharmaceuticals, IT, automotive, chemicals, rubber products, energy and oil trading, electronics, crop sciences, leisure, BPO, and aviation.

A published author and gold medallist in Industrial Engineering, Kalyan holds an MBA from Rutgers Business School, USA, where he and Julia Feng were classmates in the same Executive MBA cohort in Shanghai.

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