Experience

• 20+ years experience, across consulting and industry in the areas of transformation, strategy, program management, organization alignment, enterprise performance management, change management, M&A, Turnaround
• Worked with Promoters and CXOs to accelerate implementation of strategies / transformation programs by establishing the strategy office, enabling action through appropriate governance and aligning actions to strategies of the business
• Led 7 large scale transformation programs covering people, process and technology across manufacturing, FMCG, retail, fashion, diversified businesses, 35+ Strategy/ CDD / GTM engagements and 4 post merger integrations
• Some of the engagements executed by Viswanath include –– Led an engagement with one of India’s leading poultry & animal feed manufacturers in an IPO aimed transformation program director overseeing work across 8 workstreams over 18 months– Led an engagement for establishing performance benchmarks for a leading specialty chemicals group

  – Engagement Leader for a leading retailer to grow their FMCG business  managed the program office overseeing work across 6 workstreams over 36 months

  – Engagement leader for a 12-month organization design led transformation for a marque two-wheeler brand

  – Led a 48-month transformation engagement for a diversified group covering the strategic growth plan, process transformation, manpower alignment, processes & policies

  – Led multiple engagements for managerial alignment and productivity resulting in 6-8% improvement

  – Led multiple engagements for process efficiencies resulting in 5-15% improvement