Ananth Krishnan Email & Phone Number

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

★ Leader of business consulting team that provides outcomes and process consulting for strategic enterprise initiatives by coaching business and technology teams to deliver business outcomes. Leader of Strategic Workforce Planning and Tech Org Design. Leader of Tech Talent Development Strategy. Advances an inclusive culture within the technology team that encourages diversity of thought. Advances an innovative and 'out-of-the-box thinking' mindset.★ Breadth of Experience: Multiple decades of consulting experience in analytics, ERPs, migration to cloud, ag-technology, emerging tech adoption and influencing C-Suite leaders.Mindset Coach: Designed an internal coaching program, including a self-service video, to upskill technology talent deliver ‘tech to value’ based on the Amazon “Working-Backwards” model.★ Patent: Hold US Patent for spatially indexing agricultural content.

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

★ Manages the Enterprise Architecture team, supporting all business divisions; advises the company on Ag Technology, analytics and data science initiatives, e-Commerce strategy and architecture, integration strategy, architectural assessments, and software application evaluation and selection.★ Led the design of the architecture for the Land O’Lakes Ag Tech platform, formulating and executing strategy.★ Partners with executive leaders to pinpoint and build strategies to address existing and anticipated challenges.★ Serves on the Strategic Steering Team guiding the IT Strategy for Vanguard initiatives that include E-Commerce, Digital Marketing and Advanced Analytics.★ Defined the Art of the Possible vision to govern technology investments in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Marketing.★ Built a strategic roadmap and plan for a $5MM project designed to capture gains in the effectiveness and profitability of the pricing process.★ Plans and Execute Proof-of-Concepts for Emerging Technologies, including Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Industrial IoT, Blockchain☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT LAND O'LAKESLand O’Lakes is a member-owned agricultural cooperative focusing on the food, feed and crops.

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

★ Planned and executed transformation initiatives within the Winfield Division, a $7B business unit; rationalized the application portfolio for the division to secure $1M in savings.★ Created a cloud strategy for Ag Tech, centered on the design of a patent pending DataSilo™ cloud data sharing application that will empower the cloud-based storage and sharing of agronomic data between farmers and agronomists.★ Led a $1.5M investment to integrate Salesforce.com as the CRM for the company.★ Consolidated all business units under one Identity Management platform, sparking a 67% reduction in service requests and a 67% gain in response time to customers.★ Recognized with the Innovation Award, the Cost Savings Award, and the Customer Service Improvement Award.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT LAND O'LAKESLand O’Lakes is a member-owned agricultural cooperative focusing on the food, feed and crops.

★ Founded a consulting firm to advise Fortune 500 clients, including Ingersoll Rand, MoneyGram International, Mortenson Construction, and ShopNBC.★ Served as the Oracle Team Lead Consultant for Ingersoll Rand, directing projects and defining standards for Oracle EBS development; examples include the leadership of 30 developers, database administrators and techno-functional leads in the integration of the ERP system of Trane Inc. following acquisition.★ Served as the Functional-Technical Lead for Thermo King (Ingersoll Rand) and ERP Implementation, overseeing the extension and customization of financial modules, planning and flow sequencing enhancements, and customer conversion and custom reports.

Mba, General And Strategic Management

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

B.E., Enginnering