Anand Raghuraman Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Munich, Germany, DE

Hired as one of founding partners of Americas Consumer Goods & Retail (CGR) practice. Focused on optimizing DTC businesses. Conduct buy- and sell-side due diligence projects for PE companies. Select achievements:✅ Created detailed (store-level and eComm) improvement program for DTC part of global athletic goods brand, resulting in improved margins, store.

New York, NY, US

• Catena is a highly flexible, configurable and scalable middleware platform that can generate digital alignment between multiple parties across supply chain and logistics organizations. My role:
• Advise CEO on topics of go-to-market, positioning and business development.
• Act as sounding board and strategic advisor.

San Francisco, California, US

Angel Squad is an angel investing community run by Hustle Fund that was created to teach how to invest in startups and provide access to invest in the most promising ones. TechCrunch referred to Angel Squad as the "YC of Angel Investing."

San Francisco, California, US

NextGen is a network-driven venture firm that leverages the collective intelligence of innovative business leaders and investors to fund and support exceptional start-ups. We invest in category defining companies and are committed to help our portfolio companies succeed through providing open access to our Venture Partner network.As a Retail & Consumer.

Dallas, TX, US

Dallas, TX, US

Held General Manager Profit and Loss (P&L) role responsible for office and practice economics / sales, go-to-market strategy, building team and culture, and recruiting.Select achievements:✅ Sold and executed large forecast accuracy effort for luxury department store, revamping methodology, processes, and functional inputs, improving accuracy, making.

London, GB

• Built and ran $50M Americas CR&P strategy business. Led team to sell and execute projects owning full P&L.Select achievements:✅ Led transformation for DTC channel of global beauty brand on integrating tech in stores to.
• Understood that tech was driving low NPS due to customer pain points in many parts of their journey
• Determined CRM data was inadequately leveraged in stores adding to customer frustration and driving substantial missed up-sell and replenishment opportunities
• Provided roadmap for deployment, as well as need for upgrades to base technology (including POS), generating positive Initial customer and beauty advisor feedback while increasing basket size.✅ Directing development of.

Annual Advisory Board Member for new Design Thinking diploma program

• Sold and executed projects ranging from growth strategy work for corporate clients to diligence and post-investment work for PE clients. Select achievements:
• Spearheaded operations improvement initiative for retailer, increasing margin 250+ basis points, including in markdown management, assortment breadth and depth, and store labor.

Dublin, CA, US

• Developed and implemented strategically important initiatives for CEO and Chief Merchant for Ross Stores ($~20B+ retailer with 2,000+ stores). Led 10+ cross-functional initiatives while addressing change management.
• Identified high-potential categories to enter and coordinated work-across functions, developing vendor / pricing / in-store / supply chain strategies and setting revenue and margin targets. Ran pilots for each.
• Spearheaded direct Imports organization for sourcing of home products, including detailing processes, organizational structure, and governance, while assessing skills and capabilities, metrics, tools, and technology.
• Appointed global sourcing agents for Home business, increasing category revenue and profit growth ~10%.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Led projects across North & South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Select achievements:
• Developed growth strategy and portfolio definition for retailer, involving optimization of current businesses, new market / format expansion and exit of non-core businesses, increasing business to double digits after.

New York, NY, US

• Established as growth strategy expert for Retail & Consumer Products and PE clients. Tasked by CEO to set up India office with P&L responsibility growing office from zero to 2.5X targets.Select achievements:
• Designed private label (PL) brand architecture and positioning for leading retailer, creating 8% PL comps increase.
• Assessed supply chain processes for US retailer, identifying improvement opportunities generating 10%+ savings.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Member of Strategy Practice focusing on growth strategy engagements across multiple industries

Designed project start-up procedures that accelerated time-to-market by 25%

US

Conducted feasibility study to assess corporate interest in a ‘Center of European Logistics’ (CELO). Results published in McKinsey Quarterly and Financial Times

Redesigned production process to shorten time-to-market for industrial chains producer

Master Of Science (Ms), Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences

Master Of Arts (Ma), Applied Economics

International Baccalaureate, (High School)