Valizant accelerates the journey to market-leading performance through improved planning alignment and operational effectiveness. Our mission is to help companies realize value with each step toward that goal through our coaching, consulting, solution design and implementation services. We take a holistic approach and address each function and dimension necessary to achieve business planning success. Our Road to Performance(TM) enables customers to minimize risk, accelerate time to value and retain flexibility throughout the journey with our agile methodology.

Led industry, competitive and product feature analysis which drove target industries, sales planning and new product/enhancement candidates. Managed innovation process and prioritization of requirements from market, sales pipeline and customer channels. Established go-to-market strategy for new products in collaboration with sales, marketing and professional services. Responsible for market facing product roadmap and communication with customers, opportunities, partners and analysts.

Managed global pre-sales including discovery, needs assessment, solution design, demo preparation and customer presentation. Managed US and Hyderabad, India based teams.

Launched this consulting services start-up in partnership with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. providing global supply chain consulting, business process outsourcing and automation, as well as inventory finance.

Purchased by GXS (Open Text GXS), the worlds largest B2B e-Commerce solution provider. Primary vision and leadership for this SaaS based supply chain management technology start-up providing continuous collaboration and synchronization for private trading communities. The company was spun-off from Mitsui & Co., U.S.A., in 2004 after starting as a corporate project and department.

Managed supply chain improvement engagements including a major initiative for Mitsui & Co. Ltd., a Fortune 200 company. Assessed supply chain processes and technology requirements for multiple divisions of this global trading company. Provided analysis, recommendation, change management services. Developed and implemented custom supply chain collaboration and synchronization solution. Team hired by Mitsui & Co. USA and ultimately spun-out into Amitive, Inc.

Primary responsibility for requirements and design of advanced supply chain management solutions for this 3PW which leveraged SAP, i2 and proprietary technologies to provide real-time order promising through-out a six warehouse network with real-time visibility.

Led transformation of this supply chain service provider to Dell, Toshiba and other software, hardware and consumer goods producers. Primary responsibility for business unit operations including profit and loss, budget, customer satisfaction and supply chain performance.

Primary responsibility for all aspects of business performance including profit and loss, quality and customer/supplier/employee relations. Operated this family business and transitioned to permanent management.

Primary responsibility for all aspects of supply chain planning and management in order to meet revenue objectives. Specifically, responsibilities included sales and operations planning (S&OP), master scheduling, material planning, procurement, warehousing, production planning and fulfillment.