Jagadish Ramaswamy

Jagdish Ramaswamy is an Electronics Engineer with a post graduate certification in Statistical Quality Control, Operations Research and Reliability from the Indian Statistical Institute.

In his current responsibility as Chief Digital Officer and Head of Business Excellence, his team is driving the Digital and IT agenda of Hindalco Industries that includes organizational process digitization, Customer centric digital initiatives and Operational digitization including IoT, Analytics etc. In his earlier role as President of the Corporate Business Excellence group at Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt Ltd, his team was guiding the Group on creating factories that follow World Class Manufacturing practices, guiding the businesses on best practice assessments on Business Excellence through Aditya Birla Business Excellence Framework, Six Sigma, Lean and group knowledge Management practices.

Prior to Aditya Birla Group, Jagdish served The Akshaya Patra Foundation as its Chief Operating Officer responsible to bring operational efficiencies across 20 kitchens serving hot meals to 1.3 Million school children every day.

He spent over nine years in Wipro and in his last role he was the Chief Quality officer responsible for Quality, Knowledge Management, Customer Experience management and Business Excellence initiatives at Wipro.

He worked with Motorola for ten years and was responsible in rolling out the Six Sigma program for Motorola Manufacturing operations in India while working with Motorola University and was headed the Asia Strategic Sourcing team for TYCO Healthcare, where his team developed more than 50 suppliers in Asia for various commodities.

At the start of his career, he was a Research and Production Engineer with a Telecom design company (Centre for Development of Telematics) engaged in design and development of digital switching systems.

A Master Black Belt in Six Sigma and a Malcom Baldrige and CII EFQM certified assessor, he has significantly contributed to Six Sigma, Lean initiatives and excellence initiatives in all the organizations he has worked and has been a speaker in various forums on subjects ranging from Operational excellence, Customer experience management, Six Sigma, Lean etc.

On the personal front Jagdish is one of the founding members of Rockfund, an organization engaged in educating girls. Currently there are about a 100 children being educated under this initiative and is deeply interested in Indian classical music. His hobbies include cricket, playing guitar, mouth organ and harmonium.

 

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