Ganesh Narayanswami

Biography

Ganesh Narayanswami is currently the Head of Purchasing at JOHN DISTILLERIES PRIVATE LIMITED (JDPL), Bengaluru responsible for Procurement strategies across major areas of the company including Projects. He has close to 32 years of International Supply Chain Management experience with companies such as Mead Corporation & Sappi Fine Paper in the US and with Phillips Carbon Black in India. He has been the past Chair of the Institute of Supply Management’s (ISM) Chemical Group and headed the NAPM (Western Massachusetts) Chapter in the 1990’s. He has also been a past member of the Integrated Manufacturing Round Table (Focus Group) comprising of academia (Harvard, MIT and Tufts) and Professionals in the Greater Boston Area.

Mr. Narayanswami holds an M.S. in Supply Chain from Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, as part of an integrated program with The Ohio State University and Air Force Institute of Technology – WPAFB. He is also a M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Mumbai with LIFETIME CPM & APP Certifications from ISM. He has participated in a few Executive Programs at Harvard University and MIT prior to his relocating to India.

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