Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam reveal this underappreciated and undervalued sector of the economy for what it really is: a reliable source of high-paying, domestic jobs and soaring stock prices—a bright spot in an economy that has too often been buffeted by external shocks.
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October 25, 2022
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Nick Santhanam is the CEO & President of Fernweh Group. He was formerly a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company’s Palo Alto Office, where he led North America’s industrial practice. He has co-authored several pieces of McKinsey’s leading industrials research: McKinsey on Industrials, McKinsey on Food Processing and Handling, and McKinsey on Packaging. He is also on the Advisory Board of Smithsonian Libraries. Nick earned master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA in strategic management and finance from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Ford and Palmer Scholar.
Gaurav is the President & Chief Executive Officer at Ayna.AI. He previously co-led McKinsey & Company’s Advanced Electronics Practice in the Americas. He advised clients on strategy and margin improvement issues, with a particular focus on commercial excellence, pricing, and distributor and channel management. Gaurav also previously led McKinsey’s Advanced Data Analytics (ADA) initiative in the Advanced Electronics Practice to help drive sustainable performance improvement for the firm’s clients. Gaurav holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Asutosh is a senior partner and the managing partner for McKinsey in North America, leading the firm across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He also serves as part of McKinsey’s 15-person global leadership team, and is a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s equivalent to a board of directors. Since joining the firm, Asutosh has helped high-performing, iconic industrial companies with functional, business-unit, and enterprise transformations, drawing on his strategic, organizational, and operations expertise.
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