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Akshar Awalgaonkar

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Akshar Awalgaonkar is a Group Vice President, Global Procurement at Avery Dennison, a Fortune 500 company and currently leads their global & Integrated Procurement Function. Akshar is well known in a variety of industries for driving accelerated functional transformations driven by his bullish outlook for procurement & supply chain’s evolving role. His teams are recognized for their value creation mindset vs. the traditional cost cutter or support function mindset and thus appreciated as true enterprise players within as well as outside.

Before joining Avery Dennison, Akshar served at Veolia as Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer. Prior to that he led Procurement organizations in AbbVie Inc. & Walgreens Boots Alliance. Akshar worked at General Electric Co. for several years where he did a variety of roles in Global Direct Sourcing & Supply Chain, in increasing capacity covering a variety of categories. These roles also included bubble assignments in Asia and Africa. In the latter part of his GE journey, Akshar was part of GE Commercial to run a Profit Margin Office which focused its efforts on improving contribution margins for top product lines. Akshar also led the customer-facing organization, Program Management Office that managed the Order to Remittance for GE’s Global Transportation business. Akshar was part of Whirlpool Corporation’s Global Supply Chain Leadership Program & Bosch’s Trainee Engineering Program which bolstered his foundation in Supply Chain Management.

Akshar holds an Executive MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He has earned MS in industrial engineering & management from Oklahoma State University. Akshar has a bachelor’s degree in production engineering from Pune University and is a certified lean, six sigma black belt as well as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

 

Akshar serves as an Executive Board Member at NAAAP, Philadelphia as well as an Executive Sponsor for Avery Dennison’s Women’s ERG Network - Elevate. In the past, he has served as the Executive Sponsor for Women’s Network at Veolia and Executive Sponsor for Asian American Network at Walgreens and GE. Akshar is affiliated with various business schools teaching courses on Leadership & Supply Chain Management. He enjoys coaching & mentoring talent around the world.

Akshar has been a Keynote speaker at 2023 Annual Chief Procurement Officer Summit in Texas and at 2024 Global Release Liner Summit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is slated to deliver a Keynote in Boston in October 2024 at Women in Manufaturing’s global summit. In 2023, Akshar has featured in Pennsylvania State’s 2023 Power List for his contributions to the Environmental industry.

He resides in the greater Philadelphia area with his family.

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