Vitria: Taking Time and Cost out of Supply Chain Operations

As Director of Supply Chain Business Development at Vitria, Ramesh Manghirmalani is responsible for Managing Vitria’s Supply Chain Business Initiatives with Sony, Bax-Global, Accenture , CSC , Ford Motor Company and Avon Prior to Vitria, Mr. Manghirmalani was the Director of Business Development for Ryder Systems, where he managed logistics initiatives such as supply chain, electronic commerce and EDI for customers such as Nike, General Motors and Nabisco. Before Ryder Systems, Mr. Manghirmalani served as Executive Vice President of The Harper Group, and founder of its subsidiary, Circle Trade Services Ltd., an International transportation logistics and procurement agent for such organizations as British Aerospace Australia, Avon Products and Motorola. Prior to The Harper Group, Mr. Manghirmalani served in key advisory and managing positions at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and at Strategy Partner Global Markets Limited. (Europe) .

Mr. Manghirmalani holds a B.A. in history from Trinity College, Oxford University, England, and an M.S. in Management studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He taught at Supply Value Chain Management at Harvard Business School UCLA, and Stanford Business School.