Manas Fuloria

Current
  • Director, Strategic Initiatives at Proton Business School
  • Corp strategy & bizdev, Co-founder at Nagarro
  • Partner at MNI Partners
  • Member, Board of Directors at NetElixir
  • Advisor at Community Friendly Movement
Past
  • Evangelist, Flexible Supply Planning at Predictix
  • CTO, Co-founder at SupplyChainge
  • MD, Co-founder at Dextrous Faber Pvt. Ltd
Education
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • Stanford University
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • Don Bosco School, Delhi
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Manas Fuloria’s Summary

I enjoy working with people who are intelligent, visionary and sincere.

I enjoy helping create new businesses, or new opportunities in existing businesses.

Manas Fuloria’s Specialties:

Business strategy, manufacturing, supply chain management, software services, enterprise software, optimization, entrepreneurship.


Manas Fuloria’s Experience

  • Director, Strategic Initiatives

    Proton Business School

    (Education Management industry)

    November 2007Present (2 years 1 month)

    Proton is a new chain of business schools, providing world class but affordable management education to students all over India.

  • Corp strategy & bizdev, Co-founder

    Nagarro

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    July 2006Present (3 years 5 months)

    Nagarro is the leading outsourcing provider for software projects that are small but technically or functionally challenging. Founded in 1996, the company today employs more than 500 people and has offices in the US, India, Germany and Sweden. Nagarro's clients include Fortune 100 companies and many well known ISVs.

    Recent recognition for Nagarro includes:
    - "Top 5 Exciting Emerging Companies to Work For" (NASSCOM)
    - "Global Services Top 100" (Cybermedia)
    - "Top 25 IT/BPO Employers" (NASSCOM)
    - "Top 100 IT innovators" (NASSCOM)

  • Partner

    MNI Partners

    (Management Consulting industry)

    December 2005Present (4 years )

    MNI focuses on business transformation through strategy and business development consulting and through M&A advice. With MNI, I have been involved in designing and implementing planning, process control and operations optimization software at many companies including Carrier Aircon, Coca Cola Foods, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Umicore and ICI Cables.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    NetElixir

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

    February 2005Present (4 years 10 months)

    NetElixir is a very exciting startup delivering optimization to customers of search engine marketing. Their customer list has been growing steadily in length as well as in quality with the addition of well-known US and European companies.

  • Advisor

    Community Friendly Movement

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    December 2004Present (5 years )

    CFM is an innovative not-for-profit organization that helps disadvantaged communities help themselves by organizing markets and supply chains for their handicraft products. The organization has won grants and recognition from the World Bank, the Ford Foundation and many others. Please check out www.cfm.org and please let me know if you can assist them in their mission in any way.

  • Evangelist, Flexible Supply Planning

    Predictix

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 2007March 2008 (10 months)

    Predictix is a leading provider of retail software and software-related services. The concentration of retail software expertise at Predictix is staggering. The company is the preferred implementation partner of Oracle Retail for the RPAS platform, and also partners Oracle, Zilliant and others on a variety of other applications. Predictix also has its own exciting Software as a Service offerings.

  • CTO, Co-founder

    SupplyChainge

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2001June 2006 (5 years 6 months)

    SupplyChainge was the pioneering software company for supply chain optimization for fashion products, coining and popularizing the term "Lead Time Optimization" or LTO (now known as Flexible Supply Planning). The highly analytical LTO software took forecast accuracy improvement data and markup/markdown data into account while planning staging and hedging strategies for the supply chain. Early implementations were at the Gap (Gap Body) and New Balance. The company's assets were transferred to Predictix in 2007.

  • MD, Co-founder

    Dextrous Faber Pvt. Ltd

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Textiles industry)

    January 1999December 2000 (2 years )

    The company was set up to provide Quick Response apparel manufacturing out of Bangalore. Employing 250 people, the factory started by making NFL, MLB and other league outerwear for Starter Corporation, heavy on computerized embroidery. The company had a buyback agreement with Starter Corp., and was thrown into a death spiral when Starter suddenly announced bankruptcy and shut down its operations.

  • Research Associate, Tech and Opns Mgmt

    Harvard Business School

    (Research industry)

    June 1994June 1995 (1 year 1 month)


Manas Fuloria’s Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    PhD , Supply chain management , 19962005

    Thesis: "Quick Response Supply Chains for Fashion Industries"

  • Stanford University

    MS in Engg , Manufacturing Systems Engineering , 19931994

    Mechatronics Systems Design Project: "Tribological Tester for Hard Disk Drives" in collaboration with Western Digital.

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    B.Tech. , Manufacturing Science & Engineering , 19891993

    Activities and Societies:
    Students Affairs Council (G. Secy.), English Debating and Literary Club (Secy.)
  • Don Bosco School, Delhi


Additional Information

Manas Fuloria’s Websites:

Manas Fuloria’s Groups:

  •    IIT-Delhi
  •    PROTON business school
  •    PT universe (www.PTuniverse.com)

Manas Fuloria’s Honors:

Director's Silver Medal, IIT Delhi
RKM Leadership Award, IIT Delhi
Key to the Hostel / Roll of Honor, Kumaon Hostel, IIT Delhi
SIMA Fellowship, Stanford University


Manas Fuloria’s Contact Settings

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