FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL ADVISOR
About Sreedhar K.
Sreedhar K spent more than three decades in operating leadership across Hindustan Unilever, MSD/Merck, Organon, Givaudan and VKL/Olam International before founding SreedharK Advisors. He has worked in turnarounds, post-merger integrations and operating model redesigns where the decisions were not theoretical and the timelines were not comfortable.
EXECUTION OVER THEORY
A hands-on operator
Challenges conventional thinking, aligns stakeholders, and develops internal teams capable of sustaining change.
Operating leadership, not slideware
Regional procurement
Ran regional procurement operations across Asia.
COO experience
Served as COO of a global terpenes business.
Pharma spin-off
Led the operational side of a major pharmaceutical spin-off.
Change under pressure
Turnarounds, post-merger integrations and operating model redesigns.
Companies Sreedhar has worked with
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Hindustan Unilever
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MSD / Merck and Organon
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Givaudan
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VKL / Olam International
Discipline, empathy, resilience
A two-time Iron distance 70.3 triathlon finisher, long-distance cyclist and open-water swimmer, Sreedhar brings an endurance mindset to transformation: pacing over intensity, sustainable rhythm over unsustainable bursts, and the discipline to keep moving when the outcome is not yet visible.
ARTICLES ON MEDIUM AND LINKEDIN
Perspectives on GCCs, AI and operating models
Sreedhar writes on Global Capability Centers, AI in operations, procurement and supply chain leadership, and enterprise transformation. Recent essays include The GCC Glass Ceiling and The Pyramid Is Crumbling: What GCCs and AI Are Doing to India's IT Giants.
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