Shridhar Lolla

Shridhar Lolla is a practitioner of Business Model Innovation, Focused Execution and Operational Excellence. He handholds business leaders in creating 'built to transform' organizations.

Shridhar is an engineer by qualification and holds a PhD degree from IIT Delhi, Masters from IT BHU Varanasi and Bachelor degree from MANIT, Bhopal, India. Early in his career, he worked with Tecumseh, Kirloskar Electric, ABB and SIFY. His longest stint was with ABB, the Swiss power and automation technology leader, where he got his grounding in business management. In his last assignment, he was the Head of Applications and Solutions Group at its Corporate Research Center in India.

Since then, he has gained extensive experience in achieving breakthrough performance in Engineering, Product Development, R&D, IT Services, Software Development and Manufacturing Industries. In the summer of 2012, he completed one of the longest direct engagements in operational excellence, which led to creation of the game changing business novel 'The Path'. He is also the author of the book, "Building Manufacturing Competitiveness - the TOC Way."

He visits, listens, converses, observes and advises teams across Operations. His books contain insights from handholding professionals across multi-locations, in their journey to ever improve impact of operations on business performance.

Shridhar is an application expert of Theory of Constraints (TOC) and shares his time with Goldratt Consulting in implementing principles of TOC.

Shridhar is a recognized coach for first generation entrepreneurs and is a part of Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Spending the day with operational teams and conducting walk through programs is his calling. Shridhar lives in Bangalore, India.

He can be contacted at lolla@cvmark.com