Rudra Shankar Roy joins Adamas as CSO & CSCO to bridge industry-education gap

RICE Adamas Group has roped in Rudra Shankar Roy as the Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Supply Chain Officer.

- RITWIK MUKHERJEE

He is also the Head of Consulting — Strategy & Business, Adamas Tech Consulting. With a formidable experience, spanning over two decades at IBM Consulting and also 8 years in core manufacturing, with overall 28 years of industry experience, Roy is an acknowledged top-grade strategist. He brings in expertise in a number of delicate domains like E2E consulting, business transformation, supply chain, Lean Six Sigma, etc.

Speaking to The Statesman, Roy shares his plans, strategies, and priorities for taking the Kolkata-based educational group to the next level, aligning with the needs of the industry.

Excerpts:

Q: What prompted you to leave your 28+ years of industry/consulting life (core manufacturing and consulting) and join a predominantly education group?

A: I have served more than 350 clients in the world of consulting across the globe over all these years, and I’ve been traveling with a different kind of business value proposition in all these years. I felt that the legacy of my industry expertise as a global subject matter expert, in the area of industrial products, in areas of supply chain, process transformation, automation, and all the kinds of growth opportunities, should be utilized and leveraged in the education sector because these are real needs of the education sector.