Naveen Srinivas Akoju
Strategy & Operations MBA | Eight Years of Enterprise Deals, Four Consulting Engagements, Measurable Impact
UPMC
FedEx
Cornerstone Building Brands
Haemonetics
EDF Climate Corps
Larsen & Toubro
Nhance Consulting EngineersEDF Climate Corps — 2025 Fellow
One of fewer than 100 fellows selected annually from MBA programs nationwide. Embedded at Cornerstone Building Brands to build the company's first enterprise GHG analytics platform — a capital allocation framework now adopted across 90+ manufacturing facilities.
View EDF Project Page →Four consulting engagements across healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, and medical devices, each with quantified outcomes delivered to senior leadership. Structured problem-solver with a Green Belt, analytics depth in R and Python, and eight years of enterprise experience.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
- Google Project Management Certificate
- EDF Climate Corps Fellow ↗
- Joseph M. Katz Merit Scholar
- Teaching Assistant — Business Analytics & Database Management Systems
From Structural Engineer to MBA Consultant
Consulting & Project Work
MBA Consulting & Project Experience · Click any role to see the full story
- Owned workstream to diagnose why a hospital distribution center was losing margin. Used R and Claude AI to build demand-supply forecasting models from multiple data sources, then conducted spend analysis across 4,500+ SKUs, identifying a $17.7M cost reduction opportunity (38%). Presented recommendations to UPMC and KPMG senior leadership that influenced inventory policy.
- Interviewed clinical, supply chain, and finance stakeholders to identify pain points and aligned teams on a single strategic direction. Built and implemented a KPI tracking system, then structured a handoff so the client team could sustain impact independently.
- Built an enterprise-wide analytics platform in R and Power BI across 90+ facilities by integrating energy, production, and cost data. Synthesized disparate inputs into a single Power BI executive dashboard that supported strategic decision-making and provided leadership a clear fact base for capital allocation.
- Designed 5-step investment prioritization framework with savings forecasting models that ranked each facility by financial impact. Adopted network-wide for quarterly strategic planning and capital allocation.
- Led quantitative analysis to identify operational inefficiencies in at-stop time prediction (91% failure rate) across 10,000+ data points during FedEx's Network 2.0 transformation. Structured problem using DMAIC, built segmentation models, and developed implementable solutions — improving forecast accuracy by 30 pp (9% → 39%).
- Built analytical models in Excel to isolate root causes across multiple business dimensions, synthesized findings into executive-ready presentations, and provided data-driven guidance to cross-functional stakeholders on operational planning decisions.
- Built a financial business case projecting 65% waste volume reduction and $62K+ annual savings by synthesizing competing stakeholder priorities into a single, actionable recommendation. Delivered executive presentation to senior leadership and secured alignment on a pilot implementation plan.
Pre-MBA Work Experience
- Conducted ongoing market, competitive, and customer segmentation research to develop growth strategies across a $5.5M portfolio of 50+ enterprise accounts. Built financial business cases that won executive approval for multi-year contracts and strategic partnerships.
- Led and developed 8-person team, improving conversion from 20% to 35% across 200+ executive presentations by redesigning engagement process and coaching team on execution.
- Built and managed 3 international strategic partnerships generating $3.5M revenue (2022–2024). Planned and ran a partner event that recovered $0.5M in one month at 20x ROI.
Competitions & Awards
2nd Place of 14 teams, T.L. Saaty Decision-Making Hackathon (Nov 2025): Built InvestBuddy, a consumer-facing investment ranking tool, in 48 hours. Users set simple priorities (return, safety, liquidity, growth); the tool converts them into weights across 6 financial drivers using AHP, blends them with a Random Forest model trained on WRDS data, and ranks industries with explainable reasoning.
View Post ↗Finalist, Americas, Global Sustainability Supply Chain Case Competition (UN-endorsed; 84 global teams): Led team that designed FruitForward, an AI-driven platform to address Dole's ~$100M annual excess produce problem. Proposed demand prediction, dynamic pricing, and redistribution system projecting $10M in annual savings and 95% waste reduction.
1st Place — Global Winner, SCM Globe Supply Chain Cup 2026: Led team of 3 to diagnose, optimize, and restructure a broken multi-continent smartphone supply chain simulation (9 facilities across Asia, Europe, and North America). Applied demand-supply balancing, inventory optimization, and geopolitical reshoring scenario analysis to achieve the top-ranked solution globally.
Skills & Credentials
Full ToolkitFinancial ModelingStatistical Modeling Decision Analysis (AHP/ANP)Optimization & OR SIMIO SimulationDatabase Design Power BITableau Salesforce CRMThink-Cell AI IntegrationsClaude Code
Academic Background
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Open to strategy, operations, and consulting roles. Based in Pittsburgh — open to relocation nationwide.
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