Columbus Consulting, Inc.

Kavindra Malik has been a senior executive at Island Pacific, a product leader at Spotlight Solutions (later acquired by ProfitLogic/Oracle), an industry solutions leader for Retail and CPG at i2 Technologies and a Principal with CSC Consulting. Kavindra’s expertise and interests span design, development and implementation of solutions for retail, multi-channel and consumer goods companies. In addition to core merchandising functions, he has been involved in developing solutions for Pricing Optimization, Assortment Planning and Allocation, Replenishment, Forecasting and Optimization and Supply Chain functions spanning Network Design, Sourcing to Distribution.

Kavindra has an extensive set of consulting experiences as project/program manager and lead consultant. His client experiences include Kohl’s, BestBuy, Barnes and Noble, Big Lots, DSW, David’s Bridal, Coca Cola, Proctor and Gamble, UDV (Diageo), Lipton (Unilever) and Siemens. His engagements and expertise span price optimization, size buying and pack- optimization, advanced allocation strategies and process and organizational transformation consulting in replenishment, and merchandise operations functions, and supply chain analysis and design. His interests span analytical, process and management consulting combining an analytical, subject matter, software solution expertise with a healthy dose of pragmatic business process viewpoint.

Kavindra has a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from The Wharton School. He was an Assistant Professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. His research has focused on forecasting and optimization. He has advised doctoral dissertations, published multiple research articles and given invited talks at the top educational institutions in the country.