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Rajesh Kulkarni

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Chief Information & Digital Officer at Valent North America at Valent U.S.A. LLC
📍 Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States

Rajesh is a results-driven CIO and Digital Officer for Fortune 500 manufacturing firms, with expertise in SAP ERP transformations, GenAI, and cybersecurity. A graduate of the University at Buffalos MBA program, he has managed budgets over $100M and teams of up to 500 professionals. People who have worked with him describe him as an enthusiastic leader and excellent negotiator.

Beyond his technical roles, Rajesh is passionate about leadership and developing talent within his teams. His interests include entrepreneurship and innovating solutions to complex business problems. He is recognized by colleagues for being an effective coach and mentor, who inspires his teams to perform at their best and maintains an open-door policy.

He has significant international experience, including an expat CIO assignment in Bonn, Germany, where he managed global IT operations across 22 countries and 35 manufacturing plants.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Chief Information & Digital Officer at Valent North America
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States
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GenAI Business Cases
He focuses on high-impact, practical GenAI use cases that deliver strong ROI, advocating for starting with small, focused investments to build business confidence.
Global SAP Strategy
He has a long track record of championing and leading large-scale, multi-million dollar SAP ERP implementation programs for global manufacturing firms across dozens of countries.
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Career

Work history

2022
Chief Information & Digital Officer at Valent North America
Valent U.S.A. LLC
2018 - 2021
Digital and IT CIO Consulting at PepsiCo
Self Employed
2017 - 2018
Interim Chief Information Officer at Lehigh Hanson ($5.2B)
Self Employed
2015 - 2018
Vice President and CIO
Titan America
2010 - 2014
Global IT CIO (Automotive and Industrial sector - $3B)
Textron
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Education
2000 - 2002
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
University at Buffalo School of Management, The State University of New York
2011 - 2011
Executive Leadership Program
Thunderbird School of Global Management
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