Mandar Joshi

Mandar started consulting after 9 years of corporate stint with one mission of helping businesses to digitally transform their journey. Mandar has worked with more than 100 clients in last 10 years to design, execute digital transformation of their business function. Worked across electronic media, publishing, Agortech, EdTech, Manufacturing, e governance and many more domains.

This was a time when e Learning was picking up as one of the important vertical in Information Technology Enabled Services. He joined GOLS in 2006 and stayed with this company for almost 9 years. He joined as a Business Head for their ITES operations. He was profit centre head of this vertical which was selling various products and services to then sprawling Call Centre or BPO industry. He worked on some very interesting projects with work majors such as GE, Mphasis, HP etc. In his next move within the organisation he was shouldered responsibility to build a business model by the name of ‘Finishing School’, this was an online training delivery platform for passing out graduates to make them employable. We implemented this model with 100+ Educational Institutes across the country and it was phenomenally successful during those days. Finally he worked on a Skill Development Business Unit working with National Skills Development Corporation.

From 2011 to 2006 He worked with various companies helping them to build their business models, sales & marketing strategies, business process reengineering etc. Worked with Sylvania Laxman a global major lighting company of the time to relaunch their brand in Indian market again. He also worked as an Energy Conservation consultant He did energy audits and recommended ways to improve energy conservation to Malls, Commercial Establishments and Large Housing Societies. He worked with a Plastic Manufacturing Company (HDPE & PET) to help them position their business in Pharmaceutical industry.

While studying He realised that vegetables and fresh fruits was a big business in his region. He also found out after a careful research and market survey that more than 200 Tons of Vegetables and Fresh Fruits are traded every day in Konkan. He also realised that the supply chain was too long, the produce used to change hands at least five to six times and therefore the prices becomes very high for the last mile consumer. Therefore he decided to build a business around this pain point and resolved to build an end to end supply chain to provide vegetables and fruits at an affordable price to the end consumer ( Well the bulk consumers of vegetables actually i.e. Hotels, Canteens and Mess ) He started this business by connecting hotels, industrial canteens, resorts, mess, catering services spread on National Highway No.17 from Mumbai to Goa. When he began the work he had 6 hotels on the very first day and sold 350 Kgs of Vegetables and Fruits and when he exited the business in the year 2000 he was trading about 30 Tons of vegetables every day with a fleet of 10 vehicles.