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AI & Analytics company, C5i, has appointed Dr. Ananth Raman, UPS Foundation Professor of Business Logistics at Harvard Business School, to its Strategic Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Raman teaches various areas of Technology and Operations Management at the Harvard Business School and has extensive experience in research and business consulting in Supply Chain Management and Service Operations.
At C5i, Dr. Raman will provide guidance and recommendations on business strategy, IP development, and go-to-market positioning for the company’s AI solutions in the domains of Supply Chain, Customer Analytics, Marketing Analytics, and other areas.
Ashwin Mittal, Chairman and CEO of C5i, said, “Dr. Raman’s wealth of expertise and knowledge across his academic and business engagements will help us in our quest of building our best-in-class AI solutions that drive business impact for our global clients.”
Commenting on his new role, Dr. Ananth Raman, said, “C5i has consistently been innovating with their AI & analytics solutions. They have been building on their product and consulting capabilities, leveraging machine learning, and, lately, infusing their tech offerings with GenAI. I look forward to working with them to build on their success.”
Dr. Raman’s work has been published in several leading journals, including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He is the co-director (with Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School) of the ‘Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing,’ a research group comprising academics from various universities and leading retailers in the industry.
He is also the founder and director of 4R Systems, a firm that uses science and technology to help retail chains maximize profit from their inventory.
C5i (Course5 Intelligence Limited) is a pure-play AI & Analytics provider that combines the power of human perspective with AI technology to deliver trustworthy intelligence to global corporations.
