Kedar Kulkarni is an Executive leader with 23+ years of experience leading global supply chains across multiple industry verticals including consumer electronics, high-tech, manufacturing, grocery and e-commerce. Kedar brings a track record of launching and scaling complex supply chain operations to meet world class operating standards. His core expertise includes supply chain planning, forecasting, S&OP, inventory optimization, network design and AI-powered analytical toolsets. Through his wide-ranging career, Kedar has gathered extensive experience managing global procurement and manufacturing networks, ecommerce supply chains and delivering cost-to-serve, volume and strategic transformation deliverables.

Most recently, Kedar led the end-to-end supply chain for Amazon Fresh where he led the scale up of Amazon’s Grocery Distribution and Store/Fulfilment Center network that powers the online and offline Grocery and General Merchandise businesses serving 100M+ US Prime Members. He led the design, deployment and execution of the supply chain network, capital investments, and cold-chain development for the next 10 years of growth.

Prior to that, Kedar led Supply Chain Planning, Executive S&OP, Procurement, Inventory Management, and New Product Introduction/Ramp from startup to scale of $5B+ in annual revenue in consumer and commercial markets. Most notably at Microsoft (Surface line of tablets and XBOX gaming consoles) and others in the consumer electronics/Devices/high-tech industry. Throughout his career, Kedar has been a hands-on and early adopter of various technology waves over the last two decades.

Kedar is an Electrical Engineer from the University of Mumbai, India and holds a Master of Science degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Kedar is based in Seattle where he and his wife are blessed with two daughters. Together, they love exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest.