Rijoy Putatunda, Chief Enabling Disruptor, 8D Consulting

Global business leader who believes in making bold strategic choices, building relevant capabilities, creating clarity, understands trade-offs, uses short and medium term strategic planning to deliver results through bringing in the voice of the market and a phased transformation based on reality.

Have successfully operated for over 20 years in Belgium, India, Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States in a B2B environment in specialty chemicals and industrial automation. I am an innovative, high energy, fact based, transparent person who leads by example at all levels, values integrity and the “ubuntu”
principle: I am because we are.

His ambition is to create business impact in a global, B2B, customer and market-centric environment where people are respected and empowered to continuously develop themselves.

Rijoy

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