Keshav Ravi

Experience

As a former consultant and startup operator, I am fascinated by the intersection of strategy, operations, and technology: figuring out what to build, how to run it well, and how to scale it. I’m currently recruiting for product and strategy roles in consumer and enterprise tech.

Work

  1. Alvarez & Marsal Consumer & Retail Group

    Manager

    Sep 2023 – May 2026
    New York, NY

    • $40M+cost takeout business case
    • $10Mtransportation RFP savings
    • $7M+post-merger cost savings
    • $25BTAM identified for a CPG brand
    • Built an Alteryx reporting tool tracking top and bottom performers across 60+ product categories, used directly in merchandising leadership business reviews.
    • Sized the market with Nielsen data, consumer surveys and expert interviews, finding 2–3x growth potential for a $100M CPG brand weighing a sale.
    • Modeled 30+ supply chain network scenarios for a drugstore retailer and pitched the executive recommendation.
    • Led an end-to-end transportation RFP and built a should-cost model that gave full visibility into vendor pricing.
    • Redesigned the future customer service organization in a post-merger integration of two apparel distributors.
    • Designed bi-annual consumer sentiment surveys (2,000+ respondents) that generated 20+ media placements, including Retail Dive and Yahoo Finance.

  2. Valon Technologies Series C, a16z-backed mortgage fintech

    Business Operations Associate

    Apr 2022 – Aug 2023
    New York, NY

    • 5xcall pickup rate
    • 20%MoM sales growth
    • 16%customer base growth
    • 15%inbound conversion lift
    • Aligned Engineering, Product and Sales on a new CRM platform and onboarded loan officers, driving the pickup-rate and sales gains.
    • Automated customer retention reporting from the Intercontinental Exchange mortgage database, which helped close a deal with a large customer.
    • Built internal sales tools (pricing simulators, prioritized lead lists) in Retool using behavioral signal data.
    • Defined operating metrics and built Looker and BigQuery dashboards to track individual and team performance.

  3. Kearney

    Senior Analyst

    Feb 2020 – Mar 2022
    Chicago, IL

    • 15%raw materials cost savings
    • $5Msavings opportunity found
    • 15+vendors evaluated
    • Ran a raw materials RFP for a high-growth vegan protein client, standardizing specifications across 15+ vendors.
    • Directed research combining stakeholder interviews and competitive benchmarking for a water-treatment company, and developed a transportation RFP proposal.
    • Analyzed routing capacity for two partner companies assessing a joint transportation network, running workshops with 10+ stakeholders across 3 functions.

Education

  1. University of Chicago

    MBA (Booth) and MS in Computer Science, joint degree

    Sep 2026 – Jun 2028
    Chicago, IL

    • Planned MBA concentrations in Finance, Behavioral Sciences and Entrepreneurship; MS coursework in Applied AI and DevOps.
    • Booth Technology Group, Photo Booth. 1898 Scholarship recipient (merit based).

  2. Georgia Institute of Technology

    B.S. in Industrial Engineering, GPA 3.89

    Aug 2015 – Dec 2019
    Atlanta, GA

    • Faculty Honors, Dean's List.
    • Undergraduate TA (Intro to Databases), Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity, Yellow Jacket Tour Guides.

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