The Management Team

Dr. Ram Nidumolu, Founder and CEO

Ram Nidumolu has more than 20 years of experience in strategy and execution consulting and research with enterprises. He has consulted extensively with leading enterprises such as FedEx, Alcoa, Puma, Clorox, Intuit, and others. He specializes in developing a sustainability vision and strategy and identifying business opportunities for sustainability-based innovations.

Ram’s thought leadership has appeared in cover stories of the Harvard Business Review, the Stanford Social Innovation Review and at leading industry consortia such as the Corporate Eco Forum, Business for Environment, and the TEEB for Business Coalition. He was the Research Director of the Corporate Eco Forum, where he conducted groundbreaking research on the next practices in sustainability, innovation and business strategy among Global 500 corporations.

He was previously the founder and CEO of a software services company that provided CRM solutions to the high tech industry. He was also on the business school faculty at Santa Clara University and the University of Arizona for almost a decade. He received his Ph.D. in Management at the Anderson Business School at UCLA. ram@innovastrat.com.

Kathy Kelly, Vice President, Services

Kathy Kelly brings 25 years of experience with program management, group collaboration and cross-cultural coordination. She was previously the co-founder and principal at Productive Teamwork International, a consulting group that specialized in computer-mediated group collaboration processes and technologies. Prior experience includes Gartner, Inc, the world’s leading technology research firm, where she managed Best Practices groups for Fortune 500 executives. kkelly@innovastrat.com.