Ram Charan is a world‐renowned business advisor, author, and speaker who has spent the past 40 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. Fortune magazine has called him “the most influential consultant alive.” Companies he has advised include Toyota, Bank of America, Key Bank, ICICI Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Novartis, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings, UST Global, Humana, and Matrix.

Ram is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today's ever‐changing environment and providing actionable real‐world solutions—the kind of advice you can use Monday morning.

He began his business education early in his life working in the family shoe shop in northern India. When he took an engineering job in Australia, his bosses recognized his business talent and encouraged him to develop it. He went on to earn MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar.

Ram has written over 30 books that have sold more than 4 million copies in more than a dozen languages. Three were Wall Street Journal bestsellers, and Execution, co‐authored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy, spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

He teaches up‐and‐coming business leaders through in‐house executive education programs and has won several awards for his teaching. He has coached dozens of leaders who became CEOs.

Ram is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and has served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance.

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Raj Vattikuti is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who has been dedicated to solving business challenges through innovative solutions for over three decades. Raj has an innate ability to understand the changing landscape that businesses face and adeptly cuts through the complexity by providing groundbreaking solutions that simplify business models using data and technology. With a focus on digital business, Raj has used his customer‐focused mindset to transform clients' businesses.

In 1985, Raj founded Complete Business Solutions to help companies solve difficult business challenges that other firms avoided. It was later renamed Covansys and listed on NASDAQ. Raj sold the business in 2007 for $1.3 billion, by which time it had grown from five employees to 8,000. Other successful business ventures founded by Raj include Synova Inc., Vattikuti Technologies, Vattikuti Ventures, Davinta Technologies, and most recently Altimetrik, in 2012.

Raj has worked with large enterprises, midsize companies, and start‐ups throughout his career, and he has a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges they face. This was the catalyst for starting Altimetrik, whose focus is on simplifying business, eliminating the silos, creating a single source of truth (SSOT), and sparking innovation to realize unlimited opportunities. Utilizing practitioners, who take a business view, the company helps clients develop solutions that achieve tangible results and growth with speed. Altimetrik has grown into a pure‐play digital business and digital technology transformation company, partnering with dozens of clients across the globe with over 5,000 practitioners spanning 18 offices and development centers worldwide.

Raj was recognized as a 2020–2021 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Hall of Fame Inductee at Wayne State University, acknowledged as an EY Entrepreneur of The Year® 2020 National Award winner, and was the Michigan and Northwest Ohio regional award winner. He is the recipient of the TiE Detroit 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007 Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, 2002 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and Dykema Gossett 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award and holds an honorary doctorate in business administration from Bryant College.

Raj believes in giving back to the communities he lives and works in. That is why he started the Vattikuti Foundation with his wife, Padma, to support cancer research and treatment programs at Henry Ford Hospitals (Vattikuti Urology Institute) and Beaumont Hospitals (Vattikuti Digital Breast Imaging Center) in Michigan. The Vattikuti Urology Institute offers the most advanced treatments for prostate cancer, kidney disease, bladder cancer, and other urologic diseases surpassing 10,000 robotic procedures used by urologic surgeons around the world. He also founded the Poverty Alleviation and Development initiative focused on health, education, and employment in rural India.