Sanjeev Gupta
Turnaround CEO, Realization Technologies, Inc.
Sanjeev Gupta is currently assisting an 11,000 people MRO organization transform their operations and reduce project timelines by 40%. Before that he was the CEO of Vulcan Mozambique, Africa’s largest coal mine. Within the first 90 days, he led them from $12M monthly loss to $60M monthly profit, with improvements in mining, coal processing, and logistics.
Sanjeev’s journey in turnarounds began early in his career at Xerox, a Fortune 100 company, where, as a junior manager, he turned around its worst-performing factory and made it the best-performing one. This initial success led him to found Thru-Put Technologies, where his team provided software based on the Theory of Constraints for factories. He worked with companies ranging from $5 million to $5 billion, improving throughput by 20% to 50% and reducing lead times by over 50%.
He later founded Realization Technologies, offering similar software and consulting services for project-based organizations. There, he achieved comparable throughput improvements, with lead time reductions varying between 25% to 75%. His clients included organizations such as ABB, BHP Billiton, Boeing, L & T, Medtronic, Siemens, and the U.S. Armed Forces (Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy). Sanjeev is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Virginia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon University.