Nandakishore Nair
Nandakishore Nair, Director East Africa Business Operations.
Nandakishore, popularly known as Nandan, has 37 years of impressive success stories in the Information Technology, Office Automation, and Consumer Electronics industries in East & Central African Markets, with year-after-year success in achieving revenue, profit, and business growth objectives within start-up, turnaround, and rapid change environments.
He is a passionate business leader with an excellent track record of managing overall P&L for business divisions. As a start-up specialist, he has immense success in launching businesses from scratch across the entire emerging markets of East & Central Africa. He has successfully transformed non-performing business units into top performers and amplified EBITDA margin by multi-folds.
Consistently producing higher-than-market revenue gains, Nandan has delivered multiple-digit growth of CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate), EBITDA, and Market Share year-over-year. He possesses extensive knowledge and understanding of diverse customer segments, markets, products, and services, varying across regions, cities, scales, and different formats of customers.
An accomplished, ambitious, and dedicated professional, Nandan has expertise in providing counseling, training and development, instruction, and consulting. He has gained sensitivity to cross-cultural dynamics through extensive travel across countries. A dynamic go-getter, pragmatic and focused, with excellent planning, leadership, and problem-solving skills, Nandan is a strategist and implementer with recognized proficiency in spearheading business to accomplish corporate plans and goals.
He has been associated with many industries, including Samsung Electronics East Africa Limited (as Regional Director – Information Technology, Consumer Electronics & Home Appliance Division), Crompton Greaves Ltd, PCS Industries Limited, HCL, among others.
Nandan is also a member of Lions Club International and has served as a Trustee and Chairman of the Kerala Association of Kenya. He also serves as a board member for various start-up organizations.
