Mr. Sridhar Nagarajan
Senior Director, Global Operations Strategy Western Digital
Sridhar Nagarajan is Sr. Director, Global Operations Strategy at Western Digital.
Sridhar is a passionate leader with proven success in operationalizing strategy and driving long-term sustained performance in high technology organizations.
Leading Sustainability within Global Operations, he drives Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 Green House Gas Emissions efforts focused on the production facilities, product life cycle aspects and a responsible supply chain. In addition, he leads the “Augmented Workforce” initiative that builds on the 4IR adoption journey.
Prior to Western Digital, Sridhar was responsible for Industrial Strategy within Assembly and Test organization at NXP Semiconductors in Singapore. Footprint rationalization and striking the balance between internal and external manufacturing were strategic priorities in the 5-year long-term strategies he led. He led mission-critical cost improvement programs resulting in substantive Gross margin expansion. In a prior role at NXP Semiconductors, Sridhar orchestrated conflict minerals disclosure and due diligence in the supply chain and instituted a comprehensive supply base risk management framework.
Prior to NXP, Sridhar held roles in Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Operations and Service operations at IBM Corporation, Sanmina-SCI and Dell Force10 Networks in the US. As a Management Consultant, he spent a few years with PWC’s Operations Strategy practice, focused on high-tech customers driving results in supply chain optimization, post-merger integration, new product introduction and top-line growth.
Sridhar is an alumna of the Harvard Business School having completed the General Management Program. He holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India.
Presentation Title
Holistic Strategy Towards Net Zero Emissions
Presentation Abstract
While many companies have started their journey towards achieving net-zero emissions, no single business can reach net zero alone. Collaboration across, and between value chains, as well as public-private sector partnership is fundamental to aligning strategies and industrial policies.
The industry has a significant role to play in achieving global carbon reduction targets, as it encompasses all manufacturing and value chains, and represents nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Western Digital has adopted three key imperatives as part of a long-term roadmap in attempting to achieve net zero for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions:
1) A “can do” mindset, with a holistic framework for a multi-year journey.
2) Innovative 4IR technology adoption to accelerate decarbonization, by improving efficiencies within factory operations and across the value chains.
3) Systemic collaboration across the end-to-end value chains, aiming at mutual economic and environmental benefits, and risk mitigation.
In this presentation, we discuss a net zero framework and explore examples of innovative 4IR technology adoption that have enabled Western Digital to reduce emissions within its factories and in our value chains.