Teja Kappagantula

Teja Kappagantula serves as the Vice President of Corporate Spend (Strategy & Operations) at Allied Universal, overseeing North America Procurement & Fleet since January 2019. In conjunction with this role, Teja is a Director at Procurement Foundry and a member of GEP Worldwide, where previous experience included leading global procurement consulting engagements and strategic sourcing initiatives across various sectors, including flexible packaging and logistics. Teja also gained valuable expertise at Colgate Palmolive as a Management Intern, focusing on enhancing maintenance processes within a manufacturing environment, and has technical experience in DSP engineering with Emuzed India and in process control with HCL Technologies. Teja holds an MBA in Finance and Supply Chain Management/Operations from IIT Bombay and a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal.